Day 100: 10 April 2015

HELLO!!!

I can’t believe it’s been 100 days since the year began! It doesn’t seem like it has been that long and so much has happened since I started this adventure in January! So for this post I want to go over some of the major things that have happened to me since the beginning of the year, and I want to talk about some of the things that I am looking forward to in the coming months.

1.       I have successfully lost 20 pounds since the beginning of the year

2.       I have also lost 5 inches around my waist!

3.       I have gone down a pant size!

4.       I have dyed my hair blonde… again

5.       I got my tattoo touched up… finally

6.       I got inducted into the business honor society

7.       I signed up for my last fall semester of classes!

8.       I’m refining my cooking skills

9.       I have the best GPA since I started college

10.   I have started talking to my ex-boyfriend again

11.   He and I are very good friends

12.   I’ve started doing Zumba

13.   I’ve found my favorite type of wine!

14.   I’ve gotten over 1200 blog views!

15.   My makeup collection has grown quite a bit!

There are many things that I am looking forward too

1.       School is almost over! Only 3 more weeks until I’m done for the summer

2.       My best friend Sarah graduates from college! Then she is going to move away from me, which doesn’t make me very happy.

3.       I start working for the summer!

4.       I get to go to South Carolina for a few days to hang out with a cute boy

5.       My 22^nd birthday is this summer

6.       I at the end of August I start my senior year of college

7.       I’m going to sign up for my final semester of college in October

8.       Losing more weight and buying new clothes

9.       Seeing one of my friends get married in October

10.   Doing the makeup for her wedding!

I have had an amazing 100 days so far and I’m excited to see what the next 265 have in store for me! I hope you all have had a great 100 days as well and I will talk to you all soon!

Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh

Ninety Eight and Ninety Nine: 8 and 9 April 2015

Hey There Everyone,

I hope that the week has been treating y’all well! I’m just so thankful that it’s almost over, and I get to go home as usual.

Wednesday was a normal day and I didn’t really do much until after work, when I took Sarah grocery shopping. She was finally going to cook me dinner and we needed to gather some supplies! We went to Food Lion and while I was there I was finally able to find my favorite wine! I freaked out and I just had to buy it. I got a few other things and Sarah got all the ingredients she needed to make her chicken dish. Then once we got back to our apartment we put all the food away and Sarah and I worked on some homework before she went to a meeting. Once she was gone I finished my homework and watched some Disney movies. The first one I watched was Beauty and the Beast, and while I was watching that movie a huge thunderstorm came rolling through. I’m extremely afraid of thunderstorms and I was all by myself in the apartment… I was so scared and then the lights started to flicker, it was awful. It went on for a few hours before my roommates got back, and by then I was already starting another movie. I watched Anastasia, which was one of my all-time favorite movies as a kid. Once that movie was over I went to my room to do some homework that I had completely forgotten about and I ended up staying up until 1:30 because I did the assignment and I helped Sarah make a marinade for the dish she was making. So I was really tired when I woke up this morning.

This brings me to today, which hasn’t been all that exciting either but it was still a pretty good day. I woke up late this morning because I was so tired so I didn’t have time to curl my hair so I straightened it. I did my makeup and made my coffee like usual and then I went to all of my classes and nothing too exciting happened. Then while I was at work I played some card games with some of my guy friends, when one of them told me that I was like cocaine and right as I was about to get offended he told me I was like cocaine because it’s pure, sweet, powerful, and addictive just like me. He and I haven’t been friends that long so it was a little strange for him to be saying that to me but I took the compliment nonetheless. Then after work I headed straight to my room and took a 2.5 hour nap, it was much needed because the last 10 minutes of work I was struggling to keep my eyes open. I had wonderful dreams while I was napping and I was sad when I woke up to find they weren’t true. I laid in my bed an extra 45 minutes after I woke up because I was so comfortable and I wasn’t ready to get up, so I played on my phone until my stomach told me it was hungry and I needed to get up and get some food. Once I rejoined my roommates Sarah and I started to make dinner and put on a movie. We decided to watch White Chicks while we cooked an Asian inspired chicken and rice dish. It was absolutely delicious and I was disappointed I got full because I wanted to eat more of it. Then after we ate we continued watching our movie and when that one was over we watched Bridesmaids which is one of our favorites. In the middle of that movie I got a phone call from a very special person to me so I excused myself and laid on my bed talking to him and he is currently still on the phone but he is sleeping because I can hear him snoring and its adorable. He always falls asleep on me so this is normal and I usually stay on the line for a few more minutes in case he wakes back up. I don’t think he is going to though and I might have to hang up on him; which I hate doing. But I’m going to get ready for bed now and I will talk to all of you later! I hope you have an awesome Friday!

Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh 

Day Ninety Six and Ninety Seven: 6 and 7 April 2015

Well Hey There People of the Internet!

I hope you have had an awesome start to your week! Mine has been full of projects and presentations!

Monday I didn’t do much other than work tirelessly on a huge presentation I had due the next day! It took me hours to make the presentation, get my notes together and figure out what activity I was going to do with the class that related to my presentation. During that time I also had a test I needed to study for. Luckily I got it all done and I was able to rest easy Monday night knowing that all of my work was getting done on time and I was happy with how my presentation was turning out. However I couldn’t sleep last night for some reason and I ended up tossing and turning all night trying to get comfortable enough to sleep.

Needless to say when I woke up this morning I was exhausted and I knew right off the bat that I was going to need a lot of caffeine and a nap to make it through the day. I had my presentation today so I spent a little extra time getting myself ready this morning. I even wore red lipstick since my outfit was so monochrome. I dressed up in business attire and wore heels around campus all day. My first class of the day had a test, and thankfully I was able to do a little last minute studying and I feel like I did really well on it. Then after that my next class had a guest speaker so I didn’t have to do much in that class. Then after that it was time for my presentation. Thankfully I didn’t have to go first and I was the last one to present and I did really well. I had too much to talk about so in the end I had to skim my last slide to make it in the time allotted to me. But m professor seemed to really enjoy my presentation and she gave me a 20 out of 20 on it! After that I was relieved that it was over and I could finally relax for the rest of the day. I went to work after lunch and played card games with my friends before making my way back to my room and taking a nice long nap. I got woken up from my nap by my roommate who reminded me I had homework to do. I begrudgingly got up and took the few online quizzes I had for my classes and I began revising a paper that I had to turn in tonight. I made one of my roommates read over it for me to make sure that I didn’t miss any mistakes. Then I made myself some dinner and proceeded to watch TV with Sarah until about midnight when we decided it was bed time!

So now I am getting myself ready to go to sleep so I can face another day tomorrow, I hope you all get some great sleep and I will see you soon!

Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh!

Day Ninety Four and Ninety Five: 4 and 5 April 2015

Hello there wonderful people!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter Sunday! Sorry for the late post it’s been a very hectic week so far and I haven’t had much time to do anything. Without delaying any further let me get started!

The day before Easter I spent the entire Saturday with my mom running a million errands around town! We first went to Noodles and Company for lunch and it was absolutely delicious I got Pad Thai which is Asian rice noodles, vegetables, peanut sauce, and sautéed shrimp! My mom got Japanese Pan Noodles which looked like giant earthworms on her plate but it tasted really good. After lunch we went to Sam’s club to pick up a few things we needed for Easter Dinner. After walking around Sam’s Club for what felt like hours we went back to the house to put the cold stuff away and then we went to JC Penny’s so that my mom could get a few 15 minute contour make over from Sephora. While we were there I spent some time looking around at all the products and explaining to my mom the different products that I was interested in and she ended up buying me a contour palette by Kat Von D as my Easter Gift. After that we went to Walmart to get a few more things for Easter Dinner and I picked up some hair dye because my roots had started coming in and I wanted my hair all nice and pretty for church the next day. So after dinner my mom helped me dye my hair a gorgeous vanilla blonde color from Schwarzkopf. After blow drying my hair and making sure it was perfect I went to bed.

