i slept in this morning, got up and went to jenny craig. i knew this weigh in was going to be bad, all the stress of the past week, not sleeping well and the fact they we ate out at least one meal, sometimes two every day since friday. factor in nine consecutive days with no exercise, i was prepared for the worst. i gained one pound. that’s right, with all those factors against me, i managed to keep my weight within reason. one pound. one pound could be as simple as all the extra sodium in restaurant food. i was really happy with myself.
i went home and started cleaning house, still have a ways to go, but i made progress. my sister called and dad was discharged today, his kidneys are fine. such good news. i am working midnights the next two nights, i tried to get some sleep before coming in, but it was too noisy. kids outside playing, people mowing their lawns. i fully expect to hit the wall some time after midnight.
after having been put through the wringer this past week, i decided it’s time for a little silliness. so today i am writing about shopping shoes, and big ass socks!
i’ll be honest, i can’t really afford to shop at macy’s. they are way too overpriced for me. i can’t tell you how much i miss kaufman’s. a few years ago, in between knee surgeries i was beginning to feel more confident in my right knee and decided to try wearing heels again. i saw this pair of ankle boots at macy’s and fell in love with them, but they were totally out of my price range. i went back several times, every time they had a shoe sale, but they were always way too pricey. finally it was time for end of the season clearance. they were getting rid of the winter boots to make room for the spring/summer shoes. i went back one more time, and although they were still a bit high, i finally bought them at fifty dollars. i had tried them on, several times, and walked around the shoe department, everything was fine. i bought my new shoes and took them home, finally a few days later i wore them out, after about five minutes of walking through the mall, my feet hurt like hell! every step was torture! i started calling them my shopping shoes, i wore them shopping because i was in so much pain all i could do was go in the store, get what i absolutely needed, and leave, i couldn’t stand to walk in them any longer than that! then i had my second knee surgery and it took a few years to get comfortable with the idea of heels again. i decided to pull out the shopping shoes and wear them around the house in an attempt to either break them in enough to be able to wear them, or perhaps eventually my feet will become so numb from pain i won’t feel them anymore!
they are incredibly pointy, but as any good shoe ho knows, you buy a half size bigger than normal if the shoes are pointy.
i had been knitting the july scarf of the month all week while sitting in ccu, yesterday i decided to start something else, just for the change in pace. i started the november (2008) sock of the month, i decided to make a hybrid, taking parts from several patterns and making up my own design. i knitted this most of the day before i finally decided, it’s just wasn’t happening. i’m not sure where i went wrong, something in the math obviously, but at that particular juncture i was completely brain fried (and had numb feet) and i just couldn’t think about what was going wrong here. i had to make a decision to either scrap the whole thing until a later date when i am capable of coherent thought, or continue to knit them and give them to bella.
these socks are freakin’ huge! as we all know bella wears big ass shoes, and if you wear big ass shoes you must be in need of big ass socks, but alas i pulled them out and salvaged as much yarn as possible for another project. tired beyond belief i didn’t attempt to come up with a replacement pattern for the november som, but instead crawled off to bed.
positvity for today, this week is over and my dad is home!
