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Now that our busy fall semester is slowly wrapping up, I’ve been left a little bit of time to think. To reflect, if you will. To consider something more than immediate needs and the priority lists I’ve so desperately clung to during recent months to keep from forgetting anything that needs to be done at work or for the kids.

And I’ve realized something. Something horrible. Something I swore to never do and that I do with increasing frequency. I’ve put some things on the back burner. Namely, myself.

Yeah, let’s just come on out and say it. I’ve totally let myself go. It’s not just the fact that I think I’ve probably gained 10 pounds in one semester, putting all those freshmen on campus working on their 15 to shame. It’s not just my ‘Shave my legs? Are you kidding me? It’s 30 degrees outside and I can use all the insulation I can get, dammit!’ schedule.

I was catching up on a little blog and Facebook reading last night, commenting, etc. and I noticed that everyone has these wonderful family holiday pictures and blog style revamps, and everything along those lines, and I’ve… well, I’ve been wondering to myself if it would be really that bad to wear my yoga pants to work. Would they be able to tell they were really yoga pants?

Is HillJean wearing yoga pants in her holiday fashion post? Nope. Do you think Sarah from Nerdy Apple is going for the world record of the most consecutive days worn of ratty Uggs? I doubt it. 

I don't even do boots right anymore... And how big are these jeans???

I’ve not done it. Yet. The yoga pants thing. Mainly because none of my yoga pants have pockets, and I really live for pockets to stash shit in while at work. So I’ve stuck with jeans. And my Uggs.

In all seriousness for a moment… I haven’t painted my toenails for two months now, I can’t say the last time I fixed my hair (much less had it cut and styled—which was last June), and while I have nice clothes, I tend to just pull whatever laundry has been hanging out in the dryer for the last two days and throw that on in the ten minutes I have before I need to leave for work. Makeup? Are you freaking kidding me? You’re lucky I have chapstick in my purse.

I put on earrings today for the first time in forever to distract from the fact that I didn’t want to do anything with my hair other than ensure it would not get in my face for the rest of the day. I woke up with a mouthful of it this morning. And I don’t think the earrings thing is really going to work. 

The earring is not detracting from the hair...

It’s been awfully dry in these parts as of late, and I finally got around this weekend to looking for some lotion, only to realize, there’s no lotion in our house, and probably hasn’t been since last winter.

Folks, I’ve been stuck in this rut for so long I think I’m going to need an intervention. A style intervention. Send help! Send ideas! Send me tips! For hair, for clothes, for accessories, for nails, for makeup… anything! I’ll take any ideas you’ve got! Just not ideas for scarves (why is it all about the scarves this year?) because the only time I’m not a scarf hater is when it’s less than 15 degrees outside.

What little things do you do to break yourself out of a rut? What are some of your favorite items or accessories that come out during the holidays? How do you keep yourself looking put together when the schedule is packed and the holiday heat is on?

Seriously. I’m one pair of sweatpants at Ant’s basketball practice away from complete and utter fashion failure… I need reinforcements!