shake it on down

 The ice cream was a summer throwback- I'm not one of those silly billies who eats frozen food in the dead of winter.

Party season is over - even more so as I embark on my final semester before graduation! In between writing around 100 pages of work that could potentially determine the rest of my life, I'm also looking for jobs for after I graduate - it's a stressful time, leaving me with little spare time.

Here is my remedy for stress and work
-Bake cake
-Make tea
-Invite friends to join
-Eat
-Laugh
-Write a to-do list
-Have a creative outlet
-When your brain gets a bit frazzled, watch an interesting documentary
-When your brain gets really frazzled, watch the trashiest show known to man
-When you can't relax, consult the Cute section of Buzzfeed

I do feel really lucky right now, I'm living with some great girls and really enjoying my last year as an undergrad! I love to learn :)

Another unrelated tip - don't provide a mobile/cell phone number for a google account that can't be replaced when lost. It took a lot of time and energy getting everything back haha

America

Really having a life changing experience here in America. Pics from Texas

Friends/music/Mardi Gras/pool parties/plate parties/Tony's southern seasoning/festivals/spring break

Four weeks left of classes and then I have a month where I'm going to travel. This blog's been dusty, I know, but I'm sure as I return to England I'll be bored stiff and back to catching up reading everyone's posts :)

tale as old as time

How's it going? Had a good week? Blue Monday was actually a crappy day, which I found annoyingly smarmy. I'm seeing Beauty & the Beast in 3D later- SO EXCITED! I'm actually really happy to be back at Uni so it's not really a pick-me-up but hopefully it'll fill me to the brim with happiness?

An email arrived in my inbox this week telling me about John Frieda's hair tutorials on YouTube... I took a look and was actually very impressed at how easy and successful they were! I decided to wear one out last night and got lots of compliments, the following video is the one I used



and here are the results

The morning after hair was pretty good too and easy to restyle :)

el dorado

How was Christmas for you then? I think I may have finally conquered jet lag, after a week and a bit! I'm wasn't even on American time which is the crazy thing; sleeping from 6pm till 2am, like a milkman (noon till 8pm US time)

I got a nice selection of presents this year, did you get what you wanted/needed?

I also braved the shops yesterday to exchange an item and picked up a couple of nice things in the sale- HELLO KITTY LIBERTY 1/2 priced goods from Boots :D and a £10 parker from H&M

The benefits that the closest shops to the beach town I live in being a chavvy shopping centre= the nicer items are ignored by people who opt for Peter Andre perfume or x factor CDs :)

Have you been near the sales?

I built my dreams around you

Christmas kinda came in a flash this year! I've decided that next year I'm going to spend it away from family, because although I love my kin, it's such a stressful time and I don't feel I appreciate them. I'm going to book a trip to New York or Austria :D

While Christmas day is over, there's still 2 weeks left of seasonal parties and gluttonous lifestyle (the first week of January never counts in terms of enforcing new years resolutions) and Asda has a great range of party dresses available.

In Facebook times it's difficult coming up with enough outfits for every occasion, knowing pictures are likely to end up online but Asda have a good selection at affordable prices. I think a lot of their items are also transferable in terms of seasons as fabrics and patterns aren't particularly exclusive to one time of the year- something in the past I've found a problem; having tons of summery dresses but zero winter ones.

I got sent this one shoulder dress, which is unlike a lot of dresses I own but I really liked. I went for a 70s vibe outfit and worked it with my clogs and a satchel. I'm undecided about wearing it with the belt or not, what do ya think?

Check out George for more items :)

Dusty

Why it has been a long time! I still exist haha

I can't believe how busy life has been since touching down in America all the way back in August. But it's 3am and I can't sleep so I've decided to blog :)

A most amazing thing about being in the Deep South is that it's mid-November and I'm still wearing summer clothes! I have finally got to wear all my cotton dresses. I bought this one below from the Debenhams sale before I left England and I wore it to the Homecoming Parade.

Can I just remark on how amazing British style is? Seriously, English people rock so much in dress sense! The generic outfit here is baggy T Shirt (usually provided from an event they attended), baseball cap, gym shorts. I get looked up and down for some of the clothes I wear (always overdressed haha) but I've learned to accept the funny looks and not conform to looking like I'm about to work out.

Menswear

Jac5 is a new menswear website. While not many bloggers are male, some of you might be looking for Christmas presents for boyfriends, guyfriends, BFFs etc.

But I actually also enjoy wearing oversized mens T-shirts myself! There's some fun and classic designs in the collection online.

It maybe from watching Grease over and over, but I do love a plain black T-shirt on a guy. This one is $25.00.

Find more items of a variety of styles at http://www.jac5.com

A toast to that

Wow, there's dust all over this place isn't there? I've been so utterly busy with the move and starting school that it's been neglected! America is really impacting my time, vocabulary and diet, it's rather awful haha!

Well it's been three weeks and I've been to a couple of frat parties, drunk from red cups (at one party, I had 4 red cups of alcoholic cool aid, bad idea- I was so drunk when I got home I couldn't even change into my PJs!) I've started classes too which are SO different from British ones... seriously! I've got another blog documenting my adventures in case you're interested in anything else.

I also got these very cute 'French Toast' socks from Forever 21... 95 cents! 95 CENTS! :o

We got a little paranoid earlier because 'Storm Lee' is approaching and ran to get food from the gas station. We got drenched to the bone and by looks of things...the rain has stopped! Silly over-dramatic weather reports paha. Other than today it has been 30'C+ and hasn't rained; I am getting full wear from my summer wardrobe- something Britain did not provide me with!