oscar night

So in lieu of showcasing something fashionable that I'm wearing (oh wait. that's because I'm not wearing anything fashionable... cough cough sweatpants...) I'm going to do what is probably wayyyy overdone by now and put up pictures of my favorite gowns from last night's award show! a.k.a the Academy Awards, if you happen to live in a hole :)

This is so gorgeous and Victorian feeling! Not to mention it's Florence Welch, and I absolutely love her music. And her hair. She's all together pretty awesome :)

She's 14. 14!? Why can't I be on the red carpet in Marchesa at the age of 14?? Regardless, this is gorgeous and floaty and age-appropriate, I love it.

Love Mila Kunis. Lately she's done these pretty, floaty dresses in such interesting patterns and textures! Like for the SAGs it was that kind of off-beat red pattern, and now with the lavender-ish lace, quite cool. As you can see I'm going for the more spring-oriented dresses. Guess I'm kind of over fall and everything that goes with it (a.k.a the pants that won't fit over my cast)

And one out-of-theme dress I had to throw in. I. Love. Amy Adams. The dark blue (or maybe purple?) goes amazingly with her hair color, and is just so sparkly! And I love the pops of green in the necklace and bracelet, absolutely amazing.

So there are my favorites for you all, now about a bit about my day. It was rainy. Oh the perils of being handicapped in the rain! On my way back from philosophy the downpour had yet to begin (thankfully) but the wheels of my scooter were wet from puddles from last night's storm that had yet to dry. And to get back from my dorm, I have to roll down this hugggee hill, normally filled with lots of pedestrians. Sounds scary even under normal circumstances, right? Now imagine that when the wheels of my scooter are wet, the brakes get kind of sketchy... terrifying I know! And then, after Russian, the deluge had officially started. Thankfully I was heading to lunch with the boys, who knew all about how I need to cover my foot in a trash bag (classy right?) when it's raining so that my cast doesn't get wet. So they pulled it out of my backpack and quick shoved it over my leg and we booked it to the dining hall, getting soaked in the process. After returning to the dorm, I proceeded to not leave my room for the rest of the evening. If I don't have to wrap up my foot, it's not happening. Remind me to document all of these things, so that I can do a post on my life as "scooter girl" for you all, ok?

I don't even know what I'm going to do for the rest of the night. I have absolutely no homework. Pretty awesome right? Well, have a good evening  :)

lovely new discoveries

So this post is a little shout-out dedicated to my friend Shannon and the blog she just started, "Lipstick Makes the Girl"! She is amaaazzing at makeup (and has a great sense of style if I do say so myself) not to mention a very good sense of humor - a.k.a her new blog is lots of fun. She took a stage makeup class at Marquette last semester and showed off all her fun looks as profile pictures as she went along. Now, since she's started her blog, she's posting these looks as well as new things she's trying out along the way. I know I'm biased but I have to say it's quite good! Here are some of her more amusing looks from last semester:

Oh the owl, most definitely my favorite... so cute!

 I miss Shannon! Oh the fun we had at Vis (my high school, if you didn't know), the coffee runs and dinner dates. We actually had quite a few of those over break, leading me to believe that if we had gone to college together we would make each other broke. Our penchant for fine dining will be our downfall :)

So there you go! Check out her blog, its called Lipstick Makes the Girl, and it's definitely worth the read!

As for an update on my lovely condition, I have good news! Last night, I experimented a bit with clothing and my cast, with two results. First, the bad news: although my boyfriend jeans are loose, they are not loose enough to fit over my cast. Bummer. But the amazing, fantastic, all-around-great (can you tell I'm excited?) discovery: if you remember those sweater tights I wore a while ago (just around when I broke my foot), you remember I was sad to have ruined them with a hole in the left calf, so large they were basically unwearable. Solution: cut off the calf of those tights, which are so stretchy that I can now fit them over my cast and tuck them in, making them look like real tights - a.k.a when the forecast stops showing rain (which ends up with me wrapping my foot up in a plastic bag), I will sooo be wearing a skirt and tights!! Looks like I may be able to break out of my nightmare-ish sweatpants rotation before the weather warms up :)

Sooo, two amazing discoveries! A new blog to read, and a solution to what is surely the most difficult of fashion debacles I have ever faced :) Good day I'd say.

