Weekend Update

Stuff I've been wearing:

Books I've been reading:

Deception Point, by Dan Brown, The Help, by Kathryn Stockett(my main read) and Lipstick Jungle, by Candace Bushnell, which I recently stopped reading and replaced with a book called Sex at Dawn, but I haven't gotten too far in that yet.

Nails I've been rockin:

Japan and America Unite! (get it?)

'ello 'ello!

Some of my newest colors

This was for St. Patty's Day :)

Music:

Rolling in the Deep - Adele

Shelter - The xx

Letters from the Sky - Civil Twilight

Somebody's watching Me - Rockwell

Tighten Up - The Black Keys

Invented - Jimmy Eat World

Radioactive - King of Leon

As She's walking Away - Zac Brown Band and Alan Jackson

Soldier On - The Temper Trap

(all from the 'I am number Four' Soundtrack)

Schools out, I have the apartment to myself, theres nothing on tv. I still have a couple more days before I have to go back to work, and back into the real world, but for now I am enjoying my long weekend. The past couple of days I have been slouching around, reading and watching Gilmore Girls (of course) and a bunch of random shows online. But I think today is my day to be at least somewhat productive. So updating my blog is on my list of productive things to get done along with cleaning my room, cleaning the rest of my apartment, returning some letters, doing laundry – basically just things that are not as exciting as blogging.

So a while ago, after returning from a trip to one of my favorite city’s BERKELEY I went on a henna craze and me and my friends would get together every weekend and henna ourselves and each other. I would have continued decorating my skin with the stuff, if I hadn’t run out, but it was definitely fun while it lasted, and I will continue to try out new designs once I stock up on some more. Anyway, here are a few examples of some of the designs.

Day in the park at Berkeley with my friends Priya (left) and Johnalyn (right), I think all of these were done by Priya

I added the Egyptian eye myself.....

This is my handiwork (no pun intended) on my roommate Dayana's hand

Priya's design on my hand

My design on my own hand

A combo of mine and priyas on my hands, this is by far my favorite look, partly because of how dark they came out, and I believe it lasted for about a week, I remember this is how my hands looked for the first week of school Spring semester. Seems so long ago….

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Today's Playlist (aka what I was listening to on the radio while constructing this post)

Young blood – the naked and famous

Pets – porno for pyros

Bohemian like you – the dandy warhols

Hey world – micahel franti & spearhead

Psycho killer – talking heads

The pretender – foo fighters

Fade into you – mazzy star

Help im alive – metric

Sweet dreams – Marilyn manson

How to save a life – the fray

Cherub rock – smashing pumpkins

Sunday morning – no doubt

Blame it on my A.D.D baby

For the past 3 nights in a row I have gone to bed was between 5am and 6am for the first 2 nights it was to study for my final on Wednesday. Then Wednesday night after work I decided to take a night off from studying and hangout with friends, but we ended up talking until the wee hours of the night.

But here I am now, on campus studying for my last 2 finals which will be tomorrow. I’m sure I won’t actually post this until later, but I felt like typing it now just because I needed a slight diversion from studying for a few minutes ( I’m doing some extreme multitasking at the moment, I have like 9 different tabs open on my browser right now, switching back and forth between music and studying and more music and reminders and now this blog post)

Speaking of music, that’s the reason I wanted to blog anyway. Just in the past couple hours of sitting here and working on my final study guides, I have fallen in love with a new musician and a new band (well, they’re new to me) the band being AWOLNATION – which began with my obsession with they’re song sail, but I ended up listening to what I believe to be their entire cd and LOOOOOOVE IT! Also I just got into Hugo. I’ve been hearing his cover of jay z’s 99 problems on the radio (94.7) for a while now, but I just heard a bunch of his other songs now which turned out to be pretty fucking awesome.

Ok. I need to bring an end to this diversion and get back to studying

Roll Away Your Stone

New blog

Wow. It has been an unbelievably long time since I updated this thing.

So much has changed in the last 9 months. I moved to a new apartment (just right next door, but new digs none the less), I tried a semester of writing for my schools newspaper (which I’m currently taking a break from), I got my tragus pierced, I started my own jewelry line, and finally, finally, finally got a car, just to name the main updates.

I don’t really have a good excuse for my absence. Once the fall semester got started, I became incredibly busy – with newspaper and school and life- then once the semester was over I just got lazy. I began to procrastinate. Then I started taking fewer and fewer pictures, then eventually considered stopping my blog altogether. But it’s the middle of a new semester, I’m a lot less busy, and I’ve had a lot of time to think.

After longingly paroozing pages and pages of other peoples blogs – real fashion bloggers – I have come to the realization that I am not photogenic enough, nor do I have the financial means to own the quantity of clothing I crave to have - a blog like those real fashion bloggers (sea of shoes, flawless mistake, fade to black, cheap thrills, a fraction of fashion – to name my top blog idols). So I thought to myself: Cayla, you need to stop comparing yourself to those you look up to. Stop trying to be like them. Stop trying to make your blog like their blogs. Make a blog that’s original, all your own, a blog that’s yours. So I realize now that I need to reshape my blog.

It’s a new year, a new semester at school, its time to try something new. So I know now that my photos aren’t going to be as appealing as some (like Cheap Thrills. And my wardrobe won’t be as expansive as some (like Sea of Shoes). And my hair won’t be as cool as some (like in a Fraction of Fashion). But I do know that my blog will be a reflection of me for just who I am. I also realize that because my wardrobe is not exactly up to par with the way I would like it to be, that my posts will be focused more on my writing, and posts of things that I like, or would like to have, or ideas that come to mind, and etcetera etcetera….

So, how do I ring in a new blog post? Well…nothing epic.

But here’s some pictures I’ve taken recently:

These may seem totally random. But these are all from this really cool furniture store out here in my hometown. Me and My mom were walking around there today - window shopping of course, because I'm too broke too buy - and I snapped a few pictures of items I would like to have to furnish my place with!



Why yes, that is a saddle sold at a furniture store





A super tiny tea set, like the size of the tip of my thumb



Like from a carousel





One of my favorite things about this place, there were books everywhere!! Such a wide range sold for cheap prices :D

1940's style parking meter








My all time fave piece in the place, but the least probable to obtain ($700!)




authentic old-timey kitchen stove

Can you tell I was having fun?
Well I think I've done a sufficient amount of posting for my first post in a long while. It may seem like its all about furniture now, but there will be more variation in my upcoming posts!!

Ta-ta for now


*P.S*
What have I been listening to lately you ask?
-everything by Mumford and Sons
-everything by Florence and the Machine
....over and over and over.......