daily outfit: white jeans after labor day?

So here I ask that question that gets asked a billion times during this long weekend... is it okay to wear white after Labor Day? I personally think its fine, many designers come out with collections featuring winter whites (that's gotta make it okay, right? right?). My question is what do you think???

I had planned on visiting J during this long weekend, but Hurricane turned Tropical Storm Irene knocked out the power in his neighborhood for 5 days. Rather than risk sitting alone in a powerless home while he had to work anyway, I am instead going to visit the honey next weekend.

Soon he will be home for good and away will go Skype dates and online Scrabble. I cant wait to have him back. I have been really really missing that boy!

What are all of you lovelies doing during this long weekend?

Outfit Details:

Top: Express via eBay

Jeans: Banana Republic via thrift/Goodwill

Shoes: (that you cant see!) Target

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stay-cation with my love

As you all may know, I took a little vacation from my blog for 3 days while my sweetie was in town for a home visit. It was a bitter-sweet stay-cation because of course it was amazing to see him... however only three days, it went by so so fast.

We had a dinner date at the Cheesecake Factory, it was very yummy but the food was very rich - I got a stomach ache afterwards, I guess I am more a casual dining kind of girl - give me Chipotle and I am the happiest.

My sweetie is such a good sport - he got a pedicure with me, he even suggested that we go to get them together because he knows that I love pedicures.

Here we are just before leaving Lowe's... while my love was in town we picked out paint colors for our living room, I am going to paint as a little weekend project while he is at work so that when he comes home our place is complete... once I get the paint up and my baby is back, our house will feel like home.

I had to show off my "Love" hat... J really liked it a lot, it was c/o Swagger, who is a lovely sponsor of my blog... go check out all the new items recently posted in the FB Swagger store! Like Swagger on Facebook and let them know that you came from my blog.

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awkward and awesome thursday, volume 6

Awkward

• No outfit photo today :( I planned on it, for real... I wore a top from my recent thrifting adventure and skinny jeans, but alas, I was forced onto a vortex called my couch... I ended falling asleep listening to some program about civil war reenactments and well, I was a goner from there.
• Moshi's face in the above picture - our attempt at a family portrait before J left for work. Its silly, Moshi looks mad but it makes me laugh every time I see it.
• I was struggling at work today, trying to learn something new and it just wasn't clicking... I hate when that happens, I don't like not being able to figure things out right away.
• Missing my love, as days go by I miss him more. I thought that time would make it a little easier, but so far it hasn't... I wish that I could just hug and kiss that boy for a whole day. Hello chap-stick!
• Budgets... yuck, I hate that word... I plan on doing an extensive budget plan for myself to help me spend a lot less and hopefully save a little more. Time to be a grown up and eliminate unnecessary spending - after all its just stuff. 

Awesome

• Tampa Bay Rays Baseball - to be honest, I had no clue what was going on during the company sponsored outing yesterday, I didn't even know which was the home team {yikes} but the fact that the company I work for gave us a day to go see the game as a group was really amazing.  I have never worked somewhere that cares so much about having happy employees, its really awesome to feel valued at work.
• Sleep! Is it sad that I am looking forward to this weekend just for the fact that I can sleep in late on Saturday? I haven't been resting well with out J here, I haven't adjusted yet and I am noticing that I don't sleep as much or as well. I miss him.
• Free weekend! Yep, you read that right! I am going to buy groceries - probably tomorrow after work - and from there on, force myself to not spend a penny! I am only going to partake in activities that are free to me.  I have a feeling that will include an at home facial and pedicure, reorganizing my kitchen cupboard, maybe watching an Audrey Hepburn movie or two that I already own but have yet to view. Sounds pretty good to me!

More outfit pictures to come, promise... I will probably also have a fashion show in my bedroom this weekend and try to plan out some new outfits with the new Goodwill items I got recently, I may need some opinions and advice on what to pair with what too!

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awkward and awesome thursday, volume 5

{Sweater: Target, Top: NY&Co.; Skinny Cargos: Express, Shoes: Jessica Simpson via TJMaxx}

Awkward:

• This will be this first weekend without J, and to top it off... its a 3 day holiday weekend... never thought that I would NOT be excited to get an extra day off, but work keeps me busy and its a distraction that J isn't here to come home to. Hopefully its not too bad and I find some things to keep me occupied.
• I have to take my car into the shop AGAIN... yikes! I just spent a lot to get something repaired and it seems like that wasn't enough... hopefully its covered by the warranty and I wont have to dish out any more of my hard earned moola!

Awesome: 

• My Moshi cat! Look at her in my outfit picture, just being silly and rolling over like a puppy or something! She always makes me smile.
• Coming home for lunch - I have been trying to save more and spend less... ugh, my bank account has been suffering so I am trying to get back on track... coming home for lunch has saved me some loot as well as given me the opportunity to get more done, I did the dishes and a load of laundry while I had leftovers... not too bad.
• Getting organized. I am going to try to clean out my closet this weekend and organize the stuff I really love... anything that doesn't fit or is still nice but just not what I see myself wearing, I will post on the Life and Style Shop.
• Steffy of Steffy's Pros and Cons giving me some awesome blog advice! Thanks again Steffy :)
• Hosting my very first giveaway on the blog! You can still enter to win a $25 iTunes gift card here!

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orange you glad

{Shirtdress: Gap via Platos, Belt: Nordstrom's; Shoes: Express}

Well well well. I survived my first night without J, it wasn't fun but really the two hardest nights will be the first night apart and the last night before he comes home.... one down! I wanted to take a second to say thank you to all of the wonderful blog-friends of mine! I am truly lucky to have such amazing people read my blog and also care and send me love and support while I deal with adjusting to being in a long-distance relationship. I love you guys! I am such a lucky girl.

While in the process of updating the look and feel of my blog I decided that I wanted to revamp my "Shop My Closet" portion too... following in the footsteps of Steffy from Steffy's Pros and Cons, I decided to add a store feature. Check out the new page that will direct you to the shop. Luckily I have a 3 day weekend coming up so I will hopefully have plenty of fun items to add to the store after cleaning out and reorganizing my closets.

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on the road

My love left today to make way to his summer work destination... Leaving our apartment for work this morning while he was still getting ready was hard. Coming home after work was even harder. I just keep telling myself that this will pass, its just a chapter and the next 5 months will fly by. Our last weekend was bittersweet, filled with both laughter and tears, but at least I got to spend some time with my sweetie-pie and snap a few photos.

It was a great weekend that went by way too fast. J, when you read this - I love you and miss you already! I promise to non-J readers of this blog that outfits will be coming soon... I plan on wearing something bright and cheery to work tomorrow to lift my spirits, so - pictures to come soon. Promise.

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