I'd love to do a holiday card/postcard exchange instead of a gift.

I love this. I can't do gifts, but I could definitely send a nice card to someone.

But I've started having pain along the outside of my foot and on the top of the foot along with some numbness. Has anyone who has experienced plantar facitias have numbness?

I've had plantar fascitis but it didn't manifest on the outside of my foot. But rather right in the middle of it. I was able to use shoe inserts to correct it.

It was kind of shocking how quickly Dr. Scholl's made a difference. I recommend you make that relatively cheap investment to start.

I've tried several different insoles but they don't work for me. There isn't enough space for my feet and the insoles in the shoes. It's a combination of fat feet, high arch, and shoes without removable insoles. The one pair of shoes I can wear with removal insoles becomes completely unwearable if I take out the insoles and switch them with something like Dr Scholl's. The only shoes I've been able to do this with are my Dankso Mary Jane's but I have to put the insert over the insole and once I do that it raises my heel and that puts more pressure on my foot pad and I can only wear those once a week.

The only thing that really helped was walking on the beach for a week and I can't do that.

I have very hard to fit feet to begin with (high arch, narrow heel, wider at the toe and now a chubby foot) so trying to find supportive good shoes isn't easy.

askye, I dealt with plantar fasciitis by massaging the arch and stretching every chance I got, especially first thing in the morning. Any kind of stretch that pulls or pushes the top of your foot toward your shin will help. Just keep in mind that it takes weeks/months to resolve. None of the products marketed toward this were useful for me.

I've had plantar but it manifested as bottom of the foot and back of the heel pain - not outside or top of the foot. Also, no numbness. Danskos helped immensely - also Think! (not cheap) and Earth shoes. Also stretching exercises.

Laura, fyi, the woman just elected Loudon County (Virginia) head of the Board of Supervisors is the one who was photographed flipping off Trump's motorcade.

I pretty much wear exclusively Danskos, but not cheap. I think there is an online outlet where I ended up with a lot of fun colors, but if you want black in a common size you will need to shell out!

I am trying to decide whether to put my loan to pay off my credit card now or wait until I am cleared on inspection. I think the city may actually take 60 days, but I like having the money available in case I have to pay a deposit and rent and moving expenses. Maybe I should move it to my savings account?

I think I might do some painting tonight. I found two canvases on the back porch and I lost two of my wall hangings. I don't really paint things, just solid squares with shading, but I used to enjoy it. I really need something to do beyond clean and worry and work, which is terrible

I asked my friend Katie to help me with the attic proper. It is probably fine to pass inspection, but the last time it happened I cleaned by boxing up wine bottles and clutter and shoving it in the attic, and I just want it gone! I would pay the guys, but frankly if I have to move, I am fine leaving three boxes of junk and wine bottles for the landlord to clean out!

I'd love to do a holiday card/postcard exchange instead of a gift.

I'd be happy to do a holiday card exchange +group donation. I love getting and sending cards. And I like the idea of banding together to give someone/something a useful boost.

I'm in a Masters program now that I doubt I will ever use directly (Food Studies) but it's feeding my brain in a satisfying way that makes work more bearable (and there's the outside chance that I could eventually transfer internally from digital media and into sustainability).

I am having a glasses problem. My current glasses are ~4 years old and need to be replaced. So, like a responsible adult, I made an appointment with the optometrist and got a fresh prescription. His diagnosis was that my old prescription was much too high, which was causing tension headaches since I spend most of my day in front of a computer (true!). But when my new glasses came, my night vision went utterly to SHIT, to the point where I felt unsafe driving after about 4pm. I went back to the optometrist and told him my concerns, and he condescendingly accused me of exaggerating/lying (yes, I can read the eye chart in the office, but out in the REAL FUCKING WORLD I was having trouble reading highway exit signs, and it was incredibly scary!!) but grudgingly wrote a new prescription which splits the difference between my old and new one.

So I'm about to return my new glasses to Zenni (for store credit) but I really don't know what to do about replacing them! Should I order my old (high) prescription, which lets me see comfortable distances in dim light but was truthfully causing headaches by the end of the day, or my new (medium) prescription which I don't trust because the doctor was such an arrogant dickbag? Or suck it up and pay for a third eye appointment with a new provider which my insurance won't cover?

(The astigmatism numbers on all versions of my prescription are as high as they can go. The only variable is the magnification level.)