Well, hubby came home this weekend after the longest 6 weeks of my life. (Seriously, I don’t even think our last deployment was that bad. Yikes.) And these two kiddos are the happiest kids in the world, and finally back to their normal behavior.

So, a few things:

Tomorrow is October 1st and there are going to be some very big changes to my blogs.

– I’m moving my free themes over to this blog, and any future ones will be published here.

– I’ve changed my username from slightlyawsm to slightlyawesomeblog!

– My usernames on all other platforms / social networks is now gabbyguzik. I considered changing the username of this blog to gabbyguzik as well, because lack of uniformity drives me nuts. But that’s not going to happen. I just decided to make my username a bit less juvenile.

– Forever working towards better written, structured, posts instead of crazy randomness that nobody’s interested in. Remind me of that next time I babble on and on.

– I updated my theme, and it is nifty as fuck — go look at it! Do you see my menu bar on the right? Do you see my comment/note inline integration in my post pages? Do you see I have a banner/badge now that you can copy to your blog to tell everyone “I LOVE GABBY’S BLOG!”? Well, I do. So make a button for yours and we can swap. Free traffic, dude.

– Also? I officially started filling out my fafsa so that I can finally go get a degree in this web design nonsense. So, don’t expect to pay $15 for tumblr themes forever. 😉 Get your butt on the waitlist for a custom theme NOW!

And, I love you Tumblr.
That is all.

Throwback!

We took these the day that I moved to Akron, August 22nd 2008, when we got home after taking my stuff up to my new apartment. Don’t ask me to explain what’s going on here. We’re just people who loved each other a lot and wanted to take some photos before everything changed. That’s all.

My Closet – Some casual tanks.
Usually for days I’m not leaving the house.

Check out the rest of my style photo project.

Throwback!

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008. The bonfire.

So, we were all hanging out at my house. In just three days we’d head off to college (we were all going to Akron except for Lacee) and thought “Hey, let’s have a fire,” and we sent some texts out to other friends to come join us. In the meantime, we took these photos.

Then the other folks showed up, and even some people who weren’t invited but word travels, ya know? And the night got crazy. What started as a bonfire ended up with us barhopping the 18 & overs (on a Tuesday, so exciting! Not.) and eventually winding up at the local shithole strip club until everyone paired off and went their separate ways.

I didn’t make the best choices that night, and it’s bittersweet because it started out as such a great time. I look back at these photos and laugh because I love these people, and then cringe because I know what happens later. Ugh.

Throwback! Summer 2008.

If you haven’t been introduced yet, meet Amanda.
Or for the folks of Tumblr, Delicassassin.

Best friend, royal advisor, awesome musician, psychology major, will fuck your shit up on Guitar Hero, and destroy you on Final Fantasy.

My Closet – Long-sleeved blouses, sweaters, and cardigans.

Continuing with my style photo project, here are a few more selections from my wardrobe.

My Closet – Short Sleeve Blouses

Another edition of my style photo project, as I catalog all the pieces in my wardrobe.

Excuse the wrinkles; a few of these tops set in the dryer a bit too long and I wasn’t going to iron them for the occasion of a photo.

My Closet – Day Dresses & Casual Party Dresses

As part of my new photo project, in which I am documenting my personal style, starting with itemizing the pieces in my wardrobe, here are a look at the dresses that I own.

My Closet – Camisoles & Tanks

Working on a photo project to document my personal style, starting by itemizing all the pieces in my wardrobe.

Look forward to more of this over the next few weeks.

Throwback!

(forgot to post yesterday, whatever, this week’s been hell.)

Let me tell you about the time my best friend, Lacee, and I (and my mom) went to Ocean City, Maryland. First you should know that my mom coming was not part of the plan. It was supposed to be Lacee, Me, her boyfriend at the time, and Philip. It was going to be our big senior trip before we went off to college.

Philip and I were still seeing each other but were technically not exclusive at the time (we had went through that whole senior year/college transitional stage of “should we see other people?”) and his grandparents told him at the last minute (literally the day before) that he couldn’t go because ‘they didn’t think it was a good idea’. Translation: I thought you were done with this girl. You’re not getting involved with her again. Which really sucked because he was the one who was driving us, in his car. Then Lacee’s boyfriend finds out that his vacation request didn’t get approved that same day. Oh well, we thought, girls trip!

Well, that wasn’t okay with our parents, who didn’t like the idea of two young girls alone on vacation. I’d like to take this moment to point out how awesome our parents were that they were cool with us going on vacation with our boyfriends, but not alone because they were concerned for our safety. So my mom volunteered. And honestly? We kinda thought that her coming along would make the whole trip a drag, but if anything it enhanced the experience. How many 18 year olds can say they got drunk on strawberry daiquiris drinking with their mom and passed out all day in a hotel room? Yeah, sometimes my mom is pretty cool.

Anyways, I look back on this trip bittersweetly because, just two months before I conceived Sophia, it kind of feels like my last moment of immature adolescence (give or take a few college frat parties that fall). We were stupid, loud, and inappropriate. (Note: me, motorboating the statue of the world’s largest woman in Ripley’s Believe it or Not museum) But… we were young enough to get away with it. 😉