Urban Poly Princess

This better be working now!!! It's Christmas Eve and I ate a couple cookies since my mother baked cookies for all the neighbors. I ate the rest of my mashed potatoes too. It is Christmas Eve so I'm eating carbs today and tomorrow then I'll return to eating as healthily as I should. Zumba was great. I bought a red Run EMZ hoodie. My cousin Lulu is visiting from Hawaii and she wanted to do dim sum for lunch Saturday. That sounds fabulous to me right now. I bought my mother some shoes for Christmas. I wrapped them and put them under the tree. On Black Thursday she bought these black tennis shoes for $9. They were too big for her. She is a size 5. I got her high brown boots AND black tennis shoes that are her size and have good grip on them. I just got them at Payless BUT the tennis shoes were $32 and have good grip at the bottom. I just like the long brown boots. I wrapped them and put them under the tree. I hope she likes them and uses them. I hate that she looks at these Walmart shoes and I have over 40 pairs of shoes in my clear shoe boxes. Exactly 1 pair is from Payless, none are from Walmart, most are from TJ Max or Ross. I know I'm a clothes horse. I just can't let my mother go without shoes or with cheap shoes she told me she still slips in because they are cheap from China. I hope these work for her better. The tennis shoes are black leather and can go with everything she always wears. One thing I like about Curtis' last post is he discusses his personal gospel study program AND goal-setting. I can't stand people who are content to remain stagnant. That is NOOOT negotiable. I am hoping all these temple-worthy men read their scriptures as normal parts of their lives but really unless I ask there's no way to really tell. Steve has the spirit which is why he impresses me all the time. I just wish he wasn't so short and I wish I felt something in the temple when we did sealings because I didn't feel anything and that annoyed me because I wanted to feel something because I love how active he is in church and how he is kind to people all the time. I looove how brilliant Mike is and that he invests so wisely and seems to love many of the things I do. He reminds me of Shem however - fun and interesting BUUUT spiritually I doubt either of them have much substance.