day forty-three

Day Forty-three 10/10/2009
Dress: Black Vintage Dress by Meg Madison New York
Purchased From: Sazz Vintage
Year or Era Purchased: Fall 2009
Price: $10.50
Accessories: Green Flats, fake diamond earrings, black ribbon headband
Hair and Makeup: Low ponytail, tucked back bangs, light green and black eye makeup
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael
Day:
I wore today's dress because it is vintage and sort of classy looking and because our destinations of the day were the Palais Princier de Monaco, also known as where Grace Kelly got married and lived and stuff.  We also visited the Musee Oceanographique, much to our surprise as we didn't even know it was there.  We started our day by finding a restaurant in Eze Village, our current town.  Almost every restaurant we've come across in the Cote d'Azur is some sort of pizza/pasta restaurant, the menus all the seem the same, weird.  Since we're veggie our options are limited and we keep getting pizza and pasta.  Today we opted to share a vegetarienne pizza  and also had really yummy cappuccinos.  We headed to Monaco and toured all over the grounds of the Palais Princier de Monaco.  There was an exotic garden, some regular amazing grounds and landscaping, the actual palace, a cathedral and then the oceanography museum.  We didn't actually go into the Palace since we wanted to go into the museum.  The museum was both an aquarium and an aquatic museum and it ruled.  I haven't been to an aquarium in years and man oh man did I love it.   We were both super thrilled to see a cuttlefish! We walked and walked and walked today and saw so many beautiful and amazing things but man are we tired now.  After our four hour stint of touristy stuff we went to the grocery store so I could fixins for sandwiches and then I successfully made gourmet style sandwiches with only a leatherman in a hotel bathroom.

Now we're flipping back and forth between the English channels on the television, MTV and CNN, stupid and smart.  We are so exhausted we'll probably call it an early night and our hotel room is so swanky we don't mind enjoying it and relaxing.  There's a bathtub calling my name.  Tomorrow we check out and head back to spend the day in Nice before retiring to our airport hotel.  We don't have anything planned yet but I have hope it will be lovely and we'll make the most of it.

day forty-two

Day Forty-Two 10/9/2009
Dress: White with Black and Red Pattern, Strapless and Pocketed Dress
Purchased From: Ross
Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2009
Price: $22.99
Accessories: Black Boots by Dollhouse
Hair and Makeup: High bun, lots of bangs, black eye makeup, red lipstick
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Last night when I was trying to figure out which dress to wear today Michael said he liked this one, it was good for both a boat and Italy.  He was right.

Today's dress was purchased solely for the reason that it has pockets.  I liked it otherwise too but it puckers a bit in the belly area and can add some unneeded excess lumpage at times.  When I realized in the dressing room that it had pockets I forgot all about the lumpy possibilities and put it into the to purchase category.  I am such a sucker for a dress with pockets.  I also like the bust line of this dress as full on straight across strapless can sometimes be icky on my chest.  I knew we were going on a boat today and since yesterdays dress was supposed to be my boat dress but turned out not to be since the boat wasn't running I needed to figure out another solution fast.  I also needed the dress to double as my lunch in Italy dress and after trying on a few last night Michael and I settled on this one.  I so wish my favorite black flats did not break right before we left because I would've brought them and worn them with this ensemble but they did and so I wore my new black boots.  I wore this dress one other time too, to the wedding of my brother so I'll always remember it as it that first and foremost.  It is sad how my memory works like that.  I can remember what I wore the first day of school for 6th, 8th and 9th grade for some reason as well as many other occasions.  It's a sickness I suppose.  My hair is sort of dirty so I put it in a high bun and added lots of bangs.  I also put on a good bit of black eye makeup and a smattering of red lipstick so I'd feel sort of fancy.

