this year my holiday wish list is pretty basic.  i'm not in need/want of anything extravagant.  my wants are quite simple ( Read more... )

wow.  another month of fall gone.  why doesn't summer go this quickly?

only two more episodes left of dexter, for this season, and gossip girl for, well, ever.  it doesn't seem like all that long ago they were just starting.  is this what it feels like to get older?  time starts going faster and faster, a mass blur of events?  weird ( Read more... )

a little later than usual this year.  a few of these things are reaches, but it is a wish list, right?  right.

2007/ 2008/ 2009/ 2010/ 2011

j.crew collection cashmere herringbone sweater, dusk pink
j.crew shrunken shirt in dot oxford, all colors ;)
toms grey dot women's classics
see by chloe t-strap, grey
burberry sparrow graphic fitted shirt
anthropologie ( Read more... )

andy's birthday was last thursday and it was nice.  we went to lunch at fogo de chao.  i love their pão de queijo, which is a bread andy's mother also makes.  it tastes just like a cheez-it (seriously).  hopefully i can find tapioca flour and make it.  he opened his presents and we ate the oreo brownies i made and watched a lot of episodes of ( Read more... )

i unexpectedly had another longer-than-usual weekend as a cold/infection has been making it's way through our office.  i went home feeling bad friday afternoon, didn't go in on monday, and went home early yesterday.  only today am i starting to feel better.  i didn't take any of my medicines, either, because though they mask my cough they make me ( Read more... )

my black friday/cyber monday haul was... very small.  ha.  i ordered a couple of things the wednesday before thanksgiving with ae's 40% off (jeans and a belt for andy) and the beginning of the j.crew 25% off (pajamas for both of us).  then i sat out.  i didn't even go shopping on friday.  well, we went to the mall at about 7pm to pick up some ( Read more... )

this weekend seemed two football games long.  i am fine and well with football games until the third hour.  by that time, i don't care who wins i just want it to be over.  i suppose this makes me a bad sports fan.  luckily, i never claimed to be a good one so i'm not damaging any credibility i might have unknowingly obtained.

before & after the ( Read more... )

1. i located and purchased the outfit from anthropologie in my last post and have boxed it for christmas.  i cannot believe in the sweater i took a medium!  actually, that isn't the first sweater i've purchased this fall in a medium.  in 2006 i was not a medium... i am seeing vanity sizing first hand.

2. i am loving a lot of the stuff from boden for ( Read more... )

we're preparing early this year (just a few things left to buy) for the holidays.  around this time i usually make a wishlist and share it.  it never gets any less fun (even though it sometimes gets pretty unrealistic).  ;)

2007/ 2008/ 2009/ 2010

2011 wishlist:
kate spade wool martingale sweater, light heather grey
kate spade 2012 wall calendar
j.crew ( Read more... )

the caylpso dress and shirt came... the dress did not fit at all.  the shirt was okay, but i decided it wasn't me and returned them both.  now i know!

i am determined to have fun this summer.
the last few summers i've been pretty against the entire season.  it gets so hot... and i can feel the kids mocking me from their slumbers as i drive to work ( Read more... )