To speed up your wednesday

Bored at work? Have day off? At the doctors office? Just want to surf the blogworld and waste time? 

Stay for a while!

Today I am in DC with Lauren, my blog bestie and our wonderful boyfriends. (As if you haven't seen a variation of this line anywhere in my blog before...)

Go 'head, log into instagram and stalk/like some pictures I've posted! 

To keep you entertained...go blog stalking. Mine to be exact. 

Here are some of my personal favorite posts I've written!

About pageants: Miss USA 2013 | Alyssa Campanella

About B: 11 Months | Story of Us | Boyfriend-Shmoyfriend (Favorite post I've ever written)

DIY: Polka Dot Sneakers | Monogram Beach Tote

Random: Mindy Kaling | Candy Crush

If this doesn't entertain you....feel free to hit up my pinterest!

P.S Do you live in the North East of the U.S? Join North East Bloggers Network!

L is for letters.

Dear Brooks, you are a stupid stupid man. You can't explain your feelings to Chris? You are unsure if you love Des? You're probably going to be back next week. TTFN. Ta Ta for now. #TheBachelorette

Dear Lauren, The Obamas(I wish), Georgetown, and friends, SEE YOU TODAY. Hey. #DCLovin

This becomes real tomorrow. #BLOGDATE

Dear birthday, all I want is a Big Booty H*e. Jokes, it's a song. But I hate surprises but I think know they will be great (Esp from B)! And a family birthday dinner with sushi, too!

Dear you, Hola. Check out my sidebar to check out some fabbyfab sponsors. I also have started paid ads, however if you would like to do a swap for free email me at sunshineandsinatra@gmail.com with the title 'Button Swap'. 

Dear also you who has gotten this far in my post, check out my friend Jenna's blog! Shesssssss trendy. Swap some buttons, talk it up. She also works at a super fab and glitzy jewelry place that I hope one day she blogs about!

Dear Lauren aka in my phone now as Lauren(heart) Letters&Lipstick. ILY. Aka you are the only other person to have a heart emoji in my phone besides B. I am glad we have finally confirmed we are not robots or creepy old men and have moved our giggles to the wonderful world of texting. And now we can send each other silly pictures of our lives. And you can show me when you eat yummy food since clearly jersey lacks it all. 

Dear bed, thanks for being so kind to me and let me cuddle with you almost every day. I'm going to miss you in a few weeks. 

Dear shower shoes, I am not ready for you. Bleh, college. 

Dear giveaways, LET MEEEE WINNNNNN. I'll buy you ponies. Or chocolate. Or well....just let me win once puhlease. 

Dear Robin, I am happy you are back in the blogworld! Your blog was my first ever inspiration and your blog still makes me so so happy to read/look at! You go girl! 

Georgetown, I'm comin for ya!

Why you should befriend a blogger

O-M-G. I know I'm a sucker for stupid Bravo TV but did any of you catch last nights Princesses: Long Island? It's so dumb but I had my dad hooked. He thought it was stupid and hilarious and couldn't turn away. So heres a gif that was literally too funny, yet not from last nights episode.

For starters, if you are the boyfriend/siblings/parents&family/besties, prepare for your face to be searchable somehow on google images. Always make sure you look your best because you never know when your blog friend will use it. And you might never know if your friend doesn't tell you she runs a blog. So basically just look real good together all the time. Or not. Eh, you choose. 

For shits and gigs.

(Hello Dark haired men!)

They also expose (some) of your life. Like your name. and your relation to said blogger. and fun facts about your dog (if applicable), or why you are a great boyfriend. We know our limits but isn't it fun to share about bits of our lives? And have people that care? Yeaaaaa. I think so.

They can promote your products or business! Likeeeeeee I am for my real life friend Jenna at Ripped Jeans and Vinyl! She is seriously the definition of hipster. And I want to be her because she has the best fashion taste. Jenna is new to blogging but go stop by and say hello! 

