Category: fashion (sorta)
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The XFE Packing Solution
(Editor’s Note: XFE is back with another guest post.) That’s right friends I am back and not with just some hotel crashing post full of pictures, but with real, get to know XFE content. As readers of ThePoeLog know, Poe struggles to get herself properly packed for all of the fabulous trips she takes and…
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Disproportionate Excitement: Jeans Day at Work
I have a few more posts on Peru, but let’s take a little break to discuss something even more exciting and earth shaking than pisco sours and ancient ruins. Last Friday was Jeans Day at work. This is a very big deal. Honestly, HR could have told me they had installed a kitten playpen next…
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Nerves of Jello Over Here
I am very nervous about our upcoming trip to Peru, y’all. I’m not nervous about packing. For once. Although, my new laissez faire “take what you wore yesterday and throw it in a bag (*plus clean underwear)” attitude won’t work for this trip. For one thing, I wore a bulky turtleneck, wool pants and a…
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Kwame Harris and I Agree: Soy Sauce is Dangerous
I know from personal experience that soy sauce can ruin walls. And I know from personal experience that soy sauce can lead to bickering that ruins an otherwise nice evening with your loved ones. Apparently, I’m not the only one to have learned this lesson. According to the San Mateo Daily Journal, a dispute over…
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Bare Legs in Winter. Why?
Excuse me, miss. Yes, you, the young lady in the puffer coat on the corner, shivering away on this damp, drizzly, cold morning. You seem like a smart young thing on her way to work, hair: neat and in place; makeup: appropriate; professionally dressed (with the possible exception of the puffer jacket which I think…
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Now I Understand Where Cruella Deville Was Coming From
(We interrupt our Spain reverie for a very important issue) I recently went coat shopping, which is sounds like it’s no big deal, but of course, for me, was a very, very big debilitating deal. I had to undertake this dreaded exercise because 1) I live in a cold place where I have to wear…
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Post-Thanksgiving Turkey Coma Activities
I’m going to go out on a limb here and declare Thanksgiving my favorite holiday. Quite a controversial statement, I know. Hopefully, Olivier Martinez doesn’t come over and give me a turkey day whooping for uttering such a contrarian viewpoint. (In his defense, he’s French, so he probably doesn’t really respect the whole Thanksgiving dealio. Come…
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A Few Reason Autumn Blows (Including Blowing Leaves)
I know I’m in the minority on this one, but I do not like Fall, also known as the Season of Death and Decay, which precedes the Season of White Hell and Hibernation (snow). Here is a non-exhaustive list of things I hate about Fall (which just means there could be a part two at…
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Olympic Haters, You Came to the Right Place
I know this makes me un-American but I do not get the Olympics. I mean, I GET them but I’m not INTO them. Yeah, ok, there’s a bunch of young people, in the prime of their lives, pushing their bodies beyond their limits, yadda, yadda. It all makes me – the very definition of a…
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Packing Strategy for a Week in Costa Rica
We leave tomorrow for a week on the beach (And in a fishing boat. And a scuba boat. Basically, we can’t or won’t sit still.) Nevertheless! Vacation looms. Which means so does my favorite part of vacation – packing! I’ve already referred to my obsession with packing. And, I’ve come up with a tentative packing…