Coffee Break: Geometric Circle Pendant Necklace

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1. I thought the shoe post was the afternoon thread so I posted this there first. I’m wondering if anyone can comment on Jimmy Choo flats. Comfort? Do they run true to size? I’m looking at Jaida (more of a loafer) and Romy.

2. I really like the strappy Louise et Cie flats in the earlier post. How would you wear them?

   1. So cute! Love the octagon and rectangle. I’d wear them with a dress or cropped pants.

      1. I just ordered them to wear with cropped pants. IF they fit (fingers crossed!) I’d also wear the navy suede with navy tights and skirts/dresses in the winter, because I love that look.

3. I’m looking to take my first solo trip this summer and cannot decide where to go for one week. My reasons for going solo are split between wanting to push myself beyond my comfort zone and try a new type of experience and frustration from past trips with friends where I felt like I got railroaded into doing what they wanted to do. I’m fairly well traveled domestically but not internationally, so that’s another motivation for this. Any suggestions and solo travel tips very much appreciated!

   1. I’m going to Santa Fe solo in August! Friends just didn’t work out this time. My thought process was I wanted something different, some place where I’d feel safe, reasonably easy to navigate, and a nice hotel so when I get tired of going out alone I can enjoy chilling. Copenhagen was my runner up.

   2. Vienna! Very friendly and safe for women travelling alone; I’ve done two trips there in the past seven months.

      1. (It’s night time here so I’m switching off but I’m on Insta at LilyMWrites if you want more Vienna info)

   3. Pick a European city where you can walk and take public transportation and do whatever strikes you: museums, walks, historical and cultural sites, etc. I did that all through my late twenties and thirties. It’s going to be expensive if you’re only just coordinating now for the summer, and probably crowded… but I don’t know what would not be crowded in the summer in the northern hemisphere.

   4. Travel and Leisure regularly publishes lists of the best places for solo women travelers.

   5. I’m going on a two week trip with a few days in Reykjavik, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Paris. Very excited!

   6. I’ve had a fabulous time by myself in London. There’s so much to do during the day and it’s not at all weird to go to the theater alone at night. Sometimes it’s much easier to get single theater tickets, too.

      1. I also had a fabulous time by myself in London. It’s a great international destination when you’re not too experienced with international travel.

         There was plenty to do by myself, including theater in the evening. My solo trip to London is one of my favorite memories. It was almost 20 years ago, but I’m pretty sure I toured Parliament, had tea, shopped in boutiques, went to the We Will Rock You musical, had afternoon tea somewhere, and spent a day at the British Museum.

         I also went to Bath for a day or two on that trip and loved it. Besides the Roman baths, I went to the Fashion Museum, which I figured I’d never be able to convince a future romantic partner or even most friends to go to.

   7. A handful of international options: London, Scotland, Ireland, Amsterdam, Paris.
      These cities all have lots of things to do, walkable, and easy to navigate public transportation.
      Since it is almost June, better get a move on and make arrangements.

   8. Paris Paris Paris Paris and then some more Paris with a side of Paris

      Also, Paris

      1. As suggestion apart of the destinations I would add to book a private room in a hostel. You will have your privacy but you also could meet plenty of people in the same situation to hang around, taking dinner or a drink there if you want at some point. They use to organize also little city sightsening where you can meet people.

         (Spain, flight to Madrid and stay visiting the city a couple of days another couple for day visits to Toledo an Segovia and another couple to take the speed train to Cordoba or Granada for example)

4. I was a 99th percentile for height girl. I was taller than some of my teachers. I cannot remember wearing anything but women’s size shoes. Then I got my period at 11 and stopped growing. Everyone caught up. I am all legs with the upper body of and 11 year old (still!) so I shop for jackets in the petites section.

   I still think of myself as tall. My tribe.

   I think this happens with girls a lot. And now as a parent of girls, 99% of my convos with strangers at the park are about how tall/ old my very tall kids are (one of whom is almost my height).

   #Tall-in-spirit

   1. Ha, this made me laugh. I was the opposite basically. I was never short but was not much above average, especially in middle school when many other girls got their growth spurts. But I kept growing, albeit fairly gradually. I grew in high school, college and even beyond (which is so rare, especially for women) and am now 6’0 (I was “only” 5’9” at high school graduation). I got my period at 16 so definitely a late bloomer in many ways.

      1. OMG that is legit tall.

         OP here and I am . . . 5-4 (which no one believes when I tell them — it’s like I have magical powers of projecting my anti-napoleon complex onto others). In grade school pictures, I was always the middle of the back row for class pictures and I always look for my kids in that slot (and they are there! the one who has a summer birthday and is the baby of her class is slightly off-center sometimes, which is amazing b/c so many red-shirted kids are about 18 months older than she is; her fall birthday sister is full-on center of the back row).

         1. I get this all the time too! I’m 5’2″ and no one believes me. I tell them my personality is taller.

      2. I was the kid who rode in the wheelbarrow in the 6th grade relay races because I was the smallest. I’m 5’11” now. Haha

   2. This made me laugh too. I was always the tallest one in my class in all of elementary school. I got my period the summer before 6th grade. I went back to school and everyone had caught up to my height. By the next year, I had stopped growing and everyone passed me. I stayed stuck at 5 ‘1 LOL.

   3. This is so good. Be glad you and your children are tall– I am the opposite–long body, short legs, big tuchus and boobies. This made me kind of attractive to the boys in college, but only for their curiousity and desire to see me take my clotheing off for them. I learned NOT to do that b/c they were not interested in any kind of lasting relationship. You need to teach your daughter to avoid men looking for short term thrills– it is not worth it. She will be much better off to find a guy interested in her for her mind, not her body and long legs. Men looking for physical things are NOT what she wants. FOOEY!

