8 Terrible Fall Trends (with pictures!)

I am currently at a loss for what to blog about. I'll start by catching you up on the most recent happenings in my life. The weekend of Halloween I was living the RA life and being on duty. It was a most eventful weekend, and I am sworn to the utmost of secrecy about most of the things that happened. Let's just say, there were several incident reports filed! Yay!

The following week, I rode the struggle bus everywhere I went. Mostly this is because it was the week of my birthday and I had 500 things to do that I actually did not want to do. But, it was all worth it on Friday, November 7th; the glorious day of my birth. I turned 21 this year, and I must say that it was one of the best birthdays I've had in my life thus far. I'll leave it at that. As today is Monday, I don't have much to say about this week so far, other than I have noticed some very horrible, horrendous trends this fall. I have consulted some of my colleagues about their thoughts on this topic and these are some of the collectively worse things we have all seen within the past 2 months.

1.) EXTRA EXTRA long t-shirts. As in, when a girl wears a t-shirt down to her knees and it kind of looks like a night gown.

2.) I read this second "worst fashion trend" from allure.com. **DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS "WORST TREND"** Sockbuns. According to allure, "They're big, they're bulbous, and no one really knows what's inside them: They're the UFOs of hairstyling!" Maybe it's because I'm wearing a sockbun as I write this, but I really think they're the best thing to ever happen to womankind. I mean, come on, what is better than not having to wash your hair or try hard to make it look nice, and it still looking nice in the end anyways? Sockbuns rule. allure.com is wrong. Bye.

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3.) The return of 90s grunge. Not cute, 90s style. I'm talking about 90s grunge, grunge, grunge. Just think about the word grunge, in itself. I mean, it's gross, and so is the excessive use of grunge style this fall. Just stop it plz.

yikes.

4.) Black lipstick. Black lipstick makes me think of dogs. As in, when I was like 5 years old and obssessed with animals (Animal Planet was my jam), I would pretend to be a little puppy dog. Once when I did this, my cousin Stacy told me that I couldn't be a dog because dogs have black lips and I didn't have black lips because I was a little human girl. Is it weird that I remember this? Probably, but every time I see a girl wearing black lipstick I think of a dog.

5.) White tube socks and Nike free runs as every day attire. I would only wear this if I was going directly to the gym to play a game of pick-up basketball or something like that. Even when I was 8 years old I didn't want to wear socks that came above my ankles because I thought that was nerdy. However, on an 8 year old little girl, socks above the ankle with some sparkly lil tennies is really stinking cute. On a 19 year old? Not so much. I don't get it, but maybe I'm just behind on the times.

8-year-old me: *folds down lace to below heels*

6.) Ew. This terrible trend comes from elle.com Wearing a dress over pants. This is something I wanted to do when I was 11 years old. This is not something I would do 10 years later, or ever for that matter. If you need to wear something under your dress, wear leggings or cute little tights or nude hose. Those are classic fixes for cold legs in the winter time! Not pants. Just no.

*cringes*

I know it can be difficult, but if you wear hose, you too can be a princess! But just look at Mia Thermopolis, she ended up rocking those hose! 

7.) Speaking of leggings, wearing leggings as pants but not wearing a shirt that keeps all of your everything from being revealed is another Terrible Trend. I'm not saying that I would never wear leggings as pants. I've done it before and I'll do it again. Also, this might seem to contradict Terrible Trend #1 (too-long t-shirts). The point is to cover things that should be covered (i.e., booty) and to find that perfect balance between covering up and wearing a nightgown and longjohns.

8.) Here I present to you the worst of them all: wearing tights underneath shorts. This is so weird. Like, I know you want to "be like the cool kids," but really. This is weird. Why don't you just wear...hmm...pants?!?!?! Why, someone please enlighten me, would you even desire to wear tights when you don't have to? (This may also seem to contradict the argument against Terrible Trend #6; to be clear, tights/hose/leggings should be worn with dresses or skirts. Tights are very uncomfortable no matter how old you get, so you should only wear them when necessary. As in, only wear them when you're wearing a dress and you absolutely must.)

brb, crying.

