Day 62

I'm going to pick up with the last day I counted, add ten and say this is day did and say that this is day 62. Sure. We'll go with that. 

It's spooky month, so I have to wear my spooky LLR leggings. :D 

I HUNTED FOR THESE SUCKERS FOREVER. 

Zombie. Heads. 

I mean, really? Does it get more Halloween than these? I love 'em, and couldn't wait to wear them. The top for these can be pretty much any color in there, but I went with a burnt orange because I can. Tieks Teal to round it off, with a necklace that reminds me of pirate doubloons (For some reason, Zombies makes me think of Pirates and vice-versa - I blame Pirates of the Caribbean for that one.) and ta-da. I'm ready for the day. 

Braaaaaing

Like seriously, can you get better leggings? I need a top that REALLY goes with these instead of one that just kind of sorta goes with it. 

The top does stick to the leggings though, which makes my fat stand out. I'm kind of on the fence about that, so we'll see if it lasts the whole day. 

Oh and a quick update on the LLR jeans...

Overall, I like them. The slide down a bit more than I'd like, and they stick to my calf area, but I ended up using that to my advantage because if I pulled them up ever so slightly around my calves, they don't slide down as much. Odd, but true. So, we'll see how they handle a few washes and go from there. So far the verdict is they were comfortable enough all day and I'll wear them again. Magic jeans? No. Comfy enough to wear the entire day? Yes. 

Day um. I don't know.

It's Wednesday! 🐪🐫🐪🐫

How are you doing? I'm good. Today I'm a kitty again. ^_^

I'm wearing LLR Iris top (SO COMFY, so much comfier than the Liv's!) and LLR jeans. I'm on the fence about these jeans. I have a big butt (and I cannot lie....) but these jeans don't want to stay up over it. I've NEVER had that problem before. My mom is always complaining about jeans doing that and my butt has always held them up so it's never occured to me that it'd happen to me. But it does, they slide down back there. So I'm going to have to wear a belt and I HATE belts.

They're also weird in the waist. I prefer my jeans to have a higher cut waist and these are a little lower than I'd like. That being said, they are long enough, which I give them huge props for (Sorry short girls) but do you know how rare it is for me to have jeans go past my ankles? AMAZING.

We'll see how they wear throughout the day and if I feel like their worth their $80.00 price tag, but so far, I'm on the fence. Now the Iris top? Totally worth it! 

Skeleton kitties! I might have to get x-rays at the dentist, so why not x-ray kitties??

They're so cute!!

And uh...duh. Of course I'm wearing the ears. lol.

Unmelllow Yellow for the win. :D

They're so pretty. :) 

Oh and a recent pic of Mr. Soba Noodle and Miss Chloe under the cut. I'll get him out soon and get some good pictures of him. ^_^ 

Day 47

Day 47 OOTD is a casual one. My husband came home from Defcon with a cold, but he brought be back this cool t-shirt! I'm pretty sure the bright yellow parts glow in the dark. Of course, I don't have lilacs (sigh) because I didn't think I had enough purple to warrant getting them. Well, that's changing. lol. So I paired these with my comfy leggings and unmellow yellows. :D 

Today is going to be a chill day. Chloe is with my sister for the next week-ish (she likes to hang out there for long periods of time) and with my honey sick, I assume I'll be helping him out with everything today. lol. (He gets man-cold sick. It's hilarious.) 

So yeah. Not much happening here today. Shirt from Defcon, leggings from Torrid, Unmellow Yellow Tieks from Tieks! 

Close up

Close up of my gorgeous UY's. :D They're probably my favorite pair honestly. (Though I'm sure I say that about a lot of my tieks. haha)

Day 45

I almost forgot to do OOTD today. I got distracted this morning by class reunion stuff, burning my mouth on my breakfast (prove that I should stick to protein shakes in the AM) and was making my grocery list. Just kind of a crazy morning! 

