Short day

Happy memorial day weekend! My office is closing at 2 today and I'm already in the long, holiday weekend mood, so I couldn't get myself to get too dolled up. But this is a pretty darn cute, relaxing outfit if I do say so myself.

Any big weekend plans from anyone?



Top: BCBG - Pants: F21 - Sandals: Lorenzo Chelini - Sunnies: Dollhouse



Today I'm linking up to:
Fashion Friday at Blonde Episodes
Friday Free For All at Five Days Five Ways

Tribal

Just a quick outfit post today. Enjoy!



Top: Target - Watch: neff - Skirt: F21 - Sandals: Steve Madden



Today I'm linking up to:
Whatever, Whenever Wednesday at Rolled Up Pretty

What We Wore and Made Wednesdays at Rae Gun Ramblings
What I love Wednesdays at Lollipops

What to Wear Wednesdays at Transatlantic Blonde

What I Wore Wednesday at Pleated Poppy

What I Wore at The Letter 4 

Work it Wednesday at A Little Bit of Laquer

Cheers to the weekend

Things are finally starting to turn around here in Richmond. People have come out of hibernation and there are real things to do in this city. Thank god. We were starting to think that our friends in Fargo, North Dakota had it better than we do. But alas, Richmond may end up being better than little ol' Fargo. :)

This weekend, Richmond hosted RiverRock, which was an outdoor sporting event filled with jumping dogs, slack line competitions, rock climbing, BMXing, kayaking and stand-up paddle boarding competitions, oh and lots of free music. The weekend was also filled with a LOT of food and beer. Overall, a success.

Blue and yellow, yellow and blue

Over the past few weeks, I've realized that one of my favorite color combinations is yellow and blue. They compliment each other so well, and look good no matter how you pair them together. See?



Top: The Limited - Pants: Gap - Belt: F21 - Wedges: Target - Sunnies: Dollhouse



And what's funny about this, is that you may remember my outfit from not too long ago that was the complete opposite use of these exact same colors. Like I said. I just realized that I'm in love with yellow and blue. Can you blame me?

Today I'm linking up to:

Whatever, Whenever Wednesday at Rolled Up Pretty

What We Wore and Made Wednesdays at Rae Gun Ramblings
What I love Wednesdays at Lollipops

What to Wear Wednesdays at Transatlantic Blonde

What I Wore Wednesday at Pleated Poppy

What I Wore at The Letter 4 

Work it Wednesday at A Little Bit of Laquer

It's not my fault

Last night Hubby and I went to see AWOLNATION at The National here in Richmond. I absolutely love this band. If you haven't heard of them, check out this. Or this. Or this. I promise you'll thank me.

What I love most about AWOL is that they're a perfect combination of what I love most about DJ's like this guy, and rock bands like these guys, all rolled up into one amazing ball of awesomeness. Justin and I danced our faces off and head banged until our necks hurt. I never thought dancing and head banging would go together until we found this band. It's like they were made for us.

I had to support AWOL in any way possible, so of course that means I buy a concert T stating "It's not my fault" (one of their songs). And of course I needed to wear that shirt immediately the next morning. Aka. Today.



Concert T - Jacket: Gap - Jeans: Old Navy - Sandals: Lorenzo Chelini



Here are some other fun things hubby and I did this weekend. What did you do?

Sunday Storytime: The Choice

I know I continue to say that I'm not a fan of Nicholas Sparks as an author, but here I am, yet again, writing a book review for one of his books. This time I have an excuse. I promise. This pretty little romantic book was lying in my apartment's gym just begging to be brought with me on our Myrtle Beach vacation the other week. The other two books I'm reading right now are fiction, and definitely not as entrancing of a beach read. So I gave in and decided to read another Nicholas Sparks book.

 The Choice ended up being an OK book - the last half of the book holding all of it's redeeming qualities.

Travis Parker is a forever bachelor living the life in North Carolina. Always wanting to be busy and living life to the fullest, he is a casual dater unlike the rest of his 30-something friends who are settling down and starting families of their own. This all changes when a wound-up female neighbor, Gabby, storms into his yard talking gibberish about pregnant dogs. Their neighborly bickering soon turned to a budding relationship.

