Outfit: Leap Day Ewok!

    Happy Leap Day! I wasn't going to post anything today, I was shockingly going to try to focus on school. Then I remembered that it is February 29th today! That only happens every four years! So needless to say, I realized I had to mark the day somehow.

The catch is that this wasn't my Leap Day outfit, because it was snowing today. This from sometime last week, when it was sunny, from a day that I was called a bear, someone's dog and an Ewok. An Ewok! I was most excited by that one, it kind of made my day. I also received a lot of petting and someone telling me it was the "coolest thing ever". I loved it because I got to feel like a bear, or dog, or Ewok. I always liked pretending to be animals when I was little.

Forgetful me forgot to tell you that my first post on Miss Unlimited went up on Monday. Go check it out along with all the other great posts as well! Make the best of your Leap Day!

Why I love Foxes and hate Knocking

    My reason for loving foxes should be quite obvious: they're absolutely adorable. I think that's all that needs to be said. I also love this fox sweater that I got for Christmas- that's surprising isn't it?

Now to move on to the more pressing topic: why I hate knocking. Now some for some context. I am talking about knocking on doors. Particularly the unexpected, I am going to break this door down, I'm ringing the doorbell until it bursts your eardrums, I'm probably a crazy mass murderer, knocking. Nothing terrorizes me more when I'm at home than someone knocking on the door. It transforms me into a nervous disaster. I look around at all the windows because I expect this person to get into the backyard and break in the back windows and kill me (this unstable ritual took place in the last hour). Not sure exactly what I'd do if I came face-to-face with the person though...haven't exactly thought that out.

I think I really need to invest in one of those cool security camera things. That way I could spy on the people and know whether they leave or not. It might help my mental health. Is anyone else like this? Or am I alone in my irrational ways?

Outfit: Boots, Dog & Leaves

I didn't forget about you all I promise! I have been so busy but I have some pretty awesome things to blog about in the upcoming days (Mumford & Sons concert, the Grotto, etc.) so that's exciting! And I updated the whole blog! Do you like it?

I actually braved the cold and went outside to take these pictures- my backyard was too pretty too miss out on. The leaves are mostly all down now, it's winter here now. I have to share the boots. I got those boots at a thrift store, brand new for $20. I almost died. They are so warm and I love the print on them. Thrift stores are the place to be!

Last but certainly not least- Misty says hello! You're lucky to get the virtual hello, because the real hello smells pretty bad.

Outfit: The World is Wacky

Yes, I am bringing you these outfit pictures from my bathroom floor. Yes, I am aware I don't match. Yes, my shirt does say "Bacon had a Mom" and has a little piggy on it. You are correct. Today was "Wacky day" for homecoming week. I'm not one to go all out on dress up days, so I thought what better way to dress wacky then layer as many patterns as I can to overwhelm my tiny self. Wacky outfit achieved.

I post this because it actually inspired me a little. I'm always afraid to mix patterns, even though I love when others do it. In a way, this over-done pattern clash pushed me out of my comfort zone a little...and it was actually pretty fun. I also have fantastic friends who tell me I look cute in everything. They flatter me too much, but it puts a smile on my face.

Do you like to mix patterns? Do you have any rules?

By the way- I am beyond seething mad about the hunting and killing of 49 exotic animals (18 rare Bengal Tigers and 17 lions included) in Ohio. Some unstable man was allowed to keep them, then let them all free and committed suicide. Funny how a man who had been charged on multiple counts of animal neglect and had 100+ guns in his possession was still allowed to keep these animals. And they died because of him. Come on US, get it together. Let the wild remain wild. We can't have everything.

Amanda + Exhaustion = Animal Videos

Today, I am tired. I think that pretty much sums it all up. I along with many others that I spoke to just couldn't fall asleep last night. I have been up since five and running on about three and a half hours of sleep. Woo! Fortunately today was lazy day at school for Homecoming, so I had an excuse to wear sweats. I've decided that I should wear sweats every day now because everyone said I looked so adorable (just kidding, I would never do that).

In lieu of my exhaustion...I bring to you adorable animal videos. The first two make me smile every time, and if you haven't seen the last one; well now you have. Don't worry, the guy is totally fine and now has an awesome story to tell.

This next one gets super adorable in the middle, I can't even handle it.

Drum-roll please...

The super dramatic music makes it even better...Haha.

