Trenchcoats to Tiaras: fantabulous

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ugly vs. comfy

I'm writing this Thursday, after a fun (and terrifying) hiking experience. I'm about to go watch fireworks...and I'm going to wear ugly, white espradilles because they're really comfortable. Yeah... In the meantime, I'm going to share some things I've enjoyed this week.

My friend made these amazingly delicious overly-cookied chocolate confections as thanks for getting to stay with me while she visits. It's been great! :D

The Periodic Table of Elements being used for its proper purpose: sneaking in swearwords. This translates to: "(F) fluorine (U) uranium (C) carbon (K) potassium (Bi) bismuth (Tc) technetium (He) helium (S) sulfur (Ge) germanium (Tm) thulium (O) oxygen (Ne) neon (Y) yttrium."

What have you loved this week?

sometimes I keysmash

I'll get to things I've loved from this past week in a moment, but first I must ask - do you ever have moments where you remember something that's happened to you previously and you realize how much you've changed since that occasion? I'm not sure why, but my brain's been bringing up so many old (and even recent) memories that have just been making me think about how different I am from my childhood, my mid-teens, a year ago, even just a few months ago, and it's kind of surreal and strange to realize that even though you don't necessarily realize it, every day that you wake up, you're a different person. It's so weird, but it's kind of cool, honestly.

Mini-ramble over, now, onto things that make sense outside of my brain...well, okay the first is sort of linked to the ramble a little bit!

Admittedly, the first two lines are the most important. My mind likes to wander, and when I'm loneliest, it likes to wander to my (so far only) relationship and all the things that could have made it actually last. Being a hopeless romantic is both a good and bad thing - good, because you trust and hope that something amazing will come around, and absolutely awful because you hope so much that each person you fall for will be It and The Only. At least I know that I need failed or wrong relationships to actually understand what I want - granted, I only understood that completely when I realized yesterday that if my first meeting with my ex had occurred today, I wouldn't have dated her even without knowing her as well as I do now, and yet I wouldn't have recognized a whole host of traits that are actually kind of toxic to be around. I wonder what the boy I'm currently interested in might teach me...and I know I'll just have to live the adventure to find out.

This video is from 1926, and I do recommend clicking through to vimeo to see the story behind it. It's such a lovely video, and the music is quite nice!

Sharmadean Reid sounds like a pretty interesting person from this Refinery29 story, and she's definitely got a cool house!

People spend a lot of time obsessing over models, celebrities, designers' labels...well, I won't say we should start obsessing over designers (obsessing over anything is kinda unhealthy, yes, I'll even concede that my shoe obsession is kinda unhealthy...) I do, however, think people should, with some designers at least, spend a bit more time listening to them on not-wholly-fashion subjects. This interview with Miuccia Prada is absolutely fascinating. My favorite part of it is this: "The investigation of ugliness is, to me, more interesting than the bourgeois idea of beauty. And why? Because ugly is human. It touches the bad and the dirty side of people."

This is basically what I have to do a lot of in order to convince myself to do most things...

What are your favorite things from the past week?

my knees keep finding tables

Just take that title at face value, folks. Considering that I managed to whack my knee on the table about five times immediately before I began to write this, it's basically the only thing I can think about...

This has been an exhausting week, but definitely an interesting one. For anyone who doesn't know, I began my first job this week (and by first, I mean first "regular AND paid", because there's been irregular babysitting and regular running of sites for free). I'm working with the custodial staff at my university, and it's been an absolute education already, both on people (it's illustrated some of the things my Accounting teacher talked about, actually, like how rules should be carefully considered because of their unintended consequences) and on actual cleaning. Also, it's really made my desire to smack all the idiots that dismiss custodian types of people as "morons" who "don't know anything" rather more fervid, but y'know... I work with some incredibly intelligent and interesting people, and anyone that thinks poor English grammar or doing a physically demanding job somehow makes a person less intelligent should seriously reconsider their lives.

...soapbox over, though, this post is actually to talk about things I've loved from this past week (besides Taco Thursday, our second-to-last lunch of Training Week). Despite exhaustion, I've managed to be online enough to discover quite a few things I absolutely love, so!