Today was our last morning in the apartment so we actually had to set our alarm (gasp!) for 8AM.  Ouch.  We've been rolling out of bed around 11ish so it hurt a little, especially since I stayed up to basically finish Living Dead in Dallas, the second Sookie Stackhouse book.  Oh how I wish I had borrowed more from Sue! Now I'm onto a serious non-trashy, non-vampire book, Into the Wild.  I still have only seen bits and pieces of the movie and it was on sale at Target so... Anyway so Michael and I woke up early and he walked down into the city part of Nice to pick up our rental car while I got ready and made us breakfast (cheesy home fried potatoes, yogurt with raspberry jam, wit bier mimosas and chocolate croissants).  We said goodbye to our awesome view, packed up the car and then took our last walk down the hill to Le Port where we returned our apartment keys and boarded a super touristy boat for a one hour boat ride around the Cote D'Azur.  It was really nice, did not involve duck quacking (I'm talking about you Ride the Ducks! I hate you) and we both like boats so we thoroughly enjoyed it.  After our one hour tour we walked back up our hill one last time and retrieved our car, took a quick trip to the grocery store to stock up on wine an water and I snagged a french copy of an Alice in Wonderland kids book.

We were then on our way to Italy for lunch.  That sounds so awesome, but really Italy is only like 45 minutes away, or a little over an hour with coastal roads.  We made a list of all the dorky things we wanted to do on our vacation and have pasta in Italy was on the list.  We went to Ventimiglia, Italy and had Spaghetti Pomodora and Ricotta/Spinach Canelloni with Alfredo.  The pasta wasn't fresh and the restaurant was super cheesy but it was fun and we ate outside and it was Italy.  We walked around a little afterwards to see if I could find cheeseball Italy souvenirs for Sue, Spano and Jared but to no avail.  Sorry my Italian friends.  We then got gelato (I had another one yesterday, hazelnut while Michael had lemon) and I am addicted to hazelnut gelato.  It tastes like the nougat part of a snickers bar! So I got another one today and Michael got a mint flavor.  We sat in Italy and ate gelato and then drove back to France and Michael had a blast driving on the coastal swerve heavy roads.  My stomach flip flopped since I was trying to film some of it.  We then stumbled upon our hotel on a different road than we expected and checked in.  It's awesome and amazing and fancy called Les Terrasses d'Eze.  It's friggin' sweet and Michael was thrilled to see it has a bidet.  We'll be here until Sunday and then it's crappy airport hotel and back to reality.  I did see three stray cats today so that made me a little homesick for my furry friends.  It's not over yet but it's been swell.

day thirty-eight.

Day Thirty-eight 10/5/2009
Dress: Purple and White Floral Vintage Dress
Purchased From: Sazz Vintage
Year or Era Purchased: Fall 2009
Price: $10.50
Accessories: Blue Sandals, fresh lily in my hair, black ribbon on the waist
Hair and Makeup: Low bun, lots of bangs, lily in my hair, tons of blush
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: I have only seen Michael today, he said ooh purple dress or something of that nature

Today was another lazy day, lovely.  Last night we ate a cheese plate for dinner and drank wine and beers on the balcony.  After that we played Cinq-o, a dice game, and I won.  Nice. I also started tearing through the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series, I am going to make short work of those books.

We awoke late today again and had coffee on our balcony, the view really doesn't get old.  We lounged about all day and I made us a gouda, boursin and veggie egg scramble with a baguette and some yogurt.  Michael read H.M.S. Surprise, one of the books in the Aubrey/Maturin Novels, while I continued reading Dead Until Dark while sunbathing on the balcony.  Bliss.  I finally put a dress on around 3pm, after a shower and hair washing.  Good thing there was a hair dryer here since mine is a. at home and b. the same brand as the melted curling iron from yesterday so it would've done some damage no doubt.

Today's dress is pretty out of the ordinary for me since it's purple, my least favorite of all the colors.  I really like the fit and flow of it though and I think purple might be growing on me a little. Shh! Don't tell it I said so. I didn't feel like doing much with my hair so I pulled it back into a low bun and attached a fresh lily into the hair band.  I got a huge bouquet of lilies for $4.80 at a flower market.  They are making our apartment smell absolutely divine.  I wanted to keep the outfit light and girly so I wore my sandals, even though I am in dire need of a pedicure. I brought nail polish but my two remover pads didn't work so well and I was only able to remove my fingernail polish.  Oh well.  Michael took my picture in a cool old stairwell that provides access to our street, or rather hill.  Unfortunately the key we have does not work for its gate and we are forced to walk up and down another large hill to get to our apartment.  Our calves are hurty. At least I'm getting a little workout since I am eating an obscene amount of cheese.

