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Another Outfit of the Day!

Good morning!!

After many false starts this week, it is ACTUALLY Friday!!! YEAH!!! I am sooooo glad!!! Not to say that I am not going to have to work this weekend, but at least I don’t HAVE to unless I WANT to!! (How else am I going to get a handle on my workload right now???) Anyway, I can feel it in my bones that today is going to be a VERY GOOD day!!! 😉

Do you like my pic??? I decided that I really needed a red-lip day!!! Nothing bad could ever happen while you have on your red lips!!! LOL!!

I have been trying to post a different outfit everyday, and I want to say thank you for all of the feedback I have been getting on my these outfits. It is one thing to think that you look a certain way in your mirror, shocking to see what you actually look like in a photograph, and encouraging to hear what you look like, and how you can JAZZ it up from people who can stand back and look at you through new eyes. So again, I thank you!!!! 😉

Here is today’s outfit of the day:

Cardigan: Torrid
Tank: Lane Bryant
Pants: Catherine’s
Shoes: UHM… I don’t remember
Glasses: Vogue
Earrings: Claire’s
Bracelets: Torrid

Just looking at this picture, I can really tell that I am cross between my mother and father!! Dad’s build, mom’s arms, dad’s face/smile (except for the makeup!), mom’s attitude!! 😉 I can also see, looking at this picture, that I really dress for comfort, and style may be a secondary after thought, which is funny, because I have always thought that I have had a classic kind of look. Forgive the walking shoes – I wear these a lot, seeing that I work at a hospital and I have to be able to get a round as quickly as possible, at the drop of a hat. Hmmmm…any thoughts on the rest of the outfit?? 😉

Well, last evening I had the opportunity to take a couple of pics of Jason and I with Alex and the kids, and I wanted to share a couple of them with you this morning!!

This is our nephew, Christopher, my Sweetie, Jason, and our niece, Victoria!! It was the last photo of the day, and Chris HATES getting his picture taken and both Jason and V were sick, soooooo all-in-all, I think it is a pretty cute pic!!! Don’t they all look sweet? Don’t let them fool you – they are all lil’ stinkers!!! LOL!! 😉

This is my sis, Alex, and myself! I think this may be the BEST picture I have of the two of us!!! She’s my girrrrrl!!! I love you sissy!!!

As I zip off to work…

Have a FABULOUS day!!! 😉

Outfit of the Day!

Good morning!!!

Ok, I woke up this morning TOTALLY believing it was Friday!! So I started be-bopping through my morning routine, getting ready for work, when all of the sudden it dawns on me – IT IS THURSDAY!!! BOOO! HISSSSS! HAHAHA! 😉 Oh, well! I still now TODAY is going to be a GREAT day!!!

My sis, Alex is coming over this evening – I forgot to ask if we are swimming, I will have to check in with her!!! Anyway, she is leaving for Arizona Saturday morning – I need to soak up her presence, so I can keep some of her joy with me her in Oregon!!! 😉

Speaking of Oregon, what the heck is going on with the weather???? Yesterday, it was sunny, then rainy, then sunny, then it was hailing SO HARD that it actually looked like there was an inch of snow on the ground!!! WHAT?!?!?!? I heard from someone in the main hospital building that you could see it hailing out of the north side of the building, but it was just grey out of the south side – IT WASN’T HAILING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING??? How creepy is that!?! LOL!!! I am not sure how to dress to be prepared today, so I have just done the best I could to be ready for ANYTHING!!!

Talking about getting dressed…I wanted to share my outfit of the day. To be honest with you, this outfit was actually one I wore a couple of days ago, I will share today’s outfit tomorrow!! If I try to do it all in one morning, I find that I am just running around like a crazy person and I don’t have as much posting! So here is the outfit of the day:

Top: GoodWill
Pants: Lane Bryant
Shoes: Payless Shoes
Bag: Ross Dress
Bracelet: Torrid

I got such great feedback yesterday, I would LOVE to hear your thoughts again today!! I know this outfit is rather simple, but I think it is cute, and I feel good in it!! but any ideas to spice it up, or mix it up, would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

Also, on a side note: I have heard that today is Random Act of Kindness Day!! So, I am going to have to keep that in mind and look for some extra Random acts that I might be able to surprise people with today!!! What might you do??? If you feel like sharing, please let me know in the comment section above!

Have a FABULOUS day!! 😉

An InStyle Evening!

Good evening!

