So – I have to apologize first off for not keeping up with this blog as much as I’ve been wanting to.
First the Christmas rush – then the rush of sending New Year’s cards, then some other things happened, so I took a bit of a breather from my self-imposed once-a-day posting schedule.
Just a little time off, ya know? It’s the holidays – and I’m proud to say I’ve been slacking!!
So what have I accomplished in this time?
I’ve spent alot of time with the family. Just relaxing at home, playing games and doing activities. Finally putting the Christmas lights up.
I’ve baked and decorated more cookies and sweets than I ever want to see again in my life. Chocolate Coffee Toffee Oatmeal Cookies, Lemon Yogurt Cookies, Sugar Cookie Cutouts, White Chocolate Cranberry Bark, Chocolate-Dipped Ginger Almond Cookies, White Chocolate Lemon Shortbreads. Enough already!
After all the holiday hoopla had died down, the birthday/Christmas presents unrapped and oohed and aahed over – I also sprained my ankle. It was one of those dumb injuries where I was just walking along, tripped on nothing, fell down, and hurt myself. Well, not really.
The real story is that I was done taking some photos of a finished DIY that I was going to post here – I was holding the dress in one hand and my camera in the other – went to place the camera on the table, and my slipper got caught under my foot and the dress got caught around the dining room chair – I twisted myself around so as not to shatter the camera lens and place it as best I could on the table, overbalanced, spun around in aformentioned godforsaken slippah-o-death – cracked my hip on the windowsill behind me, and managed to come down hard on my right foot in precisely the wrong way – and my foot turned like 180 degrees as I fell. I swear I couldn’t do it again if you paid me.
So I couldn’t walk last Saturday (the day I did it) and it was kind of puffy and blue on top – even though I kept it elevated for most of the day – then, progressively, daily it’s gotten bluer and – sort of dead-looking. The puffiness has gone down, but there’s a ton of blood pooled right under the skin. It’s disgusting. I can finally walk again by hobbling around but I still can’t bend the foot properly. I really mashed those darn metatarsals!
Day 1: You can barely see anything. Oh yeah – it looks a little puffy/discolored. Right…there.
Day 2: Spreading, puffy. Yoweee.
Day 3: Ewwww.
(The point in posting these, dear readers – is not to gross you guys out in general – but specifically to hopefully deter Mr. Anonymous Foot Fetish who left a rather…um…interesting comment on one of my earlier posts. See, I wouldn’t think there would be anyone wanting to lick that. Just…no.)
I’ve also beaten Crash Bandicoot and Crash Bandicoot 2 (both for the second times in my life) on Playstation. All very well and good. I know – I’m cooler than cool.
I’ve managed to get through a couple letters in Nina Garcia’s The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own, which was a birthday gift from my mother. It’s a good basic – and surprisingly witty at that. I think I’m on B by now. (I swear, once you have kids reading goes out the window. Well, it’s either reading or blogging – not both. Does reading “Cars: The Official StoryBook to the Pixar Movie” 3 times in a row count??)
I managed to send in a couple entries to Steve Madden’s Sole Search on Brickfish.com just mere hours before the contest deadline, so since the prizes are decided by highest voted entries – no one had any time to vote. Ah well – I guess I shot myself in the foot with that one or sprained my foot hardy har har. I found it particularly ironic that I am designing glamazon shoes with teetering 5″ heels while at the same time propping up one black-and-blue puffy foot on my desk. Here are the shoe designs I submitted:
I’m also beefing up my illustration portfolio to submit to some local companies – and I have one big project in the works – can’t say anything specific just yet (will rev
eal more in late Jan/Feb), but I promise there are many forthcoming DIY’s to do with said project!
I’ve also ordered (well, because I’m immobile, instructed Hub to order) the traditional Japanese 2-tiered New Year’s Celebration box of food – brined shrimp, pink-and-white fishcake, kelp-wrapped simmered carrot packages, stewed lotus slices and rolled devil’s-tongue jelly, sweet beans, chestnut paste, salted herring roe, and candied sardines galore. Thank goodness I don’t have to piece it all together from scratch like I’ve done in previous years!! I’ll be eating out of this special box for three days straight come New Year’s, as dictated by Japanese New Year’s traditions. *sigh* Honestly, the only things I like in the box are the chestnut paste (middle row on the right), sweet black beans (upper left in green circle), and rolled puffed egg (second from right on the top – those things that look like brown cogs). The brined shrimp and the salted herring roe and I have an agreement: neither one of us looks the other in the eye – and thus, I can get away with not consuming them. Besides, Hub is the one who really enjoys the contents – Little Tot and I will fight over the few sweet items. (Truth be told, I am okay with the candied dried sardines as long as there’s walnuts mixed in with them, but alas, not in the box we ordered.)
