been a while.

Sorry for my absence.  Expect this to happen a lot for a while.

My friend found an old picture of me.  Nostalgia is weighing down on me.

mirrors.

I love.

out of it.

Once again, lack of posting.  My bad.  Not sure who I'm apologizing to.  School has just been insane.  There never seem to be enough hours in the day.  I spend 8 hours a day at school so when I get off I don't want to just sit on the internet.

achromatic.

Black.  I used to love black.  When I was 15 and 16 that was pretty much all I used to wear, occasionally mixed in with hints of dark red, deep purple, or neon green.  Some called it punk rock, some called it Goth, and my Mother called it stupid (she was right).  At 17 I discovered the wonderful world of color!  And I have never gone back!  16-year-old me had a predominantly black closet. This me had a mostly color closet with a few black shirts reserved for certain things.

Black evokes many emotions.  It can be elegant and sharp.  It's slimming.  It's classy and classic.  It can be worn for neraly any occasion.  On the other hand it can be depressing, gloomy, and makes you look pale.  It's also worn to funerals.

The reason I bring this up is because I am sick of wearing black clothes all the time!!!  Not that I find anything wrong with someone wearing black a lot.  Some people pull it off.  This is a personal thing.

Sorry, venting.

crazycrazycrazy.

School is crazycrazycrazy.  I feel like there's not enough hours in the day.  I get up at 5:30 a.m.  I leave my house by 7:10 and get to school by 7:30.  Class starts at 8.  We get a 15 minute break at 10, a 30 minute break at 12, and another 15 minute break at 2.  We leave at 4.  And it's not that it drags on.  Time goes by really fast there.  You look at the clock at 8:15 and you look back what you think is 30 minutes later, but suddenly it's time for your 10 a.m. break.  But, yeah.  Up at 5:30, school at 8.  Out of school at 4.  Home by 4:30.  Study, study, study, possibly see Andrew, try to go to bed before 11, repeat next day.

We can only wear black clothes.  We can wear colored shoes and accessories, but other than that it must be black.  Which kind of sucks.  I don't really wear black.  I really had no black clothes.  I guess I will at the end of school.

The girls are awesome.  I have my favorites, of course, but I pretty much like everyone.  There's a few girls I'm not really warmed up to yet, but I don't dislike them. 

Andrew and I are having dinner with my parents tomorrow night.  I hope it's not going to be a witch hunt. 

I want.

anthropologie c'est bon dress

wedding... again.

Seriously sorry about all the wedding stuff, guys.  I think because I've just started looking ya'll are going to get overloaded with wedding planning for a while.  It'll slack off after a while probably, I do have 11 months to get it all together.  So far it really has just been the fashiony girly aspect of it (dresses) but in this post be prepared for talk about flowers, locations, invitaions, vases, colors, vests, decoration, theme, cakes, ribbons, food, and music.   Well, maybe not all that in this post, but be prepared for them to be in posts in the not too distant future.

I've changed my colors (again!), and found my theme.  We've decided on Labor Day weekend 2010, and that's still summer.  The colors I've decided on are purple and blue.  And depending on the dress I get the accent colors will be cream or white, and gold or silver.  I hope I can go with cream and silver.  The theme we've decided to go with is kind of antiquey, vintage, old south.  Very relaxed, very simple, very pretty. 

I still do like that Justin Alexander dress in the last post, and I don't mind the gold on it so much, and the price wasn't too bad.  But since then I've looked at other dresses and fallen in love.  And the new dresses do not involve gold, thank God.  And they go with the simple theme much better.  And they're cheaper.  And they're J. Crew (!!!).  Even the bridesmaids dresses I want are J. Crew.  They have the perfect color. 

From left to right: Sophia dress, and twist tank dress.  Both in Hazel Blue. 

From left to right: Marlene, Sabine, and Erica.  Marlene is my favorite.

The flowers I want are blue hydrangea and lavender.  I was thinking bridesmaids have small bouquets of lavender and I have one with hydrangea and lavender.  These are my favorites out of all I've seen, but I could not find a hydrangea and lavender bouquet, so try to imagine it.

That's all I'm going to do for now.  I start school tomorrow and I need to get ready for that.  I also need to shower.  Be prepared for more wedding stuff.

All dresses found here.

american gothic.

So now I'm thinking purple and green for wedding colors.  But rich colors!  I figured out my friend is doing green and brown, and I don't want to do the same thing she is.  And a September wedding.

And I think I have a new favorite dress...

It's Justin Alexander, #8453.  It's layered cream net with Swarovaski crystals, pearls, and gold embroidered lace.  And it's only $1,200.  They described it as American Gothic goes glam.  I saw it in the "American Beauty" spread in Brides Magazine and it makes me want to get married in the country wearing a cameo necklace like she is in the magazine.  I even love cameos.  I'm not sure why she's in a box in this picture, but I desperately want to see the dress in person.  Obviously because I want to try it on. :)

wedding.

I've been looking at wedding stuff... I've decided my colors are going to be moss green and a copper color.  I figured that would work for a fall wedding.  And green is my favorite color.  Anyway, some bridemaids dresses I have looked at.

These two are my favorites.  I want my dress to be lacy, and these tie into that.

These are my three favorite dresses.  Especially the first two.  Very lacy, a little vintage feeling.

And if I could afford one of these I would get one.

the process.

I start school at The Process on October 6th. Yessss!!!

It's the Rolls Royce of cosmetology schools.

flooding.

Road my Mom works off of.

Sugarloaf.  Another road Mom takes to get to work.

In Lilburn.

Downtown connector.

Yeah.  Flooding in Georgia.  It's been raining non-stop since last week.  Guess I was wrong about it not raining.  Some drought we're in.  I have a freakin' lake in my backyard.

Those rain boots would have been nice.