While some of us are relaxing to the sounds of the surf...
Indulging in the salty, summer evening air...
The rest of us are stuck inside with residual piper paying in the form of a heap of ironing that we 
This martyr routine has done run it's course! Genevieve, you are hereby, officially RE hired. Either that, or I'm only wearing non-ironables for the rest o' the summer...Kindness of moi for remembering that, from here on out, I should confine all martyr routines to short runs. Take the stage, give the performance of a lifetime, accept the Tony, take a bow, then immediately exit stage left...XXOO
the relaxing and indulging is priceless! love those pics and they are very zen master :)
ReplyDeletePlease get a job! Then you won't have to ask permission to buy things!
ReplyDeleteI may tease but, I don't have to ask permission to buy things. I am truly blessed with a très generous husband. He was just a smidge gobsmacked when an arbitrary spread sheet of my May spending revealed a post Lenten, pre summer J Loesque spree :)
ReplyDeleteps...job? shudder
Now that I am the Lilly Pulitzer Walsh wagon...I can say I have 3 of those same prints! xx
ReplyDeleteMy children first spotted the ironing board when we moved and had no idea what it was.
ReplyDeleteThe board had always been set up in the linens room and ended up holding 3 trailing English ivies.
I removed the ivies when we moved, the board mysteriously did not make it with us to this house, the ivies did.
The children were were equally perplexed at the sight of the iron.
I am perplexed at those with impeccable ironing skills, especially shirts !
Maybe it's the heat; maybe it's that our a/c is on it's last legs but I'm having a hard time working up sympathy on this one. You can get up really early, go for a walk on the beach, set up your ironing board on the porch before it gets too hot and iron while listening to the surf?
ReplyDeleteThen you'll probably go to the beach this afternoon and take an outdoor shower afterwards? If so, I'll make a deal with you. Let's switch places.
You come down here, take care of the kids and dogs, check on my invalid neighbor, fix three meals a day, clean the house, go grocery shopping and to Target with your weekly food allowance of $75, do the laundry and iron all the husband's pants and shirts - not just your pretty shorts and shirts - start the prep work for painting the living room - and then spend a relaxing evening listening to your husband worry about whether or not he'll have a job at the end of the year.... all while it's about 86 degrees in the house. I'll drive there, do your ironing, feed the cats and sit on the beach for a week. Deal?
Just call me Cranky in VA. :)
i don't iron so for stuff i don't send out like tshirts and polos i bought a steamer..tres easy and fast! xoxo the other genevieve!(ginny)
ReplyDeleteGet a steamer! Not the hand-held variety but the kind you see used in stores. It will last a good dozen years with daily use (we are now on our second so I know) and will cut out the ironing bill. It's kind of fun to use and OCD\perfectionist-worthy!
ReplyDeleteBut...do you ever get bored? I stay home too (no kids) and while I don't love ironing, it does give me something to do. And it makes me feel like I'm contributing just a bit more to the running of our household...
ReplyDeleteThat kitty cat is too precious!
ReplyDeleteJob? Job? What's a job?
ReplyDeleteI happen to like ironing but it appeals to my need to make order out of chaos. Too bad we dont live closer...we could trade chores lol!
"job? shudder'
ReplyDeleteAhhh yes. Oh but you'd be sooo good at what the universe sorely needs, you're a natural, I speak of these exotic links you routinely provide us, you have serious contacts for global merchandise none of us would ever have dug up on our own.
I'd order my Paypal account to fork over whatever Summersaverb wanted to find Pippa's denim jacket for me. I love, adore and covet that jacket, you know the one I mean. I want it NOW. But who made it, when was is made, is it still available, WHERE is it available, is there a backup source as well, is the blue we see a 5 year old much-laundered blue or did it come out of the box that color, and so forth. See, THIS you can do, and you'd never have to get out of your shorts, and you'd surely never have to iron them [where do you FIND all those adorable shorts?].
Ok, I'm willing to empty my wallet for the jacket, so here's the pic [got to have the same cropped jacket, GOT to have the same 3/4 sleeves]. Oh? you say for a slight surcharge you'd source identical knockoffs and decent substitutions as well? Ah...
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/JvVmShiUUGD/Pippa+Middleton+in+Chelsea/fn-fbhu7Fop
Flo
Did everyone miss the tongue-in-cheek part of the bon vivant?
ReplyDeleteBTW, having a job does not absolve you of ironing.....jus' sayin'
K, Pippa's cropped jean jacket is by a French brand called Sandro. Net-a-Porter carries some Sandro but, not the jean jacket. Yet. If you go to their website you can sign up to hear when they launch their online shop and open doors in SoHo and Bloomies:)
ReplyDeleteAnd, to Cranky in VA; touché. I am very fortunate and sometimes it's nice to be objectively reminded of that. But, please don't take these posts too seriously. Tongue in cheek is a second language 'round here...XXOO
ps...the shorts are mostly Lilly P, one pair RL and one pair vintage CKB.
Wow, did some of your readers take cranky pills today? To chime in, I do a little ironing (sheets, etc) anything important (hubby's shirts, etc) goes to the dry cleaners for laundering and light starch.
