The 2009 Academy Awards...

I really loved them this year. That show, as well as any other award show, is so inspiring for me. I can't really explain it. It's just the whole thing that makes me want to work as hard as I can to be in that room and apart of that event one day. Oh yeah and to win an award, that'd be amazing.

Anyway, my favorite actress, Angelina Jolie looked absolutely stunning tonight!

Yes, her dress may be black but I liked it a lot more than the loose fitting dresses she's worn to previous award shows this year. Plus, this is what makes it so great...

The accessories! Her earrings... I want a pair so badly now! The green is a great pop of color and really stand out against the black. She also had on an oversided green ring as well.

Plus her hair was perfect. As well as her makeup.

Not to mention, these two together are perfection walking.

Yeah, it would be lovely to be that glamorous one day. What's a point in living if you don't have dreams? And if you're dreaming why not dream big? You never know what you can accomplish until you really try.

Time...

is flying by. I can't believe it's the middle of Febraury. Where did the month go?! I swear it started yesterday. I'm busier than I've ever been in my life. It's not all that fun. Monday thru Thursday my classes take up all my time. In the last week, in 3 days I was on campus for over 36 hours... mostly 12 hour days. Not exactly fun. Then I can only work the weekends which meant I worked all this weekend. 18.5 hours in three days, plus I worked today. I find it funny, today was a day off of school but it actually made me busier. I can't normally work on Monday's but since there was no school and everyone was out of town for the weekend, I got to be at work at 10.30 this morning. Completely unfair, I finally get the three-day weekend I've waited for so long, and I end up being busier than anyone I know on it. Meaning, I have been going for eight straight days. I'm starting to get sick. I'm just tired. This semester is going to take a lot out of me. My next day off is this coming Sunday... I plan on doing absolutely nothing.

So, while I should be reading for advertising or working on my script due Thursday, instead I have spent the last two hours either dressing up in random things, dancing around in my heels and putting on turquoise eye shadow. You know, sometimes, there is nothing more I want than to be completely and totally girly. I really feel at college it's not as easy to express yourself through style because people just look at you like "You really had that much time to get ready?" I purposely don't do my makeup before class because I look crazy if I walk up on campus with a full face of makeup... or I could get grouped in with those pesky soro-a-whores. No one wants that. So instead, I opt for a less effort look. Which is why I can't wait for reasons to really do my makeup. It's my cousin's 21st birthday this weekend, there is a dinner on Saturday. I think I may wear the turquoise shadow to that dinner. It's really bold. Also really gorgeous though. One of the best impulse buys I've had. I don't even know if you can buy the color anymore, but it's Cargo.. wow it's so old that the label is no longer readable so I can't even say what the color is called. I bought it senior year of high school just because I loved the color. Now it's fashionable, I love when stuff works that way.

I want to master a braid in my hair somehow for this weekend. They're so hippy retro. I think deep down I really am a flower child who is just all about love for everyone even thought it might seemed masked inside some angry bitch sometimes, ha. Honestly though, if I wouldn't be judged, I would love to wear loads of eyeliner/mascara with braids in my hair and leather headbands with some flowy top. Haha seriously, I should've been born earlier so I could've been around in the 60s/70s. That would've been awesome. Pull off the rocker/hippy vibe.

Cher totally would've been my inspiration. Just look at her pictures from the 60s/70s. I want to rock eyeliner like that, everyday. I know plastic surgery has made her look a tad crazy now and she's the diva to the gays... but wasn't she gorgeous?! I've always loved her, I even had a Sonny and Cher tape back in the day when tapes were cool.

David Fokos...

So I'm slowly getting back into photography. Tonight I was shown the website of the photographer, David Fokos, and I found these shots absolutely amazing. Inspiring really. I would love to have shots like this. I love black and white photography so much.

Visit his website to see more: http://http://www.davidfokos.net/

California dreaming...

Ok so lets say I have a genie and he is going to grant me the wish of my dream house! Here is what I would want it to somewhat look like. (To give credit, Irene did do this post first!)

It's my dream house so it's in California with a view of the beach. Not actually on the beach like this house, I learned in geology that my dream house would probably fall into the ocean and no one wants that.

Yes, that is The OC house but I really do love houses like that. A pool that overlooked the ocean, yes please. Plus I would love for the back of my house to be all windows to get the great view of the ocean.

So for my living room it would be rather simplistic. I really like both of these. Just something that looks comfortable and inviting. Something lived in.

And I have always wanted a brown leather chair, maybe it is my love for the chair Aiden made Carrie in Sex and the City. My living room won't be complete unless I have a leather chair in there.

The kitchen I just want it to be huge. With my current tiny kitchen, I have realized how important counter space truly is. I love white cabinets and then a darker countertop either black or grey granite.

I loved both of those as dining rooms. My house will be big enough so I can have both! Again, just an inviting space. With a lot of natural light. Again, a lack of windows in my apartment has made me realize I want a lot of natural light coming into my house.

I think this looks like such a great office space. Open and organized. I love how white furniture looks in rooms, I think it keeps it light and cheery. I feel I would actually be productive in a space like that.

I love this bathroom shot! It's so simple and feminine. For my master bathroom I want it to feel like a spa bathroom. I've always wanted a vanity in the bathroom to do my makeup at where natural light comes in. Couldn't find any pictures of that though.

Ok so there's no bedroom shot. I couldn't find one that I was like "Yes! That's what I want!" Basically, all I really want is a big, white, fluffy bed in a big room that has a big oversized chair in the corner. A plasma tv would be nice too. I just want the most comfortable bed in the world, really that's it.

Then, like Irene, I would want fresh flowers all over the place to add a punch of color and life into the rooms. Orchids and calla lilies are my favorite. I'd also want a lot of black and white photography all over the walls, including pictures that I've taken myself.

And! No dream house of mine would be complete with a cute little german sheperd puppy!

Haha, man this post has made me really want to move out of where I live now. One day.... in a long while...

I have been obsessed with this song tonight since I was reminded of it and sent it to Irene to listen to. I think it's fitting with Valentine's Day coming up, such a sweet song and video. Bright Eyes - "The First Day of My Life" http://http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5rhhQbyYV0