Sally Hansen Salon Effects

As a notorious nail biter. 

I am constantly trying to constantly keep nail polishes on to keep myself from biting my nails.

However, I hardly have time to sleep let alone paint my nails often to keep up. 

My friend recently told me about Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips and I figured try them out for my self. 

So I picked up a few different types because I had a gift card left over from Christmas so I figured why not.

Cheetah

So, as you can see they go on really nicely and basically all you do is stick on the applique, cut off the access and then file them down. Takes about 2 minutes total and no time waiting for drying or worrying about smudging them.

I have had them on for 10 days now and I have not had a single chip yet. 

They come off with just regular nail polish remover as well.

They are a little pricey, I got mine at a drug store for 9.99, but its fun and it comes with 16 pieces so if one does chip you can put another on. 

I also bought one in Lace so I will be doing that next!!

Have you ever tried these?

♥
After working all morning today my fiance and I are just laying low, making a delicious dinner and cleaning up our apartment. Probably going for a cute little 2 mile run together later tonight!
I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend & thank you for all the input on the Save-the-Dates!! 
xoxo.  

Wedding Wednesday # 8

Save the Dates:

So we are a little less then a year a 2 months away, and I am currently just gathering ideas for florists, figuring out what songs I want played at the reception, first dance and other things. I am not making any major decisions until April when our wedding will be a year away.

We are thinking about these for save the dates: 

Magnetstreet.com/weddings

Our colors are white, pink and black. 

Our flowers and some other decorations will be like a bright raspberry pink, however table cloths will be white and bridesmaids will have black dresses along with black and white for the guys. 

So we would some how work out those colors in them. 

These are just a few I like, there are about 50 more, so its going to be difficult choosing...

Hmmm.

I love the idea of a magnet though because you can just throw it on the fridge and no one can loose it!

Perfect!!

What do you think?

♥

Tonight my fiances cousins are in town so we are going to enjoy some delicious dinner and a fun game of bowling. 

Hope everyone had a wonderful Wednesday!

1/2 way to the weekend!!
xoxo.

In Need of a Good Laugh?!

Saw this over at Brittany from Live with Intention.

Made me laugh♥

Adult Truths

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu Ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.

14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.

16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lite than Kay.

17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.

18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.

19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?

20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!

21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.

22. Sometimes I'll look down at my watch three consecutive times and still not know what time it is.

23. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey – but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from three feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time

 xoxo.

How To Minimize Time Spent Getting Ready In The Morning

As most of you have probably can tell, 

I love to sleep. Although, I would be completely satisfied if the body only needed 5 hours of sleep to remain functional, since it doesn't, I usually need 7.5- 8 hours of sleep each night, or I can get a bit cranky.  

With this being said, there are many things that I do to minimize the amount of time I spend getting ready in the morning. 

So. I wake up at usually around 6am to be outta the door by 7am. 

Opi Shatter

I also refuse to go to work or internship looking anything less then my best.

So here are my tips to help you reduce the time you spend getting ready.

1) I do as much as possible the night before. 

     This means I pick out my outfits the night before and hang them out. 

    I find that if I hang them in the bathroom while I shower, some of the 

    steam will help make them neater. I iron if need be, paint my nails, 

    make my lunch, and if I am done early at night I shower, but I can 

    never go to bed with wet hair so this doesn't happen often. 

2) I brush my hair in the shower.

      So in my shower, I keep one of those little hair brushes that came 

     with the bigger brush. So toward the end of my shower, once i've

     washed all of the conditioner out of my hair, I brush my hair, while

     it's still soaking wet and the waters still going. Trust me, it is a lot

Mmmm

     easier to brush it here then when you get out. Then after I turn the

     water off, I brush it again, still standing in the shower and this bring

     a ton of water out making it much easier to dry and brush.  

3) I check technology while eating breakfast. 

    I am a firm believer that breakfast is super important. Not only will

    I be less hungry before lunch time, but it will kick start my metabolism

    so I can stay more thin. Since fiance goes to the gym at 6am, I have 

    no one to enjoy breakfast with, so I set a side a few extra minutes to 

    check up on blogger, and let my hair dry while eating delicious cereal.

4) I blow dry my hair a little & then do my make up.
    I have found that blow drying my hair right at the go takes a while, and
    even when I let it air dry first it still can take some time. Therefore, I 
    have found that if I blow dry my hair a little bit first (for a couple minutes)
    and then do my makeup and finish getting ready, when I go back to blow 
    drying my hair it takes half the amount of time. 


5)  I use blow dry lotion.
     I doubt that everyone uses blow dry lotion, but let me tell you, go invest.
     I buy 10 dollar blow dry lotion from Target and have had it for like 3 
     months. Not only does it make my hair feel soft and smell amazing, but
     it really cuts at least a couple minutes off how long it take my hair to dry. 


