What I Wore Wednesday

This week, I experimented with using my mobile phone to take pictures, rather than my camera. Because I'm lazy, and my phone auto-uploads the pictures to SkyDrive. That way, I don't have to plug in my camera to grab the pictures.

Let's see how they turned out.

Wednesday - Meetings in the office

Typical of most IT companies, my company's dress code is... well, come to work dressed, and you're OK. I remember when I first interviewed here, back when I was in college, and I wore a suit. Haha. My interviewers were dressed in ragged jeans and giant t-shirts. That was the first and last time I wore a suit to the office!

I normally wear either jeans or khakis when I come into the office. Every now and then, I'll wear a skirt, and when I do, I usually get asked at least once, "Do you have an interview today or something?" :)

Sweater - Esprit. I bought this on a business trip to Dubai back in 2006, after British Airways lost my luggage :)

Khakis - J. Crew

Thursday - Meetings in the office

This is my $36 Gap outfit that I mentioned last week :)

Sweater - Gap

Jeans - Gap

Friday - Working from home

I forgot to take a picture! I was in jeans and a geeky t-shirt, so it's probably for the best!

Saturday - Lacrosse team holiday party and various errands

Shirt - Ann Taylor. My friend Jamie turned me on to this store a few years ago and I love it! They have lots of great clothes that are stylish but also comfortable, versatile, and reasonably priced. This shirt is so stretchy that it actually lasted me well into the second trimester of my pregnancy with Noob, but still looks good even when I'm not pregnant. Littles told me, "Mommy, I like your flower shirt." High praise indeed!

Jeans - I think these are my Old Navy jeans.

Sunday - Shopping with the kids and lacrosse meeting

Sweater - Gap. Another sweater that I've had since college, possibly earlier.

Jeans - Gap.

Monday - Meetings in the office

Shirt - Ann Taylor

Jeans - Gap. Yeah. I re-wear jeans a lot.

Tuesday - Meetings in the office

Sweater - Bass.

Jeans - Gap again. Hmmmmm.

Wednesday - Meetings in the office

Sweater - Old Navy. I love this sweater, love the color, love how soft it is (cashmere). It was a steal off the clearance rack! It was in the 70's today, so this sweater was just perfect, a little warmer than a t-shirt but not too hot.

Jeans - Old Navy.

Hmmm, the phone didn't do too bad. The lighting in our bathroom just sucks :( Oh well. It's the best place in the house to take pictures, from a mirror perspective, so I'll have to deal with the lighting.

Recharging

I went through a training program for work about a month ago where, among many other things, we talked about "recharging" -- little things that we can do throughout the day to restore our physical/mental/emotional energy so that we can keep working through our to-do lists.

My favorite recharging ritual? As I posted previously, Littles currently goes to preschool from 9 AM-2 PM, while Hubby is home on paternity leave. When she gets home, I usually take 5 minutes to step away from my computer, give her a hug, talk to her about her day, ooh and ahh over anything she brought home with her, and maybe even read her a quick book before naptime. (Hers, not mine, unfortunately!) It gives me a nice little break, and I return to work refreshed and ready to tackle the last few hours of my day.

Hubby's paternity leave will be over in less than a month, and Littles will be back to full-time at preschool. I'll miss that little ritual.

Where I pumped today

My company has two office buildings in Dallas. I already chronicled the pump room in one building in a previous post. Yesterday and today, I had a meeting in the other building. Yay, a new pumping location to check out!

The pump room in this building is normally locked, and you have to go to the security office to get them to unlock it. Kind of a pain. Funny, the security officer had to enter like fifty zillion codes to get at the key. Hello? It's a key to a pump room, not to starting nuclear war.

The room is small and bare bones, but comfortable:

After I pump, I typically put my cooler bag and my pump parts (inside an opaque bag) in one of the office fridges. Last night, my meeting wrapped up after hours, and when I went to get my pumping stuff out of the fridge, I found that the area where the fridge was in was locked. Whoops! I had to call a security guard to get it unlocked so I could retrieve my milk!

