short but sweet

labor day charades
i spent yesterday doing all kinds of catchup — cleaning, organizing, and planning galore. i can’t tell you how much i enjoy these sorts of days! it’s almost silly.

i’m now ready to start the (short!) week, with a clean house and closetful of washed clothes. while i’m on a nice, easy rotation right now, my to-do list is actually quite long, filled with side projects and other things that i put off during my previous rotations. my goal this week is to try to be a little more productive after work, which will mean resisting the urge to flop back onto the couch with my precious google reader.

we celebrated NOT working last night with an indoor barbeque (the weather was rather lackluster).

there was beer . . .

my favorite shih tzu . . .

and an eager grillmaster . . .

who helped whip up a delicious (martha) meal.

barbequed chicken + corn and radish salad (recipes on the sidebar for these), plus salad and some mushroom-flavored couscous which reminded me of thanksgiving stuffing.

skinny jeans are for real people
lee requested pictures of my jeans, and who am i to let her down? especially since she is a newly minted skinny jeans owner herself. now, it’s not like these jeans are a brand new style — they have been around for a few seasons. in fact, my impeccably stylish and beautiful japanese college roommate (hi azusa!) was wearing them about a decade ago, and i’m sure she’s moved on to something cooler by now!

however, i’ll be honest — i never thought i could pull them off. no part of me is truly big, but my thighs and butt are definitely a size up from the rest of me — they always have been, and i guess at this point i can assume that they always will be. i also have short limbs and a longer torso, which is less than ideal given that my sum total height is 5’1″ on a good day.

like any other woman, i tend to focus on these so-called flaws at times. but in recent years i’ve been better about just accepting — and even enjoying — the whole package. i’ll even be honest and admit that i like my body and i feel comfortable in it*. so just because i don’t have heidi klum (or even heidi montag) legs doesn’t mean i can’t rock a style that i think is cute. WHO’S WITH ME?

so here they are. from martin + osa, a store that i just discovered. it’s sort of a more trendy/less business-y banana republic, and i found that their jeans fit me very well.

even my sister agrees that these are true ‘skinny jeans’ (ie, not straight like my last attempt)

although she said the outfit was too boring. which is true. next time i’ll add some color!

* it’s kind of sad that i feel self-conscious announcing this! we’re so used to beating ourselves up that i’m actually embarrassed to write something this confident. i know caitlin would approve, though.

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9.7.09

workout: 40 minutes cycling intervals + weights
– 2 x 12 pushups
– 2 x 10 lat pulldowns (55 lbs)
– 2 x 12 walking double lunges (8 lbs each leg)
– 2 x 12 tricep press (15 lbs)
– 2 x 12 lateral/forward raises in lunge position (6 lbs each hand)
– 2 x 15 ball tucks (abs)

doin’ time: as above!

reading: an article in the latest pediatrics on the behavioral and emotional development of children with short stature (as defined by