I have had such a better day than I have had in quite a few weeks! What does that mean? As you probably know, work has been SUPER-CRAZY-WHAT-THE-HELL-IS-GOING-ON-AROUND-HERE-??? for probably the past 6 weeks!! but today our entire team rallied together to work through any and all issues that we had, and took a HUGE chunk out of all of the problems we were having!!! WHEEEEEEW!!

So, on the way home tonight, I decided to break my moratorium and purchased a magazine! EEEEEK! It wasn’t just ANY magazine, it was INSTYLE!!!!

THE MAGAZINE OF ALL MAGAZINES!!!

Did you see the heavens open up and hear the angels start to sing? Ah-Ah-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! 😉 This is the magazine that causes me to drool over every outfit, every hair-do, every made up face!!! Oh how I wish I could have one of these stylists show me how to put my random clothing pieces together!!! I would LOVE to be able to walk out my front door looking tres chic at a moments notice!!!! I will have no choice, but I will have to PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!!!

Anyway, I have a lot of catching up to do in my personal life!! I have been working so many crazy hours, that I am not sure how my sweetie even knows what I look like any more!! 😉 My sis, Alex is moving in 2 FREAKIN’ DAYS!!!! I have got to get my booty over there and see her!!! My house is SPOTLESS – except for my office, which has kind of gotten the brunt of my negligence, and I have got to get crackin’ on getting that straightened again!!! Reading has gone by the wayside, but I am planning on starting a new book tonight called, The Best Year of Your Life, so that should be at least a good start! and I haven’t called my family in weeks!! I need to make sure I reach out and touch someone!! HEE! HEE!! 😉

Oh, and I am dreaming of taking a REALLY SA-WHEET vacation with my sweetie!!! I am not sure where yet, but I am thinking someplace, quiet, cozy, and romantic!! I deserve it for all the CRAZY work I have been doing, and Jason deserves it for being my rock and support!!! Ok, off to plan, and dream, and sleep, and dream some more!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!! 😉

Look of the Day!

Good morning!

I wanted to do something a little different today, shocking – I know!! 😉 I have a ton of clothes and I am experimenting putting different pieces together, and thought it might be helpful to get some feedback for you!!! So, today I have published my outfit for the day. Please let me know what you think in the comment section above. I LOOOOOOVE hearing from you!!!

Dress: Walmart
Jacket: Torrid

I am off to go to work and I am DETERMINED to have a GREAT day!!! Thank God for friends!!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS day!! 😉
~Christina

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The Day After!

Good morning!

I would like to think that there is going to be a morning where I will be able to get myself ready and blog from my actual PC, instead of my Blackberry, but since my PC is still being temperamental, today isn’t that day! LOL!!! 😉

How was all of your Valentine’s Day??? Mine was a lot of fun – I got to help my best friend’s boyfriend surprise her with an evening of fun and a big marriage proposal!! FUN! FUN! FUN!

To give you a quick flashback of our evening, I picked her up from work early in a limousine – she thought she was in trouble because her boss came out, told her to stop doing what she was working on because she had a very important meeting that she had to get to, “right now!” 😉

We were then on a scavenger hunt, that her boyfriend, with the help of some friends, put together and executed!! Next stop, the beauty salon so she could get her hair done pin-up style. She looked soooo DIVINE and I was soooo jealous!! 😉 I made sure to get the stylist’s card, because HONEY I am SOOOOOO going back!!!

Next we were off to a bunch of various locations that had special meaning for the happy couple. Dawn and I had fun trying to figure out clues, and where we were headed next!

Oh, did I mention we had our own personal papparazzi???? Yes!!! Two of Errin’s friends met us at all of our stops and took pictures of us all night long – so fun! 😉

Anyway, the point of the evening, after getting all dolled up, and more pictures, the proposal! By this time Jason, Errin, Dawn, and I are all riding in the limo, chatting, laughing, and just having fun! When we pull into a empty parking lot, in perfect view of a huge electronic billboard, and sure enough – it pops up “Dawn, will you marry me!” Errin pulls out this gianormous and stunning ring, of course she said “yes!” DUH!!!!

We celebrated by having a FABULOUS dinner at Caruso’s!!! I had the BEST lobster tail I HAVE EVER EATEN!!!

By the time we got home, I washed my face, got ready for bed, and I think I fell asleep as soon as my head hit my pillow!!!

A very fun night!!!

Congratulations, Dawn & Errin!! I wish you all the happiness!!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS day!!
~Christina

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