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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daily outfit: denim dress, cotton cardigan

My sweetie surprised me today. He told me he had something sent to our place and that I needed to pick it up and asked if I could send it along with some other stuff to his temporary home in LI, New York.  Well when I got the package, it wasn't golf toys like I thought it would be. He ordered me a NookColor.

I have wanted one for a long time and it was such a sweet unexpected thing for him to do. I am truly a lucky girl.  Thanks baby love :)

I noticed that the Nook has a friends feature, I don't know how to use it yet, but if you also Nook and want to lend e-Books or maybe do a blogger book club let me know!

My outfit from Monday's adventures at work... its been long hours and lots of number crunching and researching, so I needed a little aqua to make me smile.

Outfit Details:

Dress: Target

Necklace: New York & Company

Cardigan: Ann Taylor via Thrifted/Goodwill

Shoes: Payless via Thrifted/Goodwill

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a different kind of remix... boyfriend edition

Ready... set... remix.

This remix is a little different... my honey J has always been very supportive of my blog, but lately with talks of opening stores and working harder at the blog he has become a great rock for me to bounce ideas off of and help me make "business" decisions.

While J was home he wanted to do a remix of his own and I could'nt help but squeeel!!! I played paparazzi. We let remixing be our muse.

Volcom Tee: This is one of my favorite shirts that J has... its a really deep burnt orange color and has a nice graphic print.  We got it at Nordstroms a while back but I assume that a tee like this is found many-a-place.

Fun and Games: His version of a "beachy" look should probably be disqualified since he isn't even wearing the shirt... but he is a cutie and I am proud of my baby love for being fun and wanting to have a little hand in this blog, so whatever he wants... he gets! Here, J throws on some swim trunks and brings some beach fun to our sand volley ball court... when it gets too hot to play, residents sometimes use this as a little party zone since there are picnic tables, a grilling area, and a small pool all very close by.

Sweat Sessions: Dressing nice for the gym doesn't mean getting all decked out or girls - please no full hair and make-up! However I do think that your fitness attire should be well fitting and flatter you, there are tons of mirrors in gyms and you are going to see yourself constantly... if you feel like you look your best your confidence is boosted and you will want to maintain that level and work harder towards your goals.

Chipotle Datenight: I think that its pretty much common knowledge how much J and I love Chipotle... its so yummy and for some reason when he is home with me, those burrito bowls taste even better. We spend lots of nights just watching tv or movies and snacking on Chipotle, sometimes we are in comfy PJs but sometimes its also nice to "dress up" a little for at home dates. We mix it up with a little of both but always enjoy the time spent together.

Dressy Casual: Wearing the same shirt with slightly dressier shorts gives this tee a little more pop. This is something that J would probably wear if we went on a shopping date to the mall or to go see a movie.

Bye Moshi... night out!: Once and a while we like to get out and cut a rug... I am typically a jeans and tees kind of girl when "going out" but if we go somewhere nicer than our typical spots we add a little something more to our outfits. I will wear a dress and J will throw on something like this... same shirt but now with elevated style by adding the blazer, jeans and white Hugo shoes.

So what do you think? J is not bad at the remixing (plus he isn't too bad to look at either) he may have found himself a new little project with a monthly men's remix or inspired by here. Show J some love everyone :) We would love to hear your feedback.

Happy Friday! Also just wanted to say, loves you guys for sticking by me through my sickness! Hopefully I will be back to posting this weekend. xo

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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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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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the last sunday

{Blog Redesign - Summer 2011}

While J packs I redesign my blog, I need a little distraction from what is really happening today. I am sad, its very hard to watch him pack up his belongings and know that he wont be back for about 5 months.

I hope that I am able to visit a few times while he is working, its going to be so tough to not have him home each night, but we have our phones and webcams to still talk and see each other. It is just going to be a hard adjustment but we will be okay, that boy is my all and everything.

