The Quiet Girl

 I wrote a post a few years ago about how much blue nail polish I own. Many of the bottles I owned then I used up a while ago. Sadly, I had a bottle my sister gave me, New York & Company's "Oceanic", that died recently because I used it all up. Last time I did my nails this color, which was last week, the polish didn't dry like it used to, and it was very thick and struggled to get off the brush. Sigh. This was one of my favorites. It was almost black, but blue like a deep night sky blue, and shimmery metallic.  My nail polish shelf. Notice how many bottles are blues. A dark teal mini OPI bottle which resides in my polish box with more polish and my nail tools, including a pair of blue glitter nail clippers. There are a few ideas I had for a replacement. I went to Sally's in between music students and found 2 different colors from O P I: "Yoga-ta Get This Blue" which is a dark blue slightly iridescent metallic color and I really liked, and "Chop

 I recently placed a Chewy order for the first time. I ordered Shadowfax's food in bulk, and ordered $60 worth of cat food from Chewy and Walmart combined. I did this so as to avoid shipping costs, and to make sure Shadowfax always has something to eat.  The night I decided to do this, I had driven to the grocery store to see if there was any food for Shadowfax. Cat food, particularly Sheba, had become a rarity everywhere. There was nothing, I kid you not. Only 2 Fancy Feast cans were on the shelf! It was like finding a diamond when I was able to buy 1 month's worth of food for her after work once at a Walmart on the other side of town, in many flavors she liked. I usually buy her food by the month's supply. It was then that I made the choice to start buying her food in bulk, because I wasn't going to pay 99 cents for a Sheba when I could be paying 72 cents at Walmart or even 83 cents at Chewy, being guaranteed a box worth of food. This first time around I bought her 3

 So, people, I tested positive. I felt some sinus pressure and congestion last week, and had a 99.1 temperature. So I tested, and I was negative. I got some rest. The fever didn't come back, so I thought I was fine. I took my Mucinex and Sudafed and returned to work the day after I tested negative. On Friday I tested again, and.....it was positive. It was positive even though the congestion was decreasing by the day and my temperature was normal. I even felt well enough to do 20 minutes on the stepper the day before. Today I have minimal congestion, and will probably clear up soon. I have been napping frequently and doing art and music, and drinking kombucha, apple cider vinegar, kefir, and green smoothies. I also have made vegetable soup with chicken and bone broth. I drank hot chocolate with 95% cocoa chocolate and cacao.  I just finished working on a snowglobe. I have worked on this project since before I got Covid, but I finished yesterday during quarantine. My boss gave me wha

 I'm excited. Do you know why? Flare jeans are coming back! I have been buying many a pair and stocking up on them as they return to style. I found a pair of light-washed flare jeans at Loft for $39.99 this fall when they were having a sale. I decided to modify them and put slits on the sides, to look like a pair of flare jeans I saw online, but didn't feel like paying $88.00 for them:                                                         They will do just fine, they are more than good enough for me and comfortable.   I have also seen full-blown bell bottoms for sale and being in style now. I love hippie-style bohemian clothes. I honestly thought these jeans were outrageous when they first showed up, but then I saw an old friend wearing a pair, and I liked the way she looked in them. I decided that I, too, would board the hippie van with the jeans. I ordered a pair of bell bottoms with metal rhinestones up the legs from Venus. I couldn't be happier (and hippier). I wore