3.15

Pants: Delia's, Shirt: Express, Hoodie: F21, Necklace: Limited, Shoes: Famous Footwear 

I told myself that I wouldn't go swimming until I found my 1 piece swim suit. I spent over an hour digging for it. When I finally found it, I was starving so I had to eat. Then before I knew it, I was watching more TV and never went swimming.

My stampin' up order arrived.
I sure had fun going through everyone's orders.

Hilary came over to get her order and we talked for 2 hours. We were going to go for a run but that changed.

We went to dinner with Hilary and Wes. We went to BJ's.  Dave got home from work so late then had to shower that it was practically bed time by the time we got to BJ's. Then there was a 20 minute wait. It was after 10 when we got home.  Man was it good though.  I was disappointed Dave got his appetizer and ate the entire thing before my appetizer came so then he was able to eat half of mine. I even tried really hard to eat as fast as I could so he wouldn't get to eat more than me.  I was burning my mouth the entire time.

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.

5.31 - My Last Day

Poly was still at my parents so I asked for updates. The picture on the bottom right is of Poly on my parents kitchen table.  My mom said she jumped up and my mom lifted her and put her down and then she got back up and did that.

Work was crazy.  I was crazy busy.  Some people came and said bye to me. Some people hugged me bye.  But for the most part nobody did anything. My manager wasn't even there to collect my stuff.  He signed the paper the day before and left it on my desk.  I felt like leaving would have more of a goodbye than it did. I just dropped my stuff off at my managers desk and left.  No big thing. It just felt weird. I thought there should have been more of something when leaving.  It actually made me a little sad.  The lack of goodbye made me sad not the act of leaving the company.  I left my desk a mess.  I did go through all the unread emails and forward them to my backup. I also forwarded the rest of the flagged emails.  I put an auto response up that said I no longer worked for the company.  I got a few emails after that from people telling me it was the best auto response they read yet.   I ended up turning my computer off around 3 to finish packing up my cube. I figured if I had it on, I would just get more emails and more work and I would never get out of there.  Work owed me 2 floating holidays anyway and I hear people don't even work a full day on their last day anyway.   Have you ever left a company? How was your departure?

After work we went to Johnny Carino's for dinner on the way to my parents. We hurried because we missed Poly.

After we got there and were talking Poly was on the floor and I thought she looked lonely. I went over beside her and ended up falling asleep.  Dave knows me and took my picture. I actually woke up and said "I fell asleep. Why didn't anyone take my picture?"  Then I learned later pictures were taken!  We hung out a bit after that.

Then we headed home.  Poly does not like car rides but she liked to be home.

(Dave complimented Jen on her clothes and asked if they were new. Then I asked about mine and he said I looked like 2005.  Well I bought everything I wore in 2006 so he was wrong.)

And this was the beginning of my new journey in life. Oh boy.

5.7 - Casual

I went for the casual outfit since I was still somewhat sore or expected to be sore from the marathon. My feet hurt so I went with flats.
Pants and Shirt: Express
Shoes: Famous Footwear
Skirt: Target
I woke up with a low weight. I guess the exhaustion of the marathon and the exhaustion of the day so I barely ate wasn't good. I was probably dehydrated too.

Dave and I carpooled. I somehow managed to get ready on-time.   Dave, Paulo, and Jen went to DiBella's for lunch.  I actually ate my entire hoagie.

After work we went to a picnic for Dave's group. Well it was for his project at work. The project lasted 7 years. I think he only worked on it 5 of those years though. He got his first Westinghouse Jacket as a reward. Dave tells me the original schedule had the project completion date in 2001 but it didn't even start until 2005.  They gave out lots of silly awards. They looked for ways they could mock anyone.  Dave got the "Name that Tune" Award and the story they told was that he said he could learn some new programming language in a week.

We got home around 8pm and I started writing my race recap. I wrote that and read some blogs and next thing I know it was 2am. The only picture of Poly of the day was taken near 1:30 AM.

4.7

Necklace: Target, Shirt: Express, Pants: F21, Shoes: Aldo, Belt: Target

Dave and I made a baked bean and pork recipe. We started making it and realized we had the wrong kind of pork so we had to go to the store to get more.  We took it to my parents house for a family get together.  My mom made me mad telling me not to bring the baked beans anymore saying everyone would be done eating before we even got there. I guess the half hour round trip to buy new smoked pork mad her think it was all wrong. BTW she told me to show up at 5 and everyone else wouldn't even get there until 5:15 or 5:30. She wasn't sure on timing yet she can rudely reply to me not to make something we had to actually start the night before.    BTW we got there many minutes before anyone else even showed up!

A four year old taught me how to play angry birds.

Jason said interesting things and Timmy thought he'd forget them so he wrote them on his hand. I asked him why he wrote it on his hand and he said Jason had his phone so he had to write it somewhere.

3.24

Pants and Shirt: Express (both old)
Shoes: Famous Footwear

I woke up and did some stuff on my computer.  I updated my weight graph data and put a few graphs on my site. I also updated Dave's graph. I realized I should eat breakfast before I go run because I was feeling a little lightheaded.

