4.26

I had to wear orange because all volunteers at work for take our children to work day had to wear it.
Shirt: F21
Cardigan: Target
Pants: VS
Shoes: Payless (many years ago)
Belt: Target

I was trying to make me in focus and my background blurry and as you can see I failed.

Poly knows my routine in the morning and she gets on the scale after we get out of bed.  Sometimes she cheats and has some legs on the floor.  I guess she wants the scale to read less.   Some days she steps on the scale when I'm on it. She is too cute.

We were supposed to go to dinner with JD after work but he canceled. Well Dave and I went to Aviva anyway and we both skipped working out.   I had so much delicious meatball appetizer that I ate about a bite of my real meal.

The guy next to me in the parking lot parked wrong.

After we were home, Dave napped.

Later in the evening I started to pack what gear I needed for our photo shoot.  I tried on dresses and emailed them to Jen. Jen did the same with her dresses.  This caused me to pack 4 dresses. Three of which were newly added to the list. The one I thought for sure about taking, I didn't even wear in the photo shoot.

I was up a little late. I wanted to clean and do more things but I never got to it.

8.12

Pants: VS
Shirt: Loft
Necklace: Walmart
Shoes: Payless (2005)

I went to the side of the house because the sun was too bright in the front or the back to get a decent picture.

I tried a few jumping shots and as you can see I failed at them all.

It was so hot in the morning that I got sweat marks on my shirt just went I was outside taking my daily picture.

After work, my necklace came. It matched. I wore it for the rest of the day.

I ran in the morning. It was really rough to get there at 6am. Then I worked. Then I got home, got my necklace, and immediately left again.  Dave and I went to a musical. We got downtown early and we went to dinner. We didn't know where to go but ended up at Six Penn.
We got free tickets to go see Jesus Christ Superstar. I hated it. I couldn't understand anything they were saying. I actually fell asleep in the 2nd half.  I probably shouldn't have gone but we were given 25 tickets and I wanted all of them to get used.  With leaving the day after, I should have taken the time to do stuff around the house and pack and stuff. Can't do anything about that now.

Do you ever go to plays or musicals that you end up hating?

7.19

Shirt and pants: VS
Shoes: Payless (more than 6 years ago)
Necklace: Gifted

Poly hung out with me before work. I was looking for any excuse to sleep in since I stayed up late.

I was at work late. Dave tried to get me to come home enticing me to be able to see what the patio looked like. It still took me forever to leave work. I had a chicken quesadilla, a cheese quesadilla, and Pizza Hut for dinner.

Poly hung out with us before bed too.  At the last second I decided I needed to get a workout in so I did 15 minutes on the exercise bike and then did an ab workout.

I came home to patio.

4.25

Pants: VS $44, 2009.  These pants are awful. They are stiff and look huge. They don't photograph well.  I have awesome VS pants and cool VS pants and I never know what I'm ordering. The descriptions aren't good enough on the website. Also all my VS pants are $36 inseam yet these had to be hemmed 1.5 inches.
Shirt and Cardigan: Kohl's - March 18, 2011 $25 and $12
Necklace: Kohl's, $16, 2009

This shirt has a size zipper but it is a little big and I don't need to unzip it. They didn't have a smaller size and since it is flowy I figured a larger size is OK.

I tried to take pictures with my legs apart like so many other style bloggers. They didn't turn out too bad. I mean the pants still look awful. These pants were freshly ironed and you can't tell at all.

I don't like these cardigans anymore. I didn't realize how bad they look unbuttoned. I need to see how they wash to find out if I'm really disappointed though.

Poly was cute before work. She didn't even bother my clothes.  I was tired and got to work a little later than normal.  I functioned surprisingly well at work for being so tired.

I stayed up too late.


I'm so behind on posting I linked this up with an outfit from a few weeks ago. Sorry.

Day 30 - March 10

I thought today was my first day done with the 30 for 30 but at the last second I realized it was actually day 30.  At least I realized before it was too late. The last outfit was nowhere near as good as my first.  Now that I'm done, I can also start creating recap posts.

Pants: Express

Shoes: Famous Footwear

Cami: Costco

Cardigan: Target

Earrings: Kohl's

I need to buy non-reinforced toe knee highs. The reinforced part never stays in my shoe. Today it was pretty bad.

There is something about this cardigan. Every time I wear it, my chest looks nonexistent.

Today I wore my brown shoes again. I have been saying they are too tight and I am right. I need new brown shoes now. I definitely can't make it through another day wearing them.

The rain today wasn't so fun.

I ran at lunch and lifted weights. I only lifted for my legs. I ran 1 mile (8:17), lifted, then ran 1 mile (8:47). The last mile was rough after all the leg lifting.  I was ready to go a little further but also kind of not. All the treadmills were full so I was bad at handling the pressure. I had stopped the treadmill and someone asked me if I was done with it. I was going to pause, drink some water, and start up again but I just told him I was done. I can't handle the pressure.
50 minutes of working out = 2 hours away from my desk today.  My triceps are sore. The only thing I did in the past few days was pilates.
I was able to incorporate a workout at lunch because Dave was telecommuting so I did not have the pressure of having to eat lunch with him or him claiming that I'm ditching him. He wants me to be at work the same hours as him even though he won't work a second over 9 hours and he knows I try to workout daily. I don't get it. But he wants to have dinner together and lunch together and still wants me to get my workouts in. It's all just too much.

