What Am I Proud Of?

Day 09. Something you’re proud of in the past few days.


Haha um... I'm not sure? I guess within the last week I've been able to keep up on my homework. I ran a mile or so with no problems at all (not that I usually have problems, the thing was it was absolutely freezing outside and I wasn't wearing the proper attire, so surprisingly, I wasn't totally miserable). I've kept my room fairly clean, too. I'm especially proud of my Halloween costume! It was so fun. Here's a last picture for your entertainment:

melanie and me.
she's Poison Ivy.

and for those of you who are curious, here's how I made my masterpiece costume.


I bought a full white unitard from amazon.com (blue ones are pretty hard to come by i guess). I dyed it blue using Rit's royal blue and navy blue (i had to dye it twice cuz the first time i came out kinda purply). After drying and rinsing and all that, I got to work on the paint job. I bought two kinds of fabric paint (the squeezy kind, not the actual paint on kind)--sparkly glitter and navy blue. I knew the sparkly kind would give it a little something, plus it was just pretty. :) anyway, I downloaded a bunch of pictures of Mystique from bing and google so I could have some kind of template as to what I was doing. I pretty much made it up as I went though because I had no idea what I was doing. I started with the legs and worked my way up though, trying to make sense of all the scales and whatever on her crazy blue body. Then I did the midsection. Then the arms. Then the whole backside. The fabric paint alone took me about 3 days on and off (drying and what not). It was pretty tedious. But it looks pretty dope! Haha. Then, on the actual dress-up day (in which I won first place for best costume at the ward party! dang straight!), I used like...tempura paint and acrylic paint mixed (I would choose something different though if I could do it again) and painted it on the rest of my body that was still showing after the unitard. I painted my face too. I spray painted my hair orange with that temporary hair spray (after putting it into a bun and throwing tons of gel into it to give it that nasty greasy look she has). I also had purchased some crazzzzy yellow cat eye contacts. So legit. And so scary. These were probably the hardest to come by because they're so expensive. I bought mine from the UK for only 17 pounds! Ha. Which isn't that bad actually. I can wear them whenever I want, too! Don't worry though, I won't. They're creepy. Umm so yeah. After my skin was painted, and my hair was in place, and my contacts were in, I painted parts of my skin (face especially) with the remainder of fabric paint I had (since she has scales on her face too). I threw on some navy blue flips flops and called it good! :) Even though I only got to show it off for one night, it was so much fun and totalllly worth all the work! 

You asked for it.

So many of you have probably been wondering how my lovely lil date went... so here's the story!

Intermittently during the day, we were making plans on what was going to go down (my friend asked me to go to a haunted house and I invited him to come along), who we were meeting up with and when, etc. I didn't really think it was going to be a real life date just because I asked him, and it was a big group thing, and yeah. So I was planning to pay for myself and we were just going to meet up with everyone by ourselves. Like we weren't going to go there together. Dumb I know. Anyway, the time came to meet up and my friend Stephanie (the girl who invited me int he first place) calls and says hey can you get a ride to this place. I was like ummm I don't think so because I don't have a car (I didn't want to ask Ben because I didn't think he would drive and again, I was the one who had asked him in the first place). But, I called him, and he was totally okay with it. During all this, my friend Liz came over cuz we were all supposed to meet up together anyway, and I knew she didn't have a ride so I told her to ride with me and Ben (which was totally okay in case any of you readers are wondering). So anyway, we meet up with Ben. We drive to the Haunted House (called Haunted Mill) chatting all the way. We get there and I'm already scared! But I brought these glow stick bracelets, which was awesome, and I even shared them with people. :-) Remember how I said I didn't think it was a date? Well I was totally prepared to pay for myself, but he just up and pays for both of us! *gasp* You can imagine how happy I felt inside. Haha. So we proceed through the entrance into everything frightening and spooky and he tells me to hold onto him and grabs my hand and links my arm with his. Ask me if I got butterflies. Yes. Yes I did. 100% added to my already enormous adrenaline rush. Is it bad that I wished a haunted house would never end? Because seriously, that's what I wanted. It was the closest thing I had to intimate physical contact with him. It was almost tortuous though because I knew it would end soon. Anyway, as soon as we got out, it was like my mini wonderland dreamworld was over because he let go of me and we drove home. I thanked him, and we parted ways.

I see him in class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That date was like the beginning and the end of all things. My hopes of being Ben Burke's first girlfriend are gone. And I have given up. I now wave the white flag.

On a happier note though, my Halloween costume got finished over the past weekend, and I must say... I have outdone myself...

me and my roommates
(Aubrey, Stacie, Jacqueline, ME, Mellie)

Me and my friend Liz

There will be more to come :-)

PS--My BFF Mellie is doing this 30 day blog thing... and she told me I should do it too, so I am. 

DAY ONE: The most recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself

(My recent picture is posted above)

1. I really love Halloween.
2. I have an addiction to diet pepsi.
3. I really love my bed. It's so comfy!
4. I love hot chocolate.
5. I now own a pair of yellow cat eye contacts (people get really creeped out by them haha).
6. I love Colorado more than any other state.
7. I picked up longboarding over the summer (and I love it).
8. I wish I had a green thumb, so I could grow one of these.
9. My favorite flowers are lilies and orchids.
10. I have a tumblr.
11. I think I have tendinitis (or tennis elbow, whichever you want to call it).
12. I want to travel. everywhere. SO BADLY.
13. I want to be a physical therapist for the Boston Red Sox.
14. I make friendship bracelets.
15. I love Steve Nash. He's a babe. and a baller.

octubre

I think coming up with blog titles are the hardest part about blogging. Okay maybe not. But it's usually what discourages me from blogging. Just sayin.

Okay so it's October. I think this is like my 3rd favorite month of the year. Other than December, May, annnnd yeah that's about it.

I love Halloween. It's my favorite. I love dressing up. In high school I always did makeup for theater and stuff. It was one of the best parts about being in plays and whatever. I could literally do whatever I wanted. And Halloween lets me continue that.

2 years ago I was She-Hulk:

And then last year I was a ref. and Amelia Earhart (so fun!):

This year... I was trying to decide between Hayley Williams (Paramore), Wonder Woman, or a peacock. And at some point I will be each of those. But instead, I chose something (or someone) entirely different!:

Yup. That's right. Imma be Mystique this year. Don't worry Mom, or anyone else for that matter, cuz I'm not going to be naked like she is. For several reasons (one, it's going to be freezing!). I got a full body unitard (it's hilarious looking right now, because I bought it white, and I'm planning on dying it), cat eye contacts, and I have a reddish colored wig. It's gonna be legit, I'm telling you. It better be anyway, cuz I'm investing a lot into this! Haha. I'll let you know what the finished product will look like.