Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Lemons that I will NOT be using for lemonade

 OK. Like for real. I know that my hair looks terrible UNLESS I blow dry my bangs before I go to bed. AND YET. I keep NOT DOING THAT and looking DUMB. Like the other day when I had to film a video for social media for my class that I direct. AND HAD TERRIBLE HAIR and also was wearing beige and had 14 chins. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. (I do not love it. Opposite, in fact).

Dorothy needs white Air Force 1's for her trio and a group dance and black Air Force 1's for her other hip hop group dance. NEAT-O. I love buying $90 shoes, so why not need 2 of the same ones in different colors? Love that for me. I was talking to a colleague about dance team (they also have a kid at the same studio) and we were trying to figure out why this very expensive and kind of nit-picky activity is so compelling for us (BECAUSE IT IS! IT'S SO FUN!). (We had to order SPECIFIC lipsticks as well-- different colors for different dances and maybe it's these details that I love the most?)

IT IS SO COLD THAT SCHOOL WAS ALMOST CANCELLED TODAY. 



I am Team Winter, but YIKES. Negative 13 for Annabel's dog walk. (Naturally Dorothy and Coop got cold drinks when I drove them to school so they wouldn't have to wait for the bus)


AIRPLANES KEEP FALLING OUT OF THE SKY. Is anyone else freaked out about this?







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  2. There's no school here today due to the -30F windchill. Paul isn't 100% from his stomach bug so would have been home anyways. I fly out this afternoon so Phil had to WFH which was not optimal. The plane crashes are unnerving. But I reminded myself that 45k flights take off each day across the world so while plane crashes seem eerily common, they are still quite rare. But the crash landing yesterday hit close to home since it departed from MSP!

    Dang, dance team is expensive. It seems like you would have to have a certain level of affluence to afford all the clothing/shoes/etc. And then I think about the environmental impact - like are those kids going to wear those shoes/make it worth the purchase? I have no idea since my kids are so small and wear one pair of shoes until they have grown out of them and then hand them down to the other sibling if they aren't destroyed...

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    1. I guess that's the one positive of the dance shoes being "cool" kid shoes-- she DOES wear them when the season is over because tweens love AF1's. The other shoes-- especially tap and jazz-- are also pricey but we have saved the outgrown ones for Minnie

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    2. Well that is great then! At least the shoes gets worn a ton and the less exciting ones can get passed along to Minnie! And I have no idea why my comment posted twice! Sheesh!

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  3. As someone whose husband is almost constantly in the sky right now, YES IT DOES FREAK ME OUT THANKS FOR ASKING. My daughter texted yesterday because yesterday's crash was at the airport he flies into all the time. "Is Dad home?" "Nope, but he's not on the upside down plane" SO FUN.
    I almost had to get off a Facetime call with Eve last night because I was in bed on the ipad and I looked so hideous.

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  4. The cold is cold! I do not like it when the highs are not above zero. Can we go back to the 20s? I'll take the 20s.

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  5. OMG, Sarah!! I am so freaked out about the plane happenings, but didn't want to post anything because I knew you were trying to get on a plane this year. WTELF!?!?!

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