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Church in the am, then relaxed while the boys went to first CYL lacrosse scrimmage in ElSeg. I was going to relax before heading to Cathy's but ended up "meeting" with Mitch wrt the program for the Championships and Awards next weekend. Did get a little rest in, where I got to read my book, The Invisible Bridge.
Headed off to TJoe's for the forgotten pint of cream for Daniel's caramels- it took forever. Seemed everyone was there buying goodies for their Oscar parties. Got to Cathy's at about 3:45, but she wasn't satisfied with the Maldon sea salt that I'd brought, so went out to get the Camargue fleur du sel. The Maldon has worked just fine in my past few batches, since I was out of the fleur du sel. I couldn't find the Camargue at my Von's nor at Trader Joe's (and didn't have time/energy/funds to hit Surfa's) so I was just going to use the Maldon. She tried Bristol Farms, but only found it at Gelson's so take note.
We made three double batches of the caramels and will cut, wrap, and pack on Tuesday at 11:15.
While we were working, we got to watch the Oscar Pre-show and the actual ceremony. First time I've seen the awards in its entirety in years. I have a plan for next year- get a bunch of girls together and secure a couple of adjoining hotel rooms at the Century Plaza and dress up with hair and makeup and drink girly drinks all night while watching the show. We could order appetizer trays and bring bottles of girly booze. Sounds fun, right?
Came home to Cam watching Futurama (what else) and Jeff watching some redneck gun show. Right now, they're making a sword- a combination of a katana and a machete. Whatevs...
I have only a couple of days left before work. Sigh. I'm still concerned. Tonight I'm oaky, with having spent hours stirring caramels. A bit tired, a bit sore from sitting, but not that bad. Gearing up for Wednesday/Thursday.
It is quite chilly for a late February in Southern California. Pinky is on full blast and I'm wearing full length yoga pants and a sweatshirt to bed.
First scrimmage with the Wave (killer bees?)
i'm nervous about returning to work on Thursday. terrified actually. i know it's rather unreasonable and that everything will be fine. today i went to trader joe's for a marketing foray and by the time i got there, home, unpacked the groceries, i was in pain and had to rest. how am i going to handle 7+ hours of up and down all day long with only a couple of breaks and no warm bed to which to retreat? imagine the tightest pair of spanx EVER and that's how my muscles feel- not awful pain, more like a hard workout the next morning- tightness with a bit of pain.
i'm doing stretching and seeing the chiro, plus a couple of miles of walking every other day. you'll find it hard to believe how i look. i'm sure the reality will be much better than what i'm making up in my mind.
i can't put it off any longer and we can't survive- at least at the nice lifestyle to which we are accustomed : ). I have five weeks with a substitute in my room as an assistant- glorious! then 2 weeks on my own in the room without assistance, 10 days of spring break, and then a few more weeks before summer starts. it's going to go quickly. still trying out how to travel this summer (without the boys.)
someone, send me pictures of cool glasses- costco ain't cutting it...
i'm doing the party favors for daniel's bar mitzvah- a small box of my honey vanilla fleur du sel caramels. they'll double as place cards. we're making three double batches. the cooking is the easy part- it's the cutting, wrapping, boxing, tying, and labeling that takes the time. so we have FOUR people to help. we'll cook tomorrow- stirring while we watch the oscars. tuesday cat has some friends (and her mom) coming to assembly line the favors.
yesterday, my tasteful friend cathy took me shoe shopping yesterday and i bought a nice pair of shoes (HIGH heels) to go with my dress for her son's bar mitzvah party at Spago next Saturday. i'll have to do a lot of practice walking, but i have to say that i look pretty spectacular! I'll try to get a nice photo to post next week.
i'm going to get my hair blown out (the drybar- a salon where ALL they do is wash and blow dry your hair- it's awesome.) if i have time, i'll get fakey eyelashes. No spray tan this time because I always end up looking like an oompa loompa. lol, always... i did it once, for alex's wedding.
it will be a busy day- temple service at 10, lacrosse at 2, hair at 5, cocktail hour at 6:30. woohoo! i can't wait. i might have jeff do car service for me- cheaper than a taxi. maybe i can bum a ride home with debbie.
what three things would you choose to protect yourself if someone breaks into your home? apparently, amongst all the weaponry at casa bee, i'd choose the remote control, a flashlight, and a plastic hanger.
