Archive for September, 2010

bringing back the old…

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

So I have this little habit of taking outfit photos, uploading them, and forgetting about them, only to find them in a folder months later and realize that I hadn’t ever posted them. I’m sure this has happened to you ladies who post your outfits at least once, right? Or am I crazy? Even worse, it’s happened to me waaaay more than once, in fact I can say I have a handful of outfits that have yet to be shared on this blog. So I decided to go back and find all the old outfits I never posted, edit, and post them. Hopefully this can motivate me to brush up on my organization skills (or lack thereof). To make it more challenging, I promised myself I wouldn’t post any new outfits until I get these old ones posted and out of the way. I’ll still take outfit photos, but just save them until I’m done with the old ones. Good idea, or bad? If you have any suggestions let me know!

Anyway, this is the start of my old outfit series. I wore this to work during the holiday season last year (I wasn’t exaggerating when I said they were old!) To be honest, I’m not used to wearing such dark colors. I love my neutrals, but It’s not very often I’ll wear an outfit thats mostly all black or dark grey. I actually felt super comfortable in it, though! It was great to walk around in for 8 straight hours and the brogues with the tiny heel actually didn’t hurt one bit. Oh and after I took those pictures and saw that my socks were showing, I fixed it ;)


outfit details: shirt and dress pants are from F21, and brogues are thrifted. I later added on some accessories that aren’t pictured.

And can I just say that these pictures are making me miss my long hair SO much?! It needs to grow back faster! I’m a little more than half-way there though, so that’s encouraging.

Have a great weekend!

Jen

ode to panera.

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Oh Panera, you give me such joy in visiting you. With your selection of pastries, bagels, breads, and not to mention your delicious soups, salads, and sandwiches I feel that the possibilities are endless. And my most favorite thing…free wifi. I have so many fond memories of spending time sitting in your comfy booths catching up with my girl friends. Before I moved, you were less than 5 minutes away from me and were walking/biking distance. Now, you’re about 20 minutes away and my heart is NOT happy. When Jimmy and I move, one of the first things I shall do is find my nearest Panera Bread for my weekly fix. Thank you for always being there for me.

Always,
Jen

Anyway, things are going great! A few weeks ago Jimmy got his date to leave for basic training…November 29th! We were awaiting a call to let us know he’d be leaving any day now, but it’s nice for us to have a date and make the most of the time we have left together before we are away from each other for 8 weeks. We’re thinking of taking a mini-vacation somewhere, but not sure where yet. It’ll be nice that he will get to be here on Thanksgiving, but the thought of spending Christmas and New Years without him makes me cry a little inside, and I’ll definitely be crying on the outside when he’s gone. All I gotta say is that we better have one heck of an amazing Valentine’s Day when he comes back!!

Coming up: Disneyland pics, Palm Springs, outfits, and so forth :)

x
Jen