I survived a light-blue Christmas
I survived the holiday alone and to be perfectly honest, was not too sure how it would unfold. I was missing family, friends and having to work which did not leave me feeling full of jingle bell rock. Yes, I volunteered to work (from home) so my co-workers could spend time with their families. Well I learned one thing, Lynne won’t be raising her hand up anymore. I don’t want to be teacher’s pet that’s for sure.
I may not have had family in town but certainly would have gotten out and visited a senior home or served food somewhere to be part of Christmas. I felt very disconnected, even the Disney parade was taped three days earlier and I was not entertained at all.
I won’t bore you with how I filled the day but there were a few highlights. Nothing as grand as most of your oohs and aahs, but I did manage to enjoy these things.
Santa gave my doggie, Jack-Black, a pink girl pig for Christmas. He was thrilled (or at least he appeared to be) and I think he’s in love too.
Jacks’ new gal-pal
Santa felt so sorry for me he got me some new shoes. Not just any shoe, no, he got me some Converse. I have been wearing “Chuck’s since I was a teenager and will wear them when I’m 90.
Best shoes in town
I donned an apron and actually (I know, gasp) baked some cookies. From scratch and even colored the icing. I felt so accomplished.
Home Baked goodies
I have to show my kicks again because they are just the coolest damn shoes. If you are not wearing “Chucks”, well, you just need to.
The All-Star shoe
To round out this holiday I noticed this caption on a Philosophy gift set I received. I will make this my motto for the new year. Enough said.
My 2013 motto
I may not have had a holiday like most of you, but I also know it was a far cry better than many experienced. Now it’s on to New Years where I will be out ringing in 2013. My question is, can I get away with wearing my new kicks with a dress? Probably not…
I hope your holidays are being merry and bright!!!
I think you could totally get away with wearing all stars with a dress.
I think I can too.. I’ll have the most comfy feet in the room
Wear the shoes.. color matching pants
or the basic black will work
Merry Christmas..prospero anos y Felicidad !
Thanks for the wardrobe tips
and you have a wonderful new years as well in lovely Ecuador!!!
I bet my dog can disembowel his stuffed toys faster than yours can (but then again, I’ve never bought Angus a pink piggie).
Teresa, I have to say one of her eyes is already hanging by a thread
I’m a converse girl too! Definitely wear with a dress!
I totally knew you were a Chucks woman too. I can see you out clicking away pictures rocking those shoes
Love the new kicks, they are the very best shoe to bring in the new year, particularly if you mean to go on as you begin
I have always loved low-cut converse. My others were so beat up.. They will be ringing in the new year on my feet for sure
You rock those Chucks! The little pink pig is adorable! Serving food to seniors is really the way to help feel part of the season, I think, instead of being isolated at home, unless you got extra pay?? That’s a great saying for the year, think beautiful thoughts.
The pig is just too damn cute.. I want one for me..She can ride on my dashboard
Yes, those words shall be my new year motto.. only beautiful thoughts
Hope you are enjoying time with the hubby!!
I think I will think beautiful thoughts too and get some shoes like yours–
Yes and double yes.. I’m so serious that you will feel like a kid again and have a slight spring in your step
I could use a slight spring in my step for sure –
cute pink pigs,(minus one eyeball!) and wearing happy shoes and thinking beautiful thoughts.– sounds like a great way to leap into the new year!
z
I know, poor piggie already lost an eye
I like that, happy shoes+beautiful thoughts= Good year !!!
i suspect you’ll be twinkle toes in those happy shoes when the new year rings! z
I so think you could pull off wearing a dress with Converses! Frankly, I wish I had spent xmas alone… I thought of canceling out my plans but my sis said it’d be selfish — though I do know how to say no when I really need to! Hahaha!
Alot of people have said they wish they could have been alone.. maybe I did have a great Christmas after all
I’m terrible for saying yes when I really mean no.. gonna work on that
If anyone should be wearing All Stars, it’s you, Lynne.
My Christmas was one of the most awkward ever. I would have gladly traded mine for some alone time. Is there anything worse than superficial chit-chat? ugh. I’m looking forward to ringing in the new year, too. You and me sister, this is our year!! Xoxo
Lisa,
I know exactly what you mean..First year I was separated people were hovering, chatting and I know they meant well I just wanted to be by myself..So go get you some happy shoes and let us both walk into 2013 skipping!!
