to a reggae version of the Beatles "she was just 17, you know what i mean" that she downloaded for her daughter maddy who just turned 17 and somehow the joy is spilling back in for everyone. the bouyancy in her step today (and the conspicuous lack of pajamas) is due to Nancy conquering Quicken and today's reprieve from Jury Duty. to celebrate, nancy is wearing maddy's tank top from the overpriced store Scoop on madison ave in NYC. the top doesn't really belong to nancy, but she's wearing it anyway--another fashion fatality she's conquered today--because nancy used to be the recipient of many beautiful cashmere sweaters, jewelry items and her share of overpriced tees gifted to her on a regular basis by her ex mother in law sandi with an i. important to note however that sandi is still very loving toward nancy and sends her fancy face creams for her age spots which she appreciates but now maddy gets all the clothing stash and that hurts. so...with regard to this particular "gift" nancy made an executive decision to keep everything for herself because maddy's doing fine. besides maddy never wore the shirt because she felt it was cheesy which it is. at 50yo nancy likes cheesy on occasion. or doesn't care one way or the other as long as something is New.
besides, neither maddy nor nancy got it together to return it to Scoop when they were in NYC a couple weeks ago for the College Tour. they were presumably busy with more substantive matters but truth be told, they fit in H&M, Marc Jacobs and a Huka bar...so they probably could've gotten over to Scoop to cash in the LIFE/NATURE/LOVE wife-beaters for something nicer but they were off to Bard college and had blown their wad of shopping time elsewhere. nancy wears the brown ribbed tee with the splash of chartruese with hand-me-down cropped abercrombie jeans that belonged to Jenny Graham of the Velvet dynasty. last night nancy wore the same tee to a Klezmer concert under a sophisticated black blouse from Club Monaco that is still nice but a bit short and would potentially show nancy's midriff which would be gross at her age. so the cheesy tank actually served to make nancy look more age appropriate since it went longer than the blouse and gave her that current Layered Look without showing too much skin. she bottoms off the outfit with dark argyle sox from her golfing excursion yesterday (the driving range with her 15yo son, her friend Mark--the only one she knows who really golfs and actually owns clubs... and tough little sports guy neighbor Pat Mcqueen, who out-drove everyone). she slept in the argyles and accompanies them today with iconic checkered Vans that she shared with her son till he grew out of em. she wears a lime green pixie band around her neck which found on the kitchen table this morning in a pile of bills next to the computer with Quicken--she threw it around her neck as a form organizing things by putting them back in the vicinity where they will be used... a tip she learned in the book Organized from the Inside Out (ie. the pixie band belongs near or on her head because that's where it'll be used eventually). to add to the kismet....when nancy shot the latest pic for this entry she was overjoyed to discover that serendipitously the green pixie matches the splash of green on the slutty tank. nancy loves happy accidents like that--which reminds her of how important color-matching has always been in her life...as she recalls the third drawer down of the Rococo dresser she inherited from her parents after the Austin Powers addition to their ranch style tract home in mar vista - how every morning nancy would compose her outfit..then open that deep third drawer down, filled to the brim like a paint box with every color pixie band imaginable (from Sav-on Drug store..her Rite Aid of that decade)...and find just the right one to match her dress and her tights.
guess nothing much has changed except nancy was clearly a bit more organized at 10yo than she is now (her proclivity for organizing the pixie bands was several decades before reading Organized from the Inside Out!!). hmm. maybe this means, somewhere deep down (time release genes?) she's actually got it IN her to conquer her current fashion and financial mess which actually gives her hope that she's on her way to consistently using Quicken so she'll know how much money she has to spend on over priced tee shirts and she won't have to steal from her daughter. with no guilt whatsoever, she'll finally get her finances (and pixie bands) off the kitchen table into their tidy places where she can know what she has and enjoy her money and her colors without so much anxiety and familial theft/dependence.
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