August 21-31 Outfits

8/21

It seems like I only wore my nursing tank one time out of all the days but I actually wore different nursing tanks more. I left the house in them too.

8/26

This shirt was a little tight. I didn't even try to pull it up to nurse or I would have stretched it out so I just took it off and wore the cami that is under it.

8/27

8/28

8/31

Well this has been the worst I've been with pictures. Some days I even wore 2 different outfits and I got no pictures. It looks like I've worn the same shorts everyday again but one day that I didn't get a picture I wore my black shorts that are too high cut.  Another day I wore a dress.

3.30

Shirt: NY&Co, Pants: F21, Shoes: Famous Footwear, Flip Flops: Lady Footlocker (I think. In 2003), Necklace: Limited, Earrings: Target

I slept in.  Dave made me get dressed to go to Trader Joe's to buy some food.  While shopping, I got weak and lightheaded.  We bought ingredients for Falafel pitas or something. Dave made it for me. He claimed if I saw him making it that I wouldn't eat it.

I had to rest and watch TV.   Dave and I watched Suits.

We went to Justin's to play games.  We had dinner at 7 PM then played Bang. We ended up staying until about 11:30 PM. That's pretty late especially for Dave.  Dave spent so much time not wanting to go and then he ended up having fun.

Dave had to wind down after getting home so we were both up watching TV until 12:30 or so. Then I watched TV myself until about 4.

3.1

Shirt: NY&Co, Jeans: VS, Shoes: Famous Footwear, Necklace: Target 

I woke up and watched some TV. (Poly slept at my feet while I was in bed. She sure loves afghans.) I did some things at my computer.  I ate toast for lunch. I had 7 slices. Two were with cinnamon and sugar butter, 1 was with butter, and the rest were with butter and grape jelly.

Then I walked to Big 5 Sporting Goods to exchange my goggles. I didn't get the same brand/style this time. I got more expensive ones.  Then I walked to Sprouts.  I bought a few things but decided to walk to Target to get my inhaler prescription. On my way to Target, a former coworker called so I ended up standing in the lobby of Target for 10 minutes to talk.  I got my inhaler prescription and it cost $45. Without insurance it would be $48.  In Pittsburgh with Westinghouse insurance it was $28.  If I saw my asthma doctor, I would get a free sample. Maybe next time I will call one of the other 3+ pharmacies within walking distance and see what the cost would be. $45 is far too expensive especially since I'll use less than half of it before it expires.

After I got home, I went for a swim at my apartment complex pool.  Man did that suck. I got out twice to email people to complain about it so it took a long time. After I got home, I did some research on if they have swimming programs like the couch to 5k. Well they had some that said they start at 0 and they were all too hard in week 1. I emailed myself some links and figured I'd look later. [I never did.]

I talked Dave into letting us have breakfast foods for dinner. I made pancakes, bacon, and toast. I didn't eat any of the bacon. I also burnt the bacon.

We watched some TV and hung out. When Dave went to sleep, I went in with Poly and she was sure hamming it up. Sometimes I think she knows something is up and she tries to be all cute to get us to stay with her. She was so cute wanting to hug both my and Dave's arm.

Then I watched some TV. I ended up staying up until 4 watching TV though. Oops.

I used to have my necklaces on a bulletin board. Then I ordered a ton of Lia Sophia stuff when I hosted a party so I put those boxes in the top drawer of my dresser.  I also had a jewelry box for earrings and some thinner necklaces.  Then for my birthday, I got one of those dresses to hold jewelry.  I thought I'd take some pictures.  One side of the dress holds earrings. Some earrings are still in my jewelry box.  The other side holds necklaces.  I still have a necklaces on my bulletin board too since that is out in my bedroom versus in the closet.  How do you store your jewelry?

10.27

Shirt: NY&Co, Jeans: F21, Shoes: Aldo, Necklace: Lia Sophia, Earrings: Target (I think)

I slept in. At one point Dave invited Dave into bed with me and we slept together. He was up for a few hours before I got up.  I got dressed as soon as I woke up. I haven't done that in months.

We went to Olive Garden, 2 malls, and DXL.  We didn't buy anything. I was looking for shoes. Dave was looking for a jacket and jeans.  We were gone from the house for over 6 hours. Oh we did quickly go to Safeway on our way home.  At one of the malls we went to the train was different than I'd ever seen. It didn't have a track and just went around the entire floor of the mall. I wanted to buy light wheat bread but the only light wheat cost 4.99 for a loaf. Seems a little crazy. Does your grocery store have a selection of light wheat? Is it reasonably priced?

I wore cute shoes and got a blister on my bunion and then the skin wore off before I got out a bandaid. I had other shoes in the car so after the first mall I changed into my boat shoes.

I watched TV, had tuna for dinner, and watched more TV. I did a little programming and laundry in there but I fell asleep during the programming lecture and I had to do the load of laundry twice because Dave had a chocolate mint in his pocket and that got all over the clothes.

8.11

Shirt: NY&Co, Shorts: AE
It wasn't until 3/4 of the way through the day that I realized I was wearing my running shoes and not normal shoes.

My days are all blending today. I can't believe I haven't been working for almost 2.5 months or that I've been in California for almost 2 months.

We gave Poly a bath today.  She did not like it. At least the tub has the shower doors versus a curtain rod.  She mainly stood in the corner and I dumped water on her and scrubbed her up there.

Dave and I went out to lunch. I finally mailed in my garmin. It'll probably be 2 weeks before I get a replacement. They have to receive mine then mail a refurbished one.  I had mine ready to go for a few days but never went to the Post Office.

We went to Pot Sticker King for lunch.  We were the only white people in the place.  All the table settings just had chopsticks on the tables but when the waitress brought us our appetizer plates, she brought us forks.  I looked around and none of the other tables had forks. I'm so glad she gave us them.  I got some sort of chicken and it was spicy. The vegetables that came with it were even worse though. I about died when I ate the carrots.

We went to Whole Foods on our way home.   We only bought maybe 1/3 of the shopping list.  We had to go there for the ground meat.

We carried our patio table upstairs. We still have to put it together. I wonder how to do that. My dad put it together the first time and the driver took it apart when we moved.

I snacked and watched the season finale of Unforgettable.  Then I went to read and about 3 pages into it, I fell asleep. I was sitting up in the chair too. I woke up and still had my finger pointed to right where I left off.

Dave woke me up to cook the meatballs. We did that. They didn't turn out as well as last time. They were quite airy. I'm not sure what happened there.  They also lacked some flavor.  They were still better than any meatballs we had around here. (well besides the ones at BJs but those are mini and those aren't in a red sauce.)

We watched Master Chef then Newsroom.  Dave went to sleep and I started reading my SQL book. I was doing some of the examples from the last chapter since I was reading in the other room and didn't do them. I also took facebook, gmail, and internet reading breaks.   Around 3 AM I figured I better go to sleep or I'd end up continuing the cycle of nap, stay up late, wake up a normal time, repeat.

5.29

Cardigan & Skirt: Express
Shirt: NY&Co
Shoes: Mudd from Kohl's

All of a sudden there was a huge hail storm at work. I took pictures after it and I missed all the good stuff. It was a fun time.

After work I was leaving to go walk at North Park with Jen and realized I forgot to take my daily picture.  I hurried up and set the timer on my camera and took it. I had the camera on top of the cube wall. I am pretty sure people saw me.  Carpooling with Dave and having my camera put away made it so I didn't take my picture in the morning.

Jen and I walked 5 miles. Then we went to dinner.

I cleaned or watched TV or used the computer or all of those after.

4.24

I swear in person the shoes and the shirt are the same shade.
Shoes and Earrings: Target
Pants: VS
Shirt and Cardigan: NY&Co.
Belt: Kohl's
I started the day by hitting snooze for 45 minutes.

Almost everyday I block time off on my calendar to work on certain projects and almost every time I do this, I do not work on the project in that time slot so I have to move the slot. Well today I went to go move one of my time slots and I realized I actually did what it said to do. That sure felt nice.  This was around 10am and it didn't happen the rest of the day.

The heels on my shoes kept getting looser and it was hard to walk w/o my heel flopping out of my shoe. Too bad I had a lot of walking to do.

I worked a little late then headed to the gym. I ran on a treadmill beside Jen.  She ran walked 3.1 miles so she now has a baseline for a time for the 5k and just needs to keep getting better.

I got home and Dave made Quesadillas for dinner. I said I needed more food but watched TV and played Solitaire instead.  Next thing I know it was bed time.  I didn't even get any computer time in.

