Ok, no joke, when I look at the forecast I see 9 solid days of rain. No days on the weather app with just the solo clouds, no days with the little sun peeking out of clouds. Just clouds with rain…EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. The only good thing is that the temps are all above 50 during the day, so it’s not freezing. It’s just dreary, with no end in sight, and all I want to do is dream of sunnier days. This is by far the toughest time of year. Spring feels far until you get out of January, which is only 9 or 10 days away I guess. Once I see the word “February” I feel more hopeful. It can’t rain forever right?
We got in some fantastic new Citizens today, and I’m gunning to buy a pair. I thought I would share my goat
brie jeans situation, and explain. I have a variety of jean sizes in my closet. I have jeans to wear when under high stress and I lose a few pounds. I have jeans for what I think of as my “resting weight”, and then I have jeans for my goat brie weight. Sometimes I can’t get enough of it (brie, and specifically goat since I'm allergic to cow milk), and I’m literally addicted to these little rice crackers with a slab of goat brie, and then a smear of fig jam. I can eat 100 of them. I probably have. Until I get sick of them, and then I don’t want to see another one for months and months. That’s the way it goes. So right now, I’m in full GB mode, and whatever jeans I buy are going to be on that end of the spectrum. I’m a firm believer in embracing the ups and downs. I’m not a big person, I’m 5’3” and so it doesn’t take very many extra lbs to pop me up a size in jeans. It’s really a range of only 4-7 lbs, and thru the years for goat cheese reasons, hormonal reasons, and mega stress reasons, I’ve seen the whole range. All I know is jeans are awesome, and I don’t want to put on a pair and feel like they are too lose, or too tight. I also don’t want to be “trying” to get to a weight all the time that is perfect for one size. So I guess I give myself a break and just go with my 3 tier jean system, so I’m never battling jean stress.
Lastly, I was contemplating today that I have not had a dinner party in a LONG time. A real dinner party, with a cool mixture of friends, good wine, good food. I think it was last summer, THAT’S how long it’s been. That's too long. Then I was thinking how fun they are, and how they don’t have to be nearly as much work if you don’t put so much pressure on it (which is probably why I don’t do them very often, I’m trying to wait until I have enough time to make it “extraordinary”). We’ve had a lot of French friends over the years (when our kids were in immersion school), and one thing I loved about them was their ability to always make dinner parties such a casual, easy, relaxed thing, that go late into the night and are unfussy. I just want to throw an email out, put it on the calendar and keep it mellow. That takes me thinking about it, and writing it out, otherwise I’ll slip into my default mode which is a lot OCD, stressing about guest lists, menus, flowers, and things being perfect.
So that’s what I’m going to do tonight…plan a dinner party time, and gather my friends up because there is no time like NOW, and nothing has to be perfect or overwhelming. All that matters is spending time with the people you adore!
Signed, ME {lv}
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