We finally left the house today to go to the grocery store for much needed wine, beer, water, and food.  Eating in is saving us a ton of money and allowing us to relax and enjoy our apartment.  We do plan to swim tomorrow and visit La Zucca Magica for another amazing meal before we leave.  Tonight after what has been our daily McDonalds visit we are in search of either gelato or creme brulee, two things we decided we must experience here before leaving.  Today I bought some famous Nice olives so I can scratch that off our list too.  Apparently Nice is famous for their olives and olive oil so I'll have to obtain some for take home.

day thirty-seven.

Day Thirty-seven 10/4/2009
Dress: Black Vintage Slip
Purchased From: Sazz Vintage
Year or Era Purchased: Fall 2009
Price: $5
Accessories: new black boots
Hair and Makeup: Eyes are all cleared up so lots of eye makeup, curled hair. I melted an old curling iron today.  Oops!
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: I have only seen Michael today he said "ooooh" I also got beeped at by a motorcycle person.

Last night we had an amazing dinner at La Zucca Magica.  The menus is fixed and changes daily depending on what is fresh that day.  It's also 100% vegetarian, and so good!

We were served:
1. Potato and onion soup with parmesan
2. Poached? artichoke with an Italian inspired Spanikopita (made with mozzarella, a spinach pesto, and more of a pie crust shell)
3. Pumpkin Parmesan (like an unbreaded eggplant parm with pumpkin instead of eggplant)
4. Lasagna made with homemade noodles, pieces of pumpkin, and French olives
5. Cinnamon flecked vanilla ice cream served with an apple/raisin pie slice
We also shared both a bottle of red wine and mineral water.  My god the amount of cheese and butter that entered our systems is amazing.  It was a lovely, romantic meal that left us dead for the night, watching an episode of Law & Order in French in our awesome apartment.  Our view is absolutely amazing.

Today was our super lazy day since it was the first day we didn't have a check-out time. We slept until noon and lazed about for hours.  I made us a brunch of omelettes with manchego, comte and gouda cheeses, mushrooms for me, onions and peppers for Michael.  We had toasted baguettes and a side of home fries.  We ate on our balcony and seriously just did nothing all day, fantastic.  We're now on our internet access mission, which required an insane walk because we tried to go to the grocery store first and it is way up a hill.  It was closed.  Oh well, we found the equivalent to a Philly bodega and got take out beers and water.  Michael got the Desperados, a weird tequila beer.  We think it will be gross but he wanted to try it.  Now we're going to do some searching for our Friday and Saturday destination.  I think we're going to try to stay in Monaco for our last two nights and drive into Italy for one meal so we can say we ate pasta in Italy.

Today's "dress" is really a slip and I had intended to wear it under a burgundy lace dress that I brought but I figured I'd be lounging for most of the day so I'd go with comfort, yup I find slips super comfy.  When we headed out I threw on a cardigan to play it down a bit.  I didn't do it on purpose but I didn't put any jewelry on today, again maybe for comfort reasons.  I curled my hair a lot today and finally wore it down.  We are having a really lovely time and are really loving Le Panaromic, our amazing apartment building.

Random Nice, France fact: The most popular dog is the Jack Russel Terrier, I've seen at least twenty of them, very few other breeds.  You can also take your dogs everywhere, including grocery stores. Crazy. I have not seen a cat yet, probably a good thing because that would mean it was a stray.  Also no squirrels, I don't think they're huge fans of palm trees.

Check out our view! Night and day :)

day thirty-one.

Day Thirty-one 9/28/2009

Dress: Red Terry Cloth Dress

Purchased From: Thrift Store Unknown

Year or Era Purchased: 1994ish?

Price: $5ish?

Accessories: Black Coat, black boots and then new black boots and ridiculous sunglasses. 

Hair and Makeup:  Double buns, zero makeup

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: I forgot to credit my Mommy-in-law with a coat compliment yesterday, none today.

