turn the music up (i can still hear you)

Lazy days call for stolen beauty.

2012-06-21T18:07:00.000-07:00

These are just some photos from the internet that I found pretty/cute/beautiful and decided to squirrel away for a rainy day.

Now enjoy the efforts of my lethargy:

(I love Richard Avedon...)

In which I do something terribly stupid.

2012-06-19T09:44:00.000-07:00

This summer, I got a job working at my favorite camp by Yosemite Park in California. I was so very, very excited and I flew down to California on Friday. Well, 20 minutes away from starting my new job, I did something very unintelligent. I ran down an asphalt road, barefoot, in over 100 degree weather. I ended up with second degree burns on both my feet. What can I say, I did not realize roads could get so HOT.
Really, I now know what it feels like to RUN ON FIRE. And it hurts. Oh, how it hurts.
So anywho, because of my intense stupidity, I am unable to walk and my new skin will probably take about a week to grow in.
I guess the bright side is that I'll get to do a little more blogging before I go back to camp where there's basically no internet. My posts will probably be a little more lazy (stolen tumblr photos, etc...) BUT YOU WILL LIKE THEM ANYWAYS! I COMMAND YOU!
In addition to this blog, I think I'll also be doing some stuff on my old book blog that I haven't touched in months. So that will be fun! Right? We'll see.
To conclude: don't walk barefoot on hot asphalt. Just don't. It's a very bad idea.

-Calypso

PS I would like to thank the amazing people who are taking such great care of me in the wake of my stupidity. I know I'm a pretty big inconvenience and I so appreciate everything they've done for me.

School's out! Time to eat donuts!

2012-06-14T09:22:00.002-07:00

Look at these amazing Doctor Who donuts!! It's the perfect way to start the summer. :P

This is my little bro munching on a tardis. Isn't he cute??

Well, school is almost out...

2012-06-11T16:45:00.004-07:00

Two more days to go!

But I'm feeling very, very, very sleepy and on top of that I have a huge Chemistry final to eventually study for... So I'm gonna go nap now. Goodbye.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose is the fairest sweater of them all? MINE.

2012-06-05T15:53:00.000-07:00

Hello all! How are you feeling today?

I'm feeling sleepy. And since I'm "recovering" from a minor surgical operation I had earlier today, I'm going to let myself give into my lethargy. But before I enter my vegetative state of rest, I wanted to share a beautiful, beautiful sweater I bought yesterday.
Let me first express how much I ADORE this sweater. It. Is. Incredible. It's a vintage beaded, embroidered and sequin covered cardigan and guess how much I got it for?? $17!! Now I know, if you're a real hardcore thrift-shopper you might not think this sounds like such a deal. But let me tell you, the person who first bought this new probably paid several hundred dollars. Yeeah.
It's really just... fantastic. And lucky for you, I did a quick photo shoot! With just myself, too. It was very difficult. I was able to dig out our nice tripod but I couldn't find my automatic lens so I had to do a lot of back and forth to position and focus everything correctly. SO YOU BETTER APPRECIATE THESE PHOTOS. Please? :P

Here ya go:

And as an extra bonus, these are some of my favorite sandals that I happened to be wearing:

So, do you agree? Is that not a beautiful, beautiful sweater? I wore it out today and I actually got SO many compliments. Glad to see the world has great taste. Okay, well I'm going to go lay around and recover from my exhausting photo shoot. ;) Pozegnanie!

Hell yes.

2012-06-03T10:28:00.000-07:00

The name's Potter. Harry Potter.

Of art and jello and cake!

2012-06-03T09:38:00.000-07:00

Hello my friends! How are you all today? I'm very happy. :) I had a wonderful day yesterday!
My 16th birthday is on the 7th, so we had a casual party. And I had... the most incredible cake. As I've mentioned many times, I have a thing for dinosaurs. So when my parents asked me what kind of cake I wanted, I told them I wanted a dinosaur cake. With real dinosaur figurines. And... they got me one! It. Was. Beautiful. The best cake I've ever had! I don't know what the people at the store must have thought. That I was six, probably.

Okay, I know you're just dying to see it. Well, lucky for you, I took an insane amount of pictures:

RIGHT?? RIGHT???

What else has been going on? Hmmm. Well, I've been inspired by a very lovely blog called "Sincerely, Kinsey" and as a result I have been making a lot of stitched canvas pieces. Want to see some? No? Too bad. :P

This one is inspired by Jane Eyre....

And this one is inspired by Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes...

Aren't they cute? I have so much fun with them. If you'd like to try your hand at it, I would definitely encourage you to do so. Check out the DIY on "Sincerely, Kinsey" to learn how!

Now there's one last thing I'd like to share with you. I went to a Mexican restaurant yesterday and I got the most incredible jello.

At first, I thought they put a flower inside the jello, but they didn't! The flower is MADE of jello!! It's incredible! But I can't bring myself to eat it, so I'm not sure how it tastes. Ho hum. I think I'm off to eat it now. Goodbye!

Even incredible superstars like myself make mistakes. Whodda thunk?

2012-06-02T15:21:00.001-07:00

It was pointed out to me that the link on my 30 rock post lead to an obama article... Urkk. Well, it has since been corrected. Check it out: here!

NOW, you're welcome.

Ferb and Humphrey

2012-05-30T17:40:00.000-07:00

All my life I've been obsessed with stuffed animals. I just can't help it. Their furry little faces... Their squishy little tummies... It's sick really. I am a stuffed animal HOARDER. And even now, when I find a cute stuffed animal, I have to buy it. Go ahead: laugh at me. No, really, I understand. I laugh at myself sometimes. (My mother thinks I'm insane.)
BUT, if you happen to share my weakness, please enjoy the following post. I would like to introduce you to two of my most recent and beloved fuzzy friends.
You might not know this about me, but for the past few months I have been obsessed with The Black Keys' dinosaur mascot. Welllllll, I FINALLY GOT MY VERY OWN FUNKOSAURUS! And he's absolutely beautiful!
Meanwhile, I also got the cutest little rhinoceros the other day on a lovely trip to the zoo with my beloved Polethene Pam. And he is... so cute. SO cute. I love him. No, you don't get it. I LOVE him. <3

My two new little buddies, the dinosaur and the rhino, are called Ferb and Humphrey, respectively. And you know what? They're really getting along! Yep, they're sort of BFFs now. It's very sweet.

And now I have photographed them! Please enjoy all the sickening cuteness:

Humphrey :)

Ferb the Funkosaurus.

Cousin of Frank. Yeah, that's right. His cousin is in The Black Keys.

Ferb and Humphrey goofing off. Silly fuzz balls. Although I suppose Ferb really has scales, doesn't he? təˈmeɪtoʊ, təˈmɑːtoʊ

That's all, folks!

I just discovered the greatest webpage in the entire universe.

2012-05-30T16:32:00.000-07:00

If you love 30 Rock and enjoy quoting obscure conversations from the TV show.... click here and ENJOY. I've just made your life. You are very welcome.

Das mah smug face.

An exploration into the hipstamatic.

2012-05-28T15:28:00.000-07:00

I don't know if you've ever tried it, but do you know that artsy camera app they make for the iPhone? The one that's called "Hipstamatic"? It basically makes the camera on your phone act like an old analog camera. You can mix and match different parts and it's really very cute.
As someone who adores film photography, I think the app is a very fun way to take photos when all you've got is your sad little camera phone...

So without further adoooo, here are some pictures I took with the app on a beautiful trip to the beach:

THIS IS MY DINOSAUR, FERB!!! (He'll get his own post later.)

Why build sandcastles when you can build naked mermaids??

My gorgeous bike! :D

Mmmm, sparkly nails.

Okay, this time I really am back.