I'm back ... in sweatpants

Well readers (if there are any of you left), it's been about a month since I last posted. As you know from the last post, I broke my foot - or rather fractured it in several places. As far as mobility goes, about the same thing. What you don't know is that at my next doctor's appointment, they told me that I needed surgery, and that I should probably go home to Minnesota for said surgery since it would be about 3 weeks of painful, seriously-drugged recovery. And my dean told me that if I was gone for the full 3 weeks, I should just withdraw for the semester and come back in the fall fresh and healed. I was freaking out. Like really freaking out. I ended up going home, but I didn't need surgery, which was amazing! Apparently my foot is just on the brink of needing surgery and not, with about 2 or 3 millimeters between the fractures, so they should just knit themselves back together. He said that surgery could make things a little bit better possibly, but either way I will most likely have long-term foot problems and having a surgery is obviously very traumatic to the body. So we decided against it. And I'm back at school!

In sweatpants.

Oh readers, you don't know how painful it is! Or perhaps you too have broken your foot and have had to endure the pain of such loose, informal pants. Every. Day. If you've read my blog before, you may have picked up on the fact that my style is generally tight pants or short skirts with larger, flowy tops. I have since actually had to go out to buy more form-fitting tops to go with my larger, fleece-y bottoms. 

Wearing sweatpants all the time reminded me of the Alexander Wang Spring 2010 RTW show - I'm sure you all remember it, the Americana, football-esque show was quite a hit. 

If only me wearing sweatpants could look like this! Alas, the tight, cropped style of sweatpants doesn't exactly fit over the boot that is my cast, and I can't really wear the cute, more feminine-looking heels that sweatpants have more recently been paired with for a more dressed-up look.

Me in sweatpants is more like this:

Yay for oversized school-logo pants! But I'm working with it, trying to find new combinations in my wardrobe to mix things up and go with my new pants-of-choice (or necessity, I suppose). And hopefully after spring break it will be warm again and I can wear skirts! It was a balmy 70 degrees here in D.C this past Friday and it felt amazing to have bare legs again. Not to mention much more stylish. 

I'm also contemplating cutting up a pair of tights so that I can slide them over my cast then tuck them in. Thoughts? Any other suggestions, for those of you that have faced the same problem?

Hopefully I will begin posting again, I've missed this. It's just hard to be excited about what I'm wearing when I'm I can't wear anything I want (for example, my jeggings. I miss them. Soooo much.)

So wish me luck! Who knows how these next few months will go...

alexander wang images style.com / sweatpants georgetown bookstore

apologies and bad news

So firstly, I'm sorry I haven't posted for so long! But with the bad news comes my explanation: yesterday, when sledding with a few friends, I jammed my ankle on a brick of a storm drain. It hurt like crazy so I had to be carried back to my dorm, where I called the student-run ambulance service (free thankfully), to take me to the hospital. After many hours and x-rays and cat scans later, the doctors told me that I fractured my heel bone in several places and may need surgery. I have to go back in for an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon in a few days, but for now they put me in a huge boot-cast-thing, and gave me some crutches and a prescription for vicodin. Soooo, I am out of commission on the whole showcasing outfit thing for a while. I have some photos from the day of, before the fateful sledding outing, but other than that I am without outfits! And since the only thing I own that can fit over my boot are soffe shorts (and the new pair of really large sweatpants I am hopefully going to send someone out on an errand to the bookstore to buy for me), there will nothing cute coming from me for awhile!

But the good news is, per advice from my roommate, I want to use this time without outfits of my own to explore different types of posts on this blog! Perhaps I will do designer profiles, or critiques of store collections, try my hand at polyvore collages, or do posts on my stylish friends (at Georgetown and from home). I think it will be an interesting way to play around with the blog for a while. Who knows?

But for now here is my picture-less apology/explanation post, hope you are having a great weekend!

why is this week so long

Once again, I can't come up with good post titles, so now I'm just going to vent my feelings. And currently, I'm feeling depressed that tomorrow is only Wednesday - so long until the weekend! My life is so pathetic that I was procrastinating putting up this post because I was sitting in bed watching tv and my camera was on my desk (about 5 feet away mind you) and I didn't want to get out of my warm bed to get my camera.... Luckily I have the best roommate ever, she brought my camera (and upload cord!) to me. So, to sum this up, I'm still lying in bed. Will have to get up at some point to brush my teeth and take out my contacts so that I can go to sleep, but we're taking things one step at a time here :)

vintage necklaces

zara tshirt

bdg cardigan

gap jeans

target boots

I was really excited to break out these boots this morning - because of all the precipitation and salt on the ground at Georgetown, my suede boots had been relegated to the back of the closet. But today I decided it was safe to bring them out! And not a moment too soon it seems - apparently it's supposed to snow 4-6 inches tomorrow... enough to shut down classes? One can only hope...

Yes, these photos are taken in the room, but surprisingly this doesn't mean they are self-timer photos! I didn't really feel like leaving the room (again, my life is sad), so I had Jackie take a few. Sadly, while most of them are almost cute, I am blinking in the majority. Such is my life.