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his and hers

Date night in at our house usually consists of Chipotle... I guess you can say that we have a lot of date nights, so many that we are to the point where we have made "friends" with the guys that serve us our yummy burrito bowls.  They even went as far as to label our dishes with this cutesy little note tonight.  I love the guys at Chipotle, it is certainly going to be something I miss once J heads up for work this summer... a burrito bowl for one will still taste yummy, but part of why its so amazing is the company I have while noshing.

{J and I on the Starlight Majesty, Dinner Cruise - Clearwater Florida}

Here is another snapshot from this weekend.  We went on a dinner cruise out of Clearwater, Florida with J's family. It was such a good time and we were with great company. J's dad took this picture of us on the boat.  You guys may remember this top and belt combo from this post :)

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the start of summer

{J and me at Jimmy's Restaurant, Clearwater Florida}

I got to meet so many great people this weekend... I was reunited with my Aunt Tina. We got to catch up on the last 20 years of our lives.  My Grandma is ill right now and my Aunt and I are trying to build a better family to better take care of her now. I am so happy that I now have her in my life after so long... I have been struggling with feelings of not having my own family to connect with. Now I have one more amazing person in my life and I cant wait to visit her and get to know her better.

I also got to meet J's dad, his awesome girlfriend, and J's aunts and cousin {Hi Kim!}.  They were a lot of fun and I already love them like they are my family too. I hope that this summer brings us together and that I am lucky enough to spend some time with them.  J leaves for his summer work in just a few days - which is why I haven't been such a dedicated blogger lately... its been pretty difficult to make the blog a priority while our time has been limited.

I love him a lot and hope that I am able to visit him this summer while he is up north working, it's going to be very hard to go from sleeping next to the love of my life one night and then not seeing him for who knows how long... no more morning kisses before work, no more "sketti" dinners or dates at Chipotle. 

The summer will hopefully go by quickly and he will be back home with me soon. Pictured above is my sweetie and I at dinner near the beach Saturday.

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wonderful weekend

{Top: NY&Co., Belt: Charlotte Russe, Jeans: Express, Shoes: Gianni Bini}

This is my casual Friday outfit... mustard yellow top, leopard print skinny belt and jeans. I know, I know, kind of out-of-order on the photo posts seeing as I posted my weekend outfit Friday, which by the way... didn't happen - I ended up wearing something entirely different.

Friday night we met up with some friends for a little bit, I love hanging out with this group of people, the guys are great and the girls are so sweet. It's always a good time when we see them.

Saturday J had the day off {if you haven't noticed... this almost NEVER happens on a Saturday, and sadly probably wont again for a long time now that it's Spring} so we took full advantage and slept in, made pancakes and went to the horse races.  We ran into some of J's co-workers and ran around placing bets on the horses... it was a lot of fun and I was so happy to get to spend some weekend time with my honey.  We work different schedules right now so we don't get many Saturdays together.  After all the fun, we hit up Smokey Bones and had a dinner date then came home and watched National Treasure on TV. 

It was a pretty amazing weekend. 

On a side-note, I am soooo excited to watch Celebrity Apprentice tonight, Niki Taylor, Niki Taylor, Niki Taylor!!! Okay, sorry about that.

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i heart j

{Shirt: i love t-shirts, Jeans: Express, Sandals: Target}

Looky at what came in the mail today... I suppose that wearing this t-shirt makes it official {ya'll know its been official!} I was a little worried about throwing down $20 something dollars for a t-shirt since I really never find shirts like this that actually fit and I had no clue what the quality of the the text would be. To my happy surprise the shirt fits great, I will definitely have to be careful with the shirt when it comes time to wash since the letters are not screen printed on.

All in all, I really love the shirt, its cute and his reaction was cute... plus, its true. I do heart Jonathan.

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it's moving time!

Its been a while... I have been a bad blogger with so much going on for this busy work week and my pending move.  Above is a little photo collection of the new apartment complex.  By this time tomorrow, movers will be setting us up in our new place.  I am very excited, I can not wait.

