Tomorrow I start my last semester in college.

Maannnnnnnn.  I'm joining the real world after this semester.  Scary!

For the last semester of my college life, I've decided to do a photo collection of every day until I graduate.  Which theoretically means I should have at least one new post each day the rest of the semester!  I also hope to do a section chronicling my happenings at/around school.  It's going to be my hardest semester ever so here's hoping I have time to even have something to talk about! :)

More on all this later, surprisingly, or not, I already have to get started on studying for class.


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Shouldn't have, But couldn't help it.

I just bought this Pride and Prejudice fleece from Out-of-Print.

Originally I had wanted to get it in this really pretty wine/violet/plum color, but it was out of stock by the time I was going to order.  I shouldn't have ordered this but I LOVE sweat shirts and this had to have been the most perfect one for me, a Jane Austen one!!!

Even better, Out-of-Print is a web based clothing/accessories store that donates a book to charity for each item it sells.  How can you not want to buy something that helps literacy???

All of the items are recreations of out-of-print classic book covers (Oh! Now their name makes sense! lol jk).  They run out quickly, and most items are a limited run.  If you love to read, or just like awesome clothes, go check them out!


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Jane Eyre 2011 Movie Review

Yesterday I finally got to see the new Jane Eyre movie starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.
I have been waiting months for it to come to a theater near me (which everyone promised it would soon) and then last Friday I found out it was being released on dvd already! (And at that moment I immediately ordered it off Amazon.)  I was beyond excited!  Especially since the limited theatrical release only came to one theater for a few shows over an hour away and I couldn't go.  Well on to the review!

I read Jane Eyre for the first time over ten years ago and was in love with the utterly human Rochester.  He condemns himself to a sad life of carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders for a lie forced on him in his youth.  He is a complex character that no simple actor could pull off.  But Michael Fassbender does a fabulous job.  Mia Wasikowska was lovely as the tragically plain Jane Eyre.  She did well in capturing Jane's little quirks and her wit.  Even better was the fact that the actress playing Jane Eyre, for once, was actually Jane's age, or at least only a year or two older.

All in all the movie was wonderfully done, the cinematography to die for, and even though liberties were taken here and there they managed to add in some of my favorite lines straight from the book.  I would have loved to see some of the deleted scenes in the movie.  It is a little obvious, if you've seen previous Jane Eyre adaptions, that they took a few ideas from old versions but they were all good parts worth copying.

I give it an A

-I think I'm going to go watch it again now ;)


ϟmissmandapanda

So Sorry!

This past week I have been really busy.  I'm currently working on a better look for this blog and because I am completely untalented in this area I am taking forever to get things up to scratch. 

So in the mean time here is a picture of me being completely retarded a couple of days ago while I was taking a break:

Okay so its blurry and not really that retarded but I didn't really take any retarded pictures that time lol.

Be back soon!

ϟmissmandapanda

Hair day!

So today I'm doing hair modeling for a lovely girl who cut my hair short last month.  She is a student about to finish her courses in hair and makeup and is taking one of her major exams this afternoon.  She has to have a live model so she asked me!  She has already had me doing portfolio work for her so I'm excited to be doing live work for her.

The only sad part is that I think my hair looks great today already and I'm sad to have it changed!  But its like playing dress up when you're a kid and that was one of my favorite things to do.

She likes to do 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s looks for her hair styles, good thing since my hair is so short.  I don't have any pictures from our last portfolio session when she was trying out a hair style she hadn't attempted before.  It was big!  The look was more like early 1900s late 1800s to me than what she originally went for but it was still cute.  I actually liked it better after I took a lot of the top down and just pinned it simply back.  It looked like I had my hair done in a more Regency Style which I adore. 

In the mean time I do have a couple of pics of my hair when I first did hair modeling five years ago at some big hair styling expo in Dallas.  Unfortunately they were both taken by me on my phone so they aren't high quality.

That is from after I got home that day.

This one was from right after I finished modeling at the show (so much lipstick!  I took it off as soon as I got in my car.).  They make you walk around forever showing off the cut and style, so I ran into the bathroom to take a quick pic before it would get messed up when I left.

It's a dark brown with red tint, a little darker than my own hair, and although you can't see it they gave me "hot roots" meaning they made my roots on the crown of my head a much brighter color than the rest of the hair.  It's almost like growing out the color you would normally have on your ends.  I loved the cut but since I have really curly hair I spent a lot of time straightening it since it was cut weird for a curly style. :(

I change my hair on a monthly basis.  Usually I just dye it different or, more often than I should I'm sure, I cut it.  Typically I cut it myself, everything from trimming my bangs to full on cuts like an almost pixie look to bobs, etc.  I have a really hard time finding someone who knows how to cut curly hair and after quite a few disasters in my life I just started doing it myself.  I also do all my own coloring.  When I was younger my sister and I would help do each other's hair for the more complicated dyeing.  One summer we had a wonderfully hysterical time streaking my hair four different neon colors (red, pink, purple, blue) all over so I didn't have any natural hair color left!  It was our first time not doing all over color and we butchered the aluminum foil strips used to keep colors from mixing and instead of folding them we ended up with a bunch of wadded up aluminum balls.  That is something I wish I had pictures from. 

