Whoa! I’ve never packed my things so beautifully in a single luggage before so I decided to be cheesy and make a post about it. If you really want to continue reading this, prepare yourself to be bored out of your mind for a lot of what you might read will make you ask yourself “who gives a shit?”…yay!

I tend to be a very heavy packer for “just in case” situations, but I really want to change that because it’s much easier to carry light. I don’t like carrying a multiple of luggages–or one huge luggage, I just want to have my Hello Kitty messenger bag and a standard size luggage but without being under packed.

Because you can't leave without your sparkling wedges.

For our 9-10 day trip, what you see here are the only things I’m bringing with me for clothing and shoes (besides the clothes on my body). We’re fortunate enough to have access to a washing machine so I can wear the same thing more than once if needed. The clothes were sort of planned out meticulously; I made sure that no matter how I matched these up, they would still look good together–AND no matter what the weather brings I will be prepared (the weather in France is a bit unpredictable atm).

I can LIVE off of this shit yall!

Again, I’ve never packed this well before. In the past, it was a complete nightmare–like I’d have a luggage, along with a huge duffle bag and two purses for a 5-day trip in San Francisco. Imagine carrying that around, well you don’t even carry–you’re practically juggling them like a goddamn circus freak. This time, I changed for the better. I improved. I’m a lot more aware of how I use my space now. And really, it’s a combination of watching a Youtube video on how to pack awesomely and buying the right luggage.

I needed to buy a dress for an upcoming wedding and decided to shop at the nearest mall. I’m generally not a very picky person so I thought this was going to be a smooth and easy ride for me, but it ended up being way more annoying and troublesome than I had anticipated.

Considering that the wedding is going to take place in a more rural area of France, the idea I had for my dress was something innocent and appropriate for Spring. I didn’t want any dark colors such as black or brown, I just wanted to look like a good Christian girl who stepped out of church on Easter morning. LULZ.

I visited a lot of the major fashion chain stores and most turned out to ba complete failure in finding the perfect dress because there wasn’t enough variety. Here’s what I learned about the type of dresses that they generally carried:

• Forever 21: Neon colors, everywhere. Everything is too goddamn bright and see-through. They really dig patterns of hearts, polka-dots and horses. They also like a lot of big ruffles around the collars. No thanks.
• H&M: Loose, long and flowy–or short and corporate. The colors are sad and dull. A 75-year-old grandmother can totally wear a typical H&M dress and rock dat old lady dress at a family reunion.
• Wet Seal: Everything is sluttified and the quality of their fabric is poor. Too much of floral tackiness. Dresses are skin tight and short. Perfect for a 90′s prostitute, but not for a wedding guest.
• Macy’s: Made to perfection, but unfortunately, it shows on their price tag.
• JC Pennys: Lots of fun patterns and color combinations, but the structure of the dresses are built for a very tall, middle-aged white woman. I swear. I walked into their fitting room to try on a dress and I immediately felt out of place after realizing I was in room full of Orange County housewives.

Can you guess which store each dress belongs to?

Sears (THE WINNER): The first thing I saw when I walked in was the juniors section, and oddly enough, it had what I was looking for. And the variety! There were average ones, cute ones, even slutty ones and most importantly, the ones I was looking for–well–regardless of the fact that it was actually made for high school girls. The dress that I picked out screams SPRING. EASTER. SUNDAY. HAPPINESS. and ALL THINGS SNUGGLY.

I'm ready to go run in the fields like the Little House on the Prairie style!

That’s right! I’ve started using this website exactly four years ago from today, and I haven’t truly stopped since.

However, I’m not so certain about the future of this site. In the past, I use to write very long, detailed and personal entries, but now I’m starting to notice that it’s becoming shorter, safer and typically replaced with pictures. The thought is disturbing to me because it means I’m either getting dumber or I’m simply going along with the current e-trends. Seriously, I can’t write stuff like I use to write back in ’09.

Can’t you guys tell? We tend to skip reading a lot of words in long entries and only note the key words which clearly reflects in our comments now. We’re more attracted to blogs with pictures because we don’t have to use our brain muscles to read and pay attention.  Heck, Tumblr is growing twice as fast as WordPress, and 99.9% of Tumblr blogs are only made up of “reblogs” of images. No one ever decides to stop and write their own crap nowadays, we just take other people’s posts and share them with the internet.

This is why it is very difficult for me to get into Tumblr, believe me I am trying! Tumblr is definitely a great site–whoever created it is really a genius. But following a person’s Tumblr blog which is made up of “reblogs” from OTHER Tumblr blogs is not appealing to me at all and it SURE AS HELL ISN’T CONSIDERED A REAL BLOG. Yes, at times it can be entertaining but it’s just lazy and everything there seems like it’s constantly being reused and recycled.

Don’t mind me I spose, I’m just an old fart who’s resistant to change. Sigh. Happy Birthday, blog.