The next morning I woke up early and curled my hair like I usually do and I did my makeup and I ended up doing my mom’s makeup as well using my new contour palette she had purchased me. Then we went to church where we watched all the little ones hunt for Easter eggs out on the playground and they all looked so adorable in their little outfits. Then during church service I decided to help out in the nursery because it was crowded in there and all the kids were hopped up on sugar from all the candy they had been eating. While I was in there one of the little boys decided to attach himself to my hip and we sat and talked the entire time and he told me all about the presents he got for Easter and what his little brother got and that now that he was 5 years old he was a big boy and got big boy toys. It was absolutely adorable and I ended up getting a picture with him because he was just too cute. Then once church was over mom and I went home to start working on Easter dinner. After she put the ham in the oven she took the dog for a walk and I decided to take a nice little nap on the couch. I didn’t wake up until 4pm when everyone had already arrived for dinner. I got woken up and poured myself a glass of wine and ate a lovely dinner with my family. Then after dinner I packed my bag and headed back to school. When I got back I spent some time with my friends and we went out for margaritas. Overall it was a really good night.

Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh

Day Ninety Two and Ninety Three: 2 and 3 April 2015

Hey there wonderful people,

The last two days have been the easiest of my week. I can finally relax after such a hectic beginning to my week.

On Thursday, I went to my classes as usual and I went to work. While at work I hung out with one of my roommates and we played board games with a friend of hers who I never really got a long with. I am making more of an effort to not hate him. I must say that I genuinely enjoyed playing all of the games even though he was there. After we played a few rounds it was time for me to clock out of work and make my way home. The drive was peaceful as it usually is, and once I arrived in town I made my way to World Market where I picked up a few bottles of wine and a new coffee mug. Once I did that I made my way to my favorite nail salon to get my eyebrows done because they were looking rough. After that I made my way home where I spent the next hour or so dying Easter eggs with my niece. Then her, my father, and I ate burgers for dinner before they had to leave and go to her Girl Scout meeting. Once they left, I changed into my comfy clothes and plopped myself down onto my couch and proceeded to watch some TV before one of my favorite movies came on. At 9pm when Maleficent came on my mom and I sat down to watch it, but I didn’t last long and I ended up falling asleep on the couch. Once the movie was over my mom woke me up and told me to go to bed which I readily agreed to. I went upstairs and got snuggled up in my bed and fell asleep almost instantly.

When I woke up this morning I get myself ready and 10 minutes before 10am I made my way to the tattoo shop where I got my tattoo done in December. It has been looking dreadful recently and it needed to be touched up. I made it there 10 minutes after it opened and the guy who did my tattoo in December was there and he got set up quickly and before I knew it he was making my tattoo look as good as new. We had a great conversation we talked about the most random things but it made the process much more bearable instead of being silent for 40 minutes while he tattooed my collarbone. My tattoo looks so much better now than it did! Once he taped me up with a nice bandage I left to go get some lunch, I went to Panera to get a chicken caesar salad to go and I grabbed some Starbucks as well because I have a caffeine addiction. Then after getting my food, I made my way to Walmart to pick up a few things. I got some nail polish because now that its spring time I needed some brighter colors, I also picked up an eyeshadow palette from Maybelline. After leaving Walmart I came home and ate my lunch and watched a movie on Netflix before starting to watch season 3 of House of Cards. I am about to start doing some homework and continue watching House of Cards. Then later on tonight I hope to be done with the major assignment I will be working on before I go to bed. Wish me luck!

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday night!

Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh

Day Eighty Nine Ninety and Ninety One: 30 March through 1 April 2015

Hey there everyone,

It has been a really hectic week, which is why I haven’t had time to blog about it. Between projects, papers, and tests I have barely had any time to do anything else. I had a project due on Tuesday, a test on Wednesday, and several assignments due on Thursday.

Monday was a busy day because I spent the entire day working on the project that was due Tuesday because not only was there a project to do but I also had to do a 20 question assignment for the same class. Then on Tuesday I spent the entire day studying for the essay test I had to do on Wednesday. Wednesday I actually got to take a small break because I only had to do a 20 question assignment.

As we all know Wednesday was the first day in April as well as April Fool’s Day, I never much cared for April Fool’s Day because I feel like it gives people an excuse to act like idiots all day because that is normally what happens.  However, like I do at the beginning of every month I’m going to tell you all some of my favorite random holidays in April. The first of them being on April 4^th which is National Hug a Newsman Day. There is National No Housework Day on the 7^th, National Golfer’s Day on the 10^th, National Stress Awareness Day on the 16^th, National Blah Blah Blah Day on the 17^th, my personal favorite National Take A Chance Day on the 23^rd, and last but not least National Kiss Your Mate Day on the 28^th. This month is full of great random holidays, if you want to check some of them out follow this link http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/april.htm to the website where I get all of my fun holidays.

