Hello March! 🌼

Good morning!!

Happy Friday guys! 

I woke up this morning feeling very refreshed and looked outside my window only to find more ice on the ground. I had great sleep and then I realized it’s March and got super excited! The weather forecast is showing that it will get much warmer after the 8th of March. So glad the winter is finally going away and I can enjoy some fresh air. Speaking of a new month, that means we have some goals to write out! 

Goals for March:

• Learn a new sport (already have one on mind, will make a video about it)
• Lose 10-15 pounds 
• Start vlogging – post first video on Youtube 
• Be consistent with my blog posts
• Make a laundry routine so we don’t fall behind on laundry
• Share my blog, be more open about it 
• Workout 5x a week
• Sleep 8 hours every night and wake up at 5 am every morning
• Go to bed earlier
• Clear up my acne scarring/skin 
• Spend time outdoors as much as I can as soon as it gets warmer outside
• Read at least 1 book
• Get back into writing my to-do lists
• Save money from every paycheck for our future vacations
• Buy our Disneyland and Universal Studios tickets before the end of the month
• Work on myself, mentally and physically
• Only buy new clothes if I lose weight 
• Have at least 3 date nights with my husband 
• Spend less time on my phone and more time with my husband 

That sounds like a pretty good list and things I can for sure accomplish! I didn’t want to make it too goal heavy because sometimes it gets unrealistic, but I know that I could do a bunch of these. And even if I only do 50% of this list, it’s still something! 

Do you have any goals for March? How do you write them out and make sure you get them done? Let me know in the comments 🙂

Vacation planning for May 2019 ✈️

Hi all!!!

This is a very exciting post for me because I’m going to write out our long 9-day trip that’s happening in May, day by day! We are calling it our honeymoon part 1 because there will be a part 2 eventually. We’ve been talking about going back to Santa Barbara for a while now and originally we were only going to go for four nights because everything was so expensive, but we found a way around it! We actually ended up making it a 9 day vacation and it wasn’t as expensive as it should’ve been. So here’s how we are planning it out.

Saturday May 25th to Sunday May 26th: Our flight leaves for LA at 5am and we will be there by 10am. We chose the LAX airport because it was much cheaper flying into LA than SB. That’s when we decided to go two days earlier than we planned and just stay in LA that weekend. We planned to go to the two parks in Disneyland and Universal Studios from the start, but just by making it a day trip from SB, but this is much easier and that way we have two full days to do whatever we want in LA. We also were able to find a cheap Airbnb right by Disneyland. But we are going to Disneyland and Universal Studios!!! I am SO pumped! It’s my first time so I’m acting like a kid, but I am too excited! 

Monday May 27th to Sunday June 2nd: We rented a car so we will drive that morning from LA to SB, take a nice long cruise by the coastline, and enjoy some road trip time together. Cannot wait to see the views by the ocean and the mountains, it will be beautiful! We decided to spend the next 6 days in Santa Barbara because we found a really cheap Airbnb so we were able to stay longer than we thought. This will give us time to really soak up SB and enjoy what their city has to offer. We haven’t planned out every single thing we are doing yet, but I will update when we do! On that Sunday, we will drive back to LA and spend some time there before our flight in the evening. This is going to be the longest we’ve ever stayed in California, it’s going to be great!

That’s what we have planned so far, we literally just booked all the Airbnb’s, bought the flight tickets, and rented the car just yesterday! In a month, we’re going to purchase the Disneyland and Universal Studios tickets since those can really be purchased at any time. 

Side note: I surprised Mirhad with this camera he has wanted so he could start filming (his dream is to be a director one day) and I went and bought it last night for him. He totally didn’t see it coming and had the best reaction! I told him this will be great for him taking pictures and videos of me on vacation 😂 Anyways, I’m happy he can finally use his own camera instead of mine and I know he is too! Hopefully he can learn how to use the camera like an expert by May so we can get some cool footage. Maybe by then my Youtube channel will be started?! 🙂

But yeah, that’s our trip planning. Has anyone else been to Disneyland or Universal Studios? Anything we HAVE to see?? Any recommendations for food in LA and Santa Barbara? I will do some research, but I’d love to hear from personal experience. 🙂

We found our perfect honeymoon destination! 🏝

Hi all!

My husband and I got married last May and it’ll be a year since we’ve been married in about 3-4 months. We pushed off our honeymoon to save some money and pick the perfect destination since we didn’t have a wedding. After doing lots of research and thinking, we’ve decided we want to go to Hawaii! At first, we looked at going to Honolulu, but I think we are leaning more towards Maui. 

We chose Hawaii because we’ve never been there before and it seems like a great place to spend a couple days relaxing and exploring. The top two places we’d go to would be Honolulu and Maui. Honolulu is the capital, so that means there will be lots of tourists. We had a friend who said it’s kind of like when you go to Florida, like that kind of vibe. And then Maui is more exploring, hiking, beaches, and mountains. I think Maui would be so much fun especially if we could find like cool little waterfalls and stuff like that. It would be lots of fun exploring the area instead of being in a touristy place. 

Another plus about Maui is that it’s closer than Honolulu, it’s the island right before it. 

