Commence hyperventilation

Dear Fate,

With today's lovely, lovely email from Barney's, all my dreams were presented before me on a silver platter. I've been dreaming about these boots since then and then again here, and now they are on sale... with free shipping!!!! Ahhh, I want them!

Many thanks,
M

Cover it up

Sometimes I wonder how old I am. Yes, I know when my actual birthday is. I can subtract the current year from the year I was born and voila.... not my real age. Because my real age is portrayed in my deep affinity for cardigans. Oh yeah, I said it. It is out in the open:

I. LOVE. CARDIGANS.

All J.Crew

So, again, I ask... how old am I?

Lead with the right foot

I hate starting the week a step behind, but I somehow managed to do exactly that this week. Here's to hoping you don't fall pray to the same slush brain syndrome that I sometimes do!




... and no, this song has nothing to do with my current situation, I am just really enjoying it right now. If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend downloading it, burning it, whatever you choose, and blasting it in the car.

I love when a good song drowns out your thoughts.

A good Trench

A classic Trench Coat should be on every respectable woman's list of must-have clothing items. This one item has power! It oozes style. I'm talking about the good, unassuming "oh, this 'ole thing? I just threw it on!" kind of style.

The "I wear what the Brits wear" - Burberry


The "I'm an avid traveler" - J. Crew


The "Short classic" - The Gap


The "Low-key is always approachable" - Banana Republic


The "New generation" - Urban Outfitters


And I need one. (I would like to be a respectable, fashionable woman, okay?)

So, which one?

If you know what's good for you

Go see the latest issue of Lonny. It feeds the soul.

... and it makes me want to get organized simply for the beauty of it...

Now seriously, go! You won't regret it. I promise.

Stripe happy

Anthropologie's spring line is totally up my alley, especially these stripes! Look at this deliciousness:


I want them all! I'm also dying for these Frye boots:


And these from Urban Outfitters, but they don't have my size anymore. Drat!

Since they don't have my size, I suppose I'll have have these:

Oh, the woes of settling.

Cleaning house!

For some reason I woke up with a mission on Saturday morning to clean house! I've been dying to go through everything I own, donating what I don't need/want and pitching what is just plain done-zo, but with my horrible head cold last weekend the mission was delayed... but not forgotten.

So, up and at 'em I arose and went straight to work! By 11 a.m. I had covered anything harboring clothes, kitchenware and electronics. I even went through my fridge and pantry. Needless to say, by the time I was done the boxes were lined up at the door like soldiers heading for their home country:

Which just brought one question to mind: How does one accumulate so much "stuff"?

Now that my apartment is officially cleaned out, I've got a plan. As I mentioned, I'm not going to purchase any more furniture until I'm on the other side of the country, BUT swapping furniture in my rooms and rearranging the layouts can give a pretty darn good face lift to any space.

So that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm taking inventory and then breaking out the graph paper folks!

If you haven't heard, as a kid I would scale down all the furniture in my room to have a graph paper model to play with the layout until it suited my fancy. I also had a binder full of my favorite bedroom designs from various magazines and catalogs. Yeah, I was pretty much sold on being an interior designer or an architect until I made the realization that I hadn't taken an art class since the 5th grade. Womp womp womp.

But, here I am! Employed and able to satisfy my passion for interior design on my own time. Ain't life grand like that?

Since we're on the topic, I'll leave you with some amazing photos from Elle Decor:

Coolest kid's bedroom ever! I love the idea of using a map for the wall treatment. Is anyone else really hoping the third drawer has a really small "c" above the handle?

What if...

... I had RED HAIR?!?!?!

(I tried to warn you what happens when I get restless!)

I wouldn't permanently dye it, just a color depositing shampoo or a semi-permanent dye (I got reprimanded last night for dying my hair... apparently fine hair can't even be jazzed up with color. COME ON PEOPLE!!! Give me something to work with!)

A good haircut

A good haircut is hard to come by when you have fine, hard to manage, doesn't really follow the general rules of physics hair that I have, but alas, I must bite the bullet and get one every couple of months.

So, yesterday, I went to basically the ONLY salon in the Central NY for this:


Did I get this? No.

Did I expect to get this? Not really.

Did I still hope to get this? Yes.

Do I often dream of waking up with thick, wavy hair? Yes.

Do I realize the unlikeliness of this actually happening? Yes.

Do I contemplate shaving my head to see if different hair grows back? Yes.

Would I ever do this? Not unless I went crazy.