day two hundred sixty-one.

Day Two Hundred Sixty-one Sunday 5/16/10 

Dress:  Yellow Sun Dress

Purchased From:  Thrift Fair

Year or Era Purchased: Spring 2010
Price: $4.95
Accessories: White and Green striped gym socks, blue cardigan, black sneaker boots, bird necklace

Hair and Makeup: Two braids with some down and curled, usual makeup

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael commented on my necklace, he gave it to me. 

I like how easy this dress is.  I had trouble dressing on Sunday, nothing felt or looked right and I even chopped the bottom off of a long slip in an attempt to improve it but instead butchering it.  Oops.  I hope to salvage it somehow in the future.  Anyway I liked the ease of this dress and even though I had planned to save it for a really hot day I had to pull it out early. It also has pockets, yay pockets. 

I spent the day working and searching for bathroom  and bedroom accessories at discount stores. It was a big case of shoulda/coulda/woulda and everything I had seen in the past was now gone, replaced with nothing I needed.  Ugh.  That'll learn me to buy it when I see it. We still need towel hooks and a rack and a shower curtain and some hampers and some tooth brush holders, etc. etc.  We'll get there eventually.  

Anyway so after work Steve, MIchael and I had dinner and drinks at Cantina, which were super yummy.  I had a squash and pumpkin seed quesadilla and Michael had some soy ginger seitan tacos, a little too sweet for me.  After dinner we dropped Steve at home and then Michael and I went to see Iron Man 2.  I quite enjoyed the movie but our movie going experience was once again ruined by the masses.  At least two patrons would not shut the fuck up during the movie and there was a baby crying/talking during a large chunk of the movie.  I think we may have given up on movies from now on unless they're at the Ritz.  

We came home, watched the final episode of The Pacific and retired to bed.  I loved our weekend, despite working a lot and the stupid movie goers.  

day two hundred sixty.

Day Two Hundred Sixty Saturday 5/15/10 

Dress:  Blue Vintage Sporty Dress

Purchased From:  Sazz Vintage Warehouse Sale

Year or Era Purchased: Spring 2010
Price: $10
Accessories:Brown braided belt, brown wedges for some of the day and black flats for the other

Hair and Makeup: Curled with bangs pinned back, usual makeup with bright blue "electric eel" MAC eyeshadow

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: My friend Marissa's Grandmother, Ruth, complimented my dress and when an older lady compliments me when wearing something vintage it just makes glow with joy.  I don't know why. Michael said I looked beautiful.  

This dress sort of reminds me of something a woman would wear to play sports in the 1950s.  It's a sporty fun little dress.  I like brown and blue a lot so I paired it with this thrifted belt and then for a party we attended wore this adorable brown wedge heels I got at a clothing swap from my friend Becky.  They hurt a bit so I only wore them for a few hours.  The rest of the day was stinky black flats for me.  

We finally did it! We moved to our master bedroom.  A few friends made fun of this week for not being up there yet.  It's been ready for weeks but we were both scared to screw it up and mess up the perfection and cleanliness.  All we really needed was a few curtains and one curtain rod to make it livable. So I woke up in the morning on Saturday and headed out to take care of some cats.  After working I went to Ikea and Target for my curtain mission.  I also purchased some new bedding because I kind of have a thing for bedding similar to my thing for dresses.  I opted for a cool comforter from Ikea with the above (and below) orange and white duvet cover.  Heart.  

I got two white with black leaf patterned curtains and one white shorter curtain for the back of the room.  My Mom gave us this sweet tea cart when I saw her last weekend.  I'm not sure what I'm going to use it for yet but it's rad: 

I got home and we worked on moving.  Getting the queen size bed up the stairs was not so much fun.  We put a gouge in the wall that Michael has since fixed.  I made our bed and our cat, Flea, immediately got in it.  Our other cat, Ipacac, was not too happy about the new room situation. I don't know what his deal is but we're working on it.  

After working a bit on our new fabulous room we headed out to the burbs for a PhD graduation party for our friend Marissa.  We hung out with friends, ate yummy foods, including a cupcake cake decorated to look like Starry Night.  I wish I had taken a picture, it ruled.  Michael and I came home and retired to our fabulous new bedroom.  We attempted switching bed sides because he wanted to, I wasn't all about it.  I think we might be switching back asap. 

day two hundred fifty-nine.

