Conservative is Dull

Lately, I've been in more of a conservative mood regarding my outfits.  I'm not sure why, but I think it's because I'm stressed at work.  This outfit is perfectly fine for an accountant, but doesn't fit my normal personality.  I think I'm going to need to break out some neon this week!

Smiles!
Lori

Three French Hens

Ok, I am seriously loving my french hen shirt.  They are french because they are wearing berets and yes, I did point this out to one of my co-workers today.  The shirt just makes me smile and sometimes, you just need that.

I bought this jacket last fall and I wore it to death last year.  Looks like I'm going to be wearing it a lot this year too!  It goes with everything!

 I'm noticing I looked a little drugged this morning.

Smiles!
Lori

I Bought A Steamer! Hurray!

 I bought a little travel steamer a couple of weeks ago to see if it does better on blazers when traveling.  I'm happy to report, it does.  The problem with my baby steamer is it only lasts through about two pieces of clothes before you have to refill it.  That's a pain.  So today, we went out to purchase a couple of birthday gifts for some parties Kira's going to next weekend and we took a detour through the linen store to hunt for a reasonably priced, larger steamer.  We found one for $50 and it lasts for 30 minutes and you don't have to wait for it to cool down before refilling.  Yes, boring, but I was so excited I came home and steamed most of my clothes for the week.  I have to get the iron out for the pure cotton things because they require starch, but the steamer does wonders on jackets.

I now know how my mom felt when she got a new vacuum cleaner.  I guess I'm officially old.  It had to happen at some point!

Now I'm off to the gas station to fill up my car for the week.  The fun just continues!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Smiles!
Lori

Diet Coke Attack

 

I was attacked by my bottle of Diet Coke today.  There I was, innocently working on a spreadsheet, getting ready to go to a meeting and I took a swig of my Diet Coke.  I put the bottle down, and poof!  Out came a stream of pop all across the front of my jacket and all down the sleeve of my jacket.  Four minutes before I had to be in a meeting, a meeting I was running.  Grrrrrrrr.  So I ran to the bathroom and wiped off as much as I could and then took the jacket off.  Now I have to get it dry cleaned.  AND it was a waste of good Diet Coke.   Bummer.

And yet another outfit my cup matches.  Gotta love the cup!

Smiles!
Lori

Happy Anniversary

Today is Dave and my wedding anniversary.  The romantics that we are spent it watching Kira's gymnastics practice, eating together as a family and then working on Kira's homework tag team style.  We stopped giving each other gifts on for our anniversary years ago because honestly, I'd rather spend time with him than give each other trinkets.

While it's an important day in our lives, the more important thing is spending time together as a family, being good parents and always being there for one another.  I married my best friend many years ago today and he's still the love of my life and my best friend to this day.

Kira insisted on taking my photo when we got home.  It's a bit blury and I looked like I got run over by a truck by the time we got home. 

Kira's famous jewelry shots.

Happy Monday!
Smiles!
Lori

Beach Week!



One of our business divisions is celebrating Beach Week this week and this year, they opened up the celebration to the entire Company.  So, the "Fun Committees" of both our locations were charged with the task of coming up with fun events for each location to join in the celebration.  I head up the committee in Cinci and we have an absolutely incredible group of people who volunteer on it. They decorated the Department while I was on PTO on Friday and they texted me some pictures of what it looked like.  So, when I walked in this morning, I was totally shocked to see this.  I'm in the porthole on the left and that's the picture from my ID badge.  This is located right at the base of the escalator so everyone who rides down to our floor will see it.  Thanks guys.  Enjoy your giggle.

 This is the space next to our copier.  Super cool!

 Leis were hand delivered to everyone this morning.  Ta Da!

The leis were itchy, so I wound up wearing it as a bracelet all day.  It was that, or wear it as an anklet and noone needed to see that!



Rushed

I've been rushing around all morning trying to get things done for my trip on Monday.  I'm anxiously awaiting Kira getting home so we can run and get her hair cut.  Then, she's going to open gym and I should work on my CPE, but I think I'm going shopping.  I'm hoping to get mostly packed today so I don't have to deal with it tomorrow.  She's got a soccer game tomorrow afternoon and we're "snack parents".  Whoo hoo!  Hope you have a wonderful Saturday!

Smiles!

Lori

Paisley Professional

 I hit the jackpot.  I went shopping over the weekend and darted into Ann Taylor just to check out their sale rack.  I found this jacket marked down, marked down, marked down and then 40% off.  I got it for under $25, which was about 90% off of it's original price.  Happy dance!!!!!

 I then paired it with a navy blue skirt from Talbots and a J Crew shirt I got dirt cheap off eBay.

 Yeah, I'm smug.  I deserve it this time!

Eclectic

One of the coach's at my daughter's gym stopped me tonight and told me she liked my style.  She said I was "eclectic, but trendy".  I'm not sure exactly what that means and while it was a compliment, I felt a little weird.  I dress for my personality and I really like color, but eclectic?  I really think if I was wearing black or navy pants, noone would have thought twice about my outfit.  But suddenly, when you pair it with a bright orange skirt, it becomes eclectic. It all matched.

Here's a close up of my shoes.  Yeah, I'm in my car.  No, I wasn't driving, I was stopped at a stoplight and BOY do I need to vacuum my car!