A Two-Outfit Day!

I'm actually in the Mitten, hanging out in the hospital with Mom post-surgery. But I can try to catch up on blogging while I'm here.this should catch me up from two weeks ago, then I can work on last week's lol.

That Friday, I rolled out of bed, headed to a doctor's appointment... intending to go to the gym after:



Not my best look, with pre-shower gunge on my face:



Of course, I wound up running errands and skipping the gym... I do really love these shoes, though. No socks necessary, easy to slip on, comfy step... What's not to love?



After cleaning up a bit, it was karaoke night evening glam time:



Note to self-- do NOT wear a pushup bra with this top again, it was weird across the chest all night.

I'm disappointed that the greys don't match well in the photo... they looked much better together IRL. 

And I love the drape of these pants:



And my awesome belt I hadn't worn yet:



With a cheat, because it is too big for my underbust:



Yes, that's a safety pin and a glue dot!



Isn't my new jewelry pretty? I'm getting tired of French hook earrings, so I'm trying to get more posts... to have something actually on the earlobe.

And I'm trying to wear more bracelets. I actually bought a tree-branch-shaped stand at Target, and using it for bracelets now. I found some in my jewelry box I had forgotten I had because they've been buried! This one is new, though:



Yes, I went to my glam evening in Crocs! Mwahuhuh!



And to wrap this post up, a little more fun with effects:



With the pic cropped rough above where the chest goes weird, of course!

Gym top and capris: Danskin from Walmart
Jacket: Danskin via Freeda's purge pile
Gym shoes: Naturalizer 360
Sunglasses: Serengeti via Sam's Club
Grey top: via Freeda's purge pile
Pants: Lane Bryant
Belt: Lane Bryant
Jewelry: Premier
Grey shoes: Crocs outlet

Out With Hubby

I'm so annoyed because I'd written a post, and lost it on the Blogger app. Ugh! 

Anyway, a couple weeks ago I got Hubby to actually go out with me TWICE. Given all he's been through, that's kind of a big deal.

One day I ran a bunch of errands, then we went to see the new "X-Men" movie:

 

I've got my "no-makeup makeup" aka CC cream and that's it. And my lovely new earrings:

My HTML isn't cooperating, green sandals above. 

They also came in black, which looked ordinary, and brown/tan... which looked kind of cheap. But the green ones sang to me!

I was particularly impressed when he accompanied my bestie and I to karaoke night:



I had some fun with the Photoshop app effects:

 

I think it shows how much my bottom pokes out....

But I finally got to break out my awesome new bracelet:

 

I've had the earrings forever though, but they worked well enough with the outfit:



And here's another new pair of sandals:



Hopefully this is a sigh of us (slowly) reconstructing our lives after all the drama!

Green Lantern tee: via Freeda's purge pile
Jeans: Kmart Jacklyn Smith Angel Cut
Gold earrings: World Market
Bracelet: World Market
Stone earrings: art show a million years ago
White tee: Norma Kamali via Freeda's purge pile
Skirt: consignment shop
both pair sandals: Merrell outlet

Long Time... No See!

What can I say? The last year or so has been pretty rough. 

Hubby has been recovering slowly, and essentially spent a year and a half in bed. He's started practicing law again, and is working a little out of the house. And starting to go out a little now and then.

My mom is also having some serious medical issues, which are slow to heal. 

I've mostly been trying to put one foot in front of the other, and hadn't been keeping up with a lot of my activities, including blogging or paying much attention to my appearance, health, etc. I was a zombie, I suppose....

Me and the job parted ways a few months ago, so I'm regrouping while pondering my next step. And I suppose I mostly hibernated over this awful winter. I've focused more on family and a couple close local friends.

I've been going to karaoke nights with my bestie, including last Monday. I told her I was going to stay blogging again, to force me to pay more attention to my appearance. So she took some photos at Denny's pre-karaoke:



I really wanted my sandals to show. But cuffing the jeans like this this looks stupid. *sigh*



Because, seriously? How fabulous are these sandals?



I love how the ruffle trails down the back:



I had a little fun with effects in the Photoshop app:



I do think this effect shows how nicely the ruffle drapes. 

A twisted-up wash load ruined the color on my jeans, which is rather upsetting. But I'm not buying another pair until I go down a size!



But isn't this necklace incredible?



So it's nice to be back, even if nobody is reading yet. It's ok, I have a few posts before I catch up!

Top: via Freeda's purge pile
Jeans: Kmart Jacklyn Smith Angel Cut
Sandals: Naturalizer 

Necklace: fifty cents at a flea market!

Crappy Birthday to Me!

