A FREE Christmas Miracle

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) from Mystica on Vimeo.

Gabee and I were driving back from Tempe, after our plans to attend the screening of Warm Bodies fell through, and listening to All-American Rejects trying our best not to succumb to the pleas of our tired minds.

As I drove down Baseline, a backroad of Arizona, and as the darkness consumed the desert creating an obsolete sense, our awareness was suddenly keen to the illuminating house glowing with a variety of Christmas lights. Gabee and I are of teh curious kind, so we drove into the road that led straight to the farm house (63rd and Baseline, if you're a local and want a free Christmas lights experience) and immediately were drawn in as a lighted blue sign made our dreams come true: the drive-around was FREE!

Hohoho, it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

From satirical cartoons such as Family Guy and The Simpsons to the heroic crowd of DC's and Marvel's superhero TO the crocodile that bit off Captain Hook's hand, this short drive-thru will definitely bring your childhood idols to life.

Seriously. Gabee and I were jubilant.

Enjoy this short video that I took with my phone, and especially, enjoy T-Swift with the mix of Christmas music in the background! Oh, yeah, the owners, who must be pretty awesome also have Christmas music playing (at a reasonable volume) to make the experience that much more authentic.

Autumn is here!

Hey Blog Friends (I've been watching too many Jim Chapman YouTube vlogs):

Autumn is here! Okay, so it's in the low 80° and gets to the low 70°  at nights here in Phoenix, Ariz., but we Phoenicians consider this lovely weather perfect to pull out our tights and light long sleeves (we live in a desert people, with scorching heat for months and months and months). 

The following outfit I call my "Bonnie" outfit. Anyone who's a fan of Vampire Diaries might think so too. I got the dress slash shirt at Charming Charlie in downtown Phoenix, which is about 10 minutes away from my school. It's a two-story store with all the accessories any girl can ever dream of. I got this shirt/dress sometime last winter and it was on sale for 10 bucks reduced from a price of, I think, $30. It's also sort of a rosy brown color. 

The tights are from Target for $6. 

And I got my midnight blue oxfords at Cathy's at AZ Mills Shopping Center. All shoes at the store were buy one get another 50% off...so Gabee and I tried to cheat the system. We both got ourselves a pair of midnight blue oxfords and rather than one paying $20 and the other paying $10, we each paid $15, saving ourselves $4 (each, so $8 in total)!