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black buckle boots, black cowl neck belted sweater, black crochet flyaway, black rhinestone earrings, grey leggings, Sugar Ray
G’Night everybody! Oh wait. That’s backwards. I guess I still have to provide some “content” in here, don’t I? Alright, I guess.
Actually, I was hoping you could provide me with some content. See you told me all about your Christmas presents, and I dug it ever so much. Now I’m actually dying to hear about your New Year’s Resolutions! Tell them to me! Well, that is if you feel comfortable sharing. New Year’s Resolutions are fascinating to me. Why we resolve and what we resolve each year. That is good stuff right there. But actually, I used to be superstitious against resolutions. It’s not that I’m against having aspirations for oneself. It’s just always seemed to me that the surest way to fail at something is to resolve to do it. I think about all those years I resolved to be more organized…to watch more old movies… to stop eating frosting by the tub… stop posting Facebook status updates about wanting to taser 12-year-old girls that shop at my store… oh sorry. I just made that last resolution just now. So I can’t say whether or not it will be a success. If tomorrow goes anything like today, I kinda doubt it.
Then again, this blog and this project actually started as a resolution. And look how that turned out! Knock on wood of course. Barring severe bodily injury in the next couple of days that would prevent me from getting dressed/taking pictures/posting. Hell, if I ended up next to death and hospitalized I would still rock the paper gown and talk my mom through logging into WordPress. That’s how determined I am to finish. But I think it’s safe to say this is one year I broke the curse. So now I’m thinking on resolutions again but I doubt I’ll be making any. The new blog is also goal-oriented and I’d say it’s a bit more ambitious that your average on-stop-shop New Year’s resolution. We’ll leave it at that for now.
Here’s something you don’t see a terrible lot of me doing, which is wearing almost all black. Why am I in all black? Well, I’m mourning of course. Mourning the end of this project and daily blogging. Okay, not really. I just felt like wearing all black. It’s actually the color I feel most comfortable in. I really love it. I almost can’t express what a change this year has been for me to wear so much color. I’ve enjoyed every moment of it, and learned a lot. But not dressing in black by default was actually something I have had to work out. So while I’m relatively at peace with color now, I still have black days, and today I chose to indulge.
Part of the reason for my indulgence? Why it’s another new shirt! Something else I didn’t do a lot of this year was buy very many new new items. Lots of thrifted stuff, sure. But all-told, I really only went and splurged brand new clothes on two occasions. So now I have these new shirts that I bought myself for Christmas and I’m being kind of geeky about it. Bust it out! Style it up! Even these earrings are new. Oh baubly goodness! Merry Christmas to me!
In fact, I guess you could say I’m finally getting around to one of my early fashion resolutions for the year which was to Stop Saving the Good Stuff. It only took me all year to cease with the hoarding behavior. But here within the safety of the last week of the project, I feel pretty safely that I’m not going to run out of outfits. Maybe. I still don’t know what I’m wearing for the next two days. Fingers crossed though!
Belted Top – Work
Leggings – Work
Earrings – 5.7.9
Flyaway – 5.7.9
Boots – c/o Wanted Shoes
Title courtesy of Sugar Ray – “When It’s Over”
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I could rock an outfit like this every day of the week. I’d throw on a bracelet or earrings with some color and add a giant brightly colored purse. I probably wear grey and/or black 3 out of 5 days during the work week now. I do better during the spring and summer months.
Oh, and as far as my goals… I’ll be blogging about them next week. Here’s a few: read 50 books in 2011, see 10 movies in the theater and save $1000.
I very much like the all black today. My favorite piece is the flyaway! I’m not one that really likes New Years Resolutions. Since I work mainly with women who struggle with weight loss and eating I have learned that most New Years Resolutions are a set up for failure – which is very sad to see. Just realized that statement is very negative – sorry but that’s how I feel about resolutions. I’m sure many people make resolutions and accomplish them.
I agree that New Years Resolutions can be a set up for failure. We all could benefit from trying to better ourselves but why try to start them all at one time of the year. I am going to continue the resolution that I have been working on for two years. Being a person who leaves a mess where ever I go was getting on MY nerves. The resolution…. “PUT IT AWAY NOT DOWN”. It sounds like a pretty simple thing to do, but not for me. I am getting better but haven’t mastered it yet.
touch my toes.
New Year’s Resolutions…oh how I hate them. There are too many times to count that I made them and didn’t stick with it. There were quite a few years where I didn’t bother to have any so that I didn’t have to stress about it. I decided this year to have a few but I am making them more attainable hopefully. One is to SIMPLIFY…by that I mean finding ways to make my life simpler whether it be better meal planning or cleaning out a cluttered drawer. Getting rid of what I don’t need or use. Two: Excercise my dogs more. Now this is one of those tricky ones that is often hard to keep especially now that winter is here. But will see since there is no snow.
Three…Ah I’m gonna stop there, I’m starting to get stressed out. Today’s quote for today: “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893
I can’t believe your resolution is coming to an end and that you actually kept up with it! 🙂
You sure know how to rock the black. Love the look, really love the earrings.
I haven’t been making resolutions so much in recent years, more like coming up with new philosophies for life. This year it was about living in the moment and dealing with what is happening for sure rather than what might happen or what I want to happen. So far it’s been working out quite well, and so I don’t think I have a resolution other than keeping it up.
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