Outfits

I have 2 skirts that I don't really know what to wear with them.  My mom helped me match some stuff back on October 1 and that's all I know.  I have realized in the morning, I can't tell what is what shade and so I won't test out a new combination.  The lack of natural light is awful.

I tested out some stuff.  It started not being bright enough outside and the lack of flash resulted in some poor quality photos. So some of these outfits looked better in person.  Do you ever try on a bunch of stuff just to figure out what outfits will work or do you wait until you get dressed in the morning?

My mom told me that purple didn't go with this skirt but I like it.  The purple tights are new as of yesterday.

The first time I wore it.

The brown shirt with the ruffles is a shirt I've owned for 5 or 6 years and never wore it. I think it matches but I figure if I didn't wear the shirt in all this time maybe I shouldn't wear it.

I thought the light purple shirt went but not with tights. It'd be more in the summer. It made the pink it the skirt look more purple.

The one long sleeve brown sweater seemed to work. The other one was too loose and too long that it didn't look right.

I think the teal cowl neck looks good but my mom specifically said my teal (same shade) turtle neck didn't go with this.

The blazer doesn't work at all. The socks + tights also doesn't work at all.

I have one sweater to wear with this but can't seem to figure out how to wear it with the skirt in the winter. I've worn the shirt with a black shirt underneath but I'd need a different color to go with this skirt.

I put the outfits in the order I liked them.  It is hard to tell in the photos but in some I have on purple tights and in some I have on brown tights.

The first time I wore it.

Here is the 2nd skirt. This one I did have a few more things to go with it because my mom suggested more. I didn't have the purple shirt in the pictures at the time and never thought of wearing it. I love it.

The first time I wore this skirt I wore it with black and black shoes and thought it went. In the pictures, it doesn't seem to go as much.  I would have been wearing this with black all the time, but my mom said to wear it with brown.

The brown sweater doesn't work.

I still have the cardigan I wore with it the first time, but since I knew that went, I didn't waste my time trying things on.

I need to figure out what else to wear with this too.  I wore it on February 2 with something my mom picked out.

Both of these skirts are slightly big now but knowing how I fluctuate and need things in multiple sizes lying around I'm not too concerned.

I got these new brown pants from VS. I've worn them a few times with pink, but am never too sure what to wear with them.  Would these 4 shirts work?  The only one I'm not sure of is the purple sleeveless one. I think it is too bright to go but Dave said it wasn't.

12.17 - Birthday Dinner, Shoup's Party

Outfit 1 = Workout clothes
Tank: Kohl's

Outfit 2
Shirt & Cardigan: NY&Co
Belt: Kohl's (the belt sure had a lot longer of a tail that I'm used to when I belt it)
Jeans: Express
Shoes: Famous Footwear

Lunch

The plan was wake up early and go to the gym. We had a plan for all kinds of stuff.  The hotel internet was so bad, that our plans were totally messed up.  The wired internet would work but not the wireless. Well it worked but was at a crawl that it took a year to load anything.  Dave tried to run internet sharing from my work laptop but it wouldn't work because the laptop sucks.  We tried to buy a flash drive to run linux and get that working.  By we I mean Dave did the figuring and I took a nap.

Then we went to the Apple store to buy the adapter so an ethernet cord can be plugged into a usb port.  The mall was so packed.  I dropped Dave off at the door and then tried to find a parking spot.  That took about 10 minutes. There were cops directing traffic.  Going to the mall the last Saturday before Christmas is never good.
I thought we didn't even need to buy anything because we'd be socializing with family and friends and was it worth the money.   I thought of buying a wireless router but didn't tell Dave.  Later he said that was a good idea.  Ugh.

We took too long for all of this so we didn't have time to go to the gym.

We went out to dinner for Dave's dad's birthday then hung out, did Christmas presents, put ornaments on the tree, and watched some TV.  After that we went to Shoup's party.  It was awesome seeing everyone. Shreve didn't tell them we were coming so it was quite a surprise.  I took pictures but most of them are blurry.  My new camera is far too slow. I missed so many great shots.  Also drunk people don't stay still so action shots end up all blurry.  My old camera didn't end up blurry either. Ethan wore mistletoe and wanted kisses from everyone; Dave wouldn't give him a kiss though.

11.7

Skirt: F21

Cardigan and Shirt: NY&Co

Shoes: Mudd

Belt: Kohl's

Necklace: Lia Sophia

I woke up early and got to work fairly early. I felt extremely busy all day.