Cue the typical romance novel cliches:

Gabby of course was dating and not-so-patiently waiting for her boyfriend to propose. But kisses and falls in love with Travis while her boyfriend was away for the weekend. But her love for Travis is so fresh and new, and Travis treats her in a way that her boyfriend never would. They fall in love, get married, have children, and live the ever romantic fantasy life.

Cue where this book actually gets interesting (Note: I may be spoiling the book a little after this point. It's truly the only intriguing and endearing part of the book though, so I couldn't not write about it):

One year later, the worst has happened. Gabby is in a coma from a car accident that she and Travis were in. Months later, Travis still comes to visit Gabby nearly every day, hoping one of these days will be the day she finally wakes. While still hoping for the best, the past 3 months of waiting for Gabby to wake has drained Travis and have started to have an effect on their two little girls as well. The three month also marks the day that Travis made the promise to his wife. A promise that he does not want to keep. Long before this tragic event, Gabby made Travis promise to 'let her go' after the three month mark if she were to ever be on life support so that Travis wouldn't lose his grip on life and that their children wouldn't suffer.

So what does Travis decide to do? Follow his wife's wishes, or hold onto the hope that she'll soon wake up and come back to him?

Like I said, it turned out to be an OK book. I can only give it two stars, but those entire two stars are for the last 100 pages.

Brighter than the sun

It's a beautiful Friday outside, and pretty darn good work day too. The outfit y'all chose for me fits my day wonderfully. Happy, flowy, comfortable and cute. Thanks to everyone who voted!

Top: Gift - Skirt: F21 - Sandals: Lorenzo Chelini

Today I'm linking up to:
Fashion Friday at Blonde Episodes
Friday Free For All at Five Days Five Ways

What to Wear Friday

Friends. It's time again for What to Wear Friday. You vote for which outfit you like best and I'll wear it tomorrow.

My Friday is filled with a full day of work, a date night dinner followed by an outdoor concert in the park. So you tell me, what should I wear?! This or that.

Casual simplicity

If I were to categorize my overall style, it would be 'casual simplicity'. Otherwise known as 'lazy'. I obviously have days that I like to dress it up a little more. But I like simple. And I like casual. And I also like lazy. So there it is. "Casual Simplicity"

Top + Skirt: F21 - Sandals: Steve Madden 

Today I'm linking up to:
Whatever, Whenever Wednesday at Rolled Up Pretty

What We Wore and Made Wednesdays at Rae Gun Ramblings
What I love Wednesdays at Lollipops

What to Wear Wednesdays at Transatlantic Blonde

What I Wore Wednesday at Pleated Poppy

What I Wore at The Letter 4 

Work it Wednesday at A Little Bit of Laquer

Reason I love DC #367

I've already posted this on my Facebook, so if you're friends with me this is old news. But one of the many reasons that I love DC is this picture. We stumbled upon this while wandering around the city, and I found it absolutely hilarious. Moral of the picture?: If you park like an asshole, you get a bag of dog shit on your windshield. Hilarious.

While the dog shit topped the list for funniest moment of the weekend, Hubby and I had an amazingly wonderful and relaxing weekend in DC with friends. We went to our first Nationals game vs. the Phillies. The stadium was filled with Phillies fans who were overly confident in their Phillies at the beginning of the game, so it was quite exciting to have the Nationals kick their little butts 7 to 1. Woo hoo!!!

But my all-time favorite part of the game? The fact that you can get $5 beers before the first pitch is thrown. Amazing!!

The game was followed with margaritas, queso, burritos and tacos to fulfill our Cinco de Mayo needs. You can't have a mini-Mexico reunion on Cinco de Mayo without margaritas. It's just not possible.

And it was a beautiful night, so a stroll through the park with plenty of people watching was obviously a mandatory.

Oh, and how could I forget. The next morning we went to a drag queen brunch. The food was only average, but the show was hilarious. One I definitely will not forget. This lady was definitely the crowd favorite.