Walked Cam to school this morning and continued on for a little bit of exercise. Walking to Mumford & Sons and my eclectic mix. Just a little over 2.25 miles with my latte in my princess thermos.
Then headed off to Faye for the first time in four months- desperately needed a cut & color. So my pictures today are before and after. Cam commented on how white my hair is at the temples. So when I picked him up he said he liked the colored version better, but that he also thought that BBO's grey hair looks nice too.
Jeff went to officiate and Matty's team won so they'll be playing the White Lions next Monday at Westchester for the semi-finals. I made english muffin pizzas to Cameron's enthusiastic thumbs-up. Made them for Jeff when he got home too (along with a bowl of pasta.) I used the sauce I made for Jen and Lessa, so it wasn't entirely pre-fab. Jeff bought a giant bag of english muffins from Costco the other day...
Cathy and I are off to shop tomorow- she needs undergarments and I need shoes. I'll drop Cam off at school, come home, and then walk to the mall and meet her there.
before (white temples)
after (much better!)
It's Tuesday and it's COLD! It's all I can do to slip out of my warm bed to do anything.
I was going to walk Cam to school, but we were late and I drove him- thanking goodness that I did because of the chill. Of course, it's positively balmy compared to the rest of the world- about fifty degrees.
So then I was going to walk to the movies, but guess what, it was only 57 degrees, so I drove. I saw The King's Speech and it was awesome. So much pain and glory in their relationship.
Met with the chiro- it's less than .25 miles according to NIke+. Can't tell if it's doing much- he's working on the edema with some sort of laser. I did try the jogging again for a few steps, but the back said (hollered) no. Walked a bit more on the way home- took the short long way home.
Cam and Jeff went to lax this evening while I made white chicken chili, though I did forget the green chiles. It was warm and perfect to take off the chill.
Jeff and I are watching some V before bed.
Just a week before going back to work.
Our wee pack had a successful Blue and Gold Banquet tonight- fiesta style. Food from Baja Bud's and decorations by our Rosemary. It was great. Not as fancy as last year's 100th celebration, but it was perfect. Everyone had a great time and we were out of there in record time- nary a sign of us having had 30 boys and 60 adults eating messy foods.
Cam is reading True Grit...
I walked 2.1 miles with Keren this morning- good for me. It was cold, but jumped into a warm bed once I got home.
Blue and Gold left me sore and stiff and a little nervous about how I'm going to be able to handle next week going back to work. 7+ hours without a 2 hour nap is going to be a challenge. No recliners or warm beds to retreat to... Thank goodness for Elvira- she's the best.
Another walk tomorrow- I'm going to be walking 30-45 minutes every day no matter what (unless I'm truly sick)- slow and steady. My ass told me no running. I tried to jog a block and my bod said, not a chance. Yet. I'll do it eventually. Slowly. I might try C25K again in a while. But as Dr. K says, I need to do something.
Counting the days until I go back to work- they're whizzing by- I can now say, "I'm going back to work next week." Cam had the day off, but Jeff didn't. Things didn't go much differently than any other weekend day. He was on the xBox. I went to Dr. K's, who okayed me for showering without being taped up! Woohoo! Back to normal, finally. The one kind of open wound left needs to be addressed with a bit of betadine and a bandaid. It's healing at a quick pace. There is a large patch of strange redness that he took some pictures of and will talk to a dermatologist to see if anything can be done about it. He admits he's never seen anything like it, and that's saying a lot. He said they're not too quick responding, so he think he'll hear something from them by the end of the week. Three weeks until I see him again.
