Today's burst of creativity is The Watermelon Dress, aka The Nummy Nummy Dress. It's for my niece, and it's called thus because my niece LOVES watermelon. She calls it 'Nummy Nummy', and as soon as she spots some her eyes get wide and she will focus on nothing else until it's gone. If you don't watch her she will eat an entire watermelon by ( Read more... )

So I was out running earlier, in broad daylight, which should be a lot more safe than, say, when I run in the dark at 5:00 am. Right? Well, there's this hill on the way back to my neighborhood, and it kind of curves around, so you have to pay attention while you're driving on it. I was on the sidewalk, running down the hill, as you do, when all ( Read more... )

I'm sorry to say that the boot store was kind of a bust. Not because they didn't have a wide selection of boots. They did! But they barely had anything in my size, and they didn't seem to feel that bad about it, so I left empty-handed. Once again, having small feet handicaps me when it comes to impulse shopping. (I did try on a few pairs just ( Read more... )

I started off my year as I intend to go on. Which is to say, I dragged myself out of bed at the crack of dawn and went downtown to meet a coworker and run 3 miles. It was the Calhoun's New Year's Day 5K, and I ran the entire thing in spite of the fact that I hate running on pavement and generally wuss out pretty early (it's so much harder on my ( Read more... )