Hey there. In an effort to get back into blogging (I think I was never really a good blogger) I have decided to make instead an article every week to get back into blogging and also record my outfits + musings somewhere that's not a social media app.
This is how I'm going to structure these:
Outfits (7, obviously)
Updates
reads of the week
a poem
music (5 songs)
Ins/Outs
Snacks
my current fixation
and finally, a picture of my cat, Biene. You all deserve that, she's a freaking cutie.
This week has been a mixture of cold + snowy and lack of motivation generally. For those who do not know, I post videos of my outfits every single day and have been doing so for about 1178 days now. Hence the numbers next to the dates. Sometimes if I wear something else in the evening that will count as another outfit, but that's not something we have to worry about this week.
Monday - 1172
I needed to feel good this day and I knewww that this skirt + shirt combo would do the trick. I found this skirt at TJMaxx and instantly fell in love. It was aggressively, instantly meant for me. What a feeling when you find something like that!
Deets:
top: thrifted Buffalo Exchange
skirt: TJMaxx
earrings: Buffalo Exchange
boots: Sam Edelman
necklace: Urban Outfitters
Tuesday - 1173
Deets:
sweater: thrifted via Depop
shorts: Rag & Bone via 260samplesale
boots: JustFab
earrings: Buffalo Exchange
Wednesday - 1174
Deets:
turtleneck: secondhand
skirt: thrifted from Buffalo Enchange
boots: JustFab
belt: appeared in my closet one day
Thursday - 1175
I worked from home and got dinner with Gab at our favorite soup dumpling place. It was seasonally inappropriate, completely, but I think I needed to feel the spring-adjacent bloom of hope.
Deets:
top: thrifted via Belly Button's Boutique
belt: I still do not know
earrings: June Rose Jewelry
jeans: Madewell from Nordstrom Rack
shoes: Eastland from DSW
Friday - 1176
God I really wanted to like this outfit but I just didn't. I think I still don't.
Deets:
shirt: thrifted / vintage
jeans: thrifted Carmar Denim from Plato's Closet
boots: justfab
Saturday - 1177
Saturday it snowed and then rained which was kind of dreary in a fitting way. I bought three books: The Haunting of Hill House being one of them.
Deets:
sweater: my mama’s
jeans: thrifted Carmar Denim from Plato's Closet
boots: also my mom’s
I did not bring home clothes!
Sunday - 1178
It snowed today a bunch. It think it's actually still snowing, but it's a great day for being indoors and updating your writing website and writing blog posts and submitting your book! Which, omg, is that I am doing today. That, and my best.
Deets:
bag: Baggu
sweater: mama’s, Aerie
jeans: thrifted Carmar Denim from Plato's Closet
boots: JustFab
Scarf: gift, Urban Outfitters
Updates
I went home for the long weekend (I don't think I'll be able to go home at all in February so I took advantage). I've been depressed: a mix of seasonal, circumstance, inauguration, and the Tiktok ban. and then unban? It's all (all!) been such a rollercoaster and I am emotionally exhausted as I'm sure many of you are too.
I start class (!) on Tuesday, so that'll be my 6th class out of 10 for my masters. Getting closer, that's kind of freaky. I love the structure of school and I already will miss it (not paying for school though. God.)
I read a lot this week. Do not ask why, I do not know. Here's what I read:
When In Rome
by Sarah Adams
Romance, based on Audrey Hepburn's Roman Holiday. Surprisingly delightful, I am always a bit romance-skeptical, I'll admit.
This is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling spies who fall in love! Falling in love is the best!
Falling Toward the Moon
by Robert M. Drake and R.H. Sin
The moon and the random poem I opened up to in B&N spoke to me. This is what I'm currently reading.
I've decided to give you a poem each week too since I be writin' so many.
eating alone
at two and a half years old,
newly adopted, her first home
my cat wouldn't eat
unless I sat with her.
she would lay next to me,
let me hold her in my arms
but didn't trust her world to eat alone
to be in such a vulnerable state
back turned, unguarded.
after all
her history demonstrated, time and time again
that her food would be stolen
she'd have to fight for it
that someone could hurt her
because they did, they had.
two years later
she'll lay next to me
let me hold her in my arms
and eat
even when I'm not there
but some days
she still asks
Music
Fun ones this week! I say that with full sarcasm because look at these choices. It's giving emotional overthinking lover girl, aka my entire aesthetic.
Taylor Swift: The Prophecy
Hey, this is a deep cut! She actually wrote this about me. And it hurts.
Remi Wolf: Soup
Hopeless and cold! I love the funkiness of Remi and her lyrics are too good.
Alice Phoebe Lou: My Girl
A hand-hold. Thank you Kali for this one.
Taylor Swift: Peter
It's a super Tortured Poets Department week. Unfortunately has become quite relatable!
Lorde: Secrets of a Girl (Who's Seen it All)
This is a hand-hold too, optimistic and gentle but real. I love this album.
Ins/Outs
In this week is loving with all you've got and having hope.
Out is overanalyzing and thinking for someone else.
Snacks
My parents came to visit and we stopped at Ole and Steen and got bread, specifically the Christianshavner Loaf with butter which is very, very delicious.
Fixation
Writing has been my fixation this week, specifically uploading my poems to Hello Poetry, which I previously hadn't been able to do since June (?) because I couldn't verify my freakin email. All good now.
Picture of my Cat
As promised:

(she made a cave between my blankets)
Thanks for reading, see you next week :)
♡♡♡
Mel
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