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The Blanket Scarf

This scarf isn’t anything special, it’s a big yellow pashmina I bought at Old Navy (or was it Target?) for $12 a couple years ago. It’s 100% acrylic the little strands constantly come un-knotted. But it is enormous, and that is why it is my ‘blanket scarf’.

I don’t do a lot of traveling but the one traveling tip I have, take a ‘blanket scarf’. Layover in Chicago have to sleep on the floor in the airport? BAM, blanket scarf! Eight hour road trip to Dragon Con and you are trying to sleeping in the backseat of the car? BAM, blanket scarf! Guy next to you on the plane won’t turn down his little air nozzle thing? BAM blanket scarf! Hot date with your significant other during the summer, but you know the movie theater will be super cold? BAM! Blanket Scarf.

This scarf has been to Boston, Chicago, Columbus, LA and Atlanta with me. It went on my first date with Curly-haired-boy to see a midnight showing of Blade Runner (the best movie ever), it had been to countless other movies and plays with me because it goes with nearly all of my outfits. Overly air conditioned convention centers & movie theaters, outdoor events that start during the day and then get colder when the sun goes down. There are tons of places that I get cold and need an extra layer of warmth. Which I think more than anything just shows… that I have really poor circulation…

 

My Insufferable Need to Be Right

 


Boots: Chinese Laundry (same), Jeans: Gap Always Skinny (same), Shirt: The Gap, Scarf & Cute little purse: Ten Thousand Villages, Velvet Blazer: Thrifted (similar)

Sometimes I get this weird nagging feeling a little one in the pit of my stomach that says ‘I’m right’. I’ll have a disagreement with a friend or family member but I have no proof that what I’m saying is correct, I just feel it.

A while ago, boyfriend and I were discussing the American Beauty because I hadn’t seen it since high school and couldn’t really remember what happened. Curly-haired-boy brought up a conversation from over the holidays, and claimed my sister said ‘the movie had to much gratuitous nudity’. I told Kent he was wrong, my sister didn’t say that becuase she’s never SEEN American Beauty. He insisted that at the Christmas celebration she’d expressed these opinions. I knew I was right, but I didn’t have the proof, or the energy to fight about something so silly.

Several weeks later my subconscious brought this feeling of fidelity back to the surface. I snatched my phone from my purse and innocently sent my sister a text message.

L:  Do you remember that movie American Beauty?

Sara:  I don’t think so, what happens in it?

L: There’s that famous scene with the naked blonde teenaged girl covered only by rose petals.

L: In the end (spoiler alert) Kevin Spacey gets shot in the head.

*Pause while Sara IMDB’s Kevin Spacey to remember who he is*

S: Yeah… I’ve never seen that movie.

Please fast forward to NOW, when I have the irresistible urge to point out that I was right. About a thing that happened months ago, that we didn’t really argue about weeks ago.

So, that’s is one point for me!  And 12 million points for Kent who still knows which actor I really mean when I refer to Will Ferrel as ‘Anchorman‘. Every.Single.Time.

Loren is Awesome at Birthdays

Boots: Chinese Laundry (same) (which I have been wearing all the time lately), Dress: Dorothy Perkins (similar), Tights: Target, Jacket: Thrifted (similar)

A while ago I asked you guys what I should wear with my white blazer. There were a lot of suggestions that I totally should have thought of but didn’t. This cute little floral number was one of them.

I forgot to even mention that my mother’s birthday was awesome. We got her a fair trade Sudoku game, it has a wooden board with holes for the little wooden pegs with the number’s on them. So she can easily dump it out and start over when she messes up. My mother loves her Sudoku so it was a great present, except there were no fives. Not a single one in the bag. So we had to take it back, luckily Just Creations tends to be pretty lenient on exchanges like that.

First we had Sunday brunch, perused an Impressionist exhibit at the local art museum. Got yelled at in the exhibit for carrying our coats over our arms because we might ‘bump’ the painting (I’ve never heard that one before, guess I haven’t been to an art show lately.)

Then we took her to dinner at a new east Asian vegetarian restaurant in town. It had Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese dishes, and was quite honestly amazing. Sometimes when we eat vegan I don’t leave feeling satisfied, but this place definitely filled me up. My mom is a big fan of eating at quirky little restaurants so she was pretty excited to try this place. All in all, a good birthday.

Also while we were eating I made up a joke.

‘You don’t like Vietnamese soups? There’s no hue they are phonominal.’

Kent is going to use it in his next comedy show! OR WE WILL BREAK UP…

You guys have any awesome birthdays lately?

Blowing Off Steam

Pants, Jacket, Hat, Scarf: Thrifted, Shoes & shirt: Target

Sometimes you have a bad day. It is inevitable, we’re all human. Curly-haired-boy and I have worked out a unique system that lets me yell all I want, and still maintain a relatively healthy relationship.

It involves yelling at him, but in a fun way. He will offer to do something nice for me, and I will sit in the kitchen (usually on top of our washing machine) and tell him what to do.

K: Loren would you like some ice cream?

L: NO!

L: BRING ME THE COOKIES!

K: Sure… but they are right here next to you on the counter…

L: MILK!

K: What was that?

L: BRING ME A MILK!

Kent opens refrigerator door.

L: FASTER!! I NEED MILK FOR MY COOKIES!!!

K: HOLD ON I’M POURING!

L: I’M SO THIRSTY!!!!!

K: Maybe  you shouldn’t have eaten 5 cookies already.

L: SHUT UP! YOU’RE NOT MY MOM!

However, he very rarely yells at me when he is in a bad mood so in return I don’t berate him when he leaves his mustache trimmings in the sink, or his socks miss the hamper.

Another Day, Another Dress with a Belted Blazer on Top

Dress & Blazer: Thrifted, Belt & Shoes: Target, Scarf & Hat: Just Creations

I’ve accidentally on purpose worn very similar outfit every day for the past week or so, dress + belted blazer. It’s a combination of trying to wear all my cute dresses, and trying to stay warm. I pass all of my ‘fashion credit’ to Caitlin, who I think is the queen of the belted blazer.

A lot of internet ladies LOVE their cardigans. I’ve just never figured out how to wear them. I just think I look kind of strange in a cardigan. I think it’s because I have smallish shoulders, and a lot of stuff going on in the… you know… chest area. Believe me I am not complaining, I’m pretty much totally happy with my figure. However I think it throws off the proportions of certain items of clothing, like cardigans. I think the extra definition, and width that a blazer gives me is just more flattering on my figure. But maybe I am wrong and the one & only cardigan I own should have more friends in the closet.