Welcome to California

ive been missing home so much lately.

i miss my mom. i miss my dad. i miss my sister.

i miss my friends. i miss driving. i miss cute west coast boys.

i miss people not taking everything so dang intense and crazy.

i did. i left my heart in California. for real.

what kind of idiot leaves California?

the kind that go to New York.

Happy Birthday to the Most Beautiful Woman Ever

Dear Mom,

You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my entire life. And I work in the fashion industry. I’m just saying. Your hugs, I could drown in them, melt into your arms forever. Your scent, Estée Lauder Beautiful, is appropriately named for the perfect wearer. The world could come crashing down around us and your arms would be like indestructible walls of love. I could think of no safer place to be.

You care and concern for other people, outside of yourself, outside of our family.

I can hear your tears stream and your heart break while you pray for me, for Se eun, for Dad, for your relationship with him, for your parents, for your family, for our future husbands, for our future families, for your church, for my church, for Korea, for the US, for more wisdom and grace, for more faith and love, for protection, for the leaders of this world, and for many more things I’m sure, as the Holy Spirit intercedes with groaning too deep for words.

You exemplify sacrificial love and your heart is easily moved by the things that matter in this life. But more importantly, it’s moved by the things that matter in the life to come.

Happy Birthday Mom. I hope to look as pretty as you do at 49 years young. I hope to be as wise and gentle as you are. I hope to live my life by example like you do. I hope to be the kind of mother you are to us, the kind of wife you are to Dad, and the kind of daughter you are to Grandma and Grandpa. I hope to be the kind of employee that you are in the workplace the kind of listener you are with friends, and the kind of teacher you are to children.

God’s goodness and favor is so evident in my life simply by looking at the mother He’s blessed me with. There are only two people in the world that can call you that and I have the privilege of being one of them. I love you so much. Happy Birthday to the most beautiful woman in the entire world, my Mom.

 

Your confidante,

 

sejung 

if i were on the satorialist

id wanna be her. 

NOW. I NEED PANCAKES NOW.

i should be packing for vegas........

cute word: penmanship

Penmanship or handwriting is the art of writing with the hand and a writing instrument. Styles of handwriting are also called hands or scripts.

cute fruit: kiwi

cute song: can't forget about you
-Nas ft Chrisette Michelle

four pairs

i want and need.


reebok freestyle hi.
either white or light light pink.

birkenstocks that'll last me a lifetime.
forget rainbows. gimme some og birkenstocks.

i wish i could play soccer so so bad. since i cant. ill front like i do.
ive wanted sambas since elemntary school. no lie.

jordan xis in grey and white. i know boys like the red black and white.
but im a lady.
and the grey is
soooooooooooooo
freeeeaaaakkkinnnngggg
cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn.

these are four pairs of shoes that i cannot and will not get out of my mind until i make them all mine* when i see someone in any of the four of these, thats when i know theyre legit. they appreciate the simple but good things in life. the originals. the classics.
they are like vanilla. there are thrity other flavors. some flavors are swapped for more appropriate seasonal flavors for different seasons of our lives. but vanilla remains. as do all four of these kicks.

*my birthday is october 6th. and i dont have any of four displayed above. thanks.

id like to take this time to say, yea the air yeezys are nice. would i be lying if i said i didnt want them? yea, i would. but the yeezys are no vanilla.

thank you classics for being classics. for being so og. for being so vanilla.

if i had money.

this is how i would dress. everyday.

loefflerrandall.com

if you loved me.

youd make this mine.

or this.

im really not hard to please. 

supermarkethq.com/designer/12934/products

Summer Fashion DONT EVERs: Intro and Point Number 1

Time line of seasons

From what I’ve heard, this is how the seasons usually go down in New York, it goes winter to spring, I dunno for a DAY, to full blown summer. Full-blown summer means humidity. For the normal New Yorker, winter means massive amounts of clothes, covering everything but our eyes. Spring brings a pleasant transition to dresses and tights. This ushers in a dangerous loss of taste with almost-naked women without bras walking the streets. And I didn’t say hot naked women. A terrible but utterly real slippery slippery downward depression.