Outfit: Leopard

Jacket & Scarf: Old Navy

So I've been a little internet-absent lately. Life has been pretty jammed packed and unfortunately life comes before my blog (that is, when I have a life). Over this past week I had my first piano lesson, a visit to OSU and a football game. I am loving piano, my instructor even told me that I'm not a beginner, which made me feel pretty darn proud being self-taught and all. The Oregon State University Preview day was great- it just reminded me how much I love it, and motivated me to get my application done (which I still haven't...) So much to do, so little time right?

Also, keep Misty my Golden Retriever in your prayers. I think she may have had a little seizure this afternoon and is a little confused still. She's doing a little better now fortunately. Send positive thoughts our way please! :)

Outfit: My Dog Thinks I'm Crazy

First off this post is to show off three of my favorite things: Misty (that is the face I come home too), purple and boots! Misty can't stand to take pictures, she is so camera shy. Just look how irritated she looks with me. It makes me laugh.


Today is my wonderful, fantastic, beautiful, funny just all around amazing, mother's birthday. I have eaten almost nothing today because we are going to Carino's; where I plan to gorge myself on pasta, bread and turtle cheesecake. I am very excited. I'm also excited to see my momma open her presents- I picked them out myself and I love them. I wont say what they are quite yet, just to keep it a complete secret. But believe me they are awesome; I'm a good shopper.

Outfit: Last First Day

Shorts: Charlotte Russe Tank tops: Old Navy

That's right- it was my last first day ever as a k-12 public school kid. Yay? This time next year I will be a big bad college student. I can tell you already that this is going to be a fun-filled, but exhausting senior year for me. I have to be at school promptly at 6:45am... 6:45 AM. That's very early. All you early-birds out there: I hate you. Well I guess I don't hate you... I just really envy your ability to not be an awful, grumpy, emotional, giving-up-on-life, unmotivated monster like some people. Okay, like me.


Oh and since when does Oregon get a heat-wave in September. Actually when does Oregon get a heat-wave ever? It was almost 100 degrees today. It's supposed to be this hot all week. The combination of lack of sleep, lack of clothes that wont cause me heat stroke, and the extreme heat, and school of course, may just push me over the edge.


But I will just smile and laugh it off. Because that's what you do in life. Being grumpy just...makes you grumpy.

I Love the Oregon Coast

Hello, my name's Amanda and I like dropping off the face of the planet. It feels like I haven't blogged in ages. It's bad. I will start blogging less sporadically once I get back into a normal groove, I promise.

The last two days my parents and I took a mini-vacation to the Oregon Coast.   I haven't been during the summer in who knows how long. The Oregon Coast is a extremely beautiful place, even in the winter when it's howling wind and freezing outside, really. It was beautiful and sunny when we were there this time though, which was a welcome break from the norm. Now it's picture time! - I hope you're prepared.

Funny Story Time! The water on the Oregon Coast is also extremely cold, but of course I insisted on walking right on the water edge and running away from waves. Well as I was running away from a particular wave, which actually did get me quite wet, a little boy screamed "CHICKENS!" complete with wing-flapping. His dad was laughing and the little boy ran to where the wave that got us was. It was so cute.

There's an area in Newport where they have a cage for wild sea-lions where they trap any that are injured, tangled or otherwise in need of help- and they help them and let them go again. This is always the place to be for sea-lions though and it's fun to sit and watch them. They are such characters. 

There is so much hate for seagulls, but honestly I think they are gorgeous birds and I love the variety in colors. I'm just always afraid one's going to poop on me while I walk anywhere. They kind of rule the coast. 

This is what I'll leave you with. We got to our hotel and my mom opened that cabinet and said "THIS IS EMPTY! AMANDA YOU COULD FIT IN HERE!" So what else would I do then go fold my self into the cabinet. And of course my mom would insist on taking five million pictures while my spine was being crushed.


I hope everyone's been having a good week and all of those who were affected by Hurricane Irene are safe and sound!

My Buddy Misty

Hello everyone! I'm over at Windshield Diaries today talking all about my favorite, my Golden Retriever Misty. So go check out my Blogging Buddies Feature over there! Also I bedazzled my backpack today. Don't worry- just plain silver studs. I love it though and am planning on sharing it on here sometime soon!


Don't forget to enter the Wrinkle In Time Vintage giveaway. You have until the 14th! :)

I've been Vegetarian for Two Years?! Recipe Share!

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It's true! Yesterday marked two years of vegetarianism for me. Wow, the time has really flown by. I have tried so many new foods and eat so much healthier now (which really is a separate act of it's own, you can be an junk-food veggie).

