More Uses For My Chambray Shirt + Fitness Update

Happy Hump Day! I'm not sure why picture is showing my sweater looking a little pick, it's not...it's dark purple. Oh well! You get the idea right? The first time I wore a chambray shirt was because of Allison's challenge and now, I can't get enough, see lasts weeks outfit. It really does go with just about anything. I threw this outfit together last minute, and loved it. It's almost getting too warm here for outfits like this, I might get another few weeks, but for the most part, Spring is definitely here.

Fitness Update:

Last week wasn't as good as the first week, but the book did say that for the next couple of weeks you might not lose any weight because you're changing your fat and stuff into lean muscle. So I'm going to go with that. I'm feeling great. I feel less bloated, and all around I've gotten over the hangry (Mr. hates when I say that) stage of it all.

Our favorite dinner that we've been eating is refried beans, meat, salsa and homemade guacamole. I'll take a picture of it next time, but so far we've pretty much eaten that every night since we started this thing. So good, and I actually look forward to dinner everyday.

Going on that 5 mile hike on Saturday, hopefully this time it will feel a little less like death? Keeping my fingers crossed that it's a little easier getting up those steep mountains/hills, cause I know what the expect. I'll keep you posted.

Looking forward to my cheat day on Saturday. We're going to my aunts house for a yummy birthday dinner for Mr.

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy, Tucker Up , Shopping my Closet and Molly and Carly for Let it Shine

The Pacifier Mystery Solved!

The days are getting shorter, I'm going to have to find somewhere in my house to start taking my pictures. Usually I take pictures after work, pretty soon it's going to be dark when I leave and when I get home, sigh.

It seems almost impossible that I haven't put this outfit together. So simple on these hot days. I went to Payless to pick up a pair of their Defelex Comfort shoes (and yes they are super mega comfortable) in nude and the sales lady said...I never would have thought to put that turquoise color with purple/blue. Well thank you!

When walking out the door for work, instead of grabbing my jean jacket, I decided to grab this blazer. Not sure if I totally like it, but I'm leaning towards the I like camp right now.

Now onto some random things.


Remember how I told you I was watching this show? Well how perfect was it that Alfonso did the "Carlton" on Dancing with the Stars this week. Made my week.

I'm so ready for cooler weather. I seriously feel like we've been in a constant Spring/Summer mode for the last two years. Last year it rained maybe 3 times and all of our flowers were blooming in March! Seriously? We've had in the 90° weather for the last week or so. We're supposed to be getting a "cold front", you know 80° weather for a few days before it goes back up. This happens every October, why am I always surprised?

I found out this week there can be too many raisins in Raisin Bran. This is the best one out there, they are small little flakes that are chewy and delicious! But every once in a while we get a box where the raisin machine must have had a freak out and dumped 2-3 boxes worth of raisins in...I love raisins, but 10 raisins on each bite is a bit much.

We've had the case of the missing pacifiers. Slowly but surely all of Mini Fox's pacifiers were disappearing. It was like the mystery of the socks in the dryer...couldn't figure out where they were going. Well turns out Little Miss, was throwing them behind her crib...we found 11 back there. LOL, sneaky girl. Mr. retrieved them on Friday and guess what? This morning she was back down to 4...silly girl. At least we don't have to keep buying new ones...just move the crib. haha.

 Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy, Tucker Up

Random Wednesday

When I went to take these pictures, and got the tri-pod out, Baby Fox, ran to where I normally take the pictures, pushed all the strollers and toys out of the way and posed for the camera...he's such a ham!

Okay and now onto my outfit. You've seen me wear this shirt before, but I haven't done an official outfit post on it. So here it is.

Sweater - Old Navy, Pants - Ann Taylor Loft, Belt - White House Black Market (old), Necklace - Target, Boots - DSW

 

And now onto some Random Things:

Microwave Saga - They told us it would ship in two weeks, we finally wrote them and said we never got a shipping confirmation, they wrote back and said it wasn't going to happen for another 3 weeks at minimum. So we went out and bought a cheap microwave, we just couldn't do it any more...seriously, two weeks is one thing, but 6 weeks...a whole other story! It was so glorious to have a microwave again...I commend people who don't have one!

 I've been wanting to start a Valentine's project now for a week, but haven't mustard up the energy to do so, it just involves paint, what could be harder, nothing, so I'm going to start it tonight...by telling you guys I'm making myself accountable, so maybe, just maybe I'll get it done!

I got 7 hours of sleep last night and it was glorious! Note to self: when you get more sleep, you actually wake up refreshed and not ready to go back to bed. Must do that more often...

Speaking of sleep...you know you blog too much and stalk too many people when you start having dreams about them being in your everyday life. For example, last night I had a dream that I went to a mom's group and sitting there was Shanna! Just to let you know, she was just as nice in my dream as I would imagine she is in real life, and equally well dressed. I think she was wearing a red blazer and some sort of colored jeans and boots.

