Music Inspiration

I have two songs to post today. Both come from the Charlotte Ronson S/S 2010 show. I'm so jealous she did a show based on 80's ballet dancers. I was literally thinking Monday how I want to do a line of ballet inspired looks.

September 30, 2009

The wather is b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l outside! It's finally getting that fall chill and it just makes me way too happy. October starts tomorrow and it is my favorite month out of the whole year. For some reason, every year October feels so magical to me and everything seems to go the way it should. I also have a lot of exciting things planned for October. This weekend my boyfriend and I are taking my little sister and her boyfriend out on a double date. While we are there I'm going to see if we have time to go to the art museum. I need some inspiration. Then, next weekend we are going to the Kings of Leon and White Lies concert. It will be amazing! He wants to see if we can go to New Orleans possibly too, so we'll see. I'm most looking forward to Halloween!! I haven't gotten to dress up for it and have fun in years and I can't wait!!

Last weekend my boyfriend got to meet my uncle and my best friend from the sixth grade who I haven't seen in YEARS. I was so excited to see her and catch up a little.

The weekend before that his parents met mine and it went perfectly. Sometimes I really wonder how things just work out so well, if maybe things are too good, but then they go better. God is good.

School is a little stressful. I have so much work to do and I have to come up with a fashion line. I had one created, but my teacher wasn't too interested in it, so now I'm racking my brains to make a new one. Also, the fabrics that are available to me here are not very conducive to my creative outlet. I have all these colors in my head, but it won't work if there is no fabric to match.

I'm going to make a few posts about my fashion projects process and post pictures. I'd like to look back on my beginnings one day.

September 17, 2009

I'm avoiding studying for the hardest test of my life. Hello, blog. Haven't updated you in a week. Let me fill you in on some stories so I can keep trying to hold onto this unstressed bliss before I dive into microeconomics.

Last Friday was the first band party at my boyfriend's frat. They had a local rapper that goes by Jackie Chain perform. It was quite amusing--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osuY809zd5U

It was fun for awhile. But as it was getting better, damn my bladder, I just had to go to the bathroom. When I came out, I couldn't find my boyfriend. A pledge grabbed my attention just outside of the bathroom door. He wanted me to call a guy he was with a p****. I said 'No, that's mean'. The music was loud, he couldn't hear me, he put his arm around me to get closer so he could hear, I pushed his arm away, he made a mean face, i think he might have said an ugly word right around here too but it's hard for me to remember that night, I asked him if he knew where Collier was, he flicked me off in my face and stormed off, and i went into the bathroom and broke down. Needless to say he was beyond drunk. If that happened to me right here and now, I would not react nearly as bad as I did that night. I was just upset someone would be so mean to me. I was upset nobody was there to see it but that boy he wanted me to call the p word. I was upset I couldn't find my boyfriend. And I was upset that my makeup was ruined; I worked hard to have a look for that night. Some girls came into the bathroom just after I did, and helped my find my boyfriend, who wasn't far from away, just not close enough to see. They were nice. Drunk girls are always way nicer than sober ones. Collier talked to the pledge and he apologized to me the next day. It was just a dumb situation.


The next day was my second UA game day and it was fun. I did wear the black dress and I liked it. Collier got to meet my uncle and cousins and my feet got to meet a world of pain.


Not much has happened this week. I'm almost through with the second season of Dexter, due to a marathon Collier and I had Tuesday night. I bought this dress=http://bit.ly/K6Nxn. It's Anna Sui for target. She was inspired by Gossip Girl and created a line. That's a Blair dress, whom is my favorite character on the series. I'm wearing it tomorrow night when I go eat at a seafood restaurant in downtown B'ham with my parents and my boyfriend and his parents. I'm looking forward to that part of tomorrow. I can just do without the two exams part.


My Flat Pattern Design test was today and it went pretty well. I know I can do pretty well on American Literature too. I good at knowing stories. This microecon test is going to mess me up though. It will be nice to forget about it for the weekend, though. I'm trying my hardest not to eat everything in my apartment right now. Stressful situations call for more yummy food. But, I can't be feeling bloated for my third UA game.


I started designing a fashion line today based on a short story I read last spring semester. It was Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I can't explain why, but his writing is like eating warm soup. It just goes down good. This story is all about "public goodness and private wickedness" (Wikipedia). That is a theme I've been struggling with and questioning my whole life. It's the reason why I've lost many friends. It's the reason why I struggle with liking people. It's also the reason why I struggle with liking myself. Everyone on this planet is a hypocrite and that makes me feel like I can never trust anyone, not even myself. Anyways, back to this line. It's going to have looks based on all of the characters. Faith will have an outfit that represents what Young Goodman Brown sees in her and she will have an outfit that represents what he sees of her in the forest. And so on and so on. It will mostly be sell able stuff though, nothing too over the top. I'm taking my time to get into over the top stuff.


