The sweet life: an account of my day in detail

I will say now that I'm in the mood to talk about every little detail of my day, so, there was your warning.

I was talking with my friends in the car last night (as we were heading to a tea party) about what a hypocritical blogger I am because I like a lot of pictures and little text, but I have no camera and a lot to say so nothing can be done about it just now.

I feel I had a wonderful day today - it wasn't entirely wonderful, it started out badly, but it is ending wonderfully and the feeling has worked itself backward in time and colored the whole day beautifully. However, here is how it started:

When I woke up I thought I had my foot on Tom's and I could here the space heater going in the living-room. I was immediately at full attention thinking Oh no! That's been on all night? The electricity bill! What a waste! As I was about to jump up I realized Tom wasn't in bed. So I was no longer worried about heater but had the sad feeling of being without my husband and got out of bed anyway.

Tom and I both had the day off today and I had big plans for the apartment. But it was 10 already and my body, and his, were feeling very tired and sort of sick from the past days of work and cold. But our internet was back up now and I remembered I had wanted to watch My Best Friends Wedding (on Hulu where you watch for free). I wrapped myself in a down comforter and sat in front of the computer all morning totally enjoying the movie.

For those of you who haven't seen it or haven't seen it in a while, I like it so much more than I did when I was younger. The characters are none-too-moral but I take no issue with that as long as they aren't portrayed to be. I only say this because of a conversation I was recently a part of. I just feel as adults and Christians we know enough not to try and emulate what we see and that we can only learn from the mistakes and experiences of those who don't know God. To see the moral lessons of a non-believer can shine a light on our own hearts and purposes and urge us away from holier-than-thou mentalities and give us a heart for those who are yet lost. As one who was once lost it is easy to be empathetic. I was reminded of those lost days even while watching my silly romantic-comedy and to be reminded is to be humbled.

It is such a fun movie though. I was saying to Tom that that genre was at its best in the 90s, in my opinion - Sleepless In Seattle! Hello. But this movie is fantastic. Julia is beautiful and has a terrific wardrobe (very masculine/feminine - my favorite). Cameron is completely lovable which was astounding me because I can't stomach her at all these days. But she was so adorable and so gorgeous - her face was rounded and all of her sweet outfits were such flattering colors. And then Rupert Everett was so charming and his life so glamorous. It makes me laugh and cry and there is singing! And everybody just looks lovely.

Don't you want to wake up to these people?

Well, I did.

After that my day had some ups and downs. I felt so guilty about not getting anything done, and so stressed about everything left undone, that I became an emotional mess. I think (and hope) this was all worsened by my tiredness and my real need for rest.

Tom was so wonderful about everything though and after my good long cry and his many sweet words and actions we moved the cabinet out of the hall closet into the bedroom, returned the piles of comic books and magazines back to there long-since sanded and long-till painted bookshelf, started (though eventually unraveled) a knitting project, made a gift bow out of a plastic bag, made important phone calls, sent important e-mail messages, sorted things, washed dishes and cleaned the kitchen! Then I remembered that Sweet Life makes their chocolate orbs this time of year - Tom's favorite: the chocolate ball the size of a baseball that you crack open to find chocolate mousse inside.

We decided we had to go - once a year they have these things! So I got dressed (at 6p.m.) and we headed out into the freezing rain.

One thing I love about going to Sweet Life is the style of the place. It is so funky and shiny and colorful. It's as fun and glossy as the desserts they make and I was inspired!

I put on my jewel- green slacks and my royal blue top (with the little jewel button at the key-hole) Over that was my London Fog raincoat with the puffed-sleeves and cinch-waist and wrapped myself up in Tom's inherited multi-colored scarf. It sounds bad but Tom just about melted; it was perfect. When we got there they had orbs but they were orange-chocolate this time. We decided to postpone the $6 expense and get something "cheaper" - that took the form of a chocolate mousse cake with blood orange frosting. We saved $1.25. It was delicious, however, and we now have an excuse to go back! Whether or not we should is a different matter, but it's basically Christmas, no time to be a Grinch-y Scrooge about feeding your most loved one mousse.

This isn't were my day ended - there were presents to open and belated dinner to eat - but Tom is being too cute to ignore and I have tired of this entry at last!