November 2012 Outfits

Here are some outfits that didn't get blogged in my daily posts.

November 11, 16, 18

I kept on yoga pants but put on a real shirt. I thought it looked a little better than a t-shirt.

I got dressed to go out to dinner. I had on 2 different animal prints. The shoes are animal print but it's hard to tell.

I wore bright colors.

2.18

The plan was to wake up early and go to the gym and then go to Giant Eagle. We were still home at 10:30 and I was getting mad.  May parents were supposed to visit so I couldn't just delay everything.  We just went to Giant Eagle instead of the gym plus Giant Eagle.

We only bought food for 1 meal and the rest was random stuff and we still spent almost $200.

My parents visited but on their way we met at Applebee's for lunch.  Then once they came over we just hung out in the family room with Poly.  Poly loves company.  She didn't sit on anyone's laps but just slept on her red bag or rested on the ottoman. She still liked it. She wants more company. Too bad people barely ever come to visit her.

As soon as my parents left, we cooked.  We made this pasta dish with hot sausage and green peppers. There was no red sauce involved.  It was very good. But it was very spicy. I can't believe that is what I suggested to make. The pasta had soaked up the hot sausage flavor and that was even hot, but it was still good.  The trick to the recipe was grilling the pasta first before boiling it. That helped it get the hot sausage flavor.  Dave and I both liked it but I still packed up the leftovers to give away.

12.18

Jeans & Shirt: Express
Cardigan: F21
Shoes (not shown): Famous Footwear
I forgot to take my picture until I was halfway into my PJs.

The day started very delayed. We can never get a move on it. We just waste the day away. We went to the gym and I actually ran 2.5 miles. Then I did abs. Running went by pretty quickly since I did intervals. We picked up cheesesteaks for lunch and Wawa. Then it was off to visit Dave's mom. We hung out there for a bit. They really loved our gifts, after that went to Dave's dad's old house to see how they fixed it all up. It was very interesting to see. Then it was off for more family visiting. After a few fore hours we headed to Pat's for a late dinner. Then it was Wawa and back to our hotel. We only bought food at Wawa to eat in the morning before the gym. Otherwise known as the not passing out food. At the hotel, I blogged and then time for bed.

Many things went wrong during the day but the one that makes me the maddest is the belt on my coat getting stuck in the car door and the bucking cracking in a few pieces.

At one point we saw a pickup truck pulling a car. It was crazy. The car was held on with rope and only rope.

Also that picture in the middle isn't of the traffic light but of the leg lamp.

9.6 Red Pants

September 13 is Everybody Everywear day for colored pants.  And well my red pants work perfectly. But the thing is I get a week behing on posting (or more) so I wore these early. 1 week early.

Oh man how I love these pants.  For the past few months I was debating buying a new pair since these were too tight. I held out and now they fit. Yay. I'm so glad I didn't have to buy a new pair because VS is so hit or miss. Twice now they have had the most amazing pants ever and 3 times the pants sucked. The 2 good pairs fit nicely, are washable and dryable, and do not need to be ironed. The other 3 pairs are not like that. If you look at the VS website you can't tell the materials and they don't list washing instructions most of the time.  I wish they had reviews like other sites so I could read what people said about them.

My little baby Poly was hugging my arm.  I couldn't possibly get out of bed. 

Once I did bring myself to get out of bed, my little Poly tried to sabotage by sleeping on my new clothes.

I left work to go to Olive Garden for dinner with Dave.  I saw that they have the never ending pasta bowl so I knew I had to get that. This was the first time I wore my red pants in a long time and the last few times I wore them, they were far too tight, so I preemptive unbuttoned them. They were under my shirt and my cardigan. Nobody could tell while I was sitting anyway. Then I ate all of my food. Dave didn't even eat all of his. I also at at a faster rate than him.  I left the pants unbuttoned and with the shirts over it you couldn't tell at all.  This was the first time I unbuttoned pants before it was necessary. It was a good idea. I could have probably gotten a second bowl but I didn't.  Dave said the guys were eyeing me up when I was leaving Olive Garden. He thought my red pants drew their attention so they had to check me out.

Then it was off to work.  I worked until after 7:30 since I was gone for dinner a bit in there.  Leaving for dinner was great because it broke up the work day.

At 7:30 I went to the gym.

I didn't get home until about 9.  It didn't feel like such a long day because I left work for dinner.  That dinner just had so many benefits.  It also helped me run at the gym.

