Perfect traveling outfit.

Hello my dear readers,

I hope your holiday travel is as stress free as possible. So here's my suggestion for setting yourself up for success, making yourself comfortable whilst looking good. Here is today's traveling outfit. The magic pants from uniqlo (see previous blog) in black, one of those silk pajama inspired tops from Zara with little skulls on it, and a frye boot. I have a colorful and chunky infinity scarf to stick on top of this and I'm good to go. St. Louis here we come.

Oh and I welcome all holiday travel clothes submissions.

Reasons to reconsider just rolling out of bed and heading the the airport...

This girl. And this guy. They just ran into each other in the airport. They know each other. They are both attractive people and clearly are attracted to each other. She is in a lazy bunchy pajama pant, hoodie, top knot and fuzzy uggs.

Now, of course I am not saying that physical beauty or what you wear will make a guy love you. We all know that thought makes me supremely angry. I met my husband on an NYC bus, no makeup, hair in a pony (but not wearing pajamas). What I am saying is that you are not anonymous in the airport or anywhere you go. This is a small world. You will know some one in the airport, waking down the street, on the subway. Even if you don't know that person now, you will know him/her someday. We are all connected. I just want you to take care of yourself. To be the best you can be at all times. Stop telling the world that you are hiding, that you want to blend in, that you want to still be in bed, that you want to be anonymous. Dare to be noticed.

Magic cardigan

Hey you guys. I wrote this post back in December and somehow forgot to post it. I'm going to LA this week and have a grand travel experiment planned for you. Get excited! Here's a little post to tide you over...

So I'm heading back to NYC after a short, pre-Christmas trip home to NC. I vowed to try a little experiment on this trip. There was a period of time that I was constantly asked, or demanded actually, to remove my "sweater" to go through security. No matter what article of clothing I wore, I was always referred to as a sweater. This ranged from actual sweater, cardigan, to see through top with a camisole underneath. When asked to remove said see through top, I said, "you want me to take my shirt off?". The security guy responded "well ma'am, we just can't tell what you ladies have under your shirts". So there's that. Of course my husband made it through with a tee shirt, button down and sweater...but whatever.

So I made the conscious choice to leave this cardigan on both leaving LGA and leaving CLT. Shockingly, no one yelled. No one berated. No one accused me of being a sneaky lady hiding things in my unmentionables. If you have ever seen me in real life, you have seen me in this cardigan. I wear it way too often for my own good. You might recognize the pic below from when I was traveling back from LA in said cardigan, desperately searching for an outlet for phone charging.

Why was I allowed to keep it on? I think it was all about attitude. I said to myself., " I will not remove my cardigan". So we'll say that's the ticket.

I charge you to try this. Your mantra is...I will not remove my cardigan. Practice. Let me know if it works.