an anthro sunday

So I did something absolutely stupid this morning. I cleaned my bathroom sink wearing one of my nice shirts. I don't know what I was thinking. It was one of those "let me just wipe down the sink really quick", not a thorough scrub down. Well it came back to bite me in my shirt because sure enough there were not one, not two, but five very nasty bleach stained spots on the front of my shirt :( One was the size of a quarter and the rest were little spots at various points. Needless to say I was very upset at myself. This was one of my fave loose tops that I bought at anthropologie a couple months ago.

After my initial screams of seeing the bleach, the hubby of course ran upstairs to see what all the fuss was about. He was actually in shock as well by my cleaning blunder and he was like "we have to go to anthropologie and get a new one right now!" Isn't he sweet? So that's what we did hahaha

I rummaged through the sales racks and found this cute floral tank. I tried on half a dozen other tops, but resigned to getting just one top this time ;) BUT, I did find these oh-so soft leather boat shoes. I've been looking for some summer flats, but didn't want anything with a lot of embelishment and that also has some arch support! For some reason so many cute flats just are hell on my arch. But these loafers are so comfortable and I think the color (rose red) is great for summer and into fall. So my deciding to clean the bathroom, a task I normally loathe, turned into a good thing :)

Highs & Lows Tank

Muted Shades Loafers

Finally at home

It's officially summertime, and I'm feeling the urge to reenter the blogging world. Oh how long since I've keyed some thoughts or happenings. First, I was silly busy with settling on the house, which we did back in March :) It was a super exciting time, but also really stressful with the move, furniture arranging (and rearranging), and just the overall process of getting used to the fact that I am now a homeowner, that every house problem is certifiably my problem now. No more landlord to call. But I can't complain too much, it's been great and I really love the place, especially the wooded backyard. Though right now everything is super grown over and it looks like this dark, dense jungle. There's so much wildlife too, with deer, foxes, turtles, possums, racoons, all kinds of birds. Though right now there's this swarm of ravens that has decided my backyard as their home for the summer. Sometimes the cawing is freakishly straight from The Birds movie....yikes.

As far as home maintenance, now I understand why people travel in hoards to the hardware store on the weekends, even for a new home, there's seemingly always something to fix or improve! I suppose our upcoming projects for the house will be the landscaping and decorating a couple more rooms. We also have an unfinished utility room that we're already discussing turning into an office, but that's just us fantasizing about putting-up drywall and laying down flooring hehe

But now that the moving dust has settled, I'm looking forward to an upbeat summer, to jumpstart some of my hobbies, and also discover some new ones. I know I want to take some enrichment courses this summer, well first of all because it's too bloody hot and humid to do too many thing outdoors so sitting in an air-conditioned class a couple times a week doesn't sound too bad ;) In general it's time to relax! I think the past couple years (yes I said years) I was getting more and more uptight and stressed-out about all sorts of things, big and small. Unfortunately emotional stress can lead to physical stress and I was just getting so sick of it, I partly blame my aging hahaha At least I can laugh about it now :)