I'm basically an Indian version of Nancy Drew

This past weekend I went home (glee version of Home plays in background). I bought this dress in August and when it came in the mail, it went to my knees and I literally looked like Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was faced with this problem of looking like a pioneer, so I tried to hem the dress. Which was fun and games until I washed the dress and it shrunk a little bit and now it's too short *upside down smile emoji* 

I took this pic before I ruined everything good in my life. But it's okay because it's been really cold so I will probably have to start wearing tights underneath my dresses anyways so HA! Way to go @ past self for messing this dress up! I bought this dress from ASOS, so if you don't mess up this dress, I think that it is a perfect stable item to have in your closet! It is comfortable and casual! 

And now my new favorite trend!!! I bought this square scarf from Ruche. I love this trend so much, it makes me feel like Nancy Drew or Daphne from Scooby Doo. 

Also THESE SHOES!!!!! I have gotten so many compliments on them! If you know me, I loooovveee ankle strap flats. I basically love any shoe that makes me feel like a ballerina. I bought these from DSW for under $20!!! And they are super comfy! 

I look like I'm passively about to cry in this pic which basically describes my life...anyways HAVE A GOOD WEEK!!!

October Playlist

Hello music loving friends! I've been listening to a lot of new music lately! I made an October playlist and added some of the new stuff I've been listening to, and then I added some classic fall songs! Let me know what you listen to in October! 

Link to this playlist on Apple Music https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/october/idpl.98913183e4f04d469d83750f845b018f

Suffering in September

Hello Internet! It's September, and I low-key kind of hate September. If you know me at all, you know that October is my favorite month of the entire year. My birthday is in April, but I was birthed in October. October makes me so emotional, mainly because it was the month that I met Taylor Swift. Also it is usually the month Taylor Swift releases her new albums, but Corn Harvest aka Calvin Harris ruined everything and so now I'm here, as a person, with no new music. 

SPEAKING OF MUSIC....You know how Ed Sheeran said he would release new music this fall? WELL ACCORDING TO THE EARTH'S ROTATION AROUND THE SUN IT IS FALL AND WHY IS THERE STILL NO NEW MUSIC?? 

OKAY ONE MORE THING *heavy breathing* DID ANYONE ELSE LIKE......GO INTO LITERAL CARDIAC ARREST WHEN HARRY POSTED THOSE MAGAZINE COVERS. IT WAS LIKE 10 AM AND I LOOKED AT MY PHONE AND SAW THEM AND I WAS EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE FOR A SOILD 12 HOURS AFTER I SAW THEM. Anyways Harry Styles, king of fashion, founding father of music, critically acclaimed actor, pioneer of my will to live is about to drop some solo music on us    and we are all going to die. Like I'm not even being dramatic (me when I am being dramatic) but I genuinely don't think that I can physically sit down and listen to an entire album with Harry Style's voice ONLY. I AM NOT PHYSICALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO PUT MY BODY THROUGH THAT KIND OF PAIN. 

Me trying to be a professional blogger: screams about Harry Styles for an entire paragraph

Okay so I guess this is where we talk about fashion and such! I bought this dress from Free People. I loved this dress because I knew that I could wear it in the spring and summer seasons, but the color was toned down enough so I could also throw on a pair of tights and a cardigan and wear it in the fall and winter. 

I love drop-waisted and shift dresses because I, personally, have the shortest torso in the entire world. Scientists at NASA as astounded by it. Anyways some dress shapes literally make me look like Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. That is why I love shift & drop-waisted dresses, because they kind of make that illusion that I am not short, upset, green monster that is apart of a Disney Pixar film. Relatable right?  

Just four trashcans.....wait I need a new self deprecating joke because this one is very early 2015. I will get back to you guys on this. 

Anyways it is about to be fall and I am finally going to be able to fulfill my only purpose on this earth, which is to dress for fall. Also I have gotten a few messages about doing a tutorial on my messy bun with a headband look. I think this is so nice, because I think my hair literally looks like Junie B. Jones at all times. 

