Best Exotic Marigold Clothes

This weekend was rainy and all tropical-stormy in Florida. My friend and I went to see The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. It didn't make me want to go to Mumbai, but it did make me want to start dressing like the character Evelyn, played by Judi Dench.

She embraces the Indian style of dressing with a lot of long tunics and flowy pants. Most of her outfits included a scarf or pashmina.

I did a little googling to find some Indian-inspired clothes online.  I love these skirts I found on Amazon.

I know I had a similar one in my past, but I'm sure it was sent to Goodwill at some point.
The tunics I'm finding online were all over $75 and I KNOW I could make it for a lot less. I may tune up the sewing machine and whip up some of these...

"B" in a gauzy fabric with a little more length is what I have in mind.

My other favorite thing in the movie was this quote.

Evelyn: Nothing here has worked out quite as I expected.
Muriel: Most things don't. But sometimes what happens instead is the good stuff.

 

O Say Can I See?

If you are my facebook friend you saw this update Thursday night...

New progressive Bifocals. I'll be fine as long as I never move my head again.

The problem with being 54 is that your EYES are also 54. I have been making do with reading glasses for 10 years. I own about 8 pairs because I lose them and find them and lose them and find them.
Lately I have been having a lot of headaches and teary eyes. When I read for a long time, then took off the glasses my distance vision was fuzzy for about an hour.

Off to the discount eye place. I got my prescription and went out to pick my frames. I tried on about 10 pairs and decided on the cutest black rectangles with a few lines of bling on the earpieces. They were also the most comfortable pair.

I handed them to the clerk, she looked at my prescription and said "that will come to $600" and Mr Sunshine said "NO &%$#ing WAY!"

I sent the following text message to Sorority Girl...

In my blindness I picked out Vera Wang frames. They were so pretty.

She replied...

Duh!! Vera Wang!

The clerk said if I pick out frames from the WALL OF UGLY GLASSES that I could get 2 pairs for about $245.  Four hours later I walked out with semi-ugly brown frames. I'm getting used to finding the sweet spot for reading and where to situate my laptop.

But I would have looked much cuter with the Vera Wang glasses.

Shopping With A Sorority Girl

When you spend a day shopping with a Sorority Girl

• You bring her cute new pajama bottoms, 2 Mom-made zucchini muffins and a book.
• She tolerates your journey through the Farmer's Market, while she silently wishes you would hurry up because she is so hungry.
• You both agree that it is obnoxious when the counter people at Panera call your name 4 times before you can even get out of your chair.
• She tells you her weird dream about having to save Jon and Kate's kids and a basket full of puppies.
• She teaches you to never settle for a purse you don't love.
• She shows you sandals you might like because they are "Hippie but a little bit dressy"
• She finds you a cute summer dress. She tries on the same dress and jokes that we should get them and wear them together to DisneyWorld. That reminds you of the middle-aged twins in the food court that had on matching outfits. We agree that it would be TOO DORKY!!
• She tells you the dress is cute on you and you discuss the fact that you will definately need a more supportive bra to pull it off.
• You discuss the fact that a 21 year old looks WAY better in fitting room lights and mirrors than a 51 year old.
• You buy her 2 new pairs of Old Navy Flip-Flops. When you go to University Of Tropical Paradise, you quickly wear out your flip-flops.
• You spot the MATERNITY WEAR sign at Ross and the one right above it that says "OVER 55 -EXTRA 10% DISCOUNT...and the camera is in the car.
• She writes on her facebook page that she had an "amazing shopping day" with her Mom.

What Not To Wear

Let me start by saying I'm not a fashionista. I have no fashion sense whatsoever. And let me add that the following sighting occured in WalMart where I go to stand in line with the other working-uninsured-po-folks to get my $4 generic prescriptions filled before I go over to COSTCO to get my $126 name-brand prescription filled. This is my punishment for having fibromyalgia-arthritis-insomnia-thyroid issues.

The lady in front of me appeared to be in her 50's, but she was dressed like a 5 yr old. In turquoise shorts, a pink polo shirt and the icing on the cake....a pink plastic headband with turquoise flowers on it.
I work at a store that I will call PB. That means my wardrobe is full of black,tan,navy,grey,brown,white clothes. That's the dress code, folks. On any given day, you will see me in some combination of navy/white, navy/tan, grey/black, black/white, brown/tan or brown/white.With a black or brown claw clip in my hair. I own 4 pairs of black shoes and 2 pairs of navy shoes and 1 pair of brown shoes.....and one pair of sparkly beaded red flip-floppy-type sandals.
Today I bought myself a TURQUOISE shirtdress. Not at WalMart. Cute, even if it WAS the color of the WalMart lady's shorts. I looked at myself in the mirror for a looonnnggg time. It was soooo bright. But it was $35 on sale for $17.99 with an additional % off that made it $12!! And I am going to a baby shower next weekend. SOLD.