**She also has stellar music taste**

heeeellooo sockbun twinnies

They can get free things for you from give-aways...or even just find out about great products online from ALL the resources that are available to them at their fingertips. No exaggeration. Still have yet to win a give away...but I have the rest of my life ahead of me. Real deep, right?

They know their ish (most of the time) about graphic design/html. I promise it will help you in one way or another. Don't forget it! You're forgetting. Don't.

They have friends across the country/globe. Do you?

Shout out to Lauren in Virginia (who I'm meeting TOMORROW(!!!)), Carrie in Lousiana, and Lauren in Texas.

SO:

..if you are a real life friend and don't tell me you read my blog HI you rock yet I'm not too sure how I feel about this. Since ya know I dont promote my baby of a blog to ya.

..if you just don't have a blog but read my crazy life blog anyway...MAKE ONE. It will distract you from Candy Crush I swear. 

..if you are a bloggie friend, say hello! I don't bite. Unless I haven't had my Iced Coffee fix for the day yet. Then it's debatable. ;) 

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Off to DC with Lauren and Boyfriends tomorrow! So excited #Blogdate

+Have any great DC must-see's? Email me!

Country Road take me home.

 Good morning! Stop your yawning and grab some coffee with this morning read.

I'll wait....

Yep. Still waiting. 

Pick me up a hazelnut ice coffee while you're at it?!

Good? Alright. Let's do this.

So I know that South Carolina (especially Myrtle Beach) is NOT considered country. But if you are a 'Joisey' (read: we don't actually pronounce it like that) girl, then you know it's a bit lot of a culture shock when you see stores with camo and confederate errrrythang. 

I spent the past (almost) week in Myrtle Beach and wanted to share my trip with you. 

*NOTE*: I ate the bestttttt crepes in the south. And unfortunately, they were TOO good to want to wait a minute, pick up my phone, choose an artsy filter that makes it look more delish (whaaaa?!), andddd then finally eat it. Yeah, sorry. I ate them twice this past week and I only regretted my decision after the fact. Nothing I could do about it then. 

Besides the beautiful southern sunsets (seen above), I got to see some awesome impersonators at Legends (A must see if going to Myrtle Beach). I watched drooled over Elvis, and got nightmares from the MJ impersonator. I thought to myself, what in the WORLD do you have to look like in real life to be a MJ impersonator?! Think about it. 

Another great thing about the south is that things are so cheap! I went to a rando discount/bargain place and bought the cutest swim top for 10.00. I don't think I've found something ever so cheep even in Target!

I also discovered the comparason between the largest hand in the world. And mine. (My baby brother, who is taller than me, also has much bigger hands than me!) Ugh. Short people problems. Can you tell lately I enjoy stealing my brother's snapback because I think I look ghetto fab. Cool right? Baaasic.

A great quote learned from this trip:

"Fish and family are the same after three days: they both stink" -Some random guy a shuttle bus.

I'm with the dude on that one. As awesome as my trip was, I'm ready for my own bed. Orrrrrr more like I'm ready to get my butt to DC in TWO days!

How funny is this?! I loveee the movie Big so this made me giggle!

Enjoy your day! And the coffee I know you grabbed ;)

Arm party? Party on your arm?

Can I get a special blogger award for blogging while on vacation? See, I wasn't going to but then I found out that today's post wasn't going to work for well...today. So I made another that I wasn't planning on doing until after I got home - but this one makes me so excited! I loveeeee nothing more than some stylist bracelets. (Alright, sue me, couldn't think of anything more exciting for an intro for a post about my fave go-to bracelets to add some pizzazz for my outfits.) True story I originally spelled 'Pizazz' 'pizza' when trying to spell it out. I hate pizza. Tired? Yes. Don't judge. 

Don't mind my uber hair blonde arms. Heyyyyy how ya dern'.

