TiLT: Spring has Sprung

via Shmunt Dog

♥ No more snow! While the weather hasn’t been ideal April weather (it’s been very chilly-to-the-bone and wet), it’s no longer snowing! This means the return of fabulous footwear…

♥ Fabulous Fluevogs! It’s been driving me nuts to see so many great pairs of Fluevogs on sale, and so many new styles entering the website! My shoe-consciousness has just been repeating “Fluevog, Fluevog, Fluevog” over & over.

♥ Parks & Tibetan Monasteries. A little known fact is that my Mid-Western home is also home to a Tibetan Monastery run by the Dahli Lama’s brother. Across the street from it is one of the loveliest parks and playgrounds I’ve ever seen; it’s surrounded by trees and has the most perfect sense of serene. How it took me 3.5 years to find this, I don’t know, but I look forward to hooping practice there.

♥ Sneaking in to 3-D Movies. After seeing Coraline and paying $12.50 per ticket, the fella & I decided NOT to “recycle” our glasses. Instead, we kept them, and have been sneaking in to the new 3-D movies by buying $5 tickets to other films. Perhaps not ethical, but I have cultural policy & the arts arguments to justify doing it. That’s all I need to keep myself happy, especially if the theaters are not going to make “buying” the glasses an option, nor offering discounted tickets for those who do.

♥ Ghetto Solutions making for Comfortable Situations. As a mostly single gal in a queen sized bed, I’ve come across an uncomfortable issue: sagging in the middle of the bed. It gives me the worst nights of sleep, and body aches & pains all over. After some Google-fu and a coworker’s help, I’ve put a quilt folded in half between the box spring & mattress. The result? A firmer and more even bed. My sleep has been joyful ever since.

♥ Extra-curricular writing projects. This includes guest editing Links a la Mode for the Independent Fashion bloggers (links up tomorrow); working with other blogs & bloggers (including the super wonderful interview with Alix Rose). More details coming soon!

♥ Extras: Creating adorable tiny top hats that I want to eat like they are cupcakes! Kitty responding by drinking when I say, “Drink your milk! It makes you healthy & strong!” Nights alone with wine, favorite shows, mashed potatoes, bubble baths, and cookies. Pictures with umbrellas.

As always, I’m thankful for the time I take to produce a “things I love Thursday,” because it can be so easy to lose sight of the positive parts of my life.