5. Has anyone sold their house to Zillow? We picked out a great new place to move to but despite a general great regional market our current home is in a specialized neighborhood of pricey homes within a gated CC/golf community that has slow sales due to fierce HOA fees and is plagued by retirees who haven’t maintained or updated anything ever, leading to slow sales in general- and some ratty looking properties next door on either side. we’re considering taking a potential 20k + loss just for peace of mind, vs hoping for a quick sale while we carry 2 homes .A friend had good experience with Open Door but they won’t touch our neighborhood (see gated and slow sales). Zillow experiences anyone? They are a new player in the instant home sale market…

   1. I’m currently getting quotes from Zillow and Opendoor and trying to decide whether to go with them or do a traditional sale so I’d love to hear opinions on this. Our house is pretty new construction, at the low end of a sellers market, and completely standard in all ways, so it’s exactly the kind of house they want, but also a house that should sell pretty easily on its own. The Zillow/Opendoor thing is appealing, but I’m still a bit wary…

   2. Is your 20k loss after considering Realtor fees or before? On a $400,000 house, $24k is going to Realtors anyway, right? I’ve never heard of these services before but that was my first thought.

6. What are your favorite magazines that you find make you smarter in smaller, subtler ways like for small talk?

   1. I’m not sure that it makes me smarter, but I do like the New Yorker for small talk. I like it because the articles are well written, deep dives into random stuff that’s culturally relevant. I find myself connecting conversations to articles from there all the time, whether silly or not. My only problem is that it’s a high maintenance subscription–every issue has several dense stories, and they come weekly.

      1. I also cannot keep up with it and am letting it lapse.

         1. Word. The New Yorker was such a source of anxiety to me when I received it because it was so much, coming so fast. It got to the point where when it would arrive, I would just immediately put it in the recycling bin, rather than have it sitting around making me feel like reading it was the item on my “to do” list that I never got around to.

            1. I know my life is bad when I can’t even get around to the cartoons.

      2. A subscription to the New Yorker is a subscription to perpetual guilt.

         1. I feel like this is part of The New Yorker experience! Subscribing with ambition! Putting it in your purse to read on the subway! Never reading it! Reading one article and remembering it’s actually enjoyable! Watching unread issues stack up on your coffee table!

   2. Not magazines but books. Reading a lot really helps with vocabulary

   3. New York Review of Books

   4. I do read other magagzines, but Marie Claire is the easiest to learn a lot of things without taking that much time to read. I recommend the NY Times Sunday Magazine, but that takes along time to get through.

   5. A day late and a dollar short, but we used to get the WSJ (5+ years ago, it was different) and I LOVED the weekend edition.

7. How long should I allow for a Catholic in-church funeral service, with burial after and then a reception?

   I am flying in, so need to allow for drive to airport, rental car return, and getting through security to plan a return flight. My non-Catholic family has graveside services that are maybe 15 minutes tops, so I have no idea what to expect. I get in too late for the wake the day before (not sure how that affects timing of the day of the funeral at all).

   Airport is BWI if it matters.

   I don’t want to bug the family.

   1. At least 5 hours. You could spend less time, but the service could be an hour, burial itself super short but travel time, and I assume if you’re flying in you’ll want to spend time at the reception.

   2. All day, basically. There’s a rosary and a mass. That may take 2 hours. Then there’s getting to the cemetery which takes a while. And you don’t want to skimp out on the reception. So depending on what time all of this starts, at a minimum the last flight out, or one more night in a hotel.

   3. If there’s a wake the night before, then that’s probably when the rosary will happen.Anticipate a Mass, driving to the cemetery (this can take a long time–one funeral I went to in the country had the Mass at one church and the burial nearly an hour away at the family cemetery). The actual graveside service is usually less than 30 minutes, but between everyone getting there, parking, gathering, the service, and then getting out of the cemetery it adds up. Then you have to drive to wherever the reception is and plan for an hour or two to eat and talk to people.

      If the funeral is in the morning (10 or 11 am), I would anticipate not leaving the reception until 3 or 4 to be safe. If it’s in the afternoon, plan on a late evening flight or even fly out the next day.

8. There are pro life protestors who protest by my workplace (we don’t know why since surgical abortion isn’t available in my city and we aren’t at a hospital or clinic or anything). The City and Police have refused to take any action to stop the signs with the giant pictures of dead/fake dead babies. A group of pro-women people have decided to get a portable desk and hand out stuff where they protest (like stickers, tote bags) etc. Any one have any ideas of stuff we could order to hand out?

   We like the idea of countering the negativity with positive and affirmative stuff.

   1. Hershey kisses because people might need a pick me up.

   2. The Atlantic – their in-depth stories are timely and the subjects (or the articles themselves) seem to come up in conversation a lot

      Harper’s – very underappreciated; sometimes the random tidbits are the best parts of the magazine

   3. Why would you expect the police or government to restrict the nature of their signage?
      I like pro-women messaged stickers best. They’re cheap, so you can hand out a lot, and both men and women can affirmatively slap them on to show solidarity with the counterprotesters and take their message with them into the rest of the city.

      1. Because there are restrictions in our city on what you can display on public sidewalks. Dead babies are up there. The images are illegal.

         Sure you can have your random protest, but is fair to make everyone look at dismembered babies?

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