Day:  Today's dress was one of the first one I looked at.  I love it and hate it at the same time.  If I was like 30lbs. skinnier this might be my favorite dress.  Luckily there was a slight chill in the air today so that meant I got to wear my favorite jacket, which classes up any outfit.  To be fair I did a picture with and without the jacket.  This dress is so not forgiving, even with the high waisted fake spanx I try to make out of my tights.  Oh well, I like my boobs in it so I guess it evens out a little bit.   While putting on my favorite boots today I realized they had a hole in them :( So I ran to Bare Feet Shoes in hopes of finding a similar replacement.  No dice, but I did find these sweet motorcycle/sweater boots? Huh? Super comfy and you can change them up to make them shorter or longer.  I absolutely can not function without a pair of black boots in my wardrobe.  Bare Feet Shoes is another of my favorite shoe stores as a large selection of their shoes are not leather. Score.  They are also very reasonably priced I must say! 

My day was endless with errands galore and I knew it would be because I am a last minute kind of lady.  I accomplished the following: picking up prescriptions for my cat, buying cat food and cat litter, picking up my prescription, packing, going to the bank, working, buying new boots,  grocery store stop (yes, to get peanuts for the squirrels), stopping by my brother and sister-in-laws house and then finally home.  Whew.  I am exhausted.  I also made dinner, cleaned the kitchen, painted my nails OPI's Alpine Snow (so good!) and got all the cat and house instructions ready.  I know that was boring and lacked pizazz but hey it is 3am and I still have to work tomorrow and pack the last minute items and do the last minute things that I forgot.  

Now it's time to load my iPhone with music and get my butt to sleep.  Sorry for the really short and awful post! I have figured out the logistics of blogging while I'm gone and it's so much easier than I expected! As long as I have access to free wi-fi I will blog everyday.  I have 16 dresses packed and only need 13, better safe than icky.  

Holy crap! I will be in France in like twenty-four hours! 

day twenty-nine.

Michael and I argued over which picture to use for today.  He voted below, I voted above so I just used both.

Day Twenty-nine 9/26/2009

Dress: Red Long Slip Dress

Purchased From: Super Thrift in the Port Richmond shopping center

Year or Era Purchased: 2008

Price: $3

Accessories: White cardigan, black on black high top Chuck Taylors

Hair and Makeup:  big poofy bangs and buns, bright red lips

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Spano said he liked the dress, Michael made some comments that may or may not had to do with "nipple tassels" 

Day:  Today ended up being really busy and sort of productive but not really.  I woke up refreshed and headache free. So nice.  It was the first time in a long time that I slept quickly and before Michael.  I made a pot of coffee and got dressed.   Maybe it was a subconcious thing as one of the songs at last night's forgetters show had the lyrics red dress, red nails but I picked out a red dress for today.  There was a chill in the air so I wanted something covering so a long slip dress was quite helpful.  I paired it with a cardigan and later in the day when the chill got stronger I threw on my fall/spring Audrey Hepburn inspired jacket.  

I bought today's dress while thrift shopping with my Mom sometime last year. I think it was late Spring but I can't remember.  It might even have been Mother's Day or around that time.  I know Baby Mama was in the theater during the time period because I remember meeting up with Orsborn and the Lalondes to have ice cream at Cold Stone and we discussed that he had heard the movie was not so much good.  Wow, that is so random.  Anyway I know today's dress is sort of a slip or a house dress or something but I don't care; I love it.   I woke up with insanely puffy and itchy eyes and everyone I speak with seems to be suffering with terrible allergies this year so I guess that's why.  Ugh. They eventually went down but I felt a bit like Sloth from the Goonies for a while there.  

Early in the afternoon I got a text from my friend Kristin that Sazz Vintage was having a crazy warehouse vintage clothing sale around the corner from her house.  I went over to check it out and scored big time.  The set up was the top floor of a huge warehouse with boxes and mountains of vintage clothing to sort through and purchase. 

The girl that ran it was so sweet and immediately calmed my fears and instructed me on the best ways to search the goods using empty boxes and sheets.  I filled a box and positioned myself at the mirror for try-ons.  Today's dress was such a good idea for trying on clothes since it was so thin.  Go me.  I ended up leaving there with 8 day dresses, one slip and one evening gown.  One of my dresses has a camel pattern on it, so good!  I absolutely suggest you check it out if they do it again, which might be in December if it's not crazy cold.  I will definitely be wearing all of the dresses in this blog!  That sort of makes me think I might extend the blog a bit longer than one hundred days depending on the number of dresses I have left.  Or maybe I'll do a day 101 with photos of all the dresses I intend to donate or sell since they don't actually fit and/or I hate them.  We'll see. I'm only on day twenty-nine but I'm already worrying about this being over.  I suppose it gives me a purpose and I like having that feeling. 

