BORED. Bored. bored. Part II

Feeling like change, so I gave myself a little haircut last night.

BORED. Bored. bored.

Enjoying the bright colors

My God! What Have I Done!

Another favorite

Movies, Movies, Movies

Last week, Best Friend and I had a little tiff over the fact that I never want to watch movies. It's true, but despite my love of cinema I'm never overcome with a strong desire to just go to the theater and watch a movie. Best Friend, the movie buff of all movie buffs, isn't too pleased with this. So, I decided to compile a list of upcoming movies that I want to see and promise to make an avid effort to cross most of these off as soon as possible. 

• Paper Heart
• The Ugly Truth (I'm sorry, I love rom-coms and funny gross out movies. Put those 2 together and you have The Ugly Truth)
• Funny People
• Julie & Julia
• 500 Days of Summer...I was supposed to watch the premiere of this at the Newport Beach Film Festival in April. Had tickets and everything. By some weird coincidence I got a throat infection that week and my doctor quarantined me :(

I'm a fan of all genres but for some reason, most of the movies on this list ended up being rom-coms. I can't help it, I'm just a sucker for anything light-hearted! Any suggestions to add to the list?? 

MUD RUN!

Today was the mud run and it was surprisingly fun. In the days leading up to it, my excitement level was increasing so when I woke up this morning, I wasn't nervous at all. The course was slightly different than the original one posted but I still enjoyed it. The mud run was just an all around laid back festival where most people were focused on having fun rather than finishing at a certain speed. I also knew 2 other teams participating, making it more fun. The only problem was the vast amounts of people created long lines at some of the obstacles, so you would be running one minute and then completely halted at the next. This only happened a few times and eventually, we learned how to sidestep people and keep up a good pace. My team and I wound up getting separated, my team captain and I staying ahead and the other two a little bit further behind. You have to cross the finish line as a team so we had to wait a few minutes but I'm glad to say for a team of first timers doing it for fun, we finished under an hour. I think we're all looking forward to doing it again next year, but we're definitely going to coordinate our team outfits :)

I wish I had a picture of my sneakers at the end of it-- I did snap one on my sisters camera, but I don't have that with me at the moment. Those shoes went through hell (into mud to rocks back to mud into sand then to nasty swampy water finishing off in dirt) but there wasn't any reason to keep them.

When else do we as adults get a chance to play in the mud (mud-wrestling as my mother disapprovingly called it when she found out)? It was pretty liberating and I definitely recommend it to anyone that enjoys running and is looking for a creative way to have fun.

Dogeared

Despite the incompetent sales people at Nordstrom (seriously, I said the shoes I was looking for from the anniversary sale catalog were BCBG and the woman still had to call in and make me wait for 20 minutes because she couldn't ID the picture of the shoes) I managed to order the shoes I put on my birthday wish list. I can't wait for them to arrive. This week has been bad on my wallet...Well, actually it's been a bad personal week resulting in too much retail therapy--including but not limited to a purse and pair of jeans from Gilt, some cheapy sale shirts from urban outfitters, my shoes, all via online shopping, yikes! Buuuut that means next week I have lots and lots of packages to look forward to! 

Staying on the subject of shopping, I feel the need to talk about Dogeared. They make the sweetest little trinkets. I usually keep it pretty simple when it comes to jewelry so their stuff is perfect for me. I always stick to the gold ones though. I've been eyeing the Karma one for the past year but haven't gotten around to buying it. The enclosed notes are a little cheesy but I always save them. Here are a few of the ones I have. The golden leaf on the left is the "Fearless" one and the pink stone is the "Healing Gem" (a gift from Best Friend). 

Vintage

Looks older than it is. I actually just took that on Sunday night at the OC Fair

You can't get more vintage than a record player. This + the stack of vinyls (not photographed but including, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Marvin Gaye, Foreigner, The Supremes, Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack, Notorious B.I.G.) = probably the best gift someone could get. Sometimes we take things for granted; this picture reminds me not to.