I went to run with Jen (a different Jen than the normal Jen I run with).  We ran a little later so we didn't have to run in the rain.  This is Jen's 2nd time running with me and 2nd time running in more than 15 years.  We did 2.5 miles.  I'm getting her to run a 5k in 8 weeks so we have to get her to running more.  We had a few walk breaks but I still think it is pretty good.  Last time I ran with her, I had a dream after that we ran a 5k together and she beat me.

After the run I came home and finally sewed the button on a shirt. It has been sitting on my desk for me to sew for 6 or so months. Then I sewed one of Dave's button holes so the button won't always pop out. I felt so productive.

Then we went to lunch with Chad and Jen. We went to Campecino's then Yum.  Dave and I went to Giant Eagle after that.  We were still in the vegetable section when I started to feel a little weird.  An aisle later I started to feel clammy.  About 8 aisles later I was having Dave give me a little push to get started moving the cart and sometimes I'd pretend to be looking at things on the bottom shelf for a rest.  Near the end I went and found a bench and Dave finished shopping. Some how I got lightheaded.

After we got home, I ended up napping for an hour.

Then I went to the mall and bought lots of things.

On my way home at 9:10 PM, I realized I hadn't eaten dinner.  I got home and tried on all my new clothes for Dave and forced him to take pictures of me in everything new.   Then I updated my clothes inventory spreadsheet. It hasn't been updated since October.  I blogged about almost all my purchases so I will have to go back and fill it out.

I went in to bed at 11:15 PM but realized I hadn't blogged for the day so I got back up and posted a post I knew I had written but just had to insert pictures.  Then I typed a few more blog posts and at 11:45 I got to typing this post and when I got to the dinner portion of the post I realized I had not eaten dinner yet. Oh boy. I did have a jelly bean and 3 bites of leftover pizza.  Now I'm debating if I should go downstairs and eat something since I will be running in the morning.

All day I kept feeling skinny. My pants were too loose. I was also feeling lightheaded. I bet there was a correlation. My weight was also lower today than the past few days. These are all correlated.  I told myself in the morning that I should know I'll be getting lightheaded throughout the day on the days my weight is down in the morning. It always happens but I never prepare myself for it.

11.2

Outfit 1= Volunteering
Shirt: Work
White Shirt: Express
Pinstripe Pans: Express
Shoes: Hot Kiss via Famous Footwear
Necklace: Target

Outfit 2 = Work
Same as Outfit 1 except
Shirt: F21
Necklace NY&Co

The part of my foot that hurts!

My day started off with volunteering for Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. It was the 6th year I did it.  This year I helped the least though. I had a lot of work to get back to.   We have to wear volunteer shirts but I wore an orange necklace to still follow my color rotation challenge. I did wear a different color when I went back to work.

I came home, got in the door, and headed to work. Oh wait I had to stop myself and change clothes. I didn't want to be wearing my Girls in Engineering Rocks shirt all day long.   I got to work and worked until 7pm. I was ready to leave the house at 6:30 am (was ready a little early and then left a little late but still was a long day)

We had quesadillas for dinner. Then we watched TV.

I got my new curling iron I ordered. I started trying it out. I didn't have a brush or anything and it was still great. I then spent 10 minutes using it before dinner. After TV I finished curling it. I used the large rod thing before dinner and tried out the medium one after. The medium one was really tight curls. I can't even imagine the small one.  I picked this curling iron because a girl on youtube told me that's what she uses. A few weeks ago I was searching and searching on youtube and then I came across this. I got the HerStyler 3P.  I already don't use the glove. I burn my hand sometimes like the parts of my hand that bump it not actually my fingers.  It says glove sold separately but it came with mine.

4.20.11

Shirt Express (2007) (I have 2 of this shirt. One was $25 and the other was $10)
Jeans: Kohl's (2006 ~$20) (only worn about 3 times including February 3, 2006)
Shoes: Famous footwear ($5)
Scarf: Relay for Life booth ($5)

I showered but I did not put on makeup.

I'm surprised how bad my ribs poke out in this shirt. I mean I've gained 8 lbs in the past year and I weigh more than 10 more than the day I bought it.  I used to have a lot more issues with my ribs than I do now. Sigh. At least the only time I left the house was to take these pictures. Also you can see my love handles. How often do ribs poke out and are love handles visible?

I slept in a little because Poly was cuddling with me.

I was using a callous remover on the bottom of my foot. This is what it resulted in. A lot of skin wanted to come off but the actual callous in the center stayed there. I put another one on and hoped it didn't get worse/painful.

Telecommuting = lots of pictures of Poly

Poly hung out beside me while I ate lunch.

Poly posed when I was about to take my daily picture.

I had 25 raviolis for dinner

I had cheese raviolis while Dave had sausage. Neither of us like the other kind. At least they are easy enough to make both kinds. We also had garlic toast.

I took pictures of my necklace with a few shirts after Kimberly and I were emailing and she made some great suggestions of what to wear with my necklace. Look how amazing that is. She suggested one thing and I thought she was nuts but then I realized I had done it before. I guess I have a bad memory.

 Poly likes to try to get to you when you are on the landing on your way downstairs.

I worked a total of 10 hours... then did non work stuff. Then I worked again.  I worked 1.5 more hours. I was on a roll with my emails. Plus I had to do some trending for someone at work who wanted it Thursday morning but I had back to back meetings so wouldn't have time to do it then. Also I couldn't do it during the day Wednesday because it needed Wednesday's data included.