I just don't feel like doing my hair

Like ever. If I had a choice, and if I actually looked good in pony tails, I would put my hair into a pony tail every single day. It's so much easier and I truly despise doing my hair. Second best to a pony tail? A braid. Better yet? A side braid. Done and done.

On another note - Hubby and I had a wonderful weekend with friends in DC. We did a ton of fun things and have some great pictures to share with you. So fun pictures to come tomorrow!

Top: Marshalls - Jeans: F21 - Wedges: Payless - Sunnies: Thrifted

Cuz it's feeling hot hot hot

Is it this hot across the country? Or just here? On my morning walk to work it was 80 degrees with like 10,000% humidity. Perfect weather for a 1.2 mile walk. Thankfully I took these pictures before my walk to work.

Top: Target - Shorts: Calvin Klein - Sandals: Lorenzo Chelini

On the upside, it's Friday!! And hubby and I are going to DC this weekend to visit with friends. We've got a full weekend planned with tons of fun things.

Like our very first Washington Nationals game ever.

A Mexico reunion, hopefully complete with lots of these.

And plenty of this to go around.

And a big stack of pancakes at our very first drag queen brunch.

You really can't beat a weekend like that. Five o'clock can't come soon enough.

Today I'm linking up to:
Fashion Friday at Blonde Episodes
Friday Free For All at Five Days Five Ways

The most comfortable pants in the world

After a few hints from coworkers on how comfortable Gap's new trousers are, I decided to make a trek out to the local shopping mall - which I try to avoid at all costs - to visit Gap and check them out for myself. And those coworkers were right. These are the most comfortable pants in the entire world. I could wear them every.single.day. Actually, I almost have... I've owned these pants for about 2 weeks, and have worn them four times already. No big deal.

Jacket + Pants: Gap - T-shirt + Belt: Target - Sandals: Lorenzo Chelini

Vacation state of mind

My mind is still on vacation. I tried my hardest yesterday to get re-motivated for work and conquer the world, but I just couldn't do it. Maybe it was the vacation-like outfit I wore....who knows. Are any of you taking (or took) a spring break? Where'd ya go?

Tank: Billabong - Sweater: F21 - Skirt: Thrifted - Belt: Target - Sunnies: Thrifted - Sandals: Lorenzo Chelini

Today I'm linking up to:
Whatever, Whenever Wednesday at Rolled Up Pretty

What We Wore and Made Wednesdays at Rae Gun Ramblings
What I love Wednesdays at Lollipops

What to Wear Wednesdays at Transatlantic Blonde

What I Wore Wednesday at Pleated Poppy

What I Wore at The Letter 4 

Work it Wednesday at A Little Bit of Laquer

Post-vacation

We're back from our little weekend vacation getaway and are happy to be home. I'm sure I've told you, but hubby and I 'won' a 'free' hotel stay in Myrtle Beach. Now, we typically try to stay away from tourist traps, but since it was a free vacation we just couldn't say no.  We accomplished a lot of beach time in our four days there, and I got MEGA sunburned from accidentally falling asleep on the beach for an hour or more. Oops!  Here are some other things we did.


We spent most of our time on The Boardwalk, which had 'fun' tourist things like this gigantor ferris wheel.

We ate and drank most of the day away at the Landshark Bar and Grill. My new favorite drink? The beergarita.   ....I'm not joking. it was DELISH.

We spent a lot of time at the beach and as I mentioned I got fried on the very first day. So I spent the remainder of our beach time in my cute little coverup, under a $30 umbrella, avoiding the sun.

We went mini-golfing.

We visited Margaritaville, where they had a gigantic blender, as well as many other strange food and drink establishments (did I say Myrtle Beach is a tourist town??)

And we overall had a good time. The best/worst part about it all? I didn't take a single outfit picture. So, while I looked adorable, no one gets to see, or remember that. It was actually kind of nice not having to worry about picture taking during our vacation. These nine pictures, are honestly the only pictures that were taken the entire week. Refreshing.

But don't worry, I'll resume taking outfit pictures again tomorrow, with a big smile on my face. :)