Rant

Dear popular media,
Thanks for telling me everything I need to know about all of the important things in life. Thank you Seventeen, for propagating a Healthy body image at under 100 pounds and showing me how to make my body super sexy so guys will like me. Also, those "dressing for your body shape" tips? They totally make me feel better about myself! I like how I should conform to one specific body type and shape in order to look attractive. Thank you Cosmo, for teaching teenagers sex tips that could put them in the hospital, and women that pleasing the man in their life is the most important thing. It's also super cool how you urge us to have hot, exciting sex but then make women feel bad about having too many partners. Thank you Twilight for showing me how to be completely dependent on a guy for both my happiness and my psychological well-being. You also gave me a lot of neat ways to help me deal with my emotions! Not expressing them, shutting down, never talking to people, and engaging in dangerous behaviors are all things I'm going to try the next time I'm upset.
Sincerely, well-informed. (right?)

Stellar

School has started and it makes me awfully sad. :( It seems like there's no time for anything productive anymore! Please enjoy some pictures I had floating around on my desktop.









I don't remember where I found them, sorry! The first one is my favorite, because it's so floaty and ethereal. The other two are just pretty and I kind of wish I had a reason to wear them somewhere.
I haven't posted in ages, but I'm hoping to start again.

You Part the Waters

Here are the not-terribly-blurry pictures from the stellar clothes at the museum I visited in Wisconsin. I can't promise that the quality is perfect, as it was very dimly lit except right on the displays behind the glass panels, but here it is!

This last little picture was actually taken at the "general store" at the museum but I liked it an awful lot.

I realize this post isn't that interesting unless you like looking at blurry pics of old clothes. But I thought I'd share anyways. :) Anyways, Meghan and I had tea a while back while wearing ridiculous clothes. I didn't get a picture then, but I'll recreate it because it was pretty nice.

More sometime later!

Pretty Much Everything Is Awesome

Wisconsin is awesome. Canada is awesome. Life is awesome. Most imp
ortantly, I'M awesome (as if you needed told).

Let me force you to look at some pictures of why I love Wisconsin. I even love it more than Canada, although I wasn't in Canada for long, so I can't really judge.

Firstly, there are the cheese houses. I love cheese, and Wisconsin undoubtedly has the best cheeses in the U.S. I went to one other cheese house, but I couldn't find the picture.

We also went to the local museum that my uncle, in whose house my parents and I were staying, volunteers. I thought it would be something like my town's museum, which is nice and interesting and your average local museum... And I was so wrong. There were dozens of buildings, all well-put together, well-displayed, and had incredible pieces with in-depth descriptions. It was amazing! I took pictures of everything, especially the old clothes. Maybe I'll make a post of some more of it sometime? But anyways it was awesome!

This is one of a whole bunch of cheesy sunset pictures I took. They're all vaguely pretty and cheesy, and not really that good. But I took them off the roof of my uncle's house, and being up there was one of the most relaxing parts of vacationing in Wisconsin. I always end up on the roofs of buildings, which is so weird since I'm terribly afraid of heights.

Also, Canada was intense and exciting in its own ways! I loved seeing the little maple leaf on the McDonald's arches, and hearing people say "eh". The real purpose of going up to Canada, though, was to collect amethysts. I collected the crap out of those minerals! Haha but no seriously I really did. At the first mine we went to, it started raining. I collected amethysts in the pouring Canadian rain. Don't even try to tell me that your life is as epic as mine.

Anywho, this vacation was actually a long time ago, I was just too lazy to update. Other things have happened since then! Exciting things! I finished sewing the dress I designed, and it looks amazing. I haven't worn it yet but I have a place to wear it to, and I'm happy. Also I suddenly became the owner of a boyfriend? Weird how that happens. It's something that never would have occurred if it hadn't been summer. He said he wanted to date me, and I decided I'd let him. However, I do actually like him, it wasn't TOTALLY random.

Just some closing thoughts... I'm not ready for school to start. At all. I adore summer. Also, this year I'm hoping to get good grades. I also wanna practice french horn and piano more, and get better at sleeping.

