Whip it

- Melody

sweater: Buffalo Exchange, tee: Old Navy, jeans: Target, boots: Urban Outfitters

My only two finals this week are on Wednesday with a five hour break between them. Then I’m free until January. 🙂 I’ve been feeling pretty nostalgic with ending my last ever fall semester. I’ll never be in school during the fall again or drive onto campus and see all the trees and the cars and the fountain and the big auditorium in the fall. I think I’m having a crisis. After May I’ll be out of school permanently for the first time in my life. It’s a little daunting! Guess we’ll just see what happens. You know, if the world doesn’t end.

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Awkward and Awesome!

- Melody

AWKWARD:

-One of my teachers. Just… yikes.
-Watching a friend nearly kill himself and not being able to stop it. Good grief. (That really falls more under awful.) (And maybe the kill thing is a little dramatic. It was still scary.)
-The heat in December. Come on, Texas. Seriously.
-Me. Dancing. In our choir concert. Hot.
-How unfestive the house looks right now. This heat is making it hard to get in the spirit.
-Not seeing friends for a month after finals are over! 🙁 (Also under the heading of awful.)
-Taking the dog out in sweats while cars drive by. Uh, hi.

AWESOME:

-Finals are next week! Then CHRISTMAS!
-My dad being in China for two weeks and hearing about him eating exotic things. He’s so cultured.
-A Christmas party this Saturday. Hooray!
-There’s a Christmas tree in the music building! Yay festive!
-Spending family Christmas in Dallas this year!
-How many exclamation points I’m using in this post.
-Getting the car fixed next Monday FINALLY from the wreck!
-Finishing my last ever fall semester. It’s really bittersweet!

Tomorrow’s Friday 🙂

Reruns are fun

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sweater: Old Navy, skirt: Kohl’s, shoes: Converse

Sorry for the slight blurriness. It was getting dark super fast! I wore this the day we started learning choreography in choir. Yes. Choreography. Me. Dancing. YIKES. At least it was fun 🙂

How’s your week? Finals are almost here!

Reruns

- Melody

dress: Target, cardi: thrifted, tights: Target, flats: Target, necklace: Rue21

So sorry there were only two posts last week! Things got a little wild with homework and I’ve basically been gone all weekend and will be gone all day today as well. All for choir stuff, so at least it’s fun! For all of this choir stuff I’ve had to dress nicely, which I can do but I always need a little flair. I really wanted to hit this with some moccasin boots but decided black flats would be a little fancier. 🙂

IT’S DECEMBER! Are you ready for Christmas?

I held a baby

- Melody

baseball tee: BF Old Navy $5 score, skirt: BF Kohl’s $8 score, boots: F21, necklace: old

Saturday we celebrated Thanksgiving with my family at my cousin’s fancy new house! Woo! The little cousins played football in the backyard, I held a baby, we all ate the greatest food ever, and just enjoyed being together. I could have hung out all.day. Seriously, how did I get born into such a rocking family? I don’t understand it.

So I wore this skirt and a comfy tee to accommodate the copious amounts of food I was to eat. It worked. Plus it was stylish. Right? Sure.

Happy Thanksgiving! (From your favorite procrastinating girl.)

Plaid galaxy + Black Friday stories

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shirt: my sister’s closet, dress: Target, boots: Urban Outfitters

I love this dress! I remember seeing it before it went on sale and thought it looked like a galaxy and loved it. My sister has really been into space since she took an astronomy class last semester. She’s pulled us all in too!

So did you brave Black Friday? After my horrific experience last year I swore it off forever. However… Jason’s aunts and cousins get really into it and have made shirts! They make a big list with a schedule so they can hit what they want. I was kind of on the fence about it after I had seen Ulta was having some pretty good sales. (Even though most of them are still going on!) I’ve never really wanted anything big like a camera or laptop so I haven’t had to fight for stuff (that’s crazy to do anyway!) but I was still very anxious about it! My sisters and our friend were going and I thought hey, why not?!
After Thanksgiving with Jason’s family that Thursday I drove back to my parents and mentally prepared for the craziness. We got to town about 10:30 and hit Target first. They opened at 9 and my stomach was in knots. I DID.NOT. want another experience like last year. I needed a buddy the entire time in the store but everyone was in a cheerful mood! Even most of the employees! IT WAS SO BIZARRE. Dare I say a pleasant experience. (Though I have friends that had to work it and I don’t think they’d agree!)

Next we went to Ulta since it’s in the same shopping center. Though we had to wait in line for 45 minutes or more to check out everything was well stocked and people were still pleasant. NYX was having buy 1 get 1 50% off and I stocked up. I’m loving their stuff so far!
Next was Kohl’s. That.store.is.HUGE. I kept getting lost trying to find my sister! I picked up a couple of things and then waited in the check out line for probably an hour. CRAZY. I got a dress in store but it didn’t fit so I had to rebuy online because their sale stopped at 1pm! At least I got my size and color! 🙂

Lastly was Old Navy. The mother of Black Friday hell. There was a HUGE line waiting to get in before midnight and then they closed to restock and then reopened. Thankfully we got there after all of that happened at around 3am. EVERYTHING was stocked. I even got the coat I wanted! Woohoo! We still waited in the check out line for forever but it was still fun. 🙂

Since we couldn’t feel our feet we naturally decided to grab drinks and fries (healthy fuel) for the ride home. Watered down Coke never tasted so good…

We got to bed around 7am. Best.night.ever. I’d do it again 🙂

Did you brave it? Was it worth it? Let me know what you got! My stuff will be popping up on the blog in the next week!

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