Looking for Spring

Happy Thorsday, little friday, thankful thursday and more!   The girls and I are ready for spring.   Ironically, I’ve heard we are to be below average temperatures through mid-March.  Whatever.  We enjoyed the near-60s yesterday and got in a very long wog.  (Walk + jog = wog, credited to the basically blogless J)

Thankful?  I’m really thankful for the ability to destress in nature, with the dogs.  My girls are brutal trainers, and those who follow the girls on Facebook might know that I have a new personal best time now, because the girls were on a tear after missing their walk yesterday due to rain.   But I’m also grateful for our wonderful neighbors – more than one – whose truly neighborly ways allow us to roam about 7 miles worth of roads and trails. 

I’m also glad that we got a taste of spring yesterday. 

What are you thankful for today?

Lendperk?

Have you heard of Lendperk?   The Budget Babe introduced me to them yesterday.   I probably would have signed up already if she hadn’t called them the Netflix for dresses.   See…  Netflix didn’t work for me.  Here’s a little insight into the weird mind that is me.

I can’t be bothered to walk to the entertainment hutch-thing, open doors, figure out which device is the DVD player (because I learned Monday that I can’t manage the BluRay’s remote), toss whatever disc the Knight left in there somewhere, insert what I want to watch, and play.  I can however, use “guide” and “list” on our DVR thingee, so I watch NCIS and Diners, Drive-ins and Dives over and over when the Knight isn’t home to operate the audio-visual equipment.

Anyway.

A dress I covet

In theory, Lendperk seems to have been designed for me.  Here’s more insight into who I am…  while I have favorites I enjoy wearing over and over, I really like mixing it up.  I rarely remember if a friend has worn something before, unless it was something I coveted.  (Yes, I was raised Catholic and know that’s a sin, but green is my favorite color, my eye color, and I just can’t help it.)

What say you?  Should I give Lendperk a try?  February is shot, but March has a League-wide meeting of monumental proportions, and April and May are chocked full of socials, meetings, ceremonies, and other reasons to have extra dresses that I haven’t worn over and over on hand.

Lendperk

The brands they offer are not designer, and they range from Modcloth to J Crew.  They run from truly casual to what they call formal, or what I’d call fancy cocktail/party frocks.  For instance, while this Modcloth pretty is considered formal, I’d wear it to our community celebration awards ceremony or our May/annual dinner.  The ceremony is daytime and I typically wear a true “day dress” (meaning Sunday best or dressy business) while the dinner is obviously in the evening and as the master of ceremonies, I’ll wear something cocktail-ish.

Have you heard of Lendperk?  Should I give them a try?

World Spay Day

Clingy mess & me, waiting for the vet

Ironically, we went to the vet on World Spay Day.

Of course, it wasn’t for THAT; it was time for Sissy’s regular eye appointment and her annual visit.  You can read about that here.   The cliff notes version is that her pressure is fine, she and the new vet got along well, and life is good.

Never mind the cold, heavy rain, making our walking trails all sloppy again.  Sissy had a good report, and that trumps everything.

How do your cliff notes for today read?

 

Flight

Just so you know, I don’t watch awards shows.  I do enjoy the morning after reports, including the fashion reviews.  I couldn’t tell you the last time I went to a movie in a theater.  I’ve never watched a movie on demand, and I dropped Netflix a couple of years ago.  I can’t/don’t wear strapless or trains, but isn’t Reese fabulous?

Have you seen Flight?  (Warning… spoilers in that link.)

The cast includes some of my favorites – Denzel, John Goodman, Tamara Tunie – and the Knight liked it enough to bring it home and suggest I watch it.  Generally, we agree on movies, so maybe it’s my frame of mind, but I’m just not into it.  I already know that good people do bad things and that bad people can do good things, that we have to be responsible for our actions.

I watch movies the way I read books though, so I’m suffering through this, waiting, watching, looking for whatever my husband and his firehouse crew thought was so good.

How do you manage a movie or book that doesn’t meet your expectations?  Fight or flight?

