Earlier this week, San nominated me for the Liebster Award and I loved the questions she posed, so I wanted to take the time to give my answers. (Side note: remember when blog awards were super popular, back in the “glory days” of blogging? Getting nominated for them always brightened my day! So fun that some of these awards are still floating around the blogosphere.)
But I’m going to break the rules a little here and only answer the questions San asked. I’m supposed to ask 11 questions of my own and nominate other bloggers, but it’s okay to break the rules sometimes, right? 😉
1. What is your favorite beauty product?
I have really light blonde eyebrows that basically disappear on my face, so once I discovered NYX’s eyebrow pencil, my whole life changed. Now I feel naked if I haven’t “drawn on my eyebrows” in the morning! It does wonders for me.
2. If you could pick any place/city to move to for a year, where would you want to go?
Savannah, GA! That adorable city has completely stolen my heart and though I’m not sure I could ever live so far away from my mom, I’d love to call that city home someday.
3. What is the one thing you like best about your home?
I like how bright and cheerful it is, thanks to the east side of the apartment being completely filled with windows. I open up the blinds nearly every day so I can come home to sunshine streaming inside the apartment.
4. What is your favorite pair of shoes?
I am not a shoe person at all, so I don’t think I have an answer for this one! Maybe my pair of TOMs? Those are one of the few kinds of shoes I can walk around in for miles and they won’t hurt my arches.
5. What is your favorite travel destination?
Anywhere a cruise ship will take me! Come on, is that all that surprising?
6. If you could have one do-over, what would it be?
I would have declared a communications major when I entered college and not education. I appreciate the experience being an education major gave me, but I do not appreciate that I’m now paying so much more in school loans because I was in college for so much longer. It’s disheartening.
7. What is something you are currently struggling with?
How to do everything I want to do, which I think is the struggle most of us have. In between my full-time job, I want to make time to blog twice a week, work on my fiction daily, exercise at least four times a week, read as much as I can, spend time with loved ones, keep up with the TV shows I watch, take adventures, pursue a side hustle… obviously, I can’t do all of that so I have to prioritize and manage my time. But I also don’t want to manage my time and guard it so fiercely that it takes the fun out of just living. It’s a balance.
8. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
Dinner, please! I am one of those weirdos who doesn’t really love breakfast. If I could skip breakfast altogether, I totally would.
9. Who is your celebrity girl crush?
Jennifer Lawrence. OMG – I love her. One of my boards on Pinterest is solely devoted to J.Law quotes.
10. Why did you start blogging?
I started my first blog way back in my freshman year of high school, on Xanga, and I did it because it was the “popular” thing to do. I continued blogging, jumping from Xanga to Diaryland to Blogger to WordPress back to Blogger and eventually back to WordPress, throughout the next decade or so. I started and stopped so many blogs! I just loved telling the story of my life, mundane as it seemingly was. I always loved to write and I loved having a space on the Internet to tell my story.
11. Tell me about one of your plans for this summer.
I don’t have any concrete summer plans as of yet. I am hoping to spend a lot of time at my pool, organize a fun girls’ outing for my mom’s birthday in July, and travel to Asheville with my roommate in August. Fingers crossed I can make it all happen! (Okay, that was three things. Oops.)
Your turn – tell me one thing you’d like to do over and one thing you’re doing this summer!
I don’t think there’s anything I would do over, honestly. But I do think we’re going to take the kids to Williamsburg for vacation over the summer, hopefully the earlier part.
I got this award, too, but am holding off on answering them until after my move so I can talk about what I love about my new home! 🙂
One thing I’d do over is buying a condo in 2005. I thought I was making a wise decision and great investment at the time but it turned out to be the worst financial decision I have ever made. 10 years later it is STILL worth less than what i paid for it thanks to the market crash of 2008. I’ve been lucky to find great tenants but it’s still a pain to have that thing. I really hope I can see it in the next year or two, though!
It’s tough to pick just one thing to talk about that i am doing this summer, but one thing I recently booked was a girls cabin weekend with some of my college girlfriends!!!
Oh, yes, struggling to do it all. Totally can relate. Also, love the term “side hustle,” – I am working on some of those too and it can be hard to find the time to fit them all in.
I love my TOMS. I know a lot of people hate them, the way they look, etc. but they are some of my favorite pair of shoes and I love how they add a pop of color or flair to my jean outfits, too 🙂
Oh my gosh, I can’t understand people who don’t like breakfast. Ha! It’s, like, the only meal I 100% love. I don’t like eggs, but I love every other breakfast food & could eat for every meal of every day.
I love J. Law, too, & I like when people tell me my voice reminds them of her.
I think if I had one do-over I would have taken different classes in high school so I could have become a vet tech or veterinarian, and I would’ve applied myself better! I slid into a funk and rebelled a bit, and I wish I could redo that time in my life quite a bit!
My summer plans include a lot of pool and lake days! I’m looking forward to it already 🙂
Thanks for playing along, Stephany! Loved to read the answers to my questions.
I also don’t understand how someone can’t love breakfast *lol*
Fun survey!
One thing I’d do over: like you, I would’ve studied a different major than education in university (perhaps sociology or psychology). While I did learn a lot from the experience, the program just wasn’t for me, and if I’d chosen a different path starting out in university, I feel like I would’ve saved myself much trouble and unnecessary heartache.
Summer plan: Visiting my sister for a weekend in the faraway up-north city she lives in. She has come down often over the years – I finally have the time and money to be able to make it up there!
If I could have one do-over it would be to figure out my Masters degree sooner so I would’t have $15K extra debt! 🙁 And one thing I’m doing this summer is seeing my parents when they come visit in July!
One thing I would say we have in common is our appreciation of Jennifer Lawrence. She is such a versatile actress, and very forward thinking too!
I would say that my “do over” would be not choosing Communications (my current college major) from the time I applied. It is more broad of a program but gives me options to choose from, after college in the career search.
One thing I’m doing this summer is taking an online college class, (for Communications actually), while also (hopefully) registering for and training for the Disney Princess Half Marathon. (It’s an event where I would be running a half marathon through the parks of Walt Disney World in Florida.) The event is next February, but I’m planning ahead because I’m totally new to running.