Sarah's Real Life

My office declared a jeans day last Friday because of the Colts game on Sunday. Apparently this was my big chance to wear a Colts sweatshirt to work, because that’s what everyone else did. Not me, friends, not me. It’s not that I hate the home team, it’s just that I think the home team plays the most boring, worthless, stupid sport on the face of the planet. That’s all.

Since I don’t own any Colts gear, I wore a shirt with little hens on it, but that’s close enough, right? Hens live on farms, and sometimes there are young horses on farms too. Sometimes they’re friends. So no one can blame me that the Colts lost again. They can just keep blaming Tom Brady and his balls. (I laugh every time.)

If Kate Spade ever makes a little football-shaped coin purse with pearl details, maybe I’ll reconsider my disdain of sporting apparel. Until then, I think I’ll keep doing what I’m doing.

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I have no regrets that I bought both the midi skirt and the shirt in this fun black & white mod print. I’ve now worn each piece 3 times since I got them in May. I started pulling my fall/winter clothes out of storage over the weekend, which means packing up some warm-weather-only items. Sometimes I have trouble deciding what I should put away to save space (still a concern even in my new epic closet), and what I will actually want to wear through the winter. I made the executive decision to keep this set around. The black and white print goes with pretty much any color I want to add, which so far has included pink, mint, orange, yellow, and blue (scroll down for the proof). I haven’t tried any darker fall colors yet, but I’m ready to give it a shot.

On the other hand, I couldn’t come up with any good reason to keep out my white eyelet dress or my t-shirt that says “BEACH” on it. I’m pretty good at remixing, but there’s not a lot I can do with those pieces during a Midwest winter, other than glare at them angrily through my chattering teeth.

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