The Best Color for a Suit or Jacket
Here’s a tip borrowed from the guys: If you are going to buy a blazer this fall, or a sweater or a vest, your best color option is — drumroll please — your haircolor. Picture it. Your hair and your jacket working together to form a frame to flatter your face, making it the focal point of your outfit.
(Since I am not likely to find a silver suit, I have bought two brown tweed suits - one with trousers, one with a skirt -to wear this fall.)
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Moving Away From, Moving Toward
In the Dressing Room with Brenda (Kinsel). Don’t I wish!
After seeing what books I was going to need for my fall classes the other day, I headed to the used book store. There, I picked up this little book for some light summer reading. :) If you click on the picture of the cover, you may find an offer from Amazon for you to get the book for even less than I paid for it.
Under the header “The ‘Me Glorious Me’ Notebook”, Brenda describes several of what I would term idiom identification exercises, including “Moving Away From, Moving Toward”. Because for me wardrobe development is such a process, this particular exercise described alot of what was going on in my head anyway. So I decided to write it down. Some of these trends in my wardrobe are several seasons old, others are fresh thoughts.
Moving Away From Moving Toward
turtlenecks scarves
vertical & horizontal lines diagonals & tight curves
heather gray pewter
v-necks scoop necks
sweaters vests
green purple
matte shiny
cool colors, esp. black warm colors, esp. peach
Here’s the beginning of my list. This is a great time of year for this kind of thinking. What are you moving away from and moving toward?
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What Causes Cracked Teeth?
What causes the cracking of molars?
For years, I thought the answer was simple: popcorn. Now that I’m on my third cracked molar and my third crown, I finally have a little better answer: clenching. Simply put, clenching or grinding teeth weakens them and makes them prone to cracking. And up to 80% of people clench, many at night when they are not even aware of it!
I am studiously avoiding blame casting. The fact is I have been able to afford to get the dental treatment I need and I have a wonderful dentist. For that, I am grateful! But I want to share this in the event it could be helpful to someone else.
The math of the matter is this: a $300 night guard may have prevented all of my cracked teeth. If it had prevented even one it would have more than paid for itself, even factoring in insurance. You see, insurance will pay half of the cost of a crown; so for each of my three crowns, my “co-pay” has been approximately $600. Double the cost of the prevention.
As soon as I get this crown paid for, I’m getting a night guard.
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