#notwinning

missing my senior bar crawl cuz i have to study for my biochem final

i better make an A!

TMI Tuesday!

Hey everyone! I am swamped with the last-week-of-school work pileup but I wanted to do a TMI Tuesday since that would be a fairly easy post to crank out. I PROMISE I will post more regularly when exams are finished!! As always play along if you would like :)

1. Mood:

Feeling pretty accomplished since I just finished my Senior Seminar presentation! But also overwhelmed with the rest of the deadlines I have this week.

2. Do you write in cursive?

No. If I'm writing quickly my letters will link together but I wouldn't call it 'cursive'

3. When was the last time you ate Sour Patch Kids?

about 3 weeks ago as one of my frozen yogurt toppings :)

4. Current Nail Polish:

still OPI's Last Friday Night

5. What is your favorite makeup removing product?

if I'm taking off just a normal day's worth, philosophy purity made simple cleanser

if it's after a night out or some heavy duty makeup, neutrogena's facial wipes

6. Do you prefer to shower at night or in the morning?

morning! If I shower and wash my hair at night it will look like a hot mess in the AM!

7. Current outfit:

KKG cupid's cocktail tee and blue plaid sleep shorts

8. Halter tops - yay or nay?

can be a cute look that can be VERY bad VERY quickly!

9. What is your favorite Disney movie?

this is the hardest question! My first love was Little Mermaid, but I also love The Lion King, Sleeping Beauty, Enchanted...is all of the above an option???

10. Weekly goals:

get everything done so I can have a relatively simple exam week. As long as I get through Friday I'll be good!

To-Do List Update

So after 2 days, I am pretty pleased to say I have made a pretty good dent in my to-do list. The pink highlighted items were done Tuesday night, blue = Wednesday, and orange is the things I did today. The majority of what is left is preparing for studying for exams and events I have to go to.

Only 6 more days of class!! Then exams and I am OFFICIALLY done with 4 years of college! The classes I take this summer and in the fall are just my "super senior victory lap"! I can hardly believe I have made it through these first 4 years, and can only imagine what the next 4 hold!!

xoxo

N

End of Semester To-Do List

Its that time of the semester. You're down to the last 2 weeks of classes and all of a sudden it feels like you have SO much to do and no time to do it! Enter the end of the semester to-do list!!

I have avoided writing everything down I need to do because writing it down makes it seem too real! But now that I've done it, I'm SUPER overwhelmed!!! I have blog posts lined up that I want to do but just don't have time! So *hopefully* I'll at least be blogged daily or every other day with an update on how my to-do list is going.

xoxo

N

What I'm LOVING Wednesday

Ok so technically it isn't Wednesday anymore BUT I thought this was too appropriate not to use WILW. Let me just preface this by saying....

• today started out awful! I set my alarm for 7am so that I could wake up and study for my spanish test that was at 10:10. Well, I didn't wake up till 9:40, so I had to rush out the door without washing my face or makeup and made it to my test just in time. Needless to say I didn't do much studying before hand.
• Wednesdays are my long days where I go from 10:10am until 5pm. From 2:30 to 5 I am in lab, and if you've ever had a college lab, it is SO frustrating to have so much work to do for a ONE CREDIT HOUR class!!
• For said lab, I had a paper due at 11:55pm that nobody had any idea how to do correctly.Needless to say I submitted mine with about 2 minutes to spare and it wasn't even completely done.

So after all that, this news that popped up on twitter MADE MY NIGHT!

Mariska Hargitay and her husband adopted a baby girl!!!! You can read all about it on people.com. When I saw this news I quickly got tears in my eyes. Adoption holds SUCH a special place in my heart (read my story here) and this makes me love Mariska even more. As you all know I am a huge fan of L&O:SVU and a major reason is because of her. After learning more about her and her life story, she is SUCH an inspirational person to me. These days when Hollywood is filled with people going crazy, I feel people like Mariska, who work hard and use their notoriety for good, don't always get the credit that they deserve. She is someone I consider a role model and comforts me to know that she didn't find her 'purpose' in life until she was in her mid-30s when she started SVU (an issue I'm struggling with now).

