3.19

Shoes: Zappos, Skirt: F21, Shirt: Express, Necklace: Target 

My alarms started going off at 8:30. At 10:30, I woke up. Not only did I have 4 alarms set and hit snooze on a few but I was afraid I actually turned them all off so I kept setting my timer on my phone for 10 minutes or 20 minutes and each time that went off, I reset it.

I ran an awful 6 mile run.  I sat in front of a fan. I showered.

I went to Google to take Dave his belt and eat lunch. I get there and realize I forgot his belt. He had to walk holding his pants up.  I had salad and french fries at Google. I wanted a hot dog but they didn't have any.  The salad was good but I put too much dressing. If we weren't outside, I would have gone back to the salad bar and gotten more lettuce to mix in.

After I got home, I took my daily picture and Poly sneaked out the door. Then she started following some fuzz that was blowing. She got 5 ft from the door even with my yelling at her. Sigh. Poly never walked outside when we lived in Valencia.

I did some crafting. Or perhaps you should say I made a huge mess of our office with craft supplies everywhere.

I had leftover Spaghetti and salad for dinner.  We watched some TV.

Yellow Skinny Jeans

I've had yellow skinny jeans for a little over 6 months and have only worn them a few times. Granted in the summer I wore mostly shorts and they were also too big for awhile.  The outfits to the left are actual outfits I've worn with my skinny jeans.  Well the white tank top outfit is actually just  me trying on new clothes I bought at the store that day.  What outfit is your favorite? Mine is the bottom right with the orange and yellow but with the white cardigan so it's not so orange/yellow.

The trouble I have with my skinny jeans isn't so much what top to wear with them but what shoes. (I mean I still have a little trouble with what shirt to wear but not as bad as when I first got them.)

I tried doing a google image search for some ideas but most of them are impractical. I want to wear shoes with my skinny jeans that I can handle walking to and from Target in. The dressy pumps shown below might not be comfortable enough for that.

Below I tried a few different shirts, some different accessories, and different shoes.  What do you think? Would you wear bright yellow jeans in the fall?  I feel like I should be wearing more fall colors like browns and mustard but the only colorful jeans I have are bright yellow so that's what I'm working with.  

I miss being able to go out on my front porch and leave the camera there while I took some pictures.  Each time I came back in the apartment today I felt odd leaving my camera out in the hallway so I brought it back in half the time.  I was uneasy most of the time. Good thing I took a few pictures with each outfit because I was not smiling in half the pictures.

5.10 - Pink

Shirt: NY&Co (and then taken in on the sides at the hips and in the back to make it fit better)
Skirt: Express
Shoes:  Gabriella Rocha
Necklace: Sears
(I did realize my shoe straps were messed up a few minutes after these pictures and fixed them.)

Dave and I carpooled so we got to work at 7am.
The day flew by. I barely had any meetings. I kept starting new things without finishing my old things.

I was also a little distracted because Dave turned in his letter of resignation. Then he kept giving me updates on how sad everyone was.

After work Dave and I went to North Park to walk.  He wanted to do 5 miles but we only had time for about 4 so we walked and then turned around and walked back instead of doing the loop.  I didn't have my watch since I was going to do Body Pump so I don't know exactly how much we walked. I do know Dave walks 30 minutes just fine and then he complains about his back hurting.  This happens often.

After that we headed to Double Wide. It just opened.  Five of us went for dinner or well we called it Happy Hour.  It was fun. I hate that I can never get people to do that. Now they claim it is fun and they'd do it again but I think that is just because I'm leaving.  Since they just opened, service was super slow. I didn't mind because that kind of forced people to stay there talking. The slower the service was the longer everyone would talk to me. I liked that.  We got there around 6:45 and left around 8:45.  The food was good though. Dave would go back. Oh Dave was also at this dinner. Usually with friends he doesn't go out so they were shocked to see him. They enjoyed it. He's funny and they like that.

We got home and started to watch TV for a little break then we were going to clean. Or that's what I thought anyway. Dave fell asleep around 9 on the couch. I spent some time cleaning and thought I should just go to bed at 10 and not care but then I couldn't bring myself to do that and just kept getting mad.  I cleaned a little and then played Solitaire in bed. Boy was I mad. I emailed Dave about how I was mad so he knew. He was sleeping after all so I couldn't yell at him.