2012-05-22T19:03:00.001-07:00

I've been feeling kind of sad lately, even though life is actually pretty good. Maybe it's because I haven't been blogging? AHA, that must be it. Well here are my goals for my return to the blogosphere:

Post more photography
Share more art
Introduce you to Ferb, my DINOSAUR. That's right. I finally got one.

Okay, that's pretty much it. I think I shall now eat some delicious soup. Ooooh or make a pizza! Mmmm pizza. I'm so glad to be back!!

xo Calypso

I'M BACK!!!

2012-04-15T20:24:00.000-07:00

Just so you know I haven't forgotten you, my beautiful blog. I have to say, you are one of my favorite things. You're like my little private therapist who I pour all my problems and insignificant chit chat into! Thanks for that. Oh and thank you to anybody who reads it as well. :) I'm still on semi-hiatus, but I just thought I'd pop in and share some photos. Though it is nice to take a break, I feel really weird not having blogged for a whole... oh wow, it's only been a week!

So here are some pictures of various things that have been going on in my life...

SPRING BREAK! Admittedly, it was not very spring-ish.

My brother gave me this note with a bowl of flowers. <3

Lately I've been doing a lot of jewelry making:

It was also my dad's birthday recently! Yay! Another step towards death.

That's all for now! I have to go throw water in my little brother's face. Bye!!

xo Calypso

I am going to make this brief.

2012-04-05T18:25:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been rather unhappy. Great things have happened, and I have the most friends I've ever had... and yet, I don't feel any better about life. I don't think I'm really depressed. I've just never been one of those kinds of positive people. I'm great at smiling and looking happy and don't get me wrong--I can BE happy--I'm just generally melancholy a large majority of the time. Oh well. Anyways, I'm saying all this because I think I need to take a break from blogging for a few weeks, so I can devote some more time to staring moodily out rainy windows. I'm not saying I won't blog at all in the next month but I'm just going to take the pressure off of it. You see, I usually feel really guilty when I neglect my blogs for too long. My poor sketch blog is probably about a month behind actually and it's killing me. And my poor book blog is on hiatus before it even got to begin! Oh well...

Anywho, with this post, I am officially freeing myself from blogging obligations. Officially. So maybe the guilt will go away... Okay, I'm gonna go enjoy my blogging break now. Please don't forget me! I won't forget you!!

So I'll see you later. Eventually...

I really, really don't like homework. (But I do like dried up leaves boiled in water.)

2012-04-01T11:32:00.000-07:00

Which is why I'm writing this super short post. In an effort to avoid it.

...

Argh, now I have to go back to my English essay. At least I have my tea! That's right I'm drinking tea and writing an essay. Like a bad ass. And might I add, not one cup of tea. Two. Simultaneously. One is jasmine and one is rooibos, because I'm very, very bad at choosing between the two. :P
Now if you'll excuse me, I must depart! Though I have to say I've really been itching to make another mix tape.... Maybe I'll take a homework break in an hour and do that! Heheheh, we shall see.

In which Hippie Calypso makes an appearance.

2012-03-31T23:26:00.000-07:00

HELLO! It feels good to be blogging again.... I haven't gone on any of my blogs in a while, have I? The truth is, I'm on Spring Break, so I've kind of taken a little time off from it all. And let me tell you, it has been terrible. Not the break from blogging, that was actually kind of nice. No, I'm talking about my actual Spring Break. DISASTER.

I actually wrote an incredibly long post about all of these terrible, terrible things that went wrong in the last few days, but when I read it back to myself it was so negative and grumpy... really, it was just dreadfully unpleasant. All of a sudden Hippie Calypso burst forth and exclaimed, "What's UP with all this negativity maaaan? Why can't we just... just... let GO of the past and live in the PRESENT, ya know?? LOVE--that's what it's all about, man. Love just keeps the whole world turning. PEACE." And then Hippie Calypso started rambling on about recycling old bell bottom jeans and making daisy chains for your hair so I told her to take a hike. BUT, I did not forget her initial message. So, I deleted my first post and all I'm going to say about the aforementioned "disaster" was that it really did suck. Doubly, because we got a french exchange student Wednesday, and the poor guy had to suffer through it as well. And now I'm going to move on and tell you all the good things that have happened lately. And let me tell you, there's actually been a lot of really great stuff!

