Tough start to the month on the ugly shoe quest. Everyones in boots...and all fairly pedestrian at that! C'mon people. I was going to start and ugly toque campaign, but feared the need to get waivers signed for posting head shots on the internet......
How about a new perspective. BEST shoe of 2011 (so far)....
Behold minion!!! My winter BOGS. I wore them in public today wearing turquoise plaid pants.... A pal once told me - your outfit doesn't have to match, it just has to "go". Oh it go baby!
BOGS have 2 key features....a Wellington-like galosh bottom and a Gortex top. Uber warm. And note the pull on hand loops up top. Sweet for the wearer with a more portly calf meant to be standing waiting for the ever late GO train! But also, if you need a quick shopping bag, they are sturdy enough to fill with canned goods and you can carry easily with the reinforced hand holes. They are a bitch to pull off tho.....Guarantee these will not wear out in my lifetime. Thanks Santa for keeping me fashion forward.
2 more days to make weight loss magic on my first weigh in. A bit of a muddled week. Followed the rules sometimes, reinvented rules other times.
TRIUMPHS? Got my tea down 2 sizes. I need to be switched to milk or peppermint tea by the time Italian class starts. Totally off all sugar (yay) and totally off snack foods. Went to the movies.....only had a tea!
FAILURES? Still have cream in my tea. Haven't ramped up my water intake. Haven't balance my dairy consumption.
All baby steps grasshopper.....
Saw the gym 2 times in 4 days. Did a trip on the below contraption the other 2 days:
Say hello to the "Ab-Doer Twist". We just happen to have one in the cupboard, purchased as seen on TV, marketed beside the "Snuggie" blanket with arms, and the Magic Bullet.
I won't lie...I'm hurting in my more than generous flanks to be sures. The gist is that you sit on it (in front of Oprah of course), pull the Wildebeast Horn handle bars up to chest height, and start rocking back and forth side to side, add a twist.etc...... There is pretty decent resistance in the back bar so all the right muscles get engaged to flex it. The orange foam rolly thingy? That is some kind of spinal safety feature....but is ultimately a fab massager......I should be seized up into a ball by bed time.
So the movie I viewed was "The Kings Speech". Now as much as I adore Colin Firth, I really gotta say, come Oscar time, Geoffry Rush should have been deemed the star of this movie and be vying for the best Actor nod - performance was so so good. I will own the DVD, but propelled not by my need to have a complete Colin Firth collection (because he's awesome**), but more to start a Geoffry Rush collection. Its a great flick, with a really solid perspective of what it must have been like to have been a Royal pre-war time. What a complicated lineage in that family. Buckle in Ms Middleton. I think I'll start to research it......we are after all standing at the threshold of my burgeoning University career. Might as well ramp up........
**with the obvious exception of "The Importance of Being Ernest......gawd
Love the boots, great colour.
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