Tuesday is another one of my three-class days, and it actually wasn't too bad until Econ at 2:40. By the time I get there, I'm midway through my mid-afternoon slump, and the room is so big and dimly lit, with comfortable chairs.... you get where this is going. Of course, I'm now having issues doing my homework that's due for tomorrow, so perhaps I should have been paying more attention?

Fun news - I'm trying to find more things to get involved with this semester, and I discovered that Georgetown puts on a spring fashion show! I would love to be a part of planning it, and applications are going out soon, so wish me luck! Oh, and other exciting news is that I got an interview for volunteering at D.C Fashion Week. I know, I know, clearly not as major as the other fashion week on the East Coast, but still suchhh a great way for me to get involved with fashion in my city! 

Now, I think I'm going to bed. Bed before midnight 3 days in a row? Yes, this may actually be happening. I'm pretty surprised too. Good night.

oh mondays

Mondays are suchhhh difficult days, wouldn't you agree? Having to go back to getting up at a regular time after the sleep-until-whenever weekends never seems to sit well with me. When I got back from singing at mass last night at 10:30, Jackie was already asleep. So, since I couldn't get my Internet to work and technically had finished all my homework for today, I went to bed too. And when I got up at 8:15 to get ready for philosophy, I was still tired. 9 hours of sleep. How much better can you get than that? Silly sleep patterns, trying to mess up my life

 vintage necklace

target sweater

 target skirt

hue tights

jcrew flats

I've decided that this skirt is my catholic-schoolgirl replacement skirt. It's pleated and flippy and I like it. Makes me feel like I'm back in my uniform, but in the best sense possible, you know?

I feel like I write too much in these posts (like waaaayy more than the average reader wants to know about my life) so I've decided to cut back a bit. Things that were exciting/good about this day

1) done with class at 12. Granted I had 3 classes already by that point, but still pretty awesome

2) went grocery shopping (well, kind of. it was at the student convenience store thing-ey ^^) and got cookie dough and ramen. yum.

And a not-so-good thing:

1) had a housing information session for next year, where I discovered that the likelihood of me getting an apartment next year is quite slim. Which means that, considering I currently live in the quite-large handicapped room, I will most likely end up in a smaller room my sophmore year than freshman year. ugh.

That is my day! I've finished my homework, so now I plan to eat some cookie dough and watch some trashy tv. Have a good monday night :)

the last two days, part 2

First of all, I'm very disappointed (and I''m sure my mother will be too, when she see this) - I don't know how I got a hole in these so quickly! They're adorable sweater-ish tights that my mom got for me for Christmas, and I had only worn them two or three times when yesterday I looked down only to find a large hole staring back at me! Depressing is what that is.

target necklace

nordstrom (frenchi?) dress

sweater tights

aldo boots

Actually, just about everything I was wearing is a gift! The necklace is from one of my friends for my birthday I believe, and the dress was a Christmas present from my lovely friend Shannon! She is just absolutely so fashionable, and always knows what to pick out for me (she also got me an adorable ruffled scarf ^^). She'll be happy to know that I got lots of complements on the dress all day, although I also got lots of "What are you so dressed up for?" I hate that question! What am I dressed up for? Life! I like to dress up, and shouldn't have to wait for a special occasion to do so. So there. That's my rant of the day.

Yesterday was my first rehearsal for the chapel choir! As much as I enjoyed the experience of the gospel choir, and I do really think it was a good experience that really forced me out of my comfort zone, it really isn't my thing. So I thought - why not try something else? And although the chapel choir is Catholic (something I'm not), their style of music is more up my alley while still challenging my soprano and helping to keep it in shape, something I didn't get while singing gospel. And - they do back rubs as a warm-up!! For those of you dear readers that don't know about my high school choir, we basically did that every week during warm-ups, as well as just randomly dispersed throughout rehearsal. And with my friends at school. Basically I carried a lot of stress in my shoulders and back rubs were kind a fact of my life :) And now I have them! Yay! So, I will have to go to more Catholic services (I've already done it for 7 years...) but I think it will be good for me.

That's about the only interesting thing about my day yesterday. I had a lot of classes - 4 to be exact, which was a bit exhausting, but its ok because today I'm done at 1! Sacrifices are needed sometimes. And as sad as it is to be in class from 10-4 basically on Thursdays and have an 8:15 recitation on Fridays (though they don't take attendance at that one... hehehe) I am done by 1 on Mondays and Fridays! Which really is quite lovely

Ok, that is part 2 of my description of the last two days. Have a fun, exciting Friday night! Cheers :)