This is what my meals have looked like lately.

Until we do a full fledged grocery shopping trip, we’ve been making little trips to the next door market for things like yogurt, fruit and veggies.  Cheese and milk too.  Oh, and of course enough pb&j and tuna (eaten separately, obviously) for lunches.

Sounds like lots of good, healthy and adult food. Right?

Fridge is also stocked with some of our favorite good fall beer and wine.  Can’t go without beer during the first month of the NFL, can you?

In other news, I thoroughly enjoy receiving compliments on my brand new boots. It makes the exorbitant amount of money that I spent on these boots, well… well worth it.

I apologize for being ridiculously tacky with my alliterations. Oh well, I can’t help myself. This weekend I plan to indulge in the following

1) Fall in the Village Art Festival Freeport is a tiny, adorable little village 15 minutes north of Portland and it is an outlet village. JCrew, Gap, Banana, Burberry, Polo. It’s incredible(y dangerous for my wallet). So I’ve been planning on shopping one of these weekends when I go home, and then I came across a tweet that referenced the Festival! So now I have a good excuse to go up. Enjoy some art. Walk the streets. Shop. Uh oh…

2) Boating, boating, boating. Summer in Maine is clinging on for dear life. This weekend’s weather forecast calls for 70 degrees and sunny, but anyone from New England knows what that means. It’s September. In Maine. 70 degrees in sunny is crisp and cool with a chilly breeze. The sun is really just there for good looks. So Mum and Dad and I (and likely BF) are going out on the boat for the day Saturday. Plan is to head towards one of the islands for lunch or to anchor somewhere for some afternoon wine. It will be glorious. Expect pictures!

3) Seussical The Musical. Okay, not Fall at all, but it will be fun. Boyfriend’s best friend’s girlfriend (stick with me) is an actress in the local theater scene (good for her) so we’re doing our part to support the gal by going to see her play! I’m excited. Word is that she’s fantastic, and we’re taking boyfriend’s little sis along for the ride.

4) Portland Trails 10K Trail to Ale Road Race I was supposed to run. I am lazy and therefore did not train, at all. As a result, boyfriend will run. boyfriend’s best friend will get my bib. I will wait at the end in the beer tent for runners to finish. Cheers, yay, glad you ran! The race takes place on a Sunday morning but did you read the headed? The 10k is called Trail to Ale! The race is sponsored by Maine’s finest (http://www.shipyard.com/, duh) so awaiting the runners will be some nice cold Pumpkinhead. Glorious.

Two photos to prove my weekend was just as glorious as I had imagined. Cheers.

You won’t buy 6 of these bad boys, but I just did.  Actually, I bought 6 of these last week, and they have since arrived and my itty bitty blonde eyelashes are in heaven.  Maybelline’s XXL Curl Power mascara is by far the best damn product that I’ve ever let myself get attached to.

I kid not. Being blonde and blue eyed, a day sans mascara is a pretty scary one.  I am kind of a mascara freak, and I’ve bought, tested, tried and hated close to two dozen other mascaras.  This one for a day, and I was hooked.  Obsessed.  And then devastated when they took it off the shelves.  Most drugstores now just carry another purple / black packaged kind.. but seriously, if it’s not the XXL Curl Power, it’s not the same.  This combines curl, length, volume and hold.  Four incredible parts to the whole look that no other mascara dares to take on.  Most of Maybelline’s take on two: length and volume, curl and length.  No, no, no silly folks.  We need it all, and I encourage you to go out and buy enough of this product to last you a life time!

But like I said, it’s off the shelves, so after about 2 months of being so bummed and just hating every other kind that I tried, I just bought a crap ton off of amazon.  Shipping costs stink, but it was well worth it.  I promise.

I’ve never been a big watch wearer, well, at least since I became of an age where I rocked a cell phone. And honestly, I’ve had a cell phone for quite some time, so let’s just say… I don’t even remember the last time I wore a watch. However, that doesn’t mean I haven’t been eying my favorite fashion accessories for years. Two years to be exact. Two years ago I fell in love with Michael Kors signature gold oversized watch. Gold, my favorite (haven’t rocked silver since ’00); oversized (love all things big); and rugged enough to look chic (isn’t it weird how that can work?). So perfectly me, that for two whole year’s I’ve been drooling and dreaming of wearing one of my own. You best believe that every time Christmas or a birthday rolled around (we’re talking 4 different opportunities people!) I dropped enough hints to any and all gift givers (read: parents, grandparents, godparents.. just kidding don’t have one, sister, boyfriend) that you’d think I was North Korea dropping bombs (not funny?). No one, no one at all dished out the dollars and made my dream come true.

So finally, after enough penny pinching (let’s be serious).. last night I caved and in the midst of an already over spent summer, I splurged. Not only did I take a trip to Bloomy’s to buy an oversized Michael Kors watch, but I also ended up walking out with another special treat for the summer. I shall preface this introduction with the fact that I would not have been browsing the bag displays if the woman at the watch counter didn’t take so long to resize my band. But, since she did, I roamed into the Tory Burch section of the floor and found a 30% off rack. Score? Yes, ma’am. And look what I picked up, saving a lotta change along the way.

My first ever Tory Burch purchase! Eep. It’s the Classic Tory Metallic Canvas Tote. A great size at 15″W x 13″H, perfect to pack up for the day, or to take as a travel purse. Mmmm, how fun it is to spend more money than you should be.

InStyle.com has been taking to Twitter to share the latest spring trends.  Quite a few of them I think are rather repulsive.

But bright wedges?  I’ll take them!  I love these, a lot.  And cannot wait to pair them with my other new obsession: jeggings.  I’ll take a minute to defend myself here, because although the celebs have all taken to jeggings, I still hear a lot of people mocking them.  And I’ll admit.  I see some jeggings in the store that just look, well, gross.  Way too cheap and cheesy, trashy.  But find the right pair, and fabulous.

So finally, a piece of spring fashion advice that I actually like.   Hopefully I’ll even be able to splurge on a pair in time for my trip to California!

While I’m at it, I’ll mention that I’m thrilled InStyle is going with girly pastels for a must have nail polish color this spring.  They are high fiving The Art of Spring color collection by essie and thank goodness. I’m not a huge fan of the blues and greens that have been popping up everywhere.  Something about a cool color on your nails, just doesn’t sit well with me.  Unless of course, it’s You Don’t Know Jacques by OPI. That’s a gray that I can rock.