Obviously, I love shoes. These kind of hit everything I love - the larger heel, the rounded toe, ANKLE STRAPS, they remind me of the saddle shoes I was cruelly denied as a small child. (Okay, it wasn't cruel, but it's so upsetting to be told you can't have something you love just because your mom hated wearing them as a kid...) Basically, I want these a lot. (Sidenote, I will someday actually buy myself saddle shoes and take great pleasure in wearing them around my mother. Someday I will also sound less crazy because I won't still be upset at not getting a pair of shoes I wanted like eleven years ago... Sadly, today is not someday...)

Considering that most humans struggle with trying to be liked by other people, I think this is a good reminder for everyone. I know I was linked to the article I found this quote in by a blogger I follow, though I've forgotten who, unfortunately. (Ivana of Macarons and Pearls, maybe? I've noticed that she tends to be responsible for a lot of things I wind up pinning...)

I debated on leaving this to you guys to figure out, but I'll be honest, probably 50% of the reason I love this picture as much as I do is that I have a bit of a celebrity crush on Miley Cyrus... The other 50% would be that dress. But yeah. It looks like Elle made an interesting shoot.

This=the way I would like to look when I wear pigtails, rather than slightly insane young adult.

...I have very strong emotions about chickens. I don't honestly know why. They're one of the most ridiculous things I could possibly be obsessed with...and yet, here I sit, age nineteen, looking at this picture and thinking "I could totally take over the world if I had an army of giant mutant chickens on jet-powered skateboards." I don't know what I'd do once I'd conquered the world, I just want the giant mutant chickens. ...yeah, moving on.

I'll be honest, I don't care that much about Duchess Kate. She seems like a cool person, but I'm just not that interested in seeing every single outfit she's ever worn since she and William were married or started dating or her maternity style. I think the obsession with her is beyond ridiculous (but then again, I'm obsessed with chickens, so am I really allowed to talk?) Probably the main times I get excited to see things pertaining to Kate are things like this - designers designing hypothetical outfits for her. (I was more interested in the concept art some designers made despite not being hired for her wedding dress than I was interested in the dress, so...) Karl Lagerfeld's is probably my favorite, because of that dramatic neckline.

Four words: I want this dress.

Another fun fact about me for the day: I've always wanted to wear ridiculously heavy, ornate earrings. My childhood aspiration, before I decided I couldn't be interested in fashion because of stupid stuff, was to have massive hoop earrings down to my shoulders. Alas, my ears don't like to be pierced, so I'm stuck with clip-ons. These. Are clip-ons. Too expensive, and yet, I keep looking at them and wanting them.

What were your favorite things this week? Any interesting obsessions that beat chickens?

I Guess I'm a Sophomore

Well...the year's over, I know some of my grades, almost everyone I live with has moved out and gone home, and the rest will follow shortly, and... Yeah. I'm in a rather melancholic sort of mood, and I might have spent significant portions of the past two days crying at how long it's going to be before I see my friends again. (I also have a somewhat irrational fear that there'll be a repeat of what happened at the end of last semester, which I am desperately hoping will be proven as irrational, since, you know, I'd like to not melt down after each time I hug a friend goodbye. At least I have a ticket to go to one of the museums that requires a ticket, and there's a festival in University Circle today, so I'll have a bit of a distraction. And I'm going to either Target or the mall area at some point this weekend to get some storage containers. At this point, I think getting off the floor as much as possible is going to be the only way I stay a functional human being. There's far too much temptation to just sit on the couch and cry or just stare at the wall, which is even worse than playing Skyrim for eight hours on end because I don't even want to do it. Bluh.

I'll quit rambling now - not that I'm much in the mood for it - and show you things that have made this week sort of better.

I don't think you can understand my reaction to these shoes. It was over-the-top dramatic. I gasped really loudly and started fanning myself. It was actually probably hilarious, but no one witnessed it.

Earring magnets = perfect way for me to deal with my intense lust for earrings.

So...after finals, my planned reward was a pair of sandals. And then these shorts happened. $75 is now the most I've ever spent on a piece of clothing. And I actually don't regret it. Kate Spade Saturday is kind of my new favorite thing. And also may eventually kill me because it's all so expensive but I want it all so much. (Also, the package came with this adorable bright yellow card that said "Make Every Day a Saturday", or something like that, which my roomie happily relieved me of, because she LOVES yellow). Good purchase? Hell yes. Just don't be like me and order it and realize three days later that you also have to feed yourself until your first paycheck. Thank goodness I have parents who find it funny when I do stupid shit... I'm adjusting to this adult thing, I guess.

