Day 2 of Back to School, back to kids, back to Life - oh but I'm still in 16-hour-a-day-Pretrial Mode.
I have finally convinced the 16 YEAR OLDS to make their own lunches. Whaddaya know they can do dishes and even - gasp - make breakfast. So I'm getting help there. It's crunch time people and I need a team effort.
I awoke early this morning, took Queen Bee and Stinky out, made time for my 10 minute trainer - oh BTW in which he lies b/c they stop that little 10 minute clock every time they change moves, so it's really closer to 12 minutes plus warm up and hey I need 20 minutes to do my 10 minute training. But I digress...
After showering, listening to radio, hear Big Accident on our normal route - oh and we are out of gas in the car and it was raining too hard to go get gas last night. Frick Frick Frick.
Hurry up, yell to children to hurry up, grab an outfit. Do I have a meeting today? Don't remember - better wear at least a semi-suit. [we have "dress your day" - I can wear fairly casual business clothes or a suit, depending. On Fridays it's jeans or capris in the summer. Unless I have a meeting. Who plans meetings on Fridays? Not me]
Grab my old standby Talbots purple silk suit. Not really PURPLE but kind of deep purply blueish. Properly muted as only Talbots would. White shell? Naaah that's boring. Hey there's an old shell I never wear - has some purple in it, a little muted green, some grey a little black. Perfect. Throw it on. Realize I can't find my hair straightener - maybe it's at work. Hurry Hurry run run. Finish packing lunches (what? they need checking - yep they forgot the fruit) and do Son's breakfast to go. Get in car a couple minutes earlier than normal, which is about 10 minutes later than we should have.
Get the kids to school on time - small miracle - get in the driver's seat (kids do the driving to school) look down at myself in the now sunlight and realize FRICK I DO NOT MATCH. Not even a little. The purple in the shell? A bright lilacky purple that in no way can even be in the same color family as my suit. You know how when colors are in the same family but not right they're worse than say, wearing Green and orange? Yeah. It's like that.
And I mentally run through my day and think, "Please God Don't let me have a meeting today."
And then I wonder how awake my Daughter was this morning - you know, the one driving? the one who is quick to tell me how terrible I look? Did she really not NOTICE this ensemble before we left the house?!
Note to self: Keep white shell on back of office door, just in case....
7 comments:
I went to school the other day wearing two different shoes. It must be something in the water, or the way the planets are aligned...
I was going to mention about good thing your shoes matched...katy beat me.
I bet it is not as bad as you think. ;0 good luck.
That is almost as bad as realizing I forgot to put mascara on my bottom way-too-blonde-that-they-look-invisible eyleashes.
I HATE that.
Once I was so busy pushing kids out the door and into the van that I forgot to change out of my fuzzy zebra stripe slippers into my shoes. That was for Sunday Mass. Yeah.
Clearly I'm not the only shoe-challenged person! I swear I was thinking "Hey, if you're not wearing 1 black and 1 brown shoe, you're FINE."
Plus, have you seen what they show in the fashion mags these days??? Don't sweat it.
I say tell people it's the new trend in new York.
The suit sounds stellar--I'm sure nobody noticed the shell.
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