Live it out

My new mac background & a verse that I desire to memorize & live.

The Ultimate Proposal

I just HAD to post this! Click on the link below! (& maybe you'll get into it and view the rest ;) )

The Ultimate Proposal: Nate & Kayla

Hidden Funnies

When you really clean a terrible room, much like mine, you find little treasures.

I found a comic strip that I had kept because it made me smile big.
It was printed last Mother's Day.

:)

Bedroom: Before & After

I remodeled my room yesterday!
It was a complete mess.

However the pictures above are the result of already having moved things (my room isn't that jumbled).

I moved the bed, the vanity, took my desk out and created an "office corner," put all my college textbooks in boxes (most of them) and under the bed, put all my boxes & excess mags next to my book shelf, and now I have open space in the center!

Zee office corner!

Under my bed! The bed risers are very convenient. I have my guitar & extra music goodies in a bag as well as my college textbooks here.

From my room door. The bed used to be exactly to the left (vertically when you walked in). Pardon all the stripes! I noticed that last night... too many if you ask me. Mom didn't have any other bed sheets & I didn't want to go out & buy new ones so those'll do.

My boxes full of goodies & mags (far left).

Office corner without chair

I want to fill the empty wall space!

As you can notice, the headboard that mom made me a while ago is still in its same spot (I left it there because that wall gets super cold at night so it deflects it).

So voila! I wish I could do a paint job on it but I won't stay here forever so I'll leave it as is.
I also filed a ton of paperwork laying around the room and created a new 2012 file for each category (i.e. Work, Expenses, Ministry, etc.).

It was a lot of hard work doing this by myself but I love moving things around! Seeing my room way more organized also makes me happier :)

HSI Flat Iron

I was straightening my hair before going to work and as I was taking each chunk of hair ready to be straightened, I noticed that I had to go over it more than 3 times, then 4, then 5, "Uuuum, c'mon hair I don't have much time left." The kinks weren't going away! Then as I touched the portion of hair that I had used the iron on, it was cold! As in NOT HOT. I cautiously and quickly touched the flat iron (as in like a millisecond... or less) and didn't feel heat. I touched it for a longer time and it wasn't hot. It wasn't even mild!! After unplugging it, turning it on and off, and tapping it hoping it would come back to life (much like people did with TVs in the olden days), I concluded that my flat iron went kaput. (It was a Revlon Ceramic the I owned for maybe 2 years... I think.) "Why now?!" I had to chop chop! Mom let me use a wide flat iron, which was definitely not ceramic, to finish up. "Ah poor hair!"
I started wearing my hair curly (natural) since I didn't want to use any straightening iron. This totally helped my hair relax from all the heat and take its natural form.

Later in the week I went to Wally World and bought a ceramic flat iron for $30. I thought, "What a deal!" And it was pink! It also had a guarantee so I went with it. Once I brought it home, mom was like, "Oh no! I just bought one for you off the internet!"
Long story short, I used the one I had just bought to see if it was worth keeping (def was not worth keeping) and I returned it.
Mom bought a $50 straightening iron! She set it on my bed as a surprise when I got home from work.
It was red and seemed bedazzled!! I was SO excited!

An HSI 1" flatiron, Professional ;)
It looked so legit! I had never heard of it but I Googled it (of course) & heard good things about it. Then... I used it! Dun dun DUN.

Oh, it also came with Argan Oil which I had heard a lot about but never used it (it's from Morocco). SO soothing to my hair [and hands].

Argan Oil+HSI= super silky hair!! Sehr gut. It curls so well too! (I used it to curl my ends.) It even made my hair heavier, compared to when you're using a not-so-good straightener which dries out/fries your hair and makes it a light-poofy.


So I definitely recommend HSI as well as the Argan Oil (it's also used as a skin moisturizer). It's worth it!

Movie Review

Last night I saw one of the worst movies I've ever seen: Message in a Bottle.

It's with Kevin Costner so I assumed it was going to be a good movie, aaand Nicholas Sparks wrote the novel! Sparks wrote one of my favest books: A Walk to Remember!

Uh, NO.

The end of Message in a Bottle was terrible!
For some reason Costner likes to die in the movies he makes (much like The Guardian), which I totally don't like because it's too sad (although, now that I think about it, The Guardian has some good messages still... I need to re-watch that one).

Well, in Message in a Bottle Costner dies too! Ugh, it's so disappointing. AND he dies trying to save a woman drowning in the sea in a storm (again, a correlation with The Guardian). So he dies, the woman he's trying to save dies too. Oh & this all happened when he was on his way to win the heart of the woman he loved. FAIL. He also left his father at home who was waiting for him to return. Cue credits.
Ugh, just terrible! It was an epic fail. But I have good news!!

I re-viewed another movie full of boldness, hope, love, and faith! Ah yes, major contrast & a breath of fresh air. I would highly recommend you watch One Night with The King.

So worth your time!