I went for a walk with Dave at lunch but we cut it short because his ankles were bothering him.

I had my gym bag at work to go to Body Pump at work or at Steph's gym.  Well I didn't go to either.  My foot was still bothering me when I wore my athletic shoes. My calves were still hurting a little. I figured I guess I should rest on rest day (even though I also rested 2 days ago).

My new remote came so I tried it out.

I came home and ate dinner. I watched Once Upon a Time and Whitney. Then I finished prepping for my Stampin' Up Class while watching Dancing with the stars. Cutting all the paper for the one card took too long. I kept making mistakes.  8 pieces of cardstock is too many for a card. Having 3 have dimensions that end in 3/8 and 1/8 was also difficult. Oh I should have picked simpler cards. It ended up taking me 3 hours to cut supplies for 1 card and plan one card (and the idea was already in my head) and then cut the supplies for that card.

Since I was already up until 11, I figured why not crop some pictures and type some blog posts since I felt behind.  I took a break and did some crunches. Poly wasn't haven't any parts of that.

9.22

Shirt and Cardigan: NY&Co
Skirt: Express
Shoes: Mudd (but forget which store.)
Necklace: Sears
Belt: Target

The belt is pink. The shirt is purple.  The necklace is both pink and purple. The colors don't look the best in the photo but I swear they really did seem like they went.  I've only had this shirt a few weeks but I'm not thinking I like it as much as I did when I bought it.

Dave was still sick.  I was bored with just trying to figure out what to eat for one person so I picked up Siba on the way home.  I got lasagna. It wasn't as good as eating it there.   I watched TV all evening.  Most of the shows are starting back up and I finally had a lot of TV to watch. Since I haven't had a lot lately, I felt like watching a few hours straight was a good move.

9.8.11 - YPE Event

I chose my outfit around my new shirt. Then after I was wearing it, I realized my very similar new shirt was just worn the most recent time I was at work. I wonder if anyone notices. Nobody probably does and they are the same style but different colors and so I guess if I buy similar items like that, I might end up wearing them close together.

Shirt: NY&Co (9.5.11 - $16.17)
Cardigan: NY&Co (11.7.10 - $19.84)
Belt: Kohl's (Spring 2011)
Skirt: Express (August 2009)
Shoes: Hot Cakes via The Shoe Dept (2005)

The only non outfit photos from the day are from after I got home at 1:30 AM. That's what happens when I actually do something and have a life.

I went to work and had about 6 hours of meetings in my 9 hour work day. I always wonder how I am supposed to get work done between all the meetings.

Then after work I headed to the Nuclear focused Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) event.  I helped the planning a lot with this but other people did more. This was third quarterly event. The previous one had about half the people show up who actually RSVPed so I was a little worried.  Well the event was a success. We had a full room (Over 110 people). Lots of people talked about how great the presentations were and how great the panelists were. The panel was really good. They interacted with each other so that helped.

So then the thing was since I helped plan the agenda when all the emails came out with it, I never realized there was an After Event. I did not help plan that.

Event Schedule:

   5:30 Doors open for Networking and Cocktails

   6:00 Dinner is Served

   6:15 Brief Overview of How a Nuclear Power Plant Works

   6:30 Keynote Address Begins

   7:00 Panel Discussion and Questions

   7:45 Networking Time

   8:00 Event Ends and After Event Begins (Sponsored by Turn Right Tools)

Prior to the dinner, everyone that came up to me to talk to me, I actually recognized and knew their name. I must be getting better. Usually I know about half the names. Then after the event, it actually took me until 8:45 to leave the hotel because of all the networking going on there.  The After Event was at Echo. I had never been there. It was fancy. It was nice. With so many people there it was hard to find the people I knew. This forced me to meet new people which was great (and scary).  Later I learned that during this time, Troy Polamalu was there eating dinner with his wife. I totally missed it. I was too busy talking.  Around 11, I see my friend there. I can't believe she was there the entire time. She said there were times she even waved to me. Oh boy, I need to work on observing what is around me while I talk to people I guess.

So I ended up leaving at 1:15 or so. I was out very late for a work night. A lot of the people that were out that late, did not have to work the following day. I met some new people and even got some business cards to help my memory. What I did after I got their card and was done talking to them was grab a pen and jot down some notes on the back of the card about them and our conversation. That has helped me in the past when I have done it.