Anyways, my not-so-fabulous-day had a HUGE pick-up when I heard this news. Everytime I look at this picture I can't help but smile :) Hope everyone else had a great hump day. I would be excited for the weekend but starting tomorrow I am working 5 days straight :/ Which I guess is a good thing considering I have about $10 in my bank account!

xoxo

N

"The riskier the endeavor, the more exhilarating the reward"

-Mariska Hargitay

This weekend my family took a trip down to Charleston. We originally planned this trip months ago so that we could do the Cooper River Bridge Run, but last week just drained us all (me: school, parents: work) that we ended up sleeping in Saturday morning!

Around noon we decided to head downtown and just walk around a do a little shopping. Of course I had to spend some time at the new Forever 21 on King Street! It was mid-afternoon when we went so it was jam packed with teeny-boppers and the fitting room/check-out lines were insane! So I stuck to the jewelry section and picked up some great things! I can't wait till the Forever 21 opens here in Columbia...I'll never buy accessories anywhere else! (I hate spending money on jewelry I will wear every once in a while or is such a statement piece I can only wear it so often)

I didn't mean to stick to the same color palette, but you can't go wrong with black, white, and gold!

This ring might be my favorite piece! I wore it shortly after we left the store and realized it matches my Michael Kors tortoise watch PERFECTLY!! I thought it was such a neat piece with the black and brown stones.

This bracelet set was a great find! I would have spent $5.80 on the top bracelet alone! It's hard to tell from this pic but its 2 strands of pearls, a couple chains, and a black ribbon all intertwined into one bracelet with a black bow! I tried to find both of these pieces online but they aren't listed :( I would definitely check out your local store though!

Sunday we got to sleep in again (first time in forever!) and my mom and I got to shop at the outlets in North Charleston before heading home. These outlets are only a couple years old, but from each time I visit it has gotten a couple new stores and seems to be well on its way to becoming an outlet worth making the trip for! Some of the stores I will ALWAYS visit when going to an outlet are:

1) Coach: I used to be a HUGE Coach fanatic (not so much anymore) but my mom loves their leather purses and they ALWAYS have either 20% or 30% off the entire store, so it's worth going in to look for a steal.

2) Cosmetics Company Outlet: I always used to go in here to stock up on my Clinique skincare items, but now that I have fallen even more in love with makeup, it's so much fun to browse this store and see what you can find. Often they have items from MAC's previous collections, but also have items from Bobbi Brown, Origins, Bumble and Bumble, Estee Lauder, Prescriptives, and all kinds of fragrance. Definitely a must for any makeup junkie!

3) Ralph Lauren Polo: Like with Coach, I was a HUGE Polo fan back in high school and early years of college. I have realized that unless I catch this store with a really good sale (think Thanksgiving or Christmas time), they are still kinda expensive. But if you need to replace a certain color polo or one of their oxfords, this your place!

4) Nike: I will ALWAYS go to Nike and pick up at least one pair of my tempo shorts! This trip I restricted myself to just one pair, but it was hard! Unless you find them on clearance, they are typically $3 cheaper than in retail stores ($25 vs. $28). The outlets also have their own 'style' of the tempo shorts, so if you want the exact ones you see in stores, just looks closely.

I ended up buying the light blue pair on the left and have already worn them :)

Unfortunately the outlets as a whole just weren't having that great of sales, and I was getting kinda bummed I wasn't buying anything, so I headed over to Bath and Body Works. This was just a regular store, but I knew I could pick up some of my lovely PocketBacs for cheap and get myself outta my funky mood! The ones I bought are below...