Have a happy end of September! I was going to make a 'wake me up when September ends' joke but then I was like I don't hate myself THAT much. Also hopefully I see you guys in October? Unless Harry Styles drops solo music on us  . Then you know....you will probably never see me ever again.  

Home Is Where The Wi-Fi Is

Okay so I finally took the time to take a few pictures of my dorm room! Also a side note, my dorm has awful lighting and I'm not that good with a camera....THOSE COMBINED GIVES YOU THIS MEDIOCRE BLOG POST!!!! I actually don't mind living in the dorms. I know that a lot of people hate it, but honestly you could probably put me in a field with a wi-fi connection and I would be satisfied. ALSO, I MADE MY BED JUST FOR THIS POST. DO YOU LITERAL STACKS OF HAY KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO MAKE A BED IN A LOFT? HARD. I DESERVE A GRAMMY, EMMY, TONY, OSCAR, ECT.

My favorite part of my dorm is my desk! I tried to make it look like a fashion editor's desk but I also don't have any money....so that is how I decorated my dorm! 

The prints are from rifle paper co! 

I bought the picture frames from Target and I spray painted them. BUT YOU KNOW ME, AND I CAN'T DO ANYTHING RIGHT AND SOMETHING ALWAYS HAS TO GO WRONG. I didn't wait for them to dry all the way and so the paint is all smudged, and you know I was too lazy to fix it and so there we have it! 

The hardest part of college for me is definitely making friends. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS FOR ME, MAYA TO MAKE FRIENDS WHEN EVERYONE ON THIS PLANET HATES TAYLOR SWIFT???? I AM LITERALLY A PIONEER FOR DEALING WITH THIS. Also you have to walk a lot. I walk like 4 miles every single day. I know I'm so athletic and I qualify for the olympics and I am the founding father of the respiratory system. 

And here we have my bed, the only thing in college I can rely on besides the soft serve ice cream machine in dining hall. FLASHBACK STORY: When I was a baby, my mom and grandma made me a blanket with butterflies on it and it was my favorite blanket ever. I used it for all 18 years of my life and so for graduation my grandma made me the same kind of blanket but without the butterflies. Also we have the only picture ever taken hanging above my bed.

Okay so there we have my dorm! I know it's not much and this is pretty lame, but hopefully I can start blogging again! I am doing page design for the fashion magazine at my school and I'm writing for the Style section of the newspaper! If you want me to do a post on organization or something just let me know! And I know what you're thinking, "Maya? Organized? Who?" BUT YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN KNOW!!!! I OWN A DESK ORGANIZER. I HAVE LITERALLY BECOME MARTHA STEWART MINUS THE FELONY!!!!

If someone were to step on my face, I would want them to wear these shoes

If you're like me, when someone says "wear comfortable walking shoes," you completely ignore them and wear whatever shoes your heart desires. Honestly I love not wearing comfortable walking shoes when people tell me to, it gives me something to complain about. For example, you could be taking a nice walk with a group of people you don't really know very well and instead of making awkward small talk, you can just talk about how much your feet hurt and show everyone your stylish capabilities and negative personality. When I went to Boston with my school, my teacher kept telling me to wear tennis shoes and I was like....I'm not about to throw off this #LOOK I am serving with some ugly tennis shoes. Anyways, enough about my issues, I should probably talk about these shoes. 

You know like one paragraph ago when I said I was going to stop talking about myself...well I am going to talk about myself again. I was looking for some comfortable and cute shoes to wear to class next year because almost all my classes are across campus from my dorm. I found these Soludos Lace-Up Espadrilles shoes at Nordstrom. I thought they would be perfect because 1) they are my favorite color (stripes) and I love lace-up/ ankle strap shoes.

I realized that I should probably get some pics of them on my feet and I was home alone so I was a super professional blogger and just took them myself. Also I know this isn't the best picture, but I didn't shave my legs and the airbrush tool wouldn't work on photoshop. So this is what my life has come to.

