WARNING: Spin class stream of conciousness at play
Our spin instructor gave to we… “permission to eat anything we want between December 22nd and January 3rd.” Yesterday, as our instructor, wearing an orange cycling outfit with a baseball hat turned backwards, was demanding that we all sing outloud to “Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn,” we were thinking about this “license to eat.” And we were thinking about 1) how different men and women are and then 2) all the delicious holiday food out there! Smoked salmon and capers on Christmas Eve…coffee cakes, sausage balls on Christmas morning!! Then honey ham…the list goes on (must spin harder…). And then we thought about the one classic Christmas food we’ve never had. Fruitcake. So here’s a question. Has anyone ever actually had fruit cake? And since no one has…maybe it would be fun to give Neiman Marcus style! Look at these cute little cakes all packaged up. Only $30!
“elaney, are you going to blog about the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book? It makes my heart flutter.” – Reader Mo
This year, the NM Christmas Book, which does stir the heart of everyone’s inner-hopeful-wide-eyed-girl-waiting-to-sit-in-Santa’s-lap, is trying to make a recession friendly version. We aren’t sure that we’d go that far. The Loubou’s above are $895. But…if you are feeling sort of wassel and peppermint-ish, enjoy the new book! And the new LB’s!
Ever openly judge and criticize until you one day you can’t get enough of said object of judgement? Many things comes to mind here from Britney Spears music to facebook. What’s ours? Call us small town types that start getting silver for their 10th birthday, but we used to turn our noses up at all things animal print. Make snide remarks. Snob it up a little. Until one day, we put on a light tan zebra print cardigan (call it gateway drug), and all of a sudden, we couldn’t get enough! Shoes! Pillows! Tops! We even found ourselves contemplating a rug!! Animal print we love you. Thank you for forgiving us our small town snobbiness. What did you judge, until you loved?
We at elaney have a love hate relationship with all things Tory Burch. Tory B just seems so obvious. Everyone has the flats; everyone recognizes the logo, but at the same time, you kind of like the flats. And you sort of want to sport the logo. It’s like a rich man’s Miley Cyrus. You don’t want to like it, but you kind of do. So after a rather public and controversial stance on the flats, we feel that there is no going back there. But Neiman M has all the bags 50% off. Is it time for a truce?! What do you think – TB bags: bag it or bag it up?
The Recession Markdown strikes again! The original idea for this post was to show a $500+ Tahari suit then find a similar suit for under $100. Well thanks to the retail meltdown miraculous markdowns, we found this $538 Tahari suit priced at $243 (additional 25% taken at register)! Still over $100, but quite the deal.