So will these 5 little tips, I have found that I can get my morning routine down to about an hour. Give or take. This is also when I wear my hair straight, if I have to curl it I wake up a bit earlier. All that I know is that I try to get in as much sleep as I possibly can! Beauty Rest is a must ♥ I would however, love to invest in a car starter!! That would be amazing, would take a lot of time off my routine & would let me get into a warm and toasty car before work!!!

What do you do to cut time off your morning routine?


Today, I had a very busy, long 9 hour work day all at one job. I am quite exhausted and looking very forward to hoping into bed in some toasty pj's.  Not sure when I get to sleep though because the people down stairs are being obnoxiously loud. I am also really craving some caramel turtles right now!! Random!!
Also, as you can probably already tell, I changed my blog up a bit. It is super pink but it makes me smile. Let me know what you think ♥

Hope everyone is having an amazing weekend. 

Tomorrows Line Up: Gym, Laundry, Movie, Work!!

xoxo.

Exhaustion Settles In.

I have had a few sleepless nights that past couple of days,

due to a stupid argument with {f}.

All is done and settled now so I should be back into the routine, but man oh man, what I would give for a nap right now!!!

So due to this argument with {f}, I did so over emotional shopping in which I spent 150 dollars on shoes and clothes.

No big deal right? I needed it. It was an emotional pick me up [which apparently I have needed a lot of lately]. Well anyways, I got some really fun things!

Black Target Boots

Khaki Target Slip Ons

Teal/Brown Target Sandals


I also got a couple on sale target shirts and some pants for internship plus a really cute red bra for 3.98!!
I love Target. Sometimes you can really get the best deals!!

♥

Much like some other blogger, I celebrated Valentines Day early. I had a 14 hours day on Monday so I hardly saw my fiance. 
However, after apologizing profusely (because typically in arguments I'm right!! haha) my fiance and I headed out to dinner. It was delicious. 
After dinner we went to see Just Go With it, with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. 
 
PLEASEEEE let me tell you how cute this movie was. I loved it. Some parts are absurd, but it had me laughing hysterically and Jennifer Aniston is just tooo pretty!
♥
On Monday, actual Valentines Day, i arrived at work and maybe 20 minutes later my fiance showed up with these gorgeous flowers:


It was too cute!! I am sure I blushed!!
♥
Lastly, I am sure some of you watched the Grammys. Well let me just tell everyone that I am 100% infatuated with Justin Bieber. I think that youngggggg little artist is just too cute!!
Hahah Don't Judge me!! Also Glee is performing Justin Bieber tonight and I am just too excited!!
xoxo.

Making Moves

As hard as it was to achieve.

1. I think {f} & I have finally created a routine for our week.

So {f} and I basically have 14 hour days, between internship, class and work. It is in now way fun, but its doable. 

It's come down to settling for early nights and even earlier mornings, seeing very little of each other, but when we do its meaningful and perfect!!

Due to my 14 hours day on Valentines Day. We will be celebrating on Sunday. A dinner and a movie, then exchanging some sweet little gifts. I got him a hoodie, new snowboarding goggles and after complaining that there are no good candle smells and he wishes they would just make blueberry candles [because we burn candles everynight] I got him a fun scented blueberry scone candle and some candy of course!!

 2. I am trying to get back in the routine of running with my very hectic schedule however this is not as easy as I anticipated. Tomorrow will be the first time I ran all week. I am going to try to increase this once a week running to at least 3. This means however, that I will have to start waking up at 5:45. The price we pay for beauty right..
I am hoping for a nice 2.5 mile run tomorrow!
3. After months of deliberation, I believe I am going to go to Med School. I know I talk about how over school I am, but in all actuality, I want to help people, and although I can help people by being a therapist, I believe that I can accomplish alot more good with being a psychiatrist!
It is going to be a very long road. But I believe I will be taking the journey after our wedding. 
4. I apologize again for my lack of blogging. I think once I create a stable routine I will be back to blogging at least 3x a week. However, right now bear with me while its only one!!
xoxo.

Lack Of Time

Hello Lack of Time

After a grueling 70 hour week, I have come to find myself completely exhausted. 

I have no time for anything and it is exhausting. I attempted to run today but couldn't get myself to run more than a mile, because I have too much to do. I have yet to look at a syllabus and have to do some major reading.

However, on the upside. Today I attended a bridal show with my mom and got some super fun things!! I had such a great time. 

Also I am refusing to buy into any of this superbowl hype and therefore I will be watching sex and the city until glee comes on!

I also did a little online shopping today for some new internship clothes here is what I got:

This post is utterly random. 

I apologize!

Another week of 70 hours.

xoxo.