Fashion Friday

I had originally hoped to work from home on Thursday this week to give myself a bit of a break from the routine (and maybe clean my fishtanks). I had two important meetings though, so couldn't swing it. I wore jeans the first three days of the week and then decided to business-it-up for Thursday, to get me through my meetings. It's an easy outfit, but good. I don't think anything is a new item to these posts, except the shoes, which I just got this weekend, because I was wearing out my other tall, black and straw platforms. I get to work from home today :)
PS: a lot of my friends have posted pictures of their kids going back to school. I admit that I stole my pose from my friend Kam in Plentywood, MT who posed like this for her first day of school picture!

Inspiration

On Sunday after we buried our sweet LBK, we went out to toast her life and maybe pour a little out for our fallen homie. We went to Prost and took these pictures with our beers.
When I put them on Facebook, more than one person stated that it made them want a beer and it even inspired Mr. Mindy to go on a beer run.

Wordless Wednesday

Follow the Rules!

The sign says No Running, but according to the picture, jete's are perfectly acceptable.

RIP LBK

Yesterday morning, our Little Black Kitty died.

She had been acting just a little different over the past couple weeks, but she's done that before, so we just kept an eye on her and made sure to pet her every time we saw her. On Saturday, she didn't eat, which was definitely odd. On Saturday night, the neighbor lady brought her over (she hangs out at neighbor lady's sometimes as that was one of the houses that fed her before she moved in with us.) When she got in to the house, she was so happy. I picked her up and she wouldn't stop purring. She did it all night. JJ and I both saw her sitting on the floor giving herself a bath around 3:30 in the morning and stopped to pet her. She purred. A few hours later, when we went outside to go get coffee, she was laying under my car. I went to check on her, but she was gone. We knew she was old and we knew that this was going to happen. But we are selfishly sad that we don't get to see her anymore. She was the sweetest, most well-mannered, and adorable cat that I have ever met. We will miss you, LBK.

Things we love:
How we got our Little Black Kitty
Costume helper (here too)
Princess Kitty
Beer Kitty
Cancer recovery buddy
Workout Kitty and Hand Holder
Vacuum Kitty
Snack Sharer
that's so cute, let's also watch this one

Thank you for coming into our life, Little Kitty. We're so glad we got to be a part of yours.

Fashion Friday: Miss Match

Last week I was running late one day and had tried three different outfits and nothing was quite right. It was one minute after I was supposed to leave for the bus stop, so I left on my skirt (because I had on matching shoes), threw on a shirt from the pile, grabbed a pendant and a chain and ran out the door. (Ps: I'm thinking I should enter one of those high heel races for as often as I run to the bus stop in the morning). I realized when I left that nothing in my outfit matched and kind of thought I'd stay in hiding once I got to the office. Oddly enough, it seemed to work so I re-tried it this week on purpose. The skirt is navy and white with tiny pieces of light orange and even tinier pieces of light green. The shirt is black (I know, its a no-no because I look like I don't know my skirt has navy in it. That said, I think solid navy and solid black is a yes!). The necklace is turquoise and the scarf is red with some orange and black. oddly enough, I like it. I think it would be better if I had a navy shirt, but I'm still OK with it. I think the glasses help by bringing the white of the skirt up to the top of the outfit.
The scarf has shown up more than once. The sunglasses get a lot of attention (yes, they're hearts!) and here's a bit of a zoom into the necklace. It's an old pin of my grandma's and I simply put a chain through the bejeweled antennae. Random people on the bus/street have offered to buy it from me . I think it's gorgeous (and it's a bug made of jewels, come on..)
PS: Outfit trivia? Those are my wedding shoes.

I love the way you Tease and Tone!

This dance was outside of our normal comfort zone, but I love the song and every once in a while I like to throw these girls a curve ball to keep them on their toes and stretch their skill a bit. I am so impressed to see how it all came together. This was not an easy dance for everyone, but you sure couldn't tell by the video. I love these girls.