Alex and Ani bracelets are the shiz. Check out my post about the best friend and crown (#1&3) here. Affordable AND cute bracelets....buy some for ya friends. or ya self. I know a girl who has 10. And wears them constantly. Now, that's a bit much. I also hope she doesn't somehow find my blog post about Alex and Ani because she is cleaaaarly OBSESSED. Lowest priced bracelets start at $34! Get to it!

Now call me crazy because I don't have charms on my pandora (#2), but I love the simple chain look! Granted these are on the more expensive side, esp. if you get all dem charms! It does look pretty classy (with a C. You know it's fake classy when you say Klassy with a K...right?)...like something my mom would wear. Which is strange that I would like that, but my moms a pretty trendy lady. Gotta Admit. 

99.99% of you haven't heard of Joyce Leslie (#4), I'm guessing! It's a cheapo-ghetto store (like wet seal, but better). I enjoy browsing around the store and getting greeted by the random asian man at the front of the store. Except I do hate when I feel awkwardly guilty like I'm going to do something bad and he walks around the store to check on me. HE DOESN'T EVEN GO SHOP HERE! But for a cute lil' crop top/colorful shorts/last minute shopping for a part-ay -- this store is a-okay. Anywho, as I was checking out I found some big 'pearl' earrings. spot on! because that is just what I was looking for. As I was completing my slow maze around the jewelry area, I discovered this cute yet weapon looking bracelet. It was $7.99 which can be considered cheap for the way it looks (not falling apart or anything) yet I'm broke and $7.99 is a loooooot for a bracelet that can potentially stab someones eye out. Don't worry I'll keep it away from everyones faces. Not sure why it would be in your face, though. 

I'm not funny, I swear, I just like to ramble about complete nonsense. 

Are there any bracelets that you love to sport?!

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Also, screw passionfruit (sorry - cute name though!!! reminds me of summer/happiness/yummy-ness).. 

Want to swap buttons? Holla at cha girl:

sunshineandsinatra@gmail.com!

I can't believe

Because I miss Robin's awesome weekly wednesday I can't believe, I'm doing one on my own.

 For the hell of it, of course. 

Let's start off with I CANT BELIEVE that I'm meeting Lauren in a freakin' week! Six days actually. PARTAY. We are having a double date blate with our beaus who 95% think were loons for wanting to meet up with an online friend. Not getting catfished though. I hope that doesn't exist in the blog world. That would be 50 shades of messed up. Any who, we are going to start planning what we can do for our 24 hour+ date. Did I mention we are staying at the same hotel?! I'm honestly mostly excited for SUPER cute pictures and to walk around the monuments at night. I did that before (in january) and it was such an awesome experience.

My summer camp friend, Scott

I really like this picture of myself but its an awkward picture where I really can't crop him out. Erg.

Obvi reppin the dirty jerz.

I can't believe my birthday is in a little over a week. What are you buying me for my birthday? 

Kidding, but a shout out would be fun!

I can't believe I need to start back to school shopping. And by B-2-S I mean dorm shop! Here's to another year! And new not ugly bed spreads! And sitting on pinterest for cute room ideas. Is it possible for me to take my bedroom with me? Because I like them helluva lot better than dorm rooms. Ick. Bet you miss those days....right?!?!

I can't believe I'm actually really excited to transfer schools. Hopefully I'll be able to blog throughout the year! Totally didn't think about that until now.

I can't believe I cut my nails short again. Trust me, I'm really upset about it. No french mani for me!

I can't believe I've literally been at the beach almost nonstop this summer. I shouldn't complain!

Check out my guest post from Lauren's blog on whats in my beach bag!

grinding my gears, dawg.

Aka a post dedicated to ranting on all the things that bug me.

Sorry for saying dawg, yo.

Danggit. 

