Dress Up

Before I chat about the party, let's talk all things ME.

It (I) turned out well enough ... everything from hair, to dress, to shoes, to my 1950s vintage clutch.  My hair held (the wind died down a lot by evening) and I got a lot of compliments on it.  The dress was comfortable (also a lot of compliments).  I wore the boot-shoes instead of my glued ones and they looked nice (fashion forward) but they hurt my big toes.  I think that's becoming an issue for me (story for another day).  I used the clutch I got last year from ETSY -- silver 1950's.  Fun to carry vintage.  I wore big girl glasses since readers wouldn't work on top of my head.

Closet picture

Always a selfie.

About half the crowd was holiday dressed up.  The rest was holiday casual.  We fit in fine.  It was a fun night chatting with neighbors, meeting our friend's family.  The invite said dancing, but there wasn't even music.  Guess that fell through.  The great thing about the room was CARPET!  So easy to walk on with heals.  Since there wasn't any dancing and the bar switched over to CASH after 9 o'clock, things wrapped up pretty quickly.  We were home and in bed by 11:30 -- not too bad.

She seemed surprised and not surprised -- kind of well acted.  I think she suspected, but will probably never tell to ruin the fun of it.  The food was really good -- filet, shrimp, salad and an awesome coconut cake.  I had THREE slices -- yep, not sorry at all.  I ate mine and hubby's (he doesn't like coconut) and then another person at our table left his cake.  Hubby rolled his eyes, but that didn't stop me.  Waste not, want not.  It was a perfect vanilla cake with very little icing and just a hint of coconut.  Gluten be damned.  (P.S. the slices were small -- in my defense.)

Switching gears hard today -- family coming over.  I dug in the freezer for meatballs and making an easy pasta supper (not exactly football food).  We have the neighborhood party tonight, so I won't be eating it.  I have a feeling it might be a pasta dinner at the party -- easy to feed a crowd.  I'll have to be careful -- 3 pieces of cake was pushing it LOL.

I'm not going to Unity this morning.  I figured it was too much of an unnecessary push this morning.  I'll go next weekend unless something comes up for a late Saturday night.  January starts A Course in Miracles from the beginning and that's a great time to get back to going regularly.  Weird right?!?!  Starting something in January - haha.

Another not-in-my-sweats night tonight, but this time I'm ready.  I have a deep red dress and boots -- almost a cowgirl feel.  It's my go-to holiday outfit.  It'll be in rotation for the next 10 years.  Easy and comfortable.

Later gators.