OOTD and Shopping Haul

Sadly, I have been leading a very uninteresting life for the last few weeks and have had almost nothing to report! However, in my boredom, I have been doing a lot of online shopping, and have quite a little haul going, as well as an OOTD.

Here was what I wore today~ I bought this lovely scarf at Target and have been DYING to wear it. I got to many compliments in my bio class; a couple of my classmates even started calling me Marilyn Monroe haha! 

Now, my little internet haul:

I bought these three tank tops from Forever 21. (I do a ridiculous amount of shopping there, my mum jokes that I singlehandedly keep them in business haha)

One of the pieces I'm most proud of is this dress. It's my first official brand lolita style dress from Innocent World! The second I put it on, I felt so lovely, like a little doll. 

I bought this teeny Bambi wall hanging thinking it was going to be much bigger (oops, shoulda read the description). I still absolutely love it. And because it ended up only being six inches tall, I was able to find a place for it near my Bambi painting!

This, I didn't actually buy, but was gifted from my aunt. My dad went to visit his family in Kansas along with his brother and sister and while they were out shopping, my aunt saw this in a thrift store and knew I had to have it! I guess successful thrifting runs in the family.

I've been working on putting together a new charm bracelet for myself using the absolutely adorable charms from Juicy Couture. You can find really good deals on eBay, which is where I do much of my shopping for these charms. I've had my eye on this limited edition hot cocoa charm for some time, but have never found a reasonable deal or have been outbit. Recently, I found one that was right in my price range and snagged it! I now have 4 charms (a sewing machine, a box of french fries, a pot of gold, and now my cocoa charm)

I've also recently bought a Kindle (which I have no photos of) which I'm very excited about! So any of my lovies who have a Kindle and want to recommend e-books, or my lovies who just want to recommend regular books, I'm very eager to start reading!

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes and Blogger App

Last week I successfully attempted a new recipe from a Disney recipe book my mum bought me for my birthday. Pink Lemonade cupcakes! I brought them to work to share with all my girls as a trial run, and they all loved them. One of them loved them so much, she asked me to make a batch for her daughter's baby shower. And here are my batch I whipped together for her. They turned out so precious, I just had to share them!

This is also my first time writing from my Blogger app for the iPhone. Here's to hoping I'll be making more mobile posts later! Next week is -another- trip to Disneyland that I'll of course have to blog about.

The Top Of The World

My life has been so crazy busy due to school and work! Luckily, I am still able to find time in between my daily borings to achieve something exciting.

Yesterday, Panda and I went on a hike, which I have been dying to do forever. In the very center of my town, our town founder built a house on a hill overlooking the town. Many years have passed since then and the house has been abandoned. It's a bit of a destination spot for many younger people, and I can't say I had ever been to it before. So, by obligation of being a young person in my town, I HAD to go.

The view is absolutely beautiful. It's amazing how far you can see, and I never realized how far apart everything is.

When we came around to the other side, we started making Lion King jokes. Not only did I have to sing the opening to "The Circle of Life", but I also had to make fun at lines from the movie.

"Everything the light touches is our kingdom."

"What about that dark, shadowy place?"

"That is Felony Flats. You must never go there!"

(Felony Flats is our nickname for the "ghetto" area of our town, by the way)

There's also a lot of graffiti in the house. Some of it was done by Panda back in high school. It makes me want to go back and practice some spray painting!

There was an entire wall in one room absolutely covered in graffiti. I really like jumping in front of interesting backgrounds, so I needed a photo.

And also some vulgar graffiti.

We also had a beautiful set up for pictures in front of the sunset. We had to take some obligatory "hipster" pictures, of course!

My Week~

My week has been fairly boring. School, work, school, work. Although Tuesday, I took the day off with Panda and instead we went and got udon. Funny enough, one of the girls in my math class works at the place we always go to get udon, and recognized me. She even remembered my order!

Shrimp tempura udon, tempura on the side~

Wednesday, my science teacher took the day off, so I ended up going shopping and enjoying some me-time. And I noticed...I have this strange habit of buying things in specific colour schemes that vary from day to day...

I wish I was much more exciting than this, I really do! I just got a new iPhone 4S, so I'm hoping I can at least document my life a little better.

My Week

Yikes, it seems like I have this really bad habit of saying I'm going to come back and post, and then disappearing! Bad MZ, bad!

Anywho, I'd like to sum up my week with a wall of text and a few photos~

School: I started a new semester at school on the thirteenth. I go to school from noon until nine thirty on Mondays, so you'd bet I was prepared! Just kidding, I ended up not charging any of my electronic devices with internet access, so when they ended up switching my Bio class's room last minute, I was unable to look it up and ended up being twenty minutes late. My teacher was an absolute sweetheart, though (thankfully!)

