You can barely see it. This is the view from the skybridge at the hospital today. Those beautiful snow covered mountains are about an hour and a half away.
I got a few cards and gifts for my birthday. One of the gifts was a set of solar lights to go up the path to the house, but they need to charge in the sun for three days, and today has been the first sunny day.
From Doc and from Mimi, my MIL.
From Doc and from Tawn, my SIL.
My MIL gave me an Anne Klein purse that she found in her garage. It had a scuff on it, but was otherwise perfect, and even had tags attached.
The best way to remove scuff marks from patent leather is with nail polish remover.
Thar she blows, all shined up.
But I wasn't the only one who had a birthday. One of my coworkers, Jen, had hers on January 31st. The way it works in our office is that whoever had the last birthday has to plan the next one. So I planned an anonymous brownie contest, since brownies are Jen's favorite.
There were seven entries. The awards were:
Most chocolaty
Most Store bought pretending to be home made
Most original
Chewiest
Gooiest
Best brownie made by someone who does your performance evaluation
Best in Show
Jen did the judging - all the contestants were in identical foil pans so she couldn't tell who made which brownie.
Awards were handed out.
Vicki won for most original and Best in Show. Now it's Jen's turn to plan the next birthday.
So what have I been wearing lately?
Let's go way back to January 29th. I wore brown wool slacks from Ann Taylor, a tweed blazer with floral embroidery on it, and a turtleneck from Caslon, a Nordstrom brand.
You can see the embroidery and the ruched front of the turtleneck. The amber double strand necklace was my mom's.
On January 30th, I wore a red cashmere cardigan from Neiman Marcus, a black turtleneck from Bebe, and this weird skirt that is plaid with tie dye over it. And as if that is not unusual enough, it can be zipped open at the top, so you can have as much or as little of the fabric draping as you want.
I usually unzip it half way.
As you can see, in my pictures, it got caught on the top of my pirate boots.
My iron cross type necklace was the choice of the day.
On February 4th, it was pouring. It would have been my mom's 99th birthday. She died at 96. I wanted to be warm, so I wore brown corduroy jeans, a tan ribbed turtleneck, and a sweater knit poncho from JC Penney.
My smoky teardrop necklace was purchased at the Taste of Charlotte a few years ago. It has matching earrings. We put flowers by my mom's picture for her birthday.
Yesterday, still raining. I wore this vintage knit set. It wasn't very warm, so I don't think it's wool. It's probably rayon and acrylic.
It is cute, however. I wore a black satin trench coat on top, and I realized that with the coat over this, I looked like I was wearing a 1900 swimsuit.
There are stripes on the cuffs, the waist and the hem. I wore one lapis and one sapphire necklace.
Today, I wore a hand me down suit from Petite Sophisticate. The skirt is green and black houndstooth.
I wore a black linen top with jet crystals at the square neck, a matte goldtone necklace and a gold twist belt.
And that's about all for now!! The high today is 57, which is downright frigid for SoCal. So I didn't go for a walk outside today like I usually do. I will take the dogs on a longer walk tonight. Everyone wins.