4.23

Shoes: Zappos
Pants:  VS
Shirt: NY&Co
Necklace: Target

Poly was a big talker this morning before work. I couldn't figure out what she wanted until I went downstairs and realized she was hungry. We feed her three wet foods a day or so we think but tend to only give her two. She doesn't tend to ask for more but I guess it was catching up with her.  We don't put all three out at once because she's picky and only wants it when it is fresh.

I worked.

I went to Body Pump.  I wanted to skip but Jen told me not to.

I had Chick-fil-a for dinner. Then I had chips with dip. Then I had jelly beans. I ate for a solid 90 minutes.  I just wanted to relax. I have so much on my to-do list that I'm in shut down mode.  I started reading a book instead of doing everything on my to do list.  I haven't read a book in months.

3.23 - Bad Luck

Shoes: Zappos
Skirt: F21
Shirt and Cardigan: Express
Necklace: Target

I hit snooze so many times that I slept in even for a telecommuting day. I had a dream I left my power cord at work. I never had a dream like that before.  I get home and sure enough I don't have my power cord. I start working anyway.  I unplug Dave's power cord and bring it over and realize it doesn't fit my laptop.

Well that meant I had to go into work.  I was enjoying the fresh air so I worked for about an hour.   I headed into work. I put on a comfortable skirt and no pantyhose. (I put pantyhose in my purse just in case I couldn't take bare legs.)   I got to work and my power cord was not in my cube. I asked a friend to check the conference room I was in at the end of the day on the previous day and it was in there.  That meant I had to walk over to building 1 just to get it.   On my way over about 20 minutes later, my manager walks down my row and comments that he thought I'd be at home.  So then I tell him about my power cord.  What luck. But that discussion did prompt telecommuting policy discussion and my manager is changing the rules because we have a different director and now we can telecommute more.  This is good. I probably won't actually get to work from home more because I always have meetings but at least if I have a week with fewer meetings, I could take advantage of it.

But at least I came into work because when I got there I saw my running shoes on my desk. I left them there the previous day.  I was just leaving things everywhere. I spent 5 min looking at home for my shoes before heading into work so I kind of figured they were there.

Everything I worked on all day, I did was noticing I was doing it wrong. I even filled out a form and put my maiden name for last name even though I've been married 4.5 years.  I really didn't want to work on more things because they'd just end up being done wrong.

I left at 3:30 to go run with Jen. We only ran 2.5 miles because Dave wanted to walk and I was meeting him after. I will have separate posts about the exercise.

We ended up getting Supremo's for dinner. While we were waiting for it to be delivered I realized we still had leftover Pizza Hut so I ate 3 slices of that.  We watched Game Change and went to sleep.  That movie reminded me of so many things from 4 years ago and it was also pretty funny.

Just look at that face! I wonder what I was thinking.

2.24

 

I got to work bright and early so I could leave at 3:30 PM.  That didn't happen. I didn't finish all the work I needed to do too.   Dave and I got Chick Fil A for dinner but I didn't even eat half of it because I was still full from lunch.

For lunch we went to BRGR and on our way out of the restaurant I mentioned to Dave that I'm down to $17/wear on these shoes.  Dave got very confused. He made it out like that's not a normal occurrence.  I still need to wear these a bunch more to feel like I got my money's worth.  I wore them 3 times in February and 2 times in October.

Dave and I watched Dexter. I would watch it all day and night but Dave won't let me.  He already watched it all too but claims I need to watch it in moderation.  It is such a good show.

We watched Rachel Maddow and ended up falling asleep while watching it.  We are happening people falling asleep before 10 on a Friday.

2.16

I wore my pink shoes again. 2nd time in a week.

Traffic was awful on my way to work and I learned it was because a truck hit another truck.  I failed at getting good pictures. I guess what's what happens when you pay attention to the road.

After work I had a Stampin' Up party at Dawn's. It was a fun time. Some new people were there too and they ordered. It's all exciting.

