too much fashion and oreos

I'm just going to cut to the chase and tell everyone that I've wasted a HUGE portion of my last two days messing with Polyvore. Although it's not new to the internet, it's new to me, and it's become my new favorite way to waste time! (What? How did you guess that I've got a couple of big school projects looming in my near future?)

For anyone who doesn't know, Polyvore is a website that allows you to create outfits creatively. I would explain better but it's 3 am, and I don't want to. Just go look at the website.

Whenever I find something I like, I tend to exhaust myself with it to the point of obsession. Case in point, when I ate an entire package of Mint Double Stuff Oreos (but frozen, because they taste even better that way) last weekend...by myself. Is this behavior healthy? No. Will I do it again if I get another craving for those little cookies? Quite possibly. So I guess Polyvore has become my new Oreo.

Since I've been dreaming of cold weather, here's my cold (but stylish!) winter outfit:

Items in this set:
KAIN t shirt, $95
Net-a-porter.com jacket, $1,295
Seven For All Mankind jeans, $198
Chloé boots, 490 GBP
Chloé shoulder bag, $1,720

And there's a lot more where that came from, so blog, I hope you're ready for some cute outfits.

bring on that cold weather

It's hard to believe that it's November already...I wore shorts today, for crying out loud! How are we supposed to get excited about Thanksgiving if the weather feels more appropriate for bbq-ing the turkey than roasting it?

This afternoon, as a way of tricking my brain into thinking it's scarf-weather outside, I made steel-cut oats for the first time. My mom suggested them to me a while back, and I've wanted to try them ever since. So I picked up some oats at Trader Joe's and got to cookin'.

(Bytheway, how cute is this can of oats?! It looks like it jumped right out of a 1930s' Irish cupboard...you know...because I'm so familiar with 1930s' Ireland.)

Let me tell you, these are not your normal oats. They took a good half an hour to cook fully, and that's not including the time it took me to clean up the messy aftermath of the pot boiling over. But, I cooked a big batch which should last me for a while, and from the little I tried this afternoon, I think I'm going to like them. It's grainier and harder than the oatmeal that I'm used to, and they're gonna taste amazing with some brown sugar and dried cranberries on a cold day...

So come on, weather. Just cool down a little so I can fully appreciate these oats!