Birthday Update

Birthday Update:

So, my birthday has come and gone now, I am officially able to drink in the US, which is exciting if well you live in the states. But from a Canadian standpoint, I’ve been able to drink where I live for 2 years now. But well let’s talk about my birthday!

I had a really good day. It started out when I woke up and my parents had the house decorated. Yes i realize it’s kinda lame at my age but I loved it. So cute. My parents had my presents laid out for me. All of the gifts they bought were perfect. They bought me a coat that I desperately wanted for winter, a camera, money for make up which is what every girl needs, a frame picture which one of my friends gave me from greece. All around just amazing presents.

Right after the present time with my parents, my family all went out to brunch at this very quaint restaurant downtown called The Bagel Cafe. One of my very favorite places to eat, perfect breakfast food and just all around great decor and atmosphere. We had my extended family with us, so it was a very loud and fun brunch. 

After brunch, me and my mother decided to go for a little shopping session. When I say little I don’t actually mean little. It was a massive shop till you drop sort of session. But it was my birthday and I can do what I want. I bought a lot. I will definitely have to show you everything I bought from this little trip. 

Finished that and then I got a very happy phone call from my older brother, while I was supposed to be getting ready at the time, I knew that but well it’s my brother. I ended up talking to him for like 40 minutes. Oh well, it’s good to hear from him. 

Moving on to the great dinner I had with my friends, I am very thankful that they all took time out to celebrate my birthday. We ate food, laughed and had a great time.

The last portion of my night was spent in a bar, if you live in Newfoundland, we have a street. It’s called George Street, this street has nothing else but bars on it. We went to a bar called Lottie’s. This is my favorite bar, imagine one of the tiniest little hole in the wall sort of places, where they play like millennium gold. Favorites played are Hot in here by Nelly, some amazing beyonce, with a mix of classics like spice girls and S club 7. Amazing. Spent with amazing friends and a lot of dancing. Then we went to McDonald’s, thank god for late night McDonald’s. Nothing better.

This was a great way to turn a year older. Hope you enjoyed learning about my day, I will definitely show what I got for my birthday as soon as my life slows down a little and I have the opportunity too!

Thanks 

Jennie

What should I do?

So I received an exam in the mall today, it was placed on my bed by my mother and I have yet to open it, I just can’t force myself to see what my grade is. I was thinking that maybe I’d wait till after my birthday to see what I got. 

The exam could have gone two ways, either I passed or I failed. So you can imagine why I’m so nervous about it. I just don’t want the grade to bring a bummer down on my birthday weekend. Maybe if I just wait just a little longer and then open it.

What should I do? Wait or open it now. I am quite curious at the same time as nervous. I want to open it but I don’t. I don’t know!

Thanks 

Jennie

Birthday woos

When you hype up an event, don’t you find that it’s sort of a let down in the end? