70; What? I still have a blog?

Top: Salvation Army • Pants: Forever21 • Shoes: Steve Madden (TJ Maxx) • Shades: Gypsy Warrior • Belt: Etsy • Earrings: SOULMATES (coming soon) • Necklaces: DIY • Bracelet: India import shop

SO MANY APOLOGIES FOR BEING MIA! Winter sucks something fierce, and between working and trudging through the snow/sleet/ice to get everywhere, I've been left exhausted and with little time to spare. So much hate. Is it spring yet? I don't even need summer -- spring will do just fine.

I did get a day off with Kathryn a week ago, and this is what I wore on our long due trip into Boston. We chilled in Chinatown, ate Indian food, I bought tons of Japanese candy (oh my gosh I never thought I'd find soda Puccho candy! I was being threatened with $10 shipping for ONE pack of that stuff online; ridiculous) and remembered all of the horrible things I would do to live in Boston. I'd list those things, but I'd probably get arrested for simply uttering them in text form.

Though it reminded me that my birthday is coming up (February 12th!), and is on a Sunday, which is one of the two days a week that the Boston's Hare Krishna Temple meets and hosts a free dinner. UH, HELLO, IT'S FATE.

So this outfit is quite possibly what you would call a 'steal' in itself. The shirt (which you will recognise if you saw my YouTube video) was under seven dollars, the pants were about the same price, and the shoes...THE SHOES. These Steve Madden shoes were originally $250, right? Fifty bucks. Fifty. Bucks. I am serious guys, lurk your local Ross, Marshalls, or TJ Maxx (if you're a US resident) constantly. These shoes showed up within the past two months at my local TJM, and went on clearance almost immediately. I am loving that store.

Kathryn calls this my "George Harrison shirt". I can't imagine why. ♥

The status of SOULMATES: pending. I suck, I know. I'm sorry.

Next outfit will be awesome. Believe me. Just wait.

Anyone else love Cibo Matto?

...Okay, these random strings of consciousness will stop now.

20; A feature, my dilemma with wet look pants, and Water for Elephants.

Yesterday, we had no internet...which made Kathryn's and my decision to head out for the day and hit the mall and see a movie much more fitting. Thus, I didn't see until today that Watermoolen on Chictopia had left me a comment informing me that I was featured in an article of hers, "5 Best Short Hair Styles for Short Haired Girls." Apparently, I am sporting the 'shag' hairstyle group. Now I know what to call this weird thing on my head, aside from 'Arthur.' (No one's going to get that movie referrence...and that's okay.) Still, what an honour! I like this whole net-recognition thing.

As I was saying about the mall thing... I purchased some pretty nifty things from Forever 21 yesterday that I plan on wearing as soon as possible. I'd been wanting some black wet look pants but knew I couldn't run the risk of buying some online without trying them on first, so it must have been fate that brought me to the pair I discovered on the clearance rack yesterday. They were originally $22, went on sale for $10.99, and were missing a button, so the price had been lowered even still to $6.99! (Imagine my face when I noticed on the price tag later that a replacement button was still in tact. Score!) Also bought a necklace and some rings on sale.

Unforunately...I have no idea what's fashionable to wear with wet look pants. Checking out Lookbook, it seems you can wear just about anything, so long as you can pull it off well, but for some reason, I'm still feeling disheartened by my options. Other people make these things look awesome:

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...And yet, I'm still not feeling too confident. Even Madeline can rock these with a t-shirt or a tunic. I kind of want to wear mine with a comfy sweater, but all I have is this one and an off-the-shoulder type, but they're both white, which I worry looks too striking. I have a tunic top that's a muted mossy green, though... And my Insight Chakra tank, but I hemmed up the straps so it's a little shorter now. This is my other worry: I don't want to wear anything above the butt in case it looks too skin-tight, or I have panty lines going on. And yet, I'm short, so wearing long tops makes me look even shorter... Gah, suggestions?

By the way, the film we saw was Water For Elephants. Pattinson was forgettable, Witherspoon was okay, and Christoph Waltz, the only reason we both decided to see the film, was amazing, as expected. Perhaps too amazing, considering I despised his antagonistic character as soon as the animal abuse started up (oh yeah, if that's a sensitive subject for you, I'd skip this film; I cried twice), and he managed to make me feel super uncomfortable at points. Only he can make someone hate a character so much. I was pretty torn between loving the actor and hating his character. I recommend it, especially if you're unfamilliar with the Austrian actor's work (considering he only became popular two years ago in Inglourious Basterds) but also because it is a pretty good story. /offtopic