People say she's crazy, she's got diamonds on the soles of her shoes

This week has been insane so far, but that really isn't anything new for me at this point hehe. I have been super productive at work, going through old files and making sure all the ends are tied, things are a mess in the inventory control department and I have a ton to do for the transportation department, I foresee some overtime in the future.  School is wrapping up, I am finishing my last papers and projects and today after work I picked up Louie, came home and made dinner (yummy tuna salad sandwiches on bagels) did the dishes, then headed over to Ferndale to listen in on the Beautification committee meeting for my last journalism paper. There were only four people there and they were so funny and really nice. Then I went back home and cleaned up the house, took out the garbage and recycling and now Kyle is munching on his tuna and we are getting ready to take Louie for a walk around the neighborhood. I love having such productive days, I love being in "go go go" mode because the more I get done during the week means more relaxing time on the weekends!

I have actually thought a lot this past week on how to make the most of my time. The house needs so much work and we have so much to sort through, clean and organize. The whole place needs a good scrub and the yard is going to need a good haul. Plus there is the normal everyday cleaning and grocery shopping and whatnot. So, I made a new rule, Kyle and I are going to avoid going out or hanging out on weeknights. We both have been getting to work so late this semester and we need to fix that now that school is almost out. The plan is to hangout with friends on the weekend, have dinner with the parents on Sunday nights still, and I am going to make a point to keep either Friday night or Sunday mornings free for me to have alone time. I am looking forward to spending time reading or watching Gilmore Girls on DVD again, haha I am such an old lady.

No worries, it also should open up a little more time for me to blog! And I have some pretty cool things coming up that I really cannot wait to share with everyone, gah I am excited! It all starts tomorrow evening so stay tuned!

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Floral cardi-Forever 21
Tights-CVS
Shoes-Payless
Belt-thrifted
Dress-Mod cloth

Song "Diamonds on the soles of her shoes" by Paul Simon

Wicket

Yesterday I came home from work and there was a box on my front porch from New York. I called Kyle to let him know and he told me I had a present but I was not allowed to open it until he got home. Of course I started to shake it up and down and try to guess what it was but all I could figure out was that it was pretty light. So I set it on the table and finished making dinner and Kyle finally pulled up the driveway. I practically pounced on him the minute he came in through the door and shook the box up and down again asking "Can I open it now??" Laughing at me he said yes and I tore that sucker open to find....Wicket!

Wicket is the most well-known Ewok from Star Wars. When I was a baby, maybe a year old at the most, someone bought me a stuffed Wicket and I know that it was floating around my parents house for the longest time and now I have no idea what happened to it. I was looking through old photos and found a picture of me as a baby sitting with it and showed it to Kyle and he finally made the decision to just look online for one, and he found one! 

I know a lot of Star Wars fans out there don't like the Ewoks because they are basically teddy bears, but I have a slight obsession with stuffed animals. I actually have to go through and donate some of them because I have so many. When I was a baby I would even get excited at the Snuggle commercial on TV, that is how much I loved teddy bears so it only makes sense that I would love a teddy bear from Star Wars.

I seriously could not be a bigger dork right now, but my Wicket is so cool! I love it so much. Most girls love flowers and jewelry, I love Star Wars stuffed animals. 

This is not the first time Kyle has done this either, he once bought me all of the Star Wars watches from Burger King, he also garbage picked framed prints from all three original movie posters and carried them all the way home on his head. He even stole the Star Wars toys for the happy meals from his work for me! Seriously, I love Kyle so much! The funny thing is, we only own a copy of "A New Hope" and Kyle just watched it for the first time at Lauren's back in November! I watched all the originals on tape with my brothers over and over again so many times as a kid. Everyone should watch Star Wars, at least once!

"YUB YUB!"

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Cardi-Old Navy
Top & Skorts-Thrifted
Tights-Target
Clogs-F21

When you say Goodbye, I say Hello

Hello unexpected absence from the world of blogging, but I am back! I had a final exam in my Victorian lit class tonight, I think I did okay. Only 4 more quizzes, two more papers, one more project and a final exam to go! I think I am going to end up with all B's this semester which stinks because I had such a great start to this school year. But I will take it since the past three months have been so hectic with the move and all. But things are looking up because I am going to see my friends this week! Lots of girlfriends, some new friends are going to meet my old friends, and of course the highlight of the week the Tigers opening day!! so much fun!

Say hello to these cute flats I scored for $5 at Urban Outfitters during Christmas...then say goodbye to them. My Louie, the love of my life, ate them. Le sigh. It's my fault for leaving them out I know but still! Grrr!! It's okay though, at least I got some documentation. Had I known that this was going to be the only time I'd wear them I'd have worn a cuter outfit. 

 I have been spending my lunch breaks at work scanning the internet for things for the house! I am having everything shipped to my Mom's house since she is home during the day and it's funny because she keeps posting on my facebook every time I get a new package. Kyle and I picked out a theme for the house and it's going to be an "Up-north, retro-naturey" theme. Since most of our stuff is hand-me downs and has a seventies vibe to it already we just have to incorporate our own little touches. I can't wait to paint! We are painting the living room, hallway and kitchen first. I have been ordering curtains and pillows all week, the kitchen curtains don't match but I think they will still be cute. Which reminds me, I still have to take more pics of the inside of the house! Must do that this week. Lots to do, but the end of the week sounds promising, I can't wait to see all of my friends!