I do have a description from an old (and very unique) high school friend who first met me when I had solid pink hair the year before, one day he tried to describe my hair to someone who had never seen it without a natural color.  This is what he wrote:

"I remember sophomore year I came in and it was a cacophony of epic win and pretty colors, like some one had taken the 60's as a whole and applied the concept as a cranial accessory."

This guy has such an interesting way with words!  I swear that is actually what he wrote.  He also wrote this about my hair, not as beautiful sounding but definitely an original description:

"It's had an unfathomable amount of color. It is as if a rainbow ( a pretty one mind you ) shat color on to her hair. Several times. A hair dye shitting rainbow fairy if you will."

With unique hair comes very unique friends I guess?  Haha This guy is a great man, and probably one of the smartest people I know.  (Seriously, who do you know that made almost a perfect GED score over a year after dropping out of high school and without studying?  Amazingly ridiculous how smart he is.)

I may do a bit of a timeline of my hair styles if I can dig up enough photos.  One thing people always remembered me for was my hair, always different, always unique.  Haha.

And with such a long post already written I'm going to stop here and get to work on some other projects of mine!  Till next time!

ϟmissmandapanda

Foodie Friday

 
I have been terrible about updating this past week, what with all of the problems with my internet being off and other matters.  So here I am doing a brief catch up before showing my new Friday theme!

I have been pretty busy getting school set up for my FINAL semester.  Buying my parking permit and uselessly hoping I can find suddenly open classes so I can rearrange my terrible schedule and have class at a decent hour everyday, and waiting by the mailbox for my lovely check from my loans to arrive. (It hasn't gotten here yet either :/) I also spent some much needed time with my wonderful mother Wednesday for a 'Mother Daughter Day'.  We had lunch, visited a Borders for some of their closeout books, and spent the rest of the time thrifting!  I love thrifting and grew up wearing and using things bought at resell/thrift shops.  My mom is a firm believer in not having to pay full price if at all possible, no matter how much it already costs or you want it.  For proof I turn to the thousands of dollars in name brand (Ralph Lauren Polo being her favorite) clothing she bought on her own in high school and college she NEVER paid full price for.  I have inherited this wardrobe, which could easily fill a whole closet, and her lovely thrifting skills.  BUT this topic is probably best for another day/post, so lets move on to today's project!

Foodie Friday!

I eat a lot and often take pictures of everything I like.  So on Fridays I shall post my eats for the week, what I had and what I wish I could have. 

                             Luna Lovegood frapp                                  Butterbeer frapp

I drink a lot of Starbucks.  I usually go a few times a week and read or work on something.  This week I was bound and determined to try a frappuccino floating around online that was supposed to taste like a cold butterbeer from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.  I was going to try one yesterday but when I went to a Barnes & Noble Starbucks cafe to get the frapp the staff had made a Harry Potter themed frapp of their own!  It was called the "Luna Lovegood" and was a combination of the mocha and strawberry frapps.  It was delicious and funky (like Luna).  Today I ventured back out to my favorite Starbucks to get the butterbeer frapp and no surprise it was delicious as well! 

When the average temperature is from 105 to 111 degrees frapps are the Starbucks drinks of choice.  But every once and a while you get a free venti white mocha when another customer forgets their drink.  Bonus for being a regular. (The secret is that they have to remake a drink fresh if it has been sitting on the counter for more than a couple of minutes and isn't claimed.  Often they just give it to whoever is paying attention and wants it!)

Wednesday I went to Steak n' Shake with my mom.  I had the Spicy Jalapeno Chipotle burger (top) and she had the Mushroom n' Swiss (bottom).  Sweet tea is a must on hot days in Texas, or any day really.

Yesterday I had 5 Guys for lunch.  It's a burger joint with a bit of a following (like In-N-Out but not that famous) and it's really good.  Looks real messy but I promise it's worth it!  I've only been twice, the first time on my birthday in June, and the card I made is still on the board!

 

I usually have a pretty big midnight snack/meal every night.  Chai tea with an orange.  Grilled cheese, Oreo's, and a bottled root beer (on a Little Mermaid plate!).  Sushi my sister got but gave to me.  A root beer with vanilla, Cheez-its, Trolli Sour Bite Crawlers, Oreo's, Pay-Day, and an apple (2 am gas station run).

 

Slurpee!!!

Well it's already getting late so I should hurry and post this before it's Saturday!  Night!

ϟmissmandapanda