I wore this last Wednesday.

{Blouse: Similar | Similar Jeans: Target or J.Crew }

You know what's cruel? Posting old photos of a good hair day on a day that you aren't having a good hair day. It's a reminder of what could have been. Sigh.

This post was about to become an ode to mint jeans, but as I was looking at these photos I realized that these "ankle-cut jeans" don't actually hit my ankles. I'm eye-balling it but that's a good 3 inches up from my ankles, which makes them "cankle-cut jeans". I'm not sure I would have bought them had I noticed the word 'cankle' on the tag. But on the other hand, I have mint colored jeans so that trumps overly long ankles any day. 

Something New

{Sweater: Similar | Jeans: c/o Goldsign (similar) | Heels: UO | Tote: Similar}
Today I learned something: Mint and tomato not good in a sandwich -- pretty good as an outfit. Did I really make a mint and tomato sandwich for breakfast? You will never know. 
Did you have a good weekend? Was it as good as my breakfast sandwich? I didn't think so. 

Denim Jackets and Other Fears

{Dress: Simply Audrey | Jacket: Similar | Belt: Similar | Bracelet & Watch | Wedges: Similar}

I don't know about you, but there are a select few pieces of clothing that I am traumatized by from my high school days. Jean jackets, denim overalls, 4" wedged flip flops with large faux flowers attached to them just to name a few. Wind suits. I'm traumatized by wind suits, too. These are the things my nightmares are made of. I don't know why but high school kind of ruined denim jackets for me; I've been weary of them since. (We can't even talk about denim overalls. My therapist says it's still too soon.)

But I've been seeing denim jackets everywhere and I knew that I had to take the plunge. So I took the cheap plunge and found this one on sale. So far so good -- I got it last week and I've worn it 4 times since. Fear of the jacket has been conquered. 

It's official -- I'm in that annoying growing your hair out again stage. I feel like my hair says to me every morning: "remember when your hair was cute and short/remember when your hair was long and pretty?" Only a few more years until it's long again. Hopefully overalls and platform flower flip flops will be back in by then.

Shoes and Speeches

Sorry for the slight blogging delay (I started having withdrawals on day two, I've missed you guys) but I was at a blogger conference over the weekend. Ironically enough, I wasn't able to blog during the blogging conference. It seems so wrong, right?  But I digress. 
Of course I had no idea what to wear so I turned to my trusty mustard pants. And not to make my favorite red orange pumps jealous, but I might have picked up some new pink shoes. Pink is the new  red orange.  Right, Pantone? 
And if you ever wondered what I look like while giving a speech, it's this: 

Compelling. 

Jumping the Gun

{Similar Cardigan, Blouse, Skirt}
Yesterday's semi-warm weather got me all gushy inside for spring. In other words, I should have worn tights today. It is not bare leg weather yet. The optimist in me is hoping for sunshine by noon. Or maybe I'll just run home for some tights. 
I braved Target at 8:30 am on Sunday to check out the Jason Wu collection. There were surprisingly no crowds (and none of these people) and I pretty much had the collection to myself. I picked up this number I'm wearing and this top, too. I was a little sad I didn't get in a  fight with anyone for my sizes, but I still pushed over a rack just for the sake of it.