1. I have and love my (relatively) new kicks also.
2. Way impressed that you baked cookies and COLORED your frosting?! Wow. So beyond me.
3. Cute pig.
4. Great motto.
5. Enjoy your new year’s. I kid you not: a few years ago our neighbors were having a party on a Thursday night. I was lying in bed, trying to sleep and said to my husband, “Why are they having a party on a Thursday night? Couldn’t they have waited one more day.” He said, “Uh, honey, it’s new years.” See how well I celebrate? Paint the town red, baby!
Yes, a fellow Chucks wearer.. Something about those shoes I love..I found food coloring from goodness knows when and tried to be snazzy with those cookies
This will be the first time in probably 25 years I’ve gone out on New Years. Raising kids I’m like you, in the bed by 10..!!! I’ll probably be exhausted for 3 days but am going to go and have some fun!!
Love the new shoes and yes your day was better than mine
It was an odd day for sure but it’s past so onward to the New Year!!
Agreed, and most years I’m excited about the fresh beginning…this year I don’t see dreams coming true – I know it sounds negative but I think I have to be realistic!
Sometimes the dreams come true in ways we don’t expect..I too have dreams that I don’t think will come true but have to enjoy the other things that do
I can only hope for youngest to be as healthy as possible for as long as possible
I hope your dreams come true when you least expect it x
Christmas doesn’t need to be about being a ‘part’ of celebrations. It can just be some time out – to think beautiful thoughts in fact. We don’t ‘celebrate’ – but taking a lazy day off and doing very little, just enjoying the peace and quiet is our idea of a good Christmas. Had it not rained we would have gone for a walk.
I like the shoes. I would wear them with trousers because I can’t remember the last time I wore a frock, but I think a dress would be just fine. In fact, the more women who wear flats and dresses the better for all of us.
I do love the idea of helping old people, or in homeless hostels or whatever. How good would that be
It raises the question though of whether they get snowed under with volunteers for Christmas and then struggle for the rest of the year? Who knows, you can only try and find out.
Feliz año (nuevo)
You are absolutely right and I think it’s just habit..I need to get used to being alone on holidays because my children are grown and the last one leaves home this spring. I never want them to feel like they have to be with me.
I have just a few frocks so trousers may be the clothing choice. I am looking forward to being out and celebrating because I never go out on New years.. I am very much a home body.
happy New years to you and partner!!!
You can do or wear anything you like, you know you can…
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Yes I can and I will because Marianne said I could
Very funny!
And I’m off to bed, a new day is soon on its way in the South Pacific
Good night and keep enjoying Fiji!!
I am with everyone else– wear the kicks with a dress. Do it and post a photo..
I like your motto– hard to do sometimes but worth a try. Working on Christmas is the pits. Been there done that– you are a good woman Lynne.
I will definitely post a picture.. I don’t own many dresses so need to find one where I don’t look like a washer-woman wearing tennis shoes..lol
(The j-o-b) asked me yesterday if I wanted to work New years..Uh, nope!!
GOOD NO WORK… I just got a free SNOW day today. library is closed. I am so bleeping bleeping HAPPY… doing a little dance myself right now
Yay!!! snow day for you!!!
My nephew’s band just won a contest and one of the prizes was a 500.00 gift certificate for Chucks, for each band member. He wore his leather ones for Christmas! I see nothing wrong with Chucks and a dress…really they are new and a great color. Wear them well! That little pig is just the cutest.
Oh wow, congrats to your nephews band.. leather chucks, well that’s downright classy
I love that pig..it’s soft and cuddly but am certain the dog will have it in shreds by New years!!
I love love love Chuck Taylors!!! That color was the color of my first pair back in the day!! I’ve been rocking some light blue ones lately. And YES you can totally wear them with a dress. Dress, leggings, Chucks, glitter scarf. New Years ensemble DONE!! I know I told you on Instagram already, but I love your cookies!! Adorable.
