OOTD; Spending Too Much On Vegetarian Food/Elsie's Birthday

_ Gray t shirt from The Gap

_ Leather jacket from New Look

_ Jeans from American Eagle (Unevenly cut into shorts)

_ Black tights from H&M

_ Vintage scarf

_ Leopard print sunglasses from Urban Outfitters

_ Flat ankle boots from Spring

_ Black men's laptop bag

_ 'Grey' nail polish by Barry M

Tons of drama yesterday morning.
My sister wanted to that Lady Gaga and Kanye West tour; I thought about going for Lady Gaga, obvs, but then realized I'd have to sit through Kanye West. Anyway, I kind of some what promised I'd buy her the tickets when they went on sale at 10 am. And I forgot about said promise, naturally.
Friday rolled around and I absentmindedly told my sister that I was catching the 10 am bus when she asked me where I was going that day. She reminded me about the tickets.
Conundrum.

After much yelling and weighing the options on my part, I gave in and decided to miss my bus and be late to lunch with my friends. I called them and explained everything, of course; keeping rudeness to a minimum is a constant goal of mine.
So all in all, I'm a saint and my sister owes me. Plus I would have felt guilty is I didn't.

I caught the 10:30 bus and eventually met my friends at The Naam sometime around noon, possibly later. The Naam is a vegetarian restaurant that my mom claims to have been around for "about thirty years". I don't know if that's factual or not, but my mom said it, and she wouldn't lie to me.
I had the Thai Dragon Bowl which was amazing. Anywhere that can incorporate tofu into a meal and make it still delicious is good in my book.

Afterwards, one of my friends had to go back to university, while me and the other friends, Kelly, bussed downtown to do some shopping.

Sidenote;
I've never named any of my friends on this blog. This is honestly because I don't know if they would want me to. Kelly, I'm going to put your name out there because A) you took the OOTD pictures and B) you managed to find this blog, so if you don't want your name out there, you can just tell me.

I saw the MAC Style Black collection.
I am disappoint.
I knew I wasn't going to buy any of the lipsticks, because I want to buy Lime Crime's Styletto lipstick when it comes out, but I at least thought the lipglosses would work. The two black lipglosses with shimmer were barely pigmented, and the pure black one just wasn't working. Kelly agreed with me on that. The mineralized eyeshadows were all right, but mineralized eye shadows just aren't as pigmented as MAC's regular eyeshadows.
So while I was deeply upset, my wallet was not, and I now have a spare couple of Canadian bills in my pocket.

This is when I gave Kelly my camera and told her to shoot some Outfit Of The Day Photos while I was walking. I was talking to her throughout the entire time, which is why my mouth is all contorted and giving me less than attractive faces.

We used to do photography together in high school; there are few people I'd ask to do the OOTD shots, just because everyone always tries to get me dead in the center of the photo, and then they'll awkwardly crop out my feet or something. Kelly learned the rule of thirds. My god, I love the rule of thirds.

Later than night, Kelly and two of our friends watched a couple movies together, 'X Men Origins: Wolverine' and 'X2'.
Many 'that's What She Said' jokes ensued.

'X Men Origins: Wolverine' was a basic action movie, which was disappointing, since I adore the X Men trilogy.
First strike against it: Dominic Monaghan dies within the first ten minutes.
They seriously just put that guy in stuff so he can die. Which sucks because I love him. He will always be Charlie to me.
('Not Penny's Boat' will always be one of the saddest moments in TV)
Afterwards we watched 'X2', which put the 'Wolverine' to shame; you can really see the bad in a movie when you watch an awesome movie after it.

Mystique and Magneato will always be my favourites.


And Xavier.


Today was a lazy day; I took a OOTD picture, but it's honestly too bland to post.
Not the outfit, I like it, but the photos themselves were such a fail.

It's Elsie's (my dog) birthday today!

She's two years old! Honestly though, it feels like we've had her forever; she's part of the family.

My mom, dad, and I took her on a walk down to the local Starbucks, thus why I got dressed.

Tonight I'm just going to read 'White Oleander' and watch the season premiere of 'Saturday Night Live'. Megan Fox is hosting. We'll see if her acting improves.

QuestionOfTheDay;

Do you watch TV a lot? What are your favourite shows? I don't know anyone who watches TV as much as me, but that's becasue I have a PVR. Before the PVR I only watched a few primetime shows. I don't know how I survived.

You'll hear me talk a lot about TV on this blog.






Love.

OOTD; Taking The Canada Line!

_ Blue dress from Zara

_ Leather jacket from New Look

_ Silver belt from Urban Behaviour

_ Blue tights from American Apparel

_ Black beret from H&M (My first time wearing it)

_ Gold jade eye necklace

_ Ankle boots from Spring

_ Black men's laptop bag from H&M (Not shown)

_ Leopard print sunglasses from Urban Outfitters (Not shown)

_ Barry M nail polish in 'Grey' (Though my hands are in my pockets)

Note;

The dress folds that way, it's not my stomach -_-

I started my day, as any healthy young girl should, by going to the doctor. My doctor was in a good mood today, which is surprising because she's usually so surly.

After a quick bus ride home, I changed into this outfit (I'd just been wearing jeans, a t shirt, a scarf, and the jacket and boots you see above) and hurried off to meet my friend at the Canada Line station.

