I’m Not A Mannequin
We visited a new vintage shop in Brantford called Netty Vintage. These are the two treasures I came home with…
I've draped the necklace over the bag.
The bag is pristine and was a whopping $5. Best deal ever. The necklace is just stunning and from France. It is just so unique I couldn't leave it behind even though the price was quite a bit more than $5. I figured in the end they balanced each other out though…right (wink wink)?
Here is the bag in action with my high waisted jeans…
I was going through my closet trying to get rid of some stuff that I don't wear often and I tried these jeans on. I'm not sure about them. I think either they shrunk 2 sizes or I need to lose at least 5 lbs maybe more to make me feel better about myself when I wear them. Also I need to lower the hem that I now find too short.
I'm just not used to the way the pants fit so high up now. For the moment they are still in my closet…we will see how long I keep them there.
Do you find yourself holding onto items in your closet that don't fit you as you'd like but you're not 100% willing to give up on them so you just keep hanging on, hoping that one day you will magically pull them out of the dark back corner of your closet, slip them on and they will look as good or better than the day you saw them in the store window on the size 0 mannequin? Or am I the only one with that pie-in-the-sky fantasy?
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Do We Make Decisions Or Do Decisions Make Us?
My favourite bit from the Mad Men premier about death had to be almost all of Roger's therapy monologues. This really resonated with me…
"What are the events in life? Like, you see a door. The first time you come to it, you say, ‘Oh, what’s on the other side of the door?’ Then you open a few doors and then you say, ‘I think I want to go over a bridge this time. I’m tired of doors.’ Finally you go through one of these things, and you come out the other side, and you realize that’s all there are: doors! And windows and bridges and gates. And they all open the same way. And they all close behind you. Look, life is supposed to be a path, and you go along, and these things happen to you, and they’re supposed to change your direction, but it turns out that’s not true. Turns out the experiences are nothing. They’re just pennies you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket, and you’re just going in a straight line to you-know-where.”
And I love this brilliant quote from Matt Zoller Seitz that really made me stop and think.
"When I look back at early episodes of Mad Men and then watch episodes from seasons four or five, I think of photos of my own family over the generations, and how mysterious and amazing it is to see their clothes and hairstyles, cars and homes, living conditions and marital status changing almost imperceptibly over the course of years or decades, snapshot by snapshot, each picture capturing a moment, but never the moment. Do we make decisions, or do decisions make us? Do we make the times, or do the times make us? Will Don decide to divorce Megan, or will Megan decide to divorce Don, or will they decide to stay together and be unhappy, or happy? Or does “decide,” as we use it in the context of storytelling, have almost nothing to do with how things happen in real life? …"
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