Things to do Posts

04Apr
3

Disaster

It’s official. I’m flipping out.

I ordered my bridesmaid dress about 2 months ago. I hadn’t lost all the weight I had wanted to, but I was pretty OK with how things were looking. I got measured and prepared myself for the size they would tell me to buy. After all, bridal runs super small so you feel like a heffer when they order your dress.

They told me I matched with the 12. Fine. Order it. It’s just a number. It arrived 3 weeks ago, and wouldn’t you know it, this shit is too big. Strapless + I should have ordered a 10 = wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen. The dress didn’t even stay up.

I brought it to a tailor to get it taken in 10 days ago. It was supposed to be ready a week later. I drove all the way up there, and wouldn’t you know it, that shit isn’t ready. I couldn’t get back up there Friday, so I went yesterday. I tried on the dress at my parents, and my mom and her friend liked it.

I don’t.

The seamstress took it in on the sides, and took it in at the top of the back. I made her take it in tight. Strapless freaks me out. I don’t want to be pulling the dress up all night, so seriously sew it up! The thing I didn’t realize at the time, was that she didn’t take anything out from the middle of the back/bottom of the zipper area. So basically the dress is more or less a size smaller in all areas EXCEPT the back. It sticks out, kinda flares out to the back. It does that in the front too, cuz it’s supposed to I think? Either way, I look as wide back-to-front as I do side-to-side. I can’t handle this.

I tried it on just now to show J and get his opinion. So yesterday the top fit well. Today my fat ass skin hangs over the top of the dress. The way that skin inevitibly does over a strapless top unless you’re a pre-pubescent girl. I definitely gained a couple of pounds in the last 10 days, and now I’m apparently too fat for my dress. Oh and the parts that do fit? Yeah that makes me look and additional 20 pounds heavier. AWESOME.

I’m flipping out. There is NO way I can be seen in public as this currently stands. I’m driving up to the tailor at 7am and making her take more off the back. I’m limiting my food to I don’t even know what. Fruits, veggies, yogurt and water? Maybe nonfat salami or milk for protein. Count on me to be in the gym at least once daily between now and Saturday. 5 pounds need to GO. I’d settle for 3. Today has NOT been a happy day in the life of Caro.

Posted by Caro in Fears, Life, Things to do, Weddings
31Mar
0

Yahtzee!

Let’s get this out of the way: call me a nerd, but I LOVE playing board games. They’re so much fun!!

Alright now that there’s no question about that, I can post my blog about board games :)

From time to time when I wander through Target I’ll actually allow myself to indulge and buy a game.  I’m trying to beef up my collection at home, but in order to keep my wallet happy it’s a pretty slow going process. A couple of weeks ago I bought Yahtzee. It’s the simplest of games really – it consists of a cup, 5 dice, and a pad of paper to keep score. You roll the dice and try to make things, like 4 of a kind, full house, etc. Since you only get 3 tries, sometimes you don’t get all of the items on the list (like  a Yahtzee, aka 5 of a kind).

A couple of nights ago I convinced J to take a break from his work and play a quick game with me. That’s another thing I love about this game – with only 2 people it can be super quick! So we played. It didn’t seem that close, but as we each started finishing our sections, I started adding up the scores. As it turns out, I was ahead by a lot. J only had one item left on his list: Yahtzee. Since this is the hardest one to get, it’s also worth the most. He was frustrated and asked if it would even matter if he got it. I added up all the points and realized that if he rolled a 5 of a kind, we would be exactly tied.  TIED!

So he rolls. Three 6s. Another roll, another 6. Down to the last roll – can he roll a 6? 16.5% chance he will. At this point we’re having a pretty friendly yet competitive game here, and you have to understand there was some serious suspense. He rolled.

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Posted by Caro in fun, Life, Money, Random, Things to do
30Mar
1

Butter

Yeah, that’s exactly how my skin feels at the moment!! Talk about glory, especially when my skin had previously been having some alligator-like dryness issues.

A friend of mine is getting married in less than two weeks, and I have the honor of being a bridesmaid. The story of how I came to be the one responsible for throwing a bachelorette party is not relevant at this time (although it was stressful!), but I’m quite satisfied with the outcome.

My friend decided she wanted a spa day…. at Burke Williams (she had a gift card). Quite expensive to say the least, but in the end it was so worth it. While the other girls decided they all wanted massages, I decided to do something different. After all, J gave me a membership to a different spa for Chrismakkah, and I still have 2 massages left on that! I ended up going with the Parafango Treatment, mostly because the first sentence describes it as “The ultimate moisturizing experience.” Yes please!

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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Health, Life, Shopping, Things to do, Weddings
30Mar
1

SHOES!

I just bought these shoes from Zappos:

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Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Shopping, Things to do
30Mar
0

Addicted

I’m 100% incurably addicted to Facebook Scrabble. Like I get home from work and log on to see how many turns I have. It’s bad, especially since my computer is still not 100% fixed and I’m relying on J to give me time on his. Super lame. I’ve gotta get this laptop situation under control!!

Posted by Caro in Random, Things to do
18Mar
2

Alligator

This is how my knuckles were described last night.

