Tea Time

Lately I have been really enjoying my tea. Today my dad brought home a new tea for me to try. And I loved it! The tea is Lady Grey Tea and it is amazing. I put some orange slices in my tea and it was delicious. I would highly recommend this tea.

Lazy Day

It's a cold windy day in Minnesota. Today's outfit is going to be a lazy one. No makeup and natural hair with beanie.

Hair Cut

Yesterday I did a spontaneous thing and decided to cut 6 inches of my hair. It was the best decision ever. I am loving my hair so much right now! It is so much lighter on my head. My longer hair was almost a pain and so cutting it made it more bearable to do my hair on a daily basis. Here's a little before and after pictures of my hair.

Retro Look

Sometimes you need to change up your look. And lately I have been really into these old pair of jeans my mom had. So I thought it was only fulfilling if I tied the whole outfit together with the "retro" look. This outfit was so comfy! I was able to wear an old pair of comfy jeans, a turtle neck long pink and gray socks, and finally with converse.

Caribou

If anyone of you guys are like me, you are a Carbiou Coffee addict just like me. Today's Caribou Coffee drink is a Chai Tea Latte. Thank God for all the Caribou Coffee gift cards that I got for Christmas.

Appreciation Post

Sometimes you just need to make an appreciation post for you cat. My cat, Spook, is my best friend and I just wanted to share some pictures with you guys!

College Textbooks

During winter break I am transitioning from fall semester into spring semester. And I am currently working on selling my used textbooks. I have listed below my top three favorite websites for selling back my books. I was able to sell all of my textbooks and use that money to pay for my next semester books and still have some money left over!

1. College Focus
2. Chegg Books
3. Textbooks

Leftover Christmas Food

My favorite thing about after Christmas is the leftover food. What can get any better than leftover food, especially being a poor college student? Today's lunch has been brought to you by left over food from Christmas Eve. Some yummy olives and roast beef sandwich. I am one happy college student right now!

New Makeup

Recently I purchased some new makeup and have been able to try out a couple new looks lately. This makeup look seems to be my favorite at the moment. It gives just the enough amount of a smokey eye and a natural look to make it perfect. The new makeup items are listed below.

1. Wet n Wild Ultimatebrow Mascara
2. Wet n Wild Brow Highlighter
3. Wet n Wild Color Icon Kohl Liner Pencil

Christmas

I got to spend a lot of time with family for Christmas, my brother who is in the military was able to come home. He hasn't been home in a year, and before that he was deployed overseas for two years. So spending some time with the entire family. Along with spending time with family, I was able to enjoy my time playing the dice game and cards against humanity. Christmas was a great time with family and I was also able to open up some pretty great presents too! The chocolates that I got here are Sea Salt Almond Alligators by Abdallah Chocolates.

Work Out Plan

During my first semester of college I have definitely gained the freshman 15. Now, with the holidays coming up I needed to create a plan on working out. Below is the schedule that I will be following to help lose my weight.

Sunday:
stretch
1 mile warm up run
45 jumping jacks
15 squats
5 jump squats
50 Russian twists
30 second plank
10 standing calf raises
5 kneeling push-ups
30 second superman
10 lunges (each leg)
40 crunches

Monday:
stretch
1 mile warm up run
50 crunches
20 tricep dips
15 squats
20 lunges (each leg)
70 Russian twists
20 standing calf raises
5 push-ups
30 second plank
10 lunge split jumps

Tuesday:
stretch
1 mile warm up run
80 jumping jacks
50 vertical leg crunches
20 sit-ups
10 side lunges (each leg)
15 leg lifts (each leg)
50 bicycles
15 wall push-ups
40 Russian twists

Wednesday:
stretch
1 mile warm up run
90 jumping jacks
20 tricep dips
10 sit-ups
30 bird-dogs
30 second plank
30 squats
15 incline push-ups
40 crunches
10 oblique crunches (each side)
20 standing calf raises

Thursday:
stretch
1 mile warm up run
100 jumping jacks
25 vertical leg crunches
30 crunches
20 squats
20 wall push-ups
50 Russian twists
15 second side plank (each side)
10 lunge split jumps
5 jump squats
40 high knees

Friday:
stretch
1 mile warm up run
60 jumping jacks
10 sit-ups
10 tricep dips
20 side lunges (each side)
15 incline push-ups
10 oblique crunches (each side)
30 butt kickers
5 jump squats
15 jack knife sit-ups

Saturday:
stretch
1 mile warm up run
50 jumping jacks
20 squats
100 Russian twists
5 kneeling push-ups
1 minute downward dog
15 jack knife sit-ups
10 lunges (each leg)
10 side lunges (each side)
20 bird-dogs
20 inner thigh lifts (each leg)

Charlie Brown Christmas

As I was typing up my last blogpost, my sister turned on Charlie Brown Christmas! It's really starting to get me in the mood, along with sitting next to my great Christmas tree.

