Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Birthday Money, Begone!

Today, Manny and I went to Riverside to run some errands. Our original plans were to go to Electric Chair to buy our tickets to the Kosmic Festival on Saturday, go to JoAnn so I could buy fabric to make pants for Kosmic Fest, go to the college so Manny could buy his books for the fall semester, and take a trip to the mall because he had to return a peacoat to H&M.
Well...I shook up our plans a little. We did go to the college, but then Manny said he probably couldn't afford going to the rave, and if he wasn't gonna go, I surely wasn't. So that automatically crossed out Electric Chair and JoAnn from our list.
Next, we went to the mall. We walked into H&M and got a good look at their clothes for quite some time. I began to gain some inspiration. I wanted to buy everything! But I refrained.
The display windows at Forever 21 looked promising, so in we went. One of the mannequins had on the greatest black tiered tulle skirt and it was at a good length and I just had to have it! I went through their racks, but it was nowhere in sight. I do horrible with speaking to people, so Manny being the great friend that he is, asked one of the sales associates for me. She could not seem to find it either. I gave up *sigh*.
I took a gander at their clothes and found an amazing paint splattered sweatshirt(pictured below) that screamed my name, so of course I bought it. I also bought a white pearl hair band(pictured below) and a silver chained belt that has a tassle-esque thing on one end. I love it, but infortunately I couldn't find a picture of it.
We walked out afterward and we passed by Aldo. I took a double take because they had some great shoes. I made Manny come back and walk in with me. I have been looking for some simple, flat black shoes with a hint of an Oxford shoe and low and behold...I found it! The store didn't have them in my size, but the nice lady said she'd order a pair for me in my size and they'd be shipped to my house for free! I paid for the shoes and felt a sense of happiness. They're supposed to come in 3-6 days. I'm so happy. I love having something to look forward to, especially something like shoes.

Manny and I were starving, so we decided to get something to eat. I remembered I needed a new pair of black pants, so we went to the only place I ever go to for black pants, Hot Topic. Ususally you wouldn't catch me dead there, but I really like their pants. I found these cool ones that are torn at the knees. I thought they added edge and purchased them.
Below are pictures of what I bought. They're not in order, but you get the picture - no pun intended. I also bought some floral printed cycling shorts, a vintage belt, and a teal-blue skirt with black polka-dots from Goodwill, which lack pictures.
I love shopping!












Monday, August 10, 2009

Shop My Closet!

As some of you know, I'll be starting school next month at the oh-so amazing Paul Mitchell of Costa Mesa. I'm sure you also know it's not exactly inexpensive. $20,000 to pay all by myself will preeetty difficult, especially since I don't have a job(yet!).

I'll quit beating around the bush now and get straight to my point: BUY MY STUFF. And by stuff, I mean my white leather boots! It's 6:30AM and I am lacking sleep, so I am far too lazy to list more of my items. Rest assured, I will be putting up more of my things in the near future.
Now that that's over with, I'm almost 18 and man, so I feel the responsibilities already coming at me. My mother took me over to Bank of America the other day to open an account for me, AKA, hellooo credit card! I'm actually pretty scared. Mathematical Financing class and its videos with people getting into debt has worried me, but at least I know what to do and what not to do. I also need to get a job. I hope to work somewhere cool.
My birthday is on Saturday and I have no idea how I want to celebrate it. I was hoping to go to Love Fest, but I'm pretty broke right now, so the idea if clubbing all night is looking like a definite possibility.
Do you guys have any good ideas of how I should celebrate my big one-eight?