Fashion Friday

Well folks this is the last day of August!!! How crazy! Summer went by so fast, but I'm sort of glad about that. Fall is my favorite season, especially for the fashion. I want to share an outfit today that is another good transition outfit. It is still summery but can be worn in early fall.

 

 

I love the warm colors that remind of fall. Also if I could have a brown bag like that I would die. I'm searching for the perfect one and this one is pretty darn close. I'm also not one to wear yellow or polka dots, but I think I would wear a more goldenrod yellow like the shirt here.

 

 

Enjoy the last few weeks of warmer weather!

 

Peace&Love

~L

New Job

I'm not sure if I filled you all in on whether or not I had a new job, well I do. I will be a toddler teacher at KinderCare. I'm very much excited to start, but a little nervous. As much as I grew to love where I was working previously, I had to do the right thing for me. I didn't want to become stuck in a rut where everything is complacent. It's the same day in and day out. I'm going to basically be starting all over again, and I hope that it is worth it. I'm back working the 9-6 shift, definitely not my favorite, but hopefully I can work down towards the earlier shifts, and sooner rather than later. I also have to wear a uniform. Really not my favorite because I would like to wear teacher clothes. But I look at it as I don't have to get my clothes all dirty and I will have less big loads of laundry to do. Anyways, I will be leaving shortly to start this new job of mine. I have closed another chapter in my life and begin writing another one.


Peace&Love
~L

Monday Musings

Yes a week has passed and I've been extremely busy. Like I turned 24 last Thursday. I'm indifferent to birthdays. I'm not afraid of getting old. I'm just not a fan of being the center of attention. My bf did take me out to dinner and got me a gorgeous necklace and scarf and flowers. I spent Thurs-Sun at his place which was nice. Friday he made a steak and potato dinner and we caught up on Hells Kitchen. Saturday we went rock climbing which I loved. I'm thinking of doing it more often. We also went to his aunt's house to celebrate his grandma and cousins birthday. Yesterday was more of a chill day. We went shopping and didn't buy anything. He bought a shirt. That was my birthday weekend in a nutshell. I feel like I have a lot of living up to do for his birthday. So anyway this was more of an update of the past few days, but here is a musing for you.

-The awkward moment when you are trying on bras to see if they fit and your phone rings and it happens to be bf and of course you don't want to ignore him so you decide to answer. Thinking possibly maybe you should just tell him that you will call him back soon. Then you get to talking about your day and before you know it you are in an awkward position of trying to get your clothes back on and not wanting the others in the dressing room to hear both sides of the conversation so you don't put him on speaker which makes dressing all the more difficult. Finally, you manage to get dressed and out and on the move and within minutes of your struggle the conversation is over. Yeah, that happened today.

Peace&Love
~L

Monday Musings

Oh I can't believe it is Monday again. Crazy! What has happened today let me share with you:

-My favorite thing about work is when my little babies come walking up to me first thing in the morning and give me gigantic baby hugs. Melts my heart everytime

-Had to talk with the pastor of the church I currently work at for an exit interview. I had to basically say why I am leaving and if they could improve anything. She also said Missy, my boss, was very heartbroken and sad over losing me. Oh brother...made me feel guilty.

-Got a haircut. Love getting the shampoo done so I can get a head massage.

-What I thought about while getting my haircut: men get to have women cut their hair, and many of them are decent looking women, and at some places they are gorgeous. So men get to have a better experience as far as I'm concerned. When do I get to have a guy who looks like Channing Tatum, who is straight, cut my hair?

-Go potty before going anywhere. You can never plan on unplanned traffic or your bladder deciding it is going to super fill itself up. And when you bust through the front door of your house you want nothing more than to throw everything down and run straight to the nearest potty and relieve yourself.

-Crossing off 3 things on the infinitely long to do list this week sort of makes it feel things are more doable.

Peace&Love
~L

Weekend Recap

I suppose it is rather silly to post a recap when the weekend isn't quite over. But I've done most of my weekend already. Today is more or less just sitting around doing absolutely nothing. Friday night I babysat for my cousin's kids who were so easy to take care of. I was completely exhausted from the crazy week I had. I got 11 hours of sleep which was awesome. Yesterday was spent pretty much doing what I'm doing now, a bunch of nothing. I did start working on my birthday present for my boyfriend. I know part of it is a homemade craft, which I will show you when it is finished. At about 230 I left to go to Mukwonago to go to Maxwell Street days which is a flea market. I mainly went to see my bf and support him in his bathfitters committment. I was there for about 2 hours until he finished up. Then I went back to his place and we got ready to go down to Irish Fest. We had a good time down there, minus spending lots of money to get in. We learned a lot about Ireland and it has us interested in taking a trip there soon. I've always wanted to go, but I'm more serious about it now. We learned how to hurl, which I never knew was a sport until yesterday. The most disappointing thing about the Fest was that they served no Guinness. How is that even possible? It's the most Irish beer out there. But I made up for it with a Sprecher Irish Stout, which was pretty darn close to my Guinness. Alex said a lot of sweet mushy stuff through the course of the night, which always makes me smile and love him even more. He makes me extremely happy and I get those butterflies still. I'm just so very lucky to have him in my life. Today he went down to Kenosha to do his last day of bathfitters for hopefully ever, or at least until her committs to it again come winter. I also have an outfit to share with you that I wore yesterday that is my fashionable friday picture.

