i'll give you a dollar if you tell me how many times i use the word teen

my birthday was kind of a while ago but i didn't post about it because i am cruel and unusual, like all children- WAIT, like all teenagers. I'm an official teen! (Excuse me while I go star in a cult coming of age film- I'm looking at you John Hughes).

 i can join the panel of experts on TEEN STUFF like texting on those electromagnetic devices the kids use these days; WTF= wow that's frugal! -  used upon discovering Yohji Yamamoto-esque clothes at the thrift store or rubber tschotskes.

 I have no idea how to spell that word, but I just don't care-which brings me to my next TEEN THING: indifference - being chillllllllllllllllllllllll -writing in all lower case, keeping your feet up. FEET! CHANGES IN YOUR BODY! TEEN THINGS! ANGST! wOw.

I guess also as a TEEN, i should get into being LOUD AND OBNOXIOUS and re sp on ding in mo no syll a bles! If you disagree with that statement or tell me to "get off your lawn" ???? - then all I have to say to you is: THAT'S SO UNFAIR or maybe WHATEVER DUDE, YOU'RE  TOTALLY BUGGING. Also umm, like, totally radical man!

When I was a kid (those were the days) in addition to thinking that my thirteenth birthday would be like christmas morning with more acne (I'll give you a hint- only half of that actually happened), I kind of expected that on the morning of my 13th birthday all of my wildest dreams would come true and I would be unexpectedly wise and have sage advice to offer everyone and be insanely daring in a very 'do i look like i care' way- like a combination of Bob Dylan and Iris Apfel. But I kind of ended up more like Yoda: I'm mostly wise but I can't really form coherent sentences 100% of the time and I also feel a strange compulsion to wrap my self in a green shawl.

 

spot the difference! 

(That might be too easy since the picture of me was shot on a canon eos rebel t3)

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my barfday outfit existed in different stages to be worn throughout the day (as in from work 2 da club), so I'll just go through them one by one.

                                      

i wore this outfit to school even though i found it kind of boring because
. i didn't feel like being asked what i was wearing on the day of my INDUCTION INTO TEENHOOD
. i could live the *best of both worlds* and be "normal" at school while maintaining my inner pizzazz.(I'm kidding- or should I say, teening.)

when i realized that i wasn't wearing enough pink 

wow sass and angst in one pic (that's what the TEENS call pictures)- so stereotypical hahaha.

 

when i wanted my aesthetic to look more like commes des garcons fw 2009- because this is what all teens do in their spare time amirite?

I also felt the need to carry around princess-related accessories even though the only  princess-y thing that happened was my math teacher looking at me and saying- "Wow she really likes headbands"

collared shirt : thrifted

pink top : UO

black dress : thrifted

grey tights: UO
green jacket (around waist) : thrifted

black coat (worn inside out) : childhood

headband : DIY 

tiara : Target

Pom Poms : Dollar Store

Candy Hearts : Dollar Store

princess purse : childhood

Apparently other thing teens do is destroy quaint seaside towns, in between acting sooooo akward (as if i haven't done that already), be covered in (Greek) yogurt by the popular kidz and remove my glasses to become ~beautiful~ @ prom (aka biggest nite of my lyfe if u didn't already know), so I'm going to go do all that. If there's any TEENS reading this blog that would like to share any nuggets of TEEN WISDOM- feel free to do so (I was going to include a joke about chicken nuggets, but I'm just too tired from spending hours hunched over a good text message)

ttylb

(That stood for talk to you lates besties- don't worry if you didn't get it- not everyone is as TEK SAVVY a teen as I)

(actually, maybe I won't talk to you guys later, I mean I'm already THIRTEEN- so I've basically got one foot in the grave already)