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What I Wore This Week

August 29, 2016Sara 1 Comment

What a weekend. I swear to god I was ready to run out the door and down to the closest pub and drink myself into an oblivion. This is a quick summary:

My kids can’t keep their room clean for shit. It is always a complete disaster and I have no idea how it gets that way one day after being cleaned top to bottom. I asked them to get in there 50 times this weekend and I am about to box every thing up and throw it down the garbage chute. Do you think that would get a good reaction?
Tom threw a pair of gross, dirty dark coloured running shoes into my load of white laundry I was washing. I got pissed and removed the water-logged shoes and tossed them in the tub to drain telling him they can go in with the darks. He took them out of the tub and put them in the dryer while still saturated. Seriously dude? What are you, new?
I went grocery shopping, bought a bunch of stuff, bananas being one of them. They have somehow disappeared along the way from paying for them and home. They are on the receipt but not in any bag. I have tried to drink a green smoothie everyday for the last few weeks to up my healthy food intake and bananas are important to add a sweeter flavour. Now I have to walk over tomorrow and get some more which is a pain in the ass.
We went to Ikea today because I was on a mission for a new mirror. I saw one in Kijiji to buy second-hand but that didn’t pan out. Ikea offered some nice large ones for a really good price but it was chaos in there today so I wanted to get in and get out as fast as possible (which isn’t very fast when you are stuck in a mob of people). I presume it was so busy because school starts next week and they were all buying things to outfit their new apartments or dorms. When I worked retail the week before Labour Day and back-to-school was our busiest time. I was also the time that our computer systems crapped out and we had to do all transactions on handbills and calculators (this happened two years in a row). Talk about stressful 😉 Anyway, Merle was being so bad in there that I wished I owned Dorothy’s shoes so I could click myself home.
I have kept forgetting to buy some paint for Merle’s wings for her Weeping Angel costume for Comicon/Fanexpo which is next weekend. I asked Tom to bring home some grey spray paint because he works next to a hardware store and he brings me home silver costume hairspray :/ So I sprayed the wings to give it a lighter base and have to try to find some tomorrow when I picked up bananas. Why can’t people follow simple requests/directions?
Tom just cut his hand with a knife. He is currently in the hospital getting stitches. Edit to add: He got 15 stitches and groaned and moaned all night. He asked me why they didn’t give him anything for the pain and I was like, “I had a caesarean and all I got was Tylenol and Ibuprofen to deal with the pain at home. They don’t just hand them out like that.”

I know that these are all “First World Problems” but crammed in to two days is annoying. At least have the courtesy to spread it over the space of a week 😉

How was your weekend?

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What I Wore This Week

August 22, 2016Sara Leave a Comment

Do you know what is cool? When you find out that a mall you go to regularly has a secret flea market in the basement on weekends. We discovered it this weekend and there was all kinds of great stuff. The girls found a couple of things to add to their Harry Potter collection. Then they found a 2ft tall life-like Gollum that they wanted. Where the hell would you put that? It was $300 anyway.

I’m kind of excited to get a few of the things I ordered this week (a couple of sweaters and a t-shirt). I’ll take some pictures of Instagram in a few days to show them if I like them. If not they will go back and I’ll pretend I never bought them 😉

I recently started taking some Magnesium supplements to try to improve my physical and mental health. I heard that they could help with brain fog and general fatigue which are two things that impacting my daily life. I started them last week and while yesterday I was exhausted (I think that was because of a 3am bedtime and otherwise piss poor nights sleep) today my head felt clearer. I don’t know if they are really starting to work or if it is the placebo effect and will come back next week. I am remaining optimistic though because something has to give.

Have you ever taken a magnesium supplement? And if so did it help you?

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Tis the Season for some New Underwear

August 17, 2016Sara 4 Comments

Weird Title? Bear with me and I will get to that in a minute, but you need the back story first which is that I am having trouble adjusting my financial mindset. Where we were 5 years ago and where we are today are two totally different worlds. Five years ago we were on the verge of needing to use the food bank and today while we aren’t rolling in it, the anxiety and depression over how we are going to pay bills isn’t constantly on the forefront of our minds. Five years ago Tom and his mother decided to shut down their goldsmith shop that had been a family business for many years. (hard decision but a dying trade in the land of box stores). He went on to a brief interlude (several years actually) in the music industry but in life it felt like we were continually beating a dead horse and we needed a change. Through friends and connections he found a job in the tv/film industry and his hard work has finally paid off over the last year or so.

Even though we can’t be frivolous with money, if we need something we can afford it (within reason obviously because this is an expensive city) but I am still having issues letting go of the purse strings. I went to get dressed the other day and when I was putting on my underwear (tmi) I almost ripped the effing waistband off just by pulling them up. My fingers ripped right through the fabric. This has happened to 4 other pairs, most of them are in a sad state.

The same week I was drying off after my shower and tore my towel almost completely in half. There is about 3 inches of frayed fabric holding it together. I’m not kidding. Apparently I dry off too vigorously. I haven’t bought new towels or underwear in years. YEARS. I’m serious. I think the towel is from college. Don’t quote me on that but it’s pink and I bought lots of pink things back then. Even my hair was white blonde and pink.

Photo via Home and Cottage
And while I would love a beautiful zen shelf full of expensive, fluffy towels like the above photo I will settle for some colourful ones from Ikea that I can buy for under $10.

