Saturday afternoon is for roasting veggies for a gorgeous light pasta salad after a few hours of food sorting at our local food bank. Also have a bottle of balsamic ($3.99) reducing on the stove.
I just want to make mention while I’m at it to mention hunger in this country. It’s not only homeless that need food—many people can pay their rent, car payments, gas and then not have enough to buy food. Our county food bank feeds 75,000 friends every month.
Any time you can remember any unwanted pantry items (they’ll take anything up to a year after its expiration), please think of your local food bank or pantry. Everything helps!
Stepping down from my tiny and well-meaning soap box. Have a great rest of your weekend!
accomplicerex replied to your post: Just wished my friend happy birthday on Facebook
I prefer to text them when I see their birthdays on facebook, which might be equally as bad.
I usually never wish happy birthday on Facebook, but I’m sure I don’t have her number after all the time I’ve lost my phone. Crazy times!
heather-in-heels replied to your post: I really, really love our Executive Driector
That’s how I feel about my boss at my job. She’s one of the most inspiring people to me- CEO, mom to two boys, aerobics instructor, on CLU’s board of regents- AND she reads my blog. Awesome lady is awesome!
Awesome bossLADY is awesome! :)
Schmancy new setup. First day of work is halfway over and I think I’m doing alright! How is everyone else’s Monday going?
EDIT: I’m not actually using two computers—just keeping the other one for someone :)
What I Wore: Colorblocking!
I found this Cynthia Rowley dress at TJ Max and meant to take it back because it’s a little brighter than I usually like to wear at work but I missed the 30 return deadline so instead I just wore it to work. My life is so exciting.
Dress: magenta and navy color block funness- TJ Max(x?)
Shoes: nude pumps by Franco Sarto- Lord and Taylor
Sweater: trusty tan cardi- BR
Belt: neon pink thinny, Nordstrom
Sunnies: Everett, Warby Parker
It’s almost Friday!
M.
What I Wore: sad day.
From now on, little one gets to join in all my photos. We found out yesterday he has cancer, which is just so sad because there is nothing we can do. But we aren’t dwelling on it and trying to spend as much time with him being playful and loving. Aw. Also, I have some clothes on that include a weirdly rouched shirt from Macy’s, flared trousers from Ann Taylor, and sweater from Banana Republic.
What I Wore: After-hours Errands
My usual routine after work is to come home and go directly to the nearest pair of sweatpants, grab my computer and plant my behind on the couch, preferably in front of old episodes of the office or house hunters. Tonight, I had to actually venture out of the house and since I’m fighting off a cold right now, I threw on an old standard—sweater, jeans and loafers.
Shirt: Plain white tee form H&M, Prague
Sweater: light beige with navy arm bands, Forever 21
Jeans: short skinny dark wash from high school! Abercrombie (who, for all their awful corporate practices, makes really comfortable and long lasting (obviously) jeans)
Shoes: Tangerine loafers, Ruche
Bag: GET IT IN ONE OF THESE AWESOME NEW SPRING COLORS
Anyone have any good cold remedies?
m.
This feels like a millions years ago and it really was! My freshman year in college, a friend’s dad chartered a yacht to take us all to Catalina Island for her birthday and it was exactly what you can imagine a bunch of over privileged 19 year olds would be like on a multi million dollar yacht for a day. But that day was pretty awesome.
One of my favorite pictures of Ryan.
You can hardly ever get him to smile for the camera without pinching his side or poking his back while you stand next to him but this was San Francisco so of course we were smiling after my twenty-first birthday dinner we went for drinks in the lobby of our hotel in Japantown which was perfect and even though my drink tasted like rubbing alcohol I still got drunk and we laughed and then we watched the purple sunset from our seventh story balcony.
I’m not finding as much quality stuff to reblog so I guess I’ll have to start putting my crappy personal photos all over the interwebs.
What I Wore: Clothes
I just sat in front of my computer for two minutes trying to come up with a name for this outfit and I couldn’t so that’s why I titled it ‘clothes.’ I like these clothes. These clothes fit me and are nice colors. The end. Just an FYI, the only bad thing about switching jobs within the same company is that you can’t just leave all your files like a ghost town when you bust out… you actually have to put some effort into explaining your organization system and/or leave detailed notes behind. I’m debating on which of these will be the least amount of work in between the mountains of projects my editor wants me to complete before I leave. Suggestions?
Shirt: Rose colored silky blouse with lace detail, Forever 21 (and God knows I’d have to search for three hours to find anything remotely similar in the abyss that is their website)
Pants: grayish, ankle length cropped pants with minute hound’s-tooth pattern, Ann Taylor (I scored these off the sale rack, like everything I get at AT)
Jacket: Old Faithful (riding jacket from childhood)
Shoes: Nine West supa’ comfortable wedges, TJ Maxx question mark?
Also, I don’t know if you noticed, but I changed the name of my blog to ‘BROOKLYNTREE IS INTO IT’ because no one understood ‘Growing in Brooklyn’ was a reference to my favorite book “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” and that I lived in Los Angeles and creepy city boys kept asking me to get drinks with them and that’s not okay.
I’m into it!
m.
What I Wore: ‘Officially’ Happy
It is official, guys. I’ve accepted the offer from one of our other imprints to be an editorial assistant. Pretty lateral move but my old boss (you have NO idea how happy I am to be working under her again!) gave me a really nice raise and is genuinely excited to have me come over which feels so, so good. I make my transition May 14th and I’m just really excited to make the move from textbooks into more educator resource materials. I have nothing against textbooks and I really, really enjoyed working on them but I really couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work for my former, er, current boss again!
Shirt: The most glorious long-sleeve tee in light grey, GET IT RIGHT NOW at BR
Khakis: Usually I am anti black with khaki but today I was feeling adventurous. I actually like it a lot better then the brown I’ve been pairing it with lately. The look is much less washed out. Get my ‘weekend chinos’ from BR
Shoes: Enzo Angiolini, from Macy’s question mark?
Scarf: Salmon-y leopard print, TJ Maxx
GUYS, I’M SO EXCITED,
m.
Happy Earth Day Weekend!
Starting my morning at a beach cleanup. Be well, everyone!
m.
