This is an email I wrote to my Mum. Sometimes the clearest journaling is in the form of a letter, or nowadays an email.
I was just trying to head up to bed when I saw your emails. Looks like your computer up and running again? FYI: Try to donate your monitor. They have yicky stuff in them that doesn't belong in the landfill.
I'm sorry that we won't see you this week. Soon though. :) Did you get stuck in the snarled traffic today? (I read about it on SFGATE.com) It has only been raining a little throughout the day here.
Dad sounded good the last few times I spoke with him. I wish he'd hurry and do the test his Dr. suggests. D was over tonight and said that he is not having a test tomorrow but Monday. I can be in SF anytime. Things are so much smoother this year than the last few. Just tell me when and I'll be there.
Made Mid's Macaroni & Cheese yesterday and invited DFM. He couldn't make it so I said I'd have some for him ... I didn't realize that the ENTIRE thing had been eaten before he even got here. I owe him. It was really great. I made it with aged gouda and other misc. cheeses in the fridge.
Surprise shoe sale story: Yesterday, Columbus Day, C didn't have to work. He came with me to choose the kid's pics at Fotogenix, (they will be ready next week!) and then we had some time before we needed to pick up the children. He remembered that I needed some new dress shoes so he suggested that we go look for some. (Last Friday we went to a black tie event and my shoes were rather blasé.) I suggested Nordstrom.
When we reached the shoe department we saw these really cute +$95 shoes. Dang. We went to the sale rack and found some really cool, very funky, cute Converse shoes, 1/2 off! Stella loves Converse, I like them too. They had them in Pink and Gray--was glad to get them. (If she finishes her school work ON TIME and WELL DONE she will get a pair. When she saw them on me her jaw dropped. She loves them!) (I also needed some cute everyday NON-flipflops, which I have been wearing all summer and have really hurt my feet.) I saw one very cute dress shoe on the sale rack but it was size 10.5. I asked if by chance they had it in 8.5. The nice lady went to look, and while she did C said, "I really like those first shoes we saw." I said, "Me too!" She came back with 2 boxes and said that they were available and now ALL the sizes were on sale, they just hadn't been marked down yet. When we opened the boxes we realized that they were the exact shoes that we admired first! Almost 1/2 off.
A happy shoe sale story. The picture is of one of the sale shoes. I took it on my phone, on the kitchen table. Now I am more ready for the next black tie affair ...
Do you hear that? I think that is the Sandman, tripping so lightly, on the tips of his toes!