Summer Bodies

Recall the story of the animal, whatever animal it was that took all spring working to store up grain or food or whatever it was instead of wasting away its time. When winter came there was plenty to eat and the rabbit? the ant? Whatever it was, the animal was able to enjoy all that hard work.
It’s the same idea, opposite seasons. I tell this story to say, if you have a summer body, rock the summer fits. The winter work out allowing for cute summer clothing has earned you that right. If you’ve worked for it, enjoy summer clothing because you’ve spent hours upon hours and countless reps getting a summer body that will look good in that summer clothing. But if you spent all winter effortlessly getting fat, spare us all and don’t wear summer clothing. Be creative. Think of a way to not let all of that spill out over a too-small waistband. If you can't fit into that little dress, don’t wear it.
And lets get this squared away right off the bat; I don’t mean, “showing more” in a nasty way. I’m talking showing off arms, shoulders, clavicles, and not more cleavage or leg. Tasteful ladies. Lets keep it classy. And trust me, this is hard for me to say, being a cute little shorts- tank-, dress-, skirt- lover and at the same time, being a fat girl. But it’s the reality of summer and I’m not being harsh, just real.
If you’re like most women, if you’re like me, you’ve put that dress on, and it doesn’t quite fit the same as it did a year ago. And it’s not looking hot like it did a year ago. It’s just looking snug. And snug is not the adjective you were looking to use when you put it back on. So now the depression sets in, then thoughts of crash summer diets or working out and hoping to see results in three consecutive days at the gym. You know, I know women who even thought that de-toxing would help in this skinny endeavor. But it’s too late, just start working out now. Since you’re not going to get skinny in a week.
I’ve made a list of summer do’s and Don’t EVER’s for skinny and fat girls alike. Well, just fat girls I guess, skinny girls you can wear whatever you want. You don’t even have to read this. In fact, you’re probably not reading this because you’re probably out shopping for dresses and skirts and tanks that us fat girls are all wishing we could wear. Fellow Fat Girls, read on.

SUMMER DONTS. SUMMER NEVERS.
DO NOT. EVER. DO THIS:

If you have boobs, large ones:

Don’t go bra-less. Please. For your sake, for my sake, for the sake of this world. If you have any type of consideration for people other than yourself, please, please wear a bra. Don’t be selfish and inconsiderate, and you know what, I’m gonna go ahead and say it. Don’t be rude. It's rude to force others to look at what you’re putting on display when no one wants to see it. No free shows. Heck, I’d pay you to put it away. When I first moved to New York, I was sooo taken aback by how many women didn’t wear bras. A girl I used to work with never wore them. I can’t even recall a time when she wore one. And I know you can’t tell because this is all written, but if you could see how much time I just spent trying to recall a time when she did wear a bra……











……There would’ve been like that much space.

On the other hand, if you could be mistaken for a boy because of your lack of boobs: (I fall into this category, don’t feel bad girls)

You’re cool. I honestly think these girls can go braless in certain tops and it just ends up looking better. And lets be real, you feel as free as a freaking bird without a bra.

A Note about the braless option:

The whole point of this section can be easily compared to the use and practicality of the thong/g-string. Ladies, we all know the reason for the thong: get rid of unwanted underwear lines. Underwear lines are definitely not a good look especially in nice dress pants, a fitted dress, or a skirt.
SO the genius thong was invented to remedy this problem.
THEN. Christina or Pamela (I’m thinking Christina Aguilera, Dirty Video maybe? Youtube it if you want, or you know, don't)-- that’s when I really took notice, because I couldn’t NOT. Around the same time as the advent of the super-ultra-lowest-rise-of-your-life-denim trend, thongs showing everywhere became a trend too. You know, put the strings on your hip, with your ultra low rise jeans. Ew. Please. The thong then evolved from something that was supposed to hide little nuances such as underwear lines to something that was to be put on display, a thing of seduction and nastiness really. Different connotations of thongs and girls who wear them came into being. I say all of this to say: not wearing a bra is NOT to show that you’re not wearing a bra, alright girls? Lets not pull a Christina.

On How to Dress for Summa

so..

in the coming weeks. ill be putting up my summa fashion rants and raves. dos and dont. for the ladies and maybe for the boys lata.

stay tuned.