Sunday Social Week 8

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Mine was mainly spent being frustrated at work and that's always a bummer. But the good news is that I have a job interview this week that I am cautiously optimistic about so hopefully will be able to share more soon! Anyways, on to this week's questions... 
1. What is your dream job? 

Since I've decided to get my Master's in Cosmetic Chemistry, I would obviously be something in the cosmetic industry. I'm sure at some point I'll work in a lab formulating cosmetics, but I think I would ultimately like to be a field educator for a cosmetics company and go around to different vendors and show them the new products.

ULTIMATE dream job would be college football commentator. AKA the job Erin Andrews had for ESPN.

 

2. If you had just won the lottery and didn't need to work for money, what would 

you do with your time?

Play tennis and give kids tennis lessons, volunteer at a children's hospital, focus more on blogging, try out and test all kinds of beauty products!

3. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

When I was little my mom brain washed me into thinking I wanted to be a nurse anesthetist like her. I quickly changed my tune and through most of high school I wanted to be a marine biologist and essentially swim with dolphins (I mean who doesn't?!?). 

4. What piece career advice would you give to someone just starting out in your 

field?

Haha well considering I'm trying to transition into the cosmetic field I am all ears for advice!!

As far as my experience in the medical/pharmacy field, make sure you actually get some experience working in a pharmacy before you 100% decide it's the career you want. After working in a retail pharmacy for 4+ years I can with certainty say that I am glad I didn't go to pharmacy school. Things happen for a reason people!! 

5. Biggest Pet Peeves either in life or in blogging or at work

I answered this question in the post below, but as far as blogging and "social media" pet peeves my biggest thing is non-acknowledgement. I FULLY understand that we are all busy but a simple email or tweet acknowledging a communication isn't that hard. 

BIGGEST work pet peeve is the "do as I say, not as I do" mindset. Too many people I work with have this attitude and it drives me NUTS!!!

6. Biggest FearsNot finding love, immediate family member dying, spiders and snakes
Hope you enjoyed this week's link-up! Also if you're a fan of all thing monogrammed (and let's face it who isn't) make sure you head over to Chicago Prepster's blog and enter to win a monogrammed or Greek letter tee! Just don't do too many entries cuz I wanna win! ;)

Have a great start to the week everyone!! 

MIA and Giveaway!

I know I know I've been absent from my blog for a couple weeks, and trust me I have missed it! Everyone knows the last couple weeks of the semester can be MAJOR crunch time, and of course this semester was no different!

On Thursday I attended my last classes as an undergrad. To say that it was a bittersweet day was an understatement. I didn't really have time to focus on the fact that is was my last day because in one of my classes I had 2 'make-up' tests (teacher lets you take if you don't do well on tests the 1st time), so I spent all night Wednesday studying for those, only to get to class and see that the tests were NOTHING like what the professor told us! A lot of people in this class are like me and just NINE days away from graduating, and this class is putting us in jeopardy from getting our diplomas because this teacher does NOT teach during lecture classes and tests on the most random things.

So that has been a major cause of stress for me. My final for the class is this coming Friday, and I am set to graduate on Monday. I feel like it's almost pointless to study because it obviously has done me NO good so far! But I'm going to do my best to stay motivated this week and study my a** off so I can walk across that stage!!

I hope everyone else who is knee-deep in schoolwork can keep the motivation. Just keep telling yourself that CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE!!!! That's what's keeping me going!!

xoxo

Natalie

PS - Make sure you head over to Rachel's blog Just Peachy and enter her 200 followers giveaway! I'm hoping to get together a giveaway myself once I finish up with school!

New Giveaways!

School has been INSANE the last couple weeks, hence the lack of blog posts. BUT this coming week is spring break so im hoping to update much more often!! I did want to drop by though and let yall know i have posted a couple of AWESOME giveaways on the giveaways tab above so make sure to check them out!

I won!