ANYWAYS...The moral of this blog post is that these are some comfortable shoes that would be perfect for wearing to school or a job that requires closed toed shoes. I also, personally think these would be the perfect footwear selection to wear to the funeral of an enemy. They are subtle, but also a bold statement. Comment your favorite shoes to wear while walking around or comment about how I should probably delete my blog because we all know that is something that should be done.

BOPPIEST BOPS OF ALL BOPS

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Here is  a pic of me as a child, probably listening to What Dreams are Made Of by Disney Channel star Hilary Clinton, my first fav bop.

Bop 

Adjective

Adjective:  A song, usually a pop anthem. Makes everyone want to scream and dance the second they hear the first beat of the song.
Example: What Makes You Beautiful by British boyband One Direction is such a bop! It makes me want to dance so hard that every single strand of hair on my head is gone and in the hands of God and Harry Styles by the end of the song. 

OKAY now we know what a bop is for all the non-millennials reading this. I am so passionate about the songs I dance to, mainly because of the trauma I experienced at high school dances that only played rap music. Here is the story of how I became an official ambassador of bops. Every single high school dance I went to, we had the same DJ. This DJ was the WORST DJ TO EVER LIVE.....like him and Calcium Harris (Scottish DJ and Taylor Swift's ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris) would be great friends. Anyways the point of this information is that I have suffered. High school dances are already awkward and when you don't have any quality BOPS TO DANCE TO, the dances can be more awkward. Like it got so bad, that by senior year my friends and I were playing ping-pong with the table center pieces.

I remember junior year at a winter formal, I was sitting at a table with my friends probably discussing the evolution of Harry Style's hairline. I was bored of hearing songs like "Wop" and "Turn Down for What." My pop music loving tween heart was losing all faith in the music industry, and that is when it happened. I heard the first drumbeat in Shake it Off. I knew that this was going to be MY moment to shine. I wish there was a word for the feeling you get when you hear the first beat of your favorite song, because I AM THAT WORD. After I heard the first beat all my mind, body and soul knew to do was run to the dance floor. So that is what I did. The Taylor Swift gods pulled me to the center of the dance floor pushing past all the slightly drunk and sweaty teenagers. There I was at the center of the dance floor. The student body began forming a circle around me. Part of me was thriving off the attention. But the social anxiety part of me was begging for me to exit the primacies immediately. But I did what my religious guide and mother taught me to do, and I shook IT THE HELL OFF. I wish that every moment of every school dance could be like this, mainly because I was the center of attention, but also because I was having such a good time dancing and YA KNOW SHAKING IT OFF.

The point of this is, is that rap music might be fun to listen to, and admitting you listen to Katy Perry would ruin your rep, but YOU ARE LYING!! LYING!!!!!! TO ME when you tell me that you don't GO THE HELL OFF WHEN SHAKE IT OFF COMES ON!!!!! I KNOW YOU ARE LYING. I KNOW IT AND I SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOUR STRAIGHT WHITE BOY PERSONA. Okay I still haven't gotten to the point of this post, but the point is, even though this could be perceived as a "white girl's top 40 playlist," I have navigated the internet to find the best bops of all time, and this is my BOPPIEST POPS OF ALL BOPS playlists.

1. Shake it Off- Taylor Swift
2. Wannabe- Spice Girls
3. What Makes you Beautiful- One Direction
4. One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)- One Direction
5. Year 3000- Jonas Brothers
6. Best Song Ever- One Direction
7. Cake by the Ocean- DNCE
8. No Control- One Direction
9. Hot n Cold- Katy Perry
10. Better Than Words- One Direction
11. Blank Space- Taylor Swift
12. Crazy in Love- Beyonce (omg it won't let me put the accent over the 'e' just know that I tried)
13. Happy with Me- HOLYCHILD
14. Kiss You- One Direction
15. Last Friday Night- Katy Perry
16. My Life Would Suck Without You- Kelly Clarkson
17. The Run and Go- Twenty One Pilots
18. That's Not My Name- The Ting Tings
19. Uptown Funk- Mark Ronson
20. Baby- Justin Bieber
21. Toxic- Brittany Spears
22. 22- Taylor Swift (HAHAHHHAHAHA I INVENTED HUMOR)
23. Girlfriend- Avril Lavigne
24. Walking on the Sunshine- Katrina & The Waves
25. We are Never Ever Getting Back Together- Taylor Swift ( I almost didn't put this on bc it was too long to type out)
26. Tik Tok- Ke$ha
27. I Love It- Icona Pop
28. Blow- Ke$ha