Anyway I did some more errands and then made amazing veggie turkey and cheese hoagies for lunch before taking Michael to Best Buy for an extra camcorder battery so he can annoy the crap out of me in France next week (oh my god, next week!) by filming everything in his sights.   I then went and did some cat jobs, which is where today's main dress pictures were taken.  I know it might be inappropriate but some of the backgrounds are just so amazing.  I love the apartment I was in today, I got to watch it transform into what it is today since it started almost as a shell when we first stared caring for the kitties Clyde and Murray who live there.  It is now mostly painted white, with a lot of white accents and furniture of the antique and modern variety.  It's really just simply amazing.   Since the dress was red and the background gorgeous I decided to do the photo with the color accent function on the camera.  Always fun.  

I came home and met up with Spano, Jody, Sean, Michael and Bob and all of us minus Bob ventured to a benefit show at Exit Skateshop.  The benefit was for a book called barred for life featuring people with Black Flag tattoos and some photography from my friend Jared.  One of the bands playing tonight was our friend's band Backwoods Payback.  Wow that was a lot of links. Anyway I was super proud of myself and felt like a nineteen year old for going to two shows in two days.  Nice.  I came home and ate a bagel and now I'm doing this.  I know I promised to write about yesterday but it's late and I'm so tired and it's raining and chilly and it's the perfect night to crawl into bed and fall fast asleep and weren't promises meant to be broke anyway?  I took a picture in the bathroom of Exit today so I'll leave you with it.  

day twenty-seven.

Day Twenty-seven 9/24/2009

Dress: Navy Blue Sundress

Purchased From: Forever 21

Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2009

Price: $12.50

Accessories: Blue Payless sandals

Hair and Makeup:  low pigtails, blush

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Two shoe compliments and two dress compliments,  from strangers, clients and friends.

Day:  Today was so much better than yesterday even though I woke up to Ipacac landing wrestling moves on my face at 6am.  I woke up and tried to pretty up to go to my waxing appointment.  I felt like I had to look a certain way for some reason, sort of fancy, classy I guess.  You know that scene in Say Anything when Diane Court goes to visit the FBI guys to find out if her Dad is guilty and she says something like "I thought if I wore these clothes, if I looked a certain way" or something like that? Probably not because you are quite possibly not as fanatical about the movie as I am but whatever.  That is how I felt.  I put on a newish dress and some pretty sandals that I got on clearance at Payless.  I hurriedly rushed to the train but missed the one I wanted and was late for my appointment.  I am always late.  Ugh.  The waxing went smoothly, get it? Har har.  It hurt like no other pain I've really ever felt before and now it sort of feels like I got punched in the hooha but it's done.  It was also absolutely embarrassing but my esthetician was really nice and put me at ease by telling me stories about crazy clients she's had like one woman who drank many shots of Hennessy before her first Brazilian and proceeded to lose all of her inhibitions and curse up a storm very loudly while snooty rich ladies were waiting for massages and facials in the room right outside.  It made me feel better. 

Afterwards I met Michael and we went to AAA to get our International Driver's Permits so we can drive around in France.  Neato.   I force fed Seamus the cat for Rica (he's on the road to recovery from some sicky Liver action) and then made a quick stop at Circle Thrift on Frankford Ave in Fishtown.  I haven't been in forever and I always score amazing stuff there.  Today was no different as I got an adorable kelly green and white sundress, a cute snap up stripey H&M dress, an awesome houndstooth dress and oh my god a BCBG Max Azria black cocktail dress that fit perfectly all for $20, that's $5 per dress folks!!!!  Damn.  So happy with my finds.  

I worked a bunch today and then came home and made dinner, mostly on the grill since it's getting to be non-grilling season.   I grilled marinated seitan, baby yukon gold potatoes, corn on the cob and leftover asparagus.  Yum.  Jody came over and we caught up on some Project Runway and conversation.  I know, not the most interesting night but I had a really nice day and night with minimal stress and aggroness.  Oh and I watched the new Always Sunny. Word. 

Now Michael and I are searching for a hotel to stay in the day we get to France.  Tomorrow I get to wake up to my favorite beagle friend, Rosie, since she'll be staying with me this weekend.  Expect photos. 

day twenty-six.

