Brooks

Buy from Brooks Brothers today til April 19 at midnight EST! If you use your Brooks Platinum Mastercard or the Brooks Card you save 25%, but still 20% for any other form of payment! Also, best of all 4% of every purchase goes towards the Golden Fleece Foundation!

My picks (mostly for next winter... what can I say craving New England, and real winters for some reason, and also sales on sale so why not!):

Cable Cowl Neck Scarf

Polka Dot Blazer

Calfskin and Shearling Ankle Boots

Calfskin, Suede and Shearling Flat Boots

3 Months In

Officially March 1. New Years feels like yesterday, and it's things like this that make me believe that I am literally almost 30. And yes, I realize I'm 24, and some might say that is nowhere in the vicinity of a third decade, but literally, I will wake up one day and say "It feels like just yesterday I was 24," and it will feel just like this does. That's my justification for that argument, even though no one seems to accept it as fact but me, but it actually really does make sense!

Sunny has been so clingy lately! This was her last night, in between my knees where she refused to move for 20 mins. She never goes up to the third floor unless she's feeling needy, and then she just sits and stares, just willing me to understand her. I never do, but pet her anyway, and here she is in all her silent glory. It's a little unnerving actually, she's so intense when she wants something. I almost wish she'd bark; it would lighten the mood.

Also, Stubbs has my favorite shoes ever back in stock. I actually never realized they were narrow until I saw them on the site again, and now I get why they've been pretty much impossible to break in. I wear a B width, so AA is actually two sizes too narrow. For some reason I always thought I just had huge feet when it cames to Stubbs, so this is very reassuring. Also, I hate to say it, but they've (accidentally) turned into my rain shoes as of late (just horrible serendipity when it comes to not checking the weather and getting dressed in some of my favorite shoes simultaneously), so they're looking a little like the roof of a wet tiki bar woven into some truly lovely footwear, and I wish there were some way to fix this!

In all their unstained glory

Finally, see Argo! Ben Affleck has been a favorite actor ever since Shakespeare In Love, and I honestly thought I'd be bored out of my skull, but I actually stayed relatively transfixed the entire time! And that never happens, unless it's some sort of Pixar, so this is saying a lottt! Also, John Goodman is back, so another county heard from (when was the last time he was in a movie?) and another reason to see it!

Pilot Clutch

Big Sister

Baby sister of the much adored Pilot by Rag & Bone, the Pilot Clutch is bound to become an it bag I believe. Now may someone pretty please buy it for me? It comes in either solids, or perforated leather. As if it matters, but even if it did, I have no idea which I'd go with. Badass

Little Sisters

Edgier Black Sheep Sister

Back to reality: I just splurged on the Kate Spade Kensington Dunn (no longer available on their site) from the last chance sale. It was just too good a price to ignore, and with a promo code... it was dirt cheap. Also, am and always will be a sucker for a bag with 14k gold plated hardware. Cheesy I know, but it feels substantial. It's very business-y, but am ever on the quest to look like a serious business woman, not the girl with the collection of dirt stained (but still beautiful!) Tory Burch totes who managed to finagle her way into an office building

Big Girl Bag - Literally, it's huge

Surprise! Your Bank Account is Empty

Could not resist this sale. While the options were tough, I bit the bullet and bought the South Kensington Dunn as an investment in my work attire. Cannot wait for this package to arrive! I admit it, I still have a hard time visualizing Kate Spade as something other than the brand I'd always see growing up lounging on the shelves of T.J. Maxx in all their canvas mismatched stripey glory, but I really do think they've made a turn-around. I thought this bag was chic enough to carry around, but sturdy enough to hold all my papers and iPad and definitely edgy enough for me. Check out the Kate Spade Surprise Sale here before it's over! I had a promo code, so my bag was a cool $100 (off $528!)