Camel City Style: Part I

Over the past few months, I've had the privilege to work with Camel City Covet, a local ONLINE boutique here in the good ol' Camel City! (That means all of you out-of-towners who read this li'l blog can order anything you see.) It wasn't long before I asked the owner, S, if I could borrow a piece from the Covet's closet to style in three unique ways for the blog. Though this sort of entry might seem out of left field to some of you, HEY! It's not. This blog won a styling contest... remember? ;)

This first look is Camel City Business Casual. Enjoy!

Bra: Victoria's Secret // Top: Camel City Covet // Blazer: H&M // Jeans: Old Navy // Bracelet: Etsy

My Definition of Fun

... is not the same as yours. I don't mind that notion one bit. I like liking what I like, not what someone prescribes me to like. I like being myself and even more so, feeling free to be myself. What I don't like is being told I'm not fun based on a fabricated charade of fun most people follow. That's not my idea of fun.

My idea of fun is getting up early and walking on a lake shore or up a mountain trail. My idea of fun is working hard on something I am passionate about. My idea of fun is marathoning good television and film, sometimes all day. My idea of fun is making a home and spending a lot of time there. My idea of fun is a game where no one cares about winning, only being clumsy and having a good time. My idea of fun is writing, reading, acting, singing, dancing even when I'm bad at it. My idea of fun is creating new things, relaxing with my pets, and holding the hand of the person I love while doing it all.

You see, my idea of fun is incredibly internal. It has everything to do with me because at my core, I only need myself to have a good time... well, except for when I want my partner there to just smile and be there as I have that fun. So when someone tells me I'm not fun, not only are they insulting my right to define for myself what is fun, but what makes up the 99% of that definition: me.

My idea of fun is not drinking as much as I can as often as I can. I enjoy a drink from time to time, but I more enjoy being able to wake up the next morning and work out or do something else I love. My idea of fun does not require many people. I do enjoy hanging out with pals, but I don't like having to justify that I'm simply ready to be alone or I'm feeling overwhelmed when I don't want to hang out every single time someone asks. My idea of fun is not having to go out. I do like to adventure to new places, but I don't require it to feel alive, to feel some desperate sense of newness; I already hold that awe and wonder inside me every day. I hold it in mind when I'm doing my fun things, and I hold it in my heart.

My idea of fun is being able to have my own version of fun without being chastised. My idea of fun is finding people who understand the same kind of fun I do, or at the very least, understand we don't have to have the same ideas to both be fun in our own ways. My idea of fun is one day being understood. My idea of fun is my own, and though its definition may change over the years, I will always be the same. I will always be me.

And me? I am fun.

Wouldn't It Be Nice?

Life would be much more enjoyable and pleasant if everyone had a British accent. Enjoy this as much as you can between the egregious audio and video. I fully blame the PC I have to use until I get a new charger for my Mac.

Jolly good!

The Most Important Entry Ever!

... technologically speaking.

Google Reader is saying bye-bye in a few weeks. I don't really mind because it's always been much too hard to find and follow blogs in GR anyway. I've just used my subscription feed below my blog management tools.

But guess what? That's going away, too. Nothing is going to show up anymore when you sign in to read your favorite blogs! That means the blogs following you, as well as the blogs you follow, will all just disappear as if they were abducted in the middle of the night.

I don't want to lose any of my readers, and I most certainly do NOT want to miss out on reading your blog entries, so I offer the following suggestions:

1. Subscribe to my blog by email now. It's really easy. If you look to the right, there is an area to enter your email right underneath my social media links. You get an email when I write a new blog when and nothing else. Voila!

2. Put your blog on Bloglovin' and follow all your favorites there, too! It's what I've been using now for months, and recently just started following all of you there instead of on my Blogger feed. If it seems daunting or confusing, I promise it's the best thing that will ever happen to you. It's so sleek and easy. You can follow anyone's blog just by copying and pasting the blog's homepage hyperlink into the search bar. (You can categorize, too! Ahh, just awesome.) Here are some other bloggers explaining it all much better than I:

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I hope to still see everyone around after this big change on July 1. And hey, if you forget to make whatever switch suits you best, find me on social media or the blog email – I'll help you step-by-step.

Love y'all!