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M’s High Five for Friday

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Today is my first high five for Friday experience! Terribly exciting!

My favorite things for the week, in no particlar order:

1. The crafty,homemade bracelet I made out of lanyard and a chain using my own two hands! I felt terribly ingenious and its kind of cute too! More about this project in my next blog.

2. Chicago! I just returned from a weekend jaunt! Fabulous city. Kind of like New York, but nicer people and cleaner streets. Go, Chicago! Also, the hotel I stayed in made the front cover of the Times Travel section the week after I went. Hello, Trendsetter!

3. The gym. Actually, I dont really care for it too much and would much rather find an adult playground or play an actual sport. But, alas, I must. I went every day this week which is probably more than I have gone in the last calendar year. And I used kettlebells. Tricky little things but if Kelly Ripa can do it, I can too! Oh, summer!

4. Vacation. Notably, the slow, lazy kind, that involves novel reading and jaunts to Argo tea for delicious iced concotions. See above.

5. Lunching like a lady. During the school year, my lunch typically involves twenty minutes of silence, a string cheese, and homework folder stuffing quickly followed by 25 sweaty, screaming five year olds. As you can imagine, come summer time, I like to try to be a real person as often as possible. My last fancy lunch involved these ricotta stuffed zucchini flowers from Pranzo, the newest restaurant at Batali and Bastianich’s Eataly. Fancy schmancy!

M

Obsession of the Week

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Amidst my shameless hoarding of new summer clothes, I have found the most magical of all garments.

Behold. It’s a high waisted skirt, an A-line skirt, a short strapless dress, and a tube top fit-and-flare dress all in one. And its cute. And sometimes, if you’re really quiet, it sings My Endless Love perfectly on pitch.

Its at J. Crew Factory Store now. And its on sale for 30 percent off. 45 if you’re a teacher. Or if you fib about being a teacher. Not that I would ever suggest you do that. Wink.

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Ain’t No Sunshine..

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Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone the summer clothes hit stores.  Okay, not quite as catchy as the original tune, but you get the point.

Retail marketing has a sick sense of humor.  You step into any clothing store from March onwards and you have all the makings of a lovely summer outfit.  The only thing missing? The lovely weather.

I walk into a store, promptly purchase an exorbitant number of sun dresses, skirts, and flowy tops while Summer Loving is playing on repeat in my head.  I can already feel the sand in my toes, the sun on my shoulders, the warm breeze in my hair.  And then, I walk outside.  It is damp, cool, and not summer at all.  New purchases go in the back of my closet, where I will inevitably forget all about them and purchase another summer clothing surplus when the weather actually is warm enough to wear them.  And the vicious cycle repeats.

But it won’t this year.  I am fighting the Man. Yes, capital M.  Flowy tops, summer dresses, cropped pants, I am versatiling diversatiling (I give up!) making you useful on icky, early spring days when I would otherwise be sticking with my winter wardrobe choices.

Check it out! Cropped J. Crew cargo pants, flowy Forever 21 cross over top, cream J. Crew ballet flats, Gap seersucker headband (who has time for hair straightening when it keeps raining??).  All spring items, all worn in temps just shy of 60 degrees.  M-1, Man-0.

Oh, and ignore the green face thing.  My methods for securing anonymity are still working the kinks out.

M

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I Am Nikki

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Hi. It’s me. The ‘other’ coast. (West…or Left…or Wrong, as some would call it.) I’ve been looking at the computer screen for 15 minutes and can’t think of what to say about myself. So I’m just going to ramble off the stuff you need to know in order to get to know me…for now.

1) I was born and raised in the NYC Metro Area and worked in NYC for 6 years before relocating to Orange County, California for my husband (we’ll get into this later).

2) I have a 2 year old son…I thought he was going to be 2 1/2 this month…but then I found out it’s not until next month.

3) I suck at math.

4) I’m a diehard Yankee fan (as are my husband and son).

5) If you don’t know that “your” and “you’re” are two different words, we can’t be friends.

6) I like to curse. A lot. It feels good. Plus, Dr. Oz told me that it’s good for you.

7) I love trash TV. Kardashians of all kinds, Bethenny, Celebrity Rehab, The Voice and some Housewives. I also love situational comedies. How I Met Your Mother, The New Girl, Whitney, Happy Endings….Friends, The Golden Girls, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens…I could go on and on…but that would be embarrassing…or I’ve already embarrassed myself. Whatever.

8) I have a 7 year old golden retriever with a bad ass. He gets the trots. Often. Expect me to complain about this at LEAST bi-weekly.

9) I’m ‘retired’. (Read: When I was pregnant, my husband and I agreed that I would take a YEAR off to care of our son and in May it will be THREE years since I’ve been employed….b/c it’s nice to wear yoga pants every day.)

10) No, my yoga pants don’t actually go to yoga.

Oh, also…I don’t really know how to work WordPress so I’ll be posting stuff in the wrong categories for a while… You’ll get over it.

XO,

Nikki