Three Things

1.) Car Update (from the original posts here, here and here). Latest news is - we no longer have that car. It died yesterday while Mr. B was on his way to work. He hadn't even gotten past our street when the car started acting and sounding strange, so he came back home and took the van to work. He took it to the shop and they said that, when he was hit, the frame was badly bent and is now about to crack and break. He's lucky it didn't happen while he was driving. It's not repairable. If we could find the same kind of chassis, we could put the rebuilt engine into it. But we can't find one. The car is older than our marriage - Mr. B got that car brand new about the time we started seriously dating - 1986.

2.) The Headmistress says that everybody is talking about shoes. I rarely talk about shoes. Generally I have two pairs of shoes - a pair of sneakers that I wear everyday and a pair of black shoes to wear when I dress up. I usually wear jeans and a T-shirt or sweatshirt. On Sundays I dress up, which means black jeans and a nicer T-shirt. At the AO conference a couple years ago, everyone looked so nice--Donna-Jean wore the cutest matching skirt outfit with a jacket and heels. I wore this. Black jeans and the nicest T-shirt I had. When I go shopping, there are infinitely more interesting things to shop for than clothes - like paper, Sharpie markers, purses, music, books. A friend took me out about six years ago and helped me pick out new, updated clothes. I thought I was good for another fifteen years. But I'm finding that, on Sundays, I look in my closet and the only warm tops I have these days are sweatshirts. I don't remember what I wore last winter. What happened to those clothes? Maybe I was so preoccupied with the nursing toddler that I wasn't thinking about what I wore? I just don't remember. So, while I was out with dh Christmas shopping last night, he pointed out some tops at KMart. I took the opportunity to pick out four tops as quickly as I could and he's going to wrap them for me for Christmas. So I should be set for another six years. My dress shoes look close to this.

3.) Some local news - this should interest Miss Roxie, who will remember the day we spent at Barnes and Noble.