my shoe collection part 34

I picked up these cute peeptoe brown suede heels with rucheing at the toes by Qupid last November at Rugged Wearhouse for $6.99.

new used shoes from goodwill

I finally broke down and bought some shoes. I have been close to broke recently with everything breaking down from the lawnmower to car to heater just to say a few. Additionally, I have been trying to save money; so I can get on my feet on my own. But, trying to kill time with Trav, we ended up at Goodwill. I was tempted and ended up buying a new pair of used Etienne Aigner camel colored slides for $3.50. I always remember my grandmother carrying Etienne Aigner bags. So, I don't feel so bad for the price.

here's the deal

I am sure many of you thought I just dropped off the side of the planet at least when it comes to blogging. I know I have hinted that I would have big news or at least life changing news for me at some point soon. Well, the life changing decision that I made was something I kept under wraps at least until I had made it clear to those directly involved. Since I have made it as clear as I feel I possibly can now, I will share with y'all. I am leaving my boyfriend of 3 1/2 years that I currently live with. I feel like I can understand now the difficulties many people going through divorce go through. In many ways, I think it would be easier if we had been married at least when it comes to the division of property and who's moving out etc.

I really don't want to go through the reasons for my decision with the world and seem like I am trashing him over the internet. He has quite a presence on the internet. I wouldn't want him trashing my name, so I won't stoop to that level either. I will say I have come to feel like the novelty of us being such different people with different goals has worn off.

I made the decision the end of May and did a lot of avoiding my home until I was ready to talk to him about my decision. That was part of the reason I was away from blogging. I was basically staying busy for the sake of staying busy. In addition to my time away from home, my boyfriend has gotten a new video making gig on a website that has necessitated his using of the computer quite a bit. I will be taking the laptop with me when I go, and then should be back to regular blogging, emailing, commenting, etc. Since I am going to be doing a lot of packing, cleaning, etc. over the next few weeks, I will try to start back on the net as much as I can; but my time may be limited. I feel like I sound like I am making a lot of excuses, but the reality of the matter is that sometimes stuff gets in the way.

Some of you have contacted me personally. I want to say how much I appreciate your support. I have an amazing group of supportive friends. I am constantly reminded how lucky I am.

I am super nervous about this all. I can't believe I am starting over yet again. Trying to work things out financially worries me tremendously. The idea of dating again as a thirtysomething(for the first time ever) after being off the market literally for years is both exciting and daunting. I'm not even sure how to meet a new guy these days. And, not so sure how my game is anymore. It really feels like a ton of change all at once. And, I have yet to figure out how to tell my parents. I don't think this will go well at least from them.

my shoe collection part 33

Back to shoes. This design may look familiar as I have shown you the tricolored metallic version. I like them so much I got the red patent version as well from Target online last summer for $6.24.

kristy's twilight birthday party

After we cleaned up from Paul's birthday party, we headed over to our friend Kristy's house for her surprise birthday party with a Twilight theme. I am totally not into Twilight, however I love a party especially with friends. Now, I have no pics with Kristy in them; because despite the fact that she is beautiful and an amazing dresser, she refuses to allow anyone to publish pics of her. I don't get it, but I will respect her wishes.

Janet and Paul

Paul and I since we never managed to take any pics together at his party. I just never managed to take off all of my glow sticks from our previous engagement.

Kristy received a life size cardboard Edward(I think that is his name. I hope I got it right.) as a present, so we all had to pose with it.

Paul and John Lee

Of course, I had to go for a silly shot.

John Lee and Paul recreating the Twilight poster in front of the poster.

glowstick birthday party fun

This Saturday was my dear friend Paul's birthday party with a glow stick theme. I arrived with the birthday boy and his boyfriend to help with set up. I was also in charge of photographing the party.



The birthday boy playing with balloons.

The birthday boy posing pirate style next to his amazing cake version of The Black Pearl made by John Lee. The cake was super fab and dangerously sweet. The base was made from Rice Krispy Treats topped by layers of yellow cake, fondant, frosting, and gum paste.

These are the party favors Paul made for the guests which I thought were prety neato especially since most of the pics on them were taken by me. He made photo cubes like you can on lots of internet programs like myspace and filled them with candy and other goodies.

Here are most of the guests who I am lucky enough to call friends waiting while Paul cuts his cake.

Laura managed to catch a pic while I was between taking pics.

Me and my dear friend Tim.

Laura as a glow stick princess

I love that Tim accidentally took a pic of just my shoes.

I'm posing as a glowstick ninja.

hail hail everywhere

Last week, we had an insane hail storm which seems par for the course with our almost nightly storms we've been having. I took some pics as the storm was happening. It looked almost like it was snowing the way it was coming down. I'm not at all used to hail having only personally seen a hail storm once before in my life last summer actually. When the storm was over, it looked like someone had been dumping bags of ice all over our yard. The sad part was that a boy was killed only a couple of miles from our house by a lightening strike in this storm.