Let's see, I lost a hearing that I believe I should have won... and Hubby is stepping down his pain meds. He's been a bit testy today. *sigh* Guess reduced opiates will to that to someone. I remember a couple of nasty days what I ran out of Vicodin after knee surgery, so I have to remind myself to be patient.

Between my phone having somehow become more difficult to blog on (my original Droid was much easier than my current Droid 3), and the laptop requiring repair, my fabled return to regular blogging is likely to be put on hold again.

I'm writing this on Hubby's iPad, pecking out individual letters onscreen with a stylus. Hate it! So slow... and I can't use the regular internet Blogger, I have to use this stupid app, which isn't great for what i do. 

Unless...

I will try the Photobucket iPad app. Will html work like it does on Droid?

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Now we are getting somewhere! These photos are actually from 5/24, and show my new (longer) navy pants from C.J. Banks and new top via Bon Ton.

As you can see, they need to be taken in at the waist! 

OK, I guess I will just have to pry the iPad away from Hubby and Stinky to use until my laptop gets fixed. At least a little....

Wardrobe Orphan

What happens when you adopt something appealing to you... but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the family?

This:



Yeah.

I fell in love with the pretty pale-mint color, and the brocade, when I was at the clothing orphanage (aka consignment shop).



It occurs to me... a bit late, I know... that the difficulty coordinating with other pieces just MIGHT be why it was in the orphanage to begin with. Like the child with severe emotional problems adopted by the well-intentioned, but woefully unequipped, hopeful parent.

But the papers have been finalized (aka it's been to the tailor), so I'm going to seek help for my new child.

I'm not even going to do the components run-down for Wednesday's outfit... it's just too depressing.

Totally New Outfit!!!

It's been ages since everything was new... I was so excited, I actually wore the same outfit two days in a row! Well, that and my back was killing me, so the easy availability of the clothes sitting on the chair was a deciding factor.



New jacket, taken in at the bust by my clever tailor... and a new top:



Even new pants, which I just got back from the tailor... she had to take in the waist:



I know the photo is horrible, but Freeda has been giving me a hard time about my too-short pants. She dragged me to the mall, and wrestled my credit card out of my purse. So, how is the length on the new pants?

I've been having a bit of fun with matchy-matchy in this outfit... just check out the jacket lining (ok, the flash changed the color a scoche):



Down to my toes in my new, expensive-as-heck, Naot sandals. OK, I confess that wanting to get blog shots of the matchy-matchy down to my toes, since I didn't think of it Monday, was another deciding factor in the Tuesday redux:



Who am I kidding? It was the main reason... I'm such a dork! Alright, the earrings I already had:



But the thrill of a whole new outfit is still there... eek!

Top: Talbot's via Salvation Army
Jacket: Charter Club via consignment shop
Pants: C.J. Banks (NOT Lane Bryant? I know, right?)
Earrings: via M-I-L's purge
Shoes: Naot via Shoe Doctor in Horseheads, NY

Schitzoid Wardrobe... and Life

After work today:

I found myself complaining earlier today that all of the shopping I had done for "Spring clothes" seems to be money wasted... over the last month or two it has been either "sweater weather" or "premature summer"!

Oh, yeah! I know I've been off the blogosphere for a couple of months, but I've been pretty busy, and awfully worn-down. After running him around for several rounds of consultations with specialists, Hubby finally had a pretty intense neck surgery in late April. I've been doing all the home stuff (with varying degrees of "crack-house" ambiance), working-- of course, and fighting off various winter illnesses myself.

March 15, for example... I wore two sweaters because it was so miserably, unseasonably cold out:



A couple days later, desperately bored and wanting to urge spring on, I hit the local Bon-Ton with a fistful of coupons, and went to town:



And I found this beauty:



Just kidding... I only tried this on for funsies... that went back on the rack! But I did walk out with a huge bag of clothes. I also picked up a couple of goodies at Salvo. In early April, I went a bit nuts at a local consignment shop, but those goodies will be shown at a later time!

I took these April 8th, as you can see, it was chilly enough to require one of my new Bon-Ton tops with sleeves and a warm jacket... ugh!



 Like my pretty new top? Hubby approved.



These were taken April 30th, it was still bloody COLD!!!



Freeda's purged necklace matched this new top PERFECTLY!



I finally took a couple of days off in mid-April, so I could see my family for the first time in six months. I helped Freeda purge her closet by taking some stuff off her hands, and she took me to a firing range to shoot a pistol for the first time! And she talked me into getting a couple new pair of pants, that aren't so short as what I've been wearing... you will see those very soon!            

While I was on my "mini-vacation", I spent a lot of time with these two:



Guess who is just like her Auntie... taking Sissy's clothes!

So Hubby is recuperating, and I'm trying to get back into my normal routine. At least as much as I can while Hubby still isn't much use around the house!