day three hundred hundred sixty-one.

 

Day Three Hundred Sixty-one Wednesday  8/25/10

Dress:  Green Cotton Pinup inspired Dress

Purchased From:  Circle Thrift

Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2010

Price: $5

Accessories:  Brown knee socks, bird/swirl pattern boots, leopard print cardigan
Hair and Makeup: Two buns and bangs twisted and pulled back, usual makeup with green eyeshadow, yellow and clear sunglasses

Comments/Compliments/Complaints:  Some dude asked (from a moving van) if I needed any help "walking those dogs" when I was walking two large dogs.  

This dress is actually longer than knee length, but I wanted to wear boots since the weather was so delicious so I pinned it up on both sides to change the length and shape of it a bit.  I dig the boob area of this dress quite a bit, it's flattering for the larger chested ladies.  Man alive it was awesome to wear knee highs, boots and a cardigan.  I wish it could always be seventy-something degrees.  

Wednesday was a pretty good day.  I spent the morning dorking out on the computer, got ready and headed out to work.  After work I hung out with Sue and Lemon and we took a trip to Whole Foods.  My friend Kristin had mentioned she'd eaten an avocado, bacon and tomato sandwich the night before so I was craving one something fierce, veggie though, of course.  Sue and I had a nice shopping time and Lemon dug the sites and sounds of a bustling Whole Foods, cute.  I came home and made avocado, veggie turkey and bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches on 12 seed sourdough.  DELICIOUS! Michael and I watched Louie and then I watched Whip It.  Cute, but it was more of a coming of age story with some derby peppered in.  

Oh and this little lady (NOT the fat one, he's mine) needs a home so if you're interested leave me a comment! I'll make a serious flyer for her very soon.  She's wicked sweet! 

day three hundred hundred fifty-seven.

Day Three Hundred Fifty-seven Saturday 8/21/10

Dress:  Gold long sleeveless dress

Purchased From:  Morgantown Goodwill

Year or Era Purchased: Fall 2005

Price: $3-5

Accessories:  Blue sandals
Hair and Makeup: Down and curled but as usual these days it got gross and tangly, usual makeup

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: A woman asked if I had been in a wedding, to which I replied, "No, I just felt like being fancy."  My Mom remembered that it was a dress I bought when we were thrift shopping/a Halloween costume, and she liked my sandals.  Also when I was leaving a cat job on Saturday evening two older men told me to be careful, in a nice way.  It was sort of funny.  They had no idea I was just going home. 

I like to think of this as my Golden Girls dress since it actually came with another long sleeveless vest type thing that you see the ladies of the Golden Girls rocking.  I originally bought it and wore it for the Trojan Horse costume we built. I added some gold ribbon trim and I think cut off some sleeveage but I honestly can't remember. I've been dreading wearing this dress because it's a little odd, in a bad way, for my usual tastes.  It was great for the costume but I also had a sweet hairpiece and lots of other people in costume to look dorky with.  Plus I was something like twenty pounds tinier.  Ugh.  Oh well I have pictures.  

Sorry for the walk down memory lane.  It was necessary.   That's why I've kept the dress all these years.  The Trojan Horse halloween year was by far my favorite.  Nothing will top it.  

Ok, back to present day.  Michael and I woke up early and got ready and headed to the burbs to spend the day with my Mom for her birthday, which was Thursday the 19th.   Everything prevented us from leaving the house- a kitten, the coffee maker overflowing, etc.  We got there and gave her cupcakes and presents and then headed out for some thrift store shopping and yard sales, followed by lunch at the White Horse Tavern, where we all got cheese hoagies. Yum.  I was the only one who scored big in the shopping department.  I got four dresses (for $16.25, three of them vintage), a vintage aqua pitcher, a vintage log planter and a cat paint by numbers set.  Nice.  When we left lunch we saw this: 

Because my parents live near Lancaster County and people apparently drive their tractors to the tavern.  Amazing. 

Michael got grey thread and my Mom got a little cottage planter.  We had quite a lovely day.  On the way back to the city we dropped off a wheelchair at my sister-in-laws and then made a quick coffee pit stop.  Once home I headed out to do a few jobs and then Michael, Steve and I watched lots of television, including some of the new Kids in the Hall Death Comes to Town episodes while Steve snuggled with Soda.  She's a cutie.  Seriously- adopt her! 

day three hundred hundred fifty.

Day Three Hundred Fifty Saturday 8/14/10

Dress:  Pink Cat Rose T-shirt Dres

Purchased From:  Atlantic City Boardwalk T-shirt Shop

Year or Era Purchased: Summer 2010
Price: $7.99

Accessories:  Black flats
Hair and Makeup: Usual makeup with some blue eyeshadow, down and curled a bit

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Michael, Jody and Mike commented on my dress- mostly with stuff like "oh my god" 

So yeah.  I wore this dress because Jody and I had big plans to go see Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore.  Yes, we are both thirty-two years old and enjoy talking animal movies.  Shut it.  I bought this dress in Atlantic City a few weeks ago.  I guess it's really a super duper oversized t-shirt but this morning I got my sewing machine out and altered it a bit to make it more "cute dress" friendly.  I just flipped it inside out, pinned it and then sewed along both sides to take it in.  I don't really suggest doing this as it didn't work super well and made some weird side/hip pleats.  I tucked the bottom up into the top a bit and threw two safety pins into it for maximum tuckage.  That probably doesn't make any sense.  Whatever, I was wearing a fucking Atlantic City cat/rose t-shirt dress so why would you expect me to make any sense?  Exactly.   Jody came over and we made rum cocktails for the movie.  We were going to make gin cocktails of the Pink Pussycat (pineapple juice, cherry brandy and gin) and Salty Dogs (with gin, salt and grapefruit juice to be festive), but instead we made up our own drink, The Kitty Galore.

