Daffodils and Styling Skills

I wear jeans every day. It's not literally every day, but it's close enough that when I do not wear jeans, it is unusual. That being said, it is Thursday and today I wore a skirt. On Tuesday, I also wore a skirt but that was sort of or a group presentation.

The Tuesday skirt is long and brown and boho chic. It's not exactly the most fashionable thing I own. According to Wikipedia, boho chic hit its peak in 2004-2005 :(
Anyway, my group had to perform a scene from Tartuffe (see left) which is a French comedy from 1664. As it turns out, I don't own clothing that's true to the time. Instead, I opted to pull this boho skirt up above my waist and wear a ruffly shirt. In my Tuesday afternoon class, Old Testament with Dr. Wilbur Williams, he challenged us to do something different every day in order to break the monotony. Check it out, I was already one step ahead of the game.

 For those of you who watch(ed) the TV show Friends, you may remember an episode where the characters make New Year's Resolutions. Ross' resolution is to do something new every day. One thing he does is ask out a girl, and another is buy a pair of leather pants because he had "never had a pair of really good smelling pants." I'm not down with buying leather (or fur) but it made for a funny episode.


Then last night, I thought, "Hey, I should DO something" so I went to Goodwill. Even though it was 8:30 and the store closed at 9, I still went in. I have a huge fear of being stuck in places when they are closing/closed. It almost happened for real over spring break at the mall and I almost lost it. Anyway, I was standing there and I said to myself "You have to buy something pink" because I have a pink sweater and a pink Power Rangers t-shirt, and that's it. As I looked through the rack, I realized there's a reason that these shirts are at Goodwill. I moved out of the pink racks and found myself in the denim.

My suite mate Jess always wears cool, quirky things and on Tuesday, so wore a denim top with jeans and denim Keds. From my (not so thorough) Internet research, the denim on denim trend hit its peak in fall of 2010. That, however, is beside the point. All I could see was these denim shirts and I thought "Jess makes these work, I can too!" I pulled one on over my t-shirt and made sure it fit. I also made sure it didn't have the name of an elementary school embroidered on it. You would be surprised how many of them did. I purchased the shirt and left the store with plenty of time to spare.

So let's review: Tuesday- wore a skirt before I had the challenge to do something different, but followed through by wearing it all day. Usually I get sick of it and change into pants by noon.
Wednesday- randomly bought a shirt for less than $5 that is unique to my wardrobe.

Wednesday night I ran laundry (and talked with my dad on the phone [I talked with my mom on Tuesday]) with my new denim shirt and restrung my Christmas lights on my bunk. I like them a lot more now than I did before. Anyway, my laundry finished and I thought "What was I thinking? I can't do denim on denim!" and I was mad that I had just bought a shirt I had nothing to wear. But wait- I have skirts.
I proceeded to try on (almost) every skirt I own with my new denim shirt and get feedback from my room mate. She didn't even show her annoyance when I had some ridiculous reason why each outfit didn't work. She laughed at my reasoning, but did not get annoyed. She's great like that.
Finally, I landed on the 2nd skirt I had tried on.

Now, we are up to present day (Thursday) when I sported by brand new outfit. I told Jess that she was the inspiration which she highly appreciated, I think. It is 5 hours past noon and I am still wearing it which is a big change. The thing that really annoys me about skirts is that I'm always thinking about if it's too short, if it's riding up, who is looking at me, what they are thinking, how I'm sitting, etc. Jeans are so much easier! You just put them on and go. Still, it's good to have some variety in life. Even though I wore a skirt all day Tuesday and today, today still counts as doing something different. I've justified it as such because of all the days I have worn jeans when a skirt would have been acceptable.

Thanks, Mom and Dad!

I received some daffodils today from my parents. Woohoo! They're so fun and springy and wonderful and cheery and beautiful. After daisies, they are my favorite flower.
I also treated myself to a yummy drink- a large carmel iced coffee with cream.

These trees are great to look at, but they smell like fish food. Happy Spring!