But since I had Amelia, my hormones are so screwed up that I’m now hot natured. I used to be cold all the time, so I lived in sweaters. Between basic hormone changes and my cholesterol medication, I’m always hot. So I have half a closet full of sweaters and sweatshirts that I’ll never wear again. I much prefer wearing long sleeved cotton shirts and a cardigan rather than a pullover. Easier to have the layers that are removable for when my body temperature changes.

So I’ll be clearing out my closet of winter clothes that will never be worn again and trying to make room for newer more stylish clothing that I can wear to work or just for hanging out. I also want to get more cuter shoes. Surprisingly, I don’t have that many shoes that I wear. I tend to stick to a few staple shoes that will go with most of my outfits and I’m finding that I like the slightly healed slip-on sandals.

I think for too long, I’ve just let the clothing slide in favor of easier shopping items (yarn and books). Or stuff for Amelia. It’s much easier to buy her clothes (it all fits her usually). Where I go to buy clothes for myself and about 2% of what I try on fits. It’s very frustrating, but I think I need to do it for myself.

A wardrobe upgrade. It’s about time. But I know it can’t happen overnight. I’m going to try to get one or two outfits with each paycheck. I know I can afford it, if I don’t waste the money on other junk (like eating out too much or getting knitting/spinning stuff, which I don’t really need anymore of right now). So we’ll see how it goes. And I’m hoping to not shop the discount stores. All the department stores seem to be having sales all the time (at least every time I go in there), so why not take advantage of it and see what they have to offer.

• Aspen
• Estuary (BFL)
• Riverwalk
• Castaway
• Dinosaur
• Harvest
• Walkabout
• Neopolitan
• Forecast
• Nova Scotia
• Brain Freeze
• Lichen (BFL)
• Route 66
• Winnepeg
• Toronto

I’ve already purchased BFL in Thin Ice, Shetland in Sangria and Corriedale in the color of the month, Joshua Tree, which I’ve always been fond of. Plus I’m currently spinning Galaxy BFL in Earth.

It’s craziness!

I’m celebrating my spinning anniversary by adding a few accessories to my wheel. I ordered a WooLee Winder and extra bobbins today for it. I’ve been reading so many raves for the WW and when I’m spinning I get so into the process that I forget to stop and move the yarn from hook to hook. Also, when spinning fine yarns, no matter how often I change hooks, the yarn still doesn’t wind on evenly because of the spacing of the hooks. Sure, I could add more hooks, but then I’m still having to stop. I’m looking forward to learning to use my WW so I can really get into my spinning and not have to worry about losing my rhythm because I’m constantly changing hooks.

Hopefully it won’t take too long for my new toy to arrive. I guess in the meantime I definitely need to finish the yarn I’m working on, so that I’m ready to play when it gets here.

Whenever I go to Wendy’s I have to order it with no POT (pickles, onions or tomatoes).  At McDonald’s I say “only ketchup”, because I hate that their onions are tiny little pieces that can’t be picked off a sandwich. At Arby’s I could order the roast beef straight up, but a girl’s gotta have her cheese, so I have to order it with cheese or get a cup of cheddar on the side and add it myself.

At Burger King, it’s already the way I like it, so there’s no fuss, no confusion, no praying they get it right, because it’s not the usual way. It’s so much easier and the person behind the counter ringing up my order tends to be much friendlier when I don’t start changing how my sandwich is made.

If only they were always as nice and friendly as they are on the commercials.

I’ve read that to properly remove the germs, you must wash your hands for 2 rounds of “Happy Birthday”, which supposedly equals 20 seconds or something like that.

Another thing I want to do is fix the layout of the album list. It will most likely look the same, but I want to fix the html structure so that it is properly loaded using css instead of using tables. I know I can do it. I just have to figure it out.

I also need to fix the video page, so that all the video clips are fed from YouTube.

Weird that we ended up delivering the same day only a few hours apart, then end up putting our kids in the same daycare! Amelia has a birth buddy.

But my question is, is flex time really as good as all the hype? I’ve been reading Working Mother magazine, and have been seeing all these corporate women who seem to do everything in a day, but I wonder how well they manage it all. I guess when you are a corporate junkie, you can do your paperwork at home in the evenings after the kids go to sleep, or in the morning while drinking that cup of coffee, but there is some sacrifice, no matter what.

With flextime, sure you control which hours you clock at the office, but you are still required to clock the allotted 8 hours a day, no matter what shift you choose. So you are either sacrificing the morning routine (in which your spouse gets the kid(s) ready long after you have left for work) or you are sacrificing quality time in the afternoon.

My flex schedule works for now, but once Amelia starts kindergarten and is in school til a mere 2:30pm, I’ll still be sacrificing. I still won’t spending as much time as I want with her, being there when she gets home from school (or being there to see her off to school), so no matter what flex time they offer me, it still means I’m missing out some time with her during the day.

You could argue that’s just the way it is for a working parent, and I agree. But I just wish they wouldn’t hype up flex time to make it sound better than it really is. You still (in most companies) have to put in 8 consecutive hours a day, so really how flexible is it?

I guess they should just change the terminology of it. Don’t call it flex schedule, because it’s not all that flexible. I’m not good at coming up with names. But they could call it something more appropriate. Variable schedule, maybe. Because at most, you have about 3 or 4 different starting/ending times to choose from. Which you choose depends on what you are willing to sacrifice.

So this site will stay as is, except I hope to post more frequently. Yeah, I know. I keep saying that. I don’t even have that many followers, so I always wonder why I even bother, but whatever.

Maybe someday I will have enough followers to make it worth posting some thought every day. Who knows.