I'm the custodian of my friends' xbox, tv, and computer over the summer (along with a dozen other things), and it's all going to be in a single room. I'm going to have to become a boss at organization. Step one is cords, because god only knows how awful a room is when it's already small and then has cords everywhere. I'd imagine it would be worst when coming home from work and not wanting to deal with shit... So cord control is step one.

Can someone just turn me into Emma Watson or something? Please?

This is such a cute idea, and I'm motivated to try it primarily by the idea of being able to make my own cards and stuff for people's birthdays and still have them be sorta unique and interesting and distinct from one another. (Also monetarily motivated...) I already tend to make my own cards (or I did, until I stumbled upon the five things of stationary I had leftover from middle school and decided to put all those dolphins to use...) and so having some sort of vague idea of what I want to do with them is always a boon.

Hello English language, how ya doin'? Stuff like this is why I giggle when someone says that learning Arabic must be so hard for me. I speak English, which doesn't follow any of its rules in the slightest. While I don't know if the numbers on this are true, I don't doubt that it's a close ratio, because please, English.

What are your favorites for the week?

time for a break! YAY!

Okay, it's not really that much of a break - I'm still going to be updating here, I have a job interview, and I'm shadowing a couple different people, but I won't be attending classes or frantically keeping up with homework for one week, at least. Plus, I'll have the time to leave campus, which is always fun, and one of these days, my suitemate, my roomie, and I are going to go shopping! I'm particularly excited for that, actually. I rarely go shopping with other people, and the suitemate we're going shopping with is a pretty stylish gal - I couldn't wear the same things she does, I don't think I have the courage for some of it, but she looks so cool in it - and my roommate's just awesome and fun in general. It'll be a busy break, but it looks like a fun week's ahead!

This week was not so fun - frantically writing a post of some sort and running between classes and studying for a midterm while editing papers and panicking all the while. It was the sort of not-fun chaos that makes you dislike having lots of things to do, rather than the fun "everything is so COOL" kind of chaos that convinces me to do more things. Still, there were some cool things this week, namely on my Pinterest.

I saw Annie Hall in late February, and while it's a somewhat confusing story, and kind of sad and upsetting in lots of places, ultimately, I loved it. No love story (or even a "like" story) is necessarily linear and things can just fall apart without any warning or any real understanding between the people in them as to why they fell apart, and yeah, you do find yourself thinking about it constantly afterwards. It's definitely something I'd recommend seeing.

source (is probably somewhere in these pages)

This is a full Harry Potter chapter written under the stairs. It's won my heart completely.

Alas, expensive shoes seem to be everywhere I look, taunting me with how pretty they are. These are one of the cutest pairs I've seen recently. Look at that little tassel, and the slight, pretty wedge, and the way the bands come together... I just really want these, and yet, I cannot have them, nor would I be able to wear for a while them if I could, because it's still so cold here. :c

Things I want in my life, Exhibit A. I think I might do this as a project sometime soon. Maybe with slits on the side? And then I'll have them as my Medieval Combat clothes, and feel appropriately cool when I'm beating people with foam swords. Ah yes... Now I just have to actually make it to another practice. I'm getting good at juggling my activities - I think I ought to be able to get it together by at least next semester.

I loooooove these doormats. They're cute and such a nice pop of color. I know the link is to where the product used to be sold, but the pin suggested spray-painting a doormat to get the same bright effect, and I'm totally in favor of doing that. Also something I might do, and then keep it in my room so I have a spot for my boots, jacket, and umbrella to recover from voyages into the rain/snow that we get so frequently.

What have been some of your favorite things this week? Do you think next week's going to be good?

ps: that discount code for Kohl's I mentioned a while ago is still good for one more day! Use the code TENFORBLOG before March 9th for 10% off! (pps: Go follow me on my new Facebook page!)

it's Friday!!!!!

