2018

Long Awaited Update

11:26

Hi! It's been a while, I know. Working 10+ hours a day, coming home and doing my self care, and going to bed takes a lot out of a gal! I figured I would share an update on why I haven't found the time to blog lately, and what's been eating up my time other than work.

I started this *little* program on Beach body called 80 Day Obsession back in mid Jan! I have officially surpassed the month long hull of working out every evening, 6 days a week, and sticking with a meal plan. Man, it's exhausting! My progress has shown me little weight loss, but the amount of strength and confidence I've gained from this program is more than I could have imagined! Within a month I've gained full bicep muscles, triceps, and my thighs feel like they could crush a watermelon. Okay .. maybe not but some days they feel like they could!

So this is my version of self care right now, and I have to say it's really helping. I have NEVER stuck with a program like this before, where I take in the meal plan as well and stick with it. While doing this, it's got me thinking that maybe I'd like to try and sign up to be a coach with BeachBody. But I know me, I know I struggle with "recruiting" people, or just overall boasting about myself, but as one of my work buddies may know, I share my progress a lot right now because I feel so proud of myself. (I probably annoy her form time to time, ha!) I don't think I'll go full on coach, but I have had a few friends and family members say that somehow I've inspired them to do their exercise. Which is crazy to me! Even one of my bosses started going back to her cross fit! I love that I've been able to do that from just caring for myself.

Enough about that, I wanted to share my other self care habit I've built. BULLET JOURNALLING!



I find that bullet journalling has released the creative side back in me out again, and I love it. I bought proper pens to work on lettering, which is hard and I've not sat down long enough to practice it more, but I'm finding inspiration everywhere, and really enjoying implementing those creative juices into the journal. Also, tracking my hours, 80 Day goals, moods, expenses, all in one journal is awesome. 

I hope to be updating you guys more with result photos from my 80 day obsession journey, and more bullet journalling posts in the future. I am sorry for not posting in such a long while, but my Instagram is up and running, and I am so very close to 500 followers!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday!

2018

It's 2018!

14:34

It's 2018! Aaaaand I've decided to put my laptop on my lap to type away on here for the first time in a while. I didn't post anything for the last while because I was working 15 hour days, coming home to find zero motivation to kick my ass at a workout, or even to clean my apartment.

I am going to give the blogging another shot, but I think I need to find MY kind of thing. I know I want to work hard at my instagram, so I think the two will eventually go hand in hand.

2017 was a hard year for me. I went through a lot with my anxiety, friendships and finding confidence in myself. I'm still growing, still forever working at anxiety, finding the work/life balance, and also finding time to do something for myself aside from binge watching the latest Netflix series, ha!

2018 will be good to me, I can feel it. End of 2017 was good to me too, so I've got a very positive outlook right now.

I spoke to one of my closest friends about this a month ago, saying how my mental health is crazy good when I am working out 4 days a week and focusing on ME, so I'm going to do that again. I started back at it in December, and going back into it full force once again. I fell off the band wagon back in September when I started a different position, but I am good to go for this year.

2018 = SELF LOVE

thanks pintrest for this very inspiring quote



90's style

Red & Denim

22:00

Hello and happy friday!

I wanted to make my first "fashion" like post on here, as this week I wore these jeans I recently bought from the Gap and I'm still figuring out how to style them. I know I mentioned them in a few posts back, but they are The Gap 'best girlfriend' jean! I have had them for maybe a month now, and working out what to wear with them is still a struggle.

But this week, I wore them with a new cute red sweater I grabbed on a whim at Old Navy (very Gap clothing oriented here, can you tell I used to work with the company? haha) and I paired them with a belt! Surprise! I felt .. great? It's been hitting me the last year that, yes, I CAN look good in clothes I didn't think were "for my body type".  That's something I always compared myself to when getting clothes. Oversized sweater? Nope, got curves, can't pull that off. Stripes? Again, not a size small, don't do that!

Screw those thoughts! That is my motto right now. So here are some horribly taken photos of my cute denim and sweater until I can get out with my camera and a friend.

(for reference I am usually a size 14 in jeans, and these are a 32 and they are fairly baggy as the name suggests, but I could easily go down a size!)


I honestly never would have styled them this way if I didn't have wonderful social media role models like Tanya Burr or even Poppy Deyes! Tanya always ROCKS this belt and straight leg denim trend, and I want so badly to pull it off that I feel somehow I have? Anna from The Anna Edit is another incredible example of inspiration for me towards my current fashion faves. She always wears the basics but holy, she makes them look sleek and so good!

I have a few plans this weekend and one involves my beautiful friend to be my camera woman while I change between outfits and take photos in adorable ally ways for this blog! I'm hoping to eventually get a wide array of things on here!

What do you think of the straight leg denim trend? What about baggy shirts and sweaters? How do you like to wear them? Are any of you curvy and like rocking the girlfriend or boyfriend fit jeans? I want to know! 

Have a wonderful weekend guys!

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