I have three pairs (black, purple and now brown).. I will probably be the only one in Hard Rock Cafe sporting these shoes but I know one thing, I’ll be the most comfortable
Aww, my po’ little cookies are so sad!!
ah, Lynne – see the community rallying around you? See how many lives you’ve touched! I wish I could’ve joined you in baking those cookies… wish we lived closer. I kept a candle on my table lit for you all day Christmas – and I know my kids thought of their friends and family they missed, too.
Now. Onto the fun stuff, right? You get to rock out on New Year’s Eve. Think of me in my robe at 8:00pm. I haven’t been able to stay up til midnight for many a year!!
as to the Chucks?
I agree with everyone.
Wear them.
Sue
Susan,
you are so right even though I was “alone” I had read enough of all of my blogging pals posts I could almost envision what each was doing.
as for the cookies, yes I wish you lived closer because no doubt you would have helped them look like cookies and not unknown objects like I did. I was rather proud of the colored icing..lol
I’m gonna need a nap BEFORE I go out new years because I’m usually asleep by 10 so that and some coffee should keep me up!!
And onward we go to a new year..:-)
Oh geesh – you don’t want to eat my cookies – they are unpalatable AND ugly!! Although I did make a decent batch of chocolate chips cookies yesterday. My kids laughed when they bit into one and thought they were “pretty good”. One asked, “so, Mom, did you follow the directions?”
You betcha I did. That’s why they were almost okay!
Enjoy that nap – I’ll be thinking of you when my bedtime rolls around and you’re out having a wonderful time!
Oh yeah… got a decent sized storm going on right now. Bout a foot of snow – and winter’s only just beginning!
Stay safe -
Sue
I would eat your cookies because WE would follow the recipe..lol..
Love your new picture..very cute
Like the hat? Not too sassy? Just as the glasses are to cover my wrinkly eyes, the hat keeps them from wrinkling more!!!
Merry Christmas Lynne. Sorry to hear is came with a tinge of blue, but at least it was not black. I love your new motto – beautiful thoughts indeed. Also, I think chucks could go with the right dress – simple, cotton, light color – yes. Enjoy 2013, I’m sure it will be a fantastic year for you! -Rene
Hi Rene’.. it was “light blue” but in comparison to others that had black, I’d say it was fine.. How it was meant to be for me.. 2013 is very near and yes, I see good things for many of us that beleieve..
Thank you and Happy New year!!!
Love the Chucks! I’ve been wearing black low-cuts since I was 17. They’re perfect for my flat duck feet.
Yes.. another Chucks fan.. My old ones are so floppy and torn but damn they are comfortable
We had a very low key Christmas. Everyone was sick and I’m still rocking the cane. I think any holiday with Chucks is a good one.
Oh that is definitely no fun having everyone sick.. relaxtion is good sometimes..
here’s to a healthy New year to us all
These Converse, er-
do they come in high heels?
Clare,, don’t laugh but I think there are some platform converse.. You would be divine dahling!!
Stepdaughter #3 would be very jealous of your new Keds.
Glad you made the most of your day.
Tell stepdaughter #3 she has good taste in casual shoes but she can’t have mine
Happy upcoming New Year!!
Sometimes some down time is nice, away from the hustle and bustle.
And how can you even ask if you should wear those sneaks with a dress?
Of course you should!!!
You are right and I have been working hard of late.. maybe if I had not of been working it would have felt more holidayish.. Oh well..
Majority rules so Chucks with a dress it shall be.. Stay tuned for a news years follow up
Cookies look yummy!!
Looking forward to the Chucks and New Year’s dress. Post a picture. (grin)
I shall post a Post-New Years pic just because you grinned
Happiest of New Years and I will be around to catch up on my readings.. I have been a terrible blogger pal of late but am rectifying that shortly!!
There has never been a better shoe than Chuck Taylors. They are still the most versatile ever. Play ball, wade creeks, work in them, and when it is all over, just wash them and toss them in the dryer.
Awesome post.
Tim
YES!!!
May the Chuck Taylor shoe go down in history as one of man’s finest inventions.. My love for them started when my brother gave me a pair he was tossing out.. I’ve been a fan ever since!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! You should totally rock the Chucks!!! I think you would be dashing with a little red dress and those awesome red Chucks (they are red, right?).
Great sneakers!! They can be worn with all sorts of things, believe me