Well this is going to be short and sweet, I have had a crazy busy fabulous day and I am utterly exhausted!
The day started out positive, I was determined that I was going to get more Christmas shopping done, I just didn’t expect it was going to be for myself…
I got some stocking stuffers, but the rest of my shopping was a bust…
Until…
I went to meet my girl Diann for a coffee. While I was waiting for her to show, I went to my other friend Chris’ Consignment Store to see what was going on.
She has LOADS of amazing stuff in the store right now, I tried a few things on…mostly I am on a mission for boots.
I have honestly never spent over $40 on a pair of shoes for myself since I left Adam, work shoes don’t count…this year I decided that it was going to be my present to me :) My limit is about $150…I looked in shoe store in town that has amazing shoes and found a pair that I love…they were $273. Dammit. Not an option for me at all…I am patient. I have never really owned an expense pair of shoes in my life. Sad huh? I am just not a shoe person, and I really have a hard time finding shoes that I love.
Today, all that changed.
I didn’t really find anything when I was waiting for Di, but after our coffee we went back in the store, and lo and behold in a bag, that the lady had just brought in were the most amazing pair of Donna shoes that I have ever seen. They are brand new, the girl that owned them couldn’t have worn them twice…
I pulled them out of the bag, they were a size 7…I am a 7 1/2. I tried them on…THEY FIT!!! I got them for half the price I would have paid new, and they are from the store I went to earlier in the week…
I am in love…and you know the bizarre thing? There was a purse in the shoe store, that I could not put down, and it matches the damn shoes…
The purse was $173.
I need to be independently wealthy…
But for today, Cinderella has found her slippers….
Aren’t they fantastic??? Leather everything Josef Seibel’s….LOVE!!!
But the day of pure goodness wasn’t over yet…I got home and decided to put up my outside Christmas lights.
Now this has never been my job. I totally hate putting up the lights outside, it is boys work…but. I. don’t. have. a. boy.
Well not that isn’t a fairly useless to me teenager.
So I sucked it up and did it. I had a small mishap with the length of the cord and running out 4 feet fucking short of the end, while I had 4 feet wasted at the front…
Which required me to get the pliers and take the 25 staples out that were already holding the lights up, and redo it…
No biggie, stapling plugged in lights in the dark is safe right?
Bhahahahahh…whatever, I lived through it…
Unfortunately I didn’t have as many lights as I thought I did, and two of the strings were burnt out halfway each…what the hell is that all about anyways?
I can’t really afford to go buy more lights, cause I just got some BRAND NEW SHOES…
So for now what I have up is going to have to do…my fence looks lovely :)
So now I am all in the Christmas mood and everything…I get a brainiac idea…I NEED a tree up in my house, like tonight.
Well actually first it started that I was going to just bring a teenie top in and that would hold me over, but then, as I was in my backyard in the dark with a saw, I realized that I needed more.
I found the perfect Charlie brown top off of one of the fallen down hedge trees and chopped it off.
It is now in my livingroom…I don’t know if it will make it all the way to Christmas or not, but if it doesn’t I have another one that will replace it when this one is done.
I have never had a little goofy tree before, this year I do…I LOVE IT!!!
Dr. Seuss even…
Isn’t it the most hilarious thing you have ever seen?? The one I will bring in closer to Christmas isn’t quite as pathetic as this one, but I love it in it’s own little way, and it deserved to come in and be beautiful, if only for a while :)
I changed my living room around too…ya, that happens every single Christmas…I don’t actually think I have had it the way I do right now…change is good.
So it is now 11 pm…I haven’t had dinner and I should eat some toast or something before bed…
Night my friends…
