Autumn Giveaway!

Found this adorable blog called this little life of mine.


It is written by Talia (isn't that a great name???) and you should definitely check the giveaway she has going on!


I'm especially loving these earrings:

And the wallet:

{images via}

Plus, $10 to Starbucks just makes me happy to look at! Yummy fall flavors like Pumpkin Spice Latte are to die for! hmmm!!!

Go on over to Talia's blog and comment away for an entry.
Well ... if you don't... then you're gonna be missing out!

;p

Perfect body.

Image by jeloid via Flickr

So everyone should go check this post out by Meg Fee. I know my blog doesn't reach many people but to those few of you who check this blog out and don't already follow Meg's fascinating blog well you should.
Meg is an awesome girl who says it how it is and has the greatest ways of saying it [on her blog].

She has started a 'perfect body initiative' and I couldn't be more happy to say that I have joined in. She has had many great responses such as the first one she has chosen to post by Morgan from Let Me Help You Help Me [who I read often as well!]:

"My shoulders... because they allow me to hold my head high."

My response to her question? Well here it is:

"I think my body is perfect because of how confident I feel in my own skin - and loving every new little wrinkle." -S.

So go ahead ladies and gents. Go over to her blog and tell her why you think your body is perfect. And if you would like to leave me a comment as well, as to why you think your body is perfect, I would love to hear 'em...

Thanks for stopping by!
Until next time...

♥,

Cutest little blog.

Gotta check this blog out!

So awesomely cute!

Start from the beginning or from the most recent post, but just look at all the pics!

They are great!!!

Happy Birthday, little blog of mine!

I feel so bad that I missed my blogs 1st birthday on Tuesday June 9!

It's been a long road to where I am now.
I don't have many followers but I have come across many, many GREAT and wonderful bloggers all around the country {and the world!}.

To those who do follow me: THANK YOU!

It means so much to have my very own little community and 'family' in the blogging world.

I have learned so much from ALL of you and have made me not only a better blogger but also a better person.

I have gone through MANY template changes on this blog and I'm happy with what I have now.

I like changing it every so often because I feel it isn't bringing out my personality or feelings I have at that moment. Or I get bored very easily with the font/color/template so I decide to change it once more. I wish I could just pick one and stick with it but I'm afraid that won't happen... anytime soon anyway.

I have some who comment every now and again and I love seeing that the 'effort' I put into the post doesn't go unnoticed. I also like to see the counter at the bottom of my blog keep going up and up and UP! I'm already past the 1,000 mark (and I know most of those aren't really people who read this blog but ya know... still makes me smile once in awhile.)

I really didn't start this blog to become famous or have thousands of followers (which I accomplished neither) and that is ok.

I wanted this blog to remind myself of who I was, what I liked and who I was becoming over the years. Even if sometimes my posts are just a random picture or a random quote or thought, I still want to have that 'recorded' somewhere for me to look back and see what my 20-something self was wondering or thinking or liking.

And if I happen to have children one day, I want to be able to have some kind of journal to tell stories about and have them see it and say "hey. my mom was an actual person who had feelings, who thought like I do at that age." I wish I had started one sooner because writing to me is a bit of a sanctuary and somewhat of a stress reliever of all the pains and sufferings that go inside my head and inside my heart. I have so many things I wanted to say but never had anyone to listen to them or even read them. In my teenage years I can say that I was somewhat depressed and in search for my true self ... and in someways I still am. But by not writing out the words or saying them out loud that were held inside I think I did a world of hurt to others around me that I truly treasured and loved.

I am a person who keeps a lot of things to herself, even now, and I think I have my younger version of me to blame because I never let out all that anger and hurt and depression out of my head. I was a rebelious kid (even if my parents and friends deny it... since I come off as a 'good girl' with my straight A's through high school and fitting in within the average group) and I hurt a lot of my family along the way since I decided to take many wrong turns in my life.

So in someways starting this blog a year ago I wanted some sort of relief from all that is held inside of me. I don't think I ever thought of it this way but yeah. It's a weight lifter off of my shoulders and heart because I can voice what I want to on here that I couldn't say when I was a younger girl.

