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Between New York's brutal cold front and battling the flu, I've barely left my apartment this month. So I decided to get dressed up on Saturday even though we stayed in to make chili and play Scrabble. C gifted me a nice sweater (Oscar de la Renta!) for my 31st that I wanted to sport with some fancy pants I thrifted in Omaha a couple months back (I've been into dressy slacks lately and, overall, have been trying to class it up a couple notches).
I play dress up all the time with C, trying on new fits and unexpected combos from our overflowing dressers/closets. I own more pants than I've ever owned (maybe 15) so the permutations are truly endless.
Jan 22, 2024
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Tees, sweaters, turtlenecks
Jean jacket adorned with patches that I’ll probably die in
Wide legged jeans I cropped
Docs + above ankle heeled boots
Some new things I acquired tho and am excited to try:
Loafers
Flare jeans that make me feel cunty in the best way
Some looser fitting jeans that I normally wouldn’t go for because I’m short but these ones work!
I’m on a mission to thrift jeans of every color, so that’ll add some fun to my autumn wardrobe as well 💃 I seem to have no full body pictures of myself since like, 2020 to show how I style any of this, but you probably can picture it pretty easily
Sep 19, 2024
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I often have to dress myself while my husband is asleep because he keeps the sleep schedule of a teenager. Today this resulted in:
- A checkered gray cabana shirt?
- Accidentally inside out children's pajama bottoms with lace and blue ribbon trim at the bottom (they look like fancy Victorian underwear)??
- Tevas???
- The confidence to rock it 😎
Jul 5, 2024
Oversized brown houndstooth sweater coat I’ve had for like five years, funky vintage metallic gold sweater I’ve had for ten years, wool men’s fedora I stole from costumes when I played a male gangster in a middle school play, big scarves, sheer black pantyhose, black boots, black dresses, black blazers… maybe get back into some aggressive pattern clashing idk I’m feeling quirky
Sep 19, 2024
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Jan 24, 2024
There is something ugly and small about winter that I like. Perhaps because I was born into it. And there’s a stillness too. I feel it most when I’m back home in Nebraska leaving the bar at 2 a.m., warmed by old friends and tiny drinks. I walk to the car, snow crunching underfoot and, as soon as I’m alone, I stop. I stop and listen. I love that moment of quiet, blue desolation.
I do not handle the cold well. I am quick to shiver and my long johns don’t come off once they go on. So these moments of serenity are strange and precious. Something deep inside me quietly overpowers the elements and I feel some kind of inner peace. For this reason, I once made an igloo in our backyard and then laid inside for hours trying to fall asleep inside that feeling.
Winter birthdays are a challenge. What is there to do? This year I decided to lean in and seek snow since that’s become something of a novelty in New York. $500 and 120 miles later I had my squall. When I returned to the city for my actual birthday, it finally snowed, marking New York's first significant snowfall in 701 days. It was the perfect gift.
Jan 24, 2024
Every Monday, me and a bunch of other Brooklyn degenerates congregate at The Gutter in Williamsburg to destroy some pins and drain some longnecks. I've been bowling at the Gutter for eight years now and most seasons we lost miserably, but now we're sort of good. Joining the league was a great way to meet people and I always look forward to league night, especially during tough or lonely periods. Plus, just about everyone is charmed when you tell them you're in a league.
I look like I work for IBM in the 90s in this pic but here I am with my high score (181).
Jan 22, 2024