Last Friday of 2012!

Hey everyone!

I feel like I haven't really done a lot of blogging since I started this blog not too long ago, but I just wanted to go ahead and make another post while I have some downtime. I've been relaxing a lot more than I probably should. I'm loving being able to catch up on my sleep since during the school year I don't really get a lot of chances to sleep a lot.

A quick update- I probably won't be blogging that much until after the new year and after I get back to school. I'm leaving for a trip with my dad to Massachusetts, where we used to live and where my brother is currently attending school. I haven't been back in almost 4 years now, so this should be great to see some of our family that lives up there and to see the city again! We will be spending New Years Eve with my aunt at her house in Connecticut, so that should be great as well!

Some upcoming posts once I get my life back in order at school:

• 2012 favorites! From food to beauty to fashion to events! Everything that I would consider a favorite from all of this past year (or, what I can remember!)
• Nail of the Day posts! and maybe Outfit of the Day posts (I mostly wear really comfy/lazy clothes a lot to class)!
• More fun haul videos! Hopefully some great ones from my trip!
• Speaking of my trip, probably a blog about that!
• Review posts, like my Maybelline Baby Lips review.
• Posts about school and how I'm staying on top of it/being active!
• and many, many more different kinds of posts like that!

So get excited! Because I'm already making my list for my favorites!

See ya in 2013!
xoxo Jennifer

Merry Christmas!

Hey everyone!

I just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! It's such a great time of year and it's my favorite time of the year. Everyone is always in a much better mood and it's always so much more pleasant!

See ya!
xoxo Jennifer

Influenster's Holiday VoxBox Review!

I really enjoy subscription boxes. I think they're fun and really interesting to get! I'm one of the only people I know who gets one and I really think it makes it that much more fun. Especially if they notice something if I'm wearing it or using it and they're like "Oh! Where'd that come from?!" and I get the chance to tell them!

Well, I recently was turned on to Influenster! While it's still a box full of goodies, it's not one that you pay for at all. They send it to you if they feel that you have done enough things on their website. You may or may not get picked for a certain box, but it all depends on how much you do on their website- like, tweeting about them, filling out surveys, etc etc.

I guess I did enough to be sent a Holiday VoxBox! It came last night and I'm just now getting around to really looking at it. There aren't any pictures, just because I'm lazy. But I will describe everything to the best of my ability!

First: It came with a $25 off coupon for Sole Society on a pair of shoes! Nifty!
Second: It came with a cup of Quakers oatmeal. I got the flavor Cherry Pistachio!
Third: It came with an Eboost packet in the flavor Pink Lemonade.
Fourth: It came with a package of Kiss Nail Dress. Mine was in the pattern Princess.
Fifth: It came with an NYC Liquid Lipshine in the shade 582 Nude York City.
and Lastly: It came with a Goody Quikstyle microfiber bristle brush!

If I had to guess, I'd say this box costs close to $15-$20 total. I'm most excited about the brush because it seems so interesting! I may try the Eboost packet, but I am going to be gifting the lipshine and the nail dress. Neither of them were really colors that would flatter me at all.

Overall, I'd give the box a 2/5, because I do think it did better than nothing, but it wasn't a perfect box. I think my major problem with this box is that it was called the Holiday box, but there was nothing about the holidays in it. I feel like it would have scored higher with me if it lived up to it's name. But I can't wait to see if I ever get another box! Let me know if you do Influenster too!

See ya!
xoxo Jennifer.

Dabbling in Writing.

I used to be a big fiction writer, as a way to get out small thoughts from in my head. Tonight, I sat down for close to 45 minutes and listened to sad music and just wrote until I ran out of ideas. I have an entire Word document filled with beginning ideas to something that I just couldn't continue with. It's like I have the thoughts in my head to write them down, but I can't keep going with the idea. It just vanishes.

Here is the one I was able to keep going with the longest and most complete.
DISCLAIMER: This is not exactly how I feel. There are bits & pieces of me in this writing, but I am NOT, repeat NOT, suicidal at all, nor do I know anyone that is. It's just a heavy topic on my mind lately after everything that has been in the news with the Connecticut shooting.

     When I die, I hope to be remembered for something extraordinary. I hope that one day, someone will see a picture of me and you’ll have a reason to tell him or her something great about me. I don’t want to die a failure, but if I were to die right now, that’s exactly what would happen. I have done nothing big, nor anything important. There is nothing good in the world to be attached with my name if I were to pass away right now. The only thing that would be written on my tombstone would be my name and the truth.

     That’s right. I said it. The truth. Most people can’t admit to it, but I can. Because I’ve been trying to get help, but no one is taking me seriously. They don’t believe me when I tell them and they just laugh at me. I, however, know the severity of the matter and it’s starting to scare even me. I wish people would stop acting like this is a joke, because it’s not.

     I can’t seem to keep my dinner down anymore. The pressures to be perfect, to be as small as possible, is a hard way to live life. But that’s what happens when you live in today’s world. No one cares how great of a person you are, or what you’ve done for the world. All they care about is that you’re stick thin and can look great in a swimsuit. Well. I am stick thin and I can look great in a swimsuit in anyone else’s eyes. But in my own eyes, I look like an elephant. I hate the way that I look and the way that I think I look for other people.

     Some would say that it’s a cry for attention. And they’d be right. I’m crying out for attention because I need help and no one is around. They all say that I’m making it up because I already have everything I could possibly want. I have the perfect family, the perfect school, the perfect friends, the perfect boyfriend. I am captain of the dance team, as well as the volleyball team. I am student body president of my university. And the truth is, I am suicidal.

