Emmy Red Carpet Loooooves

I enjoy award shows, mostly for the fashions. But I also generally enjoyed the Emmys this year. Jimmy Fallon is wonderful. But here are some pretty people in pretty things.

Ruffles and I are friends.

Mmmm how fabulous does he look?

I love love love Claire Danes anyway, and she looks wonderful.

Amber Riley is fabulous, and white is wonderful on her.

I love red dresses, but I just don't know how I feel about them on the red carpet. It's too much red.

Like I said.

You can't see the details too well, but the top of this dress is beautiful.

Sparkle, when done well, is lovely.

Jane Lynch, you are amazing.

I really like the top of this one. I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing, but it's fun.

The details on the straps are different, and I love it.

Paaaaaam. Just kidding. Jennaaaa. Love it.

White was fabulous this year.

I don't know if you all know of my deep love for bowties. If you didn't before, you do now. I think they are hot. And dorky. And adorable. But seriously. omg bowties.

I'm liking the thick detail up top.

And, of course, the flawless Betty White. I love her so very much, I don't care what she is wearing.

There you go. I spent the entire time watching the Emmys working on my flat pattern design homework. It seemed fitting. Haha, punny.

I've got a tight grip on reality

So I'm into the second week of classes, and school is trying to bury me. Last week wasn't too bad. Thursday we did yoga. It was fun. =] A bunch of people came over...Friday? I think? I don't know. I've had 50 billion meetings, and I'm trying to stay organized. It's a lot to handle. I don't stop going going going til I get home, then I do homework, then pass out. I haven't slept through the night once for the past two weeks. I finally did last night, but I was exhausted today. Hopefully the sleep issue will be remedied soon.

Anyway, classes:

CTD448: History of Costume

   I'm excited about this class. It's a bit tedious, but it's interesting, and she has a ton of examples to bring to class.

CTD350: Flat Pattern Design

   I LOVE Mrs. Robinson. She is my favorite. I'm SO excited to finally learn how to make my own patterns. It's going to be a really fun class. Lots of work, but so worth it.

CTD320: Visual Merchandising

   Dr. Koontz is super intense, but she definitely gets you to make super high quality work you didn't think you could do. All of the projects will be group projects though, which makes me nervous.

EC110: Microeconomics

   I don't remember taking economics in high school. I mean, I must have, right? Doesn't everyone have to? I remember being in DE Macro for one day, then realizing it would be the most boring class ever and dropping it. But I must have taken it regular? Who knows. Either way, there are 250 people in this class, and I'm not quite understanding things yet. Which makes me nervous. It should NOT be hard, but I just feel dumb. Hopefully that remedies itself.

CBH301: Computer-Based Honors

   Oh, CBH. I love you. And by that I mean you make me want to pull my hair out most days, you take up so much of my time, and you stress me out beyond belief. But you also gave me some of my best friends, and are generally all around awesome. Without CBH, I wouldn't be at UA, I wouldn't get to do the projects I get to do, I wouldn't have met Anthony and done his website, everything. I owe so much to CBH. My section seems fun, too, so I'm excited for that.

Work is still good. I love Mrs. Batson so much. I would not survive without her. And I am so grateful to have a job, specifically my job, because it's perfect.

The organizations I'm involved in have begun to take over my life. I am working 3 different tables at Get On Board Day, helping to set up two of them, and trying to juggle them all. Golden Key, Fashion, Inc., and Honors College Assembly. I have meetings every single night, I'm trying to get budgets together, and I found out I have a Leadership UA retreat this weekend. And then there's Academic Honor Council. It's a lot to handle. But I definitely think I'm good with my decision to get this involved. They are all different, and I'm involved in a different way in each. It's pretty cool.

Oh, and at some point, I need to start my line for Rock the Runway. Yeahhhh...

Anyway. That's my life. I'm not complaining, I really enjoy myself. I just guarantee you this will be my busiest year yet.

Oh, here are some pictures, too.

First day of Junior Year

Oh, school. I've been enjoying my time, and been super busy, and now I have to add classes? No thank you. Juuust kidding. That's why I'm here. But anyway, recap

This weekend...I was all over the place. But Saturday I helped freshmen move into Parham from 12 to 5, ran home for a shower, then ran back for the Honors College freshman cookout at 6. We got all set up, people began to arrive, then the monsoon hit. BAH. So we sat through it, then it started to rain sideways.

Anywho. I got drenched. We all did. I of course decided to wear a dry clean only dress. It got completely soaked, and my nametag melted onto it, leaving a huge sticky mess. Huzzah! We eventually moved inside the RCC. We actually had a good time. After a while though, I was beat, so I headed home and crashed.

Monday I went back to work. Went to the post office first, who did not help me at all. Oy. Then went to work, went to lunch with everyone, had a surprise ice cream social for Dr. Sharpe to say Congratulations on becoming dean. How happy is everyone that he got it? Seriously, if they had chosen one of the other candidates, I would have been very upset. Dr. Sharpe is totally about the students, and is a great dean. So Yay! After that, I had an HCA meeting, then I ran to Doster for a Fashion, Inc. meeting, then ran back to Nott to work til 5:30. Looong day.

Tuesday I worked all day as well. We were insanely busy. I also had to deal with the post office again. Over an hour there for them to finally realize my letter was already on the truck. A+. After work, Erin came over for dinner, then I just lazed around my apartment. There was a loud carpet cleaning truck here past midnight. That was weird. And my downstairs neighbors are finally back and boy are they loud. But it's awesome. I go to my bedroom, and it's like a noise cancelling cave. Eeeeexcellent.

Today begins my junior year of college. How crazy is that? I'm excited, though. I'm also insanely busy, but it's going to be good. I just have to stay super organized. Now I guess I should get ready.