So after my assignments were done on Wednesday I spent the rest if my day doing laundry and packing for the three day weekend. I haven’t done laundry in a couple of weeks and I was running out of socks, so while I was watching Supernatural I threw all of my clothes in the washer. Supernatural this week made me so happy because one of my favorite characters who died a few seasons back showed up. I was so excited I was smiling the entire episode! And Crowley, another one of the main characters finally got his life together and told his mom how he felt about her. Then after Supernatural, Sarah and I watched Gone in 60 Seconds, which is one of her favorite movies and I had never seen it before. The movie was great and I really enjoyed it! As the movie was finishing up I folded my laundry and packed a few of the things I just washed. I finished packing all of my belongings for the three day weekend. I will tell you all about Thursday and Friday in my next blog post!

Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh  

Day Eighty Seven and Eighty Eight: 28 and 29 March 2015

Hello everyone!

I hope you have had a wonderful weekend! I’m sure you all had a better one than me.

I don’t know what’s been wrong with me, the past few days but it is really affecting my mood. I have just been in an awful mood the last few days and everything just keeps making it worse. No matter what I do I just can’t shake how I feel. It’s not like anything happened either, on Saturday I went to Zumba like normal and I danced my butt off but before I even went to Zumba I woke up in an awful mood. I slept just fine and I got plenty of sleep, so I don’t know why I woke up so gross. After Zumba I took a nice shower and got all snuggled up on my couch and watched the rest of season one and all do season two of House of Cards. I didn’t have anything else to do, and all day I was just in an awful mood. I wasn’t happy at all, I was being rude to my parents unintentionally, and I had no desire to do anything. I used to feel like this all the time before I got put on anti-depressants but for some reason this weekend made me feel like I wasn’t on medication at all. Maybe it’s the stress of the week getting to me or maybe the medication is losing effect and I need a higher dosage. I don’t know but I can’t handle any more days like this. On top of my awful mood I have had a ridiculous headache all weekend long too. It was just not meant to be a good weekend. Another thing that contributed to my bad mood was the text message I got from one of my friends from school about housing next year and that residence life still hasn’t fixed their mistake about my room next year. After that message I emailed the woman in charge yet again to let her know the problem was still a problem and I already made plans to go see her tomorrow and I’m not going to leave until I have my answers. There is no reason I shouldn’t be in the room I signed up for, I paid all my money and the other girls I signed up with are in the room we signed up for so I don’t know why I’m not in there with them. Pretty much after that my mood hit rock bottom and nothing was going to change it. I went to bed early that night and fell asleep after watching the last episode of season two of House of Cards.

Then today when I woke up I woke up in a slightly better mood than the day before but I still feel bad for no reason. My headache still will not go away no matter what I do, but I had plans today and I wasn’t going to let it stop me. I went to see the Divergent Series: Insurgent today with my mom and it was a really good movie but compared to the book there were a lot of things that were different. However I did enjoy myself and I’m impatiently waiting for the third movie to come out, so I can see where they take it. With the amount of differences in the movie from the book I’m interested to see what they do with the next movie because they are going to have to change a lot of things around. After the movie I made my way to Starbucks to get my Sunday treat to myself before making my way back to school like I always do. When I got back to school I ate some soup my mom got me from Panera Bread and before unpacking my bag. After I unpacked I went out into the living room and watched the end of a Disney movie with my roommates while telling them all about Insurgent, even though they have never even seen Divergent they still listened to me anyway. In about 30 minutes my TV shows are going to come on first I’m going to watch Once Upon A Time, then Secrets and Lies, and then finally The Royals. I can’t decide which one I’m more excited for, so I will just have to see what happens!

I hope tomorrow will be a better day, but I don’t know. I hope you all have a better Monday than I will have, and I will be sure to tell you all about my day.

Thanks for reading xoxo Lashleigh