Thursday: From my new Macbook

First post using my new Macbook (an early Christmas present from Hubby)! So far I am mostly liking the switch from Windows to Mac but it takes some getting used to. I do like having iPhoto right on my regular computer instead of having to use Hubby's in the upstairs office to download and upload all my photos, that's for sure!

ANYWAY. Onto to the reason you are here. :)


(Please note my idiot cat once again busting his way through the door. Seriously, George cannot resist coming in when he hears me taking pictures; he is the nosiest cat EVER.)

Part of me feels very guilty because the skirt had been packed away in my too-big clothes, and it's had to come back out. I got tired of the narrow number of clothes that truly fit right now while I'm working on re-losing the Last 18 again so I went digging through my donation boxes. The good news was that I don't actually have many 12s (I was already doing all-dresses by the time I hit that size) and the 14s are way too big on me. Even this skirt, a lovely ponte a-line from Forth&Towne (a hand-me-down from Shopping Friend) is a little large but still wearable.

I still feel like I am failing somehow by moving back up a size; I think I'm going to need to work on that mentally because I suspect as the years go on I will often teeter between a 10 and 12; this weight I am at now is one I have maintained several times after losing weight over the years. I don't want to be at it again, I want to be at least 15 pounds and several inches smaller as my optimum weight, but this seems to be the setpoint my body likes to sit at when I'm only halfheartedly eating and exercising right. I need to accept that this might happen from time to time; otherwise I am afraid I will beat myself up for gaining and then just continue to gain until I am back to where I started. Maybe if I acknowledge that this is the high point of my 'acceptable' weight spectrum I will stop it from going any further.

Maybe. I will ponder this more.

ANYWAY. It was a nice change to wear a skirt again; I haven't been going crazy replenishing my nice tops collection since I don't wear them often, but I've tried to be picky about it when I do. I found this one at the Rack a month ago, and fell madly in love. It's got a cute ruching at the front and back at the waist, the ties at the sleeves are darling, and it's great dressed up or down.





I wore a red Old Navy tank under it to extend the waistline and to help with any coverage issues if it moved around during the day; the ruching is great but it makes it sit awkwardly on me at times. I added my BR pewter tassle necklace, my chunky-style brown glasses -- but I saved the real fun for my tights and shoes.



Green tights! I almost felt like they were too young-ish looking but truthfully I didn't care. I really liked their contrast with the grey fabric Naturalizer bow shoes. For the first time in a long while, I felt like I had raised my game on mixing colors in an unexpected way.

Plus, anything that shows off the great cutout detail of those shoes is aces in my book. :)

Mmm, so this posting thing is pretty easy on the Macbook, now that I've figured out how to use the darned Apple key. LOL!