5.5

Necklace: Sears
Shirt: Express
Cardigan: F21
Pants: NY&Co
Shoes Famous Footwear

Boy do I hate these pants.

Poly was cuddling with me. I was basically forced to stay in bed a little longer. She even repositioned to push against me more.

I ended up getting out of bed on the wrong side of the bed to try to disrupt Poly less. She gave me a look when I ditched her. :(

Then it was time to get ready so Poly wanted to explore the shower.

I got my new orthotics at lunch. I need to phase them in and try to get used to them. I hope I don't have any problems.

After work I really wanted to run but the lawn had to be mowed. It would rain Friday and I leave Saturday so it was the only time to do it. I did not want to do it but being the responsible home owner than I am, I went out to do it. I can't start the mower so Dave had to do it.  The mower stalled on the upper part of the lawn since last time I couldn't get the mower up the hill since it was too wet. Dave had to come out and restart it and he gets mad at me. He gets out of the actual mowing so it made me very angry.  He claims mowing was on my time table. That's crap also.   I emailed my mom asking her to research mowers. We need a key start so I can start it and we need a mower with a longer/higher handle so Dave can use it to mow. I didn't care the price because I am sick of this crap... so sick of it.  It isn't fair that I do all the mowing and then I do all the other yard work. Last year he mowed half the time until the old mower broke but every time he mowed, I would weedwack and pull weeds the entire time. This year when I mow, I have to do all the other yard work after I'm done. Sucks!

So in addition to being so mad about the mowing, I did not get a run in.

5.1

Shirt: Loft
Cardigan: F21
Jeans: Express
Shoes: Famous Footwear
Necklace: Charlotte Russe

Poly hung out on my lap. I did things in the middle and she hung out on my lap again.

I started making a necklace bulletin board because all of my necklaces are starting to get tangled in a drawer. Just need to find a place for this. At the time of my picture, most of my necklaces were still in the drawer. I underestimated how many necklaces I have when I was putting the push pins in.

We made breakfast for a late breakfast.

We went to "yum" for dessert after the mall. At the mall I bought necklaces and Dave bought a laptop case. I bought 8 necklaces and he spent more than me.

March 14

Cardigan: F21

Shirt: Express

Pants: Express

Shoes: Famous Footwear

Necklace: Sears

Jumping plus taking a picture with a timer is hard. I am going to keep trying now until I get it even though I don't even think it'll look good once I get a good one.

This morning when I was about to get dressed I thought how I don't like this cardigan because it is so long and I don't like them over my butt. Then I put on the cardigan and thought how I love it because the sleeves really are long enough. I'm torn between my love/hate relationship with this cardigan. I believe my verdict is love though because I have a major problem with sleeve length.

I did want some other color necklace besides red but I couldn't think of what color.  What color necklace would you wear?

I don't normally like my black pants but I figured I want to try to wear as much as possible in my closet and then evaluate if it should go in the Goodwill pile (or the pile for Goodwill that I'll keep around for 2 months just in case I change my mind).

I woke up pretty sore so I decided I should wear flats.  My back was sore. I wasn't sure how that was sore from running. It might have been sore from how I slept.

It was so hard to wake up today. I hate changing the clocks in the spring.  It was too dark. I was too tired.  I half sat up hitting snooze for a full hour.

My day flew by. Before I knew it, it was 6:30 PM. I meant to leave work at 5:40.

My meeting today did not go as planned. I needed to get powerpoint presentations from 3 different people for my meeting and I got them so last minute that I didn't have time to preview the information. And then the info wasn't good and I feel like we wasted everyone's time.

Then I got back to my desk and it took my computer over an hour to decide to stop hating me. It actually took over 90 minutes to start working. At least it partially worked long enough that I could look up a few people's phones numbers to call them while it was rebooting.  I was still mad about it. My laptop is really awful. I should probably talk to my manager about getting a new one before my lease is up.  My lease is up in June and you start ordering them in May so it really isn't that early.  There are a few options for what laptop to choose at work. I'm not sure what the best option is.

I got home and cooked spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner.  We also watched a lot of the news. Everything in Japan is very troubling.

Color Rotation Challenge starts tomorrow. Don't forget to join in.



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December 14 - Mouse

Shirt: Loft

Cardigan: F21

Necklace: F21

Pants: NY&Co (the pants look shorter than I remember)

Shoes: Famous Footwear

Earrings: Kohl's

Sorry all of these pictures are blurry. I was off center and the camera focused on the house behind me instead of me. I branched out and didn't wear things from my 30 for 30 (except my shoes).