In conclusion, there are probably lots of other terrible things that people wear but to be honest, I just can't think of any more right now and the ones I've got are pretty bad. I would love to hear about some of the worst things you've seen this fall, partially because some of it is hilarious and some of it is just plain fascinating.

P.S. - My sincerest apologies if I have offended your unique, personal style. I probably couldn't pull it off anyways.

Thanks for reading!

Pajama Days

Well, today is the day. October 9th. The day that will (probably) infamously be called "The time that someone wrote threats on the bathroom wall in the library and in the parking garage elevator and we didn't have class."

I'm on duty today. For those of you who have never experienced the life of an RA, being "on duty" means that I stay in  my residence hall for a set period of time; during the week from 4:30pm-8:00am the next morning, and on the weekend from 4:30pm Friday - 8:00am Monday. That's correct, I do not leave the building for a solid 2 and 1/2 days. The reason for this compensated house-arrest is to make yourself available to any residents in the building that may need your assistance when they have locked themselves out of their room, are unable to remember how to do their laundry or cannot access the Internet. 2 of these 3 problems are easily solved. To fix the third problem, you have to be a wizard. So anyway, since UNA doesn't have class today, I began my duty day (ha ha) at 12pm today and I will finish it at 12pm tomorrow. I'm not going to lie to you, I was pretty nervous about it. I have a tendency to be dramatic...but since UNA took the threats seriously enough to cancel school, I may have taken the threats seriously enough to move my bed in front of my door last night so that no one could get in my room, but you'll never know that for sure. I could totally be making that up. 

My original plan was to post a timeline of how my day has gone in relation to the threats. But alas, my body needed sleep and I didn't wake up until 12:54pm...Yeah, you read that right. 12:54pm; as in: the afternoon, as in: the middle of the day, as in: my mother never let me sleep this late when I lived at home. My point is, it's now 3:00pm and I am still in my pajamas. So, I want to take the time to give you 7 reasons to have a pajama day every once and a while.

1.) There may be a death threat out for one's college campus...what a better way to go out than in one's pajamas?

2.) Pajama days are great for catching up on rest. I didn't know I needed to sleep in until 1pm until I did it. Obviously, my body needed sleep. Duh.

3.) If one is usually quite the hard worker, a necessary pajama day once a month should be prescribed to you. Goodness knows I could benefit from that. 

4.) On a pajama day, the possibility of being productive is still there. In fact, I have taken an online test, made a smoothie and thought about finishing my door decs. 

5.) Quite possibly the most important reason to have a pajama day: There is no need whatsoever to shave one's legs. Why, you may ask? You have been in your pajamas for at least 12 hours; no one will want to touch you anyways.

6.) Pajama days are a perfect time to update one's iPhone to the latest iOS 8.0.2 software because it truly might take all day. Or at least 1 hour.

And finally...

7.) Pajama days remind you to take time to appreciate and reminisce the simpler things in life: a cup of coffee, birds chirping outside your window, old Lifetime movies and dial-up Internet.

If you know me at all, you know that I do not usually take the time to relax, so this post may have come as a shock to you. But, I think that being lazy once in a while allows you to appreciate the hard work you did yesterday and the hard work you'll do tomorrow. To perfectly sum up a pajama day, Jarod Kintz (an author whose work I have not yet read but might someday) said this: "Hoping to get a head start on the next day, I eat breakfast the night before. That way I can sleep in until two in the afternoon."

In all seriousness, if you're like me and you rarely allow yourself time to slow down and breathe and take time to enjoy your life and the life happening around you, then you should make time for it. Make time to relax. Make time to be with your friends. Make time to be with your family. Make time to be by yourself and do things that you love. Hard work is an attribute that is highly respected by many, but relaxation and self-love are attributes of happy, healthy people. Have a pajama day every once in a blue moon...you probably won't regret it.

Stay lazy (but not for too long...)

Hailey 

P.S.--This sweatshirt would be perfect for the pajama days where I'm not actually on duty!