Fashionable Summer Heat

I've been working quite a bit this weekend. We've got to finish cleaning out our office tomorrow. It looks horrendous right now. D: I've also started moving some of my stuff to my room for the fall semester. Whoo.

Since I don't feel I have much to really post about, here's the outfit of today for beating this nasty humid summer heat.

Top: Rue21

Vest: Rue21

Necklace: Claire's

Shorts: Wet Seal

Shoes: Walmart

This last picture I think is my favorite. :)

Painting Clothes

• Necklace: Gift from my grandma
• Shirt: Gift from a friend
• Pants: $4 at Sears
• Shoes: I honestly have no idea, they've been in the closet forever and I've used them for plays and such and just now pulled them out for actual wear. :)

This was actually yesterday's outfit, mostly something I didn't really mind getting paint on while I worked on screen printing stuff, which btw, SUUUUUCKED.

I really did enjoy wearing this. I love the top; it's really nice for this exhausting summer heat. And I'm really growing attached to those shoes. I really don't like shoes that come to my ankles like this (I find them really irritating), but these are way too adorbs, so I just ignore that. lol

Too bad I'm still attempting to stay anonymous here otherwise I'd show you my super cute sunglasses and bandanna I wore with this as well. :)

P.S. I love the fact that I've lost enough weight to fit back into these size 1 jeans from high school. Don't worry, most of my pants consist of sizes 5-7 still. :P

First Outfit

First outfit of my own I've shown here. I'll try and remember to take more photos to post each day.

• Shirt - Walmart
• Necklace - Claire's
• Belt - Rue 21
• Skirt - Rue 21
• Leggings - Wholesale-Dress
• Shoes - Cato

The most I spent was on the skirt last summer, $20. Everything else was $5 and under. I love sales!

Screen Printing Class

I've loved this summer class so far. Too bad it's the last week of class and I still haven't officially printed anything. Ugh. So lame.


Quick run-down of how class has been:


First week - introduction to what the class is about and what we'll be doing. Thursday was planned for our first demo, but maintenance started painting the room we needed without asking our professor.
Second week - Create designs and research for next assignment. Painting still not finished and room still not available.
Third week - More designs and research. Finally had first demo on Tuesday. Wednesday started burning images, but Thursday class cancelled due to issues with exposure time.
Fourth week (this week) - Such a big class and so little to do in such a small room at one time. I ended up leaving earlier, like most of the class. I left early because of all the water everywhere in the air was beginning to get my papers wet. Obnoxious.


Hopefully, I'll actually get some decent things accomplished this week before the class is officially over. I'm pretty excited though. I'm more excited about my tshirt design than I am my poster design.

I have a more finished version, but I didn't have time to take a photo. I've just been too consumed with watching Dexter. Such an awesome show.

This is my t-shirt design. I'm way more excited about this than I am about that poster. I love this way more! I can't wait! Even if I don't have time in class I'm totally gonna get this done during the next semester.

Awkward Meetings

Feeling insecure about the boyfriend after a while, I decided to possibly look for someone new.
I started talking to this guy, Ben*. I met him on Chemistry.com. Looking at his profile pic he was rather attractive and after texting back and forth for a while he seemed nice and we decided to meet. We decided to meet at the mall, head to dinner, and go see Transformers 3.

I had to try and cram in Transformers 2 before I headed out since I hadn't watched it yet and headed out immediately afterward (even after having to skim through a few parts to watch it all). I headed over to meet Ben and waited through about 15 minutes of some man hacking up a lung and some kid playing a neighing horse sound before he finally showed up.

He wasn't as attractive as I had hoped. He was much shorter than his profile said (still taller than me) and he was a bit chunky. Not that chunky is bad, just not what I expected. Talking with him in person was rather awkward and conversations didn't really flow well. We walked around for longer than expected and didn't have time for a real dinner other than Subway. After food we went straight to the movie.

He payed for my ticket after much insisting. Halfway through the movie he decides to put his arm around me. I was nice and let him do it. Thankfully, he didn't try to hold my hand. I could not get comfortable with his arm around me at all. It sucked. He drove me home afterward and when we pulled in my driveway I leaned over and gave him a hug. I think he was expecting a kiss and I felt slightly awkward after pulling away.

He wanted me to come see fireworks with him but I was so afraid if I did go he would totally try to put the moves on me. That was not how I wanted to spend my last weekend at home.

He sent me a text Sunday morning (July 3rd).

Good morning. Wish this day was as beautiful as you.

Ugh. I still don't know how to feel other than weirded out. That would be sweet if we were really dating, but not after just one date. That's really awkward.

I haven't texted him since. Thankfully, he hasn't texted me either.

Man, why do I attract awkward men? I should probably stop looking for guys online. I'm starting to realize why they're left with looking for women online...

I am TERRIBLE

Yes, I am terrible at updating this.

So, Independence Day weekend was pretty awesome. Vond* fireworks are awesome as always and I took quite a few photos like always. They have a huge family and make up a good majority of everyone in the wards in my town. A lot of them have really good paying jobs like lawyers, dentists, and doctors so they have quite a bit of money to spend on the display. They rig it up to music and everything. It's the best display around. They've also been told that they spend more money on fireworks than the city.
A love the display because it's usually about 20 to 30 minutes of constant fireworks not like the city where it's "Boom! . . . . Boom! . . . . Boom!"
Vond's are like "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Lol. I'm sure you loved that explanation.

I got to see my best friend from childhood (the one who just got married in Louisiana) and spent some time with her on Monday before I left for school.

I've been at school since and quite a bit has happened while here and I'll save that for another update which hopefully will come soon!

YSA Conference

So I have lots and lots to update about, but I'll just start off with the YSA Conference.

Tons of fun! And I really enjoyed the lessons/workshops we had.

I met some really awesome guys during the Speed Dating activity, but I couldn't ever find them afterward and obviously I didn't make a big enough impression on them for them to find me. Lame. :(

I did meet one really super awesome guy, too bad he was WAY more into my sister than me. Also lame.

I was very frustrated with my friend Sam*. I used to think she was an extrovert until this conference. She didn't want to randomly talk with people or go out of her way to meet new people. She clung to me and my sister for the majority of the conference and always wanted to leave early. She was such a downer and I feel like I could've met more people if I hadn't had to deal with her. It was still nice getting to catch up with her.

I have some serious confusion about another guy though. Dane* goes to school at my university. I'm not really best friends with him or anything and have barely spent time with him in the past. He's had a girlfriend for so long so I never really pushed the idea of hanging out or even dating him while I was single. He's super nice though and very down to earth and not overly conservative. I love talking with him when I get the chance.
Well, at the conference I saw him a few times and he really just said hi and asked how I was. Apparently though, he kept running into my sister. It seemed like every time he saw her he was telling her to tell me that he missed me and what-not. It just seemed like he was more zealous about me when talking to someone else, than to me. What does this mean though? Does he secretly like my sister and that's the connection he has to attempt to talk to her? Or is really interested in me and too nervous to show it? Or does he really not care and just wants to be nice? Ugh, boys.




P.S. Remember Jessica from this post? I forgot to update sooner about her, but the week after that dinner, she showed up at our ward with a guy.Turns out the guy was her boyfriend. Um... wat? Trying to flirt hardcore with other boys to really have a boyfriend. Ok, I know, I have a boyfriend, too, but I'm trying THAT hard to flirt.

Dear Shia Labeouf...

Dear Shia Labeouf,

Please marry me.

Love always,
Justine




I promise to update with a real post soon!