The red pin is where Maui is and you can see it’s a little closer than Honolulu. The flight times aren’t THAT much of a difference. We would have to fly from our city to LA or somewhere in California and then to Hawaii. The total flight time would be 8 hours and 35 minutes. So 4 hours from here to LA and then from LA to Maui would be another 4 hours. And that’s IF it’s a flight from here to LA, if it’s somewhere else it’s probably going to be more like 11-12 hours. That’s a LONG flight that I’m not sure I’ll be able to sit through, but it’ll be worth it!

Was looking for ideas of what to see in Maui and found this awesome video! Now I’m wondering if we’ll need to rent a car, hmm…

But really though, so many turtles!!!! Would be so cool to see one snorkling! 

Here’s another good informative video, I feel like I’ve watched this before – I’ve watched pretty much every single video on this youtube channel (don’t judge me) and now I’m really looking out for things to see!

When we book our flights and hotel, I will be posting my travel essentials for this trip and more! Stay tuned! 🙂

 

Plans & goals for the weekend! 🌿

Hello & good morning!

Having a nice cup of coffee and writing out my plans and goals for the weekend. I write my goals for the week in a notebook every Sunday or Monday and sometimes I forget to write stuff I want to do for the weekend. So this will be helpful!

Goals and things I have to do:

• Set up patio set and lights – this has been something we have been working on for about 2 weeks now, it’s just a lot of work cleaning out our backyard, but we should be able to set it up today if not tomorrow
• Clean my car and truck – have been meaning to clean the inside for a week now, but I have been waiting for Mirhad to go dump the stuff we threw in the back of the truck from the garage so it’s all clear so I can clean it easier
• Clean stuff from alley way – I don’t think anyone is going to come by from the city to clean it (THANKS A LOT) even though it’s their property, how annoying. So I think we will either clean the stuff closest to us or not do anything and put up a fence lol
• Vlog – I haven’t vlogged in so long 😦 so I want to do that this weekend
• Read – I’ve been meaning to sit down and read, but this week was a blur lol
• Meditate at least 1x this weekend – my goal has been to do it 3x this week with Mirhad, but we both haven’t had time
• Find a box to keep my old bills in – it’s just nice to have it organized and if I ever need to pull one out, I know where to find it
• Grab the bonfire from my moms house – this could’ve easily been done like 100 times this week, but we’re so lazy -.- so that definitely needs to happen this weekend because we want to do bonfires!!! 
• Wash more winter clothes – so I’ve taken all my winter stuff out and washed at least half, the other half needs to be done and Mirhad’s winter stuff too!
• Organize our closet – clean it out and put away all summer stuff and put in all winter stuff woohoo!

So it’s a pretty long list, but nothing on there takes more than a day to do. The closet and washing clothes will probably be the lengthiest, but it’s gotta get done! 

Plans:

• Friday 
  • I am working until 3ish and then I will do some chores around the house
  • Going to make a healthy lunch
  • Possibly have my niece and nephew sleep over tonight
  • Mirhad will hopefully start putting up the lights in the yard
  • Start organizing the closet 
• Saturday
  • Have to go over to my sister in laws around 10am to help her with something – guess I can’t really say it on here until I post pics so until then hahaha
  • Going to my best friends parents house around 5ish, will chill there for a bit and then head home, not sure what we’ll do after… maybe a bonfire?!?!!? 😀
  • Maybe I can get Mirhad to wash some laundry this day 
• Sunday
  • Hopefully by this time, I’ll have all my chores done so I can CHILL on a Sunday for once
  • Planning to just light a candle, watch a movie, and chill
  • Will probably wash more laundry on this day

So that’s pretty much my weekend, not too much going on! 

Sunday activities + plans! 🍁

GOOD MORNING!!!

Happy Sunday!!! I just did something that took so much courage, I shared my Dallas video from Youtube on Facebook… took days to convince myself to just do it, but there are so many reasons why I hesitated. They’re really all dumb, I even watched a Youtube video with the title, “PLEASE START A YOUTUBE CHANNEL – YOUR EXCUSES NOT TO ARE STUPID.” I thought about sharing it for like an hour this morning, came across this video which motivated me to share it + motivated me to continue making Youtube videos. Here’s the link to that video:

 

Anyways, she had some really good points and basically it made me realize that ANY excuse I had for not starting a channel and making videos are STUPID. What am I afraid of?? Nothing anymore! 🙂 

Little bit of a rant, but I’m done now. Woke up a little earlier this morning, had a delicious cup of coffee, and have been doing stuff that revolves around my blog and channel. Later we’re supposed to go eat with Mirhad’s dad and after I think we’re going to meal prep for the week. Mirhad starts school tomorrow (last semester yay!) and I know he’s already dreading it lol. I really wanted to ride bikes today, but it’s blazing hot outside, you can barely breath and we’re under a heat advisory thing until Tuesday. 

Can’t wait to get this week of work over with, 3 day weekend coming up!! Woohoo! Which means 4 day work week 😀 so I am looking forward to that. 

That’s all really for today, see ya! 🙂

Thursday Vibes 🍁

Good morning!!!

