Last Week
It was the first full week of spring and I finally felt like I was fully back on my feet 😊
I made yet another perfect frittata from Hot Sheet — this time with leftover Easter ham and cheese, which I sliced and stuck in the fridge for an easy breakfast to take to work with me throughout the week.
I last-minute invited several friends to have a glass of wine at a favorite spot on its second-to-last night of service (😢). Three were able to make it and it was so lovely to sit and drink excellent wine and catch up and learn about perimenopause (the more you know!) and laugh. I was in a shitty mood all day — it was so bad that I had to lay down and stop trying for awhile — and this sweetened the day significantly.
Yesterday I listened to this playlist (pulled from Devendra Banhart’s Morning After Mix for BBC) for most of the day while I puttered around, catching up on all the newsletters in my inbox, doing laundry, cleaning the windows (which we don’t do often enough and boy do we need the ☀️). Then I watched the first few episodes of Manhunt (I’m liking it! It’s an antidote of sorts for anyone who fell in love with Harry Crosby; Anthony Boyle can sure play a villain) while finally seaming the second shoulder of the cardigan I’m knitting. It was a pretty perfect rainy day.
BTW - for any knitters who, like me, absolutely deplore seaming: after (I kid you not) 8 attempts at using the kitchener stitch to join two bind off edges, as instructed in the pattern, I found a better solution. This grafting tutorial helped me create a much cleaner seam than the lumpy, bumpy mess I was getting with kitchener (which truly only works with live stitches). Now maybe I’ll finally finish the thing and wear it before the weather gets too warm!
I’ve been enjoying getting dressed so much more since a virtual styling session I invested in (more on this soon)! Still working with the same old things in my closet, but seeing them in new ways. This outfit checked all the boxes for me: tonal colors (with a pop of something extra), some texture in the linen button-down and rough-weave cotton pants, comfort in the loose fit — but enough structure provided by the higher neckline and polish from the earrings to make it work for work.
On the topic of clothes, I loved this breakdown of “timeless classics” by
. She takes apart the generic pieces (think trench coat or white tee) that every must-have list includes and examines the function they serve in dressing. So rather than building a wardrobe of prescribed clothes, we can think more about how we dress as individuals and what things we need to make our own closets work optimally. So helpful!Last night, I finished my first Barbara Pym, Excellent Women, and it was so good! Hilarious, surprising, sharply observed. It’s set just after WW2 in London. The narrator is a “spinster” (she’s, like, 30 lol). It has a happy-ish ending — but not the one you’d expect. I can wait to read more Pym.
How was your week?
Xx Chelsea