foot-tastic cooking

My clogs (aka: house boots) are my usual cooking footwear. But tonight, I'm going without shoes...trying to focus on my left arch and the movements that will not further the progress of my bunion. A related picture on my yoga blog.

Stormy Week part 1

We had the first in what is supposed to be a week of storms in so cal. I lifted weights and did meditative breathing while the rain poured down...and then came a rainbow...i know...hollywood ending...but it IS southern california after all.

pointsettia still going strong

should someone tell this pointsettia that it's not christmas any longer?

nah...let's keep it's little fantasy alive :)

movie snobs?

So...I was going to go see A Single Man w/ Italian bf...but then I read the NYTimes review by Manhola Dargis and I decided I'd just re-read the book...and we saved $21!

holy cow it's dec 12

Holy cow, is right. It's December 12. And I'm sitting in my office doing something Christmas related that I can't do at home due to software limitations. Said software just crashed...i'll be back later.

the tree trunks are growing lights

first the swine flu, and now the trees get lights. what's next? ocean waves with mistletoe?

santa got run over by a dildo

hang, hung, hung

I was thinking about paying someone to feel the christmas spirit for me, so I wouldn't have to...but then I would have to pay them to stop feeling the christmas spirit for me on dec 28...and what if they refused? what if I was locked into an eternal scam in which I was forced to pay someone to feel Christmas spirit for me until I died?

Best Use of a Boogie Board by a UPS Guy...

...and the "Hell-Yeah!" goes to...

The San Diego UPS guy who used a pair of boogie boards to try to hide the toddler car seat that arrived 3 weeks in advance of italian bf's nephew. Too bad one of the boogie boards fell down before I got home.

I bet this guy is really into hiding his kids' christmas presents...he's the guy who builds a false floor in the basement and loads it up with toys...this is the same guy you do NOT want to piss off later in life, b/c that false floor in his basement can be used for all sorts of things that I can't even think about.

Cyber Monday: Beware of Early Morning (online) Shopping

If you plan to your christmas shopping from your computer during fleeting early-morning moments of silence, look out!

don't cyber shop before breakfast!!!!

Saturday morning, I awoke and bought vacuum bags online. Really.

Mornings are when I am most amenable to bureaucratic and other uninteresting tasks.

I did a little Googling on Saturday morning and found my vacuum bag make and model for the same price listed at Target (which of course didn't have the bags I needed when I was at their brick and mortar.)

Boom-batta-click-click-click.

Done!

But as I hit confirm, my eyes caught the shipping and handling. $7.50!

Frickin' $7.50 shipping and handling for $5.99 vacuum bags.

If I had been a little more awake, I'm sure I would have checked the shipping and handling before hitting "buy".

maybe there was some way to stop the online purchase, but that seemed like too much for a Saturday morning. So I'm just complaining about it on the Internet (and gradually trying to earn back that $7.50.) I think i'm almost there. I made coffee this am instead of buying a favored Monday-morning latte. Last night, I bought white wine that is a dollar cheaper than my homer-simpson-inspired, "I'll take a bottle of your second least expensive wine." I also stopped myself from buying a cookie-cooling rack. I don't know how important they are...but my mom uses them...and since I am trying to re-create her cookie magic this Christmas, I thought I should have a rack...but I used plates instead, and it seemed to work ok. So...I think i've almost earned back my saturday morning blunder...but be forewarned...don't cyber shop before breakfast!!!!

I also practiced yoga at home over the weekend rather than going to studios...but that was not for cost-saving reasons...