I blame Claudia Kishi

I got tired of my blog name. So I changed it. And amused myself in the process. However, the Beau asked me who Claudia Kishi was. I’ll assume that the Beau never dedicated his life, from age 8-12, to The Baby-Sitters Club. Claudia Kishi was one of the first Asian (excuse me, Japanese!) characters that I came across that did not fall under the “model student/fresh off the boat” characters in kid lit. I mean she is a flat character, but at least she’s different!

Anyway, reading BSC convinced me of a few things:

1. When I turned 12/13, my life was going to be kickass! Parties, dates, going into town to hang with my group of friends, solving mysteries, and financial independence through baby-sitting!
2. Claudia Kishi had the best style in the world. The BEST!
3. Vacations = will find true luv!
4. Middle school was going to be awesome.

Needless to say, I was wrong on all counts. Numbers 1,3,4 never happened. I did get it into my head that Claudia Kishi should be my style icon and I should try to be like her.

This is where I would examples of her dressing skills, but I have no idea where my BSC books are located. Thank goodness for the interweb!

Fashion Is Spinach pulls together some examples of Claud’s artful fashion sense. And there’s a whole blog dedicated to what Claudia wore.

For example: (taken from what claudia wore)

“Today, for instance, Claudia was wearing lime green bicycle pants, a long, long bright pink shirt, and a cropped lime green striped shirt over that. She was also wearing black hightop leather sneakers with pink butterfly barrettes clipped to the laces. She has two feather earrings in one ear (lime green, of course), and a tiny pink heart in the other.” -Kristy for President

I fully blame Claudia Kishi for my purchase (when I was 9) of electric blue leggings that I wore for the next six months. And the rest, I’ve repressed. I’m sure one day I’ll be strolling around Anthropologie and it will all come rushing back to me and the Beau will find me in a fetus position underneath one of Anthro’s pretty tables.

If I had any sense, or an older sister, I would have quickly realized that what works in a piece of fiction, does not necessarily translate over to real life. Fortunately, I snapped out of this phase relatively quickly and there is no pictorial evidence of this failed experiment. Sadly, because of this sartorial experience I am cursed with wearing a daily uniform consisting of: jeans, a solid color tee/threadless tee, chucks/flip flops, and a hoody if it’s cold outside. Apparently, I’m punishing myself for the folly of youth.

Well, I say, no more! I’m not saying that I’m going back to the Claudia Kishi end of the spectrum, but I think I can do with some fun injected into my closet. Or I could totally go back to my lazy uniform ways. Whatever, I’ll just pretend online and until I make the six figures, I’ll stick to what I know. Ehh, it’s a toss up.

I truly forgot where the hell I was going with this, however, I’ve had this title in my mind for months now, so I’m gonna run with it until I give up or it works. HA! And can I just say that for the past hour or so that I’ve been working on this entry, I’ve had the actual BSC show song stuck in my head. Y’all, I was so excited when the cable company added the Disney Channel as a part of the line up and I turned to it on one day and the Disney Channel was airing the BSC show! A rerun of course and pre-Lizzie McGuire Disney Channel days (I think). Anyway, say hello to your friends!

Oh good, I can finally stop thinking ’state of blog’ over and over again..

In other news: my fav. fashion blog of all time has left the building. :(. RIP A Serious Job Is No Excuse. DC will truly miss your advice.

However, I am super stoked to discover a Lurlene McDaniel blog and of course two new blogs about the baby-sitters club/young adult books I read when I was a kid.This ain’t no Gossip Girl people! It’s the real deal! Also I’ve only read up to book 3 in the Gossip Girl series because my sister stopped buying them and I’m totes ashamed to be buying GG books, yet I make a weekly trip to the (one very awesome) used bookstore to look for old books I used to read. I swear I had a ton, but somehow those disappeared and all that is left in my closet are my sister’s manga books. Ahem, anyway…

I’m pretty sure for one summer before I was 16 (before the driver’s license and something that resembled a life) I was obsessed with Lurlene McDaniel’s books. Probably because that’s what the library carried. I mean hello, what is not to love about cancer(possible death)+(possible) love interest?

Which is how most of them go. Girl gets cancer/life threatening thing+Girl meets guy with cancer/super-understanding/sick in another way and either the guy dies and leaves girl with a new lease on life/new understanding of life OR the girl dies. Cheery, these books are(n’t).

Not all of them were like that though, I remember one book where a girl had like tumors in her face and so she had to get them removed and it messed up her face and she was all ashamed of it and got made fun of at school and shiz. Then she met a guy in the hospital who was temporarily blind and got all emotionally involved with him…yadda yadda yadda…no one dies and actually ends on a somewhat happy note (the doctor thinks she can get plastic surgery to repair her face and the dude can see and is still going to hang out with the girl because the INSIDE is what counts, man.) I can’t remember anything about php to save my life, but this I retain. Way to go brain!

Anyway, I’m just excited to read that the McDaniel blog will recap the Amish books. So apparently, I needed to update this blog and inform the public…

And I’m intending to find cheaper looks for the whole Lucky (Feb. 2008 with Rachel Bilson) spring trends thing, because I have nothing else to do with this blog. Although, if I know the internet and I’d like to say that I do, that idea has probably already been done again and again. However, I’m okay with that because none of the blogs I read have done it. So there.