Casual Wear or why am i even posting this

Old Navy skirt, target bag, socks, trench, shoes, and tank. Makeup: Mac and clinique






So I found a new shirt that I really like, and so I wore it the other day. the outfit that i put together was kind of country but I put a kind of put a gothic spin on it by pairing it with my black combat boots.








target top, hot topic belt, gap jeans, target combat boots

Farewell old apartment or...give me my money, bitches...

Actually, they weren't bitches, as aptly said by Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle, my former landlords were: "someone we would be friends with." They couldn't help it that there was a smoker chic upstairs and a guy that made smelly beans across the hall. I have a great new roommate and there is nary a cigarette nor a smelly bean in site. So this blog is late. There is no interweb at my new place, but I am hoping to secure reasonably priced interweb for myself and my worthy roommate as soon as possible and it can be afforded. If anyone has suggestions for such, please feel free to give me suggestions.

My old apt....ah well. As I saw a few days ago, nothing brings out my cleaning ocd as much as moving. I think my landlords will be pleased. I always try to leave a place better than when I found it. Its kind of a good will thing that my parents taught me early on. You know making the world a better place and all that. It doesnt hurt that I am expecting a deposit back but for some reason it is never about the money as much as it is the thought that my landlord could show my apartment to the next prospective tenant immediately as I left it. So I went from the above photograph while I was packing to this:
The photographs are not the same corner of the room but you get the idea. I tend to do things like roll up rugs (if there had been any), washing out the fridge, and the bathtub and doing all the floors. i hope that I go them a little better that the "broom clean" that is outlined in my lease. It is a matter of pride with me I think its like a game. Like playing the game of "how clean can Jenny get her former apartment" before time runs out. And it was the 29th and i was cleaning. I think that i did a good job. I am just that OCD. Hopefully it will be worth some money, and i will win the grand prize. (Or just my deposit back would work).

I read the news today, oh boy...

working working. There is an event and of course i am working. alot has happened since last we spoke, dear reader. I have a new hair cut, a new home, an idea of when I am taking the comprehensive exam, and a new low cholesterol diet, that I stick to most of the time. Except tonight while working this wedding. It seems like when I work a 12 hour day, give or take a couple of hours I just keep eating and eating to keep myself going. argh. I am going food shopping tomorrow. I am. I need some interesting choices. argh. so I have little left to say tonight as my mind is reduced to so much mush, with the move, and working late and etc. so I will leave you with some pictures that I took on my camera phone.

The picture above is of my new boots that I bought from target. They make me very happy. They go well with my new suit. Hopefully a picture of aformentioned suit will be forth-coming.

This is my new nailpolish. I am sorry for the inferiority of the picture quality but it is a kind of black purple color from OPI called 'Give me moor!'

This is my new leather arm band bracelet that i bought from the scottish festival called Clanjamfry, that my boyfriend and I went to yesterday. Sorry that the details are hard to see. There is a nice scrolling pattern in little ovals. It is all leather, and oddly it smells of formaldehyde or something equally strong. I will be glad when it airs out. My boyfriend has a similar one that is black with a celtic knot.

Rain, Rain...dude.

So the heavens have parted and the flood gates have opened and my city is the object of a torrential downpour. This is especially disheartening, as tomorrow, my favorite day of the year may be threatened with rain. My favorite day is that of Cooper-Young festival. I have taken a day off specially as I love to go. There are booths of goods foods and music. Local artists, musicians and artisans get together to for their fares to be bought and enjoyed. Among many things I was planning to look at booths of vintage clothing, inexpensive sunglasses, books, handmade soaps, jewelry, and perhaps get a glass of "shaken" lemonade. I hope it happens. It is so much fun. It turned out. There rain held off and we had a lovely Cooper-young Festival after all. And I go a great new I (heart) cy t-shirt and bumper sticker with my favorite zip code in the world, the one to midtown.

I come bringing Goodwill

I shop at Goodwill. Today's blouse I am wearing comes from goodwill. I have gotten many complements on this blouse since I have purchased it and worn it to work and I am sure that I would recieve many more if I could lose another 10 lbs or so that would make it completely comfortable around my midsection. but no one seems to notice or care, they just complement away. I am wearing it today. It is a wrap style top with a floral/paisley design in white over a black background. The neck has a band of delicate polka dots that matches the band at the waist that wraps like a sarong. (At times like this I wish I had a digital camera and someone patient to take my picture repeatedly as I am sure that I would be disappointed with the vast majority of the shots of myself that would be taken.) Actually, my boyfriend really came to the rescue! He allowed me to take pictures on his phone and email them to myself so yay! (They are a little blurry in spots, but now I have a visual!
Here is the top:


I have paired my goodwill top with a black knit skirt that has a floral pattern with velvet leaves and beads on the front. Suprisingly I found this at the place begining with W, who like Volde...ahem...I mean, is a name we shall not mention. But Walmart (oops, I said the name) even Walmart like a squirrel, a dutiful squirrel, can sometimes find a nut.

I wear my loafers every where. In the work that I do, which sometimes unexpectedly requires alot of standing I tend to wear them instead of my more fashionable uncomfortable heels. I am wearing them today. They are black and from target. The only color that I have on besides black and white, is my burgandy/red purse with a silver chain handle, that I take everywhere also from target. I have not reached the point the year where I start to wear tights (usually black or black in a pattern of some type with an outfit like this) so I have none on.

Here is another of the outfit, and me with a very silly look on my face:


Here is the purse:

And a closeup of my makeup today:

Bottega Veneta is made of awesome sauce.

So it has been a while since I have blogged on anything fashion related, and I have never blogged on the like in this medium. But i was bored and unfortunately wasting time when I have plenty of important things to do. When I do not have a fashion magazine handy which I love, I like to spend time on style.com looking at all the runway shows of my favorite designers and I even like to give the ones that I am not familiar with a chance as well. It has been a while since I have done this as I have contented myself with reading blogs here and reading my fashion magazines. but today at random I chose to look as Bottega Veneta for their fall 2009 RTW (ready-to-wear) show.

I was amazed and happy. here are a few of the lovely frocks that I saw.

I love the way the models have the 1930's and 1940's hairstyles and the gowns and dresses themselves have a vintage feel in a very modern context. I love it! I cant wait to look at more shows to see what I find. I wonder if I can find real vintage like this or even styles of this nature in stores that I could actually afford.

Breathing problems

ok so, last night i was having more breathing problems, to the point that my boyfriend and I went to the ER. He sat with me, we had waited for about 2 hours when (if you have ever gone to the emergency room you will know what I mean) I began to feel that the problems i had were not as bad (even thought they were still bad) and that I wanted to go home more than I wanted to wait there. So we left, and I hope that they do not try to hunt me down in order to charge me some kind of dubious charge that I do not owe, as I only saw the triage nurse in order to get a plastic bracelet fashion accessory and had no idea how long I would be there. My boyfriend was increasingly tired and so was I and we just decided to abort the mission and go home. The heaviness in my chest and pains in my leg and tightness in my upper abdomen did not subside until I was blissfully unconscious on the couch at my moms house.

All of this I believe can be owing to the time of year and the allergies that i have and probably stress on top of that of not knowing where I am going to live, being excessively busy at work, and having alot riding on this semester at school, namely my my MA degree and the last 6 years of my life in which I have to graduate this semester in order not to lose my credits from '03.

SO needless to say, there is alot going on....