OOTD: Botanical Limp

Good evening, ladies! Well, if you're reading this, you obviously didn't get taken up by the Rapture today. So, I thought I'd celebrate being left behind by wearing my beloved Botanical Stroll Dress...except I was not exactly strolling today. I've got 4 stainless steel screws in my ankle (tibia, not fibula) and for the last 3 weeks, they have really been giving me trouble. Pain. Well...today, I woke up and was barely able to walk. I've been limping all day and in extraordinary pain like I was after surgery. I have a sneaking suspicion that one of the screws has started to come loose and it kills with every step. There was so way I could stand at work today, so I sadly had to stay home and nurse it. It's the weekend and the doctor I talked to advised me there was nothing I could do until Monday, short of going to the ER. Not doing THAT.

So, I'm looking at the prospect of going under the knife again, this time to get un-screwed. I had a horseback riding accident in 2007 during which I broke my ankle. I'm hoping that once the hardware is dealt with, I can get back to life, but we'll see what the surgeon says first.

Anyway, I still had to attend a rehearsal (got to sit!) and it was actually sunny today for a while!

Dress: Anthropologie Botanical Stroll Dress, Cardigan: Banana Republic

Ankle Ouchies!

Hey, Paddington! Your picture is on this dress!

This dress is really sweet. It's too light to wear during a cooler season but it's perfect for a warm spring day. I think it's the only Floreat Dress I own and it fits like a glove! I love it!!! And the cardi goes with it perfectly...totally a coincidence.

A Botanical Stroll at WaterFire!

Good evening readers! Okay...let me begin with the fact that I was so excited to wear the Botanical Stroll Dress to my gig tonight. Every year, Opera Providence invites 30 or so opera singers to sing at WaterFire in Providence, RI. All of the singers spread out in groups of two and sing opera arias to canned accompaniment, lit by one or two torchbearers (people holding a lit torch). This is my 3rd year doing it since being involved in Opera Providence's production of Treemonisha a few years ago. Of course, I was wearing Anthro! I got a Botanical Stroll Dress for a steal ($66 due to slight damage to the left strap).

Anthro: Botanical Stroll Dress ($89.99 on sale)
Anthro: Necklace ($9.99 on sale!)
JCrew: Scarf

I HATE looking at photos of me while I'm singing, I find them quite unflattering, but this is the only photo of the dress and this photo was snapped seconds before an ember from one of the torches flew into my hair!!!!! This happened RIGHT at the beginning of the aria ("Ach, ich Fuhl's - Mozart).

The other torchbearer saw it, and snuffed it out by patting my head and saying; "Oh my God, I'm sorry..."

WHAT?!?! How was I supposed to know that ALL MY HAIR didn't just burn off!? I smelled the familiar smell of hair burning and I was horrified. WHAT IF ALL MY HAIR HAD JUST BURNED OFF?!?!?

So, I'm singing this beautiful Mozart aria, whilst thinking: "Will I need to get extensions? Will I need to cut it all off to make a cute short style until it all grows out? Are all these people looking at me and feeling bad because I'm now bald?!?!"

5 minutes of Mozart and horrified thoughts. TORTURE.

Quite luckily, nothing had really happened to my hair except a slight singe. I don't think I've ever been so relieved in my life...or so afraid of a torch. But at least I looked cute. I received many compliments on the Botanical Stroll Dress and rocked it out at the concert this year! I wonder which Anthro dress I'll work next year!?