hats are the new shoes

although to be honest I have never been much of a shoe girl David has more of the Imelda Marcos tendency than I do, my leanings are more towards purses & bags and now hats hats and more hats!
There are some cute choices around town and I have only begun to shop! Plus online has many choices although that seems to be a bit risky not be able to try it on before purchase. I was shocked to see how expensive hats can be like really expensive who knew? I am certainly not spending $40, $50 or $100+ on a hat but my goodness some cute stuff out there
(the pictured above all priced out of my price range but all tooooo cute)

do you ever feel guilty

about starting a book then deciding you really don't like it and have no desire to finish it? Generally I will try to plod through and finish regardless but I have 2 sitting mocking me, well maybe they aren't exactly mocking me exactly but I have my suspicions. And I am terrible about updating my goodreads account too! So I think both of these novels are going ot be chalked up to weel I tried and put into the need to be traded at the used bookstore pile. Which leads me to another thing I have been putting off a trip to the used bookstore maybe we'll head over this weekend and see what kind of goodies we can find

do you like my hat?

I do not consider myself a vain person & I've never had lush gorgeous hair but it was alright I mean I had good hair days occasionally and the bald spots had been sort of tolerable maybe even vaguely amusing but only because I had enough hair to hide them. Except last night I discovered they may being getting harder to hide...insert ginormuos sigh...MIL is suppose to take my to her hairdresser this week and she has been after me to sen a lock of hair to my SIL because and I quote (or paraphrase I suppose) "any hair S gets in Las Vegas is going to better than hair we find here in town" In the mean while I am a hat girl as of now officially. Ran by wally world & got a cute newsboy hat, browsed ebay & amazon and more hat shopping to come...really really soon like this afternoon.

is it a pie? is it a cake?

the Boston Cream Pie is by far one of my favorite cakes ok I really like carrot cakes too but they are not called carrot pie now are they? I am also a fan of the boston cream donut so when I saw Dunkin Donuts new reverse boston cream my interest was piqued, piqued enough to drop by DD for a cup of coffee (because well their coffee is totally awesome) and a reverse boston cream donut. Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate a loose interpretation of the boston cream but totally yummy and totally worth the stop. Luckily the DD closest to the house is not really convenient to get in & out of so it is not going to be a frequent thing but as always a nice treat.

dreaded school fundraiser time

from the overpriced things you don't need files: magazine subscriptions!
don't get me wrong I love to find my magazines in the mailbox but I have tried to whittle down the ridiculous amount of periodicals coming in the house to just the ones that will get read or at least browsed once in awhile! I will not harass friends and family....but should you want to subscribe to anything before Tuesday please do get in touch with me and you can order online....no pressure

and while we are talking fast food

is it weird that the taco bell revelations all over the news have only succeeded in making me crave taco bell?

are theresuch things as calorie offsets?

maybe fast food isn't as bad for you if you walk to the fast food establishment

follically challenged

my trip to the dermatologist got me a diagnose of alopecia areata which has no known causes exactly but could be caused by extreme stress so I can still blame David I got steroid injections into my scalp..um ouch on that.. and some topical stuff to rub in until my return visit in 2 months. And the oh yeah it could get worse before it gets better....ugh thanks so much and yes it is still getting worse luckily I can still hide the spots, for now anyway. If it progresses further I suppose I will go hat shopping or hair shopping for clip ins and or a wig or maybe just stick with the hat route even though I really am not a hat person however I am even less so a girl that can pull off bald!

back to the grindstone

it's David's first day back to work! It's time and he is much improved of course I am still concerned but he has reassured me if he did not feel ready he would not be going. It still kinda makes me feel the way I did on C's first day of school. While I hated the circumstances it was kinda nice to have David around the house more, convenient for Christmas break& snow days plus he had been taking C to swimming & basketball as well as frequently having dinner cooked by the time I got home!

do we all have a double?

one of those urban legend type things you hear but when I first moved to Knoxville I was frequently confused with another girl who in retrospect I wish I had sought out to see how much we really did or did not look alike. Oddly enough at Wally-world this week I thought I saw my cousin, a cousin I have not had any contact with in almost 20 years, I am not originally from this area nor is he and he lives in Pennsylvania currently, I think, so he would have no cause to be in Kville, let alone shopping at wally-world. I was 98% sure it was not him or I might have gone up to talk but it was creepy how much he looked like him!