So it's roughly 90 days until my birthday. You know every year about this time I start counting down to my birthday. Like, ohmigod it's coming! And then it rolls around and the most ever manage to do to celebrate is maybe dinner with my family. I'm big on having no expectations for things, to prevent disappointment. However, in this case, it seems like my birthday is always all build up and no pay off. And I am so not complaining about this. I rarely regret not making a big production of anything. I do however, really enjoy the count down. So think of it as your gift to me to listen to me rattle on about age, experience and other crap and bubbly, joyously count down for the next three months.
The QotD is about keeping clam and you know, I'm not calm. I try and I know I often appear calm, but my general states are happy spastic and panic, neither of which is calm. What does calm me down is shopping. Shallow as that may be, it is for a me such focus exercise that I can do sort of a Zen removal from the every day and my other cares. Even if I don't buy anything, the actual act of shopping completely calms me.
In the vein, I have been online shopping this morning to procrastinate from work, and to keep my blood pressure down from dealing with the people here. So far I have found my annual spring anticipation list of shoes that I surely cannot live without, but will probably never get around to buying (so if I do drop dead suddenly, you can all attribute it to never having acquired the following shoes):
Legend Bramble (these I may have to spend my tax return on, as I tried them on last week and they are dreamy).
AJAX BELL 