Mary Anne came by to do some laminating for her LACMA presentation. She's done some lovely visuals of how paints were created in different colors- ochre, cinnabar, lapis, lead white. Of course we just head down to the closest Dick Blick's for paint nowadays. She's such a talented artist...
Then I hung out in bed for a while, well, most of the afternoon. I'm reading The Invisible Bridge that my mom sent me for my Kindle. Boy, it makes me want to go to Paris. I know it's going to be more epic, I'm reading pre-WWII now, but you can feel the anti-semetic tension building. Brutal. Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, as Cam would say.
Jim made dinner for Lifegroup tonight- beef stew. Just what the cold day needed. Since Cam didn't have lacrosse practice Jeff and Cam stayed for dinner. It was delicious. Lifegroup is lovely- it's been a good connection with intelligent, good people. I wish all Christians were good people like I've met. The world would be a better place. So much damage has been done in the (egregiously wrong) name of Christianity, but what I've experienced is not what that's about.
Currently in bed under about 35 pounds of kitteny goodness (only 2 of the three are here, the third should show up soon.) House is cold. Bed is warm. Probably going to sleep soon.
Tomorrow is Blue & Gold. This will be my first meeting since my surgery. Looks like the committee will pull it off in style- we're having a fiesta! I'll cinch up my belt on my uniform and eat tacos and do the macarena. Can't wait to see what they have planned.
I LOVE my pretty princess thermos. I sip it all morning and it keeps my lattes toasty warm. In the mug, the heat is gone within a half an hour. 30 minutes is just too quick to get all that caffeine into my system. I need a slow drip.
Today was a gorgeous day! Church was nice- I enjoy going. (Still too much singing for my sad voice, but love the community feeling. I'm actually feeling less self conscious about being a church-goer. Spoke to Alea (still sick) and she helped out with Cam's Faith portion for his Webelos badge. She's also not feeling well still. I might make dinner tomorrow again. No idea what. Also found out the Moira D. is an instructional aide in Cam's class- she is so gorgeous and gentle seeming. I'd like to get to know her better.
Took Cam to the bookstore where he perused the scifi shelves and bought two books with his own money. Then we headed to the food court- panda express for him and mongolian bbq for me. Cam's decided mongolian bbq is pretty awesome and will choose it next time.
Jeff went to BIll's to work on his Australian impression for the desert battle. I can't wait to see the pictures and hear the tales. He drank too much Pimm's and (ugh) smoked too much. He says there's something about old wool that makes him want to drink old English liquor and smoke (ugh.) I'm going to do something fun with letters to the unit. I hope it works and they get it.
Then we came home and Jen and Lessa came over for some sewing and Sense & Sensibility and a lot of talking. Lessa brought some goodies from TJoe's and we snacked and yakked for a while. Jen did some quilting, Lessa some cutting out of gloves, Cam showed off, and I did some embroidery. Just about finished with that ONE dishtowel (of ten) that I started about 18 months ago. It's cute.
I made a spontaneous pasta dish with some yum sauce. Jeff came home and charmed, as he does. Jen brought garlic bread and dessert- caramel sauce with some vanilla ice cream. Delish! I felt stuffed.
Now we're in bed, with the computers going watching An Idiot Abroad. It's spectacular... Karl Pilkington is either a idiot or completely brilliant. Almost time to go to bed now.
Went to see the Adam Sandler/Jen Aniston movie this morning with Susan, her mom, Isaac, and Cam. It was cute. Pete Dante was in it briefly as a drunk dude in a bar.
Went to Borders to pick up some deals because it's closing and the line was at least 50 people long, so we left. Hoo boy, Cameron was pissed. No way was I going to wait over an hour in line so he can get a hardcover book on World War II in the Pacific that's out of his league anyhow (but who am I to tell him that.) It was only 20% off anyway.
It was pouring when we left the food court to hit Borders and not raining when we left the bookstore. Crazy weather. It just started to rain as we pulled up to the house and pretty much rained all evening. We ordered pizza in- neither Jeff nor I felt much like cooking. Nor was there anything in the fridge.