Viva Las Vegas!

I am realizing today that I leave tomorrow for my trip to fabulous Las Vegas. This trip really crept up on me! I am going for my friend Christine's bachelorette party. It should be a fun filled time with lots of silliness. Don't look for an update as to this weekend's activities though because we all know... what happens in Vegas stays there. I finally has some "girl" moments in my life. Yesterday, after getting my hair done, I went shopping for some last minute additions to my wardrobe for the trip. It was the first time in a long time that I actually enjoyed shopping. I can finally understand now how some women can blow through a ton of money shopping. I know I am coming to this a little late in the game, but it was genuinely fun. I also bought my first pair of "grown-up" heels. I have never been one for heeled shoes seeing as I am a clumsy person, but it was time to take the leap into wearing real women's shoes. They look great and are actually, dare I say it, kind of comfy. It took me over six stores to finally settle on one of the first pairs I tried on early that day. This is also a running theme in my life.

So for today all I really have planned is laundry and getting ready for the trip. I have to return a dress for a smaller size because I was having a bad day shopping when I bought it originally. Today is also Thursday, so it is a tutoring day as well. I hope to listen to the two songs I have narrowed down for the April 11th performance and pick the song I will do. I also will start my memorization of the song today. If there is any time left I will work on more embroidery for that belt. Lots on the plate and so much excitement for the weekend. It already feels like Friday!

Weekend in Review

This weekend was really good overall. Dan stayed home from work on Friday because he was still not feeling well, which resulted in little work being done for Fabulous Pants. I was okay with this though seeing as I have really been plugging away on things for it on the computer and on the machines. I am just worried that I am going to get stopped by the "rainy season" for listings because I will not be able to take pictures. I hope to get a ton of things done today due to my renewed vigor from taking a break from it all for three days. On Friday I took it easy and did things mostly on the computer. On Saturday, Dan and I went out and did "free shopping." It is fun to do, and I highly recommend it to others. We tend to save up our gift cards and never spend them, so we go on free shopping sprees when we finally get around to using them all. I go to get some items I needed at Crabtree and Evelyn and also learned that they no longer sell my perfume. It was kind of disappointing. We went and got Dan an iPod for him to finally be able to have some music with him. He was happy to have a new tech toy. I also spent a gift card at Macy's to get some perfume and got a ton of free stuff because it was give away time from the counter I bought from. I also got some things, although not for free but on sale, for me. I got a pair of tan wool pants and a new wardrobe item I have never had, a purple hat. I love adding that to my new look that I am trying to figure out. We also got wine glasses and martini glasses from Crate and Barrel. It was great to get so many things for free essentially. We ended our night with an almost free dinner at Ruth's Cris. It was a fun day.

On Sunday I went to a drop spindle class. I am not that great at spinning yarn yet, but I intend to work on it and become good with this. Once I can spin on a spindle, Dan is going to get marching orders to build me a wheel so I can learn on that. Hey I figure he can make me a harp, then a wheel is not too far behind. :) After that, I relaxed on the couch and watch some tv off the dvr while I surfed around the web and Dan worked on his work. I did two minor things for Fabulous Pants; I uploaded my products onto Google base, and I also got Twitter set up. You can follow my small updates on my Twitter Feed and see what I am tweeting about. I then spent the rest of the evening working on a project that is mostly for myself, but also for someone else. I cannot talk much about it now, but look for my recap of items I am working on but can't talk about now after the holiday season. It will be picture filled and action packed.

On the slate for today: jogging.... Yeah you heard that right. I am going to try to get back into shape again. I tried earlier this year and did not do so hot at sticking with it. I am more determined again since I did not fit into any of my dress pants for this weekend's dinner. We will see how it goes this time. I have that same jogging program I am going to try, but I think I will try it on the ellipitical since that is more controlled by my pace rather than having to turn the speed up and down on the treadmill all the time. Perhaps when I get further in the program and there are less intervals I will be able to switch back to the treadmill. I am going to finally finish those lime peacock pants so they can be photographed and listed tomorrow. I am also going to get the black roses pair cut out and hopefully started a bit. We will see though. I do need to clean up around the work area from last night's project as well. Well I am off for a jog...

Feature on a Blog

I had a short feature in a blog by Elektra Jewelry Design. She was so kind to feature me, so I thought I would put up her Etsy Mini for good karmic returns. Check out the store and look around. Perhaps there is something you would like for yourself, and it is never to early to start some holiday shopping! Have a great weekend. I will be back to the blog on Monday with the weekend recap.