Ah yes – and in the past couple days (perhaps anticipating my New Year’s Box of herring roe and kelp packages??) I’ve snacked myself silly on toffees and Walker’s shortbread (the shortbreads being one of my MAJOR vices. Damn you, Walker!!) Back to eating healthy tomorrow!
How about you guys? Anything you’ve managed to accomplish during the holidays?
xoxox
Carly
Ohhhhhh these cookies look delicious!!!! I hope your foot/ankle will be better soon!
Have a happy happy new year!
xoxo
I just read that comment from that foot guy. that is so gross. I hope you get better!
I did absolutely NOOOTHING!! haha. Got NOTHING accomplished, whatsoever. Except maybe catch up on some sleep? Yeah, that's pretty much it. I'm so sorry about the foot! I fractured mine sometime ago, and it kind of looks like yours in the pics. 🙁 ee! I hope it feels better soon! ouch!
That looks so painful! 🙁 hope your ankle feels better soon!
I also went a little crazy with the cookies this year. It'll probably be Christmas next year when I'm ready to eat another fondant-covered gingersnap.
Also, the shoes are cute! I would totally wear those darling flats with the bow!
And another thing…where do you order your box from?
Wow, you have been busy. 🙂
So sorry to hear (and see) about your sprained foot. Talk about suffering for fashion. 😉 I hope it heals soon, that's some impressive bruising. And I hope it does deter random foot fetish guys, those folks seem to crop up everywhere. Along with those creepy guys who collect pics of women wearing knee socks. LOL.
Dig your shoe designs. I like Electric Shoxx and PIcasso. 🙂 And yes, the irony of writing about fashion, or creating stiletto designs, while in comfy clothes nursing a bruised foot is quite funny. I've been in a similar position myself lately and it kinda gives me the giggles.
Have a happy new year. 🙂
I added “photographer” and “writer” to my occupation list. I felt like that was an accomplishment, since I have about four articles and several pictures published in my local paper under my belt. It helps that I work there, so it's easier for me to get stuff printed.
And my husband and I did a husband vs. wife styling challenge that I posted on my blog, cuz I was inspired by your blog!
Hope your back on your feet soon.
Omg, no thank you! Syringe and draining, etc just sounds horrible haha! Especially if you have no medical training haha!
My friend's dad always tries to be Mr. Fix-It, so he has to take photos of his kids injuries and write down all their symptoms and then email his pharmacist relatives hahaha, and then the whoooole family gets involved and knows their problems, no matter how personal haha!
Hi cocorosa! Thank you – the white chocolate lemon shortbreads were soooo good! (I wanted to keep them all for myself.;-)
Anna: I know!! I found it disgusting and funny, at the same time. I kept the comment, since it makes me giggle at the absurdity of it. And when I'm feeling down, I know there's some anonymous nut out there who wants to lick my feet! Ewwww.
alex*at*aufdemaur: Hey, sleep is good! Sleep is great! Ugh – I couldn't imagine having a fractured foot – that would be awful! My foot is getting better now – it just looks pretty gross. Hub said he could prick the skin with a syringe for me and drain the blood out so it would alleve some of the pressure. (Yeah, him having a medical degree and everything. NOT.)
Cathryn: Fondant-covered gingersnap?? Sounds FABULOUS! Thanks re: the shoes! As to the box (you mean the Japanese osechi ryouri box right? Not the Walkers shortbread box?) we order it from our local Japanese market Uwajimaya, then buy some extra items separately, simmer the vegetables and sort of piece it together so it's a little bit nicer than the Uwajimaya box that resembles cheap take-out. As to the jubako (the decorative box it all comes in), it was actually from an osechi that we ordered awhile ago when we still lived in Hawaii, and the local places had the full, 2- or 3-tiered osechi available to order. You can also buy the box itself online if you search “jubako”
on Ebay or at http://www.zensuke.com.
Thank you everyone for stopping by, and your kind comments!
Happy New Year! Hope 2010 is even better!
xoxox
Carly
oh gosh, I hope u have a quick recovery girl! *hugs*
That totally sounds like sumthin that would happen to me. I can be a major klutz somtimes lol
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