1. In the year 2013, still wishing people Happy Birthday via facebook. I was scrolling through my facebook when I realized I needed to wish a HBD to A, B, C, and D. I am biffles with B so of course I send my love. A....I went to middle school with and haven't seen in years. C....is a random person I enjoy stalking because she was a teen mom (no not on the TV show. Yes, I'm a bad person) so maybe I'll keep you, and D is my ex boyfriend from the 9th grade. Survey says....I think it's safe to start deleting people on their birthday. Happy birthday to you, sucker.

2. No-reply bloggers. I think everrrrrrry blogger can relate with this one. Unsure if you are one of these lil' boogers? Read over Jenni's post from Story of My Life. Then the world will be a better place

3. Proving I'm not a robot. Aka, CAPTCHA. Aka no. Soooo many people have these on their blogs but why! It's such a pain because I get very excited to post my extatic comment and then it's like ohh hey enter words and numbers that make no sense and this is how we will prove you're not a mechanical thingy-magig (if that's even spelled right). 

4. Posers. See I thought this was a thing of the past. Say....like middle/beginning of high school. Especially being a poser about things I love...like Frank Sinatra, other musical whoa-ers, etc. You can't just post Dave Matthews lyrics and hashtag every word relating to them and expect to become the number one fan. Especially with pageants. Sorry but no, you do not know more than I do. Unless you've competed/ know someone that has. Or are Mr. Trump of course. Psh, Phony. 

5. When real life friends and family alike find out about my blog. It's so good to know that I'm totally not alone about this, though, because I thought I was. Until reading Helene's post, I didn't realize that bloggers I look up to keep it a secret! Or try. And when the cat spills the beans. You want to run and hide, just like Lizzie's animated twin. If ya know what I mean.

shesh this is painful to look at after a while...

What grind's your gears? 

Also, check out this awesome bloghop!

One time at CVS...

(make sure to check out yesterdays guest post on Love Fun and Football...Thanks, Erin! You rock!)

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...with the intentions of only buying white nail polish..I found the missing pieces I needed in my life. And by pieces I mean beauty products.

Yeah so I might have spent more than I wanted but I found superrrrr awesome products I wanted you guys to check out because you should buy them and we can all live happily ever after with great products. Yeaaaaah Cue the random rambling...

First off I bough L'Oreal 'I will' nailpolish. I've been seeing trends that white nailpolish is in and now that my nails are long-ish (a true first in my life. pink promise), it looks rockin' I must admit. 

(read: my hand is the size of a 12 year old girl. Don't judge.) It was $5.99 at CVS.

With that, I picked up the Revlon Extra Life Top Coat. Sooooo it was 8.50 but it was completely worth it. I usually buy top coats and despise them because they end up sticky and don't dry fast enough contrary to what the product details say. You need to get this! I can't stop touching my nails because how soft they feel -- just like I got a manicure!!! If I could reach my hand through your computer (errrr...creepy), I would show you how truly awesome and soft they are!

Aside from the hideous selfies with no make-up, I was introduced to this product this past year, however I had never used it until tonight. I wish I remembered/wrote down the price (sorry!) but it's awesome! Not only does it smell like yummy coconuts, but it adds the beach feel to your hair....without even going! The only con was that if you put in a bit too much it will feel icky, how your hair would typically after a long day at the beach. My hair never sticks when trying to 'scrunch' it or anything of that nature, so this was awesome! My hair had instant volume. Too bad I was testing it as I was getting ready for bed...but next time I use it, I will holla at ya!

Let the weekend begin:

To simply brighten your day:

Thursday's can suck. You are ONE day from the weekend, and it just so happens to sometimes be the longest day ever. Find yourself giggling while reading my post. Hopefully with some morning/afternoon coffee, or even a big bite of your favorite guilty pleasure food. Yes, you deserve it!

"If you like cute dog & baby stuff, you'll love this" so accurate and true.

Yes. 

Dawwww, thanks Ry!

What I should have realized as a youngin'

What I Should Have Known in High School: A collective piece. 

He'll be into you eventually. Calm down, lady!

