unrelated

(Shirt: JCREW via Outlets, Dress: Dillard's. Shoes: Thrifted via Goodwill, Watch: Thrifted via Flea Market)

andddd a zoom in on the confused face.

I took these outside my dorm. I have reached the point where I don't really care what people think. True, I am taking photos of myself with a tripod. It looks a little funny, but it was worth not hauling my stuff across the train tracks just because it was super nasty out today. I only have three weeks of school left!!! Holla at me, blog world.

Pride and Prejudice

(Dress turned Skirt: Anthropologie. Shirt: Gap, Shoes: Cynthia Vincent for Target, Necklace: Anthropologie)

My gorgeous friend Madison and I went to see a production of Pride and Prejudice, a perfect match for the Jane Austen class that we're taking together. The power went out twice during the performance, the second time during Darcy's second proposal. Coincidence? I think not. Pride and Prejudice always makes me so depressed. Where is MY Mr. Darcy? But we went to get ice cream afterwards with some other P&P aficionados, and that cheered me up quite a bit. The ice cream didn't. Apparently I don't like Black Cherry ice cream. Good to know, future Allison. 

13

(Shirt: Michael Starrs via Plato's Closet, Tank: Target, Skirt: Thrifted via Godwill, Shoes: Rack Room Shoes, Belt: Target, Necklace: Anthropologie)

This is supposed to be 13 for the half marathon, but it spends most of it's time looking like a B. I'll just have to come up with a creative story to tell people about why I have a B around my neck.

Consumer plastics ftw.

 Goodbye for the weekend, books! 

Better Than Never?

This is super late, as they are from EASTER, but I thought they could also function as an outfit post, because everyone looked so darn pretty. This is my gorgeous friend Elsa who spent Easter with me. :)

(Isn't mom's dress great?)

Psst, everything that I am wearing except the watch is my sister's. Haha, I packed for home and brought no Easter dress. Dimmy. And I am reppin' the watch like there is no tomorrow. In fact, I'm wearing it now. :) Hope eveyrone's Easter was fantastic, even though this is much too late. 

I DID IT!

I realized that since I've been posting sporadically at best, I forgot to post one of the most important accomplishments in my life right now, and that was running my first half marathon! Hopefully the first of many. :) This has been one of the few new years resolutions I have ever kept, and BOY am I proud. I hope I can get up the courage to run a full in the future. :)

Skirt Stuck on Re-Play-ay-ay-ay

(Shirt: Express, Skirt: Thrifted via Goodwill, Shoes: Urban Outfitters, Necklace: Made by a friend, Watch: Thrifted via Flea Market, Belt: Thrifted via Goodwill)

I wear this skirt way more than is healthy. At least once a week. I think it's just because it's so easy to style. I'm also so much more comfortable in long skirts. I was wearing one of my short skirts the other day and was so self conscious the whole day. I felt like I was constantly flashing people. Who knows, maybe I was. Long skirt allow me to sit cross legged and honestly, sit as dude-like as I want too without worrying about showing the world things they really don't need to see. Haha, I'm going to stop myself right now. This is too much information.

I think I'm going to go buy myself a cookie from the coffee shop and start working on my ten page research paper. yeah, that sounds good. I'm going to do that.

Turned Around

(Sweater: Banana Rebpulic via Outlet, Pants: Thrifted, Shoes: Rack Room Shoes, Necklace: Forever 21, Watch: Thrifted via Flea Market)

Lately, one of my biggest struggles is to be happy. It's become increasingly difficult being in a new place. And there are some great days. Some days where I finally feel like I'm making a great group of friends and have lots of things to do, but that's not what I'm worrying about.

Liking myself has been one of my biggest problems. I am a very sarcastic person and I can get really excited about things which can lead to being obnoxious. Last night I was eating dinner with my friends and a friend of a friend was sitting with us and commented on how mean we were to each other. Our humor is mostly making fun of each other, never meaning any of. This was yet another moment when my personality was attacked and I tried for a while to stop being sarcastic, but that's just not me. I'm naturally sarcastic and my humor is sarcastic and I have to realize that.

I just want to start liking myself ALL the time, not just odd days.