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Turtle neck-Target

Jeans & belt-F21

Shoes-OU

Scarf-Vintage/Thrifted

Martin road park

I had originally worn this outfit over two weeks ago but somehow managed to lose/delete the pics I took, so I donned the outfit again this Saturday to get a delicious lunch with Kyle at Christine's Cuisine in Ferndale and to make a quick thrifting trip at Value World in Warren. I got so many cute things to show off, lots of vintage and summery things! This dress I acquired from Mod Cloth during their Cabin Fever sale. Kyle picked it out actually, he really likes orange so it shouldn't have surprised me. I stole his big grandpa cardigan to keep warm because it's cold in the D!

These pictures were taken at Martin road park in Ferndale. I used to play soccer here almost every Saturday in the Spring and Fall growing up. I still have team photos of us girls all lined up in the park before a game. Soccer was so much fun growing up because it was for the city and it was a chance to meet different girls from different schools in your area. By the time we got to high school, I knew most of the girls on my team and we were pretty close-knit. I grumbled through practices, but I do really miss playing soccer sometimes.

Right now I am smelling the delicious tomato bisque soup that is in the crock-pot and impatiently waiting for Kyle to get home. I am going to make some grilled-cheese to go with it and it is still really cold outside so soup sounds perfect right now. As much as I love Winter, I admit that I am ready for some slightly warmer weather, at least in the 40's or so. But I am secretly glad that I get to indulge in comfort foods while it is still cold outside, yum!

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Dress-Mod Cloth

Belt-Forever 21

Tights-CVS

Cardigan & Shoes-Thrifted

If I were livin' in a mansion, I'd probably sleep out on the deck.

The countdown began before it was started. I told Kyle at week two of this semester that "we only have 15 weeks left!" in which he rolled his eyes at my attempt at optimism. Now there are 4.5 weeks left, and I am exhausted. I am tired of being tired. I came to realization years ago that I am horrible at any classes that are not literature or writing, well that really seems to be proven this semester. I thought a news writing course would be good for me because hello, writing, I am pretty decent at that when I pay attention to what I am doing, but no. Apparently journalism is out of the question for my future unless it is soft news, aka features. I can't write a hard news lead to save my life, and apparently my titles are funny (according to Kyle) but not newsworthy.
 

So after discovering that two out of three papers for this class were to be written for hard news, I grumbled. A lot. However, the soft news story is upon us! And....I am panicked. For this story, we are to find something that is going on at 4pm at OU and interview the person/people/group and take pictures this week. It HAS to be at 4pm, and there are three classes involved in this project. I picked the "social gaming" group at OU and even got a contact! I emailed him this week to pick a day and....no answer. Then I emailed him again. Then I took Kyle's advice and went stalker and found him on Facebook and sent him a message. Nothing. Tomorrow is the last day and the only thing I can do is show up and hope he is there or else hope that someone else is willing to participate, I just have no idea if anyone will be there at exactly four. 

And so you see, this is a taste of what I have been dealing with all semester. Little mini-panic attacks. I have completed so much school-work at work this semester during my measly lunch break just because my source couldn't get back to me until the day my paper was due. 

With that being said, here is my "Reporter dress" from Ruche that I bought over a year ago. Becky was being awesome as usual and took these outfit pics for me right before we headed to the Oak Park library to study and steal internet. Good times.

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Reporter Dress-Ruche
Vintage western shirt- Mother Fletchers
Tights-CVS
Grannie boots-Thrifted 

Song "Losin yo head" by Monsters of folk

*All photos were taken by Becky.

Grand Rapids MI blogger meet-up, Friday!

Friday night was the Grand Rapids blogger meet-up! Lauren, Cat and I packed up Lauren's car and headed out to GR for the Aqualush fashion show and to meet up with nine other bloggers!

The fashion show was nice, I really liked the hair and makeup. Some of the models looked like they did not want to be there at all, and some of the outfits were kinda meh, but I really liked the band that performed during the show; Alexis. The lead singer was my hair twin! I have not really come across a guy in person who donned the blunt bangs before, but it kind of just fit him.

The best part was just meeting all of the girls. There are more and more bloggers in Michigan, a lot of fashion bloggers to be exact and it was funny to chat about clothes and blogging with other girls, but we wound up just goofing around for the most part.

We took some outfit photos at the event, it was a little dark, but hey, we are fashion bloggers! Gotta document the style right? I did wear shorts under my dress because it looked a little short. I tried to break out of my habit of just wearing black tights too. These are from halloween and I never wound up wearing them, but hey I had no where else to wear them so why not?

Cat of Midwest Mayhem,  Anna of Sparkplug Minuet and Lauren of Sparrow & Urchin.

I love these photos because they are almost the opposite of the fashion show after parties that you see in magazines. Everyone here is all smiles :)

*Stolen from Tieka


*Stolen from Andrea

He was my hair twin, see?!

After the show we headed out to the Bob (building of bars), in Grand Rapids. We munched on food, sipped drinks and Tieka handed out awesome gift bags. We then headed upstairs to dance for a bit, which was mostly us just jumping around and laughing but it was a lot of fun.

I have a few more photos to share with everyone that I will put up on the next post so stay tuned!

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Dress-Target

Belt & shoes-F21

Tights-Halloween usa

Scarf-Vintage