may you find happiness

(p.s. I was playing with a new phone app "BLEND".  I like the corny results.)
(p.p.s. These red festive shoes I recently got used.  They are from Miz Mooz.  If you are not yet aware: http://miz-mooz.com/)

The Story of Goldilocks and the Black Tights

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Goldilocks.  She went for a walk in the forest.  Pretty soon, she came upon a house.  She knocked and when no one answered, she walked right in.

In the house’s bedroom, there was a drawer full of tights.  Goldilocks was cold. She decided that she wanted to wear black tights under her dress. 

"This pair of black tights is too small!" she exclaimed.

[see exhibit A.]

So, she looked for another pair of tights in the drawer. 

"This pair of black tights is too baggy in the crotch," she said

[sorry – there will be no exhibit B]

She was disappointed that she did not have a pair of black tights that fit her just right. 

Goldilocks was very tired by this time, but she had to go to work.  So she walked through the forest to catch a bus to work.  All the while her black tights sagged and sagged.  She got to work and hiked up the tights while in the bathroom.

During her day, she worked diligently and went to the bathroom regularly to adjust her slowly sagging black tights.  She was tired but she did not fall asleep.   

As she was working, her co-workers talked to her. 

"Someone's looks nice and dressed up," said the boss.

"Someone's needs to fix this spreadsheet," growled the supervisor.

"Someone's busy and isn’t this a crazy week?" cried the co-worker.

They decided to talk to Goldilocks off and on all day.  At 4pm, she screamed, “I am out of here!” and she jumped up and ran out of work.  Goldilocks ran down the stairs, opened the door, and ran away into the forest.  And she returned to work again, but not until the next day. 

THE END

12 things of Christmas

1. The Christmas tree smells nice.  And, when you drink some red wine and play with your phone’s camera you get cool swirly photos that capture Christmas spirit.
   
2.  My “child-molester-santa ugly sweater” is aching to come out and be worn.  I am planning to wear it this week for our company holiday lunch.  It is always interesting since people do not always know how to take it – is it funny or is it a serious holiday sweater?  Perfect.
   
3.  I am finding myself a bit mellow and saddened since this is the first Christmas without both cats.  Christmas was a time where he drank out of the tree stand and ran around at the base of the tree, messing with the skirt and trying to eat the strings off the ornaments.  He was the heart of our family.
4.  I am pretty much done with shopping and crafting (paintings!)  presents which is a positive feeling.
5.  I am looking forward to some quality MN family time.
6.  I may have gone against my morals by purchasing gray leggings and gray skinny jeans from LOFT this weekend.  This store is becoming my new favorite store and they have sales that suck you in.  I must add that I was completely done with my Christmas shopping before I ventured into the store. And I also add that I promise to responsibly wear my leggings with a dress/skirt or as long underwear.
   
7.  I am totally into beads lately and I discovered that they make flexible super thin beading needles.  These guys have totally revolutionized my ability to put a stupid small bead on a stupid small thread.  Amazing technology, this.
8.  I am thinking about weeding out scarfs (scarves?) that I rarely wear.  I have this one co-worker that is very fashionable but only wears this one scarf on days that she wears a scarf.  And I wonder to myself how she has the restraint to do this and I am amazed.  Or, perhaps she is a bit boring.  Either way, I definitely have too many scarfs.
   
9.  I am also thinking about dying my hair a bit darker.  This will help to confuse my inner voice that wants to have cute short hair.  Go long!  I am in it to win it.
10. Announcement: Dansko is making super cute-ugly sneakers.  How could you not be happy when wearing a pair of these? 
    
11. Eleven reminds me of all the hobbits I saw on opening night last week at Hobbit II and the happiness I experienced when I saw Legolas once again on the big screen.  What is it about a blond wig, elf ears and mad bow and arrow skills that makes a horrible actor completely dreamy?
    
12. And, a Kris in a pair of red pants.
    

sv

You say sweater.  I say vest.   

Sweater.  Vest.  Sweater.  Vest.

down down down in the wasteland tonight

As I reflect back over the day, the BEST thing that I wore today are my horribly warm and somewhat nasty down slippers that I put on once I got home from work.  If I had a full-body suit rather than just these slippers, I would probably become a hermit and the internet would be my only form of communication since I doubt I could hold down a job and still wear it 24 hours a day, becoming known as the “crazy down-jumpsuit lady” at my local grocery store.  And, I think I would be ok with that because I would be surrounded by my own warmth like a real mammal, languishing in heat that only down can bring.

bead it

I purchased a strand of vintage wooden beads ($12 – a good deal?) from an antique store this weekend.  They are supposedly old beads that you string together for babies to chew on during that time when they did not care if young ones ate paint.  I was inspired to go to a real bead store and get options for making necklaces and bracelets from this string of beads.  This metal one really works nicely and counteracts the country-ness of the beads.  Plus, I can re-arrange.

 

A note about bead stores – never never never go into one with a friend/loved one if they themselves are not into beads.  I have learned this early in my marriage that generally your loved one does not care about beads as much as you do and you will suck their happiness out by asking their opinion on bead options. Too painful.  I now generally go into bead stores alone and this is a good thing.  And in general, people who work at bead stores are mean.  They do not like questions about how to do something or where to find something regardless of the fact that they work in a place that is surrounded by creative, fun things.  However, my experience at the bead store this weekend was pleasant and my questions did not seem to cause any horrible inconvenience to the woman working there.  I was able to stock up on a few supplies so I do not have to go back to another bead store for some time.  Phew.