Halloween Costume Round Up

Happy November First everyone! You know what that means, I get to show you what I wore for halloween this year. After briefly considering dressing like my supervisor, I settled on one awesome prop and two amazing costumes.

The prop?

A 6 foot (plus) long black whip.

The Costumes?

One safe for work, one not so much.

And in true Sara fashion, I didn't get any photos in the while I was actually wearing them (no room for cameras in costumes right?) and so I dressed up again just for you!

For this one, all I needed was the whip and the hat... the rest is just a tan shirt dress (Forever21), brown leather jacket (Zara) black leggings (Express) and brown boots (Nine West). Needless to say everyone had fun trying to crack that whip!

Ah cat woman... I mean it is a Batman year, but who wants to be like everyone else and dress up as Anne Hathaway cat woman (I mean it's not even a costume) when you can be Michelle Pfeiffer instead. The mask and corset I go online. For the rest I bought 3 pairs of fake leather leggings from Sirens (like $15 total) and got sewing.... make sure to use white thread and leave all your ends hanging. I also had a pair of black gloves with metal claws (metal hair clips from the craft department) poked through them (use black hockey tape to secure) but I lost them or something.

So that's what I wore this year, but while I'm in the sharing mood, here's some of the costumes of years past.... you'll notice 2 things: 1) I'm a huge nerd and 2) I never remember to take good pics!

Happy Halloween ladies, hope you had a great time!

Last Week in Photos

Started the week off with a cute date outfit... and went on a date with a very nice boy (although this wasn't the outfit for that date :P) dress from H&M, tights Forever21, boots Minnetonka, necklace Spring. Crappy cell phone mirror pic I know... but at least it's an outfit!

Took Thursday off work to go skiing for 2dollars at Mt. Norquay. First time skiing on a real mountain! and I didn't even fall once. Poor Sarah had her eyes closed in all the pics tho. (Furry hat H&M, brand new jacket DC)

And since the weather has been soooo nice, yesterday we took a walk along to Bow River, and enjoyed what is probably fake spring.

All you needed outside was a cozy sweater and you were good to go, which is amazing for Calgary in early march. (Sweater Forever21, boots Minnetonka... skinny jeans from somewhere?)

I especially love the way the ice looks when it's starting to break up. Hopefully this chinook weather will last all of the way to actual spring.

Anyways, I've got to go into the lab today, and then Yoga, then a soccer game... then hopefully try and spot the tail end of the solar storm powered northern lights I keep hearing about. Hope you remembered to set your clocks ahead, and lost out on the extra hour of sleep.

Picked a PhD

So I've decided who really needs a master's degree? I mean I've worked in a lab for the past 8 months, and had several excellent lab positions/experiences before that. And I've just let Long Hair (my boss/supervisor... who does in fact have long hair for a man) and one of his colleagues talk me into just applying right into the PhD program next year.

Well there's a 4 year commitment decided upon in a hour.... well not really an hour, this is something I've been talk with myself about for the last 4 months. So hurray! it's all decided and stuff.

In other news, I moved up to my new lab today... going to take a break (kinda) from mesenterics and spend some time learning about myometrium. Here's a look around.

Well not really a look around, labs are all confidential and stuff... so instead it's just a generic back drop style shot. As for that totally awesome shirt I'm wearing, it's vintage liz claiborne, picked it up for 5 bucks on ebay. The belt is from pac sun.... its was cheep... that's all I know about it. Oh I found it here.

Anyways, this is the face of someone committed to being a student till she's 27 (minimum).