Detail of a big print piece in the Artgirl's senior thesis exhibition, which we saw this past weekend, in addition to the Viking's play.
Greetings, anyway, from a state of exhaustion. Our flights back yesterday were delayed, and we got home around 2 a.m. We're flying out again on Thursday so as to be sure to make the Artgirl's closing reception on Friday, and . . . I love my children. That's all. But man, I'm so tired already.
It was a good weekend, though. Went to an estate sale --- "Fran's Cowgirl Estate Sale" --- with the girls and saw nothing I remotely wanted to buy, although the TXgirl scored an amazing vintage dress, while the Artgirl found this fringy door-hanging curtain thing. The Viking's play was an early Bertolt Brecht, absurd and kind of nihilistic, but also funny and extremely well acted and directed. He had to do the whole thing on a budget of $100, which meant that the TXgirl spent a weekend driving him around to find broken chairs (a big plot point in this play is that the furniture keeps breaking).
I also broke one of my Birk Mayaris --- the toe thong strap just disintegrated while I was walking around. It's basically irreparable, which makes me sad, because I'd expected to get years of wear out of those shoes, and then have them resoled. Alas, alas, and good thing I'd also packed my Crocs. I also got bitten by a tick while sitting out under the trees on campus, so I need to go to the doctor and get some antibiotics, because I do not want Lyme disease. Like I have time to go to the doctor this week, but I digress . . .
I didn't take many photos of myself this weekend, but here are highlights of what I wore.
Friday, to travel:
*Wool& Fiona dress (M) in Teal, bought November 2022, last worn April 23. Wears in 2025: 5
*Secondhand Eileen Fisher silk-blend cardigan, first year of wear
*Late Lamented Birk Mayaris
Saturday (all day and into the evening):
Ran into a friend whose kids are at UD (her son was in the Viking's play, in fact). I don't have her permission to post her face, so I have thoughtfully given her a weird sort of heart-shaped mask here. We met up at the Artgirl's exhibition, and this is the only photo I have of what I wore on Saturday:
*Wool& Audrey dress (S) in Black Heather, bought November 2022, last worn April 18. Wears in 2025: 12
*Secondhand Flax linen tunic, second year of wear
*I think by this point my Birks had broken --- fortunately, for some weird reason I can't now remember, I actually had my Crocs in my purse, so I could change shoes.
Sunday, for Mass, brunch, hanging out, travel:
*Wool& Fiona dress (M) in Marine Blue, bought October 2024, last worn April 15. Wears in 2025: 8
*Eileen Fisher silk-blend cardigan, first year of wear (repeated from Friday)
*Thrifted Crocs, second year of wear
I had brought my Pacific Brooklyn, but really didn't need to have done. I also really didn't need my Blue rayon shrug cardigan, but whatever. My packing was light enough that I could fit my hair diffuser in handily, AND I could stuff my purse into the top of my backpack so that I didn't have multiple bags to contend with in the security line or getting on and off the airplane. I will definitely repeat this pattern for the next go-round. I didn't need a lot of choices, and I appreciated having a single light bag that was easy to deal with.
Wearing today:
*Secondhand Wool& Sofia dress (S) in Purple Sage, bought April 2025. Wears in 2025: 2
*Secondhand O'Connell's merino cardigan, bought early 2023, entering a third year of wear
*Secondhand Birkenstock Rosemeads, year 3
Yeah, you'd be forgiven for thinking we'd gone back in time, and it was Lent again. I felt like wearing this dress. And . . . I simply am going to step into a pair of Birkenstocks. I've already bought a secondhand replacement pair that I'd had in my Poshmark "Likes" --- they're really cute, a style whose name I don't know off the bat, but a little like the Yaras I've pined for for years, with an ankle strap and a straight strap across the toes. Having just had a thong-style sandal break, I'm leery of buying another pair in that style, even though I love them. The sandals I have had break have broken at that precise point, between my toes (same thing happened with my original pair of Crocs thongs, some years ago now). The only reservation I have about these sandals I've bought --- for quite cheap, I should add --- is that they're not just step-in-and-go. I'm not sure how much I'm going to miss that ease. BUT then I have these Rosemeads, which are step-in-and-go, so maybe I'll just wear them more.
Anyway, I wanted some more flat Birk sandals, as opposed to my Papillio wedges, because that's what I wear just about every day. I am going to try to rotate more among my sandals this summer, and also wear my Xero walking shoes more, but Birks are my default shoe. I had not planned to buy another pair, but this replacement seemed indicated, and I hope I wear them a lot.
So, here we are. I am very tired, but I do like this combination of lavender and blue --- I have been managing to wear some shade of blue, somewhere on my body, daily in May so far. My stomach has been a lot better, a combination of starting digestive enzymes and stopping taking creatine, which I think was the real culprit in my woes. One benefit: my clothes fit better, because while I still don't have anything like a flat stomach, I don't have pregnancy-level bloat anymore.
Wore my transitions-lens sunglasses a lot this weekend and am still wearing them for now.
Much to do today, and I am so very disinclined to do it.