The Kitty Galore: 

Mix equal parts Key Lime Rum and Coconut Rum 

Top with Fresh Squeezed Orange juice (or from concentrate if you're poor), pineapple juice and grapefruit juice.  

Shake and pour or put it in travel containers and take it to the movie theater if you want to be super awesome. 

We got to the theater and Jody decided to make our drinks into a drinking game- drink every time they say kitty galore in the movie, which is kind of a lot.  I didn't make the drinks super strong so we were fine, happy and full of vitamin c.  The movie was actually pretty funny.  We laughed a lot, and way more than the four children in the theater. Sorry to their parents.  After the movie Jody went with me to a cat job, which wasn't nearly as exciting since the cat doesn't talk.  We headed to Kraftwork for lunch and beers with our boys.  It was nice and I had a cherry beer by Founder's.  I came home and totally took a really long nap because day drinking is not so much for me I guess.  I woke up late and with a headache.  I ate a sandwich, watched Jennifer's Body, which fucking ruled, and now I guess I'll attempt some homework.  I kind of want to take a bath. Decisions, decisions.  

Oh, and here's Ipacac getting down with his kitty blunt.  He's not into revenge, just lovin. 

day three hundred hundred thirty-four.

Day Three Hundred Thirty-four Thursday 7/29/10

Dress:  Red Vintage Striped Dress

Purchased From:  Circle Thrift Clothing Swap

Year or Era Purchased: Spring 2010
Price: $FREE

Accessories:  new hat, some black boots, brown belt

Hair and Makeup:  Low pigtails and a hat, usual makeup and I think I had some 

Comments/Compliments/Complaints: Hmm, I think I got a compliment on the dress, definitely the hat from my friend Gert.  

I got this dress at the clothing swap and it fell below my knees.  It looked matronly and ugly so I decided to chop it off and make it fall mid-thigh.  That didn't work out too well since the cut was wicked choppy and it looked like something out of the Flintstones.  Since Michael taught me to use my sewing machine I pulled out that bad boy and hemmed the bottom.  Unfortunately, when I originally chopped at the dress like a cavewoman I didn't allow extra fabric for a hem so it ended up insanely short.  I rocked it anyway, despite the fact that I then ruined the dress a bit more by severing the hemline when I tried to rid the dress of the excess fabric that reached over the hemline. Woe is me.  I safety pinned that bitch.  I bought this hat on Wednesday at Target, on clearance for $7.48. I was shopping for camping supplies and decided it was a must-have based on the advice from my friend Rica to wear a hat when canoeing.  

I had a million things to do on Thursday since our canoe trip was to begin at 6:30 am on Friday.  I had to work, go to Whole Foods for more food supplies, Essene for vegetarian marshmallows, get tequila, go to school and take a midterm, pack, etc., etc.  I was actually on time and starting my day right.  I did my first job, letting out a slew of dogs at my friend Kelly's house.  I finished and attempted to continue working only to be smashed into by a Silverado while crossing Frankford Ave with a full green light.  That put a real wrench in my plans for the day.  I remember seeing him from the corner of my eye and my first thought was I don't have time for this, I have too much to do today. That's probably not the best thought to have right before a car accident.  I need to rethink this invincibility feeling I've got going on.  The dickhead didn't have his license or information on him and when I yelled at him something mean like "What's wrong with you, why wouldn't you stop at a fucking red light?" He said the sun was in his eyes and he thought he had a green.  His story changed after the cop arrived when he  straight lied and said he had a green light.  Ass.  He didn't have his info when the cop arrived but his cop wife showed up with it shortly after and spoke to the cop on the scene. Shady, shady.  I was still listed as the first person, the car hit, on the accident report and luckily my friend Gert saw the whole thing since she was exiting her grooming salon to throw out some garbage.  Had I known the asshat was going to lie I could have collected at least five other witnesses.  Ugh.  

We had to wait hours for the whole thing to be resolved and for the Element to be towed to the shop.  The accident occurred at 12:50 and I didn't leave the scene until 3.  Dumb. Michael drove me around to the jobs I didn't cancel and then we went to Whole Foods.  I had to nix the rest of my errands and my head started to pound like crazy.  I didn't go to class and missed my midterm.  Dumb.  I used to the time to get rid of my headache and then pack for canoeing.  We didn't get to our friend Orsborn's house until close to midnight and our wake up time was 6 am.  No good.  Michael broke his Iphone screen as soon as we got there and we were all tired and cranky.  I'd barely eaten so we stopped at Wawa and I had a disgusting bagel sandwich, quite possibly the worst I've ever eaten. We finally fell asleep in the hottest fucking apartment on the most uncomfortable, so not for two people, couch and got a good three hours of sleep.  Stupid day.