They’re SUPER dry. Like cracking. I’ve been feeling the need to lotion them constantly, but of course forgot to bring lotion with me to work(s) on Tuesday and Wednesday. Today I finally remembered the lotion and am on my third application. Is it helping? Yes.

For about 20 minutes.

Then they want to crack again.

They’re scaly. I see hard flakes trying to peel off. Alligator-like truly fits the feel of my knuckles.

How do I make this better? Cuz it’s really starting to be painful, in addition of course to the horrible aesthetics of it.

Posted by Caro in Health, Life, Things to do
15Mar
2

Trial and Error

I got my annual vision check up earlier this year, and was pretty surprised when they told me my horrendous prescription hadn’t changed. Really? Cuz I was certain you were gonna up the size of the coke-bottle lenses I wear. I don’t see that well!!

I finally decided this wasn’t right and I needed to get my full money’s worth. I went back to the “low vision specialist” and told her I can’t see. I’m sure that’s not a new thing for her! I was able to get in that same day even. Amazing! Rather than just rushing me out the door or telling me I’m fine (or worse yet, “good enough” – I hate when people say that!), she actually took quite a long time trying to fix the problem. Everything from giving me a fresh pair of lenses, to examining the fit in my eye, and even re-doing the assessment (“which is better – 1 or 2? ok how about 3 or 4? lol).

Down side: my left eye isn’t cooperating and at the present moment cannot be fixed to better than 20/30. OK I cried about this at home, but that’s a different issue altogether. The right eye has issues too. Specifically, I have an astigmatism. I have one in both eyes, and they correct the other one. They’ve never corrected the right one before. Here’s the deal: the astigmatism is slight. The lowest amount of correction is too much. But if they give me no astigmatism correction, it’s not enough. So which is the worse evil: contacts that are too powerful or contacts that are not quite powerful enough?

I’m finding out this week. I picked up new lenses this morning. She gave me two lenses to try. So now I have choice A) the old lens; choice B) Toric lens 1; and choice C) Toric lens 2.

I’m wearing option B today and it’s kinda strange. (more…)

Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Fears, Health, Life, Things to do
15Mar
0

3-11 Day

It’s long been established that I’m a huge fan of 311. HUGE. I go basically anywhere within a days drive to see them when they tour. Yep, they are awesome enough for me to spend an entire day driving to see them.

3-11 day this year fell on a Thursday. It has previously been held in New Orleans, which sadly is NOT within a days drive. This year it was in Vegas. Hallelujah! Oh wait, let’s go back to 3-11 day fell on a Thursday. All of my vacation/PTO days are earmarked for weddings and Itay, so I have 0 left. Like I have calculated down to the hour how much time I will have away and have used every last second speaking my pretend Italian and eating glorous Italian food. This means I can’t even take part of a day off for fun things like 311.

Whatever, they’re doing a mini-tour at the moment and I went. It was seriuosly awesome, as always. But yesterday I talked to a friend who ventured out to 311 day and wouldn’t you know it – this thing was EPIC. So apparently they played for 6 HOURS. SIX! While I have no doubt I would have been exhausted beyond belief after this, I also have no doubt this would have been the single most amazing experience of my lifetime.

SO SAD I MISSED IT!

Here’s the deal kids. 3/11/11 falls on a Friday. I’ll be damned if I don’t go. In fact, I’ll even expand the concert perimiter. Forget 1 day drive, I’ll go anywhere in the United States. Is it too early to put in a request for a day off?? lol

Posted by Caro in Discoveries, Life, Music, Things to do
09Mar
1

BRUTAL-ly Honest

I had physical therapy today. My usual physical therapist was sick so I got a substitute today. A brutally honest one. I guess I should talk about physical therapy in general since I haven’t done that yet.

About a week and a half ago I went in for my consult and evaluation. It was kinda odd, but based on past physical therapy sessions for other problems, I was expecting odd. She needed to observe and measure all kinds of things related to my foot, so I took off both shoes and socks. She looked at my feet while I just stood there. She had me raise up to my toes while standing on both feet. She had me stand on one foot at a time so she could look at something else. Then she made me walk up and back the room so she could see stuff when I walked. Then I laid down.

Here’s where it got really sad: she measured my calf/Achilles flexibility. When you’re laying back and you pull your toes up to a 90 degree angle (toes to the sky), that 90 degree angle is considered “0″. Pull your toes in toward your shin more, and every degree beyond 90 is +1. So you want the 80 degree angle: +10 on their scale. Ok so when I first got measured a week and a half ago, I was at -5. MINUS 5. So that’s 15 degrees of flexibility that I’m lacking. OK people, it turns out this isn’t bad; it’s ABYSMAL. Apparently the average elderly person has more flexibility in their calf/Achilles. Heck even my “good” foot is only at a +5. OK fine, my ankle and calf aren’t flexible. Whatever — fix me!!

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Posted by Caro in Fears, Health, Life, Rants and raves, Things to do
08Mar
0

New Cypress Hill

Only heard this song once and am already in love with it: Rise Up by Cypress Hill, featuring Tom Morello on guitar. Their new album comes out on April 20 (of course it does – it is Cypress Hill after all!), and I might have to download it.

In the meantime, enjoy this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwAA6fXuh94[/youtube]

Posted by Caro in Music, Things to do, Videos
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