Day Two Hundred Fifty-nine Friday 5/14/10 

Dress:  Baby Blue Skirt to Dress Convert

Purchased From:  Express

Year or Era Purchased: 1999 or 2000 (ish)
Price: Uhhhhh $30ish
Accessories: Black cotton belt, grey short-sleeve cardigan, black flats for and dark grey tights for part of the day then no tights, black flats and a white cardigan later in the day

Hair and Makeup: Double buns with bangs pinned back and a flower clip, usual makeup with baby blue "zonk bleu" eyeshadow from MACComments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael made a few comments, one of which questioning if my dress was a bridesmaid dress.  

So yeah, this dress is really a skirt I've owned for quite some time. I bought it with a baby blue sweater material tube top and I can't say I never wore it with fairy wings at some point in my life.  I've since donated the tube top and I don't see myself wearing this again as a skirt or a dress. It will be donated too.  It sort of bugged me all day, I sort of loved it and sort of hated it.   It was also way hotter than I thought it was to be today so my original outfit was modified mid-day when I nixed the tights.  The original sweater (shown) was too thick and despite the short sleeves it was smothering me.  

I spent my day working and had another effing key snafu.  Blargh.  I thought a cat client key I needed was on my ring but instead it was home on my key hook.  I had to come home and get it, something I hate to do, especially during rush hour on a Friday.  Stupid brain, stupid keys, stupid week.   I finally got done work, quite late for a Friday, and Michael and I headed out for a date night since we didn't get to hang out much during the week and I'm starting class three nights a week on Monday.  

We headed to Farmicia for dinner.  It was lovely.  We split a bottle of wine and an appetizer of Fiddlehead Ferns in an herbed butter/white truffle oil sauce. Divine.  So glad these little things were introduced to my palette.  Michael had some veggie tamales and I opted for a mushroom risotto croquette entree.  Both were tasty.  After dinner we walked about a mile to Beau Monde for dessert and cappuccinos.   We then waked back the way we came to the movie theater to see Exit Through the Gift Shop, a fabulous movie.  It was funny, interesting, thought provoking, etc.  We both really enjoyed it.  It was a lovely date night. I came home and caught up on these here blogs and it's now time for beddybye. 

day two hundred fifty-eight.

Day Two Hundred Fifty-eight Thursday 5/13/10 

Dress:  Black Cotton INC sundress 

Purchased From:  Thrift Fair

Year or Era Purchased: Spring 2010
Price: $3.95
Accessories: Mustard yellow cotton cardigan, jeans, black flats, big sunglasses
Hair and Makeup:  Usual makeup, hair brushed and bangs pinned back
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: A construction worker at a building I work in commented "another outfit" since he always comments on my clothes. 

Yeah so this dress was super easy and that's why I picked it.  I just sort of grabbed items off of the floor piles and put them together.  There was no rhyme or reason to this outfit besides comfort.  It made me happy to see the tag in this dress when I bought it.  I get a big kick out of buying expensive clothes for super cheap.  I'm sure this wasn't crazy expensive but I haven't seen much in the INC brand for reasonable Abby style (ewww did I just type that in third person?!?) prices unless they're on the sale rack. 

Ugh. I woke up with the worst headache despite my 3am drunken trip to the kitchen for some mac and cheese, tempeh bacon and mixed greens.  I took some ibuprofen and fell back asleep.  Michael had to drive to Downingtown and took the Element.  Instead of going with him to get Rica's borrowed-for-the-day car I opted to sleep longer and get a ride with our friend Orsborn since he had stayed over.  Of course in my hungover state of mind I completely forgot to get all of my client's keys out of the Element and realized this as I was walking out the door to go work.  I called Michael and started to cry.  I regrouped and realized I could find a way to deal with the issue and starting calling clients and planning to get keys from neighbors, etc.  Luckily I had two keys on my keychain, three of my jobs were in a high rise building where the keys are kept at the desk, one client's neighbor has a spare, I had two cancellations and one of my clients was home.  That left me with one uncompleted job.  I tried to track down the spare key I knew resided at the neighbor's but they weren't home.  Phone calls and texts to the client went unanswered as her phone was off but she totally understood and was super nice about it.  Crisis averted.  I still felt like total ass all day even though I shoved a huge sandwich into my belly and drank lots of juice and water.   In my attempts to feel better I kept stuffing food into myself, which just made me feel worse.  