Day Twenty-six 9/23/2009

Dress: Black and Printed Kimono Style Dress

Purchased From: Ross 

Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2009

Price: $14.99

Accessories: none, grey cotton flats

Hair and Makeup: pulled back into a bun. I really need to wash it. 

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: a client told me I look nice. She was topless though so her opinion leaves me a tiny bit skeptical.  

Day:  First of all, holy crud, I'm 1/4 of the way done this little ordeal of mine.  Crazy how time flies.  And now for the day, it sucked...I really need to snap out of my crazy aggro stress ball attitude but today was just another one of those crap days.  It was off; everything was off.   It felt rushed and then lagging and I just felt gross and awful all day.  I am quite sure the humidity that I woke up to did not help.  It also made me extra itchy.  Allergies and sensitive skin suck, like a lot.  Today's dress did not help.  I knew when I bought it that I didn't really like it but the style of it reminded me of another dress I have that I absolutely love so I thought I just had to get it.  It's really poorly made the top part is a bit too big for me so it kept falling down and exposing my bra to the public all day. D'oh.  The rest of it fits sort of fine but it's really not flattering.  Oh well.  Lesson learned.  Speaking of boobs as mentioned above one of my clients was topless in front of me for a long period of time today.  Boundaries people, boundaries.  Did I mention she is 69? Yup.  Did I mention I've seen her boobs a total of twice now? Yep.  Dear god I need a new job. Also I am stressing about getting all of the hair ripped off of my lady parts tomorrow morning.  Ouch.  On that note I'm going to take a shower and do a load of laundry and say take that you stupid day, you're not the boss of me.  Yeah. 

day twenty-five.

Day Twenty-five 9/22/2009

Dress: Turquoise Bubble Dress

Purchased From: Rainbow 

Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2008

Price: $7.99

Accessories: Black tights and a long short sleeve cardigan, crazy pattern boots

Hair and Makeup: Two buns, blush only

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Someone yelled "pebbles" from a car, Michael liked my cardigan 

Day: I got a pretty okay night of sleep last night even though I woke around 7am to Ipacac puking noises.  Ugh, worst sound to wake up to ever.  I got back to sleep immediately and kept going until almost 10am. Word!  I spent the morning as a giant stress ball searching for an apartment to rent in Nice, France since we realized our lackadaisical attitudes were dead wrong and most of the places we thought were available to rent were indeed not.  Oops.  I sent inquiry after inquiry and it paid off as we will be staying in a pretty fabulous looking apartment.  Woot.  We'll have six free days leftover to stay in hotels or other apartments that we're not as worried about booking since we don't know exactly where we'll be yet...Monaco, Italy, Corsica, Nice.  Who knows!?! Not me.  What I do know is that at this time next week I will be on a plane to friggin' France yo! 


After all the stress I hurriedly put on a dress.  I want to use up some of my summery dresses and today's was hidden between two other dresses since it's so teeny.  I thought it was a bit too slutty to wear on its own so I paired it with some thick black tights and a short sleeved long cardigan, so far my only Fall wardrobe purchase.  I love the way the dress pokes out of the cardigan and gives it a pop of color.  Usually this dress annoys me but not today.  Good thing since I was so stressballesque already!  I worked a bunch today and then hurried home since Michael and I were taking a trip to see our respective Moms. I dropped him at his Moms and headed out to see mine.  I got some parent time and some cuddle time with their kitties before heading back to grab Michael.  We listened to the Michel Thomas french lessons on the way home.  I continued on and did a few lessons on Rosetta Stone French.  I don't think it will matter much if I am able to speak any French since I know damn well that anyone speaking back will be far too fast and skilled for me. I hear those French peeps like you better if you try though.  I wonder if they just want a good laugh.  


Oh and today's reluctant to be on camera critters are Henry and Charlie, two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.  Yup. 


Now I'm getting a snack since I ate a quarter of a baguette, some feta cheese and a fistful of mashed potatoes for dinner.  Oops.  Bonne nuit. 

day twenty-three.

Day Twenty-three 9/20/2009

Dress: Black and White Sundress

Purchased From: One of those girly cheap stores like Mandee or Deb or Rainbow 

Year or Era Purchased: 2006/2007ish

Price: $? probably like $14.99

Accessories: squirrel ring, black cardigan

Hair and Makeup: braids, blush, still allergy eyeball ridden. 

