An Afternoon in Portland

 

outfit details:

coat: borrowed from Britta

shirt: charlotte rusee

scarf: homemade

hat: F21

jeans: guess via Buffalo Exchange

boots: borrowed from Sarai

red lips courtesy of covergirl lip stain (highly recommended!)

I finally got to Portland for my lesson and of course there was rain rain rain. But here is my lovely Portland State University. There are a lot of old unique buildings but I ran out of time to get pictures of those lovelies. Maybe another day when it isn't pouring down on me.

Notice that picture up there on the left? and notice how you can't really tell where exactly i'm looking? Well... I have a condition called Strabismus. I don't even know how to spell it but it's obnoxious! It's pretty much like having TWO lazy eyes. A few years ago i had muscle corrective surgery on my left eye so i have this awesome scare on my EYE BALL! whoaaahhh! It's pretty sweet. Now i just need surgery on my other eye and we're set! For now enjoy the pictures where i look CRAZY!

Church Dodgeball :P

Today the young men and young women decided to play dodgeball...suffice to say, I HATE DODGEBALL. I enjoy almost every other activity, but I sincerely dislike dodgeball. It makes me feel awkward, and I'm always the kid who gets hit in the face by the strongest kid in the group. Sooo I sat on the stage and talked to my friend the whole time :)

Delightful!

Anyways, I decided I wanted to wear a skirt today, so I grabbed some random stuff and went for it! Also, we all thought there would be a two-hour late start, and we were excited, but it did not happen...so yeah. My hair looks terrible since I did NOTHING to it today except throw it up with a headband!!

Shirt-Charlotte Russe Tanktop-aeropostale Tights-borrowed Mocs-Wal-mart Necklaces-Thrifted Flower-Homemade

I got this flower idea from another blog!! It's probably going to be one of my new favorite hair accessories!

I really loved this random cool shot of my necklaces! Haha I'm a picture nerd :)

Love, Sarai

This is why we have best friends :)

Yesterday I was feeling kind of down about my whole lack of boy situation and a whole ton of other stresses that have been bogging me down lately. Two of my good friends were just being their usual selves and not trying to upset me but bugging me about  things and how i need to date this one kid that i really am not interested in. So I knew Sarai would understand my frustration and i sent her a text about how i don't want a boyfriend, i have no time for it and it's definitely not a priority because we're going to college next year and i hate feeling tied down! This is what I got in reply:

" I was thinking about how nice it would be to have a boyfriend, and i thought of you, and i wanted to call you and be like-[...] I think sometimes people consider relationship status a symbol of attractiveness, like i'm so cute i have a super-cute boyfriend! But you're talented, and gorgeous, smart and funny, so you really don't need a man to define you, honestly"

Us the night before Sarai left for Peru

I Feel Like a College Student....and a teacher

Today was one of those days when I woke up, and everything felt fantastic!

I had Nancy's leather jacket, and that pretty much made my day right there :)

When I got to school today, I looked down at myself, and I realized I felt like a college student, which is pretty awesome considering I'll be one in nine months or so! I feel like things are going by so fast, but I'm definitely not complaining because I think graduation can't come fast enough!

But anyways, I also feel like a teacher today! For juniors and seniors at my school, one of our projects is to grade the underclassmen LEAP journals...let me tell you-I sympathize with teachers. It's fun to grade for a little while, but after the fourth journal of a sophomore forgetting that 'don't', 'can't', 'won't', and whatnot being inappropriate for formal papers (do not, cannot, will not, DUH), you really want to hit something. The experience is good though-helps me learn apparently ;)

Random cool shot from my view of how my outfit looks :)

Scarf-germany, jacket-Nancy's, jeans-thrifted, slippers-closet, tank-aeropostale, teal tee-forever 21, bag-mom's closet

Have a wonderful day!

And if you're from Vancouver, enjoy the SNOW! while it lasts, of course ;)

Love, Sarai

Master Chef!

I have become the little master chef at my house since my mom is out of commission with a broken foot, ankle? whatever it is. That sounds really not sympathetic but i really have no idea what exactly she broke since she broke a few bones. Anyway, for the last two weeks i've been making dinner and i've been dominating it! Tonight i made tortillini (yummm) and yesterday i made yummy yummy pizza!

So for my outfit today, i attempted to dress down my Romy skirt from my first post and i think it worked out just dandy! I think it screams Portland though which i have been missing terribly the last few weeks. I haven't been there for three weeks and i'm use to being there at least twice a week! I can't wait to live in the middle of downtown next year! Also, there's a show called Portlandia that just plays off of all the weird random things around the city! Check it yo!

That last picture is me in my natural habitat. In the corner next to the heating vent, reading, and listening to music. My arm looks a little discolored and nasty because i have a few bruises. ick!

p.s. it's snowing!!!

Well Colin Ruined Everything...

Nancy's piano teacher, Colin, getting sick should have no effect on my life, correct??

Too bad it definitely did today. We had plans to switch back her shirt and my boots today on her way to her piano lesson. But Colin got sick, so lessons got canceled. I know it's probably not his fault he got sick, but it annoys me anyways.

Which is stupid...but whatever :P

Anyways, Nancy was wrong about the lace shirt not loving me. It definitely loves me, so she MUST be crazy!!! ;)

Flowers-gifted shirt-borrowed jeans-thrifted slippers-closet

Can I just say Nancy picks out the best christmas presents ever??  These FLOWERS! They're my favorite hair items now :)

And tomorrow I will be wearing Nancy's leather jacket!! I'm pretty excited since I've never borrowed it before :)

Hope that everyone's monday was fantastic by the way! Mine was so amazing! Two hour late start anyone?? Aww yeeah! ;)

So yes, today was perfect, until I got the news about Colin falling ill....idiot

Love, Sarai

I Like Boys!

I thought the boy title was appropriate since i will be posting a few pictures of boys today! Plus, boys are just fabulous.  And Sarai is still little Miss Devil since now that i've worn the boots i never want to give them back! The boots are just wonderful aren't they? *insert nancy's sad face*

Anyway, my friend Daniel and I were selected to go to a World Languages Conference at the University of Washington in Seattle so today we had to fill out the list of classes we wanted to take. They were awesome! I'm a bit of a language nerd and i'm taking german and spanish. I wish i could take french too... but i don't have time. So! One of the classes were "Modern Italy: Fashion, Food, and Culture". It was number one on my list! So in about two months you will be seeing pictures and tons of ideas from this! We also get to sit in on one of the actual language classes there and I chose Japanese and I think Latin. woot! woot!

Daniel and I a little too excited to do any actual German

Sterling and his dress coat trying to be sexy but failing.