Products

Here are the pictures of the products that I used in my blog post below.

Having a Little Fun

Yesterday I was able to come home for break. I finished up one paper last night and another paper this morning. After that I went shopping with my sister to get our brother's Christmas gift (yes I know we are pretty late on getting it). While shopping I got myself some new makeup and I was pretty excited to try it out. So I had a little fun and relaxing time doing my make up and hair. Below are the products that I used and links to buy them.

Make-Up:

1. Maybelline Expert Wear Eyeshadow Palette Nudes
2. Wet n Wild Color Icon Kohl Liner Pencil
3. e.l.f Contour Palette
4. e.l.f Studio Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20
5. Wet n Wild Color Icon Blush
6. Wet n Wild Ultimate Brow Mascara
7. Wet n Wild Brow Highlighter Highlight of My Life
8. Wet n Wild Silk Finish Lipstick Dark Wine
9. Maybelline Volum' Express Pumped Up! Colossal Washable Mascara

Brushes Used:

1. e.l.f professional Eye Shadow Brush
2. e.l.f Studio Small Angled Brush
3. e.l.f Studio Compexion Brush

Hair Products and Tools:

1. Instant Heat 1-inch Curling Iron
2. L'Oreal Paris Elnett Satin Hairspray Extra Strong Hold Unscented

Pura Vida Bracelets

So recently while Cyber Monday Shopping I was able to use my Swagbucks money. My recent purchase were Pura Vida Bracelets. Now I purchased six different bracelets that donate money to different organizations. The bracelets that I purchased were: Autism Awareness Original, Autism Speaks, Down Syndrome Awareness, Epilepsy Awareness, Migraine Research, and Save the Sea Turtles. With my purchase Pura Vida also sent me an extra bracelet, it made my day! Now purchasing the Autism Awareness Original bracelet, donates $1 to Autism Society of America. $1 also went to each of these other Autism Speaks, Migraine Research Foundation, Conserve the Sea Turtles, National Down Syndrome Society, and Epilepsy Foundation. The bracelets are so cute and they are also water proofed, which is even better! I would definitely recommend them for anyone to buy. If you click on the link above that says "Pura Vida Bracelets" it will bring you straight to the website!

Christmas Spirit

I am officially starting to get into the Christmas spirit drinking my peppermint coffee with a candy cane in it! So delicious! The coffee I was drinking was Donut Shop Peppermint Bark. I used a little bit of Coffee Mate French Vanilla Powder Creamer. For the last step just add a small candy cane, which can be found in packs at Target, to by them click on the link here.

Bentleyville Tour of Lights

Last night as part of being a collegiate athlete, we volunteer as a team to go do various things. Yesterday, we worked the Bentleyville Lights. Now, if you are not familiar with this, the Bentleyville Lights occur in Duluth, MN. The lights originally started in 2001 on Nathan Bentley's property in Esko, MN. He would decorate his property. In 2004, his family moved to Cloquet, MN. Here to entice the people to drive out to his house to see the lights he created an entrance castle made of 45,000 lights and over 500 illuminated snowflakes that were hung from his trees. Later he added a fire pit, cookie house, popcorn building and yearly visits from Santa. Just after five years of doing this, Nathan was transporting 72,000 people by school buses to his property. In 2008, Nathan received a phone call from the Mayor of Duluth asking him if he wanted to use the Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth to set up his lights, becoming a non profit organization. In 2012, the attendance surpassed 206,000 people. Bentleyville currently offers FREE hot chocolate, coffee, popcorn, cookies, and marshmallows to roast. The cost of attendance is 100% free, however, donations are greatly appreciated. There is a $5 fee for parking though. Yesterday I had a blast volunteering for this organization. I was in the Cookie House the whole night handing out hot chocolate, coffee, and cookies to people. There was  a huge crowd of people and the hot chocolate and cookies were going like crazy yesterday! I also received this very cool pin showing that I was a volunteer and now I get to have this very memorable time of when I volunteered at Bentleyville Tour of Lights. If you want to learn more about Bentleyville or how to volunteer you can click on the link here. While volunteering here it made me appreciate how much I can do to help other people and organizations. Watching little children's faces light up when they would see Santa Claus or their first sip of hot chocolate on a cold night brings a smile to my face.