Well, this post was never meant to be a self proclamation post but it did and I'm really not sorry for that! haha

I think I need these posts to help me out with things I hold inside and put in the corner. Because if they don't come out or I don't resolve them, I think I will be hurting others more than I hurt myself.

I guess you can say this is the very cheap version of going to see a professional psychologist!

So blogging world: Don't think I'm going away anytime soon! I have many more things I want to say and many more things I want to see, learn, experience through this little blog of mine. And if someday I have over 4 real followers I won't mind it whatsoever! ;)

Thank you all who do read this looooooooooong post and to all of you who do come read/see my blog regularly and aren't a follower I thank you as well! You are one of the reasons I keep this blog and don't make it private! Because if that counter stayed at 2 views... then forget about it! I would just go private! But seeing those numbers rise and rise, I figure I must be doing something right!

Thank YOU ALL again lovely followers and bloggers! You inspire me every day and I hope I can somehow someday return the favor!

Coastal Nest.

One of the many wonderful blogs I read is Coastal Nest and she has recently shared these great diy projects.

I especially love what she did with the piece of wood and all the tealights in it!

Find out how she got the beautiful island and those wonderful stools done here.

Great job girl!

Oh Disney...

I could not agree MORE with Meg Fee about this. Check out her post about Disney and if you're a late-80's early 90's child you will COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND!!!
Plus I also had to share the video she put on her post.
Too too too cute and lovely not to share on my blog!
It's things like this that keep me smiling....

I <3 hearing about new love!

This is a fellow blogger friend I have found and I want to congratulate her for not only finally graduating but also for being able to share with the world her new love!

Like I commented on her post can't wait to see all her new found love on her lovely blog

Life with Lily.

Bring it on girl! Bring it on!

Tag ... =p... i'm it... D'oh!

So... thanks to lovely blogger Kimberly I was tagged.

I had seen others tag each other but never had the "courage" to do it myself.

But as I checked Kimberly's blog, I saw she had tagged me.

So with a laugh and thinking "man why didn't I check this AFTER I took a shower!" I took a pic of me... {eek!!}

The rules:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
No primping or preparing.
Just snap a picture.
Load the picture onto your blog.
Tag some people to play along

And to make more wonderful bloggers cringe and hope they look better than moi I tag:

Lisa

Coastal Nest

Jojo

Stacey

Courtney

Hopefully they do it!

If they do, I will post their pics on here and a little of why I love to read their blogs every day!

Have fun!

{oh. and have a wondeful Tuesday! The sun is shining around these parts and I am going to work soon... oh night shift... *sigh*}

just fabulous enough to post...

The Fabulous One posted this a few minutes ago and not gonna lie.

I liked it.

Never heard of The Orion Experience before so thanks Fab One for introducing me to them!

SIGNS

{found here}

Power of love...

My heart was racing at the end.

i have felt that kind of anguish and disappointment of not knowing and regret of not saying my true feelings.

You HAVE to watch "Her morning glance"

{found at this great blog}

Amazingly done.

Gorgeous.

Inspiring.

Brilliant.

Love it.

You?

Almost at the 400 mark...

Can I make it to the 500 mark by next month?

Is it possible???

Well ... maybe.

Almost ever since I started this blog I've had a sitemeter ALL.THE.WAY. at the bottom of my page counting to see how many people visit/search/see/find my blog.

I have to admit it's fun to go on there and look at how many different locations there are.

I especially like seeing the little green dots in like Russia, China, India, Australia, France, Portugal etc etc.

I know most of the numbers shouldn't even count because when I look I see:

time on site 0:00

so maybe I really haven't had 398 visitors but so what?

That's a lot for me!

I mean I am pretty much a nobody in the blogging world because I'm a poor college student/nursing student/nurses aide from northeast USA.

But I feel so privileged to have been visited by many awesome people like many of my daily reads.

<-------------------------------(which are over there on the left side of my blog .... )

So whomever has visited THANK YOU!

I am just here sharing tidbits of my life and of course life with my lovely boyfriend.

I hope I enrich your lives in some way...

Even though half the time they are boring posts and most of the time I am not as creative as many other bloggers are.

=)

you know who you all are!

But I still try and am still smiling at every sunrise that shines through my blinds....