I know not why blogger chose to rotate my photo that was in the correct orientation before I uploaded it. Blogger is not my friend right now. But onto the point!
This vacation was awesome! Every time I have a long school vacation I make myself a planning calendar. It has the days of the vacation and sometimes the goals. Then I write in what’s happening and have the whole vacation at a glance. This vacation I accomplished all my goals: paint bathroom, paint bedroom, garden, finish reading a friend’s book, clean out physical inbox, catch up blogs. Not only did all that get done, but I did social things with my friends, did work trades with my friends, watched a whole lot of (mostly Channing Tatum) movies and even read. It was fabulous!
My friend Deborah invited people over to celebrate the sixth night of Hanukkah. As it has been before, it was a lovely and relaxing evening that left me wanting to celebrate Hanukkah too. Luckily for me, my Unitarian faith has no problem incorporating other religious traditions into my spiritual practice. Deborah mentioned that she bought her menorah at the Goodwill, so I resolved to keep my eyes open for one too. Instead, I scored at New Season’s 75% off holiday merchandise sale. I brought home this beauty:
Well, it turns out I forgot one entirely. I was going to cook four different kinds of vegetables each week. That would explain why I had a separate “V” designation for chores accomplished (as compared to the “F” for anything to do with food. I did cook/prep a lot more vegetables early in the year and then less so the second half of the year.
I used the rest of my birthday money to treat myself to delicious quality brand new sheepskin slippers. I’ve been walking around in thick socks, due to the lack of slippers so these are a vast improvement. I love how this pair have the cutaway, making them easy to get my feet into.
First wearing of the slippers! Sentinel is going through an interesting shoe phase and is busy checking out the news from my shoes.
I am a great fan of the fog as it is mysterious and always reminds me of South Boston, whose siting in Boston Harbor guaranteed a lot of foggy mornings. So it was lovely for someone to arrange fog for me on my birthday.
When you don’t have much clothing (and I have a goodly amount by choice, but not a ton) sometimes you need to wash everything. Other times I desire to be dressed because I have things to do around the house, but don’t want to actually put on pants. What do I need? A House Frau dress. I’ve been wanting one for awhile and my trip to the Goodwill yielded this classic. I love it. It’s a great color, not binding at all and, yes, incredibly unflattering. But that doesn’t matter, because after this picture, the public won’t see it.
It was a good Goodwill trip in other ways. I also got this great shell which is a bit more flattering than the House Frau dress.
And! In the Halloween section, of all places, I got this fabulous car coat which not only goes with the dress, it bridges the gap between the “too cold for no coat, too hot for the lightest weight coat.” Yipee!
