Things I Love pt. 1

I'm sitting here snuggling with my dog on a snowy Wednesday afternoon. It's my first day of winter break. No class until January 5! I am so ready to catch up on much needed sleep (I slept in until 11:30 today and it felt amazing) and relax. Anyway, my pup and I sit here, we're listening to some music on my laptop and one of my favorite songs came on, prompting a new blog series that I'll be starting: THINGS I LOVE. So here it is.

Things I Love: Musician: Jarrod Gorbel
I became a fan of Jarrod's band, The Honorary Title, when I was a freshman in high school. I randomly stumbled across one of their albums at a local record store and immediately fell in love. They became one of my favorite bands, and I was pretty upset when I found out they weren't going to exist as a band anymore. Luckily, the disappointment didn't last because Jarrod released some solo jams - and EP, titled Ten Years Older and later a full-length titled Devil's Made a New Friend. The previously mentioned song that my pup and I have been enjoying is "I'll Do Better" from Devil's.

Here's a fantastic video of Jarrod performing the song, for your enjoyment.

PS - This blog was quite difficult to write, because Lil' Wiz felt that it was necessary to attack me with kisses ("I've been kissed by a dog!") and then lay his head on the keyboard. At one point he typed a long string of the letter "s" repeated over and over. Either he loves me today or he's jealous of my laptop... possibly both.

As promised, a shopping post!

Note: If your name is Molly and you are my dear "wife," or if your name is Brittney and you are my sister, please close this page now! Unless you want your holiday gifts spoiled. :P

As I promised yesterday, here are the things that I've bought recently! I've finished buying all of my textbooks for next semester and had a bit of money left over since I was able to get really good prices on them, so I hit up the H&M sale that's going on right now. So a lot of this stuff will be from that sale! Some of the pictures aren't great. There's no space to lay things out nicely in my room, haha.

1. Shoes - Dolce Vita for Target - on sale for $10 or $15 (I can't remember the exact price!)

2. Yellow Scarf - Target - on sale for $7

3. Grey shirt with 1/2 length, buttoned sleeves, $10; Light pink silk-ish top with lace detail, $15; Both from H&M

4. H&M Striped open cardigan sweaters in Blue/Black and Brown/Black. I bought the blue one on Saturday and loved it so much that I went back for the brown version today! $10 each.

5. Long, Grey Cardigan, $10; Red scarf that's twice as tall as I am aka the new love of my life, $7; Both H&M

Christmas gifts for Molly and Brittney!
Molly - Blue version of the red scarf that I bought for myself, two mix CDs (I give her mixes for every holiday, haha), Hello Kitty watch, various HK stocking stuffer type gifts, a really great card, and two heart shaped wall hangings that my mom made. Chair and green coat not included. :P

Brittney - Moviegoer's journal book, Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails book, Newlyweds on DVD, and an "alcohol breath checker" as a joke (she just turned 21 in October!)

I may end up going back to H&M yet again to get my sister one of the scarves like I got for myself & Molly -- she's been green with envy seeing me wear it the past couple of days, haha. I can't blame her, it is a fantastic scarf. So cozy!

What are you giving your best friends/siblings for Christmas?

I want a dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown.

We just got done watching "I want a dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown" and a quote by Lucy stuck out to me. She calls Rerun's newfound puppy friend "part beagle, part disaster." There could not be a more perfect description of my dog, Wiz!

We got him in Fall '09, around the time that I started college. He was just a baby at the time, only about five months old. He's the love of my life, but he is, as Lucy would say, "part disaster." Lately his rebellion of choice is hopping up on the dining room table and stealing baked goods. He also loves to sneak downstairs and steal socks from the laundry. Most of the time, he's a perfect pup, content with cuddling and sleeping all day. But of course, he's also got a crazy side. If he is "part disaster," he's the best kind of disaster I've ever encountered!
You followers will probably be seeing a lot of his adorable little face. He's very photogenic and I take pictures of him as often as possible!

(PS - I'll probably update with a shopping post tomorrow. Given the fact that I haven't posted a fashion blog since October, I've got quite a few great buys to share! Including Christmas gifts for my best friend. Hopefully she doesn't read this blog, so I can post them without spoiling anything. :P)

I'm so bad at blogging.

I've decided to treat this blog as more of a general blog than a fashion blog, because apparently I neglect it otherwise!
Tuesday is my last final and my last day of workstudy until next semester, so that's exciting. Very excited for a new year and catching up on sleep. I'm close to reaching my "365 movies in 365 days" days goal, and with the upcoming between-semesters-free-time, I'll definitely meet it. Current count: 360. So close. Oddly enough, I didn't being keeping track with the intent to watch so many movies; I was just curious to see how many I usually watch in a year. I didn't change my watching habits at all, or try to watch a movie every single day or anything like that. I guess I'm just a film fiend.
Today I wandered around Detroit taking photos. I'm working on editing them right now. So far so good. It's been a while since I shot in the city (or shot at all, for that matter. This is the first time I've used my camera in December -- very unlike me)! I would post one for you all, but photoshop just froze on me and I haven't saved any of the edits yet. Convenient, eh?
I guess I'll quit rambling and let you folks move on with your lives now. :P
Until next time,
-Lindsey