This has been a very interesting week, and a lot of things I didn't anticipate kind of just...happened, or popped up randomly. We've been spending a lot of time deciding our living situations for next semester, and my roommate agreed to share a room next year, and I think we've almost got our entire suite together. Just gotta figure out one more dude so we get to keep our suite as a co-ed one... Overall, though, this has been a good week. There've been plenty of things to keep me occupied, most of them fun. Next week currently looks calmer, but after the way everything snowballed (heh, our dance is called Snowball... sorry, excuse me) this past week, I'm not going to really trust it to stay that way. I have something Tuesday and something Wednesday and that's it, to the best of my knowledge. I could use a calm week, I think.

My favorite things for the week are below. (And not a one of them is the blasted game my floormates have been playing non-stop for the past four days I'm so tired of listening to the noises from it).

if you have a source, lemme know please!

I love the way these dreads look on her, and the way her face is angled. Overall, it's a really cool picture, though no one really seems to know where it's from.

thank you to tumblr's creativity!

Who else who's seen my pictures from senior year thinks I totally could have used this back then? Yeah, I do too. It looks extremely useful. Not that anything could help when I didn't straighten my bangs, but still.

Just...don't mind me. I'm going to sit here and drool over this gorgeous piece of clothing.

Also, remember the post at the beginning of this week? Well, since the shirt was from Kohl's, I received an e-mail about it. I didn't think that linking would be particularly relevant, since the shirt is like six years old, but hey, apparently that's a good thing to do with all your clothes. The more you know. As a refresher, this is the outfit:

Now, why would this be a favorite? Simple: there's a discount code in it for you guys! From now (apparently it started on January 11th) until March 9th, if you use the code TENFORBLOG on Kohl's website, you get 10% off. It can also be used to stack savings with another department level code, which is pretty sweet, since it always sucks when you have multiple discounts somewhere but can't use them together. Pretty sure that's a good enough reason to be a favorite, don't you?

and so the week ends

This is incredibly late, but today was definitely one of those days. I thought I had everything put together, ready...and then it all poured into insanity. I hope I did alright on my test today, and that everyone I didn't manage to speak to enjoyed my club's event this evening, given that I forgot what I was doing halfway through the exam and the sound system was messed up like crazy during the event.

Some of my favorites of the week:

This is the most gorgeous coat I've seen recently. I love the length and torso area most, and the sleeves are pretty nice.

Puns are my eternal weakness. I'm sorry, but literally, they just are.

If my hair would get just a little bit longer I might be able to do this, and that would be really nice.

My Accounting teacher has told me to watch Project Runway quite a few times, so last night...I did. It's not really my thing - I'm not a very competitive person, and I dislike it when people snipe at and argue with each other - but I did actually like Michelle quite a bit. She was definitely interesting.

How was your week?

oh what a fantabulous day!

Okay, today actually was a bit of a meh day, but regardless, the depths of Pinterest, dinner with my friends, and just chilling in my common room have made up for the suckier parts, like forgetting about an Arabic test and freezing because I only wore one pair of pants today, so I think it was just the morning that could have been better.

This week was mostly spent attending rush events for Alpha Kappa Psi, poking my resumé, and sleeping, with a healthy dose of dinner with friends and freaking out over shoes. It was also spent resisting the temptation to straighten my hair when I didn't know how to manage it. I love how it looks straight, but I've chosen the form of damage I'm willing to inflict on my hair, and it's hair dye. Besides, I should actually learn to love my hair. Getting rid of the flat iron as a crutch to making it look good is just the first step of that - eventually I'll try to like my natural hair color.

Overall, this wasn't the best week I've ever had, but it's far from the worst, or even one of the worse ones. I met lots of lovely people and had fun, and that's the important part of it. I hope you guys had great weeks, and that you'll enjoy these somewhat belated favorites of my week.

Science is cool, guys. Really cool.

I don't think I've ever paid enough attention to models to really know any but the famous ones till I saw Grace Bol a while back (roughly a year or so after I started being interested in fashion). She's absolutely gorgeous, and definitely cool.

Pretty much everything here is true. The only one I sort of have an issue with is #11, but I can go with it as valid only because being kind and compassionate is even better than 'nice'. I think #18 is the one I need to work on most. It's so easy to be overwhelmed and feel outclassed by everything I want to do and everyone that's already done it.

All I can say about this is that it's gorgeous and I absolutely love the texture of it, not to mention the shiny sprinkled into it.

I hope y'all have a lovely weekend.

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