The first 3 are from their new collection of scents in honor of the royal wedding. There are 3 different scents to choose from, but I only picked up 2 because I wasn't too fond of how the other one smelled (I believe it was a berry one or something). They also have a couple lipglosses with the royal wedding theme as well, so make sure you check them out!

Hope everyone else had a good weekend and start to the week! I gotta go study for a spanish test now :(

xoxo

N

Versatile Blogger Award!

Chelsea Lauren at Finding a New Me just awarded me the Versatile Blogger award!!

Thanks girlie :)

Guidelines:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them in your post.

2. Tell us 7 things about yourself.

3. Award recently discovered new bloggers.

4. Contact the bloggers and let them know they've received the award.

7 Things About Me:

1. I have never dyed my hair! Brunette for life :)

2. Most days on campus you're gonna find me in yoga pants/norts and a tshirt. (don't judge!)

3. I will always and forever be a Gamecock (even though I am applying to other SEC pharm schools *gasp*)

4. I waste WAY too much time watching L&O:SVU

5. Over the past couple months I have spent most of my money on makeup/beauty stuff instead of clothes.

6. I am just slighty obsessed with my ipod touch. It never leaves my side.

7. Crystal Lite energy packets in the wild strawberry flavor are the only way I get stuff done in the library!

Some of my newly discovered blogs...

1. Sole Matters

2. Peace, Love & Margaritas

3. Confessions of a 20 Something

4. Too Much Is Never Enough

5. The Pink Owl

Hope yall have a fabulous week!!

xoxo

N

TMI Tuesday

One of my favorite beauty bloggers, Amarixe, posts a Monday questionnaire, so I thought I would incorporate it into a weekly feature here called TMI Tuesday! If you would like to participate, leave your answers as a comment below or link to a blog post with your answers!!

1. Mood:

Tired. A lot I need to get accomplished this week and just don't see enough time in the days!

2. When was the last time you bought an actual CD (not downloaded off of iTunes, but a physical disc)?

I bought Carrie Underwood's 'Carnival Ride' cd, so about 2 years ago maybe?

3. What sounds do you hear right at this very moment?

computer humming and me typing

4. Current nail polish:

Fingernails: nothing

Toenails: OPI Last Friday Night

5. Do you sleep with socks on?

not usually, but it's gotten cold here again!

6. I never go a day without _______?

twitter and talking to at least one of my parents

7. Current outfit:

pajamas! PINK flannel pants from Victoria's Secret and KKG semi formal tee

8. What is your all time favorite lip gloss?

Chanel Glossimer in Glaze

9. Where do you keep your cell phone at night?

On my nightstand right beside my bed

10. Weekly goals:

do decent on my two tests, get other assignments completed, BE PRODUCTIVE!!!!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Tiny Target Haul

For the first time in a long while, I had a pretty low key weekend. Saturday morning I had to be at the Kappa house at 7am so we could initiate our new girls, and since our spring class is typically small, I was outta there by 9am! Since I was already up WAY before I usually am on a Saturday, I met the parents for breakfast and then did a little shopping with Kate. She needed to find a pair of earrings to wear later that night so I of course offered to tag along! On our way home we stopped at Target and I managed to pick up just a couple things.

Umberto Dry Clean Dry Shampoo $8.99

The main reason we went to Target was so that Kate could get some more dry shampoo. She swore up and down by this one, so of course I had to pick up some for myself! The only dry shampoo I've used has been the one from Tresemme, and unfortunately it leaves a gray tint to my hair...NOT what I want as a brunette! I was with here when she was getting ready and when she used this stuff it lemme tell ya IT WORKS! It game alot a volume and made her day 2 hair look MUCH better. Kate is also a fellow brunette and this didn't leave behind any kind of color residue. So I'm really excited to try this out!

e.l.f. Healthy Glow Bronzing Powder $1

I just finished the first one of these I bought, so this was merely a repurchase. For $1, this is a great product! If you like shimmery bronzers, this is a great product that definitely won't break the bank. My only complaint is that the fallout from this product is pretty substantial, but considering this price I don't mind losing some of the product. All I do with this is dust it all over my face to give that all-over glow and I'm out the door!