Some highlights from the night

1. Person 1 introducing me to Person 2 as "This is Colleen. She blogs. Sometimes if I want to know what she wore the day before I check out her blog."  The person I was introduced to got all excited that I have a blog. I went on to tell her how it is boring and that I couldn't believe Person 1 even goes to it.  There was some blog talk and I was rather impressed that someone actually goes to my blog. At one point my blog was described as impressive. 
2. Less than 15 minutes after meeting someone and mid conversation yet Person A asks Person B "Are you gay?" and then that made for some awkward conversation.
3. Being mentioned by a presenter, who is an exec at Westinghouse, about my involvement with NA-YGN and all the time that I put in. He mentioned one other person too.  I was surprised he even knew my name or who I was.
4. Getting to talk to the three panelists after the event to tell them what a wonderful job they did and how I was glad they could take the time out of their day to come to the event.
5. Multiple people gave me goodbye hugs and most of them weren't awkward. (I often say how I'm an awkward hugger.)  But some people just gave goodbye hugs to others and when they got to me they asked if they could hug me. So perhaps my awkward hug fear was showing.
6. I got a compliment on my necklace.
7. I got a compliment on my shirt. Then I even got asked where I bought it. 
8. Two different people asked for my blog address and said they would look at it. (I already know at least one went to it.)

Some random information

1. The food was amazing and I wish I got more of it. Since I was helping with different things, my food got a little cold before I got to eat it and it was still great.
2. I drank water all evening even though drinks were covered as part of the event.  Then a few people ask me why I wasn't drinking and if I ever drink. (I do drink. Not often. I don't like beer or wine which is all that was covered at the actual event. By the time I went to the after event, it was crowded and I didn't figure out how drinks were working and I didn't know how long I'd say. I won't drink close to a time when I have to drive home.)
3. I already forget the names of some of the people I met but other people I know were there too. I may have to ask around to figure it out so next time I see them I will know their name.  I hate how I remember many facts about the person and much of the discussion but then don't remember the name. 

9.5

I woke up with the intention of running but I checked the radar and it wasn't looking good for running if I didn't want to run in the rain.  So I putzed around and over an hour later still no rain! Boy was I mad. Then I used the exercise bike for 50 minutes, did abs and stretching and then used the bike again. My total workout was 1:27. Too bad I didn't go for an additional 3 minutes to make it an even 90 minutes!  Poly rested on the bed the first time I was on the bike, but once I started doing abs, she was all up in my grill. She likes to go under my torso when I'm doing planks. 

Then I went outside to do some yard work and just as I stepped outside, it started raining. Well I put some mulch down anyway.   I figured I was all sweaty from using the exercise bike so then the rain would be alright.  Then I showered.

Then it was lunch time and short TV time with Dave. I fell asleep through the last 5 minutes of Kitchen Nightmares UK (on Netflix).  Just when it was over, Jen and I were texting about going shopping. She was already at Kohl's. I better put on makeup and hurry to get there but Poly had come to my lap just as I was waking up from my nap and boy was she cute so it took me a few minutes to finally make her get off of me. 

At Kohl's, I found 1 shirt and Jen found 3 shirts and 1 pair of pants.
Then we went to the mall. After 3 hours at the mall, I only found 2 more shirts and they were the same shirt in different colors.  It was very disappointing. I tried so hard. I wish I found more things.  I haven't been shopping in months so I thought I'd see more things I liked.  I tried really hard to buy patterns but failed. Why are patterns just so ugly? Or why are the clothes in the nice patterns always out of my size? 

1st and 2nd shirt: NY&Co. Originally 26.95 - 40% off. Paid $16.17
3rd: Kohl's. Originally 48. 35% off then 15% off - Paid $26.52
Total spending: $58.86

I need to figure the belt out. I couldn't tie it at the store because it had a tie through it so that the belt wouldn't end up missing.

Loft, Express, Nickel via Famous Footwear

After the mall, I tried to get dinner. I got to Panera at 7:05 and they closed at 7. Then I went to Arby's and they were closed.  So I just went home and we made a frozen pizza.  We watched a little TV, then I watched TV.  Now I'm all caught up on Big Brother. I watched the episodes from when I was in Colorado even though I already saw what happened next since I've been back for awhile.