January Blues

I have got a bad case of the January blues. I was talking to my fiance and we both, in all seriousness, agreed we could be happy living in a Groundhog Day type of scenario where we live an relive a perpetual Christmas holiday. We considered the fact that only we would know we were reliving it, and our families and friends would never change, and that we would be stuck in a never-ending winter of the same weather, and we didn't really understand where aging and the concept of infinity came into the whole Groundhog Day scenario because love solved all their problems before they got to that.

So, I've been wearing a lot of blue. To represent how I'm feeling on the inside, on the outside. I even wore denim on denim. So very blue.

TOP
Hive & Honey via Piperlime: $36
Sweater: Anthropologie: $20
Jeans (and on bottom): Level 99 via Ross, $5
Shoes: Michael Antonio via Amazon, $45


BOTTOM
Denim Shirt: Target, $12
Lace Shirt: Free People, Gift
Boots: Nicole, $40

I have to say, if there were a season to be stuck in forever, I would definitely choose fall and winter.

Resolution

Well, I've broken most of my new year's resolutions already, especially trying to blog daily. The problem is likely that I usually phrase my resolutions with "try," as in "try not to eat 2 pieces of cake per night." That means when I eat 3 pieces of cake, I still technically tried not to. This way I can eternally rationalize whether or not I am actually failing at achieving my goals.

Today I actually changed into sweats and then changed back into my work outfit just to get this picture (that's my why hair is...the way it is). That's how much resolve I had. It only took me 9 days.

Blazer: F21 via Goodwill, $3
Shirt: F21 via Plato's Closet, $6
Pants: Anthropologie, $30
Shoes: F21, $22

Post Christmas

Soon enough I will begin blogging my Christmas gifts. I didn't get the main thing I asked for, which was a puppy party (and also to be a Pawnee Ranger in real life, or just to be friends with Rashida Jones and Amy Poehler). Maybe next year. But I did get wonderful and amazing and even better gifts from friends and family, including more charms to add to my necklace and plenty of money to waste spend throughtfully on Amazon. This year may have marked one of the first full years I didn't find my Christmas gifts ahead of time. When I was little, I used to search for my Christmas gifts around our house before Christmas. If they were wrapped, I would never go so far as to unwrap and rewrap them, but I typically was able to find them in my parents' closet in advance of being wrapped. The year I knew I was getting an EZ Bake Oven, the torture of not getting it out of its packaging and trying to bake something in it and return it to its packaging, untarnished, ate away at me until I was almost nothing.  My Mom didn't know I did this until I was in my mid-20s, so she never tried to hide packages somewhere better than the closet. This is also how I found out Santa Claus wasn't real at the tender age of 5. I went in looking for presents and found the wrapping paper my Mom later used to wrap "Santa's" gifts. I called my parents out pretty bigtime on Christmas morning, but I wasn't that sad, remembering to have had an inkling Santa wasn't really all that real. I didn't tell anyone else until this boy in 4th grade who kept insisting Santa was real, and I took it upon myself as an asshole to make sure he understood that Santa was not real. 4th grade, though, it's just too old.

Anyways, I was beating the post-Christmas-no-presents blues with new outfits.

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Denim Shirt: Target: $12
Lace Skirt: Forever 21 via Plato's Closet, $6
Boots: Bronx via Finder's Keepers, $40

BOTTOM
Dress (as skirt): Shop Ruche, $38
Sweater: Old Navy, $20
Boots: Big Buddha, $90
Necklace: Target, $10

Happy New Year! I was too busy drinking playing board games to get a shot! I'll have to recreate it later. In 2012.