N.Y.C. Cover Stick around $2

I bought this simply because the Revlon Colorstay concealer I bought a while back was just not working! The Revlon concealer was a spot treatment that contains salicylic acid and really dried out my skin, so I needed to find something quick. I haven't tried this yet and I usually go for liquid concealers rather than stick, but I figured for just under $2 I would give it a shot.

A couple weeks ago Target was running a promotion for the "Bag of Beauty" on their website. All you had to do was give them your address and you were sent this cosmetic bag filled with goodies and coupons!

The makeup bag is by Sonia Kashuk and matches the rest of her line that you can find in stores. Inside there are samples from Nivea, Pantene, Revlon, Neutrogena and Frederick Fekkai along with $25 worth of coupons! It was nice to find this little surprise in my mailbox :) I think it's super smart of Target to do this kind of promoting and giving out coupons to use just at their stores. I also noticed looking at the Sunday ads that a lot of the products there are coupons for are ALSO on sale this week. Hopefully Target will be doing these kinds of promotions in the future!

I know my blogging has been sporadic recently, but school is rough! Whoever said Senior Spring was easy was most certainly NOT a science major! I do have a couple posts I want to write, including updates on Project 10 Pan (yes im still doing this despite my beauty purchases!!) and an update on my school situation. I am must more active on twitter so definitely follow me there for daily *cough*hourly*cough* updates on my life!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!

xoxo

***All of the products were bought with my money, with the exception of the Target beauty bag, which was sent to me after signing up on their website. I was not sponsored by any of the brands mentioned above***

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Lilly Pulitzer Tote in Kappa Kappa Gamma print

Lilly came out with four sorority prints last year and lucky for me Kappa was one of them, along with Delta Zeta, Tri Delta, and Kappa Delta. My friend has the DZ tote and these things are HUGE! Since I got my new laptop I've had issues because its too big to carry around in my Vineyard Vines or Coastal Traditions tote. So this would be PERFECT, even though this is my last semester in Kappa :(

Viva la Juicy Perfume

I am in LOVE LOVE LOVE with this perfume!!! I was at Kohls with my mom and she had a 30% off coupon so I thought it would be a perfect time to pick up a new scent, since perfume NEVER goes on sale! I originally wanted to pick up one of the Ralph Lauren scents, but both Kohls we went to didn't have ANY :( So I sprayed this on and as I continued to walk around and smell it, I quickly fell in love...even my mom loves it! The bottle I picked up is on the smaller size, retailing for $29, but with the coupon and a leftover merchandise credit I had, I only ended up paying $12!! If you like girly scents I definitely recommend giving this one a try!

TOMS Sparkle in Black

When these shoes first came out I didn't get the attraction. But as I see them more and more on campus the more I want a pair!....specifically one of the sparkle pairs! I originally wanted to gold ones but I love the black too! Anybody have a sparkle pair they just love?

I have made some headway in deciding what I'm doing in the next couple months

Over spring break I had some time to think about my plans for the future. If you have been reading for a while or follow me on twitter, you know I have been trying for THREE years now to get into pharmacy school with little success. With it now being the middle of March and I still haven't heard anything from any school, I've had to make some decisions that right now I am content with. I have decided that instead of graduating in August with my Biology degree, I have decided to postpone graduation to December, when I would graduate with my Biology degree with a minor in chemistry. I only have 7 more hours of biology to complete and only need 8 more hours of chemistry for the minor. Ill be taking 1 class and 1 lab each summer session, so in the fall I can finish up the hours for me degree in addition to taking some classes that are prerequisites for schools that I may be applying to in the fall.

SOOO....that is my plan!

What are you loving this Wednesday?