Being a blogger means gifts!

I guess part of being a blogger is flaunting some kickass gifts you receive. Like they say, sharing is caring. Meeting Krista who blogs over at Classy & Sassy Mrs. was nothing short of fabulous! Through carabox, we discovered we lived in the same state as well as how I went to the school she graduated from AND she was in the same sorority as my roomie from last year! Too cool.

Like anyone, they figure the first thing about me is my weird obsession with pageants. So what did this wonderful lady do? Get me a ticket to Miss America! 1967, to be exact. Time traveling shit, No biggie.

(Excuse my backwards hat. I was feeling pretty yolo-ish...) I really can't wait to frame it!

Clearly, all good things. I've used my mason jar sippy about one hundred and three times already. It even has a handle. The little things in life. Also super shout out to her because that chocolate chip cookie maker? Can't wait to save that for a rainy pms-y day. Ja feels? Thank you for being an AWESOME partner, Krista!!!!!


Also, since I was forever alone on valentines day, the Vday swap box was perf because I did get it on valentines day. So I felt like I had a valentine for about 5 minutes (while opening the package). I got matched up with Danae which was nothing short of fuhreeking awesome. She is probably one of my favorite bloggers just because of how real her personality is, and you can complete get that off of just reading her blog. Shout out to her because she made me feel not so #foreveralone.

I mean please tell me one thing better than Ryan Goslings face? (Hmph, is that an idea for a post I see?!) Also, she got me a chocolate boyfriend which is pretty wonderful considering I can eat him and not hear him speak. And he's made of chocolate so I don't think I am complaining about him one bit. He also can't disagree with what I have to say or what TV show I want to watch. Looking for a matchmaker? Clearly Danae is our girl.

Free things? We all got time for that #carabox

You're kidding if you scroll past this post. We all love free things am I right? The fact that you can open up your mailbox or front door (for a package) and you get so excited it's like christmas.

Thanks to Wifessionals Cara Box program, I made a friend and got fun gifts!

Through this program you get paired up with someone (near) similarities to some of your descriptions and I got paired up with Tiffany and we went together like two pretzel sticks in some peanut butter. Aka ya know, real well.

Trendy lady, amiright?

Although she is older than me (Like every blogger is because I sometimes resemble a fetus..weird right?....), we were able to connect right away! Luckily enough, we were both just becoming blog friends before this program even happened! Shout out to my girl fate. 

Getting to know each other and sit down to open one anothers' emails was sometimes the highlight of my day. It turned out that we had a good amount of things in common (camp in PA woo!), and we knew how to instantly brighten each others day!

Clearly you can see she got me cool shenans that I enjoy. From the tiara crowns (seriously wuddup I love them #pageantproblems), to the massive over load of peanut butter (couldn't been any happier), to the That 70's show greatest hits and even a college cookbook/koosie/some snail mail/keychain/doodle book. Yeaaaaaa she's clearly the bee's knees and I'm pretty sure everyone wishes they had her as a cara box sender. It's so cool that she wasn't just like oh hey random girl please tell me your interests so I can go search through my house for random products I don't use that I could give to you because I could care less. You're right. Thats a bit much and I hope NOONE would ever be like that. Like excuse me why would you apply for carabox-in' in the first place!!!! Our conversations flowed and we're sometimes never ending. 

I even contributed to our friendship too! It shouldn't be one sided-ya know! I even got to learn about her. Like her LDR boyfriend, where she's from, what ethnicity she is (GO ASK HER. Or don't. but go blog stalking!) and seriously waaaaay more. 

Want to be friends? She doesn't bite. You may even be sending fun packages, too!

stalk her blog, twitter, and instagram!

4Ft teddy's and some birthday shenans

It's beyond me that I turned on some Christmas music in august when writing this post. Merry August 7th! 7-3=4. My birthday was three days ago! 19 yo. Putting on them big girl panties. I can legally buy tobacco in the dirty Jers. because obviously that is what I'm doing. (read: NOT). I bet your reading this and thinking gah this girls blog I follow, she is a child compared to me! Sorry! You are not old. I'm just young. Think of me like you think of the grandma's and grandpa's on facebook. Appreciated but sometimes not necessary. Couldn't even tell you what I'm saying right now. I miss the days of being home ALL day staring at my computer refreshing blogger, waiting for a new post to stalk. Now that I have my last minute camp day job before heading to school, I have zilch (0) blog relaxing time. 

Back to the birthday shenans. It wasn't stellar but turned out in the end to rock my world. 

I didn't get the presents I wanted but I did get a tiffany necklace (nothing too glammy. thank gosh, so not me), and a BirchBox subscription (hi sister because I know you will eventually read this). Also B's present? L-O-L. Like actually I'm confused but its cute. and It's large. and it's sitting on my bed. Awkwardly far enough away from me that it doesn't a) take up my bed and b) creep me out in the middle of the night. 

A four foot giant teddy bear. Literally what. Thats all I have been saying. 

The card made me all warm and giggly inside though because he actually thinks its cute that I sleep with his clothes as blanket. I am a child. #Notsorry. Also shout out to the error in the message. Ten points to gryffindor if you figure it out. Aka everyone gets a point because it is easy-peasy to detect! B's mom told me she suggested a monogram travel bag. I don't know why he didn't listen to her but alrighty B, you do you. Also he gave me chocolate covered gummy bears in THE MORNING (breakfast) on the way to Miss USA (post to come friday). He knows how much I love chocolate covered gummy bears. Especially for b-fast. Super nutritious right? Aren't gummy bears like, their own food group? ;)

Cue awkward #ootd. My mirror selfies just weren't havin it on my birthday. Sup to my monogram necklace, Joyce Leslie lace shorts, and American Apparel Leotard. 

