all is not lost.

i woke up as i pleased this morning. feeling beached and recognizing the throbbing right side of my mouth is not typically how i like spend my first thirty seconds of an early rousing. but, it's getting better everyday, as brooks or dunn would say. i didn't really feel like showering; i felt clean enough. i'm readying my hair for tomorrow's big event... aiming for amplitude & voluptuousness. so a day sans shampoo will do it some good.

i've worked satisfyingly slow today. i finished my blurb yesterday, although i have a feeling Diane is going to come at my throat with edits, and i've been Christmas shopping all day. not for myself, as if my job was really that great. i've been gizmo, gadget, decor and design foraging for this year's holiday issue. it's sort of fun, not to mention brainless. 1) find something i like, 2) print out page, 3) place in folder. but i can't have a day that goes even close to smoothly. my day's only task has been inappreciably distracted thanks to my genius food-grab this morning. i'm hungry. in my usual morning race, not only did i find the refrigerator door left open a crack for, what i assume to be, the whole night, leaving the inside looking like the vegetable shelves at the grocery stores when they refresh them with mineral-based water. distracted, i grabbed a yogurt without thinking twice to check the date, when really, i should; i clean the food out of my fridge never. eat before: August 14. today is August 16.5, and i had strong desires to eat strawberry yogurt this morning. no expiration date is going to stop me. or at least that was what the hard-ass in me was thinking, because i ate half of it before i started having visions of my stomach digesting pink curds and becoming violently ill. and i'm still hungry.

tomorrow will mark a day of personal history. honestly, i'm getting a little nervous! and i opted not to go with the tweed mini-dress that i found nearly irresistable. i guess i'll have to knock them out with another number i have up my sleeve......