Happy Hump Day, I only have one more day left of work, woo hoo! Off on Monday, off on Friday, three day work week, I'll take it!

Linking up with:

Linking up with Shanna at Because Shanna Said So for So Random Wednesday
And The Pleated Poppy for What I Wore Wednesday

That Time I Wore Make-up

Okay, so it's not full on make-up, but it more then I do on a normal weekday. My thoughts on not wearing make up during the week, 1) I work with engineers, they could car less about what I wore or if I had make-up on. 2) I absolutely HATE taking it off, especially if it's a gym day, I don't want to be one of those girls who goes to the gym in full make up, but I'm too lazy to take it off. Plus I need to find a new eye-make up remover. I typically will use a waterproof eye liner, which always proves hard to remove, any of you have suggestions? 3) I wake up at 4:45am everyday, I get tired and sometimes rub my eyes...rubbing eyes with eye make up on is no recommended. Bottom line, don't get used to seeing me with make up on. But...I did actually go through a whole compact of foundation/powder from Mac, before it either broke or I lost it...so I'm getting better then in years past...I'm growing up...and stuff.

I decided to try out colored tights and the belt over the sweater thing, mostly because this dress is sleeveless and I really like it and wanted to wear it to the birthday party we went to on Sunday. That and my comfy jeans were dirty and I didn't feel like wearing my slightly uncomfortable jeans which requires me to wear really tall shoes so they don't drag on the ground to a 2 year old birthday party.

 Please excuse the lack of water in the fountain (no excuses we just took the water out because we weren't using it enough and it was starting to grow things) and the no plants in the background (just got our backyard re-done and need to save up money to buy the plants that go with it - you know how it goes with home improvement)

So it's not a lot of make-up, just enough to make me look put together and not tired, IMO of course

Dress -Old Navy (similar), Sweater - H&M, Belt - Target, Tights - Loehmann's, Boots - Jessica Simpson

Still Shorts Weather..What?!

Yep that's right, it's almost the end of November and it's still in the low 70's. Perfect weather to break out the sweater and scarf with shorts and flip flops, only in California right?

I couldn't pass up taking pictures by the ocean after breakfast last week. Yep, I took these pictures just in front of where we ate breakfast, there were people staring. I tried to pretend I do this all the time.

 

Shorts - Old Navy, Shirt - Ann Taylor Loft, Scarf - Old Navy

If it makes you feel any better, at night it was cold and I forgot to pack any sweaters that matched what I brought with me. Which made me have to go out and buy a sweater so I wouldn't freeze at night...darn, shopping again. I would also like to note that I was going to just wear a jacket I brought that looked just awful and Mr. said he wouldn't let me go out looking like that, and that he would have to take away my blog if I wore it out in public. He's a funny guy.

It's raining!

Okay so I'm not really currently wearing this outfit, I wore this a couple of weeks ago. But I thought I would wear this if it was actually raining, so why not.

There's the blazer again. I swear, it's my new go to jacket, it dresses up any outfit and just makes it feel complete. Perhaps I should get it in some more colors...

My absolute favorite part of this outfit is the back of the shirt. Aren't those buttons just too cute? So glad that I don't have long hair (first time ever), so I can show off the cute back.

I just love this necklace...i'm constantly playing with the dangly pieces...I'm weird like that.

Let me tell you a story about these shoes. I looked for them for a YEAR! Yep you read that right, I saw them at Macy's once, and there was a tiny scuff on them, so I walked away, and from that moment on I searched high and low...and finally almost a year later I found them. They're Jessica Simpson, and I'm not ashamed to admit that! I should have taken a picture of the whole shoe...perhaps another post.

Going to the salon to get the works done...hopefully my hair will stop looking like I'm rockin' a would be mullet. Seriously people, I am not joking, if I don't straighten my hair with my straightener, looks like I walked out of Wayne's World...

Because It's still 100° Outside

I know, you keep seeing all of us in Southern California keep posting about how hot it is, complain, complain, complain...but it really is! Yesterday my car told me it was 100° out, yes triple digits. Okay it might have said 100° for one block, but it still counts! So in light of the heat I wore this...short skirt, tank top (fancy tank top so it was okay to wear to work right?), of course I wore a sweater over it, but the sweater was more functional because work seems to think they need to keep the inside colder because it's hot outside...

Tuck it In, Tuck it In

Another outfit with my shirt tucked in. I feel so grown up. Seriously, for whatever reason, the only people I associated with tucked in shirts are old women, with their pants up over their waistline, or those really skinny models who don't have an ounce of fat and can pull it off. But I went out of my comfort zone and pulled these two things together. I haven't worn this skirt in forever becasue I didn't know what went with it. I think this works...I'm far from being a fashionista, but you've got to start somewhere right? Happy weekend! We finally have a weekend with NOTHING planned, it's going to be glorious, what are you doing?

p.s. the reason I am sans bracelets or anything on my wrists is that I sit at a desk all day and it was driving all the guys nuts with the clanging of bracelets...they just don't understand fashion...