midsummer night's dream

modcloth dress/bag, vintage belt, amrita singh necklace, free people bracelet, forever 21 shoes

Some times the rules of "no more matchy-matchy" gets a little stale and I go back to square one and match all my accessories in one contrasting color to the main palette of the clothes. I'm really glad turquoise/teal is the color of the season since it is my absolute favorite color (thus my username on many fashion social platforms as "turquoisepassion"). I hope I get to stock up on it...teal is surprisingly hard to find in clothes when the color is not in vogue...
I must be the worst person at doing manicures in the world. Yesterday, instead of being productive like I rightly should, I wasted two hours attempting to paint my nails in light jade green and my toenails in teal. There must have been at least a couple dozen cuss words uttered as I managed to mess up every nail in just the most perfect way. Tim tried to cheer me up by saying that I probably just need practice but what 22-year-old that likes nail polish still can't paint her own nails? Grrr...
In more general news, I've finally registered for class and finished a crucial step in my research. As I mentioned on the previous posts, currently I've placed school/research/work over the blog and even though I feel like a bad blogger I think it's fun to view the blog as it once was: a hobby and not one more thing to check off my to-do list. For instance, I was supposed to go backstage before the UT Fashion show on Thursday to shoot models getting ready, but when 6pm came I found myself scraping bacteria off of agar plates (part of my antibody engineering project at research). Needless to say, that was not my most fabulous moment in my life; I ended up scrambling home, shoveled Chinese takeout in my mouth, and put on this dress to look semi-presentable. I secretly feared I smelled like agar and E. coli the entire show but since everyone came up and complimented me on the dress my fingers are crossed that they didn't notice. I also had a "awwww" moment when what appears to be a 10-year-old girl approached me to "take a photo of me for her blog." So adorable. Highlight of the night? Getting to giggle like an idiot for a few minutes before and after the show with friends that I haven't seen in months. Pictures to come.
PS. To those inquiring over twitter/email/comments: yes I've been exercising every single day for about an hour (strength, stretching, yoga, aerobics, etc.), but thus far I haven't really lost weight as the scale hasn't moved much (maybe 2 lbs at most). I think I've been replacing body fat with muscle though. I've been keeping it up since February and it's been my attempt to get bikini ready by June. I don't believe in crash dieting so I'm doing this the hard way...exercising a lot and still eating 2000 calories a day.
"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time."

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