Chelsea in Wonderland

I was recently in New York for a 50th anniversary of some distant relatives. During the five hour long car ride there, I wrote a blog, which I was unable to post at the time because there was no wifi on the road. I’m just getting around to it now, so here it is :)

June 26, 2009:

Current Location: The middle of nowhere. Also known as upstate New York. To be honest, it’s really not that bad .. I guess. It’s all so green here, as opposed to the familiar gray, cement color scheme of the city. So I like the green. I must say that the huge expanses of greenery make it hard to believe that we are actually at a loss for trees and nature and whatnot, heading the planet into a state of dried out rock, suffocated by greenhouse gases. It’s also hard to believe that New York can hold all this green while one of the filthiest, most polluted cities in the world also is located here. On top of all of that, I’m biased. I very much support a greener lifestyle, and saving the planet, but I prefer city living over being surrounded by farm land. I don’t have much against farmland, it’s just that it gets old when you’re my age. Everything is like a mile apart, and it’s so quiet, and there’s a very limited amount of activities that would entertain me. I’ll be honest, I’m not very good with physical labor. I doubt I could keep a window sill garden alive. Despite that farmland and forest lifestyles seem much cleaner and healthier, something I hold in importance, (does that make sense?) I would rather be lost in the vastness of urbanity than be swallowed by nature, and be bored. So what it really comes down to is how much fun I’m having, and how convenient things are. And I’m okay with that.

I’m on my way to a 50th anniversary right now. Five hours in the car with my two aunts, my brother, and Coco and Dot – the dogs. However, I did get a beautiful dress out of it. Well, besides all the wonderful benefits of bonding with distant relatives and blah blah blah. ;) I’ll have to post a picture of it from the Forever 21 (or should I say XXI Forever?) website. I can’t right now because I don’t have wifi but I’ll do my best to describe it. It’s soft white with a country style flower pattern all over. The straps are like that of a tank top, but there’s a slightly frilly piece of fabric along the edge of the sort of low cut neckline. The skirt has a slight bubble-ness to it, and it falls above the knee. (My conservative, catholic, incredibly judgmental aunt will probably have a heart attack that it’s not ankle length, but then again…that wouldn’t be most horrible situation either. Kidding! … o_O) All in all, the dress is really endearing. I hope that it’s not too dressy to wear throughout the rest of the summer because I absolutely adore it. The only thing I wonder is if I can get away with wearing black heels with it. I have these awesome pointed-toe, black, two inch heels that I haven’t had an opportunity to wear yet and I really was hoping that they would make their debut at this party. I think I can get away with them because the only thing I brought to go over the dress is a black cardigan, so it will create a nice balance.

The last time I was here was about fifth grade, and I was going through a stage of Gothic apparel and anything related to Hot Topic. And I was reading the fifth Harry Potter book, thus making me the anti-Christ in the eyes of my aunt (previously mentioned) Things surely have changed. I’m interested to see how her kids have developed, from what I hear they’re kind of on the weird side but what can you expect. Anywho, appearances are no judge of character and I’m willing to look past odd mannerisms and get along with my cousins.
We’re getting close I hear, so I’m going to wrap up here. I’ll post my dress too. Until then, xo.

Not bad for 24.80 ;)