30 Day Challenge Day 3

Views on Drugs and Alcohol 

Let me first say I have never done drugs. I haven't even smoked a cigarette. I don't have that urge or need to put toxic chemicals in my body. If other people want to do drugs then that's fine with me. It's their life and they can do what they want. I will say that the boyfriend does smoke and I'm actually okay with that. With my first boyfriend I was pissed he started smoking when over seas to get breaks from work. The way he told me he had started smoking was by lighting up a cigarette outside his {then} apartment. I was furious! But now, I don't mind that my current boyfriend smokes. {I like it's the fact that I love him for who he is and not what he does.} He does know that smoking is bad for his health and one day he will quit {when/ I have no clue.} But for now I can deal with his smoking.*

Alcohol might be a different story. What can I say. I like my liquor and wine {beer not so much unless it's a Corona!} I don't drink a lot {maybe one every few weeks, if that.} But there are times when I'm out with the girls and we like to have some beverages and chat. That only happens once in a blue moon now! I have had my moments {boy, have I!} Lets just say it was after a rough break up and to help me get over it a friend of mine took me out every weekend for 6 months. But lets not talk about that.

What are your thoughts on this {these} subject{s}? A little liquor every once in a while doesn't hurt right? 

 

30 Day Challenge Day 2

Where I'd like to be in 10 years

Ultimately I would like to be married, at a well paying job and have at least one kid in 10 years. With the rate I'm going right now this probably won't happen. I would like to stay home with my kids until they were able to be co-dependent until myself or my husband got home from work. So, in order for this to happen I would have to find a job right after college in something that I enjoyed and work my way up so that with mine and my husbands income combined we wouldn't have to worry about making ends meet. But this is probably a very hard feat to come by. That would mean I would have to figure out where I wanted to live in a matter of months, find a job that allows me to move up in the field of work I'm in and to have enough time at that job under my belt so that if I choose I'm able to come back to it after I raise my kid{s}. I say if Bethany Frankel can do it, I can too.

 

30 Day Challenge Day 1

I've decided to do a 30 day challenge. This will definitely get me thinking about blog posts and will get me to write more blogs.

 Day 1 says to write about your relationship

My boyfriend and I have been dating just shy {19 days} of one year. We met in January 2011 at school. I won't go into very much detail about what went on during the four months before we officially became a couple but lets just say he and his previous girlfriend were on the fritz and we started hanging out. They ended their relationship that March.

 To say that our relationship is easy is a huge understatement. We have had plenty of ups and downs {this I would contribute to me and my many exes that seem to know just the right time to come out of the woodwork. Plus, my fair lack of wording.} We still have a lot of things to work on, a major thing being communication. We are both guilty of not communicating. I would say I'm worse than he is but he does have his moments where he's unclear also.

But, I think the main reason why we didn't call it quits after last school year is because we need each other in our lives. We are building a very strong foundation {even if it doesn't seem like it, at least to me it doesn't.} and are there to lean on each other and help each other through testing times. 

Even though the boyfriend doesn't believe in a higher power I think that we were at the right place at the right time. Maybe God had a say is this, maybe not but, I think everything happens for a reason. Even though we have things to work out within ourselves and we haven't completely 100 percent let our walls down, we are slowly getting there. Yes, there have been a few major set backs on my part but I am learning and fixing the things that need to be forgotten and will make me a better girlfriend.

He is so patient with me and that is because we are the same emotionally and we know that each other is special and we don't want to let that go. For right now we are taking one step at a time and taking things day by day.
 

Silent Sunday

Changes

Are things looking different around these parts of the interwebs? I would hope so! Thank you to the lovely Laura at Between the Lines, I have a new blog layout! I now have my very own button! So if you're into showing off what blogs you read on your blog via buttons, go grab my button! I'm SO happy about the header she made for me. Everything fits! You probably remember the old white one that you could some what read well it's out of here! I hope you all stay a while now that things are pretty around here. {More changes to come soon. I hope!}

Easter

Happy Easter everyone. For Easter, some of you go to Easter Service and some have Easter Egg Hunts in your neighborhoods with family and friends. Well, I'm here to tell you of my Easters in the past. {Like way back to childhood.} First off, I will say my parents never got us Easter baskets filled with candy, toys, books or stuffed animals. Now looking back on it they probably weren't raised getting Easter baskets either.

When I was little around 5 or so my parents would take us to Easter Sunday service at church. We would learn about Jesus dying for us and all that other stuff. {I promise I'm not knocking church goers!} Well this ended when I was around 8. After we moved I guess my parents didn't see the need for us to go to church. So every Easter after that until we got "too old" we would have Easter Egg Hunts in our neighborhood and at my grandpa's along with a great Easter dinner.

