It’s officially brrrr-it’s-so-cold-I-can-feel-it-inside outside, at least where I am. When I got dressed this morning, I piled on tights, leggings, thick socks and legwarmers before heading out the door – and that was just for my legs. Really, I just wanted to dive back under the covers and hibernate. For the next three months.

I don’t know about you, but when the temperature drops, I’d like people to think that I’m all about layering and looking cute, but in reality I want nothing more than to lounge about the house in my pajamas, feeling cozy and warm.

So if you have a day off, or it’s the weekend, I say take advantage of the time not spent finding enough clothes to layer on to keep you warm in the great outdoors and lounge around in your warm jammies. Toss on your warm slippers, throw on the matching pajama set “Santa” brought you for Christmas, and just enjoy the fact you are not outside. Whether you spend the day catching up on class reading, or catching up on those TV shows everyone’s always talking about, do so in comfort. Because come Monday when you need to spend 30 minutes layering up just to face the cold, you’ll be thankful for those two glorious days you spent in warm, cozy comfort.

And if you don’t have enough lounge wear (I said “lounge,” meaning you shall not leave the house in any of this, no matter how tempting it may be!), you’ve got a whole weekend ahead of you to kick back in your bed and shop for some new favorites. Here are 15 of my new favorites to give you a head start. Read More »

So that time of year is creeping up on us. The time when we must throw some clothes into duffel, fill the rest of the bag with dirty laundry, kiss our roommate and our bottle of vodka goodbye, and head home for fall break.

Yes, there are many up-sides to this little trip: we get a break from all the homework, we get to eat something other then cafeteria mystery meat for a change, and we get to curl up with Scruffy on the couch for a couple of days.

But with the comfort of being home comes a few downers as well. And I’m not talking about being woken up at 9am on a Saturday or having to empty the dishwasher. It’s those little comments from mom and dad that really get under your skin. And no matter how hard you try to be nice, you just can’t help but snap, say something mean and beeline to the car/airport (clean clothes and leftovers in hand, obvi) as soon as humanly possible.

Here are a few of the worst offenders:

“Honey, your pants look a little tight”
Yes mom, I realize that drinking 5 days out of the week and eating delivery pizza has done a number on my waistline. Am I happy about it? No. Do I know it is there? Yes. Is it helping that you pinch the muffin top and poke the underarm flab? Absolutely not!

“Have you found a nice boy yet?”
If by “nice” you mean “a tall pre-med student who considers hanging out in the library fun,” then no, dad, I have not found your ideal son-in-law quite yet. But I have hooked up with a couple of the guys on the football team who can barely form coherent sentences but have 8-pack stomachs you can bounce a quarter off of, if that counts for anything. Read More »