I didn't get much accomplished yesterday. When Mom got up, she asked what I wanted to do, and we ended up going down to Columbia Mall to go Christmas shopping. I wound up only buying one gift -- for Connie -- but did manage to get some new clothes, too.

Clothes shopping is almost always an unpleasant task for me; my body is so twisted that nothing really looks good, at least not in my opinion. But some things look better than others, at least. Yesterday, we were at Penny's, and decided to look in the petites section for stirrup pants or stretch pants. Mom found a wine-colored outfit of stretch pants and a tunic top, and we both spied another pair of stretch pants, and found a pretty sweater to go with it. She also picked out a pair of the jeans that fit me best. I tried both of the outfits on, and much to my surprise, everything fit, and looked semi-decent on me. Either outfit would have been nicer than what I wore to Jevim's Christmas party. Everything was on sale, and I had a 15% discount certificate as well, from having signed up for their credit card. It was still almost $100, but Mom said not to worry about it, she was paying. I was flabbergasted.

Despite having good luck in the clothes-finding department, I did have the downer of seeing myself in a tri-fold mirror, and realizing just how awful I look. The extra ten pounds or so didn't help any, either. I told Jevim about it last night, and he said he loved me no matter what I look like. I know that, and I love him for it, but that doesn't change what I see when I look in the mirror. It does help to know though, that he doesn't mind. A couple times when I was with him last, he told me I was so pretty and that I was beautifull, and it always made me cry, just a little.

I was tired last night, and wanted to read some of my book, so we didn't stay online as late as usual. we hopped offline before ten my time, chatted on the phone for a while, then I laid down and read my book until about 10:40 and went to sleep. I was up before he was this morning, but he didn't oversleep, and we had our morning chat, then I went back to sleep.

I woke up for the second time at nine, and have spent the past three hours napping, reading and eating. I'm still in my pajamas as I sit here at the computer, and I was almost tempted to stay in bed longer and read more, but it was making me sleepy. Catching up on all the missed sleep while I was in Maryland, I suppose. Anyway, I feel pretty good, and Mom and I are going to go out at 4 and see Titanic, so I wanted to get some work done on my site first. TTYL