August Favorites!

Friday is blog day <3
I know, I'm a little late on this and also I haven't posted in a while, but I was kind of busy and hey - better late than never!
So let's get you up to date with my glorious life: The wedding was incredibly beautiful - I cried more than the bride did. Afterwards, the kids from Tacoma stayed at our house for a week and BOY do I still not like kids. Don't get me wrong, those three are really cute and all, but it was just really exhausting...
So I'm finally back in Vienna since Saturday and I'm super PUMPED for Uni to start again in October, I really am. I'm doing ballet with Anna again this semester, but I had to cut the choir out of my schedule, nor for lack of time, but because it would just make me too sad to go there. I also wanted to take a Hip-Hop course instead, but those are all at super inconvenient locations for me so I didn't =/ Maybe next semester.

Okay, enough with the talking already, let's jump into my August favorites!

I'm still getting the hang of my new camera, so no judging please xD
Ok here are my beauty/fashion favs for this month and because I forgot to put numbers on it I'll just explain about them left to right:
The alverde hydrating conditioner is something my mom happened to have at her place, so that's why I used it too. I did not expect it to be this awesome! Ok beside the fact that it's made all of natural ingredients, which I love, it also somehow makes my hair super shiny and soft and it's great. I had a feeling like it also makes my hair take on a curl better (!!!), so naturally I got it for myself once I was back here.
Then there's the GOSH natural blush in 43 Flower Power that I actually used all summer, because it's really strongly pigmented so a little bit of product goes a long way, also I thought the color was really summer-appropriate and THE NAME IS FUCKING "FLOWER POWER"!!!! I'm just sayin'..
Next we have the ANNIE nailpolish in 373.10 Lucky Surfer Girl which I did NOT end up wearing for the wedding, but all the rest of August I did =D. This beautiful pale yellow was kind of my Color of the Season, but I didn't exactly find a lot of clothing in that color, so I was really happy to have this polish, so I was able to add a little sunshine to every outfit ^o^
Ok this might sound weird, but the Compeed Invisible Fever Blister Patches saved my life this month. About once every year my herpes acts up and I get a fever blister somewhere around my lips and this year's was HUMONGOUS! My mom of course gave me like 5 different things to put on it (no kidding - it was at least five.) and those did great work too, but for going out it's just really nice to have something to put over it. I just feel much less uncomfortable wearing one of those.
Last but definitely not least: My awesome bow purse from Tally Weijl of all the things in this picture, this one deserves to be here the most, because I carried it with me literally EVERY DAY. It's just so much nicer, especially in summer, to have a white purse instead of a black one. It instantly makes the outfit look cuter and less dark. The only downside: I can't fit my sketchbook in there =( But I guess I won't have that problem once Uni starts again and I have to carry all my books and stuff. It was nice to have an August summer fling with this purse :3

Ok, as for my non-beauty favorites:
Song: f(x) - Rum Pum Pum Pum

Yes, I love K-Pop and I will not be ashamed! My new obsession are f(x), who are so very much easier to obsess over than SNSD, just because they're 5 people, and not 9 xD All five members of f(x) are just so likable, I couldn't ever decide who I like best. Maybe Victoria. Maybe. Anyways, I like all of their songs (I didn't at first, but they get better the more you listen to them... is that bad? xD), but Rum Pum Pum Pum is the one that started my craze.

Book: Marissa Meyer - The Lunar Chronicles

Oh God.
I KNOW how this looks, ok? At first I thought it would be dumb too.
Let me just explain. I finally managed to get to "A Dance with Dragons" yay! But I fell into the Song of Ice an Fire hole again, where I want to know what happens, but I just don't wanna read the book D= While still reading "A Dance with Dragons" I managed to read: All three of the Tributes of Panem books (Hunger Games for those who don't brain), the Tiffany Aching/Wee Free Men books by Terry Pratchett (well, I'm at "Wintersmith" currently) AND the first two books of The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. Here's how that came to be: We went swimming while the kids were still staying with us, but I couldn't go into the water because I had a cold. So I still came along to watch the kids. I did bring my kindle with "Dance of Dragons" but I just couldn't be bothered to read that. So I happened to see the book Sega (the oldest) brought along - "Cinder" by Marissa Meyer. When I saw the cover I thought it would be some stupid Twilight knock-off, but then I read the blurb (TIL "blurb"), and it was about cyborgs and moon people and whaaaaaaaaat. So I gave it a go, and not 12 hours later I had finished the first book. I have to say the ending was not surprising AT ALL, I knew what was gonna happen right from the start, BUT it was great fun to read nonetheless, I loved the parallels to "Cinderella" and I have by now finished "Scarlet", the second book of the series. The next one will be out in February and I'm not gonna miss it, period.

Food: Blueberries
To say that those are my AUGUST favs is a COLOSSAL understatement. I have been buying blueberries non-stop ever since spring. I love love love those things, they're delicious and good for your body. This is the kind of food that I let myself obsess over freely. In fact, I'm having some right now. I'm serious. Blueberries. All the way.

Champion: Zyra

Oh yesssssss. I love her. Since I hardly ever play anything apart from support, I knew that sooner or later I would have to buy Zyra. I guess what stopped me from doing so was her design, which I just don't like. The whole pink-and-green and her stupid hair and OMG THAT EARRING, it's just repulsive to me. But then I realized: I can get the skin! Now I own Wildfire Zyra, which I think should more fittingly be named Volcano Zyra, and I'm super happy that I do.
First off, I think it's absolutely ok to let Riot have some money for their hard work. They provide everything else for free, ok? Also, like I said, I couldn't possibly play her classic skin.
So far I have been loving her as a support, she has great CC and still deals a good amount of damage, even with support items. Also: I love the skin ingame, the plants just look awesome.
At this rate Zyra might be up there with Nami and Sona at some point. Then again, she doesn't have a heal...

Anyways, that's my favorite stuff for last month! Let me know if you have ever tried any of it.
Thanks a lot for reading this crazy long post ^o^
Love
T.