Friday Mishmash

Ever hear a crashing sound somewhere in your house, but can't figure out what exactly happened?  Both Jeff and I got up to investigate, but didn't see anything amiss...and the usual suspect, Kip, was outside.  Later that day, though, I opened a cupboard door and discovered that the plastic shelf supports had given way, and the top shelf in my cupboard - the one holding an entire set of dishes, had fallen.  LUCKILY, I'd opened the door where less of the dishes were...otherwise, I'm sure I would have had a painful dish shower.  One trip to Home Depot later, we had metal shelf supports in hand, as well as an order for an extra shelf for each cupboard.  WHY we waited almost 12 years to do this is beyond me, as they weren't even very expensive!  Silly us.  Anyway, the new shelves are in and hopefully I have the weight distributed a bit better now:

Ahhh, my Fiestaware STILL makes me happy!

The blue dishes on the top shelf are what fell...while I don't use them now, they were the first set of dishes (and wedding presents) and I still like them enough to hold onto them.

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The other day while I was in line at Starbucks, the woman ahead of me had a very complicated drink order that included "nine pumps of sugar-free vanilla" - NINE???  Holy chemicals, lady.  I wonder, if she used the real stuff, if she'd put nine pumps in?  Made my iced non-fat latte feel very tame by comparison.

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Kristen, my fashion guru, who blogs over at Low Fat Dressing, has a series on weight-loss maintainers (she calls it "They Walk Among Us" which cracks me up), and this week, she is featuring me!  Thanks, Kristen - and I love that one of the pictures you chose is me wearing an outfit that you helped me pull together!

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Earlier this week, my friend Terry came to town and we went on a little road trip, to tiny Paige, Texas (pop. 275) - home of Yarnorama!  This store is in the middle of nowhere, but well worth the drive - they had so many gorgeous yarns and all sorts of accessories...it was a bit overwhelming at first, but I managed to choose a few skeins to play with:

The bottom left yarn is soooooo soft!  I'm making a masculine scarf with it.  The lime green?  Maybe a baby hat?  The multicolored yarn...scarf.  Although they had a gorgeous short-sleeved sweater made from it, but that's way beyond my capabilities right now.

This is GORGEOUS.  The owner said two skeins would make a scarf, and I had them in my hands, but came to my senses and didn't buy them, as I just finished struggling with the ribbon yarn in my "adventurous" scarf and I really need to get better at knitting before I take on a challenge like that.  But I'll be back for you, my pretty!

Terry is a weaver (she and her dad built her loom) and she found lots of fun things as well!

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For Fashion Friday, this week I have a very special model - my mom!  She's here visiting for a couple of weeks, and is modeling HER "adventurous" scarf - yes, I made that scarf for her.  I chose the color of the yarn based on what I know she likes to wear, and I also thought it would look great with her silver hair.  I was right...check it out:

Everyone, this is my mom, Judy.  Say hi!

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Last week's long run outfit - I was so happy to break out all my pink stuff...maybe that's why the run went so well?  Or at least it made me feel happy so I ran happy?  Whatever it was, I'll take it.

Tomorrow we have 5.5 miles on tap, and then on Sunday we have a 5K fun run...except for Easter weekend, we have a race every weekend in April!  After that, the racing season pretty much ends until late fall, so we are taking advantage of doing as much as we can right now.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!