3.22 - Cards

Shirt and pants: Express
Necklace: Kohl's
Shoes: Famous Footwear

I got to work early.  I often think I can get there early so I can get enough work done by a decent hour. It never happens.  I forgot my lunch at home too.

I went to Toastmasters for the third time. My stomach growled the entire time though.

I had meetings and was a little loopy at them. I was just too drained and could barely talk right. Sometimes I'd mix up my words.  At one point someone asked me to repeat what I just said and not only couldn't I repeat what I just said, but I couldn't even remember the topic of conversation.

I finally left work at 5. I should have left at 4:00.  I had to stop at McGuinnis Sisters on the way home to buy snacks for my Stampin' Up party.  I didn't even get to clean the house.  I didn't even have time for dinner.

Cards from class

My Stampin' Up class was to start at 6. The first people showed up at 6:15.  I was stressing.  1 person didn't show.  More stress.

Instruction sheets look like this but with all the cards.

The party was a fun time though.   I was so tired by the end.  Sometimes I just felt too stressed about work that I had issues explaining the techniques we were using.

After the party, I finally had dinner and watched TV with Dave.  It was 10 PM and I had Beefaroni.

10.27

I got to work extra early again so I had to take outfit photos before daylight inside again.
Pants and Sweater: Express
Necklace: Limited
Shoes: Famous Footwear
Earrings: Target

Do my pants look too short and too big to you? They felt both of those things all day.

I wore my hair up and you can't tell anything about it in these photos. I'll have to try harder next time.

I went to work early. I went to run after work.  After the run I was close to KFC so Dave asked me to go pick up dinner from there.  He always wants KFC. I don't really care about it either way.  Well that KFC trip took over an hour. I was so mad waiting in line.  It should have been 16 minutes extra.  I was also in my running gear and my coat was far too hot. I was sweating more after the run than I was during the run.

We watched TV and ate dinner.

Around 10 Dave was already in bed and I was about to go to bed but realized I was in the mood to clean a little. I figured I better capitalize on that because I get in the mood to clean about twice a year.  I cleaned up the main floor. I spent over an hour doing a bunch of stuff.  I thought it all looked nicer.  I only didn't get to organizing the mail that was on the kitchen island.   Then I went to sleep after that.

6.20

Pants: Express (Size 4)
Shirt: NY&Co (Size XS and my arms don't fit it in anymore)
Necklace: Kohl's
Bracelet: NY&Co.
Shoes: Famous Footwear

When I bought these pants I always wore them with white. Since then I have learned that other shirts I have match and kind of forgotten about wearing white, so I made it a point to do it again.

This might have been the first time I wore a bracelet on the same wrist as my watch. I only own a few bracelets and always forget to wear them.  I remembered here but forgot about wearing earrings.

I was about to wake up and Poly came up on me and was purring. I couldn't get up with that so I petted her instead of getting ready for work.

As an after dinner snack, we were going to eat some chips with dip. I looked in the cupboard and there were three partial bags of chips. Two of those were expired.  Our pantry needs to be cleaned out.

5.17 - Poly was cute again

Sweater: Express (2009)
Pants: Express (2008) (I have these same pants in a smaller size but now I'm back to wearing the bigger ones)
Shoes: Famous Footwear (2011)
Necklace: Filene's Basement (2011 - in DC)

The pants are a little short to wear with heels but they are also a little big so it kind of works out. If I pull them up the whole way they look awful with heels but sitting a little lower they are OK.

It was pretty chilly.  It is the middle of May. I shouldn't have to wear a sweater.

Poly tried to sabotage Dave's clothes like she always does with mine.  She didn't know he changed his mind on what to wear and wasn't wearing these.

I packed my leftover tuna salad for lunch and gave Poly the rest of the tuna that I was saving for her.

At work, I broke my long thumbnail. Sad times. It was so long that I got out my measuring tape to measure it. Now who does that? (I bet it's only me. Nobody else is that weird.)

I brought my bags upstairs to pack them up properly. Poly sure knows how to sit on my gym bag when I want to pack it.  Also she found my ponytail holders that are on my key ring.

Day 13 - Green (3.29.11)

I went with my bone shoes since I need replacement brown shoes.
I chose this necklace without consulting my color wheel.

I never wore this combination before. I hate it.  I guess I mainly hate it because the shirt is so tight compared to the loose pants. You can see the outline of my pants through the shirt. You can also see my ribs poking out through the shirt. Also the sleeves are way too short. I pulled them down for the pictures. 

I had an outfit picked out in my head to wear. I wasn't sure if it matched. In the morning, I consulted my pictures from what Brie helped me match. Looking for that, I realized I wore the exact outfit before. My memory is bad. Therefore I chose a new shirt. Then after all that, I couldn't find the skirt so then I went with pants.

I started my morning heading to the gym to run before work. I mean I lifted Monday night and didn't shower so why not get a second workout in before a shower. Two workouts before a shower is like a win.  Zero workouts before a shower is a wasted shower and I hate them.

I worked.  It was too cold and work and my feet were numb.  I sold raffle tickets at lunch through NA-YGN. People could win an iPad2 and the money all goes to the Red Cross to support Japan.  I worked late.   I did take a break from work to go for a 20 minute walk with Dave. I didn't read twitter at all at work.

I spent a half hour reading twitter in bed to try to catch up on reading tweets. Reading twitter in bed is a new routine. The only thing is if people post links then I don't check them out because I'm too tired to read that much. I wish emailing twitter links would work then maybe I could check them out later.

After Dave's shower, Poly went in, so Dave closed the door.

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.

 

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.

Outfit Planning

Brie came over and remixed my closet to show me new outfits to wear since I'm in a rut of the same stuff and I say I can't match.  We worked with things that I only wear a couple things with.    She came and did this on January 16 instead of us going for our walk.

My Athleta Skirt that I've never worn

Pants I haven't worn in 4 years and still may not wear

My planned outfit for January 24

A third shirt color for this skirt. yay

The start of lots of choices

More choices

Already wore this on January 17

Way too many options

I tried some things on

 

Tonight I got some stuff out and took more pictures so I can easily scroll through my album and see the outfits. Some pictures showed 3 tops and 3 bottoms and that left too much to my imagination and I couldn't just pick the outfit from the picture and then file the picture.

This skirt gives me lots of trouble. I always swear I can't match it. I did wear it twice.  Sometimes it looks more gray and sometimes it looks more brown. Therefore, I was confused.

I wore this skirt today because after getting shirts out individually, I couldn't believe how it matches so many things.  It is definitely going in my 30 for 30 to force myself to actually wear it.  I just need to figure out what else to include now. I really wish I had nude shoes. I'm still wanting them badly. Why can't I ever find them in a store around here?

Here's how I wore it before... only twice in about 11 months.

March 10 and April 22. I wore the blue sweater because Brie told me that color would go when I bought it. I wore the green because I think I emailed her and she told me another color that would go.

Don't you all wish you had a friend like Brie to come over and help?  There are people that actually do this for their job and charge for it.

Brie, thank you for helping me.