in which i'm a brown-dressed girl

What are winter colors? I feel like this outfit is too autumnal. I suppose I should restrict my color choices to black and navy and red and white, if I want to be truly winter-inspired. Maybe it's the green. We don't have much green around these parts lately.

(dress/blazer/scarf/belt: thrifted; boots: seychelles)

Tonight K will be working for the first time at his new job, so I'll be stuck at home by myself. I say that like it's a bad thing, but my loneliness is nothing that a cheesy chick flick and a flatbread pizza can't fix ;)

It's been a busy busy week, and I'm so ready for the weekend!

in which i know bare legs are insanity

Every morning there is a point where I think, I've gone too far. My fingers aren't going to recover from their painful numbness (oxymoron? maybe, but that's the sensation) this time. I've officially frozen them past the point of no return. And then the feeling (and the color, and the flexibility) returns, and my mind tucks the pain away, and I get up and do it all over again the next day. Blogging is masochism.

(sweater: target; skirt/belt: thrifted; scarf: vintage; socks: kohl's; sunglasses: kinney drugs (!); shoes: lulu*s)

I tried my best to get back on the color train today. This outfit feels essentially "Caitlin." This is the sort of thing I used to wear all the time, back when I actually took an extra fifteen minutes out of my morning to tease my hair (because somehow the outfit wouldn't work, in my mind, without the big hair). Another thing that doesn't work without the big hair: these sunglasses. For some reason I feel like they accentuate my flat head, or they're too retro to be worn without an equally retro 'do. Whatever, I'm weird...

Tonight is Art Club! I have been informed that the boyfriend of one of our number will be making pizzas for us, so that's awesome (and he's not even attending!). You know times have changed when the men are cooking dinner for the social events of their ladies ;) Now that's what I call progress.

in which i hippy gypsy shake

This is really a springtime dress, but I got it at Goodwill a few months ago and it jumps out at me every time I rummage through my closet (probably because it's chartreuse--did you know that chartreuse is the easiest color to spot from a distance?), so I decided to attempt a winterization and wound up with a sort of gypsy-sixties medley. I'm not going to lie--it felt weird to wear so many bright colors all at once. I used to go crazy with color all the time but I feel like I've become more sartorially subdued in the past year. Maybe this is my way of subconciously trying to counteract the fact that I'm 26 and I still dress like I'm 16 most of the time...

(dress/scarf: thrifted; tights: hue; shoes: lulu*s)

So, I didn't go to the gym last night. But I did get groceries and do the dishes and make chili and write a bit and watch several episodes of The League... so that's a lot. And tonight I'll go to the gym, I promise. Being good is so hard around the holidays. Not only are there Christmas cookies to eat and eggnog to drink, but it's just such a damn BUSY time of year. It's hard to find time and still maintain some semblance of sanity. After this weekend, it's Christmas! Craziness. Actually that kind of freaks me out... I thought I had so much more time... blargh.

in which diamonds are a girl's best friend

It is a gross rainy day, so I figured I could use a little color in my life. These jewel-print tights are really fun, but I don't wear a lot of bright colors so I wasn't sure how to incorporate them into my wardrobe--and then it hit me. And this outfit was born:

(dress: h&m; heels: seychelles; tights/hat: gifts)

Speaking of gross rainy days--WTF? Weather like this is why I left the Pacific Northwest, and while I do get rather irritable when I have to clean snow off my car, this is just weird. Also, what is up with all of the people swarming my photo spot? The location I've been using lately has had about eight cars parked in it for the past two days. What gives?

Sometimes I like working in an office. I like my morning ritual--pulling into the parking lot, starting up my computer, going downstairs for my coffee, sipping from my toasty-warm mug while waiting for the day to begin... and then I'm over it. The A/C kicks on, there is a crisis or two, my butt falls asleep from prolonged sitting, my coffee goes down my gullet and is gone, somebody starts eating something that smells delicious, the clock seems to stand still... and then I wonder if mopping the floor of the coffee shop was really that bad. But oh yeah... $$$$.

Whine, whine, whine. Tonight I'll be hitting the gym and doing laundry--but don't worry, no tanning for me.

in which i consider my colors

Looks like I'm continuing along with a similar sort of color scheme today--burgundy and green are not colors that I generally associate with spring/summer, but I decided that my nautical-inspired stripes were warm-weather appropriate enough :) This did get me thinking about colors though, and the prejudice against wearing certain hues when they are not "in season" (I thought about this on Monday as well, wearing black on a sunny day). It might be an interesting challenge to try to incorporate a different color into my wardrobe every week, all week, in a seasonally-appropriate way. A mini-challenge, if you will. Maybe I'll try it... and start out with something easy, like blue :)

(skirt/purse/sunglasses: vintage; scarf/shoes: thrifted; shirt: tjmaxx)

Today is my little brother's birthday (23?? Really?? I'm so old...), so the family (+K) is going out to dinner tonight at Sarducci's, our old favorite. I might actually order something different this time, since I've basically been eating my usual choice every night for the past few weeks. Mixin' it up! Craaaaazy. Do you guys have favorite restaurants where you go often and always order the same thing? Or is that just me? I'm weird. I fixate on food.

Gosh, thank god it's Friday, right? So ready for the weekend... have a happy one!