In 8th grade my parents introduced us into the church again explaining that we weren't baptized as babies and they thought it should be our choice if we wanted to be baptized or not. We {my sister and I} wanted to. So in 8th grade my sister and I along with a friend in our neighborhood took confirmation classes and were baptized. After that I went to many Easter Services with friends.

Today, I don't celebrate Easter. Maybe one day when I have kids I will tell them all about my Easters and start new traditions {Easter baskets} with them but for right now, I'll gather ideas for what i want my kids to know about Easter and file them away.

   

Surprised?

Yes I've posted 3 days in a row! Wow you say??? I would hope so. But now I'm in a slump. Do I write a 30 day challenge? {Minus Wednesdays. Those are for SSW.} or do I take a freaking clue from other bloggers and write about my life {which I'm trying to do. It's a little boring and a lot busy around these parts.} and random ramblings or do I do something else? 

I know this is my blog and I can do or say whatever but, I'm stuck. So to all 7 {yes I lost a follower but that's OK. I'm not here for the followers, I'm here for me. Even though it's nice that people read my crap posts.} of my followers, what would you all like to hear about? Give me some insight/ input. I need it!

So WHAT! Wednesday

It's So WHAT! Wednesday over a Life After I "Dew" and I'm linking up!

So WHAT! if...

• I am still not on a school "schedule" {It's too late now to get on one.}
• I don't have an internship yet. I'm working my ass off to contact people and they just Don't reply back! {This is frustrating!}
• I haven't gone to bed be for 3 am these last two nights. {If I really need to get up for something I will.}
• I haven't done my taxes yet. I have a few more weeks, right???
• even though I make To-Do lists and use my Life Planner constantly, I don't get HALF the stuff done that I need to. {Maybe I should write down ONLY the things I absolutely have to get done that day?}
• I'm excited for graduation but not excited to get back home or the stay in Oklahoma for that matter. Ugh!
• I have a phone interview coming up and I have NO clue what to expect! How does one of these things even work?

What are you saying So WHAT! to this week?

What's in my Makeup Bag

What's in my Makeup Bag{s}

Yes that's right. I have 2 makeup bags {and an area I keep recently used makeup/might use makeup.} Even though I have 2 makeup bags I hardly ever wear makeup. Right now I don't see it as feasible. I go to class 4 days a week, yes, but I'm only in class for 3 hours at the most {and that's only 2 days a week.} To me it's not justifiable.

This is what's in the green Lily Vernon bag.

 My more expensive makeup that I will say I hardly use. I just checked my foundation and I think it's time to toss it. {eek!} A case for foundation, eye shadows and my eyeliner, mascara, concealer, eyeliner brush and foundation brush.

This is what's in my pink makeup bag.

Plus earrings I have no idea where to store. I don't have a permanent home yet and I find this the most useful place {even though I don't wear half the earrings in it.}

This bag has my more "affordable" makeup. Most of this I was gifted, given or bought only one or two items. 

The smaller Stila lip glosses I was gifted plus the Stila cheek color. The bigger Stila lip gloss in bought. The bare minerals was given to me from my mom. The Balm eye shadows was gifted to me and I bought the Kat Von D palette and eyeshadow and Revlon lip butters.

This section of makeup is my "go to makeup" if you can say that. It's the stuff I've worn the most recent. I was gifted the Stila palette and lip gloss and I bought the Too Faced palette and E.L.F. Bronzer. The sample is of eye primer I am trying out to compare against my concealer to see which one I like better.

So that is what's in my makeup bag{s}. Maybe I'll start using all of these more this summer for my internship.

Social Media

{via google}

Wherever I go I see college aged {18-22} kids in grossed in their iPads, smartphones, iPods and whatever else network we have now. {I'm around this everyday!} I'm not saying I'm old {even though I didn't acknowledge my birthday this year.} But, the older I get, more "kids" are getting disconnected from reality/real life. Their "life" is behind a computer. Talking through a keyboard. Not interacting face to face with people. Yes, I know this is the way the future is going but it is INSANE! 

So, with that said, I am taking a break from social media. I'm not going to neglect my blog {even though I hardly post anything. I'm really trying to get better!} But I am going to quit Facebook and Twitter. I hardly tweet anything on twitter anyway. I usually read/see what everyone else is doing but rarely post unless the mood strikes me. {Maybe it's because Twitter isn't easily "accessible". I don't have an iPhone or an iPod where I can check these things every 5 minutes. I'm also not going to give up Pintrest. To me Pintrest is a place to put my ideas and designs. I've even deleted my Facebook and Twitter favorite buttons on my toolbar in Firefox. Out of sight out of mind, right?

So, hopefully I can keep from having the urge to check these things. I don't know how long I'll stay away {if I can} but I will let you know. A friend of mine said she deactivated her Facebook for a month and in all honesty, I didn't even know she had done that! So, even though I look at my News feed and Twitter Timeline everyday most of it doesn't even register.

See you all soon!