WIWW Pattern Mixing

I have a friend named Julie that used to mix her metaphors. For example she would say, I need to be careful, I have been spending money like a fish! Mixing Patterns is really in style, but if you aren't careful you will look like you got dressed in the dark. Only some high fashion bloggers can pull it off. The rest of us just look confused. I like to mix plaids, tweeds, and ginghams, but that is because I like to dress like I'm a man on Downton Abbey. Hey it works for me.

This is my uniform: Blazer (I collect them like puppies, so I have to wear one every day)

Maybe a sweater underneath....It's COLD in Denver still

White or Black T-shirt (Target)

Skinny Jeans (Target style #6 Skinny) via Target but I find them at Goodwill too!

Riding Boots via Goodwill...I own WAY too many to count. ( I don't want to know how many I have)

Then I just vary the theme

Blazer Ralph Lauren Goodwill

Grandpa Sweater Target

TShirt Target

Leggings Target

Boots Nordstrom brand from Goodwill

This is where I mixed my patterns but it was subtle and it looked cute.

Blazer JCrew via Goodwill

Plaid Shirt Abercrombie boys via Goodwill

Jeans Tar-jay of course

Boots via Goodwill

Eggs, God, and Store Brand Cold Medicine

You know how God sometimes smacks you right in the head, well I got smacked while making eggs.

It started out easily enough.  My girlfriend is going through medical treatment that has left her sick and exhausted.  Let me mention that she has five children.  Yes five of them.  Here is the good news, only four are left at home. (heehheee)  Anywhoooo so she is sick and telling us at breakfast the other day that her husband and children have been less than helpful. So ME in my infinite wisdom says, "Oh well you need to ask your husband and kids to help.  You can't let them run you ragged like that!!!"

I brought dinner and snacks over to her house a few days later in hopes that the kids could find something to eat on their own. (They are elementary to high school age so they are capable of helping themselves.)

I came across this idea on Pinterest. (follow me here!) Cute huh? Here is the link to the blog post. 
It makes you want to buy some off brand Tupperware doesn't it?

Ok so now fast-forward a few days and the flu is making its way through OUR house.  First my younger son gets it, then the older one, and then I got it.  (Here comes the foreshadowing...watch for it...)  So I did have time to make some chicken soup before I got sick so that was good.  Buuut then I am in bed, sick as a dog and I finally make it downstairs to get something to drink and my son says, "Will you make me some eggs?"  I feel bad for him because he is sick too and he hasn't eaten in a few days, so I start to make the eggs.  I look around and my darling husband comes around the corner, and just as I am about to ask him to take over for me he says,  "Oh, eggs, great!  Will you make me some?"  (he also asked me to pick up my son's car that was in the shop.  *Newsflash* the driver of said car and I were both sick.  yes of course I did it) *I had been sick in bed for two days, so NO there is no way that my husband did not know I was sick.

That was God smacking me in the head.

Don't give out lame advice, even if it sounds reasonable at the time.  Everyone knows a mom's arms could fall off and she would somehow carry laundry upstairs on her head.  I sound a little bitter, let's pretend it's the store brand daytime flu medicine talking.

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Downton Abbey Cleaning Silver

My friend Carlyn hosts a beautiful ladies tea in her home every month with her beautiful tea service so I asked her to teach me how to polish Goodwill silver. As you know I love Downton Abbey so this gives me something to do while the show is on hiatus. Sighhhh.

Mad Men is back!

Completely remove everything from your calendar March 25 because Mad Men is back! Start shaking the martinis and prepare your lungs for some chain smoking. I can not wait.

Why ironing and snow go together

This one is really easy. Snow and ironing go together because when it snows I don't want to leave the house, I can stay in my pjs, and iron to my heart's content, and then my car stays un-wrecked. Yes I looove to iron, and no it isn't a mental illness. Ironing makes crumply things smooth. Natch.    I am crazy, but I have to say I draw the line at ironing my sheets. Now, you might be asking yourself...who in the h-e-double fishsticks irons their sheets? ALL my friends that's who. I'm not kidding when I tell you 5 of my friends iron their sheets and one friend who sends them out to be pressed. (And you thought I needed help)

So what I'm saying is that I think it is perfectly normal to iron everything but sheets. I finally stopped ironing my kids t-shirts. Even though my older son did complain that he likes his shirts "smooth".

Oh and I don't do dress shirts for my husband. We send them out. So maybe I meant to say I like to iron my things, and a few of their things.

Isn't it nice to see everything all nice and "smooth".  I think so too.

The other nice think is that when you hang like things together in your closet you can see that you might need to cut yourself off of buying gingham and plaid shirts.  (Don't worry I won't do that to myself, but at least I know I have a problem, even though I choose not to address it.)

And then you might say, wow that is A Lot of white shirts. I love a crisp white shirt can you tell?

Look at this cute Ann Taylor suit a found at Goodwill.  It is my third white suit this season.  Of course they all came from Goodwill!  I think they are all from the same donation.  They are all the same size and I found them within a week or two.  One is winter white, one is light-weight cotton, and this one is linen. Soo yes it will wrinkle again just by looking at it but so what I like to iron remember.  Have I ever worn a white suit?  No, but as you know I like to be prepared for my imaginary fabulous life.  YES I washed and ironed it myself.  I don't like dry cleaning. I think it smells disgusting and is full of chemicals.  No, my husband doesn't mind the chemicals because he is crazy not me. (For the record)

Commercials that make me want to throw up.

Ooooooof this picture makes me queasy just THINKING about that disgusting Febreze commercial.  First of all lets discuss the fact that I have a bionic nose.  I swear I can smell Jean Nate two states over.  Why is it that I always sit next to the lady that bathed herself in some Avon perfume.  What the h?  Everyone knows that if your dog pees on the carpet and you spray Febreze it just smells like cinnamon spice dog pee, which in my humble opinion is worse than when you started. ( Yes I have a dog so I can have a professional opinion. )

Secondly, my mom would kill me dead for going with some strange person into an abandoned warehouse blindfolded.  Hello girls!  Apparently you don't watch the ID channel obsessively.  Anyone who watches 48 Hours Mystery re-runs over and over even though you know the husband did it, and then watch it again anyway, knows that you never go anywhere wearing a blindfold and then sniff a couch cushion.  I panic when this commercial comes on...I can't change the channel fast enough!

The other offenders are the kitty litter commercials.  Those of us who do not have kitties are pretty shocked to know that you are removing clumped up cat urine without throwing up and having to take a well deserved nap following a detox shower of Purell.

And did that Shitchky nut job just say "problems with a shedding p__s_y?"  (yes like a cat) Why is it that advertisers think a person screaming at us with a British or Australian accent will make us run to the phone to buy his jacked up on speed whatever-your-selling?   Whoever created the DVR is a freaking genius.  I never want to watch another commercial again.

Gone with the Sheepdog

Our Old English Sheepdog Casey sleeps in our bedroom.  I know, I know, she is spoiled.  Let me mention that she weighs 103 pounds.  So the other night she wakes up my husband in the middle of the night by pawing him on the nose.  My husband wakes up to find her wearing our bedroom curtains ala Carol Burnett in the Gone with the Wind Skit.  This is the second set of drapes that she has "removed" from the wall.  I am love sick for that crazy dog.