Daily MelWear: Pink, Yellow and Gray

First of all, is it gray with an "a" or grey with an "e"? What's the difference?  Considering how persnickety I can be about language, you'd think I'd know the answer to that but I don't.

Anyway.

In theory, I really liked this outfit.  Gray (grey?) pants, yellow and white striped shirt, pink cardigan, nude shoes.  I like the combo of gray, yellow and pink.

In life, however...I'm not sure this meshed very well.  I think it'd be better if the sleeves of the cardigan were a little longer, if the pink was more pastel than deep, and maybe if the cardgan was longer too.  And maybe a belt.  At any rate, I think up my oufits either during the day or while I'm drifting to sleep at night and I don't normally have time before work to try anything out.  I picture it in my head and hope it works because I don't have time to change.  :) (Notice the wet hair every day?  I used to have time to dry it...not sure what happened.  Workouts taking longer?  I dunno.)

Oh, I had my annual job eval yesterday.  She used the word "excellant" a lot.  There was nothing she told me that I needed to improve.  However, there was also no mention of a raise.  I do know that within this corporation, if you get good marks on everything you're pretty much assured of a raise.  This year I think it's 2%.  I'm pretty sure she just forgot to mention it, since she's not really the one who decides if I get it or not.

Today starts a new study on a blood glucose meter (I work in Diabetes Research as the Clinical Research Support, which is really just a fancy name for Administrative Assistant but it gives my boss the excuse to forget Administrative Professionals Day because she says that I'm not just an Administrative Assistant. Heh. It'd still be nice to get taken out to lunch or something.).  These meter studies are EXHAUSTING and I'm not even a Research Coordinator!  We have patients coming in and out of our office all day long, so much paperwork to do, questions to answer, places to run.  This one is going to run for the next 4-5 weeks.  My goal is to be dressed comfortably since I'll be running around like a chicken with its head cut off most of the time.  But I still wanna be cute! :)

Whew! This post got a little lengthy.  Sorry about that!  Here are the items in today's outfit:

Yellow/White shirt: Macy's (clearance) (first wear)

Pink Cardigan: Plato's Closet

Gray Pants: Charlotte Russe (pre-pregnancy)

Nude Snakeskin Pumps: DSW (clearance)

Necklace and earrings: Wal-Mart

Daily MelWear: Annual Evaluation Day

This is the dress that I bought with my Macy's gift card over the weekend.  Love it!  Today is {supposed to be} my annual job evaluation at 3PM so I decided to wear the dress simply. 

I've been wanting to try the red/blue combo without looking like a poster for 4th of July fireworks and I think this pulled it off pretty well.  I have on my new red/wine pumps (I know they look black in the picture and I'm wearing a blue cardigan that might be just a tad too small.  Maybe.  But I like it and can't afford shopping for a new one right now, so it stays.

The only thing I feel like I'm missing are some pearls.  I don't own any pearls!  I think several strands would look perfect with this dress.  Anyone wanna send me some pearls?  Fake ones would be fabulous!  I can't handle the responsibility of owning real ones.

Here's hoping my job eval ends with the announcement of a raise! It'll likely be small but any raise is better than none at all!

Today's outfit:

Dress: Macy's (clearance!)

Wine Pumps: DSW (clearance!)

Cardigan: I have no idea (pre-pregnancy days)

Earrings: Wal-Mart

Here's a shot that I took last week of the pumps, so you can see the color a little better. 

Do you wash your new clothes before wearing?

Quite a while ago, I won a giveaway from Lindsey at She's Still Got It for a $50 Macy's gift card. 

I've never shopped at Macy's in my entire life, but I'd recently lost all of my pregnancy weight and needed some new clothes. I stopped in a few weeks ago and found a great outfit of your basic black pencil skirt and a white button down shirt (with ruffles - yay!).  Unfortunately, they weren't marked down as much as I'd thought and they far exceeded my gift card.  I put them both back.

Today was my next opportunity to stop in.  I spent almost two hours in the store trying to get the most out of the gift card (spending the entire thing on one item was not an option) and finally settled on three items: a gorgeous black and white dress, a yellow/white stripped t-shirt and a black/white stripped t-shirt. 

What was the first thing I did when I brought them home?  I removed the tags and put them all right into my hamper.  

I wash EVERYTHING before I wear it. Yes, I can be a little bit OCD at times but think about how many people use the restroom but DON'T wash their hands, and then they go clothes shopping and put their dirty, bacteria and germ-laden hands all over the items!

Ew.  So yes, I don't wear any new item until I've washed it. Do you wash all of your clothes before wearing them, or am I really weird?

Daily MelWear: Friday is Mommy Day!

Fridays are awesome.  They're usually awesome for most people because they signify the end of the workweek and the coming of the weekend.

For me, however, they mean an entire day with my daughter! My husband works on Fridays and I don't (I work 7:30AM - 6PM, Monday - Thursday), so I treasure my Mommy Days with my girl. 

My plan today is to take her to the park to burn off some energy and possibly hit a couple of baby consignment stores to see if I can sell any of her clothes to generate some cash for this weekend.  Because otherwise, I. Am. Broke. 

Today's outfit is a dress that I bought at Kohl's with a gift card a few weeks ago.  This is definitely not a dress for work because the skirt looks like denim and that's a big, fat "never" at my job. Even adding a blazer wouldn't help, so I usually pull this out on the weekends.  Especially a weekend like this one, where the high temp is supposed to be 92! That's hot, ya'll. Stinky, sweaty hot. This dress will keep me cool and feeling pretty! The only thing that would make it better is POCKETS!  I need to find a dress and/or skirt with pockets.

By the way, we took the pictures in the kitchen near the french doors to the back porch today.  I think the lighting is a little better, yes? Not so much? Eh. We tried. iPhone cameras were not made for this. 

Today's stuff:

Dress: Kohl's (clearance!)

Green necklace and earrings: Wal-Mart

Black flats: Target (clearance!)

Daily MelWear: Blue, Green and Purple

I have got to find a way to take better pictures.  You can't even really see the colors in today's outfit and I really like the combo! (Update: my co-worker took some pictures outside at work...they're a little better to see the colors, but I kind of hate how I look a little bit. Scroll to the bottom to see them.)

After writing yesterday that I couldn't come up with a better outfit for my new shoes, I realized that I actually could have worn them with today's outfit.  But I didn't.  I decided instead to wear my patent purple slingbacks that I haven't worn in probably a year.  They're comfy and I like them.

I took pictures with the cardigan button in the middle and also without.  I decided it was a bit too snug buttoned like that so I'm leaving unbuttoned today.  The air in our building is fixed which means I'm freezing and glad that I wore a cardigan with long sleeves!

Today's stuff:

Green t-shirt: Target

Blue zebra cardi: Wal-Mart (clearance)

Blank pants: Charlotte Russe (pre-pregnancy!)

Purple slingbacks: Wal-Mart

Necklace and earrings: Wal-Mart

Oh, and last week sometime when I was taking pictures of my shoes, my girl decided she wanted to take a picture of her feet too.  This picture was taken by my almost-three-year-old herself! She's so stinkin' cute. And look at her cute little feet!!!  I love that girl.