But yeah. There ya go. If you ever try to pick apart at my brain, this is what happens. I get deep and sad. Not really sure why since I'm a pretty light-hearted sort of person.

Oh well!

See yaaaa
xoxo Jennifer.

What My Future Holds.

Honestly, I have no idea what is going to even happen tomorrow. Well, hopefully cleaning my apartment will be on the list of things I'm going to do tomorrow, but that's about the extent of what I know about my future. Other than having to work Thursday through until probably Monday.

Anyways. I am currently studying Human Resource Management, well not yet, but I will starting Fall 2013. Right now, it's basically general education classes that I just want to sleep through. Final grades were just posted and while I didn't pass a class I needed to this semester, I still managed to pull a 2.68 GPA for the semester out of my butt. Which means that I am officially off of academic probation with the College of Business! I couldn't be more happy!

However, I hate school. And I just want to graduate already. But I still have two and a half years (minimum) before I can do that. I want to have my degree and I want to have my dream job. But most of all, I want to be happy at my job like my dad is. My dad loves his jobs and is excited to go to work every day. That needs to be me one day. Or else I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I don't want to be miserable at my job; I want to love waking up and getting ready and driving to work. I just want to be happy.

What I hope to have in my future one day is compassion for something and/or someone. I want to wake up happy every day and have a reason to thank my lucky stars every night. I want to live in a big house with a family that has big hearts. I want to live in a big city where people make you feel like it's a small town. I want my future to be big. That's all I want. Big Big Big.

I have big dreams and my future has to be big too.


Oh well. I guess we'll just have to see how it goes from here. Hopefully it can only go up from here. I'm retaking two classes next semester, so hopefully it won't be as terrible, other than the fact that I hated both of the classes since I have absolutely no interest in either of them. Shucks.

See ya!
xoxo Jennifer.

Maybelline Baby Lips Review!

Alright, so not too long ago, I became obsessed with wanting to try out different beauty/cosmetic products that have been pretty popular. Well, one of the first ones I wanted to try out was the Maybelline Baby Lips. The price tag on these were sort of deterring, but then I got a a mascara pack that also had one of the Baby Lips in it, and fell in love at first. As soon as I tried my first one, I was like GOTTA BUY THEM ALL! So I did end up getting on Amazon and ordering 3 more for 8 dollars, which is significantly cheaper than buying them all individually in store. However, I did end up buying 2 more in store because I didn't get them online.

Well. After I got all of the other ones and tried them all out, I realized how much I actually didn't like any of them. They have a really terrible taste, which people have compared them to tasting like skittles & starbursts, which is untrue. The color payoff wasn't that great for the tinted ones. Although the formulation is the only thing that I can give it credit for because it was very smooth and very moisturizing, which is what it does claim to do.

In the above collage-
upper left corner: swatches in natural light.
lower right corner: swatches with flash.
Upper right corner: (left to right) Pink Punch, Cherry Me, Peppermint, Grape Vine, Quenched, Peach Kiss.
Lower left corner: tops of the lip balms.

The swatches are after rubbing the lip balms back and forth a few times, more times than I should have had to to get those colors. 4 are tinted and 2 are clear. The only one that is shimmery is Peach Kiss, which is hard to tell from any of these pictures.

Overall, I give these a rating of a 2. They are smooth & moisturizing, which is what they claim to do, but other than that, I wasn't as impressed by these as everyone else hyped them up to be. I did do my research before I ordered all of these, but you can never know how something is until you try it on your own! But, they were basically a waste of my money. I'll stick to my EOS lip balms, which I love a lot more.

See ya!
Jennifer xoxo.

A Long Weekend Over.

Finally. My weekend was so busy that I can't even believe that I was able to last the entire time. I had to work three days in a row, which I have never done before at this job. Friday I worked from 1:15-5, Saturday I worked from 1-4:30, and Sunday I worked from 1-6. Working in retail is one of the best decisions I have ever made and I'm glad that I work where I do because everyone is so accepting and it makes working a lot better.

But on top of work, I haven't studied for any of my exams that I have. Whoops. I've been so busy that it just hasn't really crossed my mind because all I want to do is sleep or just relax. I guess I should get to that right now. After Thursday, school will be out until the 9th of January, but I'll still be in town instead of going home so that I can work, which is a bummer because I want to go home so badly. But it's okay, I don't mind too much. I love my job.

Seeeeee yaaaaaa.
Jennifer. xoxo.

Here Goes Nothing.

Well, this is my first blog. About my college life. I never really have been into blogging, but it's a new recent hobby of mine. I figured that I talk about my life more than I should, so I should just blog about it. So, here goes.

Hey guys!
My name is Jennifer. and I'm currently a sophomore in college. There are so many things about college life that I could deal without, like exams and dorm life. This blog is basically going to be all about my daily life in college and the ups & downs that I start to face.

Like right now. I should be studying for the final I have on Friday, but I'm blogging instead.

I'll try to stay on top of things with this blog, but if I don't daily blog, it's because I'm either super swamped with school/exams, which happens quite often, or I'm working, because I do have a job as well. But I hope to be pretty good about this.

I do also have a YouTube channel, where I just sort of talk about beauty products and such, but I mainly use it to enter giveaways on YouTube with the bigger beauty gurus. I might use this blog as a way to present hauls and my monthly subscription boxes/bags. Because I think that would be awesome too!

Anyways, I guess I really do need to end to the library, get some Starbucks, and then start studying for finals. Ugh. I really don't want to. This sucks. If you've got any questions for me, just leave me a comment!


See ya!
xoxo, Jennifer