The Aviary

So, my mom and I have been doing the wool& 100 day dress challenge (you buy a dress from wool&, wear it for 100 days straight*, and then you get a prize). We started on January 1st, so I'm currently on day 47.

I'm honestly really enjoying it - just like I love doing meal planning/cooking once a week and then never thinking about food again, I love basically not thinking about what to wear. Every day, I put on my dress, put a pair of loose linen pants on under it** and a cardigan/sweater and shawl over it and I'm done. And, as a bonus, I have a lot less laundry to do every week. It's great. I'm probably not going to dress like this every day after the challenge is over - I miss my nerdy tshirt collection - but it makes a nice basic uniform that I'm probably going to continue falling back on.

Early on, I had mentioned the challenge to my manager and one of my coworkers, because it came up in conversation, but I mostly haven't talked about it because why would I talk about my clothes? Said coworker has apparently been considering doing the same challenge, so this morning she was asking me some questions about my dress and how the whole thing has been going for me and my mom. Which is how the rest of my coworkers found out.

Y'know how, when you're socially anxious, you get told that people actually pay a lot less attention to you than you think? (And you assume that's a lie because, y'know, the anxiety.) Turns out, none of my coworkers (except the ones that I'd actually told) have noticed that I have worn the same dress every day for the past month and a half. So that's something to remember the next time I feel weird about my clothes.









*To answer the first question I get every time I've told anyone about this: yes, you can wash the dress.

**The dress has pockets but more pockets are always better.

Things:

- I have a cold. This does not make me a happy pudgeball. In fact, it makes me quite a cranky pudgeball, one who quietly hates everyone. Grar.

- I did manage to dress nicely today, despite that, in what I think of as "stealth-comfy" clothing. Stealth-comfy clothing is the stuff that is as comfy as lounging around in pjs, but actually looks pretty. So I am wearing an ankle-length skirt* and a long teal sweater duster with the pockets full of cough drops and handkerchiefs.

- I am listening to my current audiobook in the stupidest way possible. See, I am enjoying it to a ridiculous degree and I am terribly sad about the fact that it will one day be over. So I am postponing that eventuality by...not listening to it. And thus depriving myself of the ridiculous enjoyment. It is very silly indeed.

- My new hard drive should arrive today. Alas, the recovery disk for the computer probably won't be here till Monday, but the arrival of the hard drive gives me hope nevertheless. I miss my computer amazingly. Work computers and my phone are not in any way the same.

- I am between actual books right now, which is annoying. Would anyone like to recommend me something? Horror for preference, but I'm open to just about anything.




*I would happily live in ankle-length skirts, if more of them came with pockets. This one has no pockets but is amazingly comfortable and cozy. Someday, it is going to wear out and on that day I am going to cry.

The trouble with wearing my bloomers is that they go under my skirt. And thus, I am quite comfortable and toasty warm, but I can't show them off to people.

Well, I mean, I could, but it would be awkward for all concerned.

They are really awesome, though.

Browsing ravely while waiting for the screen that allows me to discard books to come up. (Discard has 2500 items checked out to it, so it takes about 10 minutes to load and you can't do anything else library-related in the mean time.)

Internet, do you think I should knit these? Because, on the one hand: look, it is a summery costume item! Also, I could wear it under skirts in the winter and be warmer! But on the other hand: knitted bloomers. Would I ever really wear those?

Thus, I am torn. Also, I have too many projects going - there's the Kira vest (which needs to be unraveled and redesigned), I have a pair of socks going and plans for several more, and a shawl. But, well, summer and summery clothes are more immediately necessary, so...