Tuesday 24 June 2008

Oh, My Aching Feet.....


So...... I'm petrified.

These are my feetsies.... after my last pedi (notice the lovely purple polish that my youngest daughter picked out?). You can see that they are relatively white (which is good, seeing as I'm a white Canadian), and that my polish is dee-lightful.
What you can't see is that my feet hurt so much, so consistently, that I'm forced to limp quite frequently - both around the house and in public. My children cannot sit with me on the couch for fear that they will bump my feet and bring me to tears with the pain. I have the HARDEST time finding shoes that simply just FIT, let alone look good..... I've even outgrown the wide width shoes.

So, with that all in mind, my wonderful hubby caught me limping the other day (I try not to let him see me), and instantly sat me down and TOLD ME that I was going to call the podiatrist FIRST THING on Monday morning.
So I did. I was okay with it - because honestly - in the Calgary region, you CANNOT get in to see a specialist really quickly, so I thought it would take me ages to get in to see the Doc.
WRONG!!!!!!
They could have gotten me an appointment on Wednesday (but it was too close to when my 2 older kids get out of school), so I opted for the Friday afternoon appointment.

I am so nervous, I am ready to puke! What if???? What if I have to have surgery? (Oh no! How will we afford it??) Who will help me if I have to have surgery?
What if I have to have those gawd awful orthotics that are hideous and don't allow me to wear cute shoes?
What if, what if????
Hubby just doesn't understand my anxiety about this.... He's a guy. He doesn't have to have purty toes. (Nobody looks at guys toes anyways!)

Just wanted to share......
C.

Wednesday 11 June 2008

Love. It.



Even the Guy Who Plays a PC Is a Mac



I've outed John Hodgman before for being an iPhone user (scandal), and I have heard rumblings that he is not, in fact, a PC user. Now I've got it straight from the horse's mouth!

He recently came clean and admitted his devotion to Apple:

"I play a PC only on television. I've used Macs since 1984. When I was a kid, I talked my dad into getting the very first Mac and I've been loyal to the brand ever since."

Yep, I think he's my favorite tech star!


What a delicious sense of irony!!! *grin*

Thursday 5 June 2008

Hello June......

I can't believe what a slacker I am about writing in here.

Oh well!!! :)

Well, we have some...... interesting....... stuff coming down our way. A possible job change (again!), the kids get out of school in exactly 3 weeks (aaaahhhh!!!), and it's summer. Sort of.
Our weather here has been really wacky as of late - like to the point where we've had so much rain that our main river here in our little town flooded, and we are STILL on a boil water advisory to make our water drinkable. Needless to say, we've been drinking a lot of water from a water store here in town that I just adore.... $3.50 for a refill on an 18.9 L big ole jug. Hallelujah for cheap Tuesdays and Thursdays!!!!
I went on a date on Monday night, with Hubby to Sex And The City (the movie). Damn. I love those characters. I WANT some of those purses and jewelry!!!!! (Which is funny, since I'm not much of a purse girl)

It's just been a really busy time lately. But, I'm getting to the point where I'm so tired that I'm getting stupid, so I'll sign off.

Ciao!