OKAY I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF 1D SONGS ON HERE BUT THAT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT THEY HAVE MADE SOME OF THE MOST QUALITY BOPS OF ALL TIME AND IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT THEN TAKE IT UP WITH THEM.

Also I am probably the only one that thinks this is the greatest playlist ever created and that is okay considering that my opinion is the only one that matters. Also YES, I do think that I could be a DJ at a high school dance....okay maybe just a middle school dance.

Also if you have any bops that aren't on the list, put them in the comments! 

Shopping at Poshmark

For those of you who don't know, Poshmark is a site where you can buy, sell and trade clothes. I downloaded the app to casually browse and found that there was actually some cute stuff, for a good price on there! I was hesitant to buy anything because I wasn't sure if it was safe, but Poshmark makes sure that it is a safe transaction and that you receive your order. When you buy an item, your order goes to the seller and your payment goes to Poshmark. Once you receive your order, then the payment is released from Poshmark to the seller, so it is completely safe!

                     

 

I bought this Kling dress off Poshmark and I thought that it would be perfect for school in the fall. It was originally $80 and I bought it for $10 plus $5 shipping. The dress came only a few days after I purchased it. It was used, but it was in good condition when I received it.

If you have any questions about Poshmark, just leave a comment below! Also I have some items from my closet that I'm selling on Poshmark if you are interested in buying any! Hopefully this post was helpful to you and Poshmark can be an affordable outlet for you to buy the closet of your dreams! 

DUPE: Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick

this is such a bad picture sorry I am trash

Okay so I have talked about the Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick multiple times on here, it is one of my favorite products and I found a dupe for it and thought I would share! I wanted the Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick ever since Taylor Swift said it was her favorite makeup product and sent it to a bunch of fans! It retails for $46 so I could never bring myself to buy it! I was in target one day and saw the Physicians Formula Shimmer Strip in Vegas Strip and thought that it looked similar so I decided to pick it up.

The Physicians Formula Shimmer Strip retails for $12.99 but it is always on sale at Target and Ulta. I used this for a few months as a bronzer and highlight and I always got SO many compliments. It became one of my favorite products and so I thought that I would make the purchase and buy the actual Bobbi Brown one. 

Although they look different, the color when mixed together is nearly identical. I will admit that the Bobbi Brown one is a nicer eyeshadow, but if you just want to use it for your cheeks, the Physicians Formula one is the same. 

The on top is the Bobbi Brown shimmer brick in bronze and the one of the bottom is the Physicians Formula Shimmer Strip in Vegas Strip.

Overall I actually think I like the Physicians Formula Shimmer Strip better, WHICH MAKES ME WANNA SCREAM BECAUSE I SPENT $46 ON THE BOBBI BROWN ONE...ANYWAYS these products are perfect for traveling because you have an eyeshadow, bronzer and highlight all in one product! 

ALSO!!!!! I am doing a giveaway later this week and this will be one of the many products I am giving away so stay tuned!!! 

Farewell Article

Over the past two years, I have been apart of my school's journalism staff. This past year I have had the pleasure of writing for the newspaper. In the last edition of the paper, the seniors write a farewell article, so here is mine:

While sitting down to write this, I couldn’t decide if I wanted to approach this the way Taylor Swift sat down and wrote “Wildest Dreams” with her soft delicate hands, or if I wanted to approach it the way Nicki Minaj wrote her 2015 VMA acceptance speech where she roasted everyone. So I think I am going to make it a little bit of both. 