I'm Still Listening to Bluegrass

Today (technically yesterday, because, again, it's after midnight), I made my mom take me to the Bargain Box in our town so I could drop off clothes and such with her. However, I was really trying to 1. procrastinate working on that dress I'm designing/sewing and 2. see if there were any awesome clothes that old people have left behind for me to miraculously unearth. And I was successful!
I'll upload pictures later, sometime, hopefully, maybe. My favorites would have to be this pink.. Thing. It's like a blouse of some sort? I have no idea. It's indescribable, truly, but I'll attempt. It's pale pink with an embroidery texture thing going on, and it's slightly shiny and made out of some mystery synthetic materials. I honestly can't tell what decade it could have been from. My other favorite was an unassuming pale blue skirt that I picked up just because I like skirts. It's slightly stretchy and A LOT shorter than I thought it would be, but I super love it. Anywho, those were my favorites, but I got a couple of other things.
Also, in going there for selfish reasons, I also picked up a volunteer job! Which I'm actually kind of stoked about, since I don't have a real person job. Also, the library doesn't take volunteers. *sigh* But yeah, the lady said she'd call me if she needed help, and since she won't pay me I can take whatever clothes I like. Not gonna lie, this sounds like a pretty good deal for me.

I promise that I'll have something interesting to say later! And probably pictures! :)

Photo Barf Blehhh

So these are some of the pictures Meghan and I took of each other yesterday! Or rather, two days ago, since it's past midnight. I didn't upload any of the really bad ones, however, neither of us are particularly skilled with a camera. Sorry.

We were going for a "mystical good fairies playing in the gardens/basements of pretty places" and I'd say we sort of achieved it. However, I've worn the same outfit that my friend Meghan (with the red hair) is wearing to go places, minus the petticoat, so I guess it's not TOO fairy-ish.

Anywho, I don't have too much to say, because I'm super tired, so I'll wrap this up. All of the clothes are mine, and all of the pictures were taken at my house by either Meghan or me. I already credited my clothes in my last post, but I added some pink socks that I found in my room and some fake pearl necklaces from a secondhand store. Meghan's clothes - Dress: JC Penney's, sweater/cardigan thing: Vanity maybe? I'm not sure. Pearls (fake) and shoes: La-Dee-Da, petticoat: my mom made it.

I Have Been Listening to Bluegrass for Three Days

I actually looked super cute today, so I thought I'd share. I didn't really have much to do today, or really anything to wear a dress for, so I made my own reason. My dear friend Meghan (and now my sister-in-law! woo!) came over, we wore pretty, mildly fairy-ish outfits and took pictures of each other. I'll upload some of those pics later, I'm too lazy right now.My face. The camera flash made everything look really shiny, but, like, in a good way. I guess? Haha

Those are my new favorite pair of boots, and OMG I wish you could see them in better detail. They are just so cool. Plus the chunky heel makes them pretty comfortable.I couldn't resist another picture of these beautiful shoes! (Also a wonderful picture of how messy my room is. If you have particularly good eyes, you'll notice a Yu-Gi-Oh card.) Everything about them should be kind of ugly, but it all comes together to make... this. And it's awesome. They remind me of like, some misguided girl wandering around small town rural America, asking a ruggedly handsome man on a motorcycle for a ride, and leaving home on a chopper to go to L.A. or something like that. Not that *cough cough* I would ever think of such things.

Seriously, though, I have a (very cute) guy friend who listens to bluegrass pretty much all the time. I really enjoy it whenever we listen to it, so being the awesome person that I am, I made a bluegrass radio station on my Pandora. Some of it is very cheesy and silly, but a lot of it is super cool. The violin playing is intense! It makes me wish that I still played it. Anywho, my favorite song by far is "Jolene" by Rhonda Vincent And The Rage. Mucho bueno.

Oh I suppose I'm supposed to say where I got my clothes now? Cardigan: Thrift/vintage store called La-Dee-Da; Dress: some other secondhand store; Tank top: Maurices; Tights: found them in my dresser.. Boots: La-Dee-Da