Kelly Turns 21, Chaos Ensues

My terrible amount of procrastination and "Senioritis" I've been feeling regarding school has definitely spilled over to the blog world. I really have to ask myself what I've been doing for the last few weeks, because I really have not been taking many pictures of ANYTHING, and I don't know that I've even had anything too exciting to talk about. Hopefully Spring and Sprink Break will help give that a little kick in the butt.

In the meantime, I wanted to do a picture post commemorating that in ONE WEEK, Birthday week begins and one of my best friends/roommate will FINALLY BE 21!!!! I don't think age of friends ever seems like any issue at all until you're at the split where one of you can go out to the bars and the other can't. We'll be leaving for Florida on her actual birthday for Spring Break, so I'm looking forward to a week of celebrations. I love birthdays, mine AND those of everyone else!

Chaos Ensues...

Skirt Dresses and Cowboy Boots

I think one of my favorite things is to take high waisted skirts and turn them into dresses by just wearing them even higher. It probably started with trying to wear them at the right height so they were the length I wanted them to be, but however it happened, it works.

Outfit
Skirt: Forever 21
Sweater, Legging: Old Navy
Boots: Durango, R.C.C. Western
Side-bag: Target

Bangs brought to you by Bettie Page and my lack of self control when it comes to scissors.

(I don't think Claire normally looks this much shorter than me... I'm not really sure what's going on here, it kind of looks like she's my child?)

I guess another favorite thing are those damn cowboy boots. I think I'm going to ask for another pair, this time Ariats, for my birthday. A friend who grew up riding horses says they are REALLY comfortable, and I could use another pair as much as I wear these. Plus, cowboy boots are totally worth the money since the more torn up they get, the more 'authentic' they look. I've had mine for years and the only real issue they've had is that time I spilled coffee all over them. Oops!

It's looking promising for these little ladies:

Sorry I've still been so out of it when it comes to the blogging world. I've been trying to at least pop by to keep up with everyone, and I don't think I even have a good excuse for being busy or anything. Maybe busy procrastinating... that's for sure. Oh, and HAPPY NATIONAL MARGARITA DAY! I'm kind of sad I just figured out that this is apparently a real thing, because otherwise I'd be drinking one as we speak.

Forever 21 Gift Card Giveaway

For those of you interested in Giveaways (Let's be honest, aren't we all) AND Forever 21... Pearls Lace and Ruffles is hosting one where she will be giving away a $75 gift card and a $25 gift card to two lucky readers!

Click the picture to head on over and check it out!

Red High Heels

Last night a few friends and I celebrated Valentine's day with dinner at Sushi Bar and then going to see The Roommate. I cannot express how RIDICULOUS that movie was. We may have had a little to drink before, but it was SO messed up and way more sexual than I expected. I don't really know WHAT I expected... but it was completely bizarre. I think it was worth seeing... but maybe wait until you can rent it from Redbox if you're considering it.

Either way, last night was probably the most fun Valentine's Day I've ever had. I LOVE my friends and could not ask for better ladies to celebrate the single life with :-)

Outfit
Dress: TJ Maxx
Shoes, Belt, Bracelets: Charlotte Russe
Earrings: Claire's

Happy Valentine's Day!

I thought I'd celebrate today by sharing some of the people and things that I LOVE!

My Momma

My Little Bubs

My Dad

My Wonderful Friends

My Little Penske

My Wonderful Roommate, and Steve Maddens!


Music and Art


My Little "Niece" Lily Baby

Crafting and Reading


College! (This represents that well, right? Haha)

What do YOU love? I hope that whether you are single or in a relationship, you have a wonderful Valentine's day and take the time to appreciate the people and things in your life that you love!

Steve Madden Sale

Steve Madden is having a big ol' sale on Boots that includes some other shoes as well, and since I have no money for shoe buying, I figured I should at least try to encourage the rest of you not to miss out on some of these fabulous shoes!

STEVEMADDEN.COM


CARLSEN

BONANZA
Ok ok, maybe these aren't on sale. I still wish I had them!


ELEVAATE

***Update: Did not post this at first because I thought the code expired, but you can currently use the code WINTER25 at checkout to get 25% a purchase of $75 or more and free shipping! If spending $125 or more, use WINTER30 and get 30% and free shipping!

Something New, Part Two!

Here are the more ridiculous pictures from Saturday night in Chicago. These are the sunglasses I bought at Forever 21. I think they remind me of Lady Gaga which probably explains the ridiculous growling face I'm making in all of these pictures.

I don't know why my dad looks like an adorable old little Chinese man in this picture...

Why yes, my dad DID initiate these tequila shots. No question on how close this apple fell to the tree.

More tequila on the apartment building roof in what felt like -10000 degrees. Smart on my part.

iPhones are the boom-boxes of the 2000's

You just can't take us anywhere....

Something New!

As I'm sure anyone has come to expect out of me when Chicago trips happen, I made my usual run by Forever 21. I picked up two dresses, a high waisted skirt, sunglasses, and a belt. Hopefully the others will be making appearances here soon, but here's the outfit from Saturday night when we went out to Buddy Guy's Legends to see some live Blues music.

Back zipper detail

Outfit
Dress, Belt: Forever 21
Leggings: Old Navy
Necklace: American Eagle
Shoes, Bracelets, Earrings, Ring: Charlotte Russe

Betsy!

A "Part II" of sorts is to come tomorrow with all the ridiculous pictures we took Saturday night. What were you ladies up to this weekend?

"Snowpocalypse" Hits the Midwest

Although they got two feet of snow and the "2nd Worst Blizzard in History" as far as Chicago is concerned, our version of the Snowpocalypse was more of an Icegeddon. We ended up with about .75" of ice drizzled with a bit of snow. This doesn't sound too horrible, but it got us out of school for about 24 hours (Which managed to get me out of FOUR whole classes. Perfect timing IU! Many thanks from this lazy senior! I should also mention that IU has only ever canceled classes a total of like five days in its history) and a lot of people are still out of power.

Thankfully we never lost it and our hardships were pretty much limited to being cut short from a trip to the mall and spending half an hour chipping our cars out of ice. Not bad at all.

The wild hair and lack of makeup: the way I looked for about two days this week.

I wish I could have gotten more pictures of the icy trees, but the freak weather melted the ice off and refroze it on the ground before I could make it out the next day!

Playing in the 'ice balls' with Kelly.

Ice Bunny?

I've also STILL been working on recovering from this 'sick' that I was starting to worry was bronchitis. Turns out it is the same thing I got this time last year: a HORRIBLE allergy related mess. I guess the floor set at work and cleaning off the shelves a week and a half ago really set it off and it just went down hill from there. Now I'm on a whole slew of Allergy/Symptom relief medications including a Promethazine/Codeine Cough Syrup... you know, the stuff rappers make SIZZURP out of. I don't question the ability of that stuff to mess you up... I took a teaspoon full earlier this morning and was knocked into the best nap ever with some REALLY wild dreams. I'm actually looking forward to see what comes from tonight's dreams.

The first time I wore real clothes and make-up in days...

Outfit
Sweater, Leggings: Old Navy
Scarf: H&M (Kind of obsessed, if you couldn't tell)
Dress: Target
Boots: Charlotte Russe

Tomorrow it's off to Chicago with my friend Betsy to visit my dad and another friend for the weekend. I'm kind of excited to see all the snow, and glad that Chicago is on top of its game and had everything cleared up pretty much the day after the blizzard. Hopefully I'll get a lot of pictures so I actually have something interest to post about next week. (Not that promethazine induced dreams aren't great or anything...)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!