day one hundred ninety-five and day one hundred ninety-six.

Day One Hundred Ninety-five 3/11/10 
Dress: Vintage Red Striped Dress

Purchased From: Decades Vintage
Year or Era Purchased: Winter 2010
Price: $10.00
Accessories: red tights, white knee socks, hunter wellies 
Hair and Makeup: Blow dried straight, sometimes pulled back, usual makeup
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael complimented my dress, I also got a hair compliment. 
Day: 


I like this dress on but it photographs fat, the belt was bulky so I nixed it and the neckline was so high it felt like it was choking me for most of the day.  The buttons weren't functional so I couldn't even loosen it.  


Everyday I've been doing a little bit of cleaning and organizing to get our house back into shape since the under construction/loss of a closet has pushed us even further into the oblivion of pack rattiness and disarray.  I'm taking it back, slowly.  I worked on my desk area yesterday (yeah, yeah, I've beens slacking on proper daily postings) for almost an hour.  In the process I found a few things, consolidated, threw away and organized.  I also, as usual, questioned some of my collections and purchases.  I then of course was late for work as I got wrapped up in my cleaning and side tracked by a bunch of other things.  I finally got myself out the door and worked a long day.  I picked up a doggie to bring home for boarding, went to the grocery store and made and ate copious amounts of veggie tacos while watching Criminal MInds.  I then joined my friend Kelly to go see something regarding a baby shower but the Mommy-to-be is a reader so I'll keep that my keyboard silent for a bit on that subject.  It was really nice and I'll be sure to reference it after the shower.  It was a neat night, different from usual and I spent the last of it cleaning my living room- two rooms in one day felt good.  I watched dvr'd shows while dusting and straightening until my back couldn't take anymore and I headed for bed. Even with the dress bothers it was a good day. 

If I had the energy right now I'd photoshop a cat head over my face here. It's bugging me in this picture a whole lot, but I'm not fast enough at Photoshop.  Boo. 

Day One Hundred Ninety-six 3/12/10 
Dress: Black and White Striped Sun Dress

Purchased From: Old Navy
Year or Era Purchased: Winter 2010
Price: $20.00
Accessories: jeans, hunter wellies, mustard yellow cardigan, red apple pattern hat during the day
Hair and Makeup: Low pigtails during the day, curled and down at night, usual makeup w/ extra black eyestuff
Comments/Compliments/Complaints:  
Day: 


I love this dress. I think I might go get it in one of the other colors as it's currently at Old Navy and on sale.  The ease of wear, pattern and style all scream my name from the hanger at the store.  The sleeves are small ruffles, hidden by the cardigan and they give it a girly feel.  It was too cold and rainy for all that today so I covered it with a cardigan, slapped on  a hat and my rain boots and called it an outfit.  I sort of wish I had saved this for a warmer day.  Oh well. 


I'm so tired now.  I woke up at 7:30AM for a doggie drop off (two doggie friends this weekend) and didn't go back to sleep and it's 1:58AM now.  I worked, went to the gym, made dinner, had a date night with some free sixers tickets and then snuggled on the couch to Band of Brothers episodes.  I must sleep now.  Tomorrow is a day of floor sanding/cleaning.  Fun. 

day eighty-one.

Day Eighty-one 11/17/2009
Dress: Green and White Floral Shirt Dress
Purchased From: Old Navy
Year or Era Purchased:  Winter 2009
Price: $15.99 on sale
Accessories: black tights and boots
Hair and Makeup: down and wavy  usual makeup with green  eyeshadow
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Jody
Day: 


 I drank too much wine.  My day was mostly boring.  I went to my lady doctor appointment and I like my new non Planned Parenthood doctor.  No offense to planned parenthood I'm just over thirty, have insurance and hate waiting for two hours to even be seen.   I worked and then came home and finally gave up on internet arguing.  I am just not cut out for people that like to argue for arguments sake.  That's it for me, thanks.  Jody came over and we watched some Project Runway but mostly we just drank a lot of wine, as in two and half bottles. Go us.  So now I am off to bed without extra paragraphs. Good thing today's dress is sort of boring.  Word. 

day nine.

Day Nine 9/6/2009

Dress: Red Cotton

Purchased From: Old Navy

Year or Era Purchased: Spring 2009

Price: $15.99

Accessories: squirrel ring, giant forming pimple chin

Hair and Makeup: two buns, curly bangs

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael with an I haven't seen that dress but he actually has.

Day: Today's dress is a win for me. I saw this same dress in a different fabric and pattern at Old Navy while shopping with Rica. It was $30 and I didn't really want to spend that much on a dress. Surely by now, day nine, you realize I am exceptionally cheap, or thrifty if you're being nice about it. About a month later I decided to check if the dress was on sale. Turns out it was and I also saw today's red cotton version of the dress. I scored two dresses for $32.99. Patience really is a virtue. I paired today's dress with one of my squirrel rings, this one a present from Rica from Art Star. It's the same style as the pirate ship ring but a bit more dainty. My blue nail polish is also still going strong.

I had some trouble with the pictures today too since I woke up with the beginnings of a giant shiny horrid chin pimple. I am trying desperately not to touch it. I decided to wear a bear mask for some of the photos but thought that wouldn't be totally fair so there are maskless photos as well. The background is my office area, where I write this blog every single day.

Today was one of those weird days where time seemed to fly by. We woke up at a pretty reasonable time and I spent way too many hours uploading old photos to Facebook. I got it in my head that I needed a folder of friend pictures so I started going through most of my 24,571 photos flagging good friend pictures. I probably still have a few thousand to go through but I gave up for now. I finally dragged myself out of my sweats and into a dress so I could go to aka with Steve so we could get tickets for forgetters at the barbary as they are the new band of Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil fame. We got the last eight tickets they had. Score. I then spent the next few hours in a hellish Target and Walmart debacle searching for tubes or other floating devices to use for another tubing trip tomorrow. I finally found rafts and snow tubes at Walmart. I hate the South Philly Walmart. It might be the trashiest place on Earth but at least they had the goods I needed and mostly on clearance to boot. I then met Sue, Jake and Michael at the Memphis Taproom for drinks. I was totally bitchy and dumb but settled down after a glass of pinot noir and a few bites of heirloom tomato and mozzarella salad with a lovely pesto. Now I'm back in my sweats and I'm going to crawl into bed and watch the last disc of Tell Me You Love Me, which will be bittersweet since the show got cancelled.