not stuffy. like a 3. you people make me feel frumpy.

I say 5, too.

5ish

Thanks -- Banana Republic works me just right. Give me a 40% every Wednesday coupon, and I'm your bitch. I didn't get either of those pieces, though...I'm trying to decide what else I'd wear with that skirt first (in my head I envisioned it with buttondown and tie, but it's an elastic waist--but it's a lined skirt--I might be okay tucking in a passing thick shirt). Short sleeved sweaters I can always work with, but none of the colours were screaming at me.

And then together, they were either cutesy or finally dressing my age. Oh, the horror...

I did end up with a 3 button silk shirt because it came in my colour--wine, and dresses both down and up like a dream, even though I'm consigning myself to ironing or dry cleaning.

It feels weird having Banana Republic being the store where I want everything. At one point it was the leather on the sale rack at Bebe, and then it was Ann Taylor Loft, and now...weird. But I wanted *so* much shit there today, it was mad.

High stuffiness. No tights if that's your concen. But, 40% every Wednesday? What's this now?

Zombies! Hyena people! Jan Brewer!

Ha, just had to repeat this.

Our monsoon has been a bit better than usual so far, but our reservoirs are still super low from the previous years' depletion. They haven't been good since we built the house, basically, and it flooded in February. Of what, now, 2008?

It's raining right now, though. We had to close the windows because it was blowing everything all around.

No tights if that's your concen

No, pretty much always tights. The office isn't warm enough for bare legs. I'd rather be warm than not stuffy.

But, 40% every Wednesday? What's this now?

I don't know if it's because I have a BR credit card? (That's how you can tell a store has stolen my soul) But when I bought a couple shirts last week, they gave me a strip of coupons for the 29th, 5th, 12th, and 19th that are 40% off 1 full priced item for the first three Wednesdays, and 30% off a sale item for the last. This is the second strip I've gotten, but I usually don't use my card, so I don't know if I missed opportunities or they're linked or what. There are exceptions, but the store I was at said they'd honour the discount on anything in the store anyway.

If there was any way for me to shop on the 12th before I went home for my sister's birthday, I'd totes be burning these puppies up. Stuff! Need stuff! (I've been so good recently...)

Dana, I punched a guy on a weather blog this morning and now I feel better about it. He was bitching about the uneven distribution of FEMA funds among states. I would have thought I had no words, but then I did!

It's raining right now, though. We had to close the windows because it was blowing everything all around.

I think if it weren't so hot, I wouldn't mind the flash flooding. Well at least since the storm drain in front of me was finally finished. The first week and a half of sudden rain was a little fraught.

It's just so hot. I want to be able to open the windows. Or breathe.

Now I want to go look at Banana Republic. /shallow