Don't mind the horrible quality and mess. I can't tell you prices on this stuff since I bought most of this last year. Boot are from Famous Footwear, jeans from American Eagle, Cardigan from Old Navy, button up from H&M, belt came with a shirt from Kohl's. A great fall outfit if I do say so myself. And the weather around here has been very fall like allowing me to wear outfits such as this.


Peace&Love
~L

Not whacked out today

I could probably find enough to complain about or find something whacky, but I'm just not feeling it today. I haven't let anyone know that I had an interview for a new childcare job that gives me a chance to grow. Eventually I told my boss and gave her fair warning and we had talked many times about it. I told her if they call back I am taking the job. Well they called yesterday afternoon and offered me the position. I called them back today and told them I accepted. Well I told my boss at the end of the day that I had taken the position and she was really pissed. I have no idea why. I told her way back in June that I was looking for other places of employment. It wasn't like I blind sided her with this. I know it isn't easy for her to hear. And she doesn't want to take the time to find replacement people. Anyways I'm happy with my decision, but feel the next 2 weeks will be extremely awkward. Here is a little song that helped me remember that our life is a bunch of roads running together to get us to the end destination. Some roads are tough and filled with bumps and sometimes we even take wrong turns, but without those wrong turns we can never get back on the right one.

Every Road by The Maine

"On every road
We cross alone
We're thinking of those we left back home
So follow the lines
And I'll be your guide
Cause we're the lucky ones
on every road."

Peace&Love
~L

Sales and Gunmetal

Thank you weather for making it feel like an early fall. Which just in case none of you know, fall is my favorite season. In the past few weeks, I've been more and more interested in expanding my knowledge of fashion and getting back to being that girl who had fashion sense. The only thing keeping me from really going out there is money. If I had a few hundred dollars laying around to spend on clothes I certainly would, but money is tight. I've been getting inspiration from pinterest as well as some fashion blogs. I'm trying to buy a few pieces of clothing and add accessories. I want to be able to utilize the clothes I have to creat different outfits. So I've written a short list of basics I need for my wardrobe. A pair of skinny jeans, jeggings, black skinnies, khakis, pencil skirt, blazer, a few button up blouses, a few cardigans, denim shirt, some tank tops, and thats all I've got right now. I have a few of these things already and have shoes and scarves to accompany these pieces. Today I did some shopping, but was rather disappointed. I know most places at the moment are clearing out and discounting their summer clothes and stocking up on fall merchandise. H&M has become one of my favorite stores as of late and lucky for me I was able to knock 2 items off my list for under $40. I got a white button up for $20 and a pair of black skinnies for $12. That right there could be an outfit. Just have to find some cute flats and a pop of color in a scarf or jewelry.

If any of you know me, you know that I love nailpolish and am constantly changing my nail color. I am currently wearing Gunmetal by Sally Hansen. It is a metallic grey. I've been wearing lots of oranges and pinks for summer and I needed a change of pace. It will definately be one of my favorite colors come fall.

Peace&Love
~L

Fashion Friday #1

Welcome to my first edition of Fashion Friday. As I stated in a previous post I will either try a new fad and see how well it worked or show you an outfit that I am wearing or have found that would love to have. Since today it felt like fall around here. I shouldn't say that, because fall in Wisconsin is anywhere from 50-70 degrees. Well we hit about 71 degrees today and it felt so good after all this extremely hot weather we've been having. Basically, I'm in a fall mood today and wanted to share an outfit from pinterest that is really easy to put together. It is a nice transition outfit from summer to fall and the capri's and tank top can be worn without the cardigan.

Cardigan: AE $25, Tank: AE $7, Jeans: AE $20, Sandals: AE $20

Peace&Love
~L

Whacked out Edition 2

Yeah yeah yeah. I have completely failed on my job of starting these new series. I'm sorry for that. I don't have too much stuff to complain about today. Other than my computer being completely whack. The screen has an odd resolution going on. The colors are all out of whack and I'm not even sure whats going on with that. Then my mouse keypad thing doesn't work the way it's supposed to which makes doing anything on my computer a little difficult. Good thing I can always hook up a mouse to it. Anyways that is my short whacked out edition for you.

Peace&Love
~L

Whacked out Wed. First Edition

So let's begin with the first edition of whacked out. How fitting that I actually have something to complain about.

A few weeks ago I went to my bank and asked when I was getting a new debit card. I had noticed that my card expired on July 31st and still had seen nothing in the mail regarding a card. The teller told me that it looked like from her database they were mailing cards out on the 24th and I would get it by the 31st. Well shockingly enough I didn't get it yesterday. I still don't have it. I went back to the bank today, but tried a different location. I explained the situation to a teller and she said well sometimes that happens with custom made cards. I told her I didn't order a custom made card. I told her that logically they should have sent a card a couple of weeks ago so I would have it by the end of the month. She had no idea what I was saying to her, so I talked to an actual banker and he took care of the situation by issuing me a temporary debit card. He said that he has no idea why I wouldnt have gotten one and that he was going to order another one. I then asked him if they can see when a card has been ordered or sent and he said no that can't be done. Really?! So I was lied to by one location and the teller at this place had no idea what she was talking about and just sat there with her ridiculous face smiling away. You are wasting my time and that annoys me.


Love&Peace
~L