Ferragamo Tie....

When I hear Salvatore Ferragamo, I generally think "shoes I can't afford," not "geeky ties," but it seems that the renowned Italian design house is now in the business of making my boyfriend happy with this legit tie.

Run-of-the-mill from afar, but when you look close, the subversion begins! Tiny CDs and headphones are printed on fine blue silk.

Keeping your man true to his geeky roots in a cubicle will run you quite a bit though ($160), and you may have to stick with one of these geeky work staples! How awesome is THIS?????

Oh, Excuse me! My geek is showing!

Talk Nerdy to Me, Baby

You might know how I feel about message tees, but in this case, though I wouldn't wear it, I am wearing a big ol' grin. Who among us geeks and geek lovers hasn't gone weak at the knees at the sound of your crush talking tech specs, operating systems, and onboard RAM?

It's hot, put simply. Its hotness and its very aphrodisiac status validates the existence of this Talk Nerdy To Me T-shirt.

Sadly, Delia's says the shirt is all sold out, but let it be an inspiration to you: Go home to the hot geek in your life and whisper this in his ear. Single? Hightail it to the Apple store. You guys will be wearing these in no time.

Tuesday, Tuesday....

Well, today's been a good day thus far.
We've......
-taken out the garbage
-gathered up the recycling
-taken the aforementioned recycling to the recycling depot
-drove the empty pop bottles by the bottle depot - and they were too busy, so we just drove on by
-went to our local Library
-signed my older 3 up for the Reading Race *cheers erupt from Cindy*
-came home, unloaded empty recycling bins, Library books and children (after chasing Liam around the garage for a few minutes)
-made Hubby his lunch, set it on the table
-made the children their lunches (6 peanut butter buns later....)
-cleaned Liam up and took him upstairs to his nap (blessed silence!)
-drove Hubby's lunch to him (I hope he likes it!)
-tidied up, took out garbage
-broke up arguments, and judged who's horse drawing looked better (I don't get it either....)

and now I'm blogging!! Wheeeee!

The UPS guy came at 4 pm yesterday - and let me just add in that he was possibly the sweetest UPS guy I've ever had the opportunity to meet! What a nice guy.
I'm still waiting on my toe ring though.... (I ordered one out of guilt, but that's a different post, for a different day).

Have a great afternoon! I"m off to go have something to eat!
C.

So they are sending me for x-rays on my feetsies.... Even the doc was a little baffled.... "Well, you've got pain like you've got a stress fracture, which is really not a big deal.... But you've got swelling like tendonitis.... Hmmmm..." I prolly should have told him that I generally have cankles, hey? :)
But I've been putting off the x-rays because hellloooo.... It even SAYS right on the requistition form for the x-rays "Please, do not bring minor children to your appointment". Like I have an au pair or something to take them. *Sheesh!* I figured that I'll get my x-rays done when my older kids are in VBS... That way I only have 1 kid to control. Much easier.

Other than that, I am just spending my day waiting on the UPS guy.

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.

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*

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!