What I Wore Wednesday

My friend Ashley does a series on her blog called "What I Wore Wednesday." Each day, she takes a picture of her outfit for the day, and then on -- wait for it -- Wednesdays, she posts all the pictures from the week. She's been encouraging all her friends to participate as well, but... well, most weeks, I (shhhh!) rarely get out of my pajamas. I consider that to be a major perk of working from home!

But I had an onsite visit with a customer last week, and then I have meetings in the office this week and next week, so I do have to get out of my PJs. Booooooo. But that means I no longer have an excuse to skip out on WIWW. So here ya go, Ashley, this one is for you!

I will warn you upfront: I have no style at all. Stacy and Clinton from What Not To Wear would be horrified by my closet. Horrified. I'm cheap, which means I hate spending money on clothes. And working from home, I don't need a huge wardrobe. So I rarely buy new clothes. I've realized recently that a lot of my clothes were purchased when I was in college. Some, when I was in high school. Yikes. I also hate accessorizing, and I hate makeup. I just don't have time to deal with all that in the morning.

Is anyone still reading? OK. Here goes :)

Thursday: Onsite visit with customer

Shirt - Gap
Sweater - J. Crew (ugh, this lighting is awful. It's actually navy in color.)
Pants - J. Crew

Customer visits mean no jeans, sneakers, or flip flops. Oftentimes, if I'm visiting a customer for the first time, I'll err on the side of being more dressy than I need to be, and will put on a skirt and a nice shirt. But I had worked with this customer before and knew that a more casual look was fine.

I couldn't figure out a good way to take pictures of my shoes. I have two pairs of Skechers shoes (one black, one brown) that I usually wear when I go onsite. I wore the brown pair this day. When I'm not onsite, I'm usually in an old pair of running shoes.

Friday: Working from home

Shirt - Ironman race shirt :)
Jeans - Old Navy

I actually got out of my PJs today, because I did preschool drop-off for Littles. (Since Hubby is home on paternity leave, he's normally the one to do drop-offs and pick-ups.) I really could do drop-off in my PJs, because Littles' preschool does drop-offs from car line, so I don't even have to get out of the car... but I do try to get dressed anyway!

Saturday: Lacrosse coaching/playing

Jacket - Boathouse
Pants - Bacharach

The pants are actually from my college lacrosse team, but they match the colors of the school that I coach! It works out well! I usually wear jeans when coaching, but this day, I was playing as well. So I wore these pants with shorts underneath, and took the pants off when it was time to play.

Sunday: Christmas tree shopping

Sweater - Bass (I'm pretty sure I bought this sweater when I was in high school... maybe when I was a freshman in college)
Jeans - Gap

I had only one pair of jeans (the Old Navy pair I wore on Friday) until just a few weeks ago, when I bought this pair. They were originally $70, but they were marked down to $40. I also had a Groupon for $50 at Gap that I purchased for $25. Since I didn't get any money back if I didn't use the full value of the Groupon, I threw in a sweater to put me over $50. The sweater was originally $34.50, but on sale for 40% off. All told, I got a $70 pair of jeans and a $34.50 sweater for $36 total. Did I mention I'm cheap? Those are the kinds of deals I need to find before I'll buy new clothes!

Later Sunday: More lacrosse coaching

Shirt - Gildan
Jeans - Gap

I don't think you can really see, but on my shirt, it says "[School name] Lacrosse" and has two crossed lacrosse sticks. I put my Boathouse jacket over this.

Funny, it's really rare for me to wear my hair down when I'm coaching. I did this day, just because I had blow dried it to look decent in pictures while Christmas tree shopping, so I saw no reason to put it back for the games. All my lacrosse girls were like, "Coach, did you get a haircut?" I guess it looks a lot shorter down vs. in a ponytail!

Monday and Tuesday: I wasn't feeling well (I stayed home sick from work on Tuesday) so I had other priorities besides taking pictures of my outfits!

So there ya go! I'll try to do a little better next week at taking pictures every day!