Lots of Layers for a Reason

Today is a company holiday.  Today, I worked in the office from about 7:30 until 1:15 and when I left, there were people still there.  You know what was missing from today?  Heat.  We asked for heat, we were told we'd be given heat, but sadly, we were not gifted heat.  This isn't the first time this has happened, so I dressed in as many layers as possible today, shut my office door, turned on the space heater, kept my winter coat on, put on fingerless gloves and wrapped myself in a blanket.  Yeah, that's why I left at 1:15.

Also, Southwestern Ohio had a bit of a snow squall around lunch today, which created blizzard-like, white out conditions in seconds, and it only lasted a couple of minutes.  However, it was bad enough that there's currently a 50 car pile up on I-75 just a little bit south of here and in Cincinnati, there's what they are estimating to be around  a 70 car pile up on I-275.  The pictures are incredible and it all happened in seconds.  Makes the no heat issue seem trivial.  I did have to figure out an alternative route home because the highway is shut down.  A 50 car pile up is worthy of a shut down.

Smiles!
Lori

Dots and Stripes

While I was trolling through Banana Republic's website a while back, I came across an outfit that I absolutely loved which had a cross hatched white and black blouse, a cream and black striped skirt, an orange cardigan and a khaki trench coat.  I loved the look, but since I've banned unnecessary internet shopping for awhile, I wasn't going to easily be able to purchase the outfit.  So into my closet I went.  I pieced this outfit together using stuff I already owned.  I went with polka dots because I didn't have anything cross hatched. Honestly, I was quite pleased with the results.  I almost gave away this blazer over the summer because khaki washes me out, but I'm really glad I didn't.

For full disclosure, I went to Banana Republic on Saturday and I now own the cross hatched blouse and the cream and black striped skirt they had online.  In my defense, I  didn't exactly ban overall shopping and I didn't buy it on the internet.   Stripes are my downfall.

Smiles!
Lori