These shoes would alter my universe

I have been stalking these shoes on shoebuy.com for two reasons,
1) cannot afford, and
2) not my size. but I love them...

Ceasar in Blue Nile by Jessica Simpson, $58.95 if you are a 7 or 8 and lucky as can be



I just cannot say enough how much I would enjoy looking down at my feet and these beauties were looking back at me! And restalking these shoes and looking at how pretty they are I've found the serenity I need to deal with my underling. And Lyle Lovett "Friend of the Devil" just started playing on the Grateful Dead channel (www.sirius.com/gratefuldead), adding to my much needed serenity. I haven't heard this in 10 years... so fabulous!

handwriting

I have a confession to make: I love looking at people's handwriting. I love fancy handwriting. And anything I really like I try to imitate. Another confession: I also love getting compliments on my own handwriting. A couple of weeks ago, one of my labmates was trying to imitate my N, something that she was finding very difficult and made me laugh a lot. I am a lefty with good handwriting, something that I have found to be very rare, and I take pride in the fact that mine is good. I am sharing my little handwriting obsession to the world because of the following:

Someone in the department defended her thesis last week and I was looking at her photos on facebook. Her cake has super fabulous fancy handwriting on it. No matter how nice I can make my handwriting on paper, I cannot do it on a cake. If I had free time, I think I would practice cake icing writing to try and make it look that nice.

I have edited out new phd's name, but I love the F, I couldn't get rid of that. Isn't that such fabulous fancy cake writing??

what to buy

After spending a few hours walking through our new house on Friday during the inspection, I now have a long list of things that we will need to buy. Some things we will need right away (towel racks for the bathrooms, fire extinguisher, curtains, area rugs), others not until the spring (lawn mower, screens), and then there are the things that I want but will have to wait (recliners, a new bed, a new dining room table). And what is helping us so much through all of this? The economy having gone down the tubes, all sorts of stores are closing. It is really scary, but so helpful for us to get good deals (hopefully). Linens N Things, Value City, and Circuit City are all closing. Bring on the liquidation sales! Though I doubt I will find anything I need at Circuit City, stuff I want, but not need, and I need to focus on what I NEED right now.. shucks! And I don't need a giant HDTV.

mythbusters air cylinder

Proper safety procedures state that all air cylinders be chained to a wall at all times, no matter what air is in said cylinder. Mythbusters proves why in a controlled environment:



This slightly freaks me out. And adds to my list of things to run away from in the lab.

sweat pants and toddlers don't mix

My mom bought my nephew some cars at a garage sale (baby loves loves loves cars and tends to destroy them) and baby was playing with the cars outside. One of them my dad thought was pretty cool and then my mom told him that the wheels were not right. So, my dad picked up the car to investigate how to fix the wheels and baby got a little mad. He used my dad pants to pull himself up and protest my dad having the car, but instead of pulling himself up, he pulled my dad's pants down. WHOA! Writing this I'm laughing out loud... so funny.
Moral of the story, use a belt or sweat pants with a drawstring!

park play turned yuck

My mom told me a story tonight. She took my nephew for a walk and went to a nearby park. One of the park toys was a tube that baby fit in and so my mom let him crawl through. Or, at least, started to crawl through. He stopped in the middle of the tube because there was some dog poo in there to play with. As a loving aunt, I am disgusted. As a dog owner, I am disgusted. I do not take my dog to playgrounds, much less let her play in the kids toys. I cannot believe that someone was so disgusting that they let their dog poo in a child's toy and then not clean it up. I'd like to put a paper bag of dog poo lit on fire on their front door stoop and ring the doorbell, and I'm being completely honest when I say that I have never wanted to do that to anyone before.

on a better note...
new house update: inspection friday!

New Shoes!

I bought a new pair of shoes last week, they are so excellent. I think they are the tallest shoes I've ever purchased (2.25 in), but they don't feel like it at all! I bought them in brown, not the icky color below.House hunt update: We are accepting the counter offer proposed by the seller. Now we just have to have the house inspected and get our mortgage! I'm trying to not get excited yet, but I am pumped!