Mint.com

Budgets:
The Institute has a personal finance lesson I was not able to attend becasue I worked late and still wanted to run before it got too dark.

Luckily I found Mint.com. I've been playing around with budgeting my expenses.
Luckily I gave myself two hundred and forty dollars a month for clothes/jewlry/makeup. It seems like too much - I know - but that way I won't go into this knowing I'm just going to break my plans.
Luckily I am actually quite disciplined until I just binge at the end so I think this will keep me from spending too much money at the beginning of the month and then leave me with most of it to spend at the end, and hopefully this will cause me to spend it on a few big ticket items that I really really do want.
For example, so far this month I've already spent sixty dollars in this category. Now I want this jacket from the Fossil Store.

It's one hundred and fourty eight dollars. For me, that is way too much to spend on one item. But I just want it oh so bad. I want to wear it over dresses, with work pants, and with pencil skirts. Oh my gosh. It's lovely.

Now if I stop mindlessly spending money on silly little cute items of clothing between now and Haloween I will be able to afford it! I just need to but about tweny dollars more worth of little things to complete my Costume so I think I'm going to be all right in this category!

Wish me luck!

I'll make a mental note of that

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Grown Up Purse

  

For five years at the BYU I carried only a backpack. I had a few random purses, but none of consequence. Then I went and did the best thing imaginable, I graduated! Yay me! Right about here I’d normally post a picture of that illustrious day except I was having a fat day/month/semester and was not really in love with the camera so I don’t know if any photographs were even taken. Oh well. I’m still a college graduate, which I highly recommend to all my friends in school who are always too busy to do things because they have homework.

     College Back Pack/ Love of my Life>>>

Well when you graduate you need certain things: a job, a place to live, work pants, work shoes, a distinguished lunch box and a grown up purse. And that’s why I’m here blogging today ladies and gentleman. I finally have it. The grown up purse that makes me smile. It’s cute! (please refer to blog post number 2 to get this inside joke with myself).

Now this was quite a long and not quite so lonesome road I had to take to find the purse. Back in Easter my mom bought me a small green leather Fossil brand purse. It was not exactly my cup of tea, but it was a good start to get me on the path of self grown up purse discovery. To go from no purse to big purse would have been an impossible feat so it was nice to start small but keep it on the grown up side with the leather. So I move home and the small green is serving its purpose as the new carrier of my credit card, driver’s license, keys, gum and Chap Stick. But I’m not in love. It was a bitter relationship between me and  small green. It is doing it’s job and it is doing it well. But it’s painful to dedicate so much time and give so much power of my style to my constant companion. At that time in my life, small green was the thorn in my side.

So now I'm shopping around. I'm in the market for a new purse. And the only things that are speaking to me are well over $200. I don't want to spend that much.

Then I make a new friend and she works at the Gap and she has an exqusite grown up purse – even though she is currently a student. I compliment her grown up purse and she tells me she actually has another one from the Gap that she got at a discount and has never used. "Would you like to buy it?" she says. I'm not in love with it but it’s more grown up than my current one and only $30. It’s bigger and a little bit military. I feel it’s more stylish and I could breathe with it on. Small green was suffocating me. So I end up with the military purse from the Gap. And I don’t love it but I like it. I like it a lot. We had a good short run. We had a wonderful week in New York City and it was very easy to use. Very easy to carry. Practically perfect in every way. I have no complaints about military green. There was nothing wrong with it, no reason that I moved on. The only reason I did was that I found THE best grown up purse. It  is perfectly perfect for me.

Military purse, T-Rex, and Me

I’m browsing at a Gap. And not my normal Gap, I was at the Gap by Central Market because I needed to kill about 20 minutes in that area. What to do? Go to the Gap!

Side note:

Old logo, New logo
You're thoughts?

I see this grown up purse hanging on a rack over younder and think "Man that looks so nice and expensive. I am going to go lust after it. I’ll check the price tag. $13.99! What! What! What! I cannot say no to this maybe hideous but absolutely wonderful, devistatingly bizarre , one of a kind, grown up purse in RED! And after the 25% off sale items it is only $10."

Red and I have never been friends. There is no animosity, but we are simply mere acquaintances. My sister and red are pretty much best friends and that is just how it has always been. But not me, the only red I like is the word Coke on my silver Diet Coke can. That’s as far as we’ve been together. But this red grown up purse was just something else. They also had it in rescue raft bright yellow, which usually would be much more my speed. But I decided to take a dive and kindle a friendship with something new.

That is how I found the perfect grown up purse for me. I love it I love it I love it and I need to get a picture of it up here. It’s not exactly wonderful for everyone, but it’s perfect for me. I’m sure you understand.
The reason I decided to blog this blog was because today at Costco (aka Heaven) a very dignified yet sytlish older lady came up to me from far away just to say "Where did you get that bag? I absolutely love it!"
It was thrilling. Perfect Purchased. Mischief Managed.

VICTORY!



Ginger Balls

I want red hair but I'm too chicken to dye it.

Short Story that this sentence just made me think of:
This morning my sister called when I was out running so when I got back I called her and she didn't answer. The worrier that I am became concerned but I still went on with my morning. Then she called me and was like "Guess what I did, I died......." and then she paused for some reason, and I was very very concerned, until she came out with "I dyed Rosalie's clothes blue"......

Anyway, here are some pictures of hair that I admire. I'm jealous so I'm going to blog about it.

"I don't ever dream about you and me. I don't ever make up stuff about usthat would be considered insanity." -Kate Nash.

She is my soul sister, heeeey, heeeeey (that was me sing/typing that terrible Train song).

Also I want her hair, especially in the Foundatioins video, where I also want all her clothes and her staircase.