I figured I would share two of my all-time favorite, go-to meals. I'm not trying to be pushy and try to "convert" you, I'd just thought I'd share. My super carnivorous father even likes these- so give them a shot! And excuse my bad directions- I'm no chef. 

This picture is from two years ago too! Crazy!

Falafel Gyro:

Whenever I want something super filling and delicious but don't want to spend to much time- this is it. And Falafel is just the best. Throw frozen Falafel in the oven or even the microwave and take a few minutes mixing the sauce together and presto!

-Take Greek Flatbread

-Spread Hummus (my favorite is the Mediterranean from Trader Joes)

-Crumble up prepared falafel (the frozen ones at Trader Joes...yum)

-Top with Cucumber Sauce (here's one recipe)

-Finish it off with lettuce and tomato and onion *yuck* if you like.

-Take a fork and knife- trust me you'll need them- and devour.

Cheeseburger Quesadillas:

I stole this idea from The View. Really. They were suggesting it because it's healthier than a cheeseburger because it has less cholesterol. I don't miss "real meat" cheeseburgers or quesadillas one bit.

-Cook up Boca Burger (I use the Flame Grill Flavor and grill 'em on a skillet)

-Chunk up the Boca Burger to ground beef consistency

-Take Tortilla- Place Boca Burger and Cheese on one half

-Fold Tortilla

-Place on Skillet and grill until cheese is melty and tortilla is crispy to your liking*

 -Dip in Ketchup if desired

*Make sure there's some sort of cooking spray on the skillet

So there you have it. I'm really hungry now...

Don't forget to enter my giveaway from Wrinkle In Time Vintage!

Outfit: Lonestar at the Fair

That outfit is not reality. Reality is I was advised by my parents to wear pants. SO substitute shorts for cuffed jeans, gladiator sandals and throw on a brown leopard print cardigan and you are back to life, back to reality. I hope I just got that song stuck in someone else's head as well as mine.

I love bracelets-can you tell? 

-Bracelet numero uno is a Zulugrass bead wrap bracelet-necklace-ankle-any thing you want it to be. Best thing about it? Part of the proceeds go to the women in Africa who made them.

-Bracelet twee (decided to go to Dutch) is from my best friend. It was my sixteenth birthday present and she has a matching one.

-Bracelet tres.... I don't know. Uh, they're wood beads on a metal wrap. 

More! Can you believe it? My infamous H&M Bracelets seen in many a outfit post make yet another appearance. I also stole some of my moms bangles from when she was younger. They may or may not be from Indonesia. Oh! And I am making it a goal of mine to wear different earrings more often. I have so many and never wear them, usually because my hair just hides them.

To the title- Lonestar was at my tiny little county fair. They sounded great! It was a nice 70 degree day and after the performance we wandered around the livestock barns and made friends with a sheep and had a Harry Potter moment with a Anaconda in the Exotic Animal thing that's at our fair every year. I swear I was gonna set it free. They actually make me angry. Wild animals shouldn't be harnessed and kept in little chain link cages with nothing, travelling around being yelled at for pawing at you. Heaven forbid the poor little tiger baby wants to play.

I'll stop ranting now and just say I had a lovely time. Which I did. For the most part. Haha. It got me looking forward to the State Fair- The Band Perry is performing there! Anyone else look forward to their State Fair every year? Or county- county fairs are probably much more exciting when you don't live in a tiny town...

Mermaid Nails

I've been wanting to paint my nails for a while and finally did today. I always am hesitant to paint them because my nails grow super fast. So by Sunday they will probably already be all grown out and ugly. Does anyone else have that problem? Anyways this nail look is from cupcakes and cashmere and I love it. I used Revlon's 320 Jaded instead and some NYC glitter polish for the ring fingers. I really like this color, it's taking some getting used to though.

So- I am out of shape. I know when small people say that people get really upset but I'm not saying I'm fat, just out of shape. I have no muscle whatsoever. To remedy this I started doing the 5-day workout from Seventeen Magazine with my mom. It's more fun when we're both whining and complaining about it. But it's also bad, because we support each other...in skipping a lot of days.

Last but not least here is a picture of the blueberry monster. I was in my backyard picking blueberries from our blueberry bush (I know you're jealous- fresh blueberries are the best) and there comes Misty under my feet, climbing all over me and pushing me out of the way so she can get the ones that fall to the ground. What a good dog.

