Sadness

My heart is sad today for 2 friends in particular.  SKD texted me this morning to tell me that their beloved Lucy died this morning.  She was a Chihuaha/something or other, and she had the sweetest, funniest little underbite ever:

They are heartbroken, of course.  She's been with them for 11 years and will be missed.

Yesterday I found out that The Coffee Friend's dog, Marty was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. It's already spread to his lungs, liver, kidney. It began in the right sinus and that tumor is now protruding against his skull. She made the heart-rending decision to have him relieved of his pain.  She will have the weekend with him and say good-bye on Monday.  Marty is the cutest Labradoodle I know:

Neither option is good.  In one you don't have a chance to say good-bye and in the other you get that chance but have to wait for what's coming.  I want to hug both of them.  SKD is closer, but I still can't get to her right now, and The Coffee Friend is in Wisconsin.

I don't want to do puppy shoes because it seems too sad.  Instead I will do rainbow shoes tonight in honor of these beloved pets who are making their last trip over the rainbow bridge.

Hug your fur babies extra close tonight, and please pray for these dear friends.

J-E-L-L-O

Apparently today is National Dessert Day?  I figure that's every day, but it's nice to know when the designated holiday is.  You know I'm all about the chocolate desserts, but I'm kind of bored with chocolate shoes right now, and for some reason today I was thinking about Jello.  Must be Lutheran thing.  At any rate, it got me to go look for Jello shoes, and there aren't a lot out there, which is bad for a post, but good for the general state of the world.

This is an actual pair of shoes made out of Jello.  There was also a picture of a woman who had supposedly just fallen over from attempting to walk in these.  Jello shoes are weird enough, but WHY would someone attempt to walk in them?

This makes more sense in terms of Jello shoes.

Hey, look!  There's a Jello Shoe Company!  I'd like that shoe better if it were all yellow, I think.  Or maybe if it had a different heel.  I went to the website but didn't spend a lot of time poking around on it.

 

Not Jello, but the sole kind of looks like Jello, and I like how bright and happy they are.  Except that the sole would get dirty and then I would be sad.

 

Actual shoe-shaped Jello molds.  I'm honestly not sure what to say about this it kind of creeps me out and I have no idea why.

 

Cute!  Could be used for Jello or chocolate, and doesn't creep me out, so it seems a good place to end.

Please honor this (totally made up, probably) national holiday and go eat some dessert!

Milestone!

Hey, guess what?!









Have you guessed yet?









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OK, fine, I'll tell you after the jump.

Lazy

Today is National Lazy Day!  This day should always be on a weekend rather than a fixed date, but oh well, no one asked me.  Last year I wrote that lazy days, for me, involve comfy pants and fuzzy socks or slippers, but living in California August 10 is never cold enough.  This week is cooler, thankfully, as it has only been in the 90s instead of triple digits, so that's nice.  But I talked to Mom (hi, Mom!) today and she said it was only 60 at home.  I'm totally jealous.  In honor of lazy days that are also cold, tonight's theme is crocheted slippers:

 Blues and stripes and flowers!  I like the rolled cuffs, too.

I've actually made an afghan with the yarn the flowers are made from.  I wish the slippers were a more fun color, but I like the flowers.

Two-tone blue.  What's not to love?

This looks like Lion's Brand yarn, which is appropriate as today is also World Lion Day.

More blue.  More flowers.  Yay!

Bright, rainbow stripeys!

I hope you had a chance to be lazy today regardless of the temperature where you are.

Here's the Lazy Song by Bruno Mars to help get you in the mindset.

Rainbow Ballet

My voice is all scritchy scratchy tonight.  I've been trying to catch up on podcasts so I did 4 bible study episodes today.  It might not sound like much, but each episode is a little over a half an hours, so that's 2+ hours of me blah blah blahing.  So now my voice is scritchy scratchy.  

Today is National Dance Day, so between that and 2+ hours of talking about God's promises I ended up searching for rainbow ballet flats.  Here are a few selections:

I have no idea what this Rainbow Ballet is about, but I would definitely go see it.

Rainbow Canvas

Remember that roller coaster I mentioned a few posts back?  Well the ups and downs continue, although we seem to be going down more than up here of late.  I decided I needed a rainbow of canvas shoes to cheer me up:

I will take a pair of each, please.

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014. 2015.

Chocolate Day

I haven't posted in a few days.  I actually had a post for the 4th of July, found pictures and everything, and then I just forgot to actually write the silly thing.  The last 2 days I just haven't been feeling like writing anything.  I'm tired and the world is making me sad, y'all.  It's just depressing.  Thankfully today is Chocolate Day!  So basically I decided to screw the calories and eat my feelings.  (Holy buckets, though, click on that link and see their suggested menu...even I'm not that crazy!).  I am also posting (more) chocolate shoes.  Because people keep making them.

These are so pretty and it would be a shame to eat such works of art. Except I would totally eat them.  I wouldn't be able to help it.

Memory Lane: 2013. 2015.

A Rainbow of Thanks

Thank you all for your good thoughts, kind words, and prayers, they are all greatly appreciated, and I know they are helping.  So thank you.  I thought I'd continue last night's theme of bright and happy, this time with a rainbow of wedges:

ROY G. BIV gives me 7 colors so I could have a week of different wedges every day!  If my toe ever decides to stop being a sausage (although no longer purple!) I will have to start working on my week of rainbow wedges.  Which reminds me:  I had a Dr's appointment last week for something else, but she sent me for X Rays on my toe, and it's not broken.  This is a good thing.  Now someone just has to tell it to stop swelling and behave.

Thank you again for the love and support.  You are all the bestest!

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014. 2015.

Sigh

My heart and mind are heavy tonight.  Between members of my family, the hubby's family, and friends, we have a lot to worry about.  I just need some bright, crazy, fun shoes tonight.  They won't fix anything, but they might make my heart a little lighter, at least for a moment.

Any and all prayers/good thoughts/well wishes are appreciated.  Just pray for good health and good doctors, for love and light.  God will know for whom you're asking.  Thank goodness the spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words, because right now I need it.

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014. 2015.