SideNote;

The bus driver didn't make me pay to go on the bus. Only me, though, not the old ladies.

Was he hitting on me, or did he just not want a bunch of change in the machine? I pay for the bus in quarters and dimes, so that's understandable.

It was an odd interaction, nonetheless.

The Canada Line is Vancouver's newest skytrain. Before it, it took two and a half hours to get to the airport from the city by public transit. I am not exaggerating, I've done it.

It was built for the Olympics, obviously, but has the awesome function of taking people from downtown Vancouver to Richmond, a city just outside of Vancouver.

I'm going to be blunt; a lot of Asian people live in Richmond. Do you know what that means? Asian malls! With Asian stores! And, most importantly, Asian food courts!

I don't know where else to buy egg balls but Aberdeen Mall.

So my friend and I Canada Lined down to Richmond to get egg balls

And cold milky tea.

A very nutritious lunch.

We also went shopping a Daiso, a Japanese store where everything is $2.00.

If you're visiting Vancouver, I highly recommend visiting Daiso; it really does have anything you could ever want. Today I bought a small canvas and some paint brushes. I contemplated the fake nails, but decided against them.

I don't want to destroy my natural nails with the nail glue.

Yes you can buy fake nails and art supplies in the same store. Madness.

It was awesome to sit and have lunch with one of my friends today; they're all so busy with the start of university, that it's hard to get to see them outside of a text message conversation. On the way home, we met two of our other friends on the bus. It's always awesome when you meet friends on the bus, instead of guys who ask you out continually for a year and half without getting it (I swear to god if I see that guy on the seabus one more time....).

Tonight my Dad's getting Subway and we're watching 'Survivor' and 'The Office'. I'm pretty stoked.

Did anyone watch 'Modern Family' last night? I really liked it. I felt that some parts were a bit forced, ie. the dad going overboard with the chatspeak, but I was sold when the gay husband brought out the baby 'Lion King' style.

QuestionOfTheDay;

What's something about the city you live in that you love? I used to hate Vancouver with a passion; I wanted to live in Toronto or Montreal. But after growing up a bit, I realized that Vancouver really is an amazing place to grow up; I don't know many other white kids who hang out at Asian malls, and I don't know many people who can see the ocean from their house.

Love.

OOTD/NewHaircut; Haircut to Coffee to Job Application to Home

I haven't had my hair cut in a year.
I know, that's horrible, and yes my hair was dead. My excuse? I want to grow it out and have long, purple hair. Anyway, I decided to bite the bullet and get all the frizz and dead cut off.
When I woke up this morning, I looked like this:



See the damage? And after my trip to the salon, I looked like this:



I know I look less than enthralled in this picture, but the truth is I love it.
She cut a hell of a lot of hair off; the sides of my head (the part that I straightened the most, therefore the most dead) was massacred. All for the best, though.
It's kind of a fashion mullet thing; it's super layered, but I have a lot of length.
It's an actual hairstyle, and I haven't had one of those in about ten months.

After my hair cut, my mom announced that my aunt, uncle, and cousin from Vancouver Island would be over for coffee in twenty minutes. I changed into this:

_ Dress from Zara
_ Belt from Primark

_ Cardigan from H&M

_ Vintage scarf

_ Tights from H&M

_ Assorted silver/plastic rings

I know you've seen the same basic outfit before, but I just needed something comfortable to wear.

The three of them had a wedding to go to in the city, so they'll be staying the night here.
After coffee, they left for the wedding, and I went down to the mall to drop off a resumé; a friend of mine works in a shoe store, and said they needed a new employee. Of course afterwards I wandered into The Bay (Canada's department store) to lust at the MAC counter. If I get the job, I see myself drifting over there at many a lunch hours.
I can't help it, MAC's a cult. You don't even know how excited I am for the Style Black Collection.

Anyway, I replaced the cardigan with my leather jacket and wore ankle boots to go drop off the resumé. I needed to look slightly classier and/or hipster-y.

So there's my day thus far; I hope my family catches a late ferry home so I can show my cousin downtown Vancouver. She would freak out at Holt Renfrew.

Do any of you care about nail polish? I am completely obsessed with manicured nails, and I mean that in the actual meaning of obsessed, not the teenage girl meaning; I give myself a manicure every week, and I have a bit of a collection of OPI nail polishes. Right now I'm wearing Flashbulb Fuchsia by OPI; I decided I needed to get out of my dark nail polish rut. After watching 'Happy-Go-Lucky' my life desperately needed a bit of colour injected into it, and apparently obnoxious pink nail varnish does the trick.
I used to think this colour was too bright, but now I'm super into it. What do you think?

Question Of the Day;
What's your opinion on fake nails? My friend and I are going to go out to Richmond soon to buy a bunch of fake nails from Daiso, a Japanese store. I personally love them, and would love acrylics, but I know that most people hate them. They can be trashy, but I think they can also be cute.

Love.

P.S. I woke up this morning and this was dead and on my windowsill.



I wish this showed you how big it was; I swear to god it's legs were longer than toothpicks.
It freaked me the hell out, becasue do you know what that means?
This thing was in my room with me. All night.

P.P.S. I still can't stop listening to this.