OOTD: May the Slip Dress Live Long & Prosper

Good evening everyone! It does seem that most of my updates occur on or about the weekend. I suppose that I have found my weekdays to be challenging, to say the least, and so I don’t much feel like snapping an outfit photo when I get home!

This week has definitely been one of the more challenging ones. My current job tends to pull me in all kinds of directions, and while the workload itself isn’t overwhelming…having to be flexible and always in transition often is. In addition, the holidays are in full swing. My company’s holiday party, while fun, required some prep work and *everywhere* is so overcrowded. I apologize for the blurry photo (I did not have time to get a good photo before I left, apparently no one at the party was in the mood to take photos, and I was exhausted when I returned, but in the end…I chose color!:

I opted for the Flickering Slip Dress in green. I do not own a Burberry shawl lol, but had a light gold shawl from Dillards wrapped around me most of the night. And I did wear these Kate Spade old gold heels + the Kate Spade Cha-Cha-Chocolate clutch (which apparently does not want to stay shut on it’s own), & my aurora borealis ring. Missing from my original set was my coat and the comb (I couldn’t find it or anything similar in the stores around me). Actually the wife of my company’s president stopped me on my way out. She did her time at Neiman’s before retiring early, and she had apparently heard about me (I kind of stand out at my workplace. According to her husband, “you *have* to meet this girl! She has *bows.* On her *shoes.*”). She “had me pegged across the room,” and immediately eyed and grabbed my bag before telling me that she had a Kate Spade clutch on her Christmas wish list.

Also, I guess I’m not as much of a conservative dresser as I should be. At the end of the night, I was leaving with my coat on, and a girl that I don’t know very well told me 5 times to pull my dress up. Ummmm. I hope I wasn’t wearing something too scandalous, because it wasn’t showing anything, and wasn’t going to go up?

My company also does an annual cookie swap, and I definitely felt the competitive edge come out in me. I settled on peppermint mocha macarons, and went through a couple of trial runs first – the first appearing *completely* different from the link, but they tasted amazing. It turns out that my iPhone app converted some measurements incorrectly, and when I did them properly, they appeared as they should (tasted as they probably should, as well), and while they were perfectly acceptable, I decided to botch the recipe from memory for my third and final try. Those who knew what they were were very impressed at my “mad skillz,” and they were completely gone at the end of the day. And oh, one of my co-workers made his “famous” bourbon balls. They should have their own flipping octane rating. I really don’t drink very much, and after tasting one, I felt like I’d just done a shot of gin (or bourbon). It was literally on my breath, and I felt warm. At 11am. On a workday. I swear he must have been drinking a fifth while he was making them. He could not remember quite how much bourbon he put in, but it was at least a cup, which is 3 times what the recipe called for. Awesome.

I am very happy, however, that my oldest friend has moved back into town. She and I became best friends in *kindergarten!* We are both in our mid-20′s now, and while our interests and paths diverted greatly over the years, she is still a very dear and supportive friend, and I am so glad to have her back in my life. Especially now. However, “back into town” has to mean she is clear on the other side of town! We did meet up in downtown for dinner earlier this week, and today had lunch at the Galleria before catching a showing of My Week With Marilyn.

In the end, I kind of reached for “an old friend,” (hah, see what I did there?) one of my favorite outfits from a couple of years ago. I am unsure if I can still pull it off (which I find to be a weird statement, but a couple of years have passed, and I am up 8 pounds), but it was an outfit that I always felt comfortable and cute in.

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Dress: Tulle Slip Dress from Urban Outfitters (2009) (similar here, here, here, < href=http://www.ae.com/web/browse/product.jsp?productId=0394_9624_106&catId=cat1320034&bundleCatId=cat5200016>here, & here)
Tee: Pure + Good pale pink burnout tee, Anthropologie (2009)
Tights: Hue dotted sweater tights (available here
Boots: Anthropologie’s Bow-Tied Beauty Boots

And oh, how I wish that I could wear this beauty out of the house.

I’m actually feeling quite a bit of restraint with most of Anthropologie’s offerings (well really, shopping in general), but something about it makes my heart go pitter patter.