3rd 30 for 30 complete

I like a lot of these outfits and also don't like some of these outfits.
I didn't really learn anything different in this 30 for 30 versus the last ones. I still had trouble remember what outfits I already wore. This time I had more trouble than last time because the jeans I chose only worked with 1 pair of choose I chose.  Layering creates endless possibilities.

I love doing the challenge and like only using 6" of closet versus all 10 feet but then I miss all my clothes. I feel like I miss entire seasons wearing certain clothes. I missed out on sweaters this winter. I missed out on sleeveless or short sleeve tanks in the summer. But it also makes me appreciate clothes that fit me better. I wear the ones I like more often because they fit better. I should purge the stuff that every time I wear it I hate something about how it looks or feels. I never actually purge though because I hate to get rid of things.  I should categorize my closet better or something.

I'm really excited to do this Color Rotation Challenge (you can still join) and I may keep going until I'm out of things I want to wear. I plan to reevaluate my outfits and clothes along the way to see if I should get rid of anything or how much I should get rid of.

Even though I want to purge, I want to buy too. I have been wanting print skirts for awhile. I got the floral one worn above and it was my favorite. I actually wore it 2nd most for bottoms. I also want bright colored skirts. I'd love purple, pink, and red.  I want 2 patterned skirts.  I better get to shopping.
I need new black pumps to wear with skirts. Mine are so close to being done that I didn't even put them in my 30 for 30.  It seems that I can buy so many shoes that last forever except the black ones that I buy; they only seem to last 1 season.

I really like how my ensembles with belts look except I remember being unsure about them when I wore them. I especially like how I went out of my comfort zone for outfit 10.

1, 2, 5, and 26 were my favorites. I knew I started out with a bang.  What is your favorite?

I'm disappointed the khaki skirt was only worn once. I had so many combinations for it, but it needs to be ironed.  The same goes for the pink button down and the white/purple button down.  The pink/red one too except I wore that one twice without washing it an thus w/o ironing it.  My white button down does not need to be ironed and look I wore it 5 times.

I'm also disappointed the dress only made it into the rotation once. I almost wore it on day 15 or so but my brown shoes were too tight and I thought I'd swap out the dress for other brown shoes, but then I didn't want to cheat so I just wore the brown shoes 1 more time and suffered with my feet hurting.

I have decided that I will not participate in the 30 for 30 challenge the next time around.  Last time around I decided the same thing though.

You can kind of tell I got my haircut between days 26 and 27. I still have yet to make the post about the haircut but will eventually.

Winter Edition 30 for 30 - 21 through 30

30 for 30 complete
1 through 10 Summary and 11 through 20 have already been documented. Now it is time for the last third.

22.5 is a half number because I screwed up and wore the same combination twice.

27.5 is a half number because it was the same day as 27 but with fewer layers.

What outfit is your favorite? What is your least favorite and what would you do differently to improve on it?

My favorite days are 21 and 26.  22 would have been up there if I wore my red heels to make that even better.

My least favorite is Day 29. I don't like the black + brown. If it wasn't 30 for 30 time, I would have worn my taller black shoes or worn different jeans to wear any black shoes I have.

I felt like this challenge dragged on the most. I think because of my jean/shoe height dilemma and also because I picked too many things that needed to be ironed and I didn't want to iron them so then my choices decreased drastically.

Don't forgot to sign up for the Color Rotation Challenge to be starting soon.

Winter Edition 30 for 30 11 through 20 Summary

Two-thirds of the way through this bad boy.
See the first third here.

16.5 doesn't get it's own number because those are the wrong jeans but were the jeans that were on my bedroom floor when I got dressed in a flash.
2b is included because that is how I was the 2nd half of the day on Day 2 so I figured I'd capture it.

What outfit is your favorite?  What is your least favorite and what would you do differently to improve on it?


