I blame Claudia Kishi

I was at target and they had 2 t-stands (or just 1 stand with 4 arms) with Antiks and cordoroy Joe’s Jeans (socialite). The price points were a bit cheaper, but the Antiks were too over-embellished for my tastes and I’m married to Joe’s Provocateur fit. I looked at target.com, but they didn’t have any of that on their website. I would think I was dreaming (or at last finally met madness), if I hadn’t examined the denim for a good six minutes or so.

( I saw this on Amalah’s Wednesday Advice Smackdown who got it from Project Rungay)

Fabulous is damn right. Like the icon of fabulousness, right here people.
A side note: It took me a few seconds remembering how to spell fabulous. I kept thinking of Fabalous and the way he rapped “F-A-B-A-L-O-U-S” and ever since then I had to double-check my spelling any time I wrote fabulous.

I digress. I don’t watch Project Runway until they start running the marathons because I like to watch things in one or two sittings and because I am either closing at work that night or I don’t remember to watch it. So it took me a few minutes to realize that this person is on Project Runway. Now I guess I have to beg Nick to let me put PR on his ti-faux just to see her.

I adore this picture. It sums up perfectly, what my ideal style is. The outfit itself, is not for me, but her whole attitude, hair, outfit, and accessories is elegant, pulled together, refined, and very ‘Old Hollywood’. Plus I love her luggage. I would totally sell one of my kidneys for her set. And I’ll even throw in a cousin or two to sweeten the deal. Just don’t take Skippy, he has asthma. (GG rulez!)

Sadly, for all my clothes-talking, I am really just a jeans and t-shirt girl. I’m half kid and half creature trying to become more like the picture above. I bought a long sleeved black thermal with a cartoon character printed all over it, last month. I couldn’t help it, my love for Gir knows no t-shirt bounds, but I think I should not buy cartoon character t-shirts anymore. Or any t-shirts that are worn by 12 year old girls trying to be a little out there by shopping at Hot Topic. And yes, I totally bought that shirt at Hot Topic.

It is about time I retire my winter coat. It’s an Old Navy peacoat from five years ago and it looks worn. It used to be black, now the color could be called a really faded black-gray. Also, it was not as warm as it could have been and everyone knows I am that girl that gets cold easily. And because I will be up in Pa every other weekend or so, I might as well jump on that coat-wagon.

I love this Ben Sherman coat:

(from South Moon Under)
It comes in black as well, but I think the ivory stands out. I’m a little afraid to try it on since I have a feeling that I will look a little more like someone with no neck and a little less like Grace Kelly. Also I’m afraid that I will love it to death and I will throw all of my winter clothing budget out the window for one coat.

Besides the funnel neck uncertainty, I adore the rest of the coat. The buttons, the way the sleeves are done, and perhaps most importantly, it looks like the pockets are flaps and hidden. For some reason I cannot stand the kind of coat pockets that  you can actually see. It is a very nit-picky thing and it drives whoever is shopping with me crazy. I’ve rejected so many coats, just on the basis of the pocket.

For example:

Gap’s Tie Car Coat 

Don’t get me wrong, I think the coat is cute, but the visible pocket? Nein, nein, nein.
Eh, the search continues…

So I never realized that Nick linked my blog from his blog. He mentioned that fact on saturday and I said “What? I thought this thing just had like one reader and I was nameless!”

Not that I think anyone actually reads this, but I’ve locked up a bunch of old posts to save unknowing readers from the bitching.

I suppose this blog will be less ‘introspective thought’ (hah!) and more superficial whatever (not that it wasn’t that already). I can only promise a 5% reduction in the whining, but you get 50% more filler! What a deal! One day only!

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I guess I’m going to try this thing called ‘running around until you are tired’ as a method of working out. I need more exersize and climbing two flights of stairs should not be considered as my daily workout.