So! Over the past couple of days, work has been a little slow. But I got to spend awhile reading fashion magazines-specifically, September fashion magazines, which forecast “what’s in” for more or less the next year. Here are my observations from Harper’s Bazaar (my coworker’s) and Vogue (mine). (I tried to read Glamour, too, but my coworker had ( Read more... )

Things I have accomplished:

• Bridesmaid dress for Hannah's wedding (on Saturday, wtf) picked up from alterations
• Purchased shoes to wear with said bridesmaid dress
• Bought clear mascara for Hannah, because
  
  • she will never wear regular mascara, because
  • she has naturally long and dark eyelashes, and

Things accomplished today:

• woke up
• got out of bed
• dragged a comb across my head coffee
• mail
• coffee

Random thoughts of the past few days:

- It's a funny thing when your Spring Break includes you shoveling snow. And by "you," I mean "me." Obviously.

- It's still so, so easy to work myself up into a panic. It shouldn't be this easy.

- I've recently remembered that this past fall was not the first time my anxiety manifested itself in illness. I'm ( Read more... )

I just bought, like, the most kick-ass pair of boots ever. They're black, with a thickish sole and a three- or four-inch mid-sized heel, come to just below the knees and have a buckle at the ankle ( Read more... )

Apparently, my grandfather (my mom's dad), after he was finished shedding tears for the passing of the Pope, realized that the Pope had been a few month shy of turning 85. My grandfather is about a month shy of turning 87, living on his own since Grandma died five years ago, and now has decided to sell his house and move down to Philadelphia. ( Read more... )

I love how I wore a shimmery cotton candy pink scarf with a cranberry shirt today and it worked. Such things make me happy.

However...

All you women out there with a size six shoe size or up? I hate you. Hate you.Do you know how hard it is to find shoes in a size five? Of course you don't. Let me tell you - it's hard. Finding five-and-a-half's ( Read more... )

Oh. My. Gosh. Belly dancing was SO much fun today. There were only like seven people there, and Ari (Addi? Ariadne, whatever...) and Kristi left early. Kristi! You missed it! We actually did a little of the choreography for the Shakira song (even though Roberto went and lost the CD, so we didn't have the music ( Read more... )

Today was an interesting day, so far as clothing compliments were concerned. Some people wanted to steal my darling stiletto boots (and/or striped stockings) right off my feet. Other people were scared by them ( Read more... )