That skirt is lovely, Fay. Do you know what you'll be wearing it with? Would it be possible to find something backless to wear with it, so you could show off your peacock feather tattoo? Because that over the gold taffeta would be lux and delicious as hell.
Oooh - interesting thought! But, alas, at this time I don't own anything backless - I'd like to get something made, but it needs to be something that includes some kind of support structure for boobular containment purposes. Um. There being entirely too much boobosity for blythe abandonment of bras.
t /tmi
Aaanyway, I have now purchased shoooos which are both gloriously comfortable AND pretty, and they co-ordinate beautifully with the skirt. Indeed I am wearing both, with a simple black sweater and a long gold chain with a sort of filigree gold leaf pendant thing on the end of it - it looks for all the world like an actual leaf that's been dipped in metal, all fine mesh of veins. Like this. Hmm. Maybe it really IS a leaf! That would be nice.
t /sartorial trivia
Going to see
Inkheart
tomorrow with my parents! Hope they like it - I'm fairly sure I will. I liked the book lots, and I'm well disposed to Brendan Fraser.
SNOW DAY!! YIPPEE!!
Ahem...so, we got a little snow and ice last night, so my winter break starts a day early. Not too shabby. But, today was a fun day, so I'm kinda missing that. We were going to have a staff breakfast with the honor choir from the high school performing. I was going to show Simpsons Christmas episodes to my classes. Oh, well.
Just posted the cast lists for the play on my web site so the kids can see their parts before January.
Yay, Zoe! I am so happy she's okay.
Going to see Inkheart tomorrow
aww no fair! We don't get it 'till January.
Mmmm B-B-Q lunch! Hickory smoked pulled pork sandwich. I am stuffed.
Yay! for Zoe's good news! Kristin, you surely deserve some good news at this point, and we are all happy to help you bask in it.
Great news about Zoe!
My exciting news -- possibly meaningful only to Perkins and Nora -- is that I have achieved the Magic Beer(TM)! I would open one up right now if I weren't about to go back out to the pharmacy and then the gym, where I am going to test out my back with a walk around the track, speed somewhere between "sedate" and "brisk."
meara, I have to ask - are people in Washington the state any better with snow that in Washington the city?
HA. Seattle drivers are notoriously scatterbrained and easily confused/distracted by changes in the weather.
"Oh my G*d, a giant bright thing in the sky! What does it meeaaaaan? Oh my G*d, water from the sky! How should I drive?"
(I say this as a Seattle native. My people, sometimes not good drivers.)
Anyway, combine that with lots of hills and very few snow plows/sand trucks, and it adds up to the city pretty much shutting down in snow.
Yay for Zoe! It's nice to hear good news.
Seattle drivers are notoriously scatterbrained and easily confused/distracted by changes in the weather. "
When I lived across the sound in Silverdale, I was always amazed at the number of SUVs that ended up in the ditch, while the little sedans were able to keep on the road.
When I lived across the sound in Silverdale, I was always amazed at the number of SUVs that ended up in the ditch, while the little sedans were able to keep on the road.
I visited my father at work once when he was working at an auto body repair shop. It was during a snow spell in NY. The lot and all bays were PACKED with SUV's. I asked him about it, and he was like "Eh, they are the dumbest drivers. They never read the manual. They think 'oh I have 4x4 I can drive in anything'. What they forget is, as soon as you hit the brake, it disengages the extra traction you had in 4x4 mode. So they drive too fast and break too hard, and give us lots of business".