My favorite is Day 14 but I would have worn my red heels to make that even better. (2b is also a favorite but that was more from the first third)

My least favorite is Day 12.  I should have left it unbuttoned more and belted it... maybe. Or perhaps not tucked in the cami; it is the same cami as day 17.

Since I did not include my Nickel shoes (that look like boots under your pants), my boots are number 1 by far.
I still didn't wear my dress. I even have 3-4 combinations that I could do with it.
I'm pretty much out of combinations for my jeans because the shoes are limiting and then the shirt has to match the brown boots.

Does anyone else feel like this challenge is taking forever or is it just because I'm a week behind on my posting that it feels like it is never ending?


Don't forgot to sign up for the Color Rotation Challenge to be starting soon.

Day 14 - Valentine's Day

I wore red and purple. The purple should have been bright or the red less bright but oh well.  Do you like red and purple together? Why or why not?
Shoes: Famous Footwear
Shirt: NY&Co
Belt: Target
Skirt: Express
Necklace: Sears
Purse: Target
Jacket: NY&Co.

I have been wearing the coat and the purse all week. I don't even like red and purple together and then my purse/coat went and matched my outfit.

So does anyone else look like their ankles/legs are caving in on their arches in pictures when they wear flats?  I didn't put the worst ones that I took. Above isn't so bad but this is almost 100% natural. I was trying to stand straight so I was trying to correct how I stand. I should do some research as to why people have flat feet. I want to know how to make me not look stupid in flats. I never realized why I hated how I looked in flats so much until this past week when I wore them a few times a took a lot of pictures.

I used a color wheel again.

I skipped the gym and went to Target with my husband. Then we went to Lone Star. Dave got steak. I got chicken.

This was my third loaf of bread yum.

I decided since it was a holiday that I could listen to the training plan and have Monday be a rest day. Sunday was supposed to be 10 miles and I ran 5 but I still listened to the rest day part.

30 for 30 Winter Edition: Day 12 (February 12) - Happy Birthday

Boots: VS

Jeans: Indi

Cami: Express

Cardigan: B Moss

Necklace: Lia Sophia

Earrings: Target (put on right after the photos)

Belt: Target

At first Dave was standing uphill from me and taking the pictures. I knew they would turn out crazy so then I swapped positions with him. Just look at the difference.  Most of the time  his eight difference is enough to ruin the pictures.  I quickly threw this on about 5 minutes before leaving the house to go to a birthday party.

I had an extensive to do list. Of course I barely got to any of it. I also watched some TV. Poly was on my lap and super cute so I couldn't get up and be productive. She didn't want me to.

Dave took a nap and I took his picture. This reminds me of college. He never naps anymore so I never get any good pictures.

While Dave was napping, Poly thought she should rest in her bag.

While doing laundry, I looked outside and saw our recycle bin in the street.  They never picked up recycling and ours is always so full.  I went out and picked it up. I left it outside because all the neighbors still had theirs up.

I folded some laundry and then looked outside again and it was blown over again.  This time I didn't go pick it up.

The next thing I know, the neighbor, Art, is picking up our recycle bin and putting the cardboard back in it that had blown out.

Then it was off to Jason's birthday party. I didn't think Dave would go because he never wants to go anywhere. Plus he has been busy and we only got the invite for this party 2 days earlier and I actually didn't even learn what place the party was at until that morning. Talk about last minute! And another thing, I only learned about the party 4th hand. I just want to say that I think that is rude. If I'm invited and you want a gift out of me, at least tell me yourself. Don't have your mother tell my father who tells my mother who tells me. Then have to have my family talk to your mother again because all the information wasn't even provided. The "kids" went to Chuck E Cheeses prior to this party. My mom heard people talking about that at the Super Bowl Party yet nobody told them then about a party after. Can you tell I'm a little angry here.  I remember when I was in 5th grade, they invited us to my cousin's birthday party on a Thursday and his party was on that Friday. And the party was 1 month before his birthday. Yes I remember this. I freak out when I don't give people two full weeks notice about something.  Also when I had a party, I called my cousin myself to invite him (and he told me he and his family would come and they did not.)  The time after that I had a party and I told my cousin about it in person. Then I tried to confirm with his wife via facebook and she ignored me... yet you could tell she was on because she had farmville updates or whatever those games are that people update about.  I couldn't find out if they were coming until the day before. (Having 11 or 14 matters to me with how much food I wanted to buy/needed to buy.)  OK I'm done with my rant.

