New Year's resolutions are overrated. This year, it's all about the fall resolution: be it to fall in love, fall out of love or fall into -- leggings!
Forget all that serious nonsense from the first two options - falling into fashion is the way to go! If there's one thing I've learned from Fergie, it's that a Prada dress never broke my heart before!
In my case, it's a dress that I've bought from the clearance rack at the mall, but you get the idea! I'm a bargain basement Carrie Bradshaw and so OK with that!
This fall, I plan on loving leggings paired with tunics or dresses. Belts and boots to accompany them? Now that's a resolution I can keep!
The Frisky website posted a pictorial on "10 Leggings You'll Love for Fall," and they are cute!
10 Lovely Leggings
All this writing about leggings makes me think of skinny jeans. I've been avoiding them because of their name.
Never doubt the power of words, people!
My skinny days having rounded into curvy days, I thought, "well, there's the end of that trend for me!"
I continued to think that way until one day, when I caught sight of my legging-clad reflection in a glass building and had a startling thought!
Leggings are the same as skinny jeans, just with a different material! An entire branch of the family fashion tree opened up to me.
I've entered an entirely new jean pool! Come on in - the fashion's fine!
© Coffee Fairy
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
An Arrow of Carnations, Between the Shadow and the Soul
I had a run-in with the Soulmate. It's usually at coffee shops; I'm sure you're not surprised!
"I have to tell you a story," Soulmate said.
He always did have a fine way of startling me with his non sequitur-like actions.
Soulmate put his arms around me and hugged me. Normally I would have been thrilled. But instead, I found myself trying to maneuver around him. He tightened his arms around me.
My mind went into panic mode for a few seconds, trying to find my way out of this potentially sticky situation. It reminded me of when I was little, with the feral cat who used to hang out around our house. I coaxed him into the house one day and he flipped out, banging into walls and glass doors, trying to find a way out.
Like the cat bumping into walls, I kept on bumping against Soulmate's arm, looking for the weak spot that would give way so I could escape. All the while, Soulmate is uttering sweet nothings - "I miss you and I love you and you could just call me sometime and .... ok."
His sweet nothings might have turned into sweet somethings except they trailed off because I dodged the advances and walked away, the "and .... ok" ringing in my ears for days afterward.
The next exchange I had with the Soulmate was a mix of springy elevation and wintry groundedness. He told me that sometimes, he just wants to see me and talk. I felt like I was hearing a line.
"But you're never there," Soulmate said.
"Wait, what?" I said. "You drive by my apartment?"
In the four second pause that passed, I saw panic in his eyes, like I had trapped him, just like he had trapped me outside the coffee shop.
"Sometimes," he said.
My insides turned mushy and I felt myself being lifted on this euphoric wave. It was like this little green daffodil shoot had poked its way out of the hard ground.
Hope sprang eternal because the man drove by my apartment!
But then I came crashing back to reality; he was probably only giving me a line.
"You drive by my apartment," I repeated. "No you don't."
And I slammed my hand down on the green daffodil shoot and pushed it back into the ground.
© Coffee Fairy
"I have to tell you a story," Soulmate said.
He always did have a fine way of startling me with his non sequitur-like actions.
Soulmate put his arms around me and hugged me. Normally I would have been thrilled. But instead, I found myself trying to maneuver around him. He tightened his arms around me.
My mind went into panic mode for a few seconds, trying to find my way out of this potentially sticky situation. It reminded me of when I was little, with the feral cat who used to hang out around our house. I coaxed him into the house one day and he flipped out, banging into walls and glass doors, trying to find a way out.
Like the cat bumping into walls, I kept on bumping against Soulmate's arm, looking for the weak spot that would give way so I could escape. All the while, Soulmate is uttering sweet nothings - "I miss you and I love you and you could just call me sometime and .... ok."
His sweet nothings might have turned into sweet somethings except they trailed off because I dodged the advances and walked away, the "and .... ok" ringing in my ears for days afterward.
The next exchange I had with the Soulmate was a mix of springy elevation and wintry groundedness. He told me that sometimes, he just wants to see me and talk. I felt like I was hearing a line.
"But you're never there," Soulmate said.
"Wait, what?" I said. "You drive by my apartment?"
In the four second pause that passed, I saw panic in his eyes, like I had trapped him, just like he had trapped me outside the coffee shop.
"Sometimes," he said.
My insides turned mushy and I felt myself being lifted on this euphoric wave. It was like this little green daffodil shoot had poked its way out of the hard ground.
Hope sprang eternal because the man drove by my apartment!
But then I came crashing back to reality; he was probably only giving me a line.
"You drive by my apartment," I repeated. "No you don't."
And I slammed my hand down on the green daffodil shoot and pushed it back into the ground.
© Coffee Fairy
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Exes and Oh No's!
After I watched "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" on an unseasonably cold and rainy summer night, it occurred to me - "Don't we all have to defeat evil exes?"
The concept of the movie is based on Bryan Lee O'Malley’s graphic novel series, where Scott Pilgrim falls for Ramona Flowers, and then has to defeat her seven evil exes in order to move forward with her.
And isn't that the trick? In order to advance personal relationships, we have to figure out how to move past those evil exes blocking the way.
I've got three. One was Suffocation Central. One was Mr. Wrong - he couldn't understand me and made me feel like I was Ms. Wrong because I didn't fit the mold he made for me. One was my Soulmate.
But not in that romcom definition, but in the "Eat, Pray, Love" definition - a person who breaks you down, teaches you what you're missing, then leaves. The soulmate is often the hardest one to get over because for a hot second, you see what you really need and they make you think you can find it with them.
So how do we get over these evil exes? What if we don't have our own Scott Pilgrim to fight for us? What if we built the walls too high for even Scott Pilgrim to get through? What if we don't want a Scott Pilgrim fighting our battles for us?
And there it is - the first step to defeating the evil exes is knowing that it's you who has to get past them first.
© Coffee Fairy
The concept of the movie is based on Bryan Lee O'Malley’s graphic novel series, where Scott Pilgrim falls for Ramona Flowers, and then has to defeat her seven evil exes in order to move forward with her.
And isn't that the trick? In order to advance personal relationships, we have to figure out how to move past those evil exes blocking the way.
I've got three. One was Suffocation Central. One was Mr. Wrong - he couldn't understand me and made me feel like I was Ms. Wrong because I didn't fit the mold he made for me. One was my Soulmate.
But not in that romcom definition, but in the "Eat, Pray, Love" definition - a person who breaks you down, teaches you what you're missing, then leaves. The soulmate is often the hardest one to get over because for a hot second, you see what you really need and they make you think you can find it with them.
So how do we get over these evil exes? What if we don't have our own Scott Pilgrim to fight for us? What if we built the walls too high for even Scott Pilgrim to get through? What if we don't want a Scott Pilgrim fighting our battles for us?
And there it is - the first step to defeating the evil exes is knowing that it's you who has to get past them first.
© Coffee Fairy
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