well i'm on day 2 of the no pants week. aka, only skirts and dresses for 7 days. my feet are pretty sore from heels and boots with heels but i'll get over it. people at work are pretty surprised and i've been asked if i have a date tonight 3 times. i was going to post a picture of me looking "nice" but dorky but this computer is just not having it. i will have to try again when i get home. i'll have plenty of time this evening while i'm sitting around waiting for midnight. yep, more night work tonight.
about 2 more hours of my "day work" to get through before i'm out of here. i'm very pleased that xmas is over but now i can't help waiting for 2008 to be over. too much cool stuff happening in 2009. i just can't wait to get there. sxsw, italy, back to school, my 29th birthday. wow.
UPDATE: Here's the day 2 outfit
well i can't find my pic for day 7. fine enough because it looked a lot like day 6. now i need to figure out what i'm going to do next. i am gearing up to no pants for 7 days. that means all dresses and skirts. the trouble is that my wardrobe isn't robust enough for that yet. i'm planning to hit up post xmas sales and fill it out. i need more heels and more outfit items. i'm also considering trying to force something into habit by doing it every day for 22 days. something like yoga, the treadmill, try a new receipie every day. i'm still mulling it over.
so it's saturday and the focus of my weekend is going to be house work and organization. i want to get everything sorted so that the rest of this year holds minimal stress for me. next year is going to be busy. working in southlake, living in dallas and going to school in richardson will be ugly. i'd like to somewhere closer to where i live or work but they just don't have the degree plan i want. i have no idea how i'm going to do this.
well it's noon and i have quite a bit to get done today. plus i have to leave for mesquite in 4 hours. no pictures today but i'm back with the music. i wish there was an easy way to transfer all the mp3s from this blog over to the redradio blog. can i keep up with 2 blogs at once?
i hope the sun comes out soon. i'm tired.
today turned out much better than expected. i woke up this morning to iced over bridges and snow flurries and opted to spend the day in. i got caught up on a lot of my work and hope to be 100% by the end of the day tomorrow. though i only left the house for an hour or two to have lunch with sarah i still followed the rules.
i haven't really tried today. I'm working from home and it's 30 degrees outside. i've only left to go to the grocery store... and i wore sneakers and jeans. it's just too easy! so unless i get cute and go out tonight (which is unlikely since i have to work at midnight and be back in the office at 7:30AM) i'm just going to call today a wash. i'll make up for it tomorrow by wearing a dress. i have boots and tights which will hopefully look cute with a dress i bought months ago but have not worn. we'll see everyone at work freak.
in other news the plumber came but my shower is about the same. he said he was going to check something out and reschedule. looks like another "work from home" day is in my future. one can only hope. i want hot water in my shower. this tepid water doesn't work for me. ooh! coffee is ready.
i didn't really try today. my plans were housework, errands and digging through my parents' garage for christmas decorations.
black jeans, black t-shirt and black flats. i'm still within the rules. those are not sneakers. i'm concerned today because i'm out of shoes. i have a pair of black boots and a pair of brown heels that don't match anything i own. we'll see what i can put together tomorrow.
well on day two i'm still doing pretty well though i see a theme. i'm hoping i'll branch out a bit before this is all over.
black blazer, white ruffled shirt, cuffed dark jeans and black heels. wait a minute. didn't i do this yesterday? crap. well at least i'm a bit more comfortable. today i chose my stable black heels that i wear whenever a dress occasion arises. since these are "broken in" i'm in less pain, but after walking around northpark for a little while i was quite miserable. no real difference that i can notice yet. though i think the sales people were a little more helpful than i'm used to. though i could be making that up. afterwards i attended a burn party. people noticed i was dressed up again (compared to usual) and i got a few compliements.
the new years resolutions begin! so i've decided i should take it upon myself to pay more attention to my physical appearance. i've grown a tad jealous of my friends who get all cute at the drop of a hat while i have serious anxiety anytime jeans and sneakers are not appropriate. so after seeing some dumb article in a fashion magazine about a editor who wears her hair different every day for two weeks i've decided i will try something similar. so phase 1 is no sneakers for a week. this almost forces me to upgrade the rest of my outfit.
first attempt:
i've been rocking out to my turntable the last few days and i have to say there's nothing more fun than digging around at biill's or half price books and finding awesome music i wouldn't have otherwise checked out. currently spinning is dave dee, dozy, mitch and tich. one of my los angeles scores i was happy to find for a mere $5. you may recognize them from a song on the death proof soundtrack. the whole greatest hits is awesome and takes me back in time to simple happy pop music.
well well well...
it's thursday and i'm blogging again when i have night work. actually i've had night work every day this week. in addition to my morning, afternoon and evening work. this week has gone like so:
6:30AM get and get ready to leave the house
7:30AM leave the house and drive to plano to learn things that will make my resume look nice
8 AM- 4PM work like crazy while trying to pay attention to some of this training i'm supposed to be getting
4 - 4:30PM drive home with no traffic with no radio on, just for some peace
4:30 - 8PM work more
8PM eat something, consider cleaning but realize i'm too tired, watch some netflix
10PM bedtime!
12AM - 1 or 2AM get woken up by phone because something isn't working right and fix it
-repeat-
so i'm looking forward to saturday when i'm going to take a mini vacation and hopefully not work at all that day. i'm hoping to score some fab xmas gifts at the urban bazzar in the bishop arts district.
hopefully this will inspire me to run home and work on all the other xmas gifts i'm supposed to be making. my britney soundtrack has been helping quite a bit with me staying in motion. the new album came out tuesday and it's exactly what i thought it would be. of course it's exactly what i wanted and needed it to be.
well enough of my whining. i'm going to do some of this housework i've been putting off and write up a to do list. but not before i put together my fantasy xmas wish list.
- 10 megepixle digital camera
- sewing lessons
- new laptop complete with wireless router for the house
- samsung omnia cell phone
- professional painters to come paint my loft
- bed frame
- scholorship to art school
- wii fit or wii music
- inverting back thing (teetertv.com)
- ipod touch
- trip to japan
- a week off of work
- all my credit cards paid off
santa, are you reading this?
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