Anyway, Jason turned three.

 He got a fishing rod aka a weapon he was swinging around.

I don't know who that other kid is but he did run by me a lot hitting me in the arm with his little wrestler toy saying it was biting me. I barely saw Jason at all.  We left around 9:00 PM because we like to go to sleep and we had an hour+ drive home.  Well apparently even though the entire time Jason was there, he didn't care about me at all, that once I left, he kept asking for me.  Figures.

While I was occupying myself at the party, I saw some roses so I took some pictures.  I also took off the sticker that my aunt still had on their new TV. It was one of those stickers at the bottom that tells you some of the features.

After we got home, Dave and I started watching the Flex DVD they gave us. It was silly and described extremely basic things so then I fell asleep.

I missed my workout for the day. :(

30 for 30 Winter Edition 1 through 10 Summary

I often make summary posts during my competitions (Summer edition, Fall edition) so this time is no different.

Here I am 1/3 of the way through the competition and I am not finding it hard. The hardest part always hits after day 10 when I have to think if I wore the outfit yet or not. I also can't wear certain things too close to each other or people might be on to me.  I am most proud of outfits 1, 2, and 10.  What outfit is your favorite?  Do you have any combinations you want to see in the next 20 days? You can pick from any of my 30 items. 

Here is what my graph looked like after the first 5 days. It is too early to try to analyze that data. 

Here it is after 10 days. The only surprising thing is that I wore my black boots 4 times. But that is not really surprising since I removed all other black shoes from the mix. As I was trying to look at the data above it was too hard to analyze so I updated to the following graph.

Just based on this data, I think I will wear my red flats tomorrow and wear my white/purple button down shirt. I will go with the purple/red combo that I usually don't even like.  I also need to wear the black and white dress so I can wear it once and then wear it a 2nd time before the end of the competition.

I'm already running out of what I can wear with my jeans since these particular jeans can only be worn with my brown boots. The other shoes don't have a high enough heel.

Update: I should have a 1 for item 10 and a 0 for item 0. That's what I get for not thoroughly self-checking my work

30 for 30 Winter Edition: Day 9 (February 10)

I did not get dressed on February 9 so no outfit for my 30 for 30.
I worked. I watched TV. I hung out with Poly. I COOKED DINNER. I went to sleep at 11 even though I meant to go to sleep early.
That was my February 9.

Cardigan: Target
Shirt: Express (years ago when their shirts washed and dried perfectly without having to be ironed)
Skirt: Ann Taylor Loft
Tights: Target
Boots: VS
Watch: Valentine's Day Gift
Necklace and Earrings

I went to the gym at lunch and then wore my hair down after my shower.

What didn't work:

• My chest appears to have disappeared in this outfit.
• My normal slip is MIA so I wore a different one that is longer. I had to be careful all day that my slip didn't stick out of my skirt.
• My watch needs some links removed

What worked:

• I still love the button down under a cardigan look.
• Lack of normal makeup still looked OK.

Here I am on the plasma screen at work

It was hard to time it right and not have people talking to me. I missed my picture the first time through because someone came over and talked to me. Immediately after this picture, someone else came to talk to me. 

At the gym I ran 2 miles and then lifted weights. My total workout duration was 55 minutes. On the last thing that I did, I kind of blacked out a little. I guess it was time to stop.

I worked until 7pm. What fun. Then I got Chick-fil-a on the way home.  I only got fries. I then ate leftover tuna noodle casserole.

How Dave and Poly greeted me when I got home.

"OK I've had enough. Let's turn this thing off."