onward and upward

The holiday season is finally over (can I get a collective exhale), and we can now all get back to our normal lives after blowing any New Year's resolutions in the first week and a half of the year that we may have set for ourselves (which is precisely why I don’t participate in this charade any longer). You guy get any good gifts for the holidays? I sure did: these bad boys, the most comfortable, cozy, I-guess-I'll-change-out-of-these-to-go-to-the-grocery-store-oh-who-am-I-kidding fleece pants, courtesy the 'rents...

Like buttah, I tell you.

I'm fairly certain my mom bought these in hopes that I'd get rid of the fiesta pants... sorry to disappoint, but it's not happening. As fate (and a total lack of gift-giving creativity) would have it, each of the four of us in my immediate family now has a pair of these most fabulous lounge pants, and it seems like whenever one of us is on the phone with another, one of the parties in the conversation is wearing these pants at the time. They've even inspired a new verb in my family, ‘to Sherpa’: to laze about the house with complete disregard for the comfort level of others, but in an unparalleled level of personal comfort thanks to the best garment on the face of the planet. (correct usage: “Yeah, I thought about leaving the house to run a few errands, but I was content to just Sherpa on the couch for most of the day.”)

The pants, in an uncharacteristically vertical position.

So where are we going in 2012? There's a whole laundry list of trends that need to be put out to pasture (this is a good start), a few that are already in the midst of a revival, and some snappy investment items I've got my eye on like this totally gorgeous Alexander Wang bag I'm craving. Yum. Also, things to look forward to almost immediately: Jason Wu for Target launches on February 5 (The Frisky has preview photos) and if the retailer's last designer collaboration fiasco is any indication, things WILL get out of hand. As my lot in life is to miss all the good stuff, I will be out of town on the launch date, so I'll unfortunately not be around for the hair-pulling and teeth-grinding over this one. Someone brave the crowds and report back; it'll be a doozie for sure.

To the new year!

-dau