On Being a "Grown Up"

Right here, right now, where I live its really hard to be a grown up. Especially if you have no idea what the hell you're doing.

 You kind of just flop and around and fuck up a lot and run out of money in the middle of the week and end up eating spaghetti three days in a row a lot. That is until you figure out how to adult, but that can take a while and isn't a whole lot fun.

After three years of flopping around I like to thing I have a kind of sort of hold on the whole being an adult thing. Most of the time it feels like I still have no idea what I'm doing and that things magically just work out and I just kind of keep on keeping on.

And then I have days like today, where I realize I can actually adult, and being an adult sometimes is just as awesome as you thought it was going to be.

I woke up in my apartment, which I pay for and when and had a delicious breakfast because who doesn't love pancakes?
The answer is no one. But I've found day off pancakes are the best pancakes.




And then I picked up some silly fringed mini shorts I really don't need but absolutely love and when home to my little apartment and hung out with my cat. In my house, that I pay for, filled with my stuff.

I get to live by myself and can buy things on my days off. I even have a really cute cat.

And that's whats awesome about being a grown up. This is my house and my stuff and my cat. And I earned it. How fucking awesome is that?

Frozen Cherries and Jelly Shoes

Today the air is warm. It isn't the first warm day, but it's the first time it feels real. Like the warmth is here to stay rather than a little taste before it dropping back down into the thirties.

My windows are open and I'm eating sweet frozen cherries, one of my favorite summer treats. I love warm weather and getting to wear warm weather clothes.

What I don't exactly have a lot of are warm weather shoes. I'm a boot girl. I have tons of boots, combat boots, college girl boots, cowboy boots. I have all the boots.

Boots aren't so good for the summer. I also stand all day and spend most of my time climbing ladders, into and out of window displays and running up and down the stairs.

It makes finding new foot wear a little bit challenging. This summer I am pretty damn determined to dress like a little pastel cupcake as much as possible. My all black shoes don't line up with that ideal very well.

Recently I stopped into American Apparel- something I rarely do looking for a pair of tights they didn't end up having and found they have abundance of jelly shoes, In every color you could possibly want and then some really don't.

I bought a pair. I thought they were cute and they matched a skirt I'd ordered and I needed some summer shoes pretty badly. Plus these were closed toed so I could maybe even get away with wearing socks so they don't stick to my feet.

Since today was the first real warm day, not like all those fake warm days I figured it was a good day to test out my shiny new plastic shoes.

The verdict is: I'm pretty pleased. I wore them with crochet ankle socks so they didn't stick to my feet- one of my biggest concerns was foot sticking. That would be weird and sounds like it might smell. Obviously since they were new they weren't the most comfortable things in the whole world, but I made it through the day and didn't want to cut my feet off.

Any time I can say that I consider it a win.

I'm pretty sure with more wears the plastic with warp to the shape of my foot and they will be more comfortable.

I'd a say a solid A pair of shoes. There may be a white pair in my future.

You can find them here: http://store.americanapparel.net/woven-jelly-sandal_jellyw

I found they ran very true to size. If you have very slender ankles you may need to punch a extra hole.

I'll give em a few more wears to make sure they continue to be awesome and will report my findings. I'll even try them barefoot and brave the possible foot sticking just to see what would happen.

I am WASP

Who is WASP?

I am Wasp.

 I am 21. I live in a tiny city in a tiny state and I work in a one of the coolest stores in the whole world.

I love my job, I get to dress people and hang out with awesome people all day. And I get paid for it.

 I adore fashion, my cat Lola, and early 2000's Emo and Pop Punk.

 What is I AM WASP?

 I AM WASP is me getting to talk about all the things I love most.

 I buy a lot of things, seriously getting things in the mail is one of my favorite things in the world. I get a lot of mail, and want to tell you all bout the cool things I get so you can get cool things too. Because really getting mail is the coolest.

 And I go to a lot of shows and buy a lot of music.


For a while I worked at a CD shop and got to hang out with people who liked Pop Punk just as much as me, and knew a hell of a lot more about music than I did. I learned about a lot of awesome band while I was there, but now I don't really get to talk about music as much anymore.

 I also take a lot of pictures of my cat, Lola. Why? Because shes really really damn cute.

I mean really. Look at her little cat face.