Figure Me Out

Ok, so someone showed me this really supes kewl website the other day. It's called polyvore.com . And what it is, is you can create fashion, like sets I guess would be the word. I've been playing with it for like 72 hours straight cause it's so nifty, and I thought I would share it with you guys. 

So basically, you go on over to www.polyvore.com and sign up. Then after you got your pretty self all registered and all that yummy goodness, you go over and click create, along the top. You'll see for yourself when you go, but it gives you a bunch of categories to click on like Tops, Jackets, Jeans, Pants, Dresses, Hats, etc, and you go through those and click when you find something you like, and add it to your set. Then you go back to the categories and do the same thing until you have like, a really cute outfit. Then you just click publish, name it and hit save and boom the magical internet publishes it for the webernet to see. AND it links out to the sites where you can actually buy the things! But that feature doesn't really apply to me because I'm forever broke.

And the reason why I'm telling you all this, other then so you guys can play too, is that Natalie told me a while ago that I'm really hard to shop for because I don't have a particular style I guess. So I was like no, I have a style, it's just a very diverse style. Since I'm such a fashion designer, I thought I would show you guys some of the sets I made that represent my style so when you all go out to get me my birthday gifts this weekend, you'll know what I like. 

Yeah, like I could ever make my hair do that. Psh. 

Another example of what my hair will never look like. 

Cause I'm edgy

And also hipsta classy

And patriotic

and think I'm a biker

And forever in love with fancy dresses

and like to wear a lot of black?

And think I could pull off laid back cute-ness. (what? I can't even pull off regular cute-ness)

and rebellious

and lazy and cat loving

and, actually I don't really have anything witty to say about this one. 

I'm so good at fashion designing

So for the record, I do not wear the same sweatshirt and boring pair of jeans everyday because I want to. If I got everything I wanted, the previous pictures would be how I would look. But I don't, cause I'm poor. Deal with it. 

Jatalie Bogan

Despite common misconception, I actually do have friends. Hard to believe, I know. I even have more than one!

And I love all my friends quite a bit. They are fantastic weirdos who, for one reason or another, accept my weirdness and even enjoy hanging out with me. (I think.) 

Ok, actually, side note really quick before I get into this post. I always used to have this weird suspicion that every single person in the whole world was on this mission, and they all had to pretend to like me and be my friends, family, teachers, everybody I knew and interacted with. But secretly they were all on this quest to kill me. Like I was certain everybody in the world met in these meetings every month and did progress reports on me and then all plotted that one day they would all turn on me and kill me. I think I was exposed to crime and conspiracy cable TV shows at too young of an age....

Focus Jackie. 

Oh, yes, my friends. I love them all. One of my very very best-est-est-est-est friends (who was mentioned in my last post), is Natalie. Our friendship name is Jatalie Bogan. It's like Jackie Buckman, and Natalie Hogan combined. Yes? Good. And I promised Natalie I would write a blog post all about her and publish it for all of my internet people to read.  So here we go. A little friendship history for you all.  

Natalie moved to Park City in the middle of 6th grade. I have lived here my whole entire life. (Same house, same bedroom and everything.) Neither of us can even really remember exactly, but the summer before 7th grade I saw her somewhere and we talked a little bit. You know, you meet someone and you're like "oh they're pretty cool." So anyway, on the first day of 7th grade I was waiting for the bus in the morning and she walked up. I was like "Oh yay! Someone to talk to and I'm not alone now." So we started talking and when the bus came, we sat together. And that was the start of it all. 

I also remember the first time we ever hung out outside of school, she took me to this country club kinda thing to go swimming and for lunch we had chicken tenders with fries and rootbeer. 

Then we just hung out all the time, which was pretty easy since she just lived up the street and we could walk back and forth between our houses. 

Little bit about us:

                  Natalie                                            Jackie                              

- Has (undiagnosed) OCD                       - Has (diagnosed) ADD

- Has moved 9 times in her life                - Has never moved

- Allergic to bananas                                - HATES bananas 

- Plays Lacrosse                                       - Plays lacrosse

- Has a younger brother                           - Has a younger sister

- Is a Virgo                                               - Is an Aquarius

- Is gorgeous                                            - Resembles a human (kinda)                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                           

Then, halfway through 8th grade last year, she found out that she was moving again, to Florida this time. It was really surreal and hard for me to deal with since I'd never had a friend like that taken away from me. 

But we found a way to work around it. We talk every day, just like we would if she still lived here. Nothing really changed, we just don't get to see each other face to face like we would if she was still here. We also visit each other at least twice a year; I go there in the summer for her birthday in August, she comes back here in the winter for my birthday in January. It's a pretty good system. Oh, she also has since moved to Georgia, so that's where she currently resides now. 