Oh, here's a picture from that Target party nonsense:

Some kind of wonderful

So this morning I woke up at 7 am again. Sup with that? So I forced myself to go back to sleep again, because I went to sleep at 2 am. Oy oy. So I got up at 10:30, and payed a bill, then spent an hour on the phone with Alabama Power. Stupid. They were not helpful. I brought Erin some food at work, then we went to Subway so she could eat. Then I came back, and Matthew called at 2, so I picked him up and we went to Home Depot. Got him a dead bolt, then we went to my bank. Theeen back to his house to see his sweet tv, theeen to the farmer's market. Yay farmer's market! I love it. I got some tomatoes and peaches, then we went back to Thew's house to install the dead bolt. That was an adventure. But we did it! Well, he did it. I read him the instructions. I left around 5:30 to drop my stuff off at my apartment. PS, Thew lives literally like 2 blocks from me. I'm very happy about this. So after that, I drove up to Starbucks to meet Heather for coffee. We talked everything out, and I really expect everything to go back to how it was, which I'm so excited about. We just needed a summer to let everything blow over. I missed her. =] So I left there around 8 and came back, and Dan and Autumn met me here. Then Jess, then Thew. We made pizza, then decided we needed Imaginiff. So we went to Target, who of course didn't have it. So we drove to Wal-Mart. Well, Thew drove. Which was terrifying. We got it and came back to play for a while. We did, Thew won. Of course. Now, Autumn and Dan are playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 on my sweet PS2. I'm so high tech. Tomorrow, I really am going to clean. Like, really. I'm having a party, I have to!

PS, soon this will turn back into my fashion blog. For now, there's so much else going on, I haven't even begun to focus on my RTR line. Which everyone is probably like WHAAAAA??? about, but it's cool, I'll get it done.

You are the only exception

Last night Dan and Jess came over. We made dinner, played games, and hung out. After they left, I waited for Comcast. and waited. and waited. So Comcast didn't show up until 10. Aaaawesome. They were supposed to come between 5 and 8. Luckily, the guy was really nice. He got everything set up, I tested it all out, then went to bed. Today, I got up at 7, watched tv for a bit, then went back to bed until 11:30. Haha I needed sleep SO bad. So I got up and started setting up my wireless router. Big fail. Spent an hour on the phone with Belkin tech help. Jerks. Finally got it working, though. Thank goodness. After that I had a lot more to do, but Autumn called, so I showered and met her for lunch. I picked her up at Friedman and we went to Crimson Cafe for lunch. Yum salad. Then we went to Home Depot and Target. Picked up lots of random stuff. Dropped her off, then came home. Amber, Lindsay, and Cody stopped by for a while. Yay! They left, I cleaned up and payed bills, then Matthew, Mitch, Dan, and Autumn came over. We made dinner (a very weird dinner) then played Disney Trivia, then watched Mythbusters and ATHF. Haha. Now for SYTYCD and sleeep. Tomorrow, cleaning, unpacking, organizing, and coffee. And Farmer's Market with Matthew. Yay! Busy life, here I come. 

Home Sweet Home

The river was good. It seemed really short, and there were some weird points, but it was nice. I wish we could have just relaxed a little more. We left yesterday, finished getting stuff into the apartment, then went to some stores. Got a couch, a niice tv, and a router and modem for the cable and internet. Spent lots of money. OY. then went to bed around midnight. My parents left this morning at 7. I cried, of course. a lot. Haha. I'm a little freaked out about living on my own, but it's going to be nice. Now, I'm watching Gilmore Girls and trying to pay some bills with some borrowed wifi. Comcast comes tonight to set everything up. Yay!

Online Captain's Log

Last day of work was good. Got out early, so I took the C to the M60 to LGA. took 2 1/2 hours. OY. got the 1 o'clock out to DCA, then sat there for 5 hours. Finally got to TPA at 10:30. Went to bed, got up at 4 am to drive to Alabama. About an hour into the trip, Tux exploded all over his carrier. OH MY GOSH. It was pitch black outside. We pulled over and cleaned him and the carrier up. It was AWFUL. The rest of the drive wasn't too bad.

When I got to Tuscaloosa, we went to 308A, went inside, and I was shocked. It was awful. The carpet was disgusting, the air didn't work, the kitchen was tiny, and half the windows didn't open. So I cried a little. Then I called H.A. Edwards, and they sent out an agent. They said they could either fix all of those things, or I could go to 308D. So we looked at D, and it was SO much better. So we decided to move there. Cameron drove up from Prattville to help me move all of my stuff. I love him. I had gotten my electric set up in A, and of course they couldn't switch it to D til Tuesday, so our entire move would be without air. EXCELLENT. So we moved all of the stuff out of the cars and into D and A, the big stuff into D, the smaller into A so we could sort it in the air conditioning. After we emptied the cars, we called Taylor, and he met us at Mrs. Batson's house. We borrowed her mini van, and emptied my storage unit and the stuff I had in Mrs. Batson's unit. We got it back to the apartment and moved everything in. Thank goodness for Cameron, Taylor, and Amber. It would NOT have been good without them. Love you guys! We bought them some pizza for dinner, then we all parted ways. We sorted some more stuff, then went to bed relatively early.

Sunday we got up and kept rearranging and organizing. It was SO hot, and the air in A kept going in and out. Oh my goodness. We went to the stores too to get some stuff.

Monday I went to get the water, air, and comcast set up. Water got set up Monday, Electric Tuesday, Comcast next week. At night, we had an HCA meeting.

Tuesday we finished, and then we left for Missouri. It was about a 7 hour drive, and then we spent the night at Dave and Connie's house. We went to see grandma and grandpa today, then I made Dave a facebook. Oh boy.

Sorry this is so brief, I only have internet access for a short time. More details and pictures soon!