Vann's Birthday (Valentine's Day): February 14th is not only Valentine's day, but also my fatcat, Vann's birthday! He is officially seven years old! I typically end up sans Valentine, but that's okay because I feel that my big kitten's birthday is a better reason to celebrate. He got extra treats and extra loves by everyone all day.

Happy Birthday, Fatcat!

Unfortunately, I ended up waking up very sick. But, lucky for me, Panda is the best friend ever and brought me cookies and orange juice in the morning to make me feel all better~

Reading: I've been on a crazy reading streak lately and earlier in the week completed The Hunger Games Trilogy. My mum bought me the first book from Amazon, and after getting halfway through it, I ended up running out to Target to pick up the last two! I loved the first book to death. Unfortunately, I did not feel the same about the other two. I'm still going to go see all of the movies when they come out, hoping that I'll enjoy them better than the books.

New Things: Back in January, I went to one of my favourite places in Orange County, named The Lab. I hadn't been since I moved away, but was pleased to find a new installment: a record store created out of one of those ham can trailers. The boy working was very interesting and knew more about music than I know about Disney! (and that says a lot) It was only after looking around did I see three records that I absolutely could not live without. The original soundtracks to Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Bambi. Even cooler? They unfold into books to read along while the music plays! Needless to say, I needed them. And they look perfect lined beside my Bambi painting~

See what I mean?

Mini Update

Despite my best efforts to blog like crazy, I've been quite rubbish at it! I apologise~

I was going to do a post on Tuesday about mine and Panda's six month anniversary and how we celebrated, but then things took a sudden turn and our relationship ended. While we are still best friends, I still took a bit of a vacation from the world for the last week. I'm still trying to get back into the swing of things, seeing as school starts next week and I don't have any choice but to shape up. I'm going to attempt a real post this week. I've got lots of new things that I'd love to show off!

Eff The Ocean, Let's Go To Disneyland!

Yesterday was quite the magical day~

You see, what started off as a trip to the beach ended with a trip to, you guessed it, Disneyland. I picked up Britani around 10:30 and it was so great to see her again! We only get to see each other once a year, so it's always such a treat. It's amazing how, no matter how long we go without seeing each other, when we get back together, we fall right back into sync like we were never separated before.

We got on the freeway and started driving toward the coast, which is roughly a 1 1/2 to 2 hour drive. Around half way there, I was talking about Disneyland when Britani says, "Why are we going to the beach? Eff the beach, let's go to Disneyland!"

We ended up getting to Disneyland around 1 (because we had to stop for In N Out on the way!) and the park was basically empty. She bought her ticket and I had my season pass. When we went up to the counter, it wouldn't read her ticket or my pass, but the lady was kind enough to let us in without any hassle.

We ended up not waiting for any more than 10 minutes for ANY ride. It was a relief to have a Star Wars nerd with me, also, because we got to ride Star Tours a million times. We even made silly jokes, like telling people to "live long and prosper" and see how many people would be visibly upset at us saying lines from Star Trek. At one point on the ride, C3PO had said, "This is madness!" and I yelled out "THIS. IS. STAR WARS!" Sadly, only Britani thought that was funny.

I explained to her that I always want to take pictures with characters and have met almost every princess and most of the characters. The number one on my list was to take a picture with a Storm Trooper. All day, we didn't think too much of it, until we got off of Star Tours for the buhjillionth time. We were on our way to a bathroom when Britani yells "STORRRRRRRRM TROOPERSSSSSSSS!". I turn around and see them, then go running into the line. My Disney Dream had come true!

As we headed into Adventure Land, some people approached us and gave us Fast Passes for the Indiana Jones ride. Indie is one of my top favourite rides in the park. We ran to the ride and the Fast Passes were able to be used right then. Before the ride starts, your guide tells you "And whatever you do, don't look the idol in the eyes!" And as you round the corner, there's the idol. Britani and I yelled "DON'T LOOK INTO ITS EYES!" His eyes glow and he says "LOOK INTO MY EYESSSS". You round another corner and, there's Indie, saying "You had to look in its eyes, didn't you?" and we yelled at him, "WE TOLD EM NOT TO, INDIE, I SWEAR!"

We ended up leaving the park around 6, simply because we had done everything. We took almost no pictures, as you can see, and figured that because the lines were so short, we had no time to take pictures. A curse that often happens to my group at Disneyland.

All in all, a dream trip for me and Britani. I can't wait for us to go to Disneyland again next year when she visits.