You might know me as the girl that shows up to school 25 minutes late every day, or as the girl that runs a mildly successful Taylor Swift blog, or you may have been scrolling down a humor Instagram account and saw a beautiful Indian woman in squirrel pajamas and thought to yourself “wait is that my school?” Yes that is me. I am the meme that goes to your school. Anyways, I guess I am supposed to write a farewell column or something to symbolize leaving the journalism staff. 

It is so weird to me to think about how much different my life is now compared to my freshman year. World-class 21st century philosopher Taylor Swift once said, “I know nothing now compared to what I will know someday.” I think about how different my life is now and how different it probably will be in the next four years. So many things have changed since freshman year. My iPhone doesn’t die within an hour, One Direction only has four members, I am six inches taller and I can drive. If you were to tell me as a freshman that by graduation I would be invited to Taylor Swift’s house and be hit with a golf club by her, I would have laughed in your face. But look where I am now. 

It is honestly amazing how much life can change in four years. Freshman Maya would show up to school 15 minutes early every day; now look at me. I haven’t been early to school since March of sophomore year. Although the person who entered MHS in 2012 is a different person than the one exiting this week, all of the things in between have shaped me into a person I have learned to become proud of. One of my favorite characteristics about myself is that I am independent. Some of the best advice I have ever received was that people can say what they want about you, but you can be independent and choose to take it in or block it out. Because ultimately you are what you believe you are, and not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you.

I remember sophomore year a kid that literally looked like a stalk of asparagus told me I would be prettier if I didn’t have circles under my eyes. If someone were to say that to me now, I probably would have yelled at them and told them how they resemble a mediocre-tasting vegetable that can genetically affect someone’s urine. But sophomore Maya was weak. I spent so much time worrying about it and I let it affect my confidence. 

I remember one day I finally realized that there are things that we just can’t change. I feel like everyone spends so much time worrying about things we hate about ourselves, but most of the time, they’re things we can’t control. It may have taken me 18 years to figure it out, but once I stopped hating the things that I didn’t like about myself, my life became much more beautiful. Moral of the story is don’t let a creepy sophomore guy that weighs like 98 pounds and probably owns a meninist shirt, but also One Direction’s entire discography, tell you how you should feel. 

There are lots of things I want to be remembered for. Maybe I’m the girl you will tell your kids about when they ask you who Taylor Swift is or maybe I’m the person who threw bread sticks onto the dance floor at SubDeb. But whatever I may be to you, I hope that I have made you laugh at some point over the past four years.

If you want to see if I become a successful marketing manager living in a fabulous apartment overlooking a city, or fail out of college my first semester because I couldn’t wake up to my alarm, then follow me on Twitter @mayaminocha13. Sorry I had to get that last bit of self promo in before graduation.

Strawberry Fields Forever

To kick-off summer, my friends and I decided to take a visit to a strawberry field. It was the perfect way to start off summer and it's one of the few things to actually when you live in the middle of of the midwest.

Okay I don't really know what else to say, I just wanted to share these pics lmao

Why I loved growing up with Taylor Swift

I know that I have the title as the "crazy annoying Taylor Swift fan" at my school, but it doesn't bother me one bit. Looking back on it, Taylor and I have grown up with each other. She has evolved in so many ways since I started listening to her, but that is the reason why I love her so much, we grew up with each other. She isn't the curly blonde haired girl that sings country music off key that I fell in love with in 2007, but I'm also not a third grader anymore. Basically everything in my life has changed since 2007, except for Taylor and I. I know that people think that I am crazy for "obsessing"  over a single person, but what they don't understand is how it is much more than that. She was there when I was walking home from fourth grade listening to Teardrops on my Guitar on my iPod nano. She was there for me on my first day of middle school. She was there for me on my first day of high school, and she will be the song I turn on when I get into my car after walking out of the school on the last day of high school. 

