Maxi

I'm baccckk! Well, I've actually been back for 3 weeks, but as you've probably noticed I've been posting the guest posts that didn't get up while I was on my trip. I've been out of blogging for so long that it'll probably take me a while to get back in the swing of things. I also have some big life changes coming up here pretty soon (i.e. moving, starting college, all that fun stuff...), so we'll see how this goes. Things may be kind of sporadic around here for a while.

Maxi: H&M --- Sandals: UO --- Necklace: Croatia

These pictures are from about 2 weeks ago when I first got back from Bosnia and my hair was a funky gold-ish color on top mixed with my overgrown roots. Needless to say, I got that taken care of very soon afterwords, so my hair is now back to red again. I still wanted to post this, though, because I love this dress. Only $15 at H&M (regularly priced!). I'm excited to move to the big city this fall, but I do fear I may go broke from shopping at H&M all the time...

Also, this is a necklace I got in Croatia (Europe is quite lovely for the fact you can drive 2 hours and be in a completely different country) and am quite enamored with it.

Outfits: Pink and Frilly

March 3-

In yesterday's "Save Money" post, I said you should never skip the sale section just because you think it's gross stuff that a store is trying to get rid of. I think Target was really trying to get rid of this shirt because it was on $3.74 and it was the last one, but I'm not going to complain. I didn't have any light pink shirts like this so I thought it would be good to have at least one in my collection. So yay for cheap, new clothes!

March 4-

I realized I hadn't worn any of the loot I got from my trip to the first ever Oregon H&M yet, so I broke out my frilly cardigan today. I was originally going to wear some heels, but when I put them on and looked in the mirror I just looked so... girly. So out came the flats and, of course, my favorite gray jacket, which both helped to tone down the fancy-pants-ness of it.

Happy 152nd Birthday, Oregon!

Today's history lesson:
Oregon was admitted into the United States on February 14th, 1859 and was the 33rd state.
I bet you didn't know that! (I didn't either until I looked in up on Wikipedia).

I complain about Oregon a lot, but I really do love this state. Yeah, it rains like all the time here, but it's really gorgeous and there are lots of fun things to go see and do. So happy birthday, Oregon! I love you!

On Saturday I got to spend the evening in the coolest city in Oregon: Portland! I got off work early and my parents and I went up to have dinner at an Italian restaurant there called Porto Terra. My tummy was in a serious battle with the waistband of my skirt by the time we left.

After dinner I got to go to the brand new H&M, the very first H&M in Oregon! It was jam packed with people, which I don't like, so I didn't stay long but did pick up a few goodies before I left.

After my brief shopping trip we headed off to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, which is beautiful and has that old-school opera hall feel to it. Guess who is going to be playing there on the 19th? The Decemberists! Maybe I will skip work and hitchhike to Portland to see them... or maybe not.

Anyways, the reason that we were there was to watch The Screwtape Letters, the theatrical presentation of C.S. Lewis' book by the same name (he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, for those that aren't familiar with him). The play was awesome. It's really interesting because there is only one speaking part in the whole 90-minute play, and only 2 characters total. The actor (Max Mclean) that portrayed Screwtape did an excellent job and I can't even imagine the amount of work that he had to put in to memorize that entire script. After the play he came out and did a brief question and answer session, and he said he's been doing the play since 2006, so I guess by now he can probably say the entire script in his sleep, but still, it's just kind of mind boggling.

All in all, a great Saturday! A bit of work, a fabulous dinner, a touch of shopping, and an excellent play to finish off the trip.

Oh wait, technically the end of the trip was our stop at McDonald's to get me some coffee. It was past 10pm so nothing else was open. The mocha was, much to my surprise, not terrible. Not great, but not bad either. Good job Micky-D's!

Outfit: Welcome to 2011

I was looking through my outfit posts and I realized these shoes haven't been worn yet in 2011. Welcome to the new year, shoes! (Speaking of shoes, have you checked out my new blog yet?)

Anyways, I got a new cowl! Well, I got two actually, but it would look weird to wear two at the same time. I got this one from strawberrycountry on Etsy. 

I'm chopping up my outfit post and 30 Challenge post today because I think my challenge post is going to be looooonnngggg today. Hurray!