a week before my birthday (august 21st), i hurt my shoulder. i don’t know how i did it exactly, but it has been two months of pain and rehabilitation. i can finally put my arm over my head and reach for overhead objects.
i haven’t been feeling very well lately, either. very tired and lethargic. people have suggested that perhaps i have a gluten allergy. i am now on day three of a gluten-free diet. so far, i don’t feel very different, but i’ve heard it can take up to two weeks for me to feel better once going gluten-free.
since i have been such a terrible blogger, i am attempting to make amends. i am posting the two cutest commercials ever. enjoy!
i’ve always said that, as a vermonter, i am not engineered to operate in the heat. my upper limit for heat tolerance is about 85 degrees. any hotter and i find it difficult to breathe and to think. today would have been a perfect summer day for me, somewhere in the mid-seventies with a lovely breeze, had there been sunlight to bask in. alas, no sun, but neither any rain.
things have been difficult this week. i’m feeling like i am being pulled in a million directions at work, too much for me to do and too little time.
i wanted to share one of my favorite stories and favorite songs tonight, moonshadow by cat stevens. i love cat stevens, his music always makes me smile:
necklace: gift from a childhood friend when i was a little girl.
i have been stalking this skirt at anthropologie for a week or two. there was one in my size (14) when i spotted it, and even though we put it at the bottom of the pile, it was gone the next week. the anthro sales staff couldn’t find one in manhattan, so i ordered this one by phone in the store. because they didn’t have it in the store, i got free shipping, which was great! there was much anxiety on my part, since i had “purchased” the last one from the website and i had to wait until it was shipped to know that it was actually mine (someone else could have ordered it at the same time!). i love it! it is perfect and the lining is edged in lace.
I cannot believe that it is August already! This has been such a wet, rainy, cold summer that it has hardly felt like summer at all.
I think I am even more surprised that the end of the summer is rapidly approaching because my birthday is at the end of August. When I was a child, the approach of my birthday signalled not only the end of summer, but also the beginning of the school year. I loved going back to school, the back to school shopping with my mother and the purchasing of new school supplies (the very best part)!
I also must admit that I am not much of a summer person. I very much prefer fall, the crisp air, the fall apples and the approach of my very favorite holiday (halloween!). The thing that always made summer so wonderful for me as a child was my time spent at my family’s cabin on a lake.
I begin my first blog post with a feeling of accomplishment! I downloaded a little widget to import all of my very favorite blogs from my Firefox bookmarks.
I must admit that I have started and stopped this blog a number of times. I cannot promise that I will be successful this time, but I can promise that I will try. I intend for this blog to be a chronicle of my life and times in New York City, with an emphasis on fashion.
I fear it is time for me to try to go to bed. Good night!
