5 Things

A bowl of pho (Vietnamese noodle soup).

Dear Kittens,

I did not intend to let my blog sit unattended to for 1 whole week. I got sick and busy and even though I started many posts, I just never got around to finishing them.

1. My dear friend Charlie visited this week. It was so good to see him. My relationship with Charlie is an extremely easy one and we love just hanging out with each other. We did ate pho (twice), had Korean once and saw No Country For Old Men. We also looked at furniture. We spent close to two hours in Crate and Barrel sitting on everything. Here's what we learned the Lounge sofa is the best sofa possibly in the world. The Nuevo recliner is the most comfortable recliner in possibly the world and the Streeter chair has the prettiest red leather. Also! We discovered that we both like to sit at high tables in bar type chairs and now I'm thinking about redoing my office to include a high table for my desk.

2. Tonight is Andy's work's party. I'll be sure to take a photo of what we wear and I might just go ahead and take my camera to the party to keep myself occupied. I borderline hate going to these things. The people Andy works with are great people and I like getting to visit with them, but the booze is always substandard and the food is usually crap. I'm offended by eating shitty food (I used to just be annoyed, but now I decided to take it personally). The best thing about this party is that I bought some Spanx panties and I'm very excited about wearing them. I will try to make a point to talk about my panties to the CEO, just to make a good impression.

3. This year I signed up for 4 swaps. A fall swap, 2 ornament swaps and a gifty swap. I'm finished with all but the gifty one. I'm going to get that gifty swap started today and I figured I'll get it finished up sometime on Monday. It's this last project that I am most excited about because it's for an amazing group of people and also it will be totally different from anything else I've done this year.

4. This cold of mind is just dragging on and on and on. Of course, I am not getting enough rest or fluids and so probably if I took the time to care for myself properly I could be healthy fairly quickly. I'm not even all that sick, I'm just worn down. Since tonight is the party, it's doubtful I will get to bed early, but starting on Sunday I'm in bed every night by 9:30.

5. I've been searching for new jeans. I've ordered 4 pairs so far and not a single one has come even close to working. My main problem seems to be that my thighs are not nearly fat enough. You know, I see my thighs and I do not think that anyone would ever describe them as not fat enough, but to the jean makers for larger women, I have petite baby thighs. With the last pair of jeans my thighs would need to be DOUBLE what they are now in order for these jeans to fit properly. It's easy to blame my largeness for this problem, but I know people of all sizes have issues finding jeans that fit the way we want them to. Who decides the proportions on these things?

Just so you know, there's lots of fun stuff available on my website. www.catiecake.com Greeting cards, ornaments, stockings, original pieces of art! Go check it out and please pass on the URL. Thanks!

Love,

Catie