I have noticed that over the past few years my feet seem to have shrunk. By mid high school I was wearing a size 7 and by college I tended to go up half a size. In more recent years, (College isn’t that recent anymore) I’ve found that my left foot measures in slightly smaller than my right. Or the right is bigger for you pessimists out there. So not only are my feet shrinking, but at a marginally different rate.
I suppose I haven’t bought a new pair of shoes in while, because this past Saturday I grabbed a pair of size seven’s only to find that they were “swimming on me”. So I was forced to try on a pair of sixes, which turned out to be much too large for my left foot, but “a size 12 girl in a size 6 pair of leather jeans” for my right.
I know, this might be the stupidest ponderies of any on this blog (maybe not) but this has got me totally weirded out. Is it normal for your feet to shrink to such significantly different sizes? What do you do about this problem? Have other girls my age gone through this? Is there a section in “Our Bodies Ourselves” about it? Do you think there’s something wrong with me and will all the boys know?
In other news.. who else is psyched about that free money we might possibly be getting? Think of all the fantastic investments we can make with it that will ultimately help the economy. Oh who am I kidding, my $600 is already spent.
This past Sunday’s New York Times Style section featured a lengthy article (more than 200 words) on the latest blunder of the much hated (and loved to be hated) website Gawker.com. If your not in the know, Gawker is a ‘media’ site that talks smack about other ‘media’ people.
Gawker’s original mission statement, as quoted by owner Nick Denton, “Gawker is for media and creative people and those who aspire to be them”. (ewww!) Unfortunately in an attempt to get better readership, Gawker Media has moved away from blogging about Meridith Vieira’s hats, or which Democrat will get ScoJo’s vote in ’08, and other “creative people” things and is now blogging about the life and times of Britney Spears. As it seems the decline of the online tabloid, according to the New York Times, is now worthy of front page news? (and it is also for some reason considered Stylish??) (more…)
The Houston Rockets game Friday night turned into a massive slaughtering of the Minnesota Timberwolves. It almost felt like we were back at MSG at a Knicks game but.. if we were rooting for the other, better team. Our real purpose for going was to support Jazzercise Houston’s annual Jazz For the Cure half-time performance which was awesome! 300+ Jazzercisers bringing down the house in the name of fun, fitness and breast cancer awareness.
The uneventful second half of the game left time to ponder this:
Doesn’t the Houston Rocket’s logo look just like the Buffy The Vampire Slayer logo?
Kinda, right?
Of the many wonderful gifts I received from my beloved boyfriend this holiday season, probably the oddest (and slightly accidental, I might add) was an official Chia Pet Alarm clock. It came free in the box with the Hippo Chia Pet that he really got me. He was aware that the alarm clock came with, but I doubt he knew how incredibly amazing it would be, and how horribly it would come to plague us on the night of December 25th. The emphatic “gift that keeps on giving”. (more…)
