A friend in Germany sent us this card many years ago --- now it's framed and hanging on our kitchen wall. I hadn't really considered until now just how weird that infant looks, though. Like they hadn't quite gotten through making him yet.
Kids got home last night, and it's wonderful to see them, albeit briefly. Our son flies out to Dallas tonight (though he'll be home again on Monday), and our daughter is leaving tomorrow, first to see her boyfriend graduate, then to help him move back to San Diego. So she'll be gone for some weeks. Still --- you get 'em when you get 'em, and it's nice to have 'em when you have 'em.
Today's agenda:
*finish copy-editing job
*write more Sun essays
*accompany daughter to doctor's appointment
*acquire some groceries for dinner
*walk the dog (so obvious I almost forgot to put it on the list)
Wearing today, for Marian May:
I could call this wet-hair Wednesday, because that's definitely a feature. Otherwise: Maggie, in her first outing for the month, on another coolish day. Hence the cashmere cardigan and the leggings, which I wish I didn't have to wear, but oh well. Birk Balis again, for my walking comfort.
Various angles:
This isn't a particularly exciting outfit, but it's nice and easy and will do.
As always, I love the drape and ease of this dress. It was kind of hard to choose a cardigan, since I have so many that look good with it. But I always come back to this one, which is so soft and comfortable, and whose color I always like in combination with my marine-blue dress.
One thing I want to do this month is take another hard look at my closet and do some more culling. If I can once get my head clear of the editing and other work I have on right now, I'd like to take the time to put some more outbox items up for sale on Poshmark. I've sold exactly one thing out of my Poshmark "closet" of . . . I think three pieces of clothing? And that was nice, though I hardly made any money to speak of. But I've got a lot of things right now that I really could resell --- I just need to make the time to iron and hang and photograph them.
And I need to keep winnowing my wardrobe. The more I do that, the more clearly I see what I have, and the more able I am really to wear what I have (correcting for seasons, of course, since I clearly won't be wearing woolly cardigans a lot in July). As I add more things, it's good to remember to subtract things and pass them along.
Anyway, time to go enjoy this sunny day!
LATER:
Well, my husband opted to go with our daughter to the doctor, since it's a follow-up about a possible asthma diagnosis, and he knows from asthma. When he was ready to hand me a whole page of written instructions, things to tell the doctor, I said, "Um." So anyway, here I am, psyching myself up to do some copy-eding, but really browsing back through my archived photos, which include many, many outfit photos that --- as I said yesterday, hoo boy. This is why you take pictures, is another way to put it. So many of those outfits were things I didn't keep on all day, they bugged me so much. Most of that category were trouser outfits: joggers, but other pants, too, that I'd seen other women wear but could not get to work for me. I never set out to be a dresses-only person, but here I am.
These photos highlight, too, how radically, in just under two years, my wardrobe has shifted to all natural fibers. I have a small handful of synthetic items, but not many any more. I've been able to outbox, and ultimately expunge, so many pieces of clothing that I do not miss at all. Seeing them in pictures, I think, "Oh, yeah." And again, "Hoo, boy."
One thing I still have in the outbox and haven't expunged yet is this Pact grape-colored cotton sheath dress. I got it for pretty cheap on Poshmark, though it originally retailed as a high-price dress, and there's a lot about it to like. I still like the color. While I've seen pictures of myself wearing it that I didn't like, I run across other photos where I think, "Actually that looks good." I might continue to hold it back for a while longer, like maybe until Advent. It occurs to me that it might work with my Willow under it or over it --- I should get it out and look at the purples together. I haven't tried it with any of my newer thrifted cardigans, because it's been in the outbox the whole time I've had them. Anyway, I don't know. I've been on the fence about that dress for a long time. Mostly it's the color, and if a wool dress appeared in that color, or a linen shirt, or something, I'd be happier to let go the dress. I really don't need it, but running across pictures of it again, I'm inclined to think not hoo boy, but hmm.
I made a whole album of these photos to help me think.
It just figures that the minute I start thinking about culling things, my brain goes, Oh, but what if you put this thing back in your closet?
Good thing I have this blog, because otherwise my husband would have to listen to me talk through all this stuff, and while he is a sympathetic listener and not uninterested in clothing and self-presentation, there is a limit.
LATER STILL:
OK, I got the purple dress back out of the outbox. I put in three items out of my sweater collection --- three sweaters with some synthetic fiber content that I've had for a long time and am wearing less and less. Might as well rehome those, especially as I've decided for the moment not to rehome the purple dress.
Meanwhile, I'm thinking I ought to rename my "Woolly 23." I should call it, instead, "Natural Fiber 23," to give myself some more leeway to wear what I have. I mean, let's not go crazy or anything --- but what if I did that? WHAT IF?
Just having a really ADHD one here, but it's all good.