oh my lord I’m proctoring SAT tests and I have to drink a ton of water because I have to read so much stuff but now I really have to pee and I don’t get another break for an hour please pray for my bladder.
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Birchbox January 2013 (and December 2012…and November 2012…)
This is how I teach Hamlet.
And might I add how proud I am that I did all of this from memory? I guess it helps that I’ve studied Hamlet approximately eighty bajillion times. But I just have so much fun explaining it, because the kids are all like “dude, Shakespeare’s boring” and I’m like “HOW CAN IT BE BORING?! LOOK AT HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED!!”
My mother and I have opposing views on banana popsicles.
Hiccup is not pleased by his festive Christmas sweater.
Molly Hooper
My students decided that they wanted to dress up like fun things this week, and they picked today was Sherlock Day. My contribution was a measly attempt at Molly Hooper- a cardigan reminiscent of a lab coat and a ponytail.
At least they seemed happy!
And speaking of my students, that’s where I’ve been for the past month! I just finished a production of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and boy, is my brain broken. It was a fantastic experience and my kids did a wonderful job, but it ate up all of my time. But now I have some time to breathe, and I can get back to doing things other than costume fittings and fight choreography rehearsals. It was a great idea to schedule the play right before Thanksgiving, because it gave me plenty of time to relax over the break. I literally spent my entire vacation (since I didn’t have access to the car) sitting around and writing. Marvelous!
But anyways…
I absolutely love this dress! One of my favorite bloggers had a clean-out-my-closet sale, and I snapped this one up immediately. It still had the tags on and everything! I’m looking forward to wearing it in the summer without a cardi or tights, but I couldn’t help but wear it now.
Dress: Modcloth Paint Life Grand Dress (Jack by BB Dakota)
Cardigan: Old Navy
Tights: Hue via eBay
Shoes: Keds via eBay
Nail Polish: none!
Perfume of the Day: Bath and Body Works Black Amethyst
emerging from the depths of hell week!
I don’t know if anyone ever reads this, but I vanished off the face of the earth for a while. But it was for a very good reason!
I just finished my first show with my sweet students! They did an amazing job with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and I’m so incredibly proud that it’s pretty much unbelievable.
But now I’m in that exhausted post show haze. My back hurts, my body is still trying to process excessive amounts of caffeine (yikes!) , and I have a bruised lump the size of Chicago on my forearm.
So I’m going to go back to dozing off while watching SNL on Netflix!
Sick Day
This outfit is a million times cuter in person, I swear.
Anyways, this is a warm, comfy outfit- perfect for a day like today. Some kind of 24 hour bug hit me in full force like a mack truck just as my class was starting. By the time rehearsal was over, I was exhausted and hot and shaky. I somehow managed the 45 minute drive home and stumbled into bed. Luckily, I went to bed and woke up feeling better. Still not 100%, but better.
At least I had a cute and comfy outfit to wear! I love pairing navy and yellow together, and the boots are so much fun.
Dress: Pink Rose via Ross
Cardigan: Forever 21
Jeggings: Target
Belt: Faded Glory
Boots: Rocketdog via eBay
Nail Polish: OPI At First Sight
Perfume of the Day: Vera Wang Glam Princess
Tuesday’s Ten: Halloween Candy Edition!
Halloween is tomorrow! Hurray!
We never really did Halloween when I was little. I dressed up when I was four (Marist College cheerleader- my grandfather was the college president and sent me a little uniform and a pompom as a present) and when I was five (ballerina princess- I couldn’t decide, so I was both). And then my parents decided that Halloween was evil and we should celebrate NO MORE.
Ironically, I met my husband at a Halloween party my senior year of high school.
Anyways, between my parents majorly easing up, being in my twenties and free to dress up if I so choose, and a sister obsessed with Tim Burton movies and cosplay (and often Tim Burton cosplays), Halloween is a much more relaxed occasion. I have two costumes lined up- I’m going to be Mabel Pines from Gravity Falls at school, and then I’m going to be Coraline while I hand out candy.
Which…THAT IS THE BEST PART OF HALLOWEEN. Right after dressing up, because I LOVE any excuse for dressing up. Next year, when P and I are in a house again, I’m totally going to have a fancy dress up party.
But yeah. Candy!
Here’s the best options that I look for in Halloween treats:
#1: 3 Musketeers bars
#2: Twix
#3: Those little packets of M&Ms
#4: Milky Ways
#5: Milky Way Midnights, WHICH ARE EVEN BETTER THAN NORMAL ONES BECAUSE YAY DARK CHOCOLATE.
#6: Krackel bars (Crunch bars are okay, but Krackels are better.)
#7: Anything dark chocolate
#8: Actually, chocolate’s pretty good. Unless it’s the weird store brand unlabeled stuff, because ew.
#9: ANYTHING FULL SIZE INSTEAD OF MINIATURE. It’s like hitting the frickin’ jackpot, man.
#10: Runts. You know, those little fruit-shaped candies from vending machines that don’t taste like fruit at all? Yeah, those are good.
And here, as a bonus, ten things that NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE, wants to get in their little plastic jack o’ lantern candy bucket things, SO FOR THE LOVE OF MERCY STOP HANDING THEM OUT, PEOPLE.
#1: Circus peanuts.
#2: Necco wafers
#3: Boxes of raisins
#4: Candy leftover from last Halloween
#5: Sugar Daddies
#6: Flavored Tootsie rolls
#7: Laffy Taffy
#8: Weird off brand Walgreens candy
#9: Any kind of licorice that is not Twizzlers
#10: Anything banana flavored.
The Ravenclaw Dress
I know this is sacrilege in the name of all the is outfit blogging, but I hate taking my pictures outside. The light is always terrible and unpredictable, and I’ve tried different spots all around my house, and it’s always awful. I want to go back to taking pictures indoors.
This is one of my tried-and-true dresses. Charlotte Russe can be very hit-or-miss, but I love this one. It’s strapless and slides around everywhere on the top now that I’ve lost some boobage, so I always wear it with a tank or a tee underneath. And today it was finally chilly, so I added a cardigan too!
The hair was an experiment. I found the tutorial on Pinterest and played around with it at home, but today was the first time I tried wearing it out. I really liked it, and I got a lot of compliments, so maybe I’ll try it again soon!
Although if I try wearing that hairstyle with last week’s sailor dress, someone needs to stop me.
Also, I watched Coraline with my aftercare kids today, and now I need to be her for Halloween.
Dress: Charlotte Russe
Tank: Target
Cardigan: Old Navy
Leggings: Target
Boots Seychelles Gallium via eBay
Nail Polish: OPI Spiderman Into the Night
Perfume of the Day: Harajuku Lovers Music
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