So...once again I disappeared for a long time...

A hoodie/button-down shirt combo

Hello! Sorry that I have lacked the motivation to write anything lately, but I just got back from a trip to the city yesterday and I went on a bit of a shopping spree!I had to restock up on things from LUSH because I was out of my face wash and was down to one shower gel so I obviously shopped there, but I decided to go a bit crazy in and around Water Tower Place too! I visited my friend Gabbi of Mieu Makeup and we had lots of yummy healthy food and tea lots and lots of delicious tea. Well all the photos from my splurge are here. Have a great day and hopefully I will remember to update more often.

Glogg, Herbalism, Whoosh and Tea Tree Toner

H&M

Skyline at Sunset

Forever21

Detail of TopShop shirt

TopShop

It's Been Awhile

So I havn't written anything since I started working again, but in my defense there wasn't much to write. Work isn't too bad I work in the men's clothing section of a department store at the mall, nothing to complain about beside the sillys that play on the escalator. I was thinking about a trip to the city this week since I have two days in a row off, but I am feeling a bit sick so perhaps soup, tea and some rest is better for me. My Christmas decorating is still underway...I will post pictures when it is all up and finished. Under normal circumstances I would attack my house with Christmas spirit the day after Thanksgiving, but this year I was instead battling masses of people at work for 12 hours (not as unpleasant as it probably sounds, but less fun than decorating). Well until I do something exciting, or actually get done decorating I think that is all for now. Hope the holiday season is going great!

Christmas in the Air!

   SNOW! This is the first snow of the year so I thought I would do a little post about the upcoming holidays. This snow will probably not stick much, but as the weather gets colder and the days shorter I start plotting my Christmas decorations. I know some of you will scream at me, but it's not even Thanksgiving yet! I never said I was going to put up decorations yet, just plan them. Thanksgiving planning takes little effort for me so I never spend much time thinking about it (popping the china in the dishwasher on the appropriate setting and polishing the silver is about all that I need to do, Mom ALWAYS does the cooking). Christmas is the holiday that I have always been in charge of.
    The day after Thanksgiving has been a day of chaos the last few years in my house; it is the day I pack up numerous photos and nicknacks and bring out the boxes full of Christmas stuff. The tradition in my parents household use to be to wait until after my brothers birthday, but since he was grown and had a family of his own I slowly changed that tradition as I took over the task of decorating. Many years we had a real tree; meaning we waited to actually get and put up the tree until well into December, but everything else would be put up (icicle lights, poinsettias, etc.). Last year Mom moved into an apartment so it was the first year I set up a fake tree for her in quite awhile (we picked up a pre-lit one, it made things so much easier).
     Getting completely done with decorating usually takes me about a week, but it all depends on how much I have decided to decorate. Considering we still live in an apartment outside lighting is no longer something to concern myself with, so I will naturally step up the rest of my decorating (I have gone so far as to coordinate gift wrapping with the tree before). 
     So what are your decorating plans this year? Have you already started thinking about it, or do you decorate at all? If you don't celebrate Christmas do you still put some winter inspired items into your decor during the season? Well enjoy this season perfect for hot coco and warm apple cider!

New Employment, Artsy Videos and Friend Time

    So this weekend I went to the city yet again, but as I said in the post before this one I had an interview at a department store at 9am Saturday. The interview must of gone well because I was hired! I was terrified of this specific interview because I had never had a group interview before, but it really just seemed like a conversation occasionally given a direction by the three interviewers. I ended up missing the train I had planned on taking to the city, but that really wasn't a problem.
    Once I was in the city my friend Gabbi; of Mieu Makeup, met me at the train station so she could make a quick stop at LUSH and the MAC counter in the Macy's on State Street. Saturday was a pretty relaxed day Gabbi made some delicious pasta, we ate ice cream, then picked up our friend Zach from where he works near Water Tower Place. A little bit of visiting at his dorm then sleep so that we would actually make the Eyeworks festival we had originally planned to see on Saturday, but missed due to my interview.
     The eyeworks festival of experimental animation was a very interesting collection of short films that lasted about 70 mins. We were very glad that it started slightly behind schedule because we ended up in the wrong building and had to ask a security guard for directions (>.<). After that was over; and Gabbi and I split ways for a bit, I met up with my friend Stephanie for a late lunch at Chipotle (so delicious). I enjoyed the city a bit and walked Stephanie to work and met back up with Gabbi for a bit of shopping. We grabbed some Starbucks (the holiday flavors are here we HAD to indulge) and headed to Marshall's for a sweater she had been eying and then the MAC counter at the Water Tower Place Macy's for a paint pot she had also been eying. Gabbi also discovered that they now have an Inglot  counter (she was VERY happy). That short shopping adventure was then concluded and I waved at the H&M my friend works at as I ran to catch the red line to make it too my train.
     My weekend was great and I look forward to soon starting up work in the 'burbs! How was your weekend?

