Ho-Ho-Ho

Green and red paired together always reminded me of Xmas....i hated the idea of green and red together at any time other than Xmas hols. I wouldn't allow my green and red Legos touch one another...it seemed weird hahaha yes, i was always particular...

But, alas, green dress + red hair = non-Xmas related outfit. Since my hair is dyed and i love the color green....well, my brain will have to chill.

Arm party. Fajer just gave me the first bracelet on the left.



Found my dollar ring from high school that i had folded! I used to be able to do cool things like this...

Today i learned not to trust washing machines. Mine fell on my nose today...

Brushing up on mon francais pour [next] ans. Yays! I remember a little big. I had been counting in French at work off and on.

Whitening my toofers and heading to bed before i hurt myself again.....ok, ok, i am a klutz. Conflabbit. Buuuuuuut tomorrow is FRIDAY and Jordan [my Sissy] is coming home!!

Current Obsessions

I finally "The Help" and "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" from the video place....so far I've watched about 2 1/2 hours of the latter. Love it, although not a fan of the changes....her age, for one. Yes, a seemingly minute detail, but she is 25, not 23! If it were indeed such a miniscule thing, then it needn't have been mentioned at all in the abrupt manner....goodness....I just think it takes away from her competency. Not that a 23 is not capable of taking care of themselves, but the fact that she can is stressed throughout the book.

Ok, ok, chill, Jill.

*spoiler alert* this interview tells much about the film....including the fact that the ending is different. meh.

Current obsessions:

• these pictures from "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
• Rooney Mara
• Tavi Gevinson
• ...especially this video of her
• Ben Heine
• and denim shirts...found below

Lovely found a niiiiiiiiice chambrey shirt at AE :)

top: Bershka; tank: Target; jeans: Gap; shoes: Madden Girl; purse: Nine West; necklace: AE

Hands dirty? No big deal....just thrust 'em out like you just don't care.

Break out the heels. No, they're not the "best" [such a relative term] shoe for one's feet, but neither are flats. Flats are just as bad.....so might as well give those smelly things a break and feel tall! .....being only 5'4" that's a rarity for me unless I'm with elementary age people. Middle schoolers seem to be bypassing me in height.....

You want a hat like mine, I'm sure. Warning: it may flatten your hair and needs cleaned of debris at least once every 5 years.

Legging

Legging

Sequin Embellished Beaded Collar

Sequin Embellished Beaded Collar

Even now...

Happened to see this year's graduating class's commencement program and noticed there is not a student speaker for the welcome and farewell, a position awarded to #3 in the class [yes, i was bummed about only being #3 last year, but told myself i was #3 after all....not the best, but had to make the best of it].

Hmm....wondering if it is coincidental. *rub chin in a menacing, yet thoughtful way*  I seemed to have caused quite a stir last year by my actions: speaking the truth in a blatant, yet tactful way, and taking off my robe to symbolize that we were no longer high school students. Naturally, it was unexpected and received mixed reviews. My friend Drew, valedictorian of our class, gave me a hug afterwards. Somebody had to speak up. It felt right. I was shaking, yet stood by my speech. My mother proved her love [not that she really needs to validate it since she's proven it over a thousand-fold] by standing up to a woman who, a year after that surprising speech, openly criticized me and said i was "a rebel."

Thinking back to that night, i still feel proud of myself. I was afraid, sure, but i did it. I look back at my former self with a bit of pride. Not arrogance, mind you, but i do smile at my 18 year old self....not fearless, but still strong.

Oh, and they kept my little alteration to the program of changing "opening" and "closing" to "welcome" and "farewell," although they would never admit that it was my doing. As the saying goes: haters gonna hate.

Goodness.....i've been an alumna for a year now. Holy cow, i feel old.

Have you heard this song?? It's one of my new faves!



I love Randall from YouTube hahaha. Although.....this creeps me out a little because I watched The Grey with Liam Neeson and there are wolves....I'll leave you with this! Must get some shuteye since i'll be waking up bright and early to start my summer job....

Summer Bliss[ters]

Silly me.....head wasn't in the right place and relaxed in the sun with Theo the Kindle and burnt my back. Like an id.

Other than that, things have been fairly quiet at home....i've been on the d-low, cleaning my room, continuing to put things away, cooking, listening to my Fajer grumble [my current activity aside from typing], and catching up on some reading [currently at 97% in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo].

Almost finished with this:

Can't wait to see this:

Yes, i'm one of those people who believe in reading the book before the seeing the movie....i'm sticking with my opinion that the Lord of the Rings trilogy was perhaps the best book trilogies brought to the big screen. Can't wait for The Hobbit!!

Hmm....haven't really been dressing all that cute. The past two days i've thrown on my oversize checkered button-up from AE. I love their men's Vintage Fit button-ups....too bad xs is hard to find :/  Lovely has that trouble as well....smalls are super comfy and big and fit like a dress on me. Lovely is simply slender and muscular, albeit a smaller frame.

Oh that boy....look at me gushing! :)

Must wash my car.....and continue to bum it for the day. It's gorgey out. Maybe i'll go out in shorts and  my oversize shirt. My back doesn't like constricting tops. Wear your sunscreen and don't be negligent like i was! Not blistering, but it's red. eeeek.

Shopped out with my Ditto

Lovely and i are still avid Pokémon players [no judgment, please] and are on the way to filling our Pokédexes! I spent the better part of the carride to Altoona catching Ditto in FireRed....i caught 7 of them and not one had a jolly nature -_-  who knew there were so many different natural inclinations of personalities for Pokémon?? I guess i never really paid much attention to that....