The Southern Housewife over at Her Southern Charm recently had a giveaway for a $75 gift certificate to St. Bernard Sports, and I won!! St. Bernard has all kinds of brands from The North Face and Patagonia to Lilly Pulitzer and Vineyard Vines. I already decided that if I won the gift certificate I was going to put it towards a Patagonia Snap T Pullover. If you're on a college campus, you KNOW these are just as popular as The North Face Denali jackets. I myself am on my 2nd denali jacket and would really like a fleece pullover that I can just throw on a go. This where I need yalls help! They have both a men and women's version. How big of a difference is the fit??? I want it to be fairly loose so its comfy and I could easily wear a long sleeve shirt underneath. For reference I wear a medium in the denali jacket. PLEASE help me out guys and if you have any color recommendations send them my way!! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday :)

PS- guess who got the number 1 college football recruit in the country??? USC DID!!!! Welcome to the Gamecock Family Jadeveon Clowney!!!

Enter My Blonde Reality's FABULOUS Giveaway!!

In celebration of blogging over a year, Shasta over at My Blonde Reality is giving away a Clarisonic Mia Skincare brush in white. You have to opportunity to get SEVEN entries!! I have heard such wonderful things about the Clarisonic and hope to win this myself! But I just couldn't keep it to myself! Good luck!!!

RUN!!

In honor of her birthday, Kate over at Nautical by Nature is hosting a WEEK of giveaways!

Today is the first day of giveaways and she is giving away this adorable pink and brown houndstooth package from The Three Chickadees! So run over there and make sure to check her blog out everyday this week!

Weekly Recap

Hey yall! Hope you have had a good week. We actually got snow here in SC, well more like a dusting, but that didn't prevent my early morning class from getting cancelled! So with Monday off for Martin Luther King day it felt like a pretty short week. And the forecast for early next week is calling for snow again!!!

Photo courtesty of my friend B :)

I'm also 3 weeks into my Firm bootcamp and lemme tell ya its kicking my butt! It also came with a meal plan, but I realized early on that I was just to tired/impatient everynight to cook a meal at 8:30 at night that I decided to buy some lean cuisine meals and steamer veggie packs and try to eat some of the snacks that they have suggested. My favorite is a chocolate rice cake with a little bit of peanut butter on top YUM! :)

I also did a little bit of shopping!! Whats a week with a trip to the mall right? I ended up finding a super elegant black winter coat from Express. It was missing two buttons so it was DEEPLY discounted! It was originally $298 and with an extra 40% off clearance it ended up being $30!!!

So my mom and I are busy looking for some buttons that she can sew on and then I'll be set!

This week my sorority held its informal spring rush. I wasn't able to go either Tuesday or Wednesday because of my bootcamp classes, but we got 9 new girls and I can't wait to meet them :)

It doesn't look like it on here but I feel like I've been running around these past 2 weeks and I am exhausted!! I'm looking forward to tomorrow at 11am when my weekend starts! My cousin's engagement party is Saturday night and getting together with my family is always a good time!

I don't know if yall are tired of these giveaway posts but the stuff you can win is just too cute not to tell yall about! This one is from Misadventures of a Newlywed and she is giving away a set of Lilly Pulitzer's new stationary!! I actually *mistakenly* got a wholesale kit from their stationary company a couple weeks ago and all of the stuff on there is amazing!! My mom and I are thinking about selling some of it, depending on how much interest we get from our friends. So if yall are interested let me know!

Hope yall are doing well. I've seen a couple bloggers do this so I thought why not! I'm opening up the floor...yall can ask me any question that you want and I will answer them in a future post!

Yet ANOTHER Giveaway!!

I know this is the 3rd giveaway I've posted about this week but Whitney Caroline Designs contacted me about her giveaway I couldn't NOT post about this one! She is giving away one of these SCOUT Deano Tote bags. And not only can you enter once, you have the change to enter the drawing TEN times!! So run over to her blog and enter now! Hope everyone has had a great weekend!!

Another Fabulous Giveaway!!

It's time for another wonderful giveaway. Monogram Chick  is debuting her new aqua polka dots pattern for her travel mugs and to celebrate is giving one away! Let her know I sent you so if you're the lucky win, I'll get one too! Good luck :)

English Tea Giveaway!

Hey Ladies! Gracie Beth over at Preppy Southern Princess is hosting a fabulous giveaway in honor of her 100th post. Make sure you check it out.