Don't couples usually match?

So as we all know, Tierney and I are dating... wait. No we're not.

She and I always happen to wear the same colors or style clothes when we go out. For example, we went to trivia three weeks in a row wearing the same color t - shirts. A teal, a bright blue and black if my memory serves me. We never wear the exact same outfit, we just look similar. Sort of like a couple at prom who have a matching dress and tie. Yet quite different actually... Anywho, T and I went to get drinks with my dad, sister and Roy the other day and again, we happened to be wearing white shirts, jeans and a similar animal print shoe. I thought this was getting scary and had to be acknowledged so I forced my sister to take a photo of us....

See, not exactly the same, but quite similar nonetheless. Strange...

Suiting Up

So this post is really 2 month late. When I had to took my exam in June, a strong emphasis was put on attire. The Court is extremely conservative, and the expectation is that male/female you'll wear a black/navy suit. So I went out with my next to no money to buy a suit. Evidently easier said than done. I went to the closest Prime Outlets, struck out. Went to Macy's and it's ilk, strike two. At this point I had spent too much valuable study time on my outfit with no success. I was totally over it. I had been venting in class, and another women similarly shaped to myself suggested a brand they carry at Nordstrom. To which I heard $$$. She could see the shock on my face, and readily admitted that it was expensive but worth it. So I told my Mom and she encouraged me to at least give it a try. So I picked it out, went into the dressing room, and before I even looked in the mirror, I knew it fit. Finally. But it was expensive, so I paced around the store for about 45 minutes on the phone with my Mom hyperventilating about it until she convinced me it was a worthy investment. So now I have a suit, and a love/hate relationship with it. I know it's a versatile piece of clothing, but it's BORING. I would have rather bought a purse, or some cute shoes.

I look like I'm running for office, but you'd buy wine from me, right?


The things that make my suit, my cute top from Ann Taylor, and Nike Air flats.


Hear is the fruit of my labors, my pin!

Red Ain't Right

I decided I'd like to try out being a redhead. I love redheads, Sean especially loves redheads, so why not? I am a total hair schizophrenic and seasonally shift from blonde to brown to whatever in between.

I dyed my hair a really coppery blonde once and it looked crazy on me. Probably because I didn't lighten my eyebrows at all, but still, I looked NUTS. As seen on an earlier post, I also went plum colored once, kind of cool but totally unnatural.

So this time I was determined to find something between Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. I really just wanted a True Red. Like, a normal redhead red. Not coppery orange and not plum purple. Just red thanks.

So settled on "Medium Auburn". Ala this:



I waffled in the aisle, because I know, after all of my hair dying expereince that colors run dark. A box of light brown will leave you with black hair. It's a fact.

I didn't want to go too light and end up with crazy copper again, but I didn't want to go too dark and be all plum loco. So I chose this one, thinking that my already very highlighted hair would balance out whatever too dark tendencies were in the dye.

And, out of left field, I ended up with this mess:

Uh yeah, that's BROWN. BROWN TOWN.

In the light it has a definite red tint. A nice red tint, but not red. This picture doesn't do justice to how dark it really is. It's like black cherry. I look like a Wiccan or something. Sean thought I was trying to be a vampire.

So I've gone out and gotten a copper shade, and in the near future I will try to undo this goth meets ginger nonsense. What a big suckity suck.

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While I was home I had a couple of opportunities to get all dolled up, and go sweat in the upstate humidity. You can see my fantastic Saratoga horse track outfit at the link above, and my out in Albany outfit down below.

Fake Graduation

So I officially became a graduate student this past weekend, but I didn't actually graduate from Stony Brook so they wouldn't give me the cap and gown sitch. So, since I didn't spend the $70 on the cap and gown I got a nice dress instead. I didn't take any photos of just me, but this is one of me and my roommates...

The dress is from JC Penny's (all of their sun dresses are 50% off right now by the way!) and the shoes are from target a while ago. I also had just moved all of my stuff out of my place so I had put my hair up and just took it down right before I took these photos... whoops.

Graduation and beyond...

So my week continued... and I have pictures of my outfits from every night but one, so I'm pretty proud of myself.

Friday night:

Commencement Ball

It was a formal, but I didn't go all out prom dresses like many of my classmates, cause you know me - not very big on the huge fancy dresses!! But it was an AWESOME night. So much fun hanging with all of my friends, and getting one last ridiculous evening before that scary graduation thing.

Dress from Express (yay coupons making things afordable), shoes from payless - they are baller and I'm completely obsessed with them!!! Again the drink in hand is just a bonus!


Saturday Night:

Family Dinner dance. Except none of our families came. My roommates and I pretended to be each others family. And we hung out with Avery's parents. This is the night where I don't have a picture of my outfit. But it was a dress you have all seen before, so nothing special.

Then I did this crazy thing called graduate. Supersuper weird. I am currently sitting in my room contemplating what exactly it means, and not being able to wrap my mind around it. I want to call all of you to talk and such, but don't have the time before bed. So I will call you later this week and explain my complete confusion about this whole life thing that seems to be going on around me. But here is one more picture just to make up for it!



I miss you all, and I hope you enjoyed the updates!!

P.S. Yes, I really was that obnoxiously colorful for graduation!!!

Two nights of debauchery

So here we go....


Night 1:
We went to two bars that were across the street from eachother. It was absurd, and we all got super shwasted, cause no driving was involved. However, we looked adorable.


The shirt is from Rue21 (cost $3), the belt is the same one from Wet Seal (I like it a lot), jeans from charlotte Russe, and I wore sneakers, cause that is how much I cared about looking pretty!!









Night 2:
We went to Mohegan Sun. Which in theory sounds awesome, and it was. Except that there were no early buses back, so we were stuck there until 2:30 and didn't get home until 4:30. I'm sitll exhausted. But again, I looked super cute.

The shirt is from Kohl's - the front is cute and scrunched, but you can't tell in the picture. (The bright pink bra is just a bonus). Same jeans from Charlotte Russe, and boots from Target!

These are the boots I wore, just to give you an idea!

More to follow <3