First off, my wonderful friend Miss Mixie got into her dream college! A year early! You heard me right, SHE GETS TO SKIP SENIOR YEAR. It's the dream! Anyways, the college she got into is an incredible school and I am just so proud of her! And here's the cherry on top... it's in my city! She can do her laundry at my house! I get chills just thinking how awesome it's going to be...

My second piece of great news is about yours truly. Guess what? I GOT A JOB!! It will be my first real, full-time job! I'll be working at a beautiful summer camp in California and I am at once completely terrified and crazy excited. I got the call a couple of days ago and I really am over the moon. There were only about 40 available positions with about 150 applicants... and I hadn't gotten any word in so long, I was sure I hadn't gotten it! But I did! Yay!

So those two little bits of sunshine pretty much make up for my terrible vacation. :)

MORE DINOSAURS!!

2012-03-26T10:33:00.001-07:00

I love love love dinosaurs. So so so much. RAAWWWRRR! One of my favorite things to do is scour tumblr for awesome dinosaur related pictures!

Here are some of my favorites of the day:

Probably one of the greatest images in the entire universe.

Poor dears...

I NEED ONE OF THESE SUITS. These girls have no idea how lucky they are.

I HAVE TO HAVE ONE OF THESE TOO!

So cool.

But these are way, way cooler. What can I say, batman riding a dinosaur is a BOSS.

He's got no idea what's coming...

AHAHAHAHAHA :(

It's like Night of the Museum!

SO. CUTE. SOOOOO. CUTE.

I feel ya, bro.

This might also be the coolest thing ever. I realize I can't actually drive it, but I still have to have it.

So there! Hope you enjoyed all of these T-rrrrrific pictures! Heh. Heh. Heh. You see what I did there? I'm so good at bad puns. :)

Pictures of essentially melted snow... yeah.

2012-03-24T09:30:00.003-07:00

Just thought I'd share some photos from my snow day even though, obviously, most of the snow had melted away by the time these were taken...

A story that ends with a very disgruntled cat.

2012-03-22T08:43:00.001-07:00

I'd like to tell you a sad story. Sit down, mah child.

I made a new friend a couple weeks ago, his name will be.... Tiberius. Hey, it's a blog, I'm allowed to give people funny names! Anywho, I met him through some other friends and we all started hanging out during lunch. Well a few days later, we realized we're in the same math class! So when we realized this, he just started sitting next to me like it was the most ordinary thing in the world. This was a big deal for anti-social me because I previously had no friends in my math class and was just a very lonely kid with nothing to entertain her save binomial probability. But all of a sudden, behold! A nice guy decides to sit next to me! (And to do this he had to leave the more popular kids that he was sitting with.)
So for a while I was very happy. Every math class, we'd walk in together and he would sit by me. :) One time, we both sat down next to each other, but at two different tables that were pushed together, and somebody pulled his table away to the other side of the classroom. When this happened, he was like, "Oh no, we're being pulled apart!" And then he got up and sat on my other side, like it was the only natural solution to our separation. Okay, you probably see what I'm getting at by the level of detail I've gone into.
Basically, I started to like this boy. He shares my opinions on Doctor Who (that David Tenant is the best but Matt Smith isn't given enough credit, that Rose was a terrible companion, that the plot twists in the sixth season were the bomb diggity, etc...), loves Star Trek, is really funny, super smart AND on Speech and Debate AND Captain of the robotics team.... He's sort of my perfect guy. And I really thought he liked me too.
BUT, yesterday..... I was proved wrong because apparently, I'm very bad at picking up signals. Yesterday, he asked another girl to the prom. Obviously, I wasn't expecting him to ask me because we pretty much just met, but I had no idea he was into this other girl. To make things worse, she is a freshmen from my old middle school, so whenever I think about her, I always picture this tiny little sixth grader. He also did it in pretty much the most adorably romantic way possible. He asked her to prom... via robot. Yes. A robot drove up to her with a sign that said "Prom?", complete with a bouquet of roses. Part of me is sad because I really liked him, and the other part is really happy for the two because it was a very cute moment. Ohhh well, I'll just have to move on.
To be honest, I've listened to some sad Taylor Swift songs and now I'm feeling pretty good. It does kind of suck though, that every guy I start to like turns out to already be in a relationship. Never mind, I have my cats. I'll just have to resign myself to a life of feline love.

