seasonal

Oh, my theater babies! There's something about you guys that prevents summer from being summer until I've seen you. I would tell you to make me proud, but I already am, so make me prouder, kids!

I trust that my scripts are in good hands. (And this is what I wore to watch Up on Friday. Finally.)

Above, scarf: DIY. Sweatshirt: secondhand, mother's. Cats pin: Cats tour, SF. Red airplane pin: childhood. Cedric Diggory pin: Hot Topic. Jeans: Levi's + DIY. Shoes: Fafi for Adidas. Sunglasses: Forever21.

Special thanks to Sunshine for passing on Nate's comment that my hair makes me look like his sister's girlfriend. Think about that.

Once, I assumed that friends could be labeled and that my student-run-theater-group friends were Summer Friends, which meant they weren't as good as my School Year Friends, also known as Stress Friends, or My Support System, the ones who see me when I'm at my worst and meanest and most depressed and bite-your-head-off, the ones you go through shit with.

Maybe friends can be labeled, but I'm really glad that my Summer Friends are so easy to see again after long periods of time apart. I'm glad it's so easy to pick up again. I'm really glad some of my Summer Friends are now part of My Support System. And I'm glad the lines are blurring from both directions.

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it's short for ashley

Um, more Ash Stymest. I'm not supposed to be attracted to men in lipstick right? Um, but HOLY HELL, BOY HAS LIPS.

Whatever, Self. Sexuality fail. You also like him in a skirt, and in eyeliner, and let's just chalk this one down to the boy being irresistible.

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Eugenia (maybe)

Here's what I wore to go to the nursery to purchase a snow pea plant and some tomato seeds. If the snow pea flowers so I can save the seeds for when it gets colder, I will name it Eugenia. If not... I will try another snow pea plant and call it Eugenia. The tomatoes, if they live, will be Cyril or Fabrizio.

Above, t-shirt you can barely see: Wicked tour, LA. Sweater: Old Navy, mother's. Skirt: Nordstrom Rack. Tights: BP Nordstrom. Shoes: Steve Madden. Lips: Wet 'n' Wild.

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Congratulations! You are now prepared for the zombie apocalypse.

"Random number generator" generates this:

Which means Eligible Comment Number Four, which means

of Through the looking glass is will soon be the proud owner of this:

You'll be contacted shortly! Thanks to everyone else for participating. You can go back to not reading my blog now!

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for the camera

I smiled in June because of

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• highly pigmented cheap lipstick that is equivalent to wearing a banner that says "I'm dressed! Give me what you've got, world!"
  
• singing belting in the shower
• the very nice PG&E people I talked to
• Ash Stymest (please tell me he is not real or I will develop even more unrealistic expectations for the men in my life; photos from the fashion spot)
  

• the new toaster!
• not slicing my finger off cutting an apple for the first time
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• spinach and cheese omelets
• being entirely unproductive and feeling very little guilt about it
• The Omnivore's Dilemma
• the tour cast of Spring Awakening because they crack me up, and the boys of Spring Awakening because, it is true, they are infinitely cuter than puppies
  
• strawberries, blueberries, cherry tomatoes, nectarines, apricots, produce in general
  
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Nutella, spread of the gods
  
• Coco, my cousin's new dog, because she reminds me of an excitable little old man
  
• steak, grilled onions, grilled okra, and biryani for a somewhat unconventional barbecue
  
• Hairspray music
• Breaking Dawn, or at least what I have read of it, embarrassingly enough
  
• San Francisco tap water, because you can actually drink it and get it in your eyes
  
• finishing my play, and Victoria for beta-reading
• bedhead, bedhead, bedhead!
• that there's a place off Ocean Avenue where I used to sit and talk with you
• In the Flesh, the Spring Awakening companion book
• Granny Smith apples with cinnamon
• East of Eden, which is going so so well
  
• edamame
• texting the same thing at the same time by accident
• my new basil plant
• Juicy Couture perfume, which dries down to something honeysuckle and heavenly
• the girl at Trader Joe's who liked my glasses
• my haircut, like hell

It just occurred to me that this post is tagged as "things i love" and "boys." I feel that every "things i love" post should include boys. I will work on this.

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Ernestine

This is what I wore to sit in a waiting room reading East of Eden and to buy my potted basil (whom I have christened Ernestine). I hope Ernestine flourishes so I can move her to the apartment, but as far as green thumbs go, mine is probably more like…a flamethrower, and not even a color.

Above, outerwear: mother’s. Floral button-down: American Rag. Sweater: Ann Taylor Loft, mother’s. Shorts: Nordstrom Rack. Tights: BP Nordstrom. Shoes: Steve Madden.

Ahh… I love good tights.

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LEVEL UP!

So I thought I was, you know, on my way to something awesome when I took this progress shot:

See the pleats? See the floral? Things were working out for me. I was going to starch it and twirl around pretending to channel Prada/Resort several years late and…

...it might look fine, but there are all sorts of things wrong with it. How like a man.

Alas. This was an EPIC FAIL! Because

1. I haven’t the first clue about girls. No, really. What are these curves you speak of? Oh, is that why the waistband doesn’t lie flat? I thought that angling it in the back would help. No? No… I guess I should go back to the same pattern I drafted years ago that has proven to be the only one that works. Note to self: Eyeballing… does not work.
2. I am completely out of fabric. This is what happens when I decide to add a fatty bow to the back, thus effectively using up anything I might have used to salvage whatever Frankengarment I came up with.
3. No, really, what are hips? I have some? That’s also why the zipper doesn’t lie flat? And is that why I am struggling to put this on? What do you mean measure?

On the bright side, I am sure I know how to rethread my sewing machine now (my own sewing machine, not one of the three industrial ones downstairs), and my backstitching is really even, and the zipper (though hand-sewn as usual because I couldn’t find my zipper foot) is nicely hidden, and pleating and ironing are always fun.

(Did I just say that?)

Whatever, this is going into my bag of failure (because I have a huge bag of sewing failures) and will count as +5 EXP for me.

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what a catch

Of course I have terrible taste in music! I'm embarrassed to like Fall Out Boy, I really am, but I could not care (much) less.

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