I came home from working and made a huge pot of Vegan Cream of Mushroom Soup.  I picked up Jody, finally gave her her overdue birthday presents, dropped off Rica's car and then Jody and I walked over to see Lemon and Sue and drop off the soup. We visited for a while and then walked home.  I continued to stuff food into myself, this time  a bowl of soup, a bowl of mac and cheese and some olive bread.  I hurt so bad afterwards that I collapsed into the fetal position on the couch and watched some non-Michael television.  Michael was skating so he missed out on my awesomeness.  I got up the energy to get into bed and kept watching tv shows on Netflix Instant Play, I have one more episode to complete the season/series Conviction of the Law & Order franchise.  See how much I can accomplish with my life! Michael came home and we snuggled.  Had it not been for making soup and baby visiting it would have been the biggest waste of a day. 

day two hundred fifty-seven.

Day Two Hundred Fifty-seven Wednesday 5/12/10 

Dress:  Purplish brown Lace Dress

Purchased From:  Somewhere in a mall, probably the King of Prussia Mall
Year or Era Purchased: 1997-1998 sometime
Price: $30ish (I really have no clue on this)
Accessories: Cool button ring from Marilla1918, brown patterned tights, green hunter wellies
Hair and Makeup: Down and curled a bit, usual makeup with a little extra eye makeup 
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: I believe one of Michael's quotes was "You look like you're going to whore island" but he said it in a nice way, really.  A few dress compliments and Jen said "holy boobs" 

Wednesday was jam packed, which is why it took so long to update for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as I'm doing now.  I think I'm still recovering.   Since I knew we had plans late in the evening to attend goth night at Shampoo I chose one of my dresses from back in the day when I used to do that almost weekly.  I bought this dress at some mall store I think.  I would bet anything I was shopping with Heather when I bought it.  I wish I could remember how much it was and from which store it was purchased but I don't. I have an actual photograph from an actual point and shoot camera that I actually took to a store to have printed of me wearing this dress so you know it's old.  And I suppose that makes me old too. Hrmpf.  Buuut it does still fit and I do still love it so old schmold.   The weather once again called for rain so I wore my galoshes and I think that helped even out this look a little and added a nice contrast.  I did my hair a little fancy, which fell pretty much immediately but once brushed out later in the day it was fine.  Stupid humidity. I also paired it with my new fun ring.  This time I got a picture of it. 

So I spent my day working and then headed to King of Prussia to meet up with one of my oldest friends, Jen.  We met at the Cheesecake Factory to have dinner and catch up.  We've been friends for something like 28 or 29 years.  Again with old.  Ugh.  Anyway we enjoyed dinner and then really enjoyed a split dessert.  We tried to walk off some of the calories through shopping/mall walking but I don't know that we even put a dent in our calorie intake.  I was very good and only bought a new compact at MAC and some new eye shadow primer since I one hundred percent realized I'm allergic to the Urban Decay Primer.  I was shown three non-silicone based primers at Sephora and went with the Kat Von D brand since it was cheapest and the sales guy told me it worked just as good.  So far so good, it's holding the eye makeup up remarkably well and I"m not breaking out into eczema bumps.  Rad. 

Jen and I parted ways and I headed home to meet up with Michael and head to Shampoo to celebrate his cousin Michelle's 30th birthday, and celebrate we did.  I drank and danced my face off and kept repeating "I'm having the most fun."  We left at 2 when Michael pretty much had to drag me out of there.  Parts of the night are a little hazy.  Oops.  There's just something in the air there.  

day two hundred fifty-six.

I don't know what it is about this wolf mask but when I put it on I feel invincible.

Day Two Hundred Fifty-six Tuesday 5/11/10 

Dress:  Long sleeve leopard print dress

Purchased From:  Circle Thrift
Year or Era Purchased: Spring 2010
Price: $5
Accessories: Green tights, green hunter wellies,
Hair and Makeup:  Ends curled and hair down, usual makeup
Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Kristin didn't recognize me because of the dress and her and Rica commented on the leopard print


This dress is so weird.  I like it but it's kind of slutty despite how much it covers and it's a little out of my comfort zone.  I do like the long sleeves.  It has belt loops but was missing a belt when I bought it and I didn't bother with one since I'd be wearing a belted rain coat all night.  