Chicago Plans...Possibly Changed, but not dead

So this weekend I will be visiting my good friend Gabbi! It has been awhile since I stayed at UIC so this will be fun. I got a call earlier this evening about a job interview at a department store, so the artsy video showing thingy (so descriptive huh?) that were were planning on going to might have to be postponed until Sunday, but I will still be going to the city this weekend! Wish me luck on the interview! And I shall have fun window shopping, eating up all my friends food (oops did I say that out loud?) and having fun. Have a great weekend all!

Halloween Weekend!

     So I went to the city again this weekend. I organized a Halloween get-together for my friends (I know I don't live up there anymore...but I am ALWAYS the organizer...lol). I went up on Saturday morning to visit Zach and Dylan my twin friends that go to school downtown.
     Soon after I arrived I dragged Zach to where I get my hair cut in the city (I had planned some crazy hair for my costume, but in the end decided I might as well get it done since I was in the city) and after that we went in search of ingredients for butterbeer. If you don't know what butterbeer is you really need to read the Harry Potter series. Butterbeer takes some very simple ingredients; sweetened condensed milk, cream soda, butterscotch syrup and whipped butter based on the recipe we went off of, but it took several stores to find cream soda for some reason.
     After our adventure to find ingredients  and some Subway since we were starving we went back to the loop to watch some movies and relax until the evening. After several hours of relaxing we began the preparation for the get-together; baking cookies, getting dressed up, etc. Me and Dylan were zombies, Zach was a cop (sort of). Our friends were a sailor (Stephanie), an Umbreon (Gabbi from Mieu Makeup), and the dormouse from Alice in Wonderland (Miku). Overall it was a fun night of movies pizza and too many sweets, but the first batch of butterbeer following the recipe was disgusting; after a few tweaks it was delicious in the following batches though.
     Now it is Halloween as I write this and I am home in the suburbs. I didn't get one trick-or-treater this year! Living in an apartment building must be the reason behind this, but my neighborhood was FILLED with kids in costume. All the lovely big old houses in this neighborhood give away the best candy, I remember from back when I was still young enough to go trick-or-treating. I now have a giant bowl of candy all to myself...this should be interesting.
     Well my Halloween weekend was great; how was yours?
OH! I almost forgot...sorry I didn't take any pictures this weekend...I remembered my camera, but in the fun of things when everyone was in costume I forgot to take any pictures...by the time I thought about my camera it was 6am and makeup was wiped off and people were half asleep...so ooops!

My Current Room

The Bed/Posters that were a birthday present

Sideways closet shot the shoes/button-downs/pants side

Attempting to get the whole room in one shot

Another sideways shot of the closet the tee-shirt side

My dresser (ignore the bag of clothes to be donated near the guitar)

So here is my room as promised. My room had remained unfinished basically since my mom had moved into her current apartment. We had moved here shortly before I started a school year, then I permanently moved to campus for my job. Now that I am back home full time I decided to make my room look the way I wanted it too. I LOVE the posters my friend bought me for my birthday and the artwork that Gabbi, of mieumakeup, made for me! Gabbi's artwork has a little pop of color against all the black and white posters and brown bedding. I still feel my bedroom has room for improvement, but I am content with it for the moment. Well that's my room! I will try to continue my promise of posting more often. Farewell for now.