Today's outfit is a dress from Amazon (Sold Out, sorry), and Poppy Tieks. No jewelry today, giving myself a jewelry break today. Just didn't feel like it. 

I love how long this dress is. I actually have to pull it up to climb steps. Do you know how RARE that is for me??? lol. #TallGirlProblems

Poppy's are perfection. So pretty! 

Blooper/reject pictures

Day 44

Happy Sunday! Or as I'm calling it today, Sunday Funday! 

I woke up feeling funky, so I thought I'd let my outfit be loud, proud and bright to get me out of the funk. It worked!!!

Shirt and leggings are from Lularoe (Shirt is an Irma, leggings are TC2). Necklace from Amrita Singh, and the piece de resistance: Razzleberry Tieks!

How can you not have fun in this outfit??

See? Fun!!

Close up of my necklace

Close up of the tieks!!

They're gorgeous, right? If you don't own razzleberry, you should.

In other news: I need to clean. Ugh.

Why is there always cleaning to do?

I still have to wrap and pack up Toby's presents (I'm slacking, but I have to mail them tomorrow or they won't get there in time). Why do I slack you ask? Because I can't seem to find scotch tape anywhere. I'm going to have to use packing tape I think. Which is ridiculous, but there it is.

I should get that done this late morning, and then get it mailed out tomorrow though with no problems. I DO need to get the house in a bit more order than it's currently in. Nathan comes home tomorrow and it's a wreck and I'd like him to come home to it being a *bit* cleaner than it is now. There's just so much STUFF everywhere. We're really good at collecting stuff, but not so good at getting it picked up and boxed in boxes to go to the storage unit so we can not have it until we move. lol. Also, I need more boxes. *bleh*

At any rate, I'm going to have to wake up Chloe soon and have her do stuff while I do stuff. It's just a day of doing STUFF. Boring stuff too. Maybe we'll blast Hamilton while we do it.

I hope you all are having a great weekend!!

xx
Beka

Day 43

I hear the cicadas outside and it reminds me of summers as a kiddo and being all hot and sticky all the time. I feel bad that I can't give that to my teenagers, but at the same time, they had it when they were really little. It's weird how sounds and scents can bring back memories, both good and bad ones. 

I don't think Chloe and I are doing anything this weekend. I have to order Mr. Snoot some more reptile supplies for his bigger cage, as he really needs a bigger water dish and a bigger hide. I'm going to order through chewy.com because I have heard they are the bomb. So we'll see. 

I honestly just threw on some clothes today. I didn't even think about this outfit other than, "Am I presentable?" I say yes. I'm a little matchy-matchy, but that's ok. Yellow Luluroe Nikki dress, multi-color earrings from Amrita Singh and mustard Tieks. Oh and the hair tie came in a multi-color pack from Amazon. 

Lularoe Nikki's are generally shorter than skirts I usually wear, and are about the shortest I'll go on a skirt for a couple of reasons. 1) I'm not the most lady like, and have a tendency to bend over in dresses as though I were wearing pants. 2) You can see the scars on my knees. Not much in these pictures, but you can close up. In these, you can only see the 1 scar that you can generally see in all my dress pictures as it's pretty big. (The one halfway below my knee/up my calf if you don't know what I'm talking about.) When I take pictures of my shoes, you can see the ones on my ankles and the one on my shin as well. (Those have healed enough, they kind of look like bruises unless you are looking really close up.) We're not perfect and our scars and imperfections are what makes us unique and tell our story. We have to learn to love who we are and not try to be perfect. That being said, I am comfortable with ALL of them now, so I am ok to show off a little more leg. Woo-Woo. lol. 

One thing I would correct if I could? My allergies. They are on overdrive. I can't stop sneezing so my nose and cheeks are super red and my eyes are all watery. lol. From now until November is the WORST time of year for me and I feel like I'm going to die about every year. I really have to schedule that allergist appointment. 

POCKETS! Yus.....pockets are precious!