ReplyDeleteHey, what's a job? Does taking good care of house, pets, hubs and self count?
You're still my idol, I don't care what anyone says!!! I start my day with reading your blog and miss it when you're on vacay...
ReplyDeleteI bow.
ReplyDelete-Flo
Ali, you are the classiest person I've ever non met. Seriously what a lovely response to CVA. I personally take my lunch breaks with you every day during the week. Granted, I do have a fabulous view of the water from my office, but still. I was just talking about the top hat wearing squirrel yesterday as if you told me that story yourself. Keep on keeping on wrinkled or pressed I'd love you either way! xoxo
ReplyDeletelove you, your blog, and most importantly your humor. keep being you and we'll all be back for more!
ReplyDeleteJeepers. I know life isn't wonderful for everyone but we mustn't begrudge others. My sister doesn't have to work - but it wasn't always easy (to say the least). I live vicariously through you, Ali! I look forward to your updates every day.
ReplyDeleteIt's me! Janine! Take care :>
I'm sorry some snarky people feel the need to tear others down while refusing to take resonsibility for their words. I love your style, your cheerfulness, and your class! Please, keep up the good work!!!
ReplyDelete--KBK
Lady, I'm not being cranky, but I hope you know how truly lucky you are. What I wouldn't give to have to not get up at 6:30 every morning an go to my "job". But on the up side, it does afford me to buy some of the fabulous things you post.
ReplyDeleteLove the kitty pictures, as always. Have you told them about the move yet? :-) Who woulda thought a fun pile of shorts would elicit such strong opinions? If people disagree with the way you do something, then why read and also take time to comment? Just move on...
ReplyDeleteI for one love reading you everyday. And as long as you have the iron out, mind if I send you a few blouses that need touching up?
Several points I'd like to make after reading these comments.
ReplyDeleteYes, this blog, like many others, is written "tongue in cheek". However, many families are struggling financially now & the "preppy lifestyle" is out of reach for a lot of women. There isn't anything wrong in deriving vicarious pleasure from reading about how the other half lives. There also isn't anything wrong with occasionally daydreaming about what it would be like to trade places with ladies who seem to have time and money to do what they please. That doesn't necessarily make someone snarky or cranky, right?
And finally, just because someone posts "anonymously" doesn't mean they don't "take responsibility" for what they write. "Anonymously" doesn't mean anything much different from posting under the name "Mary" or "Lovin'MyNewBMW".
I love your blog and would be so sad if a job left you with no time to write and post -- keeping up a blog of this quality doesn't just happen with the blink of an eye, after all! Keep it up! And post more pics of those adorable kitties!
ReplyDeleteAllie, I've been reading your blog since (almost) the beginning and I hope you will take no offense to my comments, which are truly not meant to be critical, but possibly helpful. Obviously you are receiving some backlash. It seems to me that when you started your blog, the posts were much more OBVIOUSLY tongue in cheek than they are now- the wink was blatant and I think you've gotten away from that b/c you assume your readers know it is there. I think that aspect of the blog is also easier to understand when you highlight some of your other interests, such as the thoughtful present you gave Babe for his birthday.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the world has changed greatly since 2009 and it may be harder for some to see the humor in a life portrayed as all about shopping. Again, not who you are, but it is your blog's tongue in cheek persona and if you don't make that obvious I think you will continue seeing some comments about it.
Finally, something that I find interesting in the preppy world is the split that seems to be happening between the original bloggers, often pink and green loving southern sorority girls, and a new batch of Yankee sensibility touting stalwarts. And so I think their philosophy may be creating some debate in the "preppy blog" world and you may be seeing the fallout from some of that. I applaud you for posting said comments, because I find debate the most interesting aspect of the blog world.
Oh, my - a spreadsheet resulting in ironing must be a dire -gate indeed. My condolences. (I fear, based on some of the cranky commenters above, that I need to add a "tongue firmly planted in cheek" proviso here. Sigh.)
ReplyDeleteAlso, those felines are too gorgeous.
Maybe it would be a good idea if you limited the anonymous comments.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is such fun and you shouldn't have to explain everything you do. Keep in it the tongue-in-cheek mode in the good Cully tradition.
This is a blog and you are entitled to write whatever you see fit. I find the criticism mean spirited and I am sorry that anonymous (I always feel that 'anonymous' is always taking the easy way out!) Is having such a rough time. We all read your blog daily to find out what you are doing and what you are thinking about buying. Although we have never met I lived in washington have three siamese cats and a mercedes wagon, drink from Simon Pearce and have a lot of the same things that you like also. Please keep entertaining us you have many fans and thanks for what you do. Kim H B is chicago.
ReplyDeleteA, love your big pile of ironing! My DH won't allow me to iron his clothes - he says I "don't know how - and it always looks like I didn't even try". Silly boy...doesn't even realize I have him fooled, as I am always ironed when I leave the house! :-)
ReplyDeleteLOVE your blog - you were one of the first preppy bloggers to embrace me when I started blogging. Keep up the good work, and your fabulous sense of humor. XOXO
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