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael, Danni 

Day: Oh man alive was today a lazy day!  Quite possibly because last night was a late and drunky night but it was oh so fun.  I woke up after noon sometime but didn't actually get out of bed until 1:30 or so.  Michael and I watched Always Sunny clips on his laptop then searched for apartments to rent in the South of France.  Jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick we leave in one week and one day.  This blog is going to make packing so much easier since I've been saving a lot of my favorite dresses for the vacation.  I've also been saving some of my "sweatpants of dresses" for the loungey days.  I'm not really sure what the internet situation will be like over there so I'm going to try my hardest to blog as often as possible but who knows.  Of course I'll still wear a dress each day and photograph it and write a blurb to publish when I can.  I promise not to cheat.  Some days are much harder than others to write and take pictures.  I kind of just want to go to bed right now and snuggle up with Michael but discipline is part of this process and I don't like to fail.  

I tried on a bunch of dresses today and realized that I am going to have some really interesting days ahead of me upon perusing the unworn dresses.  Man, oh man there are some questionable choices on my clothing rack.  Oh well.  I may have to get super fancy to walk dogs sometimes but I doubt the dogs will mind.  Maybe the strangers on the street or the doormen at the one building I frequent but who cares, not me.   Anyway I have tried on today's dress a few times in the past few weeks but always removed it pretty quickly.  Today was its days though as I didn't immediately hate it.  Dresses are so funny like that.  Apparently it worked well because Danni, our Portland houseguest, liked it enough to mention so and to say it made her want to wear a dress and look girly.  She's wicked hot (and I'm not just saying that for her sake if she reads this,  if I was a dude I feel like she'd be my type) so it makes me feel all sorts of awesome to inspire her.  I wish I could remember more about the dress.  I think I bought it sometime in Spring or early Summer maybe 2006 or 2007ish when I went through a must have sundresses phase.  I don't think I paid much for it because in case you don't know already I like to have lots of stuff instead of a few expensive things.  Hrmpf.  My eyeball is still super stupid so I was a good girl and left the eye makeup off :( sad face.  I want that shit pristine before we leave for vacation.  Yup. 

I finally left the house today to take Danni to drop off her rental car.  We came back to the house to grab Michael and go visit our roomie Steve at the Piazza where he works.  We left Michael with Steve and ventured around Northern Liberties stopping into Standard Tap for a glass of wine and conversation.  It was such a nice change from a usual weekend day.  It was nice to go sit by a window with the sun out in a bar filled with old wood and a fireplace.  It felt relaxing and sort of adult like.  I dug it.  We wandered around a bit more and met up with the boys to see how much more time we needed to kill before our end goal of Indian food at Tiffin, 50 minutes.  So we had more drinks at Cantina, again sitting outside and enjoying the gorgeous weather that was today.   Finally it was time for the good East Coast Indian food Danni craved.  I've also been craving it all week since she mentioned it.  Tiffin was indeed what the doctor ordered, that is if the doctor was really sort of fat and into instructing his patients to gorge themselves because we totally did.  Mmmmm. Yum. I am still so full it kind of hurts.  

We came back home and Danni and I watched the first two episodes of America's Next Top Model with lots of commentary.  The boys joined us for the pilot of Archer and since I'm a huge Frisky Dingo fan I was super excited.  I really enjoyed it and wish it was actually coming on every week after It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and not in January 2010 as the internet is telling me. Dumb.  Wow this whole entry was sort of ramble ridden but whatever, I didn't even really want to do it.  Blargh.  Time for bed since Ipacac the kitty has to go get his vets check up tomorrow.  

day twenty-one.

Day Twenty-one 9/18/2009

Dress: Black Double Breasted Style Dress

Purchased From: Conway

Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2009

Price: $12.99

Accessories: Squirrel Bottle Cap ring agian, fishnet tights

Hair and Makeup: New cut and color, big waves and bangs!!! Allergy eye ball :(

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Someone made up a song about me while I was getting gasoline.  It went like this: Fishnets. Black pantyhose.  It was good.  My roommate Steve also said I looked nice and asked why I was dressed up.  