COME HERE KITTAY, PREPARE TO BE SMOOSHED IN REDIRECTED AFFECTION.

Well now I'm off. Did I mention it snowed last night and today I have no school? Hm, I didn't. You can tell I'm still not totally myself. Maybe I'll just bury myself in blogging today. Tell ya what, I'm gonna go out and take pictures of all the snow. That's what I'm gonna do! This will definitely take my mind off of my nonexistent love life.

Paper Palaces

2012-03-19T21:13:00.001-07:00

Mah new book blog. Check it out, bro.

http://paperpalaces.blogspot.com/

:P

Who likes books?

2012-03-18T15:53:00.000-07:00

I've been toying with the idea of starting another blog for a while now and I need your input! I love books, reading, literary quotes... so I was thinking that maybe I might make a book blog about these very things! Is anybody interested in that idea? I think it would be really fun! Pleaaaassseeee tell me what you think!

-Calypso

Warpaint Beauty Part II

2012-03-17T20:33:00.000-07:00

The other day I went to Hot Topic, and I found that they were having a huge sale on Warpaint Beauty products. Remember that stuff? Anyways, I got to buy a bunch of makeup! Mostly eye shadow and eye liner, but also a really great nail polish and a yummy smelling lip gloss. :) Check it out:

"Skinny Dip"

"Bruiser"

"Start Here"

"Envy"

"Weeds"

"Wolf"

Pink: "Pixie", Gold: "24K", Purple: "Tornado"

"Black Light"

It glows in black light!! AHHH!

"Cherry" And it smells DELICIOUS.

I really like Warpaint Beauty... And though I loved this sale, it's kind of sad because it means the line is probably going under. :( But hey, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade! Or eat one of those miracle berries and just full on bite into it. Mmmmmmm.

The sale's also happening online, so I encourage you to check it out here! Happy shopping!

My Glittery Galaxy Nails

2012-03-16T23:21:00.000-07:00

Aren't they pretty??? I love all of these polishes soooo much...

"Galaxy" by Warpaint Beauty (The gorgeous, sparkly blue.)

"Supernova" by American Apparel, GLITTER (The multi-colored glitter coating.)

"Black Light" by Warpaint Beauty (This is a clear coating that glows blue under black light.)

Turquoise Tides and White Sand

2012-03-16T21:06:00.000-07:00

There is a really great tumblr that I follow called "Turquoise Tides and White Sand". It's a summer and beach themed tumblr that makes me soooo happy. It's just full of sun and shine and cheer... you can't look at it without feeling totally uplifted! I highly encourage you to check the tumblr here: http://turquoisetidesandwhitesand.tumblr.com/

Now here are a ton of great pictures from it! Enjoy, and prepare to feel like a bucket of sunshine. :D

I'm such a bad, bad blogger...

2012-03-16T20:44:00.000-07:00

I'M SORRY!!!! AAAAHHHHHHH!!! I've just had so much going on lately.... There's so much I want to do! Photography, writing, drawing, painting, schoooool... Ech, school.

I've also been neglecting my sketch blog too. :( But now I've updated it a bit, so check it out! http://365daysofsketching.blogspot.com/

But I actually have a lot of stuff I've prepared to blog about! My new fancy painted nails, my new socks, my new make up.... In fact, that's what I'm going to do now. Get ready for a wave of awesome new blog posts!! Hah, it's funny because I'll probably slack off and not do any of them. :P