Just about wrapping up the week's copy editing to send in today; doing final read-throughs of the poetry manuscript, which my perfectionist self will never be ready to let go, but really must if I want a shot at a second book; reading over the sapphics poem again to send to a metrical-poetry contest --- because dang it, it IS metrical. It's eight pages of metrical. It's eight pages of kind-of-difficult metrical. So I'm sending it.
I just saw a shot in the Facebook group of somebody in the new wisteria Willow. The color looks like everything I had hoped, a beautiful soft periwinkle that will go with just about literally everything in my closet (including the red skirt). Mine is supposed to arrive Monday, and I am antsy . . . Apparently this color will also become available in Maggie, Brooklyn, and Sofia later in the spring. I'm pretty happy to be getting another dress with longer, if not actually long sleeves for these transitional seasons and hope to wear my Willow (assuming it looks as good as I'm hoping it looks) even into the summer. I don't think I need two dresses in this color, though if there's a dress style I'd repeat, Maggie is it at the moment. I don't plan to buy another dress for quite some time, but have had my eye on Maggie colors and might conceivably change my plan if something really good comes up in that style, to wear for various upcoming events. If not, I think I'm good, but that's on the table as a thought to examine, anyway.
Today, meanwhile, is sufficient for itself. Here's what I'm wearing for it:
The core outfit: Wool& Audrey + thrifted Eileen Fisher pink merino tank, which I wore as a base layer yesterday. This cost me $12 and ranks among the best purchases I've ever made. I like Eileen Fisher clothes, though a little of that style goes a long way for me. I love that this piece is 100% merino. I love the berry-pink color. I love how versatile it is --- soft enough to wear next to my skin, but good over things as well. Casual, dressy. It's a great article of clothing, and I'm really glad I bought it, but especially at that price. The top layer, meanwhile is another recent Poshmark purchase I'm happy with: this cobalt-blue Scottish-made 100% merino v-neck cardigan. Underneath, Snag merino tights and my beloved Tari boots.
To this core I added an infinity scarf (also thrifted, some years back):
It's bright out today, but pretty cold. When I went out to walk with Dora, there was still a good layer of frost on everything. I was warm in what I was wearing, though, and we walked a good two miles to get our blood going. My daily average at the moment is roughly three miles, which still seems kind of paltry, when I consider that in Cambridge I used routinely to walk eight to ten miles in the course of a day and think nothing of it. Still, three miles is better than sitting on my bum in a chair all day.
Here we are clowning with the butterfly murals in the greenway tunnel:
Now we're back, Dora's had a little breakfast and is (not entirely happily) resting in her crate, while I tie this off and contemplate the work that lies before me. I did pretty much finish the copy-editing, but I want to run my eye back through the manuscript and my notes before I send them in. And I have some emails that have been languishing since the start of the week and really need to be answered (or as people seem to say now, really need answered). Better get on all that before the day gets away from me.