Collage of our pictassss

She also takes really really cute pictures of me...

Awkward Bird Dance

Ka-pow gun hands

Have my arm around an invisible person

Pullin' a Jesus

#Hawt

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard

Babe Status

I was eating ok?

She also makes cute memes 

I know Cereal Guy, I know. 

I don't know how to explain myself

Don't sass me boy

How am I still single?

And then we also have some together in which I tried to look as socially acceptable as possible

Summer 2012 in FLORIDA 

Rock n' roll

Being gorg is tough sometimes

January 2013

Bus ride sometime in late 2011 (I know cause my braces are off, so it has to be after October 22) 

Her last day in Utah in the Jupiter Bowl bathroom

So there you go Natalie, your very own post on Awkwardly Awkward. You're welcome.

OH. AND ALSO, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME ON JANUARY 29TH. 

15 days and then I'll be 15 years young. That means I can get my learners permit, even though that's highly unlikely since I haven't started studying at all and I wouldn't even be able to tell you which pedal is the gas and which is the break.

Bieber Fever

It's no real secret that I'm deeply in love with Justin Bieber. And really, I don't think people understand exactly how much I love him. They probably have an idea, but I like, LOVE him. A lot. Hardcore Belieber. 

Anyway,

On Saturday, January 5th, 2013, I saw him live in concert in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Just take a minute to process that.

WE WERE IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER. 

It was the best day of my whole life. 

So during the day, I was with my BFF Natalie. Natalie used to live here and she moved away, but we have biannual visits. I don't know if biannual means two times a year, but I hope it does, cause that's what I meant. (I promised Natalie I would blog about her, but I won't go into much detail right now because she is getting her own separate post.) So anyway, we were at her hotel and she helped me get all ready. I had to look perf. We are getting married you know. So I bought my Wal-Mart acrylic nails, slapped those on. And then I attempted to put on fake eyelashes for the first time in my whole life. The first one turned out pretty good, but the second one was just a mess. I got lash glue all over the actual lashes an then they all clumped together and dried and I couldn't get them apart. Plus, I glued it to high up on my eye so one of my eyes had an eyelash with like 4 large lash clumps glued to the middle of the eyelid. Scrapped those and just went with my own real eyelashes.

And the shirt I had was just prime time. Natalie had given it to me for Christmas.

And it's so warm

Then I left to go meet Abi (you all know Abi from my Fatday Friday Post). Natalie didn't go because we didn't know she would be here when we got tickets. Plus she's not in love with him like Abi and I are. 

The concert was at Energy Solutions Arena, so we drove down the canyon having a pre concert jam sesh to JB. Well actually, we didn't drive, our moms drove, but same thing. 

Classy in the O'Shucks bathroom

More pictures, 'cause we're cute

Anyway, when we got to the concert, we ran as fast as we could inside, cause we were already a few minutes late. But it was okay cause all we were missing was the opening act. (No offense to Carly Rae Jepsen. I enjoy a mean 'Call Me Maybe' as much as the next person).

But after she was done, we waited like 50 minutes before Justin came on. Later we found out that he was late because he had spent the day with a little girl with Leukemia at Primary Children's Hospital since she couldn't use her tickets because she got sick again.  He's such an angel.

Basically, then he came out, I cried, he sang, I cried, he spoke, I cried. I did a lot of crying. Happy crying though, don't you worry. I also did a lot of jumping and dancing and rocking out.
The show was so cool, they did a lot of really amazing stuff with videos and fireworks and all that jazz.

We had amazing seats thanks to my Aunt Linda! She's not actually my aunt, but she's a really close family friend so I just say she's my aunt. Anyway, she works for Larry H. Miller, which owns the Energy Solutions and the Jazz and stuff, so she always gets me tickets to things there. For my birthday she surprised me with the tickets. We were sitting on the left side in the lower bowl, 11 rows up from the floor.

                                               

                                                          From our seats with no zoom

*fangirling*

And then they played One Less Lonely Girl. For those of you that aren't Beliebers or just don't know what goes on at a Justin concert, his crew goes out and picks one girl from the audience to go up on stage, get a crown of flowers put on her head and be serenaded by Justin. I tweeted him and his crew 42 times where I was sitting to be the OLLG, because Justin said in an interview that that was what we should do if we wanted to be the OLLG. Sadly, it wasn't me, but it was my old baby sitter and current lacrosse teammate Caitlin's best friend that she went with. Lucky Duck 

(So actually, I didn't really know her at all, but I knew someone who did know her, and through Jackie-rationalization, that means I knew her.)

ahhhhhhh



It was such an amazing night. I would give anything to relive it. But you can all mark my words, one day he will love me. That's a promise, and I never break my promises.