Shut up woman, get on my horse

Another bad experience with Urban Outfitters has left me wondering if even their sale prices are enough to ever tempt me back...
Long story short, I went in on the hunt for a nice, inexpensive lightweight beret/beanie/what-have-you. In the Sale section, found exactly what I was looking for; a simple, grey acrylic knit cap from Staring at Stars. It didn't have a tag but there were a lot of similar ones around it from the same brand that were all marked 9.99.
Went downstairs, waited about fifteen minutes in line (when you know you are a popular store, you think you might put some of the staff who are aimlessly milling about on cash, instead of having just two out of a possible five registers open) and then it was my turn.
Upon discovering there was no tag, the cashier told me she would have to look it up. After apparently being totally unable to find it, one of her co-workers went and found what they claimed was the same hat in another color... except it wasn't and it was not 9.99 but rather 29.99. When she rung it up, I waited for some sort of discount to bring it back to what I thought was the sale price, but then she told me it would be $32 with tax.
But it's on sale, I say, I mean, I found it in your very cluttered sale section.
Oh no, she tells me, this hat is the same as I just scanned in (even though it was clearly not... the one I picked up had raised lines of thread and a tight weave and the one she scanned was looser in shape with a lace-like pattern all over) and it's not on sale. This one must of been misplaced.
So predictably, me being the cheap-ass university student with no job and no $32 to spend on a small, knit beanie left my incredibly cute hat behind and went home, sans beanie. It was very apparent that the hat she used the price tag for was not the same as the one I was purchasing and the hat I wanted looked like it had been sitting in clearance for a while, so I have to wonder why they would try to tell me otherwise.
<3 you, Urban Outfitters, but I think I just might stick to buying from your website, because at least I know I won't get charged for an item I'm not buying

Plus C'est Change, Plus C'est Meme Chose

So worst blogger of the year goes to... well, kinda obvious isn't it?
I always have so many good intentions when I start these things and then something always takes precedence and I forgot/get bored/etc, etc

If I twere to lay blame somewhere, it's probably in my general doubt of my own writing skills and creativity. I read so many other fashion blogs and they all make it look so easy (even though I know it really isn't) to be witty and glamorous on a daily basis.
But I'm employed (sort of... if an unpaid internship can count as employment) this summer as a writer for a music website and I'm really learning to flex my creative writing skills. I also feel like since I turned 21 (oh so long ago... or rather little more than a month ago) that I'm really starting to accept my own appearance a lot more (I won't get into my various self-image woes, because that could be a novel in its own right) and that means I've been branching out a little in terms of style and beauty.

So making a pact with the imaginary readers here. I'll try to post something (anything) at least one or two times a week and you only use padded bats and pillows in you beatings, alright?

Ceci n'est pas une blog post

Simply put... this is not a blog post.
Snow falls, fashion ennui has set in.
The Uggs are multiplying, tribal patterns forming in the crusts of melted snow-salt on their toes.
Sweatpants are widespread and I begin to fear for my fashionable sanity.
Frolicking in the snow in purple 8-hole Doc Martens has only held off the madness for so long.
Wherefore art though slim cut pants, oxford shoes and non-parka-esque winter jackets?
Too long between posts suggests even the imaginary readers begin to ready their slings and stones.

No matter...
Try again.
Fail again.
Fail better.
(Samuel Beckett)

May my next spectacular failure in the digital world be a most grandiose one

I'll exaggerate to illustrate, the origin of illness

So obviously the epic cleanin' out my closet post didn't happen, but I'm begging massive soul-sucking sickness and hoping you'll forgive me...

But now for something even more exciting... part deux of what will Kat be up to during the first two weeks of September. Do we all remember the rules? I've got another picture and hopefully, this one will lead you closer to the massive (and I mean massive) event that I will participating in, in two weeks time.



Any guesses yet? Well, if you still have no idea... check back next week and I will be revealing all. But until then, we will be returning to our regularly scheduled programming tomorrow

Informer, you no say daddy me snow me Ill go blame

Just came back from getting my hair done - I was supposed to get it cut and colored, but wound up just getting a color; hot pink streaks... and now I'm suffering from a bit of dyer's remorse and hoping I don't look like Avril Lavigne (ew)

I also went out shopping again, in the hopes of finding more stuff to add to my back-to-school wardrobe... it seems I'm having a lot less luck in the major department stores than I am at my work's thrift shop, but I'm still ever hopeful. Unfortunately, I only scored a pair of new shoes - (RED) Converses, black with wings on both sides, a necessity as my Sailor Jerry pin-up Converses are about to collapse in tatters of canvas and rubber. The rest of my excursion was uneventful, except for the two minutes I spent in Urban Outfitters, before fleeing in fear that the overly-aggressive hipsters would take one look at my loose (but not boyfriend) black jeans and Zellars t-shirt and start to pelt me with snakeskin leggings and ironic faux-vintage t-shirts while screeching "Unclean! Unclean"... yeah, never repeating that experience again.

I feel like I'm being a bad fashion blogger as I haven't been that infused with fashionable posts lately, but stay tuned for my post tomorrow where I attempt to tame the wilds that is my closet and possibly, if you're lucky, post some picks of my most recent clothing scores

A Fashion Conundrum

So, I'm in need of a new fall coat... I've been using the same navy blue blazer for years (Ultra-trendy wool coat from JC Penny, personalized with silver paint by moi in homage to my hero, Jimmy Urine) and I think it's time to give up the ghost.
I've got a couple of possibilities in mind, but have largely ruled most of them out for varying reasons... which results in my conundrum:

(Battalion Jacket in Black from Modcloth.com)

I loved this marching band style jacket, but at the price tag of $101 dollars, its a little more expensive than my broke college student funds can afford... so next contender:

(Sargeant Sally Jacket from Twicebitten.com)

I love the look of a blazer with a hoodie underneath. Especially a nice velvet one, especially one that's on sale for $30 like this military inspired blazer from Twice Bitten. However, I don't always trust online shops, particularly when they don't list all the materials that the jacket is made of on the site. So, still thinking about this one, but moving onto the next jacket...

(Bella Twilight Jacket by BB Dakota from ShopPlasticland.com)

This jacket is truly the source of my conundrum... it's military inspired, stylish and not too expensive. But it's also named for a character from one of my least favorite movies (I say movie not book, because I don't mind the books and I really really hate K-Stew), just because she wore it in the movie... and I don't want people thinking I bought the jacket because I'm sooooo in love with Twilight and want to marry Edward or something.

So thoughts, opinions, ideas? Should I suck it up and buy the cute coat and say to hell with the Twilight association or should I keep looking and try to find something else?

Feels like insomnia ah ah, Feels like insomnia ah ah

* Lame title, yes... but that's what I get for googling 'Insomnia lyrics' and picking the first result

So, I have a pretty major event coming up soon (a little less than three weeks now) and I've put myself to the challenge of blogging my way through it (I would say live-blogging but this is sort of impossible as for most of it I won't be near a computer)...
I'm hoping that this will prove to be very exciting and interesting, but I also predict that there might be a number of days where my blog posts will look something like this: da4oiluwefkb.jsbqpyt892fewbsaYFP;HOVBSVSDVKLVBHN *thud*

So, wanna know more? Well, I'm not revealing all just yet, but check the pic below for a hint and see if you can guess what I'll be up to at the beginning of September :)