I'm also on the lookout for an internship for the summer. We'll see how that goes...

UYL.
Julie



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Goodman_Brown

September 9, 2009

So, I think I just fail at staying consistent. I had every thought to keep updating this everyday. I guess it just is not very realistic. I'll still do it as often as I can; I promise!

Last Friday, I bought a new dress and skinny jeans. I wore the dress that night to my boyfriend's frat house, but I still can't decide how to wear the skinny jeans. They're black and have a print that resembles snake skin. I think when it gets cooler outside I'll wear them with a plain t and flats or black heels.

Saturday was a football game day. I lazed it up a bit and then my boyfriend came over and I made Buffalo Chicken Dip to take over to his fraternity house with Frito's. I also took the leftover cupcakes from our anniversary. It was super yum. I used a little bit more hot sauce then you are supposed to. This was a good decision because it made it more addicting--like hot fries, either you stop at one and let it burn your mouth or keep going and explore the intensity.

Here is the recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/buffalo-chicken-dip-recipe/index.html

It was fun. Bama played Vagina Tech and we won. Kind of expected though, I mean it's a school for gynecologists. There is a home game this coming saturday. It's my second football game ever since I've been at UA. We play Florida International. It will be interesting to watch us take on people of every continent. I have a black summer dress picked out, but I don't know if I will wear it. It all depends on how hot it is outside.

Sunday I saw Extract with my boyfriend. Decently funny, just not worthy of a full movie ticket. I'm going to use Spill.com's rating system and give it a "Rental".

Monday we watched Dexter, which I am eagerly waiting to finish the first season, and then we bought fabric and a pattern for me to make his Halloween costume. He's going to be Max from Where the Wild Things Are. I'm 75% done with it already. It looks perfect; I just hope the weather is cooled down by Halloween or he'll burn up.

My classes are getting considerably harder. We are beginning to experiment with poses on our female croquis figures and it's much much harder than you think it might be. Microeconomics is killing me. I'm trying harder and spending the time studying it now; I just can't get it to make sense. My mom said I only have to do okay, not perfect, so that's what I'm going to aim for. But even that will take all of my energy. Grr. I wish I had taken it at a community college or someone had informed me of how shitting hard it is.

Sorry for cussing.

My first test in that class is next Friday and an hour after that exam I have my first test in my American Lit. class where I have a bunch of quotes to memorize. Thursday night, my econ teacher is doing a review session thankfully, but I don't think I'll get any sleep that night. I hate having to do that. Especially when I'm having dinner with my parents and my boyfriend's parents that Friday night. You want to be perfect and presentable for those things; I worry that I'll just be a mess and too tired to function.

Anyways, I promise to update again soon.

Julie

September 2, 2009

I'll skip past the boring school parts. So, like I said in my last post, the 2nd was my six month anniversary. It was really nice. Of course if you go into something with expectations, what you expect never happens, but I'm still happy that it went the way that it did. I wore one of my favorite dresses that I've only worn once before. It's cream with lilac ribbon along the top and bottom and it has matching rosettes at the top. It makes me feel like a dream angel.

Dinner was lovely, but it always is at the place we went to. Then we watched a movie and had a super long conversation and overall I went to bed that night happy. I'm still struggling to get over some thoughts that make me uneasy. What if being social is just something that I'll always suck at? I honestly think I have improved a lot within the last year. Collier makes me feel good about myself and it is much easier to be confident in who I am when I know I have someone who loves me so greatly.

I'm going to make a dip for saturday. I'm really excited; I love cooking.

September 1, 2009

Tuesdays and Thursdays are my early days, but they are also my fun days. I have flat pattern design and fashion illustration. In flat pattern, we are learning how to develop our own bodice front patterns. It's kind of geometric, but still interesting. In illustration, we learned how to draw the back of our croquis girl. There is just something too vulgar about drawing a naked girl butt.

I have about two hours of free time between my classes. Today I spent it writing Harry Potter fan fiction. :) I haven't attempted this in forever. It was actually a really nice feeling and almost released some creative juices I've been storing.

I've had an idea for a book stuck in my head for the past two years and writing again helped me understand finally how I can achieve actually writing it. Why I never thought of it before, I can't figure out. It's the easiest solution possible.

Tomorrow is my six month anniversary with my boyfriend. I've made him something and I'm going to make him something else tomorrow after class. I'm really excited. He makes me excited, about everyTHING! So I spent all tonight cleaning my apartment a bit. It doesn't look much different, but I can feel a difference. I also finished my homework for tonight and tomorrow night so I don't have to think about anything but enjoying my night.

I just realized this blog is going to be very boring for readers. Oh well, I always write for myself it seems.