Some Things

Thing One: I had a yard sale yesterday and the day before.  I did pretty well and sold most of the stuff I wanted to sell.  But on Saturday, it was very windy and later very rainy.  I had prepared for this by tying a tarp to some trees so I could move everything under if (when) it started raining.  So I had moved everything under including my chair and myself.  I was sitting there reading and the next thing I knew there was a branch with a corner of the tarp tied to it laying next to me and my head hurt really bad.  I stood up and almost fell back down from dizziness.  I called G and he helped me get inside and then moved all of my stuff back inside while I puked. Twice.  All signs pointed to a minor concussion.  He looked at the tree branch and figured out that it broke over my head.  I had blacked out so I don't know if it just hit my head or also hit my neck, but my neck has hurt like crazy and I have been icing it.  I have had two previous neck injuries so I probably re-aggravated one.  I refused to let G call me an ambulance or take me to the emergency room because I was sure that I wasn't going to die and I don't have money for such frivolities unless I'm dying.  He insisted on having me at his apartment where he could watch me.  He also insisted on not letting me go to bed until midnight (I had gotten up super early that morning for the yard sale and was tired before the concussion, but people with concussions can go into comas if they fall asleep.)  After he did let me go to sleep, he woke me up to check on me a bunch during the night.  I love that he's so concerned, but I did not get a good night's sleep.

Thing Two: I am moving.  I thought it would be fine to move my stuff out on July 1st, but I just found out that I need it out by the 30th.  Which means that I need to pack everything and bring it to G's tonight.  And lifting things makes my neck hurt worse, so definitely big fun.

Thing Three: I am abandoning you, my lovely readers, until next Sunday.  Tomorrow my parents are coming to get me and take me back to their place.  My brother just graduated from Marines Humvee training and he is allowed one week of leave before being sent to Japan for two years.  So I definitely want to see him before he leaves.  I will be hanging out with my family and not blogging, but I have temporarily placed an archive list for my blog in the sidebar, in case you miss me too much and want to go back and read some of my old posts.

Friday Fashion: More Magazineness

This thing is going to be a weekly-ish feature now.  I have some free digital magazine subscriptions that I've been reading lately and saving some of my favorite pictures from them.  Some of these pictures are great and some are significantly less than great.  So here's the first two, both from Elle.

Am I the only one that thinks this looks really really bad?
It's like colorful raccoon eye mask disease.

Can we just talk about this for one second?
First, as an ad, I think it fails since I don't even look at the clothes at all.
The first thing I notice is that those are the biggest earrings ever.
I honestly have no idea how her ears aren't falling off.
Probably witchcraft.
The second thing is, why is there just a random basketball?!
Neither one of these people are dressed for shooting hoops.

So that's all. It's sort of a mini one because I have last-minute yard sale stuff to attend to.

Non-Instagram Photos

I mentioned this on Twitter the other day and nobody has murdered me yet, so I thought I'd press my luck by mentioning it on here.  I hate Instagram.  It's not just because my phone is not even remotely capable of having it.  It's because I find the filters annoying and unnecessary, and very overused.  So there you go.  Please don't unfollow me.  I am a huge fan of recording awesome/pretty things in your daily life through photos.  I however, am not a huge fan or even remotely a fan at all, of you taking a picture of every Starbucks beverage you ever have/every pretty baked good you ever eat.  I get it, you like Starbucks and baked goods (especially macarons).  You also have a pet.  That's fantastic that you have a pet, but you don't need to take literally one hundred pictures of it every single day. It's like pictures of a baby; it's only constantly adorable to you and maybe some people who know it personally.  So that's just my two cents. I'm not internet famous so I certainly don't think I can change your personal habits because of my opinions.  With that being said, here are some pictures from my life lately, taken with my real camera.

cute hairstyle I found somewhere on the interwebz and actually managed to copy

just put your hair in a ponytail, separate into two strands, and tie in a knot.

If your hair is really long like mine, you can tie a second knot underneath the first.

Then just secure the ends with pins and your hair will look super fancy.

Huskies/Lakers colored shot thing I made up for G.
Purple gummy butterflies are super manly and sports related.

I still have difficulties with eyeliner, but one day I made spirals instead of cat eyes and it made my whole day more fun.

G and I watched this gorgeous sunset from right outside his apartment the other night.

G's mom is awesome and she got him donuts.  G is awesome and knows how ginormous my sweet tooth is, so he shared them with me : )

altered my dress just slightly by stitching the middle part of the top
down to make a sweetheart neckline; it looks so much better on me now

new shoes which, thanks to Payless' Buy One Get One Free sale, only cost me about $15 each

fresh strawberries and cilantro are colors that just look so pretty together

I'm so Emotional

The other day I took a break from shooting my KROD video and preparing for my yard sale, and I did a silly photo shoot. Feel free to make up your own captions.  Also feel free to share those captions in the comments : )

 

Tomorrow, I'll share some more pictures in a short post, but don't worry, none of them are of my face.  There is one of my eyes though, so sue me.  But don't actually sue me, because I don't have a lot of money.