These things don’t rank high on my necessity scale so they never get replaced. My underwear drawer is not sexy, and my linen closet is a mish-mash of a million different colours of towels in different conditions (I actually don’t even have a linen closet. Sheets and towels are in my closet because I have the big one). This is the mindset I am talking about though. I know that I needed to replace old items but I could never justify it buying them. Something else always seemed like it was more important and got precedence. I figured if they still did the job then there was no need to replace them, and I say that with all honesty as I sit here wearing holey underwear. I have accepted that it is time for an upgrade.

Does anyone else have the same issue or am I alone in old underwear and ratty towels? 😉

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What I Wore This Week

August 8, 2016Sara 3 Comments

Okay, so I obviously didn’t wear all the above this past week because I don’t change my outfit several times a day unless you count an outfit change as coming home and immediately removing my bra putting on some ragged leggings to bum around the house in. I have also worn several of my workout shirts out and about lately after exercising and not feeling like changing. Gross right? Sometimes your best effort is only a half effort 😉 But somewhere along the long I fell behind a week in my wardrobe posts and thought I would use this day to catch up. So above is a round up of the last two weeks.

Saturday was my birthday. We didn’t do much because I’m not a huge celebratory person. Once upon a time I was and my birthday meant extreme drunkeness and Guns N’ Roses songs being dedicated to me at the bar (I love GnR). That was back in the days when I could spend the next day sleeping off a hangover (I get bad hangovers) or go to work and spend the day hangover with the rest of my partying coworkers so we could commiserate. Today that would equate torture. Trying to deal with a hangover while maintaining a modicum of parenting. Dry heaving while preparing lunch sounds like a nightmare so I tend to avoid anything that may result in situations remotely resembling that. We spent the afternoon walking through Ikea and then outs or a nice Italian dinner (Italian, Mexican, and all day diner breakfast food are my favourites). We got home too late to buy a cake so Tom is went over to Whole Foods to pick one up Sunday. They have damn good cakes if you haven’t tried them. He also asked me what I wanted for a gift. I almost said nothing but who am I to pass up a present 😉 I think I would like a pair of Adidas Gazelles that they reissued since I don’t really have a sneaker (aside from Converse) in my wardrobe.

I think it would be totally appropriate to get them as a birthday gift because I got them a birthday gift back in around 1995. Not quite 20 years but damn close enough.

It’s so bizarre seeing things come back in style. My mom used to talk about how she wore “so and so” when she was younger and now it’s back, but when you experience it yourself it’s a totally different ballgame.

What is your favourite thing to see back in style?

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What I Wore This Week

August 1, 2016Sara 7 Comments

I caved and wore shorts. I never wear shorts and these almost went out with the last purge, but I decided to hold on to them for summer and see how often I wore them. There have been a few bloody hot days so I said screw it. Since we walk so much it is a lot more comfortable in the heat to wear shorts while towing my grocery cart (yes we have one of those wheeled carts to tote groceries/packages home). I don’t know how often I will wear them but I think I will hold on to them for now.

Today (Sunday) was release day for the new Harry Potter and the Cursed Child book. It’s been a countdown for this day since Roo (my oldest) heard about it so it was an early start to walk over there. It was kind of cool since the book store decorated Harry Potter themed for this day, even the attached Starbucks renamed itself The Leaky Cauldron. I love how much Harry Potter is part of her life and how much joy it brings her. I will encourage this obsession as long as she will let me.

My 37th birthday is this Saturday. It’s funny how excited you get for your birthday when you are a kid and how much you dread it when you are an adult (and how sometimes you can’t even remember how old you are turning and you have to search one of those “how old am I” counters online). I am thinking of buying myself a beautiful Russian Shawl to celebrate because they have become my new fixation. I have searched online and came across a few sites that sell them, but am having a hard time making a decision. I am one of those people that over think it and end up buying one and then wanting the other one when I do. I do every single time. The most I can narrow down my decision is that I want a black background with bright floral but then I also like the red, but there is still like 9 million to choose from and. Maybe I’ll make a post asking for opinions later 😉

Have you ever forgot how old you were turning?

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What I Wore This Week

July 25, 2016Sara 2 Comments

I bought my first Christmas present this week. I know. Frightening thought eh? I start buying things early as I find them because that ensures that I don’t wait too long and then have to spend a bunch of money at once. This also makes sure that I don’t have to panic if we haven’t bought anything and don’t have the money to do it. Tom’s job site essentially shuts down over Christmas from anywhere from 2-5 weeks. This makes money really tight, hence buying presents in June.

I was searching on Etsy for cute ideas and came across a whole set of Harry Potter pins from the Etsy shop Black Umbrella Industries so I bought them. I should have checked their whole stock before I bought them because they also have a set of Doctor Who pins that I want to get too and could have saved on shipping. My kids incorporate these pins into their wardrobe and leave the house with a minimum of 5 pins on every outfit and/or bag so the purchase is a winner. I also got an email from Amazon letting me know that Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets illustrated story book comes out in October so that is another gift done once I preorder it.

I am kind of stumped for other ideas since both the kids birthdays are also in November and December. It’s a super expensive time of year and stretches my creativity level 😉 I’m also the only one who thinks this far ahead. If I left it up to Tom he would wake up Christmas Eve Day and say, “oh shit. I forgot”.

When do you start Christmas shopping?

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