As you all know, I live in a small town; as in backwoods small. Civilization is within driving distance, but that doesn’t change the banjo vibe of it. Like in most small towns we have our own water company. As such, they have one job; provide me with water. Let me clarify that statement by saying that I mean provide me with water I can actually, you know, drink. Last Friday night around 10:30 there’s a pounding on our door. I open it to find a small, bearded, flannel wearing (and not flannel wearing as in fashionable, flannel wearing as in the aforementioned banjo vibe) dude who shoves a paper in my hand. He says, “Don’t drink the water until further notice. Don’t drink it, don’t cook with it. All you can do with it is take a bath and do laundry.” Um, what?
I go inside and read the paper. Indeed, the water is so jacked up it’s not even drinkable if you boil it. The paper also says if you do ingest it you run the risk of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (never thought you’d see those words on a fashion blog, did ya?) and a plethora of other unpleasant things. Ladies and gentlemen, by that point in the day I had already pounded down several glasses of water, two pots of coffee and made dinner with water. Needless to say, I had a rather difficult weekend. The best part is, I come to find out the yahoos knew about the water issue Friday morning…ya, thanks for telling me twelve hours after the fact. The news just said that the soonest we can expect to have safe water again is maybe this Friday. In the meantime I totally feel like a post-apocalyptic prepper; the back of my jeep is dragging on the ground due to the three thousand gallon jugs of water I’m hauling around. You had one job water company…one job.
On a brighter note, how about all of these colors? I feel like an elementary school color wheel lesson, but I like it. It doesn’t get much cheerier than bright yellow, cobalt and red now does it? I got the inspiration for the bright yellow/cobalt combo from last month’s Lucky magazine. The pop of red was my idea. Because, well, the yellow cardigan and cobalt blouse just weren’t quite bright enough on their own. Not really. I was just trying to figure out what accessories to pair with it and while perusing my necklace wall, (Don’t judge. Yes, I have a wall of necklaces.) my eyes settled on the red one and I thought “Yes! And my red pumps too!” And there you have it, color basics 101.
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Cardigan: It was my mom’s; Blouse: Old Navy (Old); Joggers: Nordstrom (Old); Pumps: Macy’s (Old)