Just because your on a college campus (read: UMichigan) as a high school sophomore does not make you seem any cooler. But hey, you do you.

You make the same face in every picture. Smile already!

You also shouldn't EVER want to dye your hair...because you'll never get that beautiful color back.

It'll turn to this.....and youl'll be dumb enough to think it looks pretty for about a year.

But you will go to Israel senior year. And love every second of it. I bet you still wish you were there right? Eh, just a good guess.

You will go to camp find the greatest people you will ever meet aka your best friends from all over the country.

You will compete in Miss New Jersey Teen twice while your in high school....aaaaaand you will be meeting your idols mom. How freakin' awesome.

You'll actually care more about these pictures once you graduate...you'll know why ;)

Well now that you've seen awkward and embarrassing selfies and my many different haircolors...have a fab day! :-)

Ohhh torrance, can't stand your cheerleading squad...

If you've read my about me/ seen pictures of B (which is everywhere), you'll understand that I am a complete sucker for dark haired/'hairy' gents. See some of my faves and why I love them so so much.

Cliff Pantone. Where it began. When he wasn't being all googly over blonde Dunst we could find him rocking out in his room or making fun of his new-to-be cheerleader of a sister. (Bring It On) This is where my love really started. They're a favorite movie couple of mine.

Chris Messina. MINDY PROJECT. Not only is he the cutest (male) on the show, but I always think in pictures B and him look similar. So he's clearly rated a 10/10 in my books. Also, he is in the Mindy Project. Re-reading it right now!

Garrett Reynolds. I know him best as Paolo Valasari. And for being a bigger meanie than Ethan Kraft was. He has a terrible voice, wears ugly blue stunna' shades, and tells every girls the same damn lie. Bye boy!!!!! You shine like the light from the sun. #Baloney.

                        

Chris from the Bachelorette. One of Des on the bachelorettes final 3. I'm just in love with him. Although his family would have intimidated the pants off of me, they seem to care about him and everything he can do support/provide for her. #TeamChris. I also realized she is currently OBSESSED with Brooks and he's unsure as to how he feels. You are wasting time and space. Not sorry. Also, he plays baseball ;)

 Freddie Prinze JR. We all know him from many many many things. I just discovered the movie Summer Catch. If you loveeeee baseball/sappy girlie movies this ish is for you gurl - go headddd. I love the chemistry he has between him and Jessica during this old movie that currently isn't getting shoved into the "IDC ANYMORE" area. Caution. Hottie Alert.

Buttttttt are you even surprised? I feel like this week has been all about B on the blog, but I'm not gonna complain. He fits the perfect description that makes me like someone. He's even the sweetest boy you'll ever meet! Or not meet but hear all about him from me!

What's your guy type?!

Boyfriend-shmoyfriend

Why having a boyfriend rocks. 

As told to you by me.

They are required to clean off your cars from the snow. In the cold. With no gloves.

They pretend or learn to appreciate the things you give many craps about. 

 You can laugh about ugly pictures of you two together from when you were younger/before dating (if applicable) 

You can dress them how you want. LIKE A REAL LIFE KEN DOLL.
(p.s he hated those shorts...and refuses to buy them)

You now have a reason to give someone pointless DIY crafts. and they accept them.

Boom. You now have someone by your side to dance with at frat parties. Or parties in general. 

(This was 2010. We weren't even dating. This is awkward)

You can take dumb pictures with them, and people still think you guys are the cutest. 

Well, atleast thats what they comment........

You can see how much you've both changed. Or not changed. True story, I locked him in a bathroom sophomore year. Left picture 2010 - Right picture 2013

You can dance like absolute loons together. and it's still damn cute.

They look cute when playing with puppies. and babies. You just can't help but sort of get all googly-eyed and go "awwwwwwwww".

The best part? They still choose to go near you after you throw up on them. Aka that happened to me in 2010. On a bus. Sitting next to B. 

And for all the single ladies...you go girl. Keep doin' you.