Working from home today and tomorrow, just enjoying my time working with my hubby. This morning we had french toast with strawberries for breakfast and it was delish. Tomorrow we officially start back up on keto (yes we didn’t end up going back on it on Monday, shit happens) but it’s okay. I know we can do this and we will!

Currently drinking my first cup of coffee and writing this post. Today I have plans to:

• Blog + Vlog
• Go grocery shopping
• Plan out our trip –> figure out the flight and car rental details
• Put up fall decor

Putting up the fall decor today because pretty much for the past couple days it has been around 50-60 degrees in the morning so I think that officially calls for putting up fall stuff!!! Woohoo!! I love the fall weather, just not looking forward to winter lol. They’re the worst here, not worst than Chicago, but close. I wish we could go to Fall and then skip over winter and go straight to Spring. That would be nice 🙂

Speaking of Chicago, I really want to take Mirhad when it’s SUPER cold like in the winter so he can see how I felt a couple years ago when I went with my family hahaahah. Plus I kind of miss Chicago, but I only miss it in the summer. Winter is brutal there. If I lived there, I would not leave my house, even for work lol.

I still need to find a song to use for my Dallas video, it’s so hard choosing something. I just want to show the finished video to Mirhad, it’s my first one I ever made and it’s probably shitty, but who cares. I think I’m going to research how to make good vlog videos and stuff like that so I can start uploading to Youtube finally.

So I go back and forth with having an Instagram for my blog, I feel like I could possibly get more traffic that way and more readers, but every time I do make one, I end up deleting it for some reason. Don’t know why, I’ll try again! 

But yeah, that’s all for now. I’ll probably end up making an Instagram and link it to my homepage. See ya later! 🙂

Friday, weekend plans, & coffee! 💫

Good morning!

I am working from home today, I feel like I just need to work from home once a week for a change of scenario. It keeps me motivated. Anyways, I also woke up this morning feeling sick so it is a good thing I am working from home. Hope whatever this is passes by Monday.

The other day I bought some glass coffee mugs (well 2) and they are so cute. I have been making coffee in them and it looks like a professional capuccino that was made in a coffee shop!

Planning to go shopping this weekend if I get any better. Hopefully I do because I need some new clothes in general and for the trip.

Sanela and I are getting our nails done Tuesday and we decided to go once a month and just treat ourselves because WHY NOT?! I think we deserve it 🙂 so that will be fun, I am excited! I’m thinking about doing something like these colors:

Nails #1

Nails #2

Nails # 3

Nails #4

I wonder if they would be able to do some of these designs with gel polish or if it is only with acrylics? Super cute anyways!

I am looking for a book to read, so I am browsing Amazon to see recommendations, if you are reading this and have any good book recommendations, please let me know! 🙂

I also bought a camera recently, the Canon G7X Mark II and I am loving it! I bought it to vlog and record memories of my husband and I so I don’t have to pull out my phone all of the time and I also have just wanted a camera for such a long time. So I decided to go ahead and try this one, so far it is AMAZING. The quality, size, and basically everything is so great. I did a lot of research before buying this camera so I knew I would love it! I was also thinking about possibly starting a Youtube channel, not sure what it would be about? I could do makeup, daily life activities, traveling, etc,. I guess it would primarily be about my life and I am not focused on having a bunch of followers, just want to share my videos! 🙂

That’s all for now, I may blog again today, if not tomorrow then for sure because I want to possibly do a camera review? Or maybe a travel packing list for a short weekend trip like the one we are going on!

Until next time! 🙂 ✨

Updates, Trips, and Coffee! 🌿

Hello there!!

I have had a tab open with a draft of a blog post about weekend getaways and planning which I never got around to finishing. On the bright side, we finally booked our weekend getaway for my birthday!!! We are going to Dallas, Texas!!!!!! The only time I’ve been to Texas was when I was traveling to Florida by plane and we had to stop for a connecting flight from Dallas. So I’ve only been at the airport which was a pretty cool airport tbh, so in that matter I am so excited to explore Dallas and see a little bit of what Texas has to offer 🙂

With that being said, have to do the obligatory “things to do in …” post so that will be coming very soon. I won’t be planning anything, I’ll just have a list of fun things and places to visit and places to eat of course, but this is a weekend getaway – no stress, just FUN!

Also, this is our first trip together as a married couple, alone. We went to Colorado back in May, but with family so this will be the very first one where it’s just us two, yay!

I’ve been thinking about the future a lot recently and I feel like I have so much faith in Mirhad, I think he can really do what he wants and accomplish his goals he is working really hard on right now. I know you’ll read this Mirhad, I just want you to know I believe in you. I know I don’t say it often, but I really do. YOU GOT THIS! ❤

But yeah I have been thinking about the future a lot and I have so much I want to do and so many goals to accomplish and I am so ready to tackle them. Lots of positive vibes lately and honestly it feels so nice. Wake up in the morning with a happy mood, even if I am tired, oh well. Change the mood, make yourself happy, wake yourself up, and accomplish some goals!!! Life is too short to not be doing what you want!!!

About to go to Ikea to get a book shelf.

See ya! 🙂