Holidays 3: Wine Tasting

December 26 is a GREAT time to go to Napa Valley. Mmmmm. The day was sunny, crisp and cool. In the evening, we got to see all the lights come on. Very pretty.

( random wine stuff )

My feet hurt

I've had pain in the ball of my foot -- right foot most, although it shows up a bit in the left -- for probably more than a month now. I've kept hoping it would go away. I figured maybe I'd rest my feet on my trip. (Ha!)

The day after the holiday run my feet hurt pretty badly. I could only run about a mile. I probably shouldn't have done even that.

I've developed a new gait where I pronate on purpose, just to keep my weight off the bad part.

Hope isn't a valid strategy: the pain isn't going away. No more running for CJ. I have an appointment with a podiatrist tomorrow morning. Wish me luck! :-/

[The receptionist asked the reason for my visit to the doctor. Er, my feet hurt? He's a PODIATRIST! What other answers do you GET to this question? We both chuckled over that.]

Holidays 4: Baking

My mom is being very careful about what she eats. I'm not sure she'd say she's on a diet, but it's close enough as makes no never mind. My sister and her boyfriend are perennially careful. I don't think they've eaten dessert since 1998.

I was SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD and didn't bake ANYTHING. No cookies, no shortbread, no cakes, no... well, okay, two pumpkin pies, but that was IT.

Now I'm itching to bake for the holidays. It's only five days late, right? Christmas has twelve days, right? And I can bake on the plane to New England day after tomorrow, right? Er, well.

The IKEA Experience

My but that store is BIG.

Big, big, big, BIG.

I'm not sure I can be more coherent than that.

( What I saw and what I wound up with )