Lovely looks so serious....perhaps the photobooth used up all his silliness. Photobooths are so much fun! They had them at school for special occasions and we used them multiple times...

Rockin' my new Gap jeans...I'm so Gap, Inc. with Gap sandals, Gap jeans, and Old Navy tank. Thrown off slightly by Pikachu necklace. I am a rebel after all [laughing at my lame little joke].

Time for some brekkie.....leftover Mexican from our date last night! Lovely and i were absolutely stuffed and had to get the rest to go. Need to finish cleaning my room as well...a project that's yet to be accomplished oops. Why must i be productive today? meh.

I just want to snuggle with the cool kids on my bed....ladybug, bunny, cow, Yoda, hippo, cat, and a Wookie. Perhaps i have a few too many stuffed animals on my bed. nbd.

Lemme buy you a drink

Not sure why the lyrics of that song popped into my head...

Wanted to write up a lovel-E Mother's Day post on Sunday but i found myself spending time with lovel-E mothers and Lovely so did not make it online...Mummy wouldn't take up the offer of me cooking for her [i'm really not sure why since i can't actually cook!] so we went out for Chinese since she loves it so much.

I visited with my Grammie for a while and caught up with her and Pap Pap. Not a very seemingly over-exciting day, i know, but when you spend it with loved ones, that's how that really matters.

top: vintage; belt: Candie's; skirt: Maz Azria; earrings: NYC street vendor; purse: thrifted; sneakers: Steve Madden

Bared a little skin today....nothing wrong with that. This top is part of a matching skirt/top set that was my Nana's. How schweet is that?

Here's a close-up of the shirt Lovely made for me. I love me some Pokémon, especially Dragonite! The whole evolution line is awesome....Dratini and Dragonair are so graceful and then Dragonite comes out, majestic and strong as butt as dragons usually are. Look at me, how poetic about Pokémon...

tank: AE; skirt: Nollie; belt: vintage

Yesterday we went shopping....simple yet more dressed up than shorts and a tee. The general notion of shopping is correct: if you feel good, you'll have a good time. Paired this with Louis [my Louis Vuitton purse] and gold Mossimo gladiator sandals from two years ago. Simple pimple.

Despite the rain, it was a pretty great day. We sold some clothes to Plato's Closet then did a little shopping at the mall. Ladies, you know he's a keeper when he brings the car to you at the mall door and opens your door with an umbrella so you don't get soaked from the rain.

I may have to chop my leg off. Dang bug bites. It's only May and i'm already bug food! Off to bed now....red streaks from scratching too dang hard. . . .

Ketchup.

phew....so first year of college under my belt now and 2 1/2 years to go :D (hopefully). Next year shall be an overload year with 6 classes, or 18 credits, then it's off to London for fall semester of my junior year!

Monday i went to work and worked a few extra hours....

Tuesday was a pants day....had very few things left in my closet at that point. Worked and packed and studied macro as though my life depended upon it and finished my ethics paper. Oh, and Jess left after her final :/  .....what a creepy night alone in my near-empty room. It seriously echoed.

I'm happy to be home, i must say....after my macro final [which only took me half hour to take! woot woot!] i jumped in my car and headed to Sonic for a jr burger [everything but mayo or pickle, ick] and their new cookie dough blast and went to Nana's for the night! It was nice just catching my breath and catching up with her...i played the Sims3 for hours as my "reward" of sorts. Then headed back to that small town in which i grew up....

I had "real" food when i came home! ....after i visited Lovely at work, of course. He came over later and we watched In Time with Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried and called it a night....

Friday night we started watching Abduction with Taylor Lautner and then went on our first summer date! Call me cheesy, but i love going out...Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp and Chloë Moretz = awesome. Johnny Depp is clearly an incredible actor. Chloë is a great up-and-coming actress and made me laugh with her crass in this film :)

Tonight was promenade....goodness, has it really been a year??
You know it's prom season when you're the whitest kid around....my vampire tan is so hardcore.

This shot of Lovely creepin' on my Mummy is priceless.

I love to grill....if this international business thing doesn't work out, i'm available for grilling and painting nails. And dyeing hair. My Mummy dyed my hair again. Dang auburn...fades too easily -_- there's a big difference between how it looked before and afterwards.

Lovely loves my piggy nose. Not the most flattering pic, but look at that BA shirt! Lovely made me a v-neck with a silhouette of Dragonite on it! How flippin' schweet is that? I plan on playing Pokémon with him this summer. Don't judge meh, s'il vous plâit.

Out for a stroll after dinner....needed to return our movies and rent some new ones and stopped for nom noms at McDonald's: milkshake for Lovely and smoothie for me.

Things I've missed whilst being away:

....showering without flip-flops. I absolutely hate flip-flops.
....my Mummy's cooking aka "real" food.
....sleeping in a bed that does not squeak/does not have mystery stains.
....driving
....Meadows frozen custard
....my room, despite it still holding a few boxes i have yet to unpack.
....having my full wardrobe at my disposal.
....Ted.
....falling asleep, knowing there is a slim chance of a late-night fire drill.
....getting ready in bathroom that is not shared by 20+ girls.
....grilling!
....my Fajer and Mum. They crack me up and make my day. Sure, they drive me nuts from time to time as parents tend to do, but i love 'em to death.

Things i have not missed:

....strange congregating teenagers at the theatre. Pretty sure my Mum would have beat me [figuratively] if i acted like that.
....rude people.
....having to get up really early [will be soon....]


P.S. I'm a rebel, haven't you heard? Hahaha

P.P.S. Pretty sure i wouldn't know how to be a rebel if i tried. Except for my hair...i do what i want. Rebellious teen, that's me.