Day: I woke up itchy and my right eyelid was super puffy and bumpy. Gross.  I guess I jumped the gun on that eye makeup.  I took a claritin but it's not doing its usual trick darn it.  I knew I was getting my hair done so I wanted to attempt looking cute today.  The dress I wore always makes me feel cute because I love the cut and the buttons.  Plus it has pockets and any dress with pockets is a-ok in my book.  I thought it was much cooler out than it actually was so I threw on fishnets and boots and a sweater.  Turns out the sun was out today and it was much warmer than expected so the sweater got ditched right quick.  I worked feverishly to get all my jobs done and be on time for my hair appointment.  I was 17 minutes early.  That never happens.  Two hours later my hair was done and I love it.  It's my first time with big girl highlighted hair and I can't stop looking in the mirror. Weeee.  I am pretty sure I shrieked with joy at the salon.  It was Salon Blush and my stylist is Jenny.  I have been seeing her for almost two years now, longest stylist relationship ever and I think it paid off! 

Michael and I rode our bikes over to Liberties walk and sort of enjoyed a sushi dinner followed by ice cream at Fishtown's new ice cream parlor.  We've had dinner at Hikari once before and it was just eh.  We thought we'd give it another go tonight since it is so close.  After we were seated Michael remember just how much he loves the other sushi place just down the street, Koi, because they serve vegetable tempura rolls.  We decided it might be rude to just get up and leave so we'd make it a point to go on a sushi date later in the week.  Since tonight's was just sub par I'm really looking forward to it.  

Now we're home early on a Friday night and enjoying some beers.  Maybe I'll attempt a french lesson or two and get all aggro.  We'll see.  

PS. I've been doing this for three weeks now, damn.  Tell your friends please. Thanks.

day nineteen.

Day Nineteen 9/16/2009

Dress: Brown Babydoll dress

Purchased From: Ross

Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2009

Price: $12.99

Accessories: Just some rain boots and bright orange tights

Hair and Makeup: Low pig tails but still no real makeup.  The eyes are almost back to normal!

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: A door man called me Pippy Longstocking

Day: Today was another one of those days. Ugh and ick.  Maybe it was the weather.  I mean it wasn't all bad or anything, just meh. Maybe it was the lack of sunshine.  I usually like today's dress but for some reason it was just annoying me today.  I had to go to Rica's today and force feed her kitty Seamus since he's having liver problems (poor little dude!) so I just sort of threw on the first dress and pair of tights I saw.  I didn't bother much with hair or makeup and I think that was my problem.  Oh well.  It's over now.  The hardest thing is taking self portraits on off days, not so much fun.  The dress is identical to a green dress I bought at Ross at the beginning of the summer.  They had it in green and black when I bought it but I only bought the green.  About a month later I decided to go get the black one and of course they were all gone but I did find a brown one and though I don't usually wear a lot of brown I'm not opposed to it so I got it and here it is.  No accessories today.  I was going to wear this sweet fox necklace I got at AC Moore the other day but I couldn't find a chain to fit it.  Maybe tomorrow.   

I worked, skipped the gym today and went on a much needed and super boring Target trip.  We needed everything so even though there are many amazing dresses as the guest designer this month is Anna Sui and all the new fall socks and tights are out I resisted temptation and only bought things like toilet bowl cleaner and q-tips.  I did score some rain/garden boots for $4.98!!!! And they're baby blue.  Nice. 

For dinner I recycled last nights broccoli and cheese sauce and baked potato and made cream of broccoli and potato soup, bread and salads.  It was like Olive Garden in our house tonight, except better because Olive Garden is kind of gross.  I have $50 in gift cards to Olive Garden that I won by putting $1 into a raffle.  That's kid of awesome and someday I'll take Michael on a sweet and gross date there.  Yup.  Tonight we watched Sunshine Cleaning and I really liked it.  I also hung up a new shower curtain liner that is supposed to be mold and mildew resistant.  I'll keep you posted on how well it works.  I know, the suspense is killing you.   I also did a few of my French Rosetta Stone lessons tonight.  Man alive is that frustrating sometimes.   Me repeating the french word bleu over and over and over it refusing to accept my pronunciation equals a bad time.  I'm going to retire to bed early tonight in hopes that tomorrow is not just a new but a better day.  Au revoir!