vintage

today's saturday... that means tuesday is getting closer... don't get me wrong- i am so excited for my new life- but part of me is scared to. my life is literally going to be changing overnight. yea sure i've been preparing for this for a very long time.... but preparing and having it change are 2 very different things. i know i can do it though. i mean i've already gone almost 3 weeks on a liquid diet. if one can survive that- that can do anything...... right?

today was an ideal fall day. i slept in and woke up nice and toasty warm in bed. i then proceeded to watch this salon takeover show on a&e. finally about 1' o'clock katie and i decided to go on an adventure today. our only planned destination was a vintage store in mpls called rewind and a boutique in NSP. obviously since NSP is so close we started there. it was a cool sale... and they had some really nice cheap furniture i wanted to buy- but i didn't because i have nowhere to store it right now. boo!!!! rewind was our next stop. we had attempted to go to this store 1 other time... but by the time we found it they were closed. it was seriously the coolest vintage store i've ever been in!! it was soo clean and they had some really awesome stuff. i found this cream colored sparrow pin and spent the entire hour we were in the store debating on if i should spend $10 on it or not. i ended up not buying it- im such a cheap ass sometimes!! i really wanted it too- but $10 for a pin that is about the size of a bottle cap just didn't seem right to me.

our next destination was crafty planet (it's right next store). very cool store with awesome fabric. but when you don't know how to sew you end up leaving depressed- because you think of all the things you could make if you could actually sew. (note to self... add that to the list of things i want to learn). next stop was dabble... this was another store i have wanted to go to since we tried going to rewind for the first time. what a disappointment. cute stuff- but the store itself was tiny... i think they have more on the website then they do in the store. needless to say i didn't purchase anything here either.

while we were in rewind i asked the amazing lady (she was by far the friendliest retail employee i've met in.... forever!) oh- yea.. ok.. so i asked her if they were ever able to track items down for people.... i proceeded to tell her i desperately wanted an old school plastic kool aid pitcher and the mugs that go with it... she suggested i try this store on raymond and 280. i told katie about and it that was where we were heading. another really cool store.. but they didn't have my pitcher. and i couldn't find anything else that i just had to have....

starving and dehydrated we figured we should eat. seeing as how i am not supposed to eat real food our options were very limited. i suggested chili's. it has soup- it isn't healthy... but it's still soup. so here it is... i cheated today... i ate chili's broccoli cheese soup and some chips. it was sooo good......... at the time. when we stood up to leave i realized maybe that wasn't a good idea. i felt like someone had put a brick in my stomach and that i was going to explode if i moved the wrong way.

dick blick was right next door and i remembered getting an e-mail about a back to school sale they were having. so we stopped- we both needed canvas and i wanted to get new colored pencils for the shrinky dinks i am going to make after surgery. i ended up spending about $40 and left feeling really motivated to be creative.

well.. geez i never intended this to be a long blog... i guess sometimes i just have a lot to say!!! when we got home katie had to get ready to go babysit and i was still feeling sick. i sat down for about 15 minutes and then out of nowhere i got really motivated to work out. i ran upstairs changed clothes and went downstairs with my mp3 player and rode 4 miles on the stationary bike and walked on the treadmill for about 15 minutes.

i feel really good right now. i had a great day with a dear friend, a great little workout and now my family is home. tomorrow.. i am off to the zoo and then to my brother and sister in laws to watch barnyard with theo.

i am now off to kick my mothers ass at a game of cribbage.

ciao!