"Love doesn't need all the right ingredients. It's heartier than that." - Charlotte Charles

Her hair is THE best thing about THE best show ever. Also, her clothes rock too.

"I love your hair. What's going on there?" "Everything" -Marie Antionette

Her hair is the best part of the movie. Her clothes are beautiful but I do not evny them.

 

So I also had a super funny convo yesterday that this hair thing made me think of.

I was telling my friend Karla how I want to be the human form of the store Anthropologie . I stated how there is a major problem with this decedant store. The problem is that the clothes there are made for smaller girls, with a waist and no boobs. Karla and I went on to discuss how girls always want the opposite of what they have. My classic example is the curly hair vs straight hair cunundrum. I have stick straight. I want crazy curly. Then we went back to boobs and she said "Maybe one day I'll buy myself some."  I made myself laugh out loud in my office/library by saying "Maybe one day I'll get a perm"

Cool Story Hansel- I know but whatever.

XOXO or as Taylor Hoyt says "xx"

Aubrey

The New York Chronicles

First of all I’d like to say we spent most of our time at Duane Reade thanks to my mothers and my obsession with drug stores.

Wednesday  – Traveling


-Woke up and worked out – I knew I’d be eating myself to death.
-Continental President’s Club in Houston: Fancy Chairs, cheese and crackers, newspapers…. Funny.
-Business First Class!!!! You know in The Holiday when Cameron Diaz is in that crazy technical first class seat that lays all the way down and is so spacious and has a TV….. this is how everyone should travel!

-Newark, N.J. to Times Square via Taxi ---- Through the Lincoln Tunnel, just like Elf said, basically I ended up comparing my whole entire trip to things that happened in a movie or TV show – and mostly Elf.

-Time Square! Lights, fun, people watching, crazy!
-Carnegie Deli – I had to go there, we’ve all heard that Adam Sandler Hanukah Song – and who doesn’t love Jews and food. Biggest Rueben of my life and delicious “New York Style” cheesecake.

 -We had to go on a walk after a meal like that – so we went to Central Park and walked around it. So pretty.


Thursday – It begins


Bryant Park, NY City Library,
Empire “State of Mind” Building – Finally getting some understanding of the way NYC is laid out.
H&M! Best accessories ever.


TKTS in Time Square
Pio Pio – Peruvian Restaurant recommended by Mallory – sooooo much food and it was sooooo good.
Mary Poppins – really cute, good stage and costumes and stuff


Friday – Tourists


Took a Subway!
Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island!
Wall Street! – bought a Gyro from a cart with a line full of professionals, Melissa’s excellent suggestions.
Daffy’s – Some Ross type store but with nicer stuff, I got so many good deals on dresses.
Museum of Natural History – DINOSARUS ! but not velociraptors!!!!!


Central Park – More walking
Serendipity 3 – had too, suggested by EVERYONE, Ashley, Melissa, Mallory….

Fall Fashion Week 2010 Kick off all up and down 5th Avenue – went into FAO Swartz, Tiffany’s, Saks Fifth, etc etc etc, models everywhere, free champagne (what what)


Saturday – September 11


Went to Ground Zero – very somber
Walked Across the Brooklyn Bridge

The Gap – smelled like fish and the pants I’ve been dying to try on didn’t fit
TKTS downtown
Little Italy – had lunch yum yum carbs
SoHo – cool stores
China Town – got a picture with Confucius , he had a bird on his head
Yankee Stadium - cool McDonalds next door - had to go get a icecream there
Addams Family!!!! So funny and cute!
Juniors – more cheesecake and jew food!



BEST TRIP EVER! I obviously gained 8 lbs and loved every minute of it.

High Maintenance Goals

I always want to lose weight.

I always want to grow out my nails - and i have been for 6 weeks! It's kinda exciting having actual talons. It does make text messaging harder as well as typing. But whatever, I love it, I'm always accidently scratching myself.

I have always wanted a Brazillain wax and I vow that I actually will get one next year!

I always want to be tan, tan, tanner!

I want to get rid of all acne.

I want to dress more elegently.

I also want to dress more like a hippie.

Just felt like being a little vain and letting the world know about it.

Still Stuck On Eva

So all summer long I've been morbidly obsessed with Evita.
I love the movie (thank you Netflix). I started listening to the Broadway soundtrack all the time at work, and finally gave in and hit up Amazon.com (my love) and ordered the Motion Picture Soundtrack and now it really is all that I listen too. Some of the lines play over and over in my head, I'll wake up singing some random thing Peron says about Evita. It's pathetic. Here are a few I must release.

What is the good of the strongest heart, in a body that's falling apart?

--Evita--

She had her moments, she had some style.

The best show in town was the crowd.

Outside the Casa Rosada crying Eva Peron!

But that's all gone now.

As soon as this smoke from the funeral clears,

We're all gonna see, how she did nothing for years.

--Che--

They need to adore me! So Christian Dior me, from my head to my toes.

--Evita--

You let down your people Evita; you were supposed to have been immortal.

That's all they wanted, not much to ask for, but in the end you, could not deliver.

--Che--

Better to win by admitting my sin, than to lose with a halo.
--Evita--

Please go on, you enthrall me.

--Peron--

You won't care if they love you,

it's been done before.

You'll despair if they hate you.

You'll be drained of all energy.

--Che--

Don't you forget what I've been through and yet, I'm still standing.

--Evita--

There is no one, no one at all,
never has been and never will be a lover,

male or female,

who hasn't an eye on, in fact they rely on,

tricks they can try on their partner.

They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them,

support them, promote them,

Don't blame them, you're the same.

--Che & Evita--

Deep in my heart I'm concealing

Things that I'm longing to say
Scared to confess what I'm feeling
Frightened you'll slip away
You must love me
--Evita--