Silk shirt, fancy earrings
Today is a good day.
At one pm I hand over my duties as Norris Woman's Club Recording Secretary to Kathy at our June board meeting. I don't even have to take notes, just look benign and smug (see photo below for how I look smug) and not actually do anything--maybe I will doodle in my notebook.
Poor Kathy will have to write very fast.
I thought about giving her my monkey pen, but it was a present, and the monkey's hair jiggles when I write, which is fun.
I finish up my last board meeting at three, and then I am going to Knoxville to shop for a fancy bag that will go with my new silk top! Which I have photographed myself in below.
First, it's a Chico's top, 100% silk, but I never darken the doors of Chico's because they are very expensive and I fear the clerk will sneer at me (something tentative in my face, no doubt, something unsure and not arrogant enough). Instead, I go to the Repeat Boutique, and sometimes (as this week) I find Chico bargains at huge discounts! This top was $18!
I've decided to wear only fancy clothes from now on. Assuming I can get them on sale.
The only downside is if I don't get all the Repeat Boutique tags off. They have little stickers on the backs of labels, and at least once I had a label flutter to the floor during choir practice.
That's the other good thing about today: choir practice! With a guest conductor, as we're working on huge anthems for a bishop's installation this month. One piece is a jaw-aching 7 minutes long!
So I dressed up. The earrings, I must explain, are the fanciest I own, a gift from Tara on Mother's Day, with pearls for Nathaniel's birthstone and diamond's for Isaac's April birthday. The necklace, which I received from her the year Michael was adopted into the family, is sterling silver and says "Grandmother" in Korean (which, by the way, also translates to mean "harmony").
A good day. Oh, and I have all Kathy's Recording Secretary papers neat and tidy and ready for her, everything clipped together with color-coordinated purple and pink clips.
I have also polished my nails with Pearl Dawn nail polish ("A rainbow in Every Bottle").
Grandmother necklace
The necklace says "Grandmother" in Korean in honor of Michael, and the earrings (necklace and earrings were gifts for Mother's Day) have pearls and diamonds in honor of Nathaniel's and Isaac's birthstones.
At one pm I hand over my duties as Norris Woman's Club Recording Secretary to Kathy at our June board meeting. I don't even have to take notes, just look benign and smug (see photo below for how I look smug) and not actually do anything--maybe I will doodle in my notebook.
Poor Kathy will have to write very fast.
I thought about giving her my monkey pen, but it was a present, and the monkey's hair jiggles when I write, which is fun.
I finish up my last board meeting at three, and then I am going to Knoxville to shop for a fancy bag that will go with my new silk top! Which I have photographed myself in below.
First, it's a Chico's top, 100% silk, but I never darken the doors of Chico's because they are very expensive and I fear the clerk will sneer at me (something tentative in my face, no doubt, something unsure and not arrogant enough). Instead, I go to the Repeat Boutique, and sometimes (as this week) I find Chico bargains at huge discounts! This top was $18!
I've decided to wear only fancy clothes from now on. Assuming I can get them on sale.
The only downside is if I don't get all the Repeat Boutique tags off. They have little stickers on the backs of labels, and at least once I had a label flutter to the floor during choir practice.
That's the other good thing about today: choir practice! With a guest conductor, as we're working on huge anthems for a bishop's installation this month. One piece is a jaw-aching 7 minutes long!
So I dressed up. The earrings, I must explain, are the fanciest I own, a gift from Tara on Mother's Day, with pearls for Nathaniel's birthstone and diamond's for Isaac's April birthday. The necklace, which I received from her the year Michael was adopted into the family, is sterling silver and says "Grandmother" in Korean (which, by the way, also translates to mean "harmony").
A good day. Oh, and I have all Kathy's Recording Secretary papers neat and tidy and ready for her, everything clipped together with color-coordinated purple and pink clips.
I have also polished my nails with Pearl Dawn nail polish ("A rainbow in Every Bottle").
Grandmother necklace
The necklace says "Grandmother" in Korean in honor of Michael, and the earrings (necklace and earrings were gifts for Mother's Day) have pearls and diamonds in honor of Nathaniel's and Isaac's birthstones.