Favorite #1
In case you’re like me and normally wear capris instead of shorts, I beg you to try these. I love them. I know they’re junior sizes but they are quite possibly the most comfortable and flattering shorts I’ve worn in a very long time. I haven’t been able to wear, or been comfortable enough to wear, short shorts in years. Bermuda shorts are my new best friend. Specifically, Mossimo Relaxed Fit Bermudas at Target. I normally wear an 8 and can fit into a junior 11 (they’re a tad big before washing … you know how everything from Target shrinks…)
Favorite #2
I am engrossed in this book. I cannot get enough of it! I am not a historical fiction kind of reader in any shape or form. But the way Gregory writes is very contemporary. I love it. I love it so much I was at least 10 minutes late coming back from my lunch hour twice last week. (Click here for a link to a copy you can purchase… I linked up there to the copy I actually bought but that cover isn’t available anymore… just the movie version… I’m sure you already figured that out.
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Unfavorite #1
So I began an email exchange with a guy online a couple of weeks ago. He seemed witty, educated, funny in all his emails. Great, I thought, maybe potential. On Thursday, he asked if I wanted to get together this weekend. I said ’sure, what did you have in mind?’ He repsonded on Friday with ‘whatever, I’m free tonight or tomorrow.’ I said ‘how about lunch on Saturday?’ Late Friday afternoon he said ‘anything but lunch, I’m busy.’ I really didn’t want to do dinner - too much pressure and formality. But I didn’t have much of a choice as my Sunday is tied up. So ‘how about dinner?’ Great, he said, I should be home by 4 at the latest. ‘Think about where you want to go.’ I tried to find out where he wanted to go and make a plan of some sort but apparently he doesn’t like to plan ahead and said as much.
I’m a planner. I like things to look forward to and schedule around. ‘Dinner at 8 at XYZ restaurant’ would have been a great response from him. But no. I get to wait around for an email from him because numbers still haven’t been exchanged and he might change his mind about what he wants to eat for dinner.
So 4pm comes and nothing. 4:30pm… nothing. 5:00pm… nothing. Finally, because I’d already prepared myself for this, I decided even if he did email to say he was home/ready/whatever, I wouldn’t be. I’d already expressed my desire to plan something and that desire was ignored because he doesn’t like to plan. I also felt like I was expected to be at his beck and call in a way which I don’t appreciate. What’s wrong with making a plan? Especially for a first date? When we’ve not yet met in person?
A few minutes after 5pm, an email came ’so did you think about where you want to go?’ I ignored it. 5pm? On Saturday? It didn’t feel right to me.
Was I hasty in cutting it off at the knees or not? I think I was to certain extent but with good reason. I’m tired of dating people that don’t bother to put their best foot forward in the beginning. If they slouch off in the beginning, good grief what’s it going to be like months from now?
Anyway.
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I figured out how to know when your baking soda is expired. Bake a batch of peanut butter frisbees. 