2.13

(The sweater is more of a violet. It looks extra blue in this photo.)  I got 2 compliments on my shoes. I think this is the 3rd time I wore them so now I'm down to just under $30/wear. I need to wear them more!
I was so tired this morning but I also kept hitting snooze until Dave was out of the shower so I wouldn't be waiting around after I woke up. (When I was putting on my knee highs Poly climbed up on my lap. I was basically forced to sit there and pet her for awhile.) I got to work by 7:45.  I was busy with meetings. The day flew by.  My emails went over the size limit and I had to spent over 10 minutes cleaning out emails/archiving the large files just to get it down enough for the emails in my outbox to send.  The limit at work really sucks.  I waste so much time just moving and deleting emails than I should. It's awful.

Today I showed up 12 minutes late to a 30 minute meeting and I got there and feel like I didn't miss a thing.

I also called into a meeting 7 minutes late and still had to wait 9 more minutes for the person to open the call in number.   Meetings are awful but then meetings where the people running them are late are the worst.

I wanted to leave work early. I did not. I left at 5:45.  I got home before Dave because he was working late for once and then he went to the gym.  I got to crop a few pictures while waiting for him. I also got to have my new idea fail and then snag it stopped working the way I thought and any time I'd insert text it'd end up disappearing. I don't get it.  I gave up.

I had Chick-fil-a salad again. It is pretty good.
We watched American Idol, Smash, and then MSNBC.   While watching TV, I was lying down on the chair and a half. Lying down is a little hard on a chair but I make it work.  But then Poly decided to jump up and sleep in my nest.  She was too cute so I suffered with my legs half falling off the edge. I did throw in some laundry to be a little productive.

10.13 - Pink and Blue again

The pink in the necklace and the pink shoes were much more similar color in person than in these pictures.

Necklace: Sears
Cami and shirt: Express
Skirt: F21
Shoes: Zappos

Poly tried to sabotage me and get me to not go to work. Even after I kicked her off of me she was so cute beside me. Then when I picked out my clothes, she went right on top of them. I moved her and took my skirt to put on and before I could grab the shirt she was back on it.

I took veggies and dip into work for Nick to congratulate him on something work related.  We had that instead of cake. It was good stuff.  Then I was off to a meeting.  After my meeting, I had more veggies. Then I went to another meet.  It was an all day thing and we only broke for lunch.

For lunch, Dave and I went to BRGR. I got sliders this time. I liked it much better than the regular burger I got last time.

After lunch, it was back to the meeting until about 4.
Then around 5 I went to the gym. I ran a little, then did the elliptical, then worked on some assisted pull-ups.  Once I got home, I watched TV almost all evening.

10.4 - Work, Run, Bar

Skirt: F21
Shirt: Express
Cardigan: Express
Shoes: Gabriella Rocha Dancy via Zappos
Necklace: Target

I ordered these shoes online. It was scary to decide what to order. They do let you return for free but I hate returning anything so I was debating what shoes I wanted for so long that the other choices ended up selling out of my size.  Pink worked well with wearing pink all month for Breast Cancer Awareness.     Next I need to replace my purple shoes, replacement black shoes, and some other bright color shoes.  I've wanted pink or a colored dress shoe for over a year so it takes me awhile to decide.

Is this skirt sapphire or is it cobalt blue or something else?

I was debating keeping these. I don't return things. The shoes have a leather smell.  I thought that might go away if they aren't in the box.  I wore them all day and think they still had a slight smell to them.  After the day was over I did notice a black scuff mark on the one shoe and some of the leather scuffed/scraped off right near the sole on the inside of the one shoe.  I hope they don't get worse after time too. For $75 they should last me awhile. I don't spend this much on shoes so I hope they last.

Immediately after work I met Jen for a run.  Then loaded my numbers and iced my knee. Poly hung out with me while I was doing this.  I showered then was out the door.  I met some friends at a bar.  Dave didn't want me to leave.  He tried to build up a wall between the bathroom that I was in and the rest of the house so that I couldn't get out.  I didn't let that stop me.

We went to the Bamboo Lounge (or Bamboo Bar) behind North Park Lounge.  I had never been there. I was going to leave at 10 but ended up staying until about 10:45.  What got me to remember to leave was when someone started smoking in the bar. Apparently this bar is one of the very few in the state that you can smoke at. I don't like being around smoke.

By the time I got home, Dave was already asleep. Poly joined me though.  She was exploring on the counter/sink.

My 2nd outfit of the day didn't have pink but I was only wearing it a couple hours.