Back on the streets USING

No news is good news? NOT QUITE. First of all- hats off to all you bloggers out there that stay committed and blog every day. Tax season TOOK ME OUT- I just couldn't keep my head above water and when times get stressful- I am afraid I turned to my vice for comfort. And boy- it was a slippery slope down. It all started off so innocently when my hubby mentioned that he wanted to replace his J Crew university coat. Oh just use my account. You know what- I'll order it for you, no problem...........and then it went from there (I can't remember exactly- it was sometime around late February/ early April). Soon Mickey was sending me those special cards and emails again. Feeling like a COMPLETE failure, I stayed away from this blog and all the others that I love to read (JCAs, DaniBP, FFM, Head to Toe with Heidi, Gigi's Gone Shopping, and the list goes on.......) I will say that I curtailed my shopping immensely during the last half of the year. For some reason the summer fashion cycle never does that much for me (perhaps it is because we only get three months in Chicago) so I didn't do much shopping this summer. Once my birthday hit- I celebrated with a month of Crewlade- the UPS man and I are reunited and it feels so good! And now I am trying to reel it all back-in. I don't know about everyone else, but the sale really does me in. Just because you get an extra 30% off doesn't mean that you need a rimini cardigan in every color!! Very difficult for me to grasp that. I continue to try to edit, purge, and follow the rule that I will not buy unless I am IN LOVE and it looks fantastic on me. Enough with the ramble- I just wanted to bring some closure to the year by checking-in. I have slowly started following my favorite blogs but have been too embarrassed to say hello. So there you go. I'm back- trying to stay clean! We are taking a family trip to Italy for Christmas to visit good friends, so I am already fretting over the packing and fighting the urge to buy an entire new wardrobe for the voyage. But that is another post...........

So I wrap it up with a thought from Mr. Ford
"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."Henry Ford

Sounds good to me Henry!

P.S. I started this post in April and finished it in November- not sure why it doesn't update the date- but it is showing up as April when in fact it is 11/28!