I woke up to go to Body Pump but looked outside and saw that the roads weren't even touched. I have learned from experience, that I should wait until the roads are plowed. So I went back to bed.
I had trouble falling back to sleep. I hate when that happens.  Then I woke up at normal time and checked my email. I had so many blog comments I had to go over to my computer. I'm pretty sure I wasted a good 20 minutes before work replying to comments. I love comments though so I didn't mind. If we didn't have flex time at work, I wouldn't have done it.

I go to my desk at work. It's the first time I was there in over a week. I wasted 30 minutes getting my laptop to boot-up. What a waste.  I go to eat my last cereal bar and...

a mouse beat me to it.  A mouse had been in my food drawer.

I told my manager and asked who to report it to. Then after that someone tells me they already know and set traps.

I can see a trap from my desk

There were traps along the windows. I figure since they already knew about it, I didn't have to complain to anyone, but still, I need to clean out my food drawer now.  I was just too busy.

I did yoga, abs, and ran .5.  I did all that with my makeshift BodyMedia arm band. It survived. I thought I was too out of shape to do Body Combat so I ran/did abs and decided to get home sooner.

Tuesday was my last full day of work for the year.

10.8.10 Shopping Details

On October 8, I went shopping. I told you I may or may not post details on things I bought. Well I think I wore enough that I'll make my post now.

Forever 21: Tights

$6.80

Note: One Size does not fit. Walking was awkward all day because the tights don't make it to my crotch. Also if the skirt was 1/2 inch shorter, you would see that the top of the pattern is right at the length of the skirt I'm wearing above.  I will not buy these again.

Forever 21: Gray Cardigan

$24.50

(Still didn't wash it yet so I'm hoping it goes well.  I wanted to wash it yesterday but it is MIA so I'm not sure when I'll get to wear it next.)

(See how I wore it)

 Sweater dress: H&M
$9.95 (was $19.95 but $10 off dresses)

 Sweater dress: H&M

$9.95 (was $19.95 but $10 off dresses)

didn't wear this yet but almost wore it 11/6

Cardigan: Forever 21

$15.50

(See how I wore it)

I thought this was navy and white at the store and not black and white but it is still wonderful.

Shirt: Macy's (August Silk)

$19.98

Shirt: Macy's (A-Line)

$8.99 (on clearance - originally$29.98)

Skirt: Macy's (Calvin Klein)

$35.40 (Originally 59) - I didn't even know it was on sale until I checked out.

 (See how I wore it - soon to be more but I'm behind on posting.)

This post is late but I think it's more fun to see me in the things instead of taking a picture of them displayed on the floor. It was more difficult to go through all my pictures to find them though.  I've been slowly adding labels for different articles of clothing so you can click on them at the bottom and see how else I wore it.  I need to add more back posts before this becomes beneficial.

Day 20 - Gray (10.20.10)

Day 20 of Color Rotation Challenge = Gray
I didn't get dressed until 4:30 PM but it still counts.
Shirt: Express Baby Doll (2009 or so. I love it. $10)
Cardigan: Forever 21 (10/8/10 - $24.50) - I wore this before but not on Gray day so I was allowed to repeat it.
Pants: Foldover Yoga Pants from VS (January 2009 - $29) - yes I did wear my yoga pants as real pants when people saw me.
Shoes: New Balance from Famous Footwear (10/1/10 - $59.59)

Total: $123.09 (Sometimes I think I shouldn't count shoes in with my total. Shoes are always what makes my outfits seem so expensive.)

My ankle is wrapped, but the pants are long enough to hide it when I'm standing. I win. I love this outfit too. It was so comfortable and casual. Also the cardigan has 2 pockets that are perfect for carrying around my camera and phone.

I was telecommuting so I was able to stay in my PJs until 4:30.  Dave normally telecommutes but he had to go in to take his midterm.  Poly was much more behaved than she normally is when I'm home. I think Dave not being home is what did it.  She usually wants to play. She left me alone though.   She was even resting in her bed for part of the day.

Poly sat on my lap but not until the work day was almost over.

Wednesday I made a roast.  I also had a Stampin' Up Techniques Class.

I'm slowing adding labels to the posts of what clothes I'm wearing but I need to backfill a lot of posts. It'll be fun in the end but I hope it's not too time consuming.