My Australian football team is the West Coast Eagles. It’s a strange thing to support a team from afar, particularly when the only telecast games are many days (or weeks) delayed. I’m almost at the point where less than half the team are strangers! However, this doesn’t make things any less exciting when your team wins the premiership – just – to the team they lost to last year.
There’s a delayed telecast of the game this afternoon in Harvard square, but I’m not sure I’ll go. It’s $20 to get in the door, and I’m bound to be surrounded by people barraking for the other team.
Since I’ve been in America I’ve put on weight. Not a lot of weight, especially when you look at it on a year-by-year basis, but I’m definitely bigger (heavier) than I used to be. By no standards am I even overweight (I was probably a little underweight when I first arrived in the US), but I would like to loose a little bit of weight, and I’ve been uncomfortable with my body for a while now. I’d been feeling resigned to looking slobby and less-than-fantastic until I can get rid of the extra weight.
That changed on a recent trip to California. I flew JetBlue (I’m pretty much a JetBlue convert, by the way) and ended up watching quite a few episodes of What Not To Wear during the flight. By the end of the flight, I had realized that I still could look fantastic. I still would like to loose some of my gained weight (and I’m working on that), but there’s no reason to feel less-than-good about my appearance today, especially when huge improvements can be made for very little time or effort.
A huge improvement has been a decision to buy a couple of belts and wear them. Obvious, right? Not to me! I’ve bought jeans with a larger waist band – to get them over my wider-than-before hips, and they sit low – too low. A belt really does make all the difference. Where did I buy my belts? From the Gap, and from fourteenfifty. Since I’ve bought them, I’ve been feeling much better about my appearance – much less sloppy, much more confident, even sexier – and I think other people have noticed, too.
Are Jetta drivers really as bad as CarTalk would have you believe? Just what defines a Jetta driver, anyway. Jetta driver or not, you have an opportunity to set the record straight at The Jetta Report. It does require that you drive some sort of car – which I don’t. It really would be better if they had a category for non-car owners (I had to think back – 4 years – to my last car to participate).
The mitten obsession continues. Don’t worry, I’m not planning on knitting mittens any time soon (I have plenty of other things that need to be knit first), I’m just in research and obsession mode. The strength of Lizbeth Upitis’s Latvian Mittens lies in the sheer range of designs documented. I think Folk Knitting in Estonia probably provides more in terms of technique, variety, and history, but it doesn’t even come close to the number of designs on offer. I think this is probably why I was initially a little disappointed with Folk Knitting. Latvian Mittens is also a little bolder in it’s choice of colors – I don’t know if this is a traditional thing or not (my mitten research hasn’t reached that level, yet!), but I find the wider range of color much more appealing.
