Small Wonders

[morrigirl]

Within the last couple months I've discovered singer-songwriter Rachael Sage and have been purchasing her albums and playing them non-stop ever since. Last night while I was tidying up my aprtment I started singing her song "Ode to a Sailor." So I'm matching socks and folding laundry when it suddenly hits me that I actually sound kinda good. At least, I think I do. I stop what I'm doing for a second, repeat the chorus, and shake my head in disbelief. I can't sound as good as I think I do, I KNOW I can't. I am not a trained singer. I can sing on key but that's about it, and that's not even always a sure thing. I sing in the shower and always crack because I reach for notes I can't hit. I can't normally just sing some song off-handedly and sound good. So, I drop everything and quickly create an audio file of myself singing the chorus because I want to actually hear myself so I can confirm that I do not sound as good as I think I do. So I play it back...and I still sound good! Like, really good! Like that voice class I took with Lillian junior year actually did something to improve my voice. It was pretty awesome!

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You may have noticed that baby doll dresses have come back into style because all the original fashion design ideas have been used up and all we can do now is keep recycling the same old fashion trends over ten year intervals. I discovered this while shopping at H & M not long ago where I came across the cutest little deep blue baby doll dress. Now, I was very big on baby doll dresses when they were in fashion back when I was in high school, so of course I hauled that sucker straight into the dressing room. Once I had it on though, I looked in the mirror and had to stifle a laugh. The dress fit fine but it just looked so wrong. I looked like a twenty-seven year old woman who was trying to be fifteen again. It was hysterical. Needless to say that dress went back on the rack.

Cut to today where I spent one hundred and eighty dollars on new spring clothes at Cross County, including two baby doll dresses. I couldn't help it. I found them at Old Navy and they don't actually make me look like I'm trying to reclaim my youth. And because of their design I get to modernize them a bit. We all know that severely plunging neck lines are very in right now, neck lines that make it impossible for anyone, particularly top heavy girls like myself, to wear any top without layering. Well, these dresses have that neck line, but lucky me, I bought a sack load of tank tops today so I can wear them underneath. The look is a little more youthful than I normally attempt but I think it looks cute on me.

That is all :-)

Comments

[kdc4evr.livejournal.com]

seeing as how i still unfortunately work there, i too own one of those short old navy baby doll dresses. i bought a lace trimmed cami to wear under it but really I'm liking the whole wearing a plain t-shirt under tiny camisol look right now b/c I have a lot of cute tanks that I can't really wear otherwise, at least not to work. My baby doll dress is white with grey circles. did you know they have pockets? which ones did you buy? i love the dress b/c you can wear it alone, over jeans, over leggings, over capris, really any way you want.

i got a really hot baby doll/empire waist style red dress to wear to this wedding jon & I are going to in california next month. it's extremely low cut so i'm still looking for something to wear over it b/c the wedding is in a Catholic church. but otherwise i figure i'm in california so who cares! it's from express it's red and has this purple band at the bottom and purple stripes and i love it. even with the major cleavage.

i get a new computer on friday! :)

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

I posted an entry last night, probably right after you signed off, of me in the dress. It's knee length, empire waisted, and hase a very low v-neck. I got it in olive green and maroon.

You and I need to schedule a time to have some Buffy talk. I finally got and read the first two issues. On the whole I'm liking it so far. Liked the second issue better than the first.