A face you've never seen before on my blog I'm assuming, right?

Icky photos but love my big sister and our boyfriends. (She stole the good side. Grrrr)

Go check out her fancy shmancy blog and buy some affordable yet WAY trendy post cards. 

So happy I got to celebrate it with my family.

And ended my birthday with some friendly's ice cream. Heck yes.

And then Monday I got to meet Miss USA....dream.come.true. 

Check back on Friday's post!!!!!

Birthday wishlist....just another year gurrrrl

Tweaked the ever so famous Jeremih song to share with ya'll my birthday list. I'm not sure if the point of this is for you guys to care what I want for my birthday. Or if I made it with the intentions that hopefully someone important (who buys me gifts) will see this and then I will be a happy lady. *COUGH COUGH B COUGH COUGH* Also don't worry, we have 22 days until my birthday. Plan accordingly, ladies and gents. 

            1. Monogram Hat...Simple as that. Ha. Rhyming. I saw Robin do a review post about one! And I've been dying to just settle down and splurge for some Marley Lilly. 

2. Easy Pass. Which I'm sure your state has some sort of no cash toll stuff. Being that I'm going to school in another state next year aaaaand will have my car, I think this gift is only right. Especially for a broke college gal.

3. So B is obsessed with Toy Story. He probably won't appreciate the fact I just put B and obsessed in the same sentence because he just simply isn't 'obsessed' with things. Unlike me...I obsess over many things. I came across the ring on etsy and knew it had to be mine one day. So can the one day be my birthday? Okay, thankies!

4.Norts. Whats even better than Norts? MONOGRAM Norts. Gimme. If you look cute in norts in public, that counts as working out right?

5.I want to look like that lady....getting a massage. B and I have been talking about getting massages because they seem so relaxing. And that is something I so need.

6. Seersucker Monogram Bow? Probably don't need this but it's waaaaay too cute to not put on my birthday wishlist.

7.Lilly Dress. Speaking of Lilly, I'll take Lilly anything. Or one of everything - that works too!

Also make sure to give a birthday gift and/or shoutout to POTUS on August 4th too!

Marley Lilly & "Blacations"

OOTD / Bracelet from B for our one year :)

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Soooooo getting paychecks is great right? Yea. Weeeeellll only when you can splurge a bit aka what I'm doing with my paycheck this time. oops. 

Besides ordering expensive pictures from the phillies game because I'm annoying, and trying to remind myself I am infact on a budget, why not check out some Marley Lilly?

1. Pullover Rain Jacket. Alright I really have zero of a purpose to get one of these gems. I just think there uber cute and I would like such a sorority girl/jap rocking these with some hunter rain boots. #Notsorry. Also what I totally just hashtagged on here. Turning into weird social media guy from the Bachelorette. $44.99

2. Car Decal. BUT WHO DOESN'T JUST LOVE MONOGRAMS? Yea. Exactly. So preppy. $14.99

3.Baseball Hat. After reading Robin's post on her Marley Lilly hat....I need one. Side note: I also need Robin to come back into the blogging world because I miss keeping up to date on her daily life but hey everyone needs a blacation. (yes, just made that up AKA blog vacation) $24.99

4. Boat Tote. Totally will admit I would have judge these bags as mom bags when I was a youngin' because my mom had one of these and made me lug them to camp at the wee little age of five. She also used to dress me in Lilly and I would die from the embarrassment. People change, huh?! $29.99

5. iPhone Button Decal. Probably one of the biggest wastes of money but who doesn't ever want to pimp out their phone???? If I had money to blow, I'd spend it on this. $13.99

What pointless yet amazingly awesome things do you keep buying just because you don't want to part ways? (no matter how dumb) 

**Starting to design blogs too! Cheapest package is ONLY $12! 

I love blogging so no blacation for me. But a real vacation would be nice!

We did it!

Happy one year to me & B!

...of course he forgets to hide the food behind his back....

But boy am I obsessed with this new pic of us! So obsessed that I decided to revamp my blog since I'm really enjoying the color red recently. 

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Have you heard of Alex and Ani jewelry? Their bracelets are so cute AND very inexpensive. I cannot stress that enough. I know people that have so so many and get addicted to buying them. The charms on the bracelet (depending on what type of bracelet you get) usually represents something (i.e power, loyalty, etc). They also have ANYTHING you could possibly be looking for....your initial, favorite sports team, birth stones, astrology signs, and even sororities! My roomie this past year bought them as if they were going out of style. The women who owns/creates this line was an Alpha Xi Delta (and so is my roomie, thus her chapter hosted fundraisers with them). She eventually took me to Princeton, where they have a store, and I saw the price and said Hey why not! We got the best friends one since she still angry about me transferring.

Blaming my roomie for my newfound addiction, I spotted the crown one (Being that I love pageants way too much). I knew I had to have it so I suggested to B that he should buy it for me since

1. He couldn't go wrong with buying me something he knows I'd like 2. Its inexpensive 3. If a student, you get a college discount. 4. Every month they have a select bracelet that is five dollars off (May just so happened to have the crown) Hello, perfect! Can't wait for you to be mine!