I went to McD's for dinner. It sucked.  The fries were OK but I ate 1 of my 5 chicken selects and threw the rest away.

I got home to watch the rest of  The Event, House, and American Idol.

Day 15 - February 15

I went with an outfit I have worn a lot before. Well a white shirt and these pants has been worn numerous times. (Look how different the pants look with and without a flash.)
Shirt and Pants: Express
Shoes: Famous Footwear
Necklace: Lia Sophia

In the morning, I woke up to learn that I was cuddling with Poly. This was the middle of the night. I kind of fell asleep in the middle of trying to take pictures of her. Some of the pictures ended up of my nightstand.  She was cute so I thought I had to take a picture.  She likes me. She cuddles up against me, on me, or between my legs most nights.

I woke up early to to go Body Pump. When I was leaving Body Pump, I saw the car that has been around work for years. Sorry my picture is not good. Someone was coming and I didn't want them to catch me taking a picture. I was caught and it was even someone I knew.  That's a penguin and a little Stanley Cup right there. I wonder what people think when they see it going down the road.

After work we made stir fry. This time we ate it with pasta instead of just having the veggies and chicken. I liked it without the pasta better.   Then it was time for TV. Poly runs over as soon as Dave lays down on the couch.

 

February 11 - Outfits 10 and 11 - Pittsburgh YGN Skate Party

Tights: We Love Colors - Hunter Green (The same ones Ashley wore too)

Skirt: NY&Co.

Sweater: Express

Belt: Target

Shoes: Famous Footwear

Necklace: Charlotte Russe

I was very impressed with my outfit. It was the first time I tried the belted sweater.  I also consulted my color wheel. I almost wore my Navy tights with my green shirt and wasn't sure about it. I went to the color wheel and would you look at that. Plus the necklace is the Sage Shadow color (plus another color but we will ignore that.) (I consulted the old color coach because my new one is still downstairs from the Stampin' Up Class I had on Monday.)

I also bought Maroon and Navy Blue tights.

I get to work thinking how I'm going to get such a great workout in after work. Then I realized I was wrong because it was the NA-YGN Skate Party. I didn't have a change of clothes either. Oi. Then I thought about it and thought that I also wore this sweater to the skate party last year. Now I know nobody would remember, but I did wear it.  Then I proceeded to tell everyone all day about how I wore this to the skate party last year.  Then I looked it up and I also wore it to the BFKS event for NA-YGN last year.  In addition to all that, I went about 10 months without wearing this sweater at all.

Well the car is in so we can pick it up... aka buy it.  This also puts a damper on my plans. We also need the title from home. We can't get it on Saturday because of the car show.
So at lunch we go home, get the title, and get me some jeans and shoes to change into. I was rushed so I didn't grab a different shirt. We went to Pizza Hut buffet on our way back to work.

I changed at work before leaving

Jeans: Indi

Shoes: VS Boots

We quickly go to pick up the car but you can't buy a car and trade in your old one quickly.
A few notes on the car:

• It is a Ford Flex
• It is ugly
• It is some shade of red with a white roof
• It has a lot of fancy upgrades
• We had to settle with ugly to get a car with enough head room for my husband. 
• My husband made a spreadsheet with head room and other features on a ton of cars. Ford has the best head room.
• Westinghouse employees get a good discount at Ford and we didn't even know this at first.
• Leather interior
• Navigation
• Cooler in the middle row console
• Seats 6
• The headlights are so very bright.

Then we were off to the skate party. Dave was actually going to go. He did not plan to go but decided that he might go when we were at lunch.

I wish I had my better lens to get pictures while people were skating. They are mostly blurry or weird, that's why I put them into a collage.
At least the weather was a lot nicer this year than last year.

How did you spend your Friday?

30 for 30 Winter Edition: Day 3 (February 3)

Sweater and Pants: Express
Shoes: Famous Footwear
Necklace: F21

These are the pants that used to be too big.
My outfits are going downhill.

I was going to wear my boots under these pants but they looked way too short then. These shoes only made the pants look a little short. The snow depth helped them not look so short in these pictures and also I choose the best angles so they didn't look short.

I got compliments on my necklace today.
I also confessed that I use the Stampin' Up Color Coach to match my clothes.

I'm too old. I can't handle socializing 4 evenings in a row. I'm dead tired.
I demonstrated for another Stampin' Up party tonight. Two people cancelled today but I think it was actually less stressful without everyone.  I sold a lot of my retired stuff at a discount. Go me.  I also had a few orders placed. Of course the time people make their orders on the spot is the time that I don't bring paper order forms with me. People usually use the excel file order form I have. We all like that it adds for us.

I ran 3 miles on the treadmill today. I went right after I ate lunch.  Not the best time but I didn't want to go 4 days in a row without exercising.  I need to lift tomorrow or next week I'll be really sore when I go back.