 

Pinning Fitness

While the bulk of my Pinterest pins are recipes I mean to try when I have time and energy to do more than click and save, there are a couple of boards I do actually use/try almost right away in a lot of cases.   I’m not perfectly consistent with where I put stuff, but my thought process is that Health is, well… wellness-related, although it does include some yoga/stretches for back pain, but you might also find similar under Fitness, and still more fitness-related pins can be found under Hit the trail! which is where anything related to running, walking and/or hiking can be found.

Pinterest is probably my favorite time suck – er… social media site.  I don’t have to remember to snap a photo or upload it somewhere (Instagram) and I’m not even going to touch Twitter.  I just don’t get that one, maybe because I don’t get the whole concept of brevity either.

Anyway, Pinterest is especially handy for my fitness “ooooh shiny!” moments because I can access it everywhere and anywhere.  I can pull up that playlist on the trail, in the gym… wherever I am when I realize I need it.   Same with yoga routines.  Sure, I bookmark them on my laptop, but what happens when my iPad and I are waiting for a meeting to start and I have a moment to center myself and work the kinks out before the others arrive?  Yeah.  I do these things… you don’t?!

My go-to yoga pin from Women’s Health

Do you pin?

Do you have a favorite … whatever site?  Pinterest?  Instagram?  Twitter?  (And seriously, if you love Twitter, why?  Can you explain it to me?)

Pet Love

I spy…

Happy Thorsday, little friday, thankful thursday and everything else.  Yesterday was Love Your Pet Day.   Did you celebrate?  We accidentally did, as the girls are at work with me today, and were yesterday as well.

Being the DIVA Queen, Sissy is quick to note any favoritism not going her way.  There’s a hint of evidence… can you guess what injustice she’s spotted?

Yeppers…  That spoiled baby-brat is not only on the desk, but brought a stinky, slimy, nasty toy with her.  I will tear a page or two off my blotter tomorrow when little doggy feet and icky doggy toys aren’t on my desk!

Thankfuls?  I’m thankful my girls get to come to work sometimes, that my mother inlaw dotes on her furry grand-girls, that Sissy gets to meet our new vet next week…

What are you thankful for today?

Phil Lied?

Okay.  A few weeks ago, this hairy dude named Phil saw his shadow and winter was over – or however that works.  So can someone explain to me why we have cooler weather and snow (albeit flurries)?! 

I’m ready for spring now.  I’m eyeing boat shoes and lace tees, and loving the spring hues.   Here’s what I have in assorted carts.  I can make a case for all of them, but I’m not sure I *NEED* any of them.  I do *NEED* truly nude pumps, with a heel 2.5-3″, but I’m having trouble finding real leather in a color that isn’t taupe or nearly pink. 

But will I *REALLY* wear the boat shoes?  I wore the daylights out of them in high school, but then I wore shorts and mini skirts, and now I wear capri pants and dresses.

However, I’m pretty sure I’m going to order this lace top.  I could wear it now with my PANK wool pencil skirt and my grey ruffle skirt, my green ankle cords, my PANK jeans, my wine jeans and then all spring and back into the fall with my chambray skirt, my blue/green/white Lilly P skirt, white cropped jeans, my coral cropped jeans…

Okay.  I’m ordering that one.  Thanks for talking me into it!

I also really want this boucle jacket.  Yeah, I know just a few posts ago I threw 3/4 length sleeves under the bus, but these two items are exceptions, because they’re otherwise perfect for me and my existing wardrobe. 

Looks mint, doesn’t it?  It’s actually lime, turquoise, cream/white, black/navy…  (I can’t tell on the last two).  It would work with my navy ponte dress, my three different chambray dresses, my turquoise and lime tees, white or cream tees… 

I didn’t make quite the same convincing argument for that one, but I might order it anyway.  What do you think?  I don’t have but a couple of not-winter-weight tailored jackets.

I’m also craving the Land’s End dot cardi, but I can’t choose between the navy and the coral.  Navy, I can’t wear with my navy ponte knit dress, and the coral, I can’t wear with my coral crops.  I do have another coral cardi and an orange cardi, but I also have a navy “boyfriend” cardi…  I think I just talked myself into the navy.

I can wear it with my red dresses, my chambray dresses, my green dresses… virtually everything that isn’t navy or black, and I don’t have much black at all in my wardrobe.  I couldn’t wear the coral with my reds and I’ve also already purchased a pale pink denim jacket for spring…

Are you ready for spring?