Birthday School

Decidedly dislike in-school birthdays. I suppose you get more serenades than you would otherwise of "happy birthdays" and more people in general who bother to wish you a happy birthday in the halls, but overall I would say my winter break birthday norm tops this. As much as I enjoy a plethora of birthday wishes, I would much rather prefer to be strapped onto my love, my skis. The Monday right after break just doesn't really cut it. Traditionally this is where I am for my birthday, celebrating with steaks upon a mountain top, cooked outside on a grill covered with snow. Perfection.

Work it out, PF

Paul Frank- A decidedly juvenile brand but maybe we can make it work for a 17 year old? I say we give it a try. Some birthday gifts lend themselves to inquiry, but some can be the perfect inspiration one is looking for as winter keeps on dragging on...something I would never ever buy for myself but when wrapped pretty and handed to me, I may be forced to consider twice. This specifically, would be a 7th grade relic, and definitely a blast from the past. Since Paul Frank and I have this history, from back in the day... I have a certain fondness toward it. The only problem is getting others to realize its potential for greatness... or maybe just a cozy-cute look? Maybe...

If Chictopia can do it...

Maybe I can try it out too?

After all, "Anything is school appropriate when it is worn correctly"

Let's have some fun, this beat is sick...

For half the day I had been cleaning out my closet and putting things together, analyzing Teen Vogue and deciding which new trends I would like to try. I decided the clog thing was growing on me. I like the little floral ones a lot. I also tried to see if I could make this pair of knit color block tights with horizontal stripes work, but after a lot of playing around it wasn't really working out. They just look and feel a little too much like I'm going to a sleepover on a kid's television show.

All dressed up and no where to go? What a pickle of a situation for Paula and I last night. The whole goal of the day was to be "badass" but all we ended up with at the end of the day was a bottle of gold nail polish and grillz on our fingernails. Oh, and no further plans. By 8:30 we decided to just grab some Wendy's and watch a classic- Mean Girls. It was grool (I was going to say cool but I started saying great...).

Birthday Muses

My birthday is coming up, and my mom keeps nagging on me to give her my birthday list. Usually this shouldn't be too difficult, since there are always items that one would want, right? However this year this was not the case for me. For 3 weeks the only items I had on my list were an electric blanket and a new swim bag (since mine is literally falling apart, and disintegrating all over my stuff). Exciting, right? Why does it seem that the only things on my list are things that I need.... Well, today I really cracked down and tried to crank one out since my birthday is less than 2 weeks away.

This is what I came up with:

Harem pants: I know they are controversial in the fashion world, but I love them.

The Moleskin journal: classic.

H2O lotion smells so good and hydrates so well! Plus they come in summery scents, which is a plus since this winter just keeps on dragging on. I need that summery reminder.

Sugar Grapefruit perfume is yummy :)

This is the bag I chose for my new swim bag. It is the LeSportSac

travel tote and I'm hoping it is roomy enough for everything!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've just been sooo busy!

Today we had a snow day, which is an incredibly rare occurrence here even though it's Michigan. I live in a town with no bus system, so they expect us to go out and shovel our driveways at 6 AM and show up. Except today, where it snowed 10 inches over night and by a stroke of sheer luck, we ended up with a snow day. I rolled out of bed around 9:30 and went down to the kitchen and looked out the window to find a lady cross-country skiing down the sidewalk! I wanted to join her until I realized it would be a bad idea considering my skis are downhill ones and it would be incredibly difficult to cross-country ski in them and I would most likely just end up falling.

I wish this was me.....