Wednesday

Well, let's see..it's Wednesday. It's 2 days away from the weekend. It's my exercise day off. It's pretty out. What can I complain about? (Other than my job, but that's pretty much a constant.) Oh, I know. I can complain about the fact that I did my first dedicated abs workout last night and I'm feeling it today. The workout focused on the entire core and you know where I'm the most sore? My lower back. Go figure (I say sarcastically) My lower back is so weak. Every time I woke up last night I had to un-freeze my back and try to shift positions. I don't have any pain at all, it is just the weirdest feeling, almost like it just locks up on me when I'm not moving. This has been going on for awhile now, I'm hoping if I can ramp up the core workouts maybe I will strengthen it enough to keep it from tying up so much. (The back doc did say that I should focus on building my core strength....maybe I should've started sooner!) Regardless, I'm feeling good now. Just going to try to stretch occasionally throughout the day today.

Today I'm wearing a comfy Sunday-school dress mostly because I just wasn't feeling the outfit prep last night. I was going to wear some bronze heels with this but I decided I would just go comfy all around so I went with flats. Hence the over-all pentecostal feel of this outfit. :) The cardi is for function, not awesome-ness....


I'm wearing:
Cardigan: Banana Republic Outlet, $10
Dress: JC Penny Clearance, $ 8.99 (pulled tag off today)
Shoes: My go-to beat up favorite Candies bronze flats (had forever)
Watch: MK
Necklace: White House, Black Market

One more day...

Well, one more day until the weekend. Tomorrow, Garrett, Allen and Santino will be coming in for the game Saturday. Which means tonight I need to pick up around the house and make sure I don't have piles of clothes on the beds they will be sleeping in! It is/was another cool morning... which made it really hard to get out of my warm bed this morning!


My outfit today evolved last night as I was pondering what I'd originally laid out to wear, which was a dress and some suede boots. Well, I froze my rear off yesterday in the office since we have no control over the temps and the air blows constantly no matter what we do and they will not turn on the heat. So, I didn't necessarily want to wear another dress today. I decided I wanted a sweater. I also wanted to wear these booties so I went with the brown skinny pants. These are the brown pair of skinny pants I got from Penny's when I also got the black ones, seen here . Anyway, it's so funny because these pants are just a smidge loose on my in the booty/upper thigh area in the back, but I'm not complaining!! :) Also, I'm wearing my new Michael Kors brown watch for the first time today. LOVE!!!

Today:
Denim Trench: Harve Benard, TJ Maxx, $15
Pants: Worthington, JC Penny, $14
Shirt: Izod Outlet, I'd guess less than $15
Sweater: Harolds, super sale $12
Watch: MK
Shoes: Dollhouse, TJ Maxx, $24
Sunglasses: NY & Co, $10

 It deserves a picture all its own!

Big Weekend Plans....?

So I officially don't like weekday games. I didn't do anything for the game and was in bed by 10:30 but man it throws off a routine! I felt like I was coming to work on a Sunday today! I think today may feel like a really long day because of that, too. I'm going to try to get my game-plan together today for what I want to accomplish over the weekend. It's sad, but I'm already a little uneasy about not "running errands" i.e. shopping, tomorrow morning. As everyone who knows me can attest, I'm weird about needing to get out of the house in the morning. I can't just sit around the house. I don't know why and I can't explain it, but when I stay in the house in the morning, I feel sick. It's like my brain associates staying in the house with sick days home from work and I actually start to feel sick. In the past, I would run to the mall or somewhere just to get out of the house. 

My plan for tomorrow is to go back to Walgreens to get another 2 boxes of Kellogs cereal (they are on sale for 2/$4) and to pick up some new foundation because I used the last of mine this morning. Once I do that I may go by the grocery store and pick up some chicken. I'm going to try to find a recipe that calls for brandy since I have a bottle going to waste on my counter. My BIG plan for Saturday is to catalog my shoes. I want to take a picture of each pair and then put that picture on the outside of each shoe box. This is going to be quite an undertaking but I plan to use it as an excuse to check all of my shoes for repair issues/cleaning/ etc... I think this will likely take the better part of the morning/early afternoon to complete. So by the time I finish that it should be about nap-time and all will be right with the world! 

Should I don any fabulous outfits this weekend, I will certainly take pictures and post Monday, as I intend to still stay away from all things computer/internet on the weekend! 

Oh! Side note... that jacket from SmartBargains, that I mentioned in my Online Shopping tips? It came yesterday. I LOVE it! It is so unique and really really adorable. Best $19 purchase I've made in awhile! :)

My outfit today is fabulous! (At least in my not so humble opinion!) I got this dress in a big haul from JCPenny online clearance. I think I paid 16 bucks for it. It is so comfy and classic. I will get a lot of use out of it. What I really like about it is that you wouldn't think it came from Penny's.. It does not have a mass-produced look to it, which I love. Turns out it's a brand they don't usually carry in the store (I researched it b/c I didn't recognize the name) but the brand has also been carried in Kohl's and Kmart.... Kmart? Really? Ok, that turns me off, but I'm not losing faith in this dress! I'm happy with it. I also brought a black cardigan to throw over this when I get chilly. And the red shoes? Eh, couldn't help myself. I needed them today! The old saying "the only people who wear red shoes are little girls and hookers"? Yeah, I think about that every time I wear them and I smirk. And then I second guess them, and then I just go with it.


Dress: Corey P., JC Penny online


Necklace: It was a gift

Shoes: Max Studio


Watch: Michael Kors

Game Day! But wait, it's Thursday....

It's Gameday! I don't like this idea of Thursday night games. I think I'd be okay with Friday, but this makes the thought of coming to work tomorrow vomitous. (i.e. so bad it can induce vomiting) Regardless, here's hoping everything goes well with the game tonight and we beat Miss. State. In honor of gameday, I'm bumming today. The office is usually very casual on Fridays, so I'm merely adjusting the days and I'm using today as my casual day. I still took pictures, to get in the routine, but needless to say, it's not like I think this look is "hot" :) 

Yesterday, I got a package in the mail from Penny's... Forgot that my last order had some back-ordered items... they came yesterday. I almost felt guilty about opening the package (almost), like I was cheating on my new adventure. But, technically I ordered these items over two weeks ago so I don't think they count. I got two pair of the same pant, one brown, one black. The pants are Worthington, I think. They have a slightly higher waist and are a slim leg. They will be right on point with the fall trends and they are long enough (sometimes a problem with Penny's pants) that I can wear them with heels and they fall correctly. I will not be able to wear them with flats, but that is okay because with my proportions, I would probably end up looking like an oompa loompa in them if I didn't have some added height. They were on clearance online for 14 bucks. I also got a nice tribal print orange dressy tank for 8. I think the pants really were a good deal because they are a nice material and a heavier weight. 

Outfit Today:

Jeans: Citizen of Humanity

Top: Izod

Necklace: Sterling silver horseshoe I randomly found at Dillards and wear almost every day

Watch: Michael Kors

Shoes: Reaction by Kenneth Cole- They don't really "go" with this outfit but they were the height I needed and they are comfortable and since the jeans cover them, I went for it.