The thing I love about her music is that it is so relatable. Listening to relatable music always makes me feel better because it makes me feel like someone is going through the same things that I am and experiencing the same feelings. Do I know what it's like to be chased by paparazzi while holding Harry Style's hand? No, but she writes her music in such a way where the feeling gets across and everyone has experienced a feeling of people talking about you, or disapproval. I will never forget all the times Taylor made me feel so special. Both of the times I met her, she made me feel like I was the most important person in the world and she cared about every single thing that I had to say. Being able to tell the girl that I have looked up to for a majority of my life all she has done for me and have her just hug me was the best feeling in the world.

     Throughout high school, I went through a lot of different things, primarily a lot of self esteem issues. A lot of this was that I didn't like my appearance and that turned into a dislike in my personality and that developed into a lack of confidence. To sum all of this up, Taylor helped me get through all of those things and now I feel like a confident, beautiful, driven girl. One of my favorite things Taylor has ever said was "It’s hard enough to hear what other people have to say. Please let the voices in your head be nice to you." I finally realized one day that there are things that I can't change about myself and so I am going to stop hating those things because they are never going to change. I don't know what kind of person I would be today if I would have never bought Taylor's country album in 2007, or create a Taylor Swift blog in 2012.  All of those things have given me the most amazing friends, lessons and opportunities. I don't know where my life would be without these things, but I have a feeling that I wouldn't be as confident with myself as I am now. Thank you for being a part of my life for 10 years and thank you for always being by my side. It was a pleasure to grow up with you @ TAYLORSWIFT.

Also I have no idea why the font changes here and you guys know I am probably going to be too lazy to fix it.

                 

HERE IS AN EMO GLOW UP. The picture on the left is me at the opening night of the red tour in Omaha my freshman year. I remember being all the way in the back but still LOSING MY MIND when she came out because it was..HER IN THE FLESH. Fast forward 3 years and at the 1989 Omaha show, I got to meet her back stage. It is crazy to think about all of the things that happened in between, but I am glad they did. I LOVE YOU. This truly is the ultimate freshmen year vs. senior year.

Boston

Great 21st century philosopher Taylor Swift once wrote a song about falling in love with a city and I can relate to this, because after taking a five day trip to Boston, I have fallen in love with it. I love how it has the fast pace of any city, but the quaint New England charm. You feel like you are in a big city, but at the same time you feel like you are in an adorable coastal town. Anyways I went with my school for a business competition and here is how our trip went!

Day 1

After finishing my obligations with my school, we walked down to the Boston Public Gardens and Boston Common. They were both absolutely beautiful with all the flowers blooming, it kinda felt like you were in a story book surrounded by a city. 

Day 2

The second day, I had a free day and so a large group of us    took the subway to the beginning of the Freedom Trail and walked back to the hotel. If you ever go to Boston, I HIGHLY recommend walking the freedom trail. You get to see all the areas and historical sites of Boston. I loved walking through the suburb Charlestown, across the Charles River and exploring the neighborhoods of Boston. After the walk, we went to Fenway Park for an event with the conference we were attending. 

Day 3

Even though this was one of my free days, I woke up early and walked to the famous coffee shop the  Thinking Cup on Newbury Street. After my trip to the coffee shop, my friend and I walked through the South End neighborhood and took pictures. I loved this area and the charming architecture of the neighborhood. Anyways it truly was the perfect Sunday morning. 

Later in the day, I got to see my friend Izzi that I met in Taylor Swift's living room. I loved getting to catch up with her for a little bit. After that we went on one of those duck tours, and I felt like such a tacky tourist. I would recommend walking the Freedom Trail instead of the duck tour. 

Day 4

This day was spent packing up to leave and then going to the Boston Tea Party Museum. After the Museum, we walked down Newbury Street and went shopping, AND I GOT THE CUTEST OUTFIT TO EVER EXIST AND I WILL BE BLOGGING IT SOON.

Thank you Boston for being so lovely, I can't wait to go back and explore more.You have officially earned the title as my favorite city.