Neighbors

The neighbors were out again this morning when I tried to take these shots.  I found if I hid the camera by the garage door, they couldn't see what I was doing.  Take that!

This is my newest jacket since I quit buying jackets due to the overcrowding situation in my closet.  I found it at Forever 21 and it was super cheap.  I am a huge fan of stripes and once I discovered this wasn't horribly cropped, I knew it was coming home with me.

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Lori

Ocean Coral

Kira named my blog title today and then we Googled coral to make sure it can actually be blue.  It can.

Green is my favorite color and I'm loving the resurgence of the color this Spring. The problem is, I have no off button, so I keep buying mint green things.  In my defense, I bought this sweater last year and it's mint with blue colorblocked trim.

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Lori

Raining Stripes

We're getting ready to hunker down for a House of Anubis marathon in our house, so I'm not going to say much today!

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Lori

Call Me...The Stalker

I am a big fan of colorblocking and green is my favorite color.  When I saw these pants at J Crew, I really REALLY wanted them.  However, I am only willing to pay so much for clothes and these were way out of the level I'm willing to pay for pants.  So, I stalked them.  They sold out of my size and I thought, "Well, that's that."   After more stalking, they showed up on sale and I knew they were mocking me.  Then, the stars aligned, my size popped back in, J Crew marked them down an additional 30% off and voila, the pants are mine.  Ta da!

The belt I wore today is cute, but it's a giant pain in the bottom.  It kind of loops into itself and the end kept escaping from the loop.  By about 10 this morning, the belt wound up in my purse.  Take that belt!  I better go get it out of my purse, or it will travel with me for the next week.

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Lori

It Was Ironed

I ran into a friend of mine at Kira's soccer game this morning and she very nicely complimented what I was wearing and then apologized for what she was wearing.  I felt kind of bad because I don't dress to make other people feel bad.  I honestly just like clothes.  My friend looked extremely comfortable and warm and I envied what she was wearing because of that.  Today's outfit was literally thrown together at the last minute and consists of things that didn't look bad enough to have to iron because I had to go get my car's oil changed this morning and then rush off to her soccer game and I didn't have time to deal with it. 

Dave came into the room while I was taking my photos and he bum rushed the camera.  He'd kill me if he knew I shared this with you, but if you bum rush my camera, you get what you deserve!

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Lori

Pinky Dinky Doo

This outfit was inspired by Pinterest. I saved it with my outfit ideas and was planning on waiting until Spring to try it out.  I needed a little Spring today, so I decided I have no fashion rules and I was going for it!  Walking around work today, I noticed not many people were wearing bright colors and even fewer were wearing pink.  Instead of thinking that I stuck out, I thought "How sad for them!"

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Lori

Space Bags

Last Spring, I went a little crazy when I was switching around my winter and spring clothes and bought a bunch of those space bag things to throw my heavier winter sweaters in.  Then, over the summer, I went a little crazy and bought a bunch of capris that took up the space where the winter sweaters lived.  Then came winter, and I had a little problem.   I didn't have enough space for the heavier sweaters.  Purge, you say???? Nu uh.  I have a space bag that permanently lives on the floor underneath my blazers in the closet.  Well the problem with that plan was I forgot that I put sweaters in there until I was hunting for a pair of shoes and ran into it.  Oh my, it was like Christmas!  This argyle sweater was in there as was its mint green twin.  It's like going on a big shopping trip, but it didn't cost me anything extra!  In case you are wondering, I have two space bags full of shoes that live under the blazers in my closet too.  No spare inch of space is unused in there.

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Lori

Wright State Basketball and The Gap

 

I went shopping on Friday while Kira was at the gym and wound up at the Gap. I love the Gap. I love the Gap's sales. I especially love the fact that I got these capris for under $20. Even better, the capris match more than a few things I already own. The bad thing....I've run out of space in my closet. The saleslady at the Gap was attempting to be helpful and recommended a closet purge. I laughed. That is so not happening! I adopted a one in one out policy when I spent three days back in May cleaning my closet. That policy lasted, oh say maybe 2 weeks, and that's being generous.

 

We went to a Wright State University basketball game this afternoon with my mother-in-law and wound up on the Jumbo-tron.  That's the first time that's ever happened to us.  Of course, we waved like idiots.  Kira promptly told us that she's been on the Jumbo-tron before, with daycare, at a Dayton Dragon's game.  She was less than impressed with the event.  We didn't let her burst our bubble! 

As you can see, the snow is not melting.  I declared winter over and winter is not listening.

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Lori

Upgrade

Dave gave me a fancy, new camera for Birthmas specifically to upgrade my blog photos from the iPhone camera.  Birthmas is when you want a big gift for Christmas, but it's more than what you'd ordinarily spend, so you combine birthday gifts and Christmas gifts to get a nicer Christmas gift.  Thus, the evolution of Birthmas.

I've been playing with the camera all week, but haven't felt well enough to do too much with it.  Yesterday, I went to the camera store and the nice people showed me how to set the timer since the instruction book doesn't have a lot of information in it.   The camera folks weren't surprised by that fact either, which has me a bit worried since I have no idea what I'm doing.  Dave got the thing connected to the tripod last night and I ran around setting the timer, running in front of the camera and taking stupid photos for fun.  Just for laughs, I've included a few of my practice shots in this post.

The camera is a "smart" camera, which means it has a built in Wi-Fi connection, which Dave specifically got me so I could upload pictures straight to my Skydrive.  However, the camera is way smarter than me and I can't figure out how to get it to connect to the server.  I could look in the instruction book, but that will prove pointless.  So, my auto uploads will have to wait until the hubby has time to see what I'm doing wrong.  I'm at least proud of myself that I got the things to upload to the computer.  Baby steps......

 Kira's not this tall.  She's standing on a step stool.

These are my practice shots.  It is super hard to run past the tripod without knocking it over and pose before the timer goes off. I'm surprised I didn't break a limb last night.

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Lori

The Best Present

I got the best present in the world today! When I picked Kira up at daycare afterschool, she looked like this

 

One of her daycare teachers affixed this to her headband.  She's still wearing it, walking around like Hugh Hefner in her bathrobe.  Gotta love it!

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Lori

Saturday

 Another busy Saturday is here.  Kira's guitar lessons, soccer pictures and I want to head off to Banana Republic this afternoon if it's not raining. Then, I need to force myself to do a little work and work on my CPE for my CPA relicensing (which I probably won't do!)

 Kira posed me!

Here's the soccer photo!

Have a great Saturday!

Smiles!
Lori