and thank you.

read me  !!

Someone needs to say it.    I think the commentary speaks for itself.  

mail suprises = best ever.

Well, this may be a tad late for the christmas tree, but technically it's not because you can just print off the explanation of the gift !

I love these ideas and would love to be a recipient of these, who wouldn't! Now which to choose from for others....



fun mail per month gift ideas!

every woman has her shade of red

LIPS! people. I mean lipstick.


I am not a big wearer of make up. Work does not see it, nor do my house pets if I am sticking around home. I only really apply make up for an evening out. By evening out.. I mean the movie theater usually does not qualify for eye liner.

However, a recent comment on Reddit reminded me of my special shade of red lipstick. Every girl has her shade, unfortunatly many girls do not seem not confident enough to wear it. The secret is.... Every girl can wear red lipstick. There is a shade for each of you. Search it out!

A few years back I was hell bent on a mission to find my shade, and 4 lipsticks later, I found one that made me feel right.  Marcelle Rouge vitality 370 vintage red:

 I wore this shade out for half a year, even to the movie theater.   Now I pull it out slightly less, but damit, everytime I love putting it on.

I am now facing the possibility after a realization my stick is tragically nearing the end of it's life and a very brief internet search, I may be faced with the task yet again to replace my red with a new 'my red', as Marcelle Vintage red might indeed be discontinued.

Sephora is opening up in regina....this could be fun!

I like this site  http://drinkify.org/. It matches music to a drink, with some thoughtful suggestions.

pinot noir for sarah maclaughlin.... I could get to like these suggestions.. that is when I can enjoy a glass of something.

she's taking on water mates

And so it goes, my Christmas decorating aspirations have been corrected.  Instead, I am 3 days into enjoying an excursion at La hospital Pasqua in a private suite (a free upgrade from the hallway bed), awaiting a special activity called "cholecystitis" also known as removing my gall bladder. Useless piece of tissue, thanks for the help GB -no help. .  On the menu since tuesday is Nil per Os. (nothing to eat for those of you who arn't speechies). (today is saturday). 

I must admit, though I work with people in acute care, I have a new appreciation for my patients who I have to recommend NPO with, and I have never actually stayed over night in a hospital before, no have I ever had an IV line, or surgery  I'm kind of close to being a big baby over it all., but from the sounds of it, my system malfunctioning was about to be getting real...as in real big problems (jaundice, pancreatitis,.) had I not come to this.    

I have unfortunatly been too nauseous to knit, but I understand I will have recovery time at home where I expect knitting will be the perfect companion....provided I have some runners to get me yarn...(any volunteers??

positive: my surgeon assures me she has done over 300 of these surguries.

negative: my surgeon assures me I am her first ever patient with choledocholithiasis

(It is the stones in the common bile duct shared with your pancreatic duct that really fuck one up a tree)  

Step 1. Mail is not email

I think I need to book an entire weekend to do Christmas cards. Locating physical addresses may indeed be a forgotten skill.    Getting these to the postal box (is that what it is called? I can't remember) is an ambitious goal. I think I need to break this down into 10 tiny objectives so the speech pathologist in me doesn't have a panic attack...

kick it into christmas

Yes folks,  characteristically, the busier I am = the busier I want to be.
This means, this year I am going all in for christmas. Big intentions. Big. BIG intentions. ..........
...... to do christmas cards. and to decorate. and to knit (a couple gifts). and to bake. and to be suzy sort of homemaker in honor of this new 2013 novel idea in my life called "routine". I'll try it on for a bit. See how it fits.

Just in case I get the "so...hows that going for you (snicker)" comment, I am going to shoot even higher and proclaim I will try to keep my xmas tribulations and failures posted on the blog.  At this point I would score it
+2 Randi  (gift finds)
+1Grinch (due to Bijou's not so festive chocolate stocking stuffer encounter)

With Christmas craft and artisan shows every weekend in preparation for christmas, I stopped by Sask craft council's Wintergreen this afternoon.  I went to Our best to you last weekend, but I definitely like wintergreen better. More local high quality jewelry and pottery/woodworking, nice artistry.  I picked up an absolutely stunning piece of jewelry for Rhett's mom from local artist Megan Hazel ,... though the piece is not on the site and I am not going to post a picture of it right now... just in case. Well, maybe I'll think about it.

edit, ok here it is:

time get busy!

more pinups at the source