Fancy Pantsy

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Charlotte gave me an early Anniversary gift, and napped long enough for me to get a very, very, very needed hair-cut!

Today, I have been married 8 years! Which is unbelievable, and awesome!

So I am posting some pictures of myself, and my make-up, from Friday night. It was a casual dinner, but I got about as dressed up as I do these days, and thought I looked nice, obesity and all!

Yesterday was the big day for me, 36.  Not a bad age to be, but I admit it is a bit sad for me to realize I am now closer to 40 than 30. But 40 is the new 3o, right???

I had a nice day. Spent time with my mother in law, my friend, and my family. I had lunch with Charlotte and my MIL at Panera (yum) and dinner with the man, the girl, Charlotte, my parents and my brother at Royal Orchard Thai (double yum).  My friend also came for a visit with her adorable son not once, not twice…but three times!

She came three times because she was assisting me in dealing with a little issue I had. You see, I finally made enough money selling stuff to buy the baby carrier of my dreams, a used Didymos Pfau. The carrier I bought was advertised (with pictures to back it up) as dyed bright indigo, with very even colour.

The Pfau I got in the mail, looked like this:

So yeah, I had to do something. So first I bitched and complained to the seller until she refunded me half the cost.

Then I over-dyed it dark Navy:

Much better, but I still wanted some pizzazz.

So I decided to  overdyed it with  red, to create purple. This required some assistance with a scale and salt, and occupying the baby known as “the napless one”. So my friend came to visit and maybe get a wrap of her won dyed red too. Then she left and she came back with some salt and a food scale. Then it was time for her to go, but she came back again and she took care of her baby and my baby, while I did the red dye…and cleaned the red dye I spilled off the steps as best I could. The final result is gorgeous, but man was that a lot of work. Happy Birthday to me though, I got the Purple Pfau of my dreams:

I also have some loving family members who clearly read my blog, seeing as I got the Wii Fit Plus I wanted, times 2! Both my man and my parents got it for me. Yeah me, now I can be extra fit. Okay, really I will return or sell one…but it was awesome to get what I wanted!!!

I am loving Wii fit. It is great fun, and while not the best workout ever, it is a workout, and is also motivation to be more active and eat healthier in general…since it weighs me. By the way, it told me I am obese. Which I knew, but did not need to hear from an inanimate object without eyes. It also told me my body age is 34…so I rock! 34 even though I am obese. Imagine how young I’d be if I was a healthy weight?! I’ll let ya know in a few months.

Oh well…time to go do some virtual hula hoping!

The flu has left me mostly with some battle wounds. A little run down, a little pale, with a lingering cough and sore throat…and 2 huge, evil, painful canker sores!

As for the cough and sore throat,  tea and some Go Naturally organic honey candies that my sweet friend supplied are helping to soothe.

As for the Canker sores…ugh. I was so miserable. They hurt so badly, and any of the numbing  treatments I tried wore off the sores within minutes-but left the rest of my mouth annoyingly numb for hours! So, today I hit the drugstore determined to find something to give me relief. What I found was OralMedic. I was a bit skeptical of it’s claims to work in one treatment…but willing to try anything.  I actually was so desperate that I tried it in the car before I left to go home. Well…I was amazed. It actually worked. Since using it about 9 hours ago, I have felt no pain, whatsoever, in my canker sore area. I can feel the sore is still there with my tongue, but it is completely de-sensitized. My whole mouth is not numb though…just the sore itself. Amazing. One bit of warning though…where the directions say “A brief “stinging” sensation is experienced immediately upon application”, a more appropriate statement would be “upon application, it will feel as though a swarm of hornets has entered your mouth and begun to sting you all in the same spot”. It was worth it though.

OralMedic is not available in the U.S.

Suckers!!