Split Personality

Here are two purchases I made in the past few months. I adore both and have worn them several times though never together. Are you ready?

I bought this necklace at Anthropologie.


It was $38. Just the right price for something I’ll likely only wear for a season or two. I am loving it just as much with the browns and burgundies of fall as I did with pinks and greens of summer!

I also purchased these boots.

OMG - I LOVE them! Lordy I DO have a thing for red shoes. I am wearing the boots with dresses and skirts and it is a level of fun I am absolutely crazy about!

So readers tell me straight: can schizophrenic be a personal style ?

Observation

I got a phone call from Precious Oldest this morning.

She didn’t call to ask for money. She didn’t call to reel off a list of complaints. She didn’t call to vent about petty grievances.

She called to tell me she is happy. That she loves her major. That she made the right decision.

Almost twenty is a LONG, LONG, LONG way from teenager.

Live From Beijing

I love the Olympics. Winter and summer. I'll watch anything, even the most obscure sport. I cheer like the athletes can hear me.

I love that the beach volley ball women are wearing bikinis. I love that the American gymnasts are old enough to be in high school. I think Michael Phelps is a doll, but it's Aaron Peirsol I'm considering adding to my list.

But do you know what I've been waiting for? Really waiting for? Dara Torres and her shot at individual Olympic Gold. If any of you consider her "old"? Shut it, she's still five years younger than I am. And she made the team. At forty one she made the Olympic team!

So, the splash and dash. The 50 meter free.

And...slow off the start...Torres is ahead..and SECOND! The forty one year old won a fucking SILVER MEDAL! How awesome is that?

Let there be SPRING

This has been a long, cold, dreary winter. But, the sun it is shinning. At 51 degrees is feels downright tropical. And look!

Crocus!

Daffodils!

I do believe the end is in sight.