dress like you're in the military?

I have had the most tiring past couple of days. My family recently renovated our summer house, so for the past week we've been basically cleaning up and putting everything back together. Needless to say, it has been exhausting.

Say what you will about the war in Iraq and the army and all of that, but one thing I've noticed in the fashion world is that the whole military look has been really in lately (even though it actually hit the runways in the fall). Especially those military shirt dresses. Right now, they have it everywhere. Which I show with the pictures below. In order, its Express, Steve Madden, Steve Madden, Marc Jacobs, and Fendi. Only question is...will people actually wear this style of clothing? Because I'm not so sure I'm digging this. Oh well. Fashion is fashion ;D

(In case anyone is interested, other companies that have military outfits and pieces are Calvin Klein, J.Crew, Burberry, and Juicy Couture)

sports and photoshoots :D

Yesterday was a very busy day. In the morning, I played tennis with my friend Jennafer. We played best 2 out of 3 sets...she killed me :D

Afterwards, I got together with my friend Lisa for a photoshoot. She had originally wanted a very fashion-y type shoot, with more of a focus on the clothes, but it ended up being more headshots, like the first photoshoot we did a couple of weeks ago. This was a little more serious than the first one, so during it, I discovered that modelling is much more difficult than I thought. Everything I did, either my face was too tense, or too pissed off... She took SOOOO many pictures, but honestly I think we'd be lucky if we got in five good shots, out of the billions she took.

I would take a picture of my outfit and post it, but I figure that's probably pointless, since eventually Lisa will sort through all of the pictures and post them on her own blog (stylerat.blogspot.com), which is also where you can find the pictures from our first photoshoot. Hopefully she'll be able to send the new ones to me quickly so I can post them here :)

Directly after Lisa left (no kidding about five minutes after she left) my friend Teresa arrived to get me and my brother and drive us to the Mets game she had invited us to. They played the Detroit Tigers, and won 5-0, which was great. Jose Reyes, who is my favorite baseball player, hit a homer, which completely made my day. It was actually a pretty exciting game, as baseball games go. To be quite honest, I tend to find them pretty boring. I am MUCH more inclined to be interested in soccer.

Oh, soccer. The world cup has got to be the best short span of time that only happens every four years, and will make me happy every single time. The official World Cup song, Wavin Flag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMophHw6iX4&feature=popular), makes me so happy and hyper because I am one of those people that just thinks soccer is such a beautiful game, and so great, and bla bla bla, I won't bore you with all the details.

Unfortunately for me, I missed the U.S. playing Algeria yesterday, which may be a good thing, because I probably burst into tears of relief after they finally scored in the 90th minute. See, I also happen to be one of those people who wants the United States to win. I do NOT think they are a bad team, like the many people who fancy themselves soccer experts, try to insist. I remind everyone that the U.S. got to the finals of the Confederation Cup just last year. They played Brazil, and did not win, of course, because its Brazil (my all time favorite team by the way), but just the fact that they made it that far, beating Italy and Spain in the process, the winners of the previous World and Euro Cups, respectively, that makes me say, hey maybe the U.S. isn't so bad at all.

But I digress. Soccer is just an amazing sport, and the World Cup has the entire planet holding its breath, and what a better thing to do with my time then watch a game while writing this blog? Which is what I'm doing now. Slovakia is beating Italy (my least favorite team) :P

whooo first post

Okay so this is my first post therefore I have pretty much no idea what I am saying or what I should be saying or anything like that. This past weekend was pretty busy for me, so maybe I'll talk about that? Friday was my very last regents, so afterwards I hung out with my friend Rebecca. We saw Prince of Persia and got our nails done.

Prince of Persia...was a good movie. It was very action-packed, not to mention the fact that Jake Gyllenhaal is pretty cute. A lot of it reminded me of a video game...I mean I know it is based on a video game, but sometimes the slow-motion stuff was a little much. The ending surprised me. Not the very ending, but what led up to it. I didn't see it coming at ALL, although if I had thought about it, it would've been obvious. But I shouldn't say anything else about that just in case anyone plans on watching it. :) Which I do reccommend, by the way. I mean, come on. Disney plus Jerry Bruckheimer? The last time they made that combo was in Pirates of the Caribbean, right? And those happen to be my favorite movies, so, yeah. Here's the link for the trailer, if anyone is interested :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ0rIr_405c

On Saturday, I went shopping with my aunt for my birthday. My birthday is actually in April, and yes, I know its June, and so does my aunt, but unfortunately I was soooo busy with stupid school and stupid AP tests (God, why did you grant me with intelligence?) so I honestly didn't have time.

One thing anyone should know, is I LOVE summer shopping. Seriously. I love summer clothes. So much. One of the reasons is probably because I love pretty flowery clothes, and that kind of thing tends to be best during the summer months. We went shopping in the outlets near me, and I ended up buying stuff at American Eagle, Aeropostale, Juicy Couture, and Aerie. Yes, I know I sound like such a teenager with those typical stores. But I happen to loveee American Eagle and Aeropostale. American Eagle is my favorite store :D. I noticed when I went there, that they have SOOO many layering looks. Specifically though they seemed to have a lot of baggier shirts with like a tank underneath. That seemed to be the thing this weekend. Maybe it was just the store. I don't know, but I kinda liked it, actually :) So yeah the picture up there on the left is an example from their website. And right next to it is how I did it...That's actually what I wore yesterday...the shorts I've had for a while, they're from Aero...but the tank and the shirt over it I just bought.

Okay so that was my first post. And I'm sure it totally sucked, but well I've never actually had a blog before, and I guess it'll get better as time goes on? lol I hope so...