Today so wanted to be as crappy as yesterday.  I woke up with Michael and he drove me to pick up Rica's car so I could borrow it for the day since he had to drive out to Downingtown.  I came home and climbed back into bed, dumb. I woke up again and made coffee, which ended up everywhere since a piece of the filter basket fell off and I put it back on wrong.  Second try was successful.  I got dressed, choosing this long sleeve dress since again it was unseasonably cold for May.  I paired it with tights and my wellies since the weather called for rain.  After a bagel and some tempeh bacon I headed out to work. I realized again I did not have the keys to a the same two clients houses.  Ugh.  Stupid.  I thought they might be in the Element, which was in Downingtown.  Luckily another dogwalker had one of the house's keys and a neighbor had another.  Still, when it rains it pours. 


After work I headed to Kraftwork for beers and dinner with Kristin and Rica. We shared Fiddlehead Ferns sauteed in olive oil.  They were really good!  Rica and I both got the mushroom soup special and she had flatbread while I had fries.  The fries were described as "garlic and herb fries with a mustard aioli"  They were just regular fries and not even really great regular fries.  Oh well.  The soup was so absolutely amazing that Rica and I savored every spoonful.  Kristin opted for a BLTrout and liked hers as well.  It was a really great way to end a crappy day.  Now I'm in bed with my kitties, finally updating days worth of blogs and watching episodes of Conviction on Netflix and waiting for Michael to come home so we snuggle up on the couch and watch Lost.  Tuesdays always redeem themselves.  I really don't know if I'll be able to handle them once Lost is over.  




UPDATE LATER IN THE NIGHT: 
For dinner we all shared a plate of Fiddlehead Ferns. My Mom pointed these out to me on Sunday at Longwood Gardens.  She told me you could eat them.  Lo and behold Kraftwork has them on their specials menu right now.   They are wicked tasty.  We had them sauteed in olive oil with salt and pepper.  I saw them on there on Friday and thought what in the world is a fiddlehead fern?!? I found this cool article on them: Fiddlehead Ferns  Turns out we were eating something dangerous.  


Oh and also the mushroom soup at Kraftwork (a special) is BANGIN.    

day two hundred fifty-five.

Day Two Hundred Fifty-five Monday 5/10/10 

Dress:  Orange Wool Vintage Sheath Dress

Purchased From:  Sazz Vintage Warehouse Sale
Year or Era Purchased: Spring 2010
Price: $5
Accessories:  Navy pattern tights, black t-shirt, green socks, black sneaker boots, black sunglasses, grey cardigan
Hair and Makeup: Low pigtails, usual makeup
Comments/Compliments/Complaints:  I was carrying my black rose bag and a client commented that it looked Chanel


Stupid, stupid day. 


I woke up when Michael was leaving and listened as his bike wouldn't start in the cold.  He was to drive to Downingtown for work but had to take the train, which meant I had to get out of bed and take him to the station.  We were both pretty cranky and our days were both kind of sucky.  I dropped him off and came home and putzed around.  It was cold so I took the opportunity to wear this itchy ass wool dress.  I should've known a bad day would not get better with a crappy outfit but I did it anyway. I wore a black t-shirt and some tights underneath to minimize the itchiness. It sort of worked.  I spent the day working, realized I had left an important two house key chain at home and had to come get it, putting me an hour behind on my jobs.  Ugh.  I finally finished my jobs, took a trip to the grocery store and headed home.  I did some dishes, put away the groceries and then headed out to pick up Michael from the train.  We came home and I tried to take off my stupid itchy dress only to realize the zipper was stuck with my t-shirt deeply rooted in its teeth.  I had to remove everything together and put a hole in the shirt to get the dress off.  I then threw the dress across the room and will indeed throw it in the trash. Stupid dress. 


In order to quash the crappy day I made a huge batch of macaroni and cheese and served it up with veggie chili dogs.  We spent the rest of the night on the couch watching television and sulking over our days with fat gross bellies.  It sort of helped.