Sadly, I am feeling under the weather today, I hope that I am not getting sick, there is so much to do this weekend that I cannot ALLOW myself to feel run-down.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful weekend, expect way too many pictures to come from me by the start of next week, I feel like a little kid waiting for Santa. I am so very happy to start my little life with my sweetheart.

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the sweetest

We had a pretty great first Valentine's day, knowing that I really like Valentine's my sweetie really put in a lot of effort to make the day special for me.  He drove all over town getting me a bazillion wild daisies, took me to  the beach for lunch, we strolled on the beach and took a ton of silly pictures.  Overall it was a pretty great day and I realize what a lucky girl I am.

I found a good one... and I hope that he knows I think he is the bee's knees, he is after all my sunshine.

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for my valentine

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone, I personally love Valentine's Day... Some say that it is a "Hallmark holiday" but I think its an extra special sweet day to give a little extra love to the people we care about.  This is my first Valentine's day with my sweetie, and I am very excited to spend a little time with him.

The gift that I got for him is the above pictured watch from Aldo along with a scavenger hunt of love notes. I bought a pack of those Valentine cards that little ones give out in school and on each one wrote a reason why I love that boy. Then placed them throughout the apartment, in pockets... in protein powder, in pasta noodle boxes... just all over.

I gave my love his gift last night (I am lame like that... I cant wait to see people open presents, so they always come early when they come from me!) I am so happy to have my first Valentine's day with my sweet-heart and I am really looking forward to many more with him.

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saturday... all day

Yesterday was a fun-filled day! I woke up so early and had an entire Saturday to do things and it was amazing.

I saw my beautiful friend Alisha and she dolled me up, just a slight trim (that somehow makes my hair look longer? huh?) and some heavy highlights to lighten up my drugstore black box debacle. I am really loving this color and while I am still VERY tempted to keep going blonder and blonder, I must say that I am very happy with it the way it is now.

After the hair party I splurged on some Smashbox Photo Finish foundation and primers in Adjust to reduce redness and Light to illuminate (my sweet boyfriend even knew said it was the "best kind").

I made a few friends at PetSmart, they were doing doggie adoptions so of course I picked up every dog and let it kiss me and in turn kissed and loved it... as much as I want a dog, I know that we arent ready to have a 2nd pet, especially one that requires a schedule and structure. Maybe in a year or so we will be settled enough and ready to have a yard and a dog.

The doggie adoptions did get my wheels turning though... I really want to sign up to be a volunteer a few days a month to help out with the adoptions. I would certainly give me my puppy fix and I would get to see them go home with a new loving family, that makes me smile just thinking about it.

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you look familiar

Ummmm... so my sweet boyfriend once made a comment about how sometimes people tell him that he looks like Jake Gyllenhaal. I didn't believe it. Then... a co-worker of mine commented on the photo of us at my desk, saying that my love looks like Mr. Jake. I guess it wasn't until I watched Prince of Persia last night that I saw it for myself.

So I guess my J does look a little bit like Mr. Jake Gyllenhaal (don't tell him I admit to this, he will just love it!)

Now I am curious to see who I can find that is my celebrity twin counterpart... suggestions???

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Hello, hello.

What better way to kick off my blog than with photos of my sweetie and I (he is, after all, my sunshine).  While this weekend went by way too fast, I feel like I did actually get a few things accomplished.

I eventually cleaned my kitchen and did a few loads of laundry... like I said, nothing major as far as chores go. The best part of my weekend was that my love and I had a dinner date last night and enjoyed each other's company.

This coming week is going to be very stressful, visitors are coming to my office, so everyone has to be sharp and on point... early early early mornings (I am not a morning person) and possibly late nights.

Things to look forward to:

Each night I come home to my love;

This week we sign a lease for our new place; and

Valentine's Day is right around the corner <3

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