Outfit: Tour de My Backyard + Army

Dress: TJ Maxx (I think)

Shoes: Target

Bracelet: H&M

This is one of my favorite dresses..oh wait who am I kidding, I love all my dresses. It is in one of my favorite colors, army-ish, olive-ish green and it's satiny, shiny, pretty. I'm obsessed with my H&M bracelets, I've worn them here and about every day that I've actually changed out of sweats and left my house. Which is always a very, very tempting option. I'm such a home-body, or maybe I'm anti-social?

It's been absolutely beautiful in Oregon this summer so far, sunny and in the 80's! That's actually way to warm for me, my Oregonian blood starts to over-heat at about 75 in the sun. That also explains my paleness, I haven't been exposed to much sun and my skin hasn't quite caught up yet (and I can't stand to be in the sun for more than ten minutes...hehe)

Yes, I do still have a full swing-set in my backyard. When my dad put it together all those years ago he set it in concrete- so it ain't coming out anytime soon. We have the most trees of anyone in our neighborhood and I absolutely love it, everyone else probably thinks we're loony. Oh well, they don't have pretty trees to block out neighbors!

I will leave you with pictures of my beautiful Misty on this beautiful day- I hope it's a beautiful day everywhere! Oh and happy late 4th to all my fellow Americans, happy late Canada day to Canadians out there and happy holiday to anyone I may be forgetting- don't want to leave anyone out! :)

Shelter Spotlight: Luna

WARNING BEFORE YOU READ: I MAY BE A LITTLE BIASED TOWARD THIS DOG.

Everyone, Luna. Luna, Everyone. Gorgeous dog am I right? She is a Malamute Cross and I'm thinking the mix is Wolf. She is one year old and already this big. I've fallen in love with a dog.

She is very shy, but warmed up to me rather quickly. She laid down right next to me and fell asleep as I pet her. Amazingly sweet.

Everyone's reaction at the shelter was the same: "Wow". Wow is right, Luna may be my favorite (apart from my beautiful best friend Misty). Shhhh...don't tell the other dogs.

I have a feeling Luna won't be at the shelter long.

Shelter Spotlight: Donovan

I am attempting to be more organized with this whole thing, so there will now be  categories of posts...sometimes. "Outfits" are currently up there in the pages bar, and Shelter Spotlight will be up there soon.


Shelter Spotlight is very much what it seems, I will share one or two pups with you from the shelter, some stories from the day, whatever else related. It should be fun.


Look out for a new blog design in the not too distant future as well (when I can get to it), nothing too drastic but a bit of change is good.


So, without further ado let me introduce you to Donovan.

Dear little Donovan sat like that the entire time, whilst attacking his sheriff-horse toy. He's a scruffy little terrier mix and a little sweetheart.

The Girl Scouts were at the shelter Friday to do their whole donate-visit-the animals thing for their badge. They are so cute, reminds me of my Girl Scout Days. Anywho, the Community Outreach Coordinator told the group "...and this is one of our volunteers, giving the animals lots of love." I had two chihuahua mixes, Honey and Charlie (nicknamed Chalupa) on my lap.

One of the Troop Leaders sighed and said "That looks so relaxing, just sitting there and mellowing out after a long day" as she looked after her entire group of girls.

I smiled and said "It's so nice" and realized it is just as good for me as it is for the dogs. No matter how bad my day is, when I go there I instantly relax and feel better. It's the wonderful power animals have, to soothe and calm and give a great feeling of friendship to people. It's why it is so important to treat them correctly and always think before making the commitment to a best friend, so they never have to be separated from you and brought to a shelter.

Bella, Camellias and Sexiness

It was definitely one of those weeks, hence my absence. I got a lot accomplished though, which is a good thing I suppose. On Thursday, I went to my league festival with Rebel Singers (my high school choir, we got 5th at State last year!) and we did awesome! We qualified for State a second time and we were told we were "Total G's" and looked "Hella dank". Mission accomplished. 

I applied for yet another job and also made my appointment for my driver's test. I'm so nervous! I guess I should really start driving again... 

Last but not least I chose my song for auditions for Oklahoma on Monday (can you tell I procrastinate?) I will be singing In My Own Little Corner from Cinderella. I'm pretty nervous about that too actually. I just need to relax, but that will probably never happen. Oh well, who needs relaxation, sleep, fun, etc. anyway?

Let me introduce you to my new friend Bella. Bella is a little energetic Corgi mix and she is just adorable. 

Those are Camellia flowers on my front lawn and I get to see them everyday. Pretty pretty pretty.

Last but not least, I give you my Smartwater bottle. Yes, it does say: "green is toadally sexy" 

Have a great rest of your weekend and a good week! :)