In Your Dreams

Don't worry - I'm not going to start blogging about all the dreams I have.  I was just talking with some friends recently about dreams and I realized that I might be kind of a weirdo.  Here's a few reasons:

1. Almost all of them said they have recurring dreams about being back in school, where they show up for a final and don't know any of the answers, or they don't know their locker combination.  I have never had a dream like this.
2. They also all said they dream in the 1st person, where they are actually experiencing whatever is happening in the dream.  I am always in the 3rd person in my dreams, watching myself experience whatever is happening.  
3. I'm not always even in my dreams, either.  Sometimes it is just like I am watching a movie and it is all people I don't know.  I don't think that's normal.

So, am I alone here?  Do you all have crazy dreams?

Dress: Gap
Cardigan: NY&Co
Belt: Francesca's
Shoes: BCBGeneration

Rebellious

I was inspired to pair my animal print skirt with my animal face tee by this picture.  The main difference is that she looks chic and fabulous, and I just felt like a rebellious teenager from an 80's sitcom who went to a concert without her parents' permission.

Honestly, I was a pretty obedient teenager.  I was trying to think of rebellious things I did in high school and I couldn't come up with much.  I remember one week when I had been sick, but I was feeling better enough to go to school.  My mom told me to come straight home after school, but I swung by Best Buy to get the new Matchbox Twenty album that had come out that day.  Of course, I opened it immediately and was listening to it in the car on my drive home.  When I got home, my mom surprised me with the cd - which she saw at Sam's Club when she was grocery shopping.  She knew I wanted it, so she just picked it up for me.  Needless to say, I felt terrible and confessed right away!  This is probably why I didn't disobey very often - way too stressful!  

T-shirt: Target
Jacket: Izod
Skirt: J.Crew
Boots: BareTraps via DSW

Cognac - the Color, not the Brandy

I'm pretty excited about my new cognac boots.  I'll be honest.  I know almost nothing about Cognac.  Wikipedia just informed me that it's a type of brandy, which I also know nothing about, unless we are talking about the singer.  In that case, I can probably sing "The Boy is Mine" from memory.  That's a song I never really understood.  I mean, if I had a boyfriend who had another girlfriend, I don't think I would want to keep him.  But I digress...

Also, it is 10/11/12.  Pretty cool.  I should probably set this post to go live at 7:89am, but that would just be 8:29, and not very cool.  I'm going with 8:09am.  So, 08:09am 10/11/12 will have to be good enough for a post about brandy and Brandy and boots.

Sweater, Belt, Dress: Gap
Boots: Guess
Pearls: gift

So Long, Sweet Summer

 

Growing up in Kansas, people would often say something like "If you don't like the weather here, just wait 5 minutes and it will change!"  People in Nebraska and Indiana say this, too.  In Waiting for Guffman, the mayor of a small town in Missouri mentions the same saying, but thinks with hard work, he believes they could get that down to 3 or 4 minutes.

I'm beginning to wonder if this is a saying everywhere.  Do people say this in Michigan?  Texas?  South Carolina?  Probably not in Alaska or Hawaii, right?  Is this a saying where you live?  I'm just curious if all the states think their weather is more ridiculous than everywhere else.  We all want to be special, I guess.

I think it is safe to say that summer days are gone for this year.  I really do love the fall, but winter always makes an appearance too soon.  I'm half hoping we have another mild winter, but just harsh enough to kill all the bugs.  We had a very buggy summer and I'm not down with that at all.

Cardigan: Old Navy, dyed by me
Top: Sunset Rd.
Pants: Gap
Shoes: Born

Office Olympics

Last week, my company held the annual Office Olympics.  We do ridiculous things at work sometimes, like Rock Band Tournaments and Office Chair Parades.  The Office Olympics are just one of these things.  The day of this event also happened to be one of the first chilly days of the fall.  I thought it was a pretty good excuse to bust out my new Ben Folds Five hoodie.  (Seriously, blogger doesn't think hoodie is a word!)

My team got 8th out of 14 total teams.  This basically means we are the winners of the bottom half.  We also couldn't think of a clever team name, so the organizers just called us "Team MLDJS", which is the first initial of each of our last names.

Every year, I hope to discover a talent that I hadn't previously known about.  No luck this year.  I did learn I'm not particularly skilled at catching a ping pong ball with a lint roller or throwing a pool noodle like a javelin.  Maybe next year...

Shirt and Jeans: Gap
Hoodie: concert souvenir
Shoes: Converse

A Birthday Weekend Wrap-Up

Yesterday was John's birthday, so we spent the weekend taking it easy and celebrating.  Friday evening, we met up with his parents at Dave and Busters for dinner and arcade games.  Not to brag (well maybe a little), but I totally won at Pac-Man!

Saturday morning, we woke up and realized fall had shown up!  It was about 56 degrees in our house, so we had to turn the heater on for the year.  Of course, today it was back up in the 70's again.

After church on Sunday, we went to lunch with some friends, and then met John's sister and her boyfriend for dinner.  It was a pretty laid back birthday weekend!  I tried to explain that since my birthday is coming up on a Wednesday, I get both weekends of celebration.  I'm not sure that's going to fly!

Sweater, belt, coat: Gap
Jeans: Old Navy
Boots: Guess
Purse: Wilson's Leather

Sometimes in the Fall

I'm not sure when it happened, but the tree in our backyard decided it was definitely fall!  The leaves are much prettier than our mostly brown lawn.  The photo-shoot didn't last long before I was throwing leaves into the air.  I was just slightly concerned about the potential for spiders or other bugs that might be in the leaves.  I really didn't want to throw spiders into the air.

Cardigan, top, skirt: Gap
Shoes: Target
Bangles: Charming Charlie
Ring and necklaces: gifts from my parents