Pineapple earrings! I love these. :D

I never thought I'd like Mustards as much as I do. Nor did I think I had a ton to go with them. (I'm laughing because I bought a TON of yellow to go with them and I am SO GLAD I did because I am in love with yellow on me. :D <3

And Oh!! 

Look who was on my screen door when I went to go back inside! A real ladybug! A red one! I haven't seen a real red one in such a long time. Usually we get the orange ones, or the orangey-red ones that have mated with the real lady bugs and have the crossbreeding thing going on, but this one was red red. I was so happy. :D

I hope you all have a wonderful day!!
xx

Beka

Bonus/Pics I didn't use on TA:

Day 41

So I still feel cruddy, but I took a shower and said "Eh, I'll get dressed if just for a picture". So here y'all go. 

I'm really still sickly, but I'm put together (real bra, jewelry and a dress and shoes, so that's as put together as I'm getting) but I make "I'm gonna throw a look together in three minutes" look good. lol. 

Honestly, I'll probably change back into PJ's and hang this back up in case I need to go anywhere, but likely I'll be lounging in pajamas all day, because I don't think I'm going ANYWHERE today. 

I keep telling myself this:

Pretty sure I still have a fever, (Check it you say? Use a thermometer? Psh...) because going outside felt good and the breeze felt cool and it's already like, 80 outside and my AC house should feel better, but it just feels too cold. I dunno. I still have the ick, but I PUT ON CLOTHES DAMMIT.

Doesn't being sick mean I should get popsicles? But alas, the husband is in Vegas for work this week and I am popsicle-less. *pouts* 

So on to the OOTD. I'm still smiling, as always, even when I feel crappy. 

Dress from Torrid, earrings from Amazon and Tieks from Tieks (all items link below).

This is yet another Torrid dress. It's from the Lion King collection over there. It's got pockets!!

Look at how cute it is close up though! 

Rawr, it's Scar! 

It's got Pumba, (I think Nala) and Mufasa on here too, I just didn't get close ups. It's very subtle unless you're really looking though, and you can't at all tell from a distance. 

I really liked this movie when I was little, and it's totally in my top ten favorite Disney movies of all time, based on the music alone. 

The dress is shorter than I usually go, but it's still an acceptable length for me. Dresses are one of my go-to's when I'm feeling gross and swollen and sick, because they give you more freedom to be comfortable vs jeans/pants/leggings.

(If I didn't know I was still sick, I'd know because my brain is telling me so. It's so stinking hard to type this and I've made so many spelling errors that I've had to go back and correct...geesh.) (Also, I'm pale. No super red cheeks and my face doesn't match my neck, it more matches my legs. LOL.

The back is really cute with this criss cross pattern, but I couldn't quite get it without looking back at the camera to make sure it was getting it, but I tried. lol. 

Necklace and earring set from Amazon for 6 bucks. They have them in various colors, I might get more, we'll see. They're cheap like the other earrings I have (same style) but they have different colors than the ones I have, and come with the necklace, so ehhh, maybe worth the money? Debatable. Maybe I can find a better deal, maybe not. 

California Navy Tieks today. My legs and feet are more swollen than usual today (being sick does that to me) but you can see they still fit comfortably. :) Reason #43 why I love my Tieks! 

Anywho, I'm still feeling icky so I'm gonna go take all this off and get back into my comfy jam-jams and sit in my chair with my minky blanket and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the beginning and probably fall asleep again. 

Love y'all

~Beka~

Day 39

I can do what I want now because I'm not attached to the TA group anymore!!!
(Drama drama) 

Oh wait, I wasn't attached or affiliated before, but OKAY.

White people be like....drama llamas. Yes. I know I'm white too. I cringe for other white people. I really do. Hell, someone is probably cringing at me, and that's ok.

Anywho.....now this page is 100% my work. 

Rule #1: Comment whatever. I don't care. If I don't like it, I'll delete it, but I might leave it just to make you look like a jerk. I might also spam it with gifs. Cuz that's how I roll. Duh.

Rule #2: Um....I won't apologize for being direct, passionate, blunt, fat, etc. So deal. 

Rule #3: I can make up more rules alter on. Cuz it's MY FREAKING BLOG, and if I want to have a paypal button, I'll HAVE a paypal button.

Who knew I'd "start so much drama" by posting an opinion on the internet. My god, what has this world come to. I mean, if you don't like the blog, DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK! Scroll past my posts if you don't want to see what I have to say, but nope, they can't be adults about it, they have to report it like having an opinion that's different than mine is a sin. *gasp*

Nope. No grr for me. ;) 

On the up side, the blog got like, 200+ hits yesterday. (And I still make no money from it, so fuck everyone who thinks I do.)

I still love Tieks and JC over there is an amazing person to deal with everyone's bullshit and still be cool. I have no idea how she does it. I run my own business and I can barely deal with the occasional customer transition let alone these bitchy got too much money housewives. Oh wait, that's me. I'M ONE OF THOSE HOUSEWIVES! I mean, I am a bitch, and I am a (bad) housewife, soooo, yeah. I guess I am. Geesh.

But hey, at least I own being a bitch, and I'm not like, "This offends me because my opinion should be the only one ever." I guess I come across that way sometimes? I dunno. If you knew me in real life, you'd know I'm super nice. My husband tells me I let people walk all over me, but, but I yap like a chihuahua the whole time they're doing it. (He's not wrong.) He also says he's nicer, but I'm the better person. Basically that means that when the cashiers ask if I want to round up to donate my change for whatever, I always say yes. I buy fast food for the car behind me, I donate to any little jar on countertops. I open doors for people. I give compliments, I give to charity, I volunteer, I pass out the good candy at Halloween, etc. He's just nicer to people's faces. I come off a bitch, but I'm back here doing all the good deeds, which makes me "the better person" but people LIKE him more than me because I come off all "Grrrr". He said when he first met me, he thought I was a total bitch, but then he realized I was all bark and no bite. lol. 

But hey. If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best. Your loss, not mine!

Now, onto the OOTD: 

LEMON DRESS!

It's supposed to be 86 today with 68% humidity. Ew. To give you a hint of why Ohio sucks, it's WAY further north, but in Florida today it's supposed to be 81 and 75% humidity. We're basically the same when you adjust temps with humidity. No wonder Ohio people move to Florida, it's Ohio weather without the winter. We can handle the Florida humidity because that's basically half of our year too.

Lemon dress is from Torrid. I bought it years ago, so you can't find it on their website anymore. (sorry!) It's one of my favorite dresses for sure. I paired it with Teal Tieks today, as I love these ones and they don't get enough wear. TT goes with so much, because the teal color is a nice little POP. Plus it looks good with yellow. I still think I need to pick up Pacific Greens though. They'd go really well with my lemon dress (and half a dozen other things I can think of off the top of my head.) 

I also updated my Tieks wheel. :) Because I love them, I made it into a heart. <3 

Ok, so you can only really tell it's a heard from the middle, but hey, I tried.

22 pairs. I counted for you. Yes, I know how much money that is. Been collecting since 2008 people. My first official pair from the website was in 2013. Before that, I only bought secondhand. A few of these are still those (now really old) second hand and probably honestly need replacing, (matte black and biscotti in particular really are worn down) but I can't replace an existing color when there are so many other colors I want!! Plus, I want some customs. I NEED two customs from Tracy Black.

These two:

*sigh* One day, I will. 

Also, wow, I have a lot of neutral and then like POPS of color. lol. The only pair here I haven't worn yet is Wild Copper. They're brand new, and those I think will be worn soon, but they haven't called out to me to wear them just yet. They are gorgeous though and I will be wearing them soon. :) 

So yeah. I should be getting some jewelry in the mail today and I have to send out some mail today. Other than that, just another boring weekday. <3 y'all! 

P.S. Not turning off commenting on TA as it's past that point now. Ugh. drama drama drama.