Team basic today. I'll throw on a cardigan when I go to Mass.
The day:
*A decent 8-hours' sleep.
*Got up at 7, made coffee and had a banana, started reading over revision notes and working.
*It's now 10, so I've knocked off for the time being. In half an hour-ish I'll walk over the basilica, then come back, eat some lunch, and work again until 1:30-ish, when I'll send over the day's revisions.
*Meeting from 2:30-4
*Some downtime, then around 5 I'll walk over to the adoration chapel to say Vespers and sit in the quiet for a bit.
*Supper, then a walk, then some binge-watching (Call the Midwife, which I didn't watch when it came out, and about which I have mixed feelings, but it is entertaining).
*Read current Lord Peter mystery (Murder Must Advertise, which I've read before but have completely forgotten – at least I've forgotten whodunnit and why), then sleep.
I'm enjoying, still, just getting up and throwing on this dress. It's fun to find creative ways to disguise that I'm wearing the same dress every day, but also a relief not to have to bother. I continue to love the color and to find it every bit as versatile as any neutral. I put it on, and I feel good. I also continue to think that while possibly a swing dress is not the most flattering for my body, it's not bad, and it is, again, really versatile. I can create a waistline if I want to. Or I can just enjoy the comfort and freedom as it comes. I am wearing bike shorts underneath, but that doesn't seem to detract any from my comfort. I feel freer than I'd feel wearing a slip, while the little bit of smoothing gives me some confidence.
Wearing my thrifted Floridas today.
Hair in a half-updo with a little scrunchie, like this:
This is one of my favorite ways to wear my hair: out of my face and somewhat controlled, definitely secure, but loose and graceful. I could go hiking with my hair like this, and it would still look good at the end. I guess that's always my defining question: could I go hiking like this? If the answer's yes, we're all good.
Seven days in. Ninety-three to go.