Retail Therapy

For the past year or so, I have been following what is in my humble opinion, one of the best blogs in blog-land. I don’t remember exactly how I found BIG MAMA, but I was a fan immediately and I read her blog often. I don’t say daily because at this point the only thing I do daily is pee and feed my kids. But, you get my drift, right.

Every Friday, BIG MAMA posts Fashion Friday and each post is lovingly filled with tons of wonderful fashion information. It’s just sad that each week her posts remind me how terribly out of the fashion loop I truly am. I enjoy them none-the-less and know where to go if and when I need fashion advice beyond which color athletic pants best matches my Casting Crowns t-shirt.

If you’ve spent any time at all around Inmateville, you know that my wonderful, delightful, sexy husband is currently on a 6-month vacation to an undisclosed location. [Actually, it is only undisclosed to all four of you, my loyal blog fans. I know exactly where he is but have been sworn to blog secrecy.] Deployment is tough. It sucks, actually. I’ve had a really tough time coping the past few weeks. Today, I decided to did something about it.

I totally thought long and hard about visiting my family Doctor to see about getting some type of drug. Paxil or xanax could probably bring me right out of this funk, but I was hesitant to get that started. So, I decided on a different type of therapy.

Retail. Therapy.

You can’t imagine how much better I feel today.

Here’s a look at what I bought.

First, I needed some new work-out pants. You should know that my work-out pants do double duty. I like wearing work-out pants even if I’m not at the gym working out. Before I show you what I bought, I need to tell you that I am not one of those gals who goes to the gym with her hind-end hanging out of her gym shorts. (yes, it happens).  I am also not one of the gals who wear those cute halter type workout tops. I guess it’s entirely possible that if I looked like that girl, I might wear that cute top, but the truth is I look nothing like her or her girls.

Instead, I usually wear something like this matched with these or this worn with something like this.

What can I say? I am a simple girl.

I also bought several pairs of these socks because really, have you bought new socks lately? Oh my word! New socks can make you feel like a new woman. That, and because they were on sale.

Perhaps the item that stopped my mood on a dime and put a big smile on my face was this fabulous Fossil Purse.

With this almost matching wallet.

I say almost matching wallet because the purse and the wallet are about 1/2 shade off. In fact, the wallet is red and the purse is called fuscia. My OCD would not typically allow for me to purchase such a set, but my ‘have to have it right here right now’ attitude trumped my mismatched OCD requirements.

I had fully intended to buy a Coach purse because really nothing says ‘get out of your funk’ like a new Coach bag. But, I couldn’t find one that I really liked. I did find this Dooney and Bourke though and I came within a second of bringing it home. In the end though, I knew in my heart of hearts I would not be happy with it.

So.

The cute pink fossil purse won out and for now I’m a happy girl.

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My smile turned upside down when I saw this next item. They made me cringe and I couldn’t let this fashion advice opportunity pass me by without introducing you to them. [sidenote: prepare yourselves, this could get ugly]

Croc.

Meet.

Wedge.

I KNOW! I KNOW!

Seriously. Who. would buy. these?

If you have these shoes, please accept my apologies. Run. Right now. And bury them.

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Now, had I run onto a pair of these babies in my size, my woes would be no more. And, I would have added yet another pair of shoes to my already out-of-control-shoe-collection.

These shoes make me smile and I will definately be on the lookout for them. Add some pretty bright pink pedicured toes and these would take me right to my happy place.

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Okay. My fashion well is dry.

I’m happier than I was when I woke up this morning, so, all in all, the retail therapy was a success.

Enjoy your weekend, ya’ll.

Tagged as: Deployment, Exercise, Fabulosity, McDaddy, Quirks, Shoes