To The Airport

Shopped My Closet: 

White Birkie slides: a regular purchase every two years or so. These were $20 at Marshalls.

Gap jeans, cuffed: cause I'm traveling for 6 weeks starting today and jeans are inevitably the heaviest and bulkiest thing. (Them, and my toiletry bag.)

White tank and white lacy tunic

Magnifying glass necklace and glass initialed pendant 

Turquoise pashmina for the plane/ black cardie for the June gloom fog and cold

No pics? Again? Well, yeah, cause now I found my camera charger but can't find the USB cord. I suck. I think it's comfy and cute. 

Also, my hair is an alarmingly Soviet-era brunette. I have been coloring it at home the past 6 months, to save on money, and because I loathe the 7 gray hairs that merrily pop up around my hairline. Normally, I use the same boring shade every time--despite the fact that I crave some pink streaks, or a panel of platinum, or some burgundy asymmetrical tips; being a teacher kind of makes for boring hair, I think--but this time, decided to be even cheaper, and bought L'Oreal Preference instead, in dark brown. (A color so boring they can't even give it an interesting name!) $8 versus the $12 I normally pay for Nice N'Easy! Done!

False economies, though, since it came out looking like I had a very old cat on top of my head. I tried to persuade myself that it looked deep and mysterious, but really, harsh is not the same thing as deep, in so many ways. Of course, neither the budget nor the time allowed for salon fixes--plus, I've always hated it when they shame you for doing your own color; I like my guy cause he's $20 cheaper than anyone around here and NEVER makes me feel bad about doing it myself. So, I hightailed it back to CVS, bought a medium golden brown shade to try to lift it a teeny bit, and lo and behold, it sort of worked. I have a feeling it's going to be a brassy nightmare by the time I get back from Israel, but oh well. Teach me not to be so vain. 

But yeah, it does strike me that coloring it myself may be a false economy. IF those goddamned grays didn't keep popping up like weeds every month, I'd be more willing to spend more for better color, but...well, see above re: vanity. 

Am headed to Asheville, then Baltimore, then NYC, then DC, then home, then Israel in the next two weeks. Posting will be sporadic. I am a nervous wreck about stretching my dollars while traveling, so maybe the fear will translate into discipline?