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And just in time too!  For those of you who are regular news-watchers, you might have seen that DC had been absolutely pummeled by snow in the last few days.  AND!  It’s not over.  Round two begins tomorrow… great…

Anyway, for those readers who have been following us for a while, you may remember my endless griping about how I’ll be needing a decent coat.  Mission FINALLY accomplished!

Thanks to generous gift-givers over the holidays (and in some cases, the gift receipts that came with them) I have three new additions to my now-growing coat collection:

The Comfy All-Purpose One

The pretty, dressy one from Forever 21

The back of the 3rd one... couldn't find a better image. Oops

That’s it for now friends!  I think I’m in for another snow day.  I thought I’d be happy about it, but it turns out, I LOVE my internship =)

Hello!
Instead of studying for my biology test which is this thursday, and i havn’t started studying at all, I decided i would rather write on here for the first time.

I hope my post comes up correctly. This already looks confusing… but anyways i suppose I’ll just write a whole buncha nonsense.
Sorry to whoever reads this, my writing capabilities are not at the full potential as they should be. I hate english haha, but i love to read. Im really bad when it comes to sentence structuring, sentence fragments, and incomplete thoughts. I’ll jump from one subject to the next. Which I’m about do…

I’m currently at school on break before my next class which is stats… I don’t mind stats its just not interesting to me. Just when i got away from math in highschool it comes to haunt me at college too. I remember my highschool math teacher telling me that you don’t really need math to achieve a career in life. WHAT A LIE!! first off I wanted to get into pharmacy, which im no longer going into. She said i could get into pharmacy with the level of math i was taking right now. So of course i thought i was A-okay, but nope, because of her i had to take summer school… GRRR so this is why i currently hate math because of her…

ALSO i hate 8am classes, Tuesdays and Fridays are 8am-5pm… before i use to love tuesdays and fridays. Because, Tuesdays are cheap movies nights, and fridays well obviously cause its the end of school and start of a weekend. But now i hate them…

uhoh class is starting in ten minutes.
this is Lindsey Fuentebella

signing out

p.s. (I’m for sure editting this post, you can tell i rushed, I’ll tell you more about myself as well.)

I’m back in DC

And I just started my internship at the Air and Space Museum, which is going SO well.   I love it!

And my classes for this semester are looking very promising (I had to get a Twitter account for one class – @sharleente)

AND I just moved to a new place.  FINALLY…

So lots and lots of changes and new beginnings!  2010 is going to be great!

I’ve particularly found that moving is always exciting – although sometimes also stressful.  I love that period when you first move and you start “nesting,” that is, working things around so that you feel like you’ve created a space that is fully and inarguably yours.  Now, I’m just renting a room so my space-making is somewhat limited.  I’ll post those pictures up once I feel that this area is truly mine (I’m still working out the kinks and the blah spots).

In the meantime, I thought I’d share with you what it WOULD look like, had I been blessed with my ideal location in the world and my ideal bank account:

Option One

Option Two

As you can see, I like my whites pristine and my woods rich, with a splash of accent colors here and there.  A view of the beach through the floor-to-ceiling windows would be icing on the cake.

This is where I sigh with longing and sign off until next time…

Stay tuned, Cathy’s sure to be regaling us with jealousy-inducing stories of her trip to the Philippines!

I’m traveling to the Philippines soon! I’m so anxious to go swimming, go shopping, eat fresh food, have mango smoothies with every meal, and most-importantly spend time with my family. It will surely be one of the best times of my life. I’m ecstatic!!!

One of my highlights will be going to Pagsanjan Falls. I first saw it on the travel channel with Samantha Brown a few years ago and knew I had to experience it myself. The trip starts with going up a river for about an hour in canoes that your guide paddles. On both sides of the river is lush, green, steep mountainside.  You can hear the waterfall in the distance, birds and monkeys jumping overhead. Then at the end, you transfer to rafts (pictured below) and get pulled underneath the falls. How fun!!!!

On a shopping front, the Philippines is land of the shopping malls. Huge ones. Every mall there is comparable to the Mall of America – picture 3+ stories high, and miles upon miles of retail space. They’re huge. They’re slogan is “No other mall comes close.” Geeze – but it’s true. Because of the immense temptation, I was thinking of making a shopping list so I don’t go overboard.

So far I’ve got:

- Black ballet flats

- Oversized cardigan

- Large light grey hobo bag

- Loose fitting cropped pants

…

I can’t't deny that I’ll surely find some purchases that aren’t on this list. But at least I have a guide to focus on and won’t come home with hella Manila t-shirts that I blindly bought $2 per. =)

Ciao,

Cathy

Hey y’all!

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Good Kwanzaa to you! And Happy New Year!

We hope you all ate good food, shared good times, and are ready for a fabulous new year. In celebrating the holidays, we gave ourselves a small present, i.e. advertising on a great blog site, called The Coveted. It’s a stunning blog on fashion, style, new designers, makeup, and all things wonderful. The founder, Jennine, is also the founder of Independent Fashion Bloggers.

In the new year, we at ClosetCat look forward to new closets, more posting, exciting fashion muses, safe travels, and good reads.

A few new closets that are sure to pop up soon are, Cathy’s SoCal Boheme and Shar’s Romantic Layers. Also, Cathy’s traveling to the Philippines come the end of January, and that trip will surely evolve into a closet as well.

All our love,

Cathy, Lara, & Shar

I have been MIA as well, I know, but I’ve been poring over books and research, then flew home to recuperate from it all. Man, this grad school business is tough…

But.  I’m in grad school because I’m a nerd.  I am.  There’s no point in denying it, really.

I’ve been reading voraciously since I was 5; I retain random bits of scientific facts; history intrigues me like no other; and math… okay, maybe I’m not the most well-rounded nerd…

Anyway, I like school.  It drives me haggard with the amount of work sometimes and I constantly make disgruntled declarations of my being fed up.  But honestly, I love the challenge and I love the learning.

And I LOVE writing.

There’s just something about a fresh, crisp, clean sheet of paper that both excites me with its promise and challenges me not to waste it.  (I suppose the same thing could be said about that blank, white Document1 on MS Word, but I feel like that blinking cursor is pressuring me to start typing whatever.)  So for creative, non-strictly-academic purposes, I like journals and notebooks – whatever their shape or size.  I do, however, had a bad habit of collecting notebooks because they’re pretty, but never quite filling them out before getting a new one.  Again, it might have something to do with that fresh promise of a new start.

Now, one of my non-nerdy loves in this world is shoes.  If I wasn’t acutely conscious of my status as a stereotypically broke college student, I’d have nothing to keep this budding shoe fetish in check.  It helped having two sisters because we’ve pretty much tripled our shoe choices at home by virtue of having the same shoe size.  Then, when I moved out, I constantly bemoaned the fact that my roommate had absolutely gorgeous shoes – but not the same size.  Dammit, Cathy…

Anyway, here’s the connection.  How to merge the love of notebooks and the love of shoes.  I guess one way would be to write about it, which is essentially what I’m doing right now.

Or!

Check this out!  (Courtesy of my friend Eileen’s closet and her ridiculous collection of shoes)

Composition notebook shoes! For the nerdy but stylish schoolgirl

Some shoe  designer out there is a genius.