Although I had to wake up at 7am today, it actually turned out to be a good day. I went to my Adobe Illustrator class at 9:30am and had a super fun time turning a sketch I had drawn of a chubby little unicorn into a vector image. Ryan was out talking to some folks about a Gulfstream that we might bring on board to Pacifica Air Services and so I went home, ate two hamburgers with lettuce instead of buns – yum, yum – and took a nap with my Standard Poodle on the couch. I slept like the dead and woke up a few hours later to do some house cleaning. It’s been looking a titch bit messy since I’ve been so busy working and not feeling so hot the last week. Now it looks amazing again though.

So, back to my day, after the house got cleaned I went to the Cascading Style Sheets class and that was super fun too! I love my classes! The prof thinks I should sign up for the Dynamic Web Database Management class too. I did try to add it, but the code she gave me didn’t work, so I’ll try again tomorrow if she gets back to me then. That would be really great to learn, the course would deal with putting in data collection forms and all that ASP, CGI, PHP script stuff, that makes your website really cool and interactive, that I have been having such problems with.

Totally unrelated, I attached two pics of my dog as a puppy. What a cutie!

Ryan got up at 4:00 this morning to fly some people to Monterey, CA. Quelle horreur! I compensated by getting up at 1:00 this afternoon. Between the two of us we woke up at 8:30, which I would say is fair. Right now I’m steeling myself to stand in line at Admissions at a College for a good long time. For the second time I have to prove to them that I’ve lived in California for more than a year. The last time I did this was two months ago! That’s okay I like standing in line. I LOVE it. It’s my favorite. Even though I moved to California in 2000 I have a little trouble proving that I’ve been here more than a year because my car is not registered in my name, my bank account and phone bills are way up in Los Angeles, I just got a new driver’s license, I cut my old driver’s license up, I just moved to my new home, and my old one my ex-husband owned so there was no paperwork to show I lived there. I am truly a persona non grata.

For courses I’m taking classical guitar, woo hoooo! Also, CSS(cascading style sheets) because it’s not enough to know how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to create a website, if you don’t have a good understanding of CSS then you’ve only got a very rudimentary ability to create webpages. I am not okay with that. Both these courses combined will only take up two nights of my week, so I think I can handle it with my workflow for Pacifica. At least I hope so, I feel so defeated when I have to drop a course.

The above photo is from three years ago, but it seems so much longer than that in my memory. I was in Miami and I remember thinking I was fat. Ha! I’m on the steps of the Vizcaya mansion, which if you’re in Miami is worth seeing and not much is.

Let’s finish what we started.

WASHES
The rules for washes are simple: dark washes for a dressier look or if you want to look thinner & light washes for a more boho vibe. Try to stay away from a wash with a brownish or yellowish cast cause then your jeans just look dirty. Also, avoid jeans with faded coloring on the thighs as this just gives the illusion that your thighs are fatter. Colored jeans always look cheap as if you’re wearing plain old colored cotton that’s just cut to look like jeans. People will think that you’re so poor that you have to wear fake jeans. Black jeans are cool, but only if they’re worn with a punk or rock and roll look and they better be skinny ones!LENGTH
If your jeans are not long enough then you will look stockier. If you’re wearing flats then your jeans should just barely miss touching the floor, that is unless you’re wearing skinny jeans in which case they should go down as far as possible below your ankle and just above your foot. You don’t want to cut off the visual length of your legs. Don’t buy jean shorts that end at the widest part of your calf that will also give you an unnecessarily chunky appearance. Also, don’t buy Daisy Dukes because no one wants to see that much of you except boyfriends and pervy strange men.
LEG WIDTH
Awwww, this is one of my favorite things to play with! Skinny jeans are still all the rage right now and you don’t have to be skinny to wear them. They look good on everyone, but make sure that yours aren’t too tight as you run the risk of looking like a bursting sausage. Can you believe that in 2005, only 4 years ago, I decided that I was ready for tight jeans and I went into a store on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, CA and asked for some skinny jeans(which I had to describe because they had no idea what I was talking about) and the sales guy was so dismissive and poo-pooed my desire to wear jeans that were tight from ankle to thigh just like in the 80′s. He said, and you can quote me on this, ‘tight jeans will NEVER come back into style’. Oh Ho!!!! Really!!!!! I hope they fired that man. If you’re very young and reading this or you just have a bad memory, you might not realize that until a few years ago everyone, EVERYONE was wearing boot cut jeans, this drab cut is somewhat larger than straight leg cut but smaller than a flared cut. Bleeeehhhhh…… boring. Those bootcut jeans reigned supreme throughout pretty much the whole 90′s and most of this decade. Woof. When you’ve fully saturated yourself in skinny jean goodness then another excellent option is the wide leg jean! So fun. Find the hugest ones you can, such a great boho or punk look – tres cute. If you want to look a bit more straight-laced, dressy or proper then the straight leg cut is a good option. I really only sanction these 3 cuts: skinny, wide-leg, and straight-leg.
POCKETS
To have these sewn to the outside of your jeans, cute little external pockets, is so nice because then every time you put them on or do them up after going to the bathroom you don’t have to stick your hand in your pockets to flatten them out. Unfortunately not tons of jeans have that, but Rock & Republic does have a nice pair. Usually jeans have the standard 5 pocket arrangement where you’ve got that tiny pocket which you can’t fit anything into and if you can then you can never get it out again and then the bigger 2 front ones and 2 back ones, pretty passe stuff, but if you can find anything more interesting than that go for it, people(people like me) will appreciate you edginess. There is one very critical thing about pockets: more than any other component of the jeans they influence how good your butt looks! The back pockets should not be too small or placed to high and towards the center of your bum. This creates the illusion that your butt is HUGE! And those tiny high little crammed together pockets are floating in the vastness of space that is your ass! Oh dear.
RIPS & OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS
Rips are fabulous! Especially on lighter colored jeans, and especially especially on lighter wide legged jeans! Now you’re cooking with fire!!! They are also fabulous though on skinny or straight legged jeans, so let’s not lose sight of that. Some jeans are also decorated with crystals, embroidery, or other doodads and that’s fine too so long as it’s not a combination of all three and so long as it matches the rest of you outfit. If your jeans are super tarted up then remember to tone down the rest of your outfit – only one statement piece at a time!