Farewell Google Reader

As probably everybody knows by now, Google Reader is about to disappear into the vortex. And, as most everyone also probably knows, Bloglovin is a super good alternative in terms of blog readers! If you're so inclined, I'd love it if you went on over to Bloglovin and followed my blog there, so you don't miss any of my incredibly fascinating outfit posts. I've always used Bloglovin, luckily, so I don't have to bother with importing all of my blogs over there, but it's a great service and I think you guys will like it. Now go! Follow me on Bloglovin!

And uhhh have this instagram of me in the H&M dressing room. I bought that blazer on sale for $10. Bargain!

Outfit no. 55

Dress and shoes: H&M, cardi: Target, necklace: wholesale-dress.net, glasses: Ray-Ban

This cardigan was an impulse buy at Target yesterday. But let's be honest... most of my purchases at Target are on impulse. We aaaall know how Target works. One can never have too many cardis, though, and this one is appropriately spring-y. Ugh, spring. I do like being warmer in general, as I'm never warm enough in the winter, but ugh sunshine and things!

My bestie Rose is giving me shit because I can't finish Clockwork Angel or Beautiful Creatures, and we were supposed to read them together. I don't know what's wrong with me! I might be broken? I've been listening to audiobooks at work, which is awesome, but I seem physically incapable of reading a book now. My attention span is minimal, and if I'm not immediately sucked into the book I just get bored. I keep trying with Beautiful Creatures, but all I can think while reading is, "Who caaaaares?" which isn't the best reaction to a book, I'll admit. Ugh. Maybe I'll give Clockwork Angel another try, because there should seriously be absolutely NO REASON not to love it!

I'm getting into TV shows easily, though, which isn't always the case! I finished season 2 of Suits (I love Louis Litt!!), and am nearly caught up with Girls season 2. I'm also really enjoying History Channel's Vikings, which I'm told isn't entirely historically accurate, but as I don't know anything about that period of history, or really Vikings in general, I find it wholly entertaining. It should hold me over until Game of Thrones season 3, anyway. Which I am so excited for I can't even talk about it. Moving on... I might start watching The Tudors, which I never watched while it was on, because I love a good historically inaccurate show with lots of boobs and bonus Jonathan Rhys-Meyers!

What books/shows/movies are you guys into or looking forward to? There are so many summer movies I'm excited about, but that fangirl explosion will probably happen in another post. (STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS OMG OMG OMG)

Outfit no. 54

Skirt, sweater, and hat: H&M; shirt: Primark; shoes: Payless; necklace: gift from Dad; glasses: Ray-Ban

I'm both dreading and looking forward to summer right now. But let's be honest... I'm mostly dreading it. I get headaches just from thinking about being outside in the sun, let alone experiencing it. I'm about as close to a vampire as somebody can come without actually feeding on blood and being immortal. Which is a funny, dumb thing to tell people when I'm attempting to explain why I hate sunlight and blue skies, but it's worryingly true. Sunlight does give me headaches, and if I'm out in it for more than 10 or 15 minutes, I often start to get nauseous. And left to my own devices, I will inevitably revert to a nocturnal lifestyle. Almost the whole time I lived in London I was up until 5 or 6 in the morning writing, and I'd go to bed when the din of songbirds became too loud to justify staying up any longer. I'd work most days from 1:30 to 3 or 4pm, and then I'd take a nap. Around midnight I'd make coffee and settle in for a night of writing. And poor Shaun had to put up with me whenever I went out into the light, all pale and blinking and confused.

That said, how could I be looking forward to summer at all, you may ask? Because beer gardens. That is pretty much the only reason. And also... actually, no, I can't think of another reason. I despise summer! Not only is it hot and sweaty and sunny and horrible, but you have to go around with bare legs and arms and if there's anything worse than being out in the sun, it's being out in the sun with bare legs. I envy girls who look forward to shedding their tights and embracing shorts and mini-skirts -- damn you all! That's the main motivation for my diet. I want to feel un-ugly when I'm forced to emerge from my den come summer. And it really sucks right now, because I'm DYING for a cake donut. :|

If I could, I'd totally summer in Siberia or Antarctica or something, and just sit in a snowsuit and drink hot cocoa and read. That sounds amazing right now. Man, why can't I just be a proper vampire? Then I'd have to stay inside during the day and I wouldn't be forced to deal with the dreaded sun. Boo.

Anyway, wow, welcome to Rant About Summer, population: me. Am I the only one who dreads this season so much it kind of makes me feel ill? Fellow vampires, let us band together and bemoan the sun together! Swimsuits are the worst! How dare anyone have fun and frolic on the beach! Sweater weather 4ever! Etc.

Outfit no. 53

Dress: F21, cardi: H&M, shoes: c/o Oasap, necklace: gift from friend, glasses: Ray-Ban

I almost didn't do outfit photos today, but I put on these shoes this morning specifically so I'd have sweet shoes going on in my outfit photos. And it would be lame to clomp around Walmart picking up my prescription and avoiding rogue motorized carts in these things and then not do an outfit post, so FINE! Here you go. My outfit.

I feel like I'm doing one of those 30 outfits in 30 days from 30 items of clothes things, but involuntarily.  People are always like "How creative can I be with only 30 items of clothes?!" but I only ever like 30 items in my wardrobe at one time, if that, so I end up wearing the same outfit over and over with slight variations. Like I've worn this white blouse with a black cross print basically every day I don't do outfit photos, and every day on the weekends. Which isn't bad, but in the world of fashion/style blogging it's kind of overkill. Especially if I expect people to look at my outfits and be ~inspired~ by them, or even vaguely interested. 

When I was in high school I used to wear the same 5 outfits every week. Except I'd try not to wear the same outfit on the same day two weeks in a row, because I thought people would notice. See I used to be in the Missoula Youth Symphony, which met every Monday night, and I remember noticing that this violist from another school would always wear the same shirt every Monday. Without fail. It was a pretty distinctive shirt with a crazy print, and literally every Monday she'd be wearing it. Either it was her MYS shirt, or it was her Monday shirt. And I didn't want to become like Crazy Monday Shirt Girl, so I made a conscious effort to switch it up. "I can't wear my brown cords and black long-sleeved shirt on Friday, because I wore it last Friday! I must wear this outfit on Thursday instead." That is totally an actual outfit that I wore, and I always made sure to wear it with these black Mary Janes that clacked really loudly on the floor when I walked, because you have to wear black shoes if you're gonna wear a black top with brown pants (in my 16-year-old mind?). Worst outfit ever.

Anyway so long story short, there are about 5 things in my closet that I actually want to wear right now, and the rest I force myself into because I have a blog, and also, people will start to notice if I wear literally the same outfit every day for multiple weeks. First world problems. Ugly sobbing.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND EVERYONE! My goals are 1) finish Beautiful Creatures, and 2) watch A Knight's Tale. Lofty goals... lofty goals.

Outfit no. 52

Skirt, cardi, and necklace: F21; shirt: H&M; shoes: New Look; glasses: Ray-Ban

Yesterday's outfit. Nothing special but I felt comfy and cute all day! Not much to add, I'm afraid. I may work on my synopsis and query a few more agents, but I may not. I may end up just reading. Have a lovely Thursday! x

Outfit no. 51

Skirt, cardi, and hat: H&M; shoes: thrifted; shirt and necklace: F21; glasses: Ray-Ban

I feel like this outfit is a total throwback to my style a couple years ago in Portland. I even posed like this all the time. I mean seriously look. And either this sweater has shrunk, or I've gotten bigger. SOB. Aging is hard.

This is actually yesterday's outfit, because... I don't know why, I just didn't post it yesterday.

I'm utterly devoid of interesting things to say! I must now finish season 2 of Suits and then perhaps... do a bit of reading? My eyes have been giving me grief lately and I think I need a new prescription. Which is annoying, because I have so many books to read! >__<

Weekend With Shaun

Apologies for the lack of posts over the last several days! My friend Shaun, fangirl soulmate and fellow Brit-at-heart, came to visit from Denver for the weekend, so I didn't have the time or inclination to blog. It was so fun seeing her again, going shopping, watching Queer Eye on Netflix, and reminiscing (much to Greg's chagrin) about London. I can't believe we both lived there for a year -- and more, on Shaun's part -- and now we're both only an hour's flight away from one another, back in the States!

Hopefully these weekend jaunts will become a regular thing. I'll be flying to Denver at the end of May for Denver Comic Con, which will be amazing! I miss geeking out with Shaun, so I'm pretty sure DCC (can I abbreviate it to DCC?) will be a flipping blast. Hurray! Are any of you going to DCC?

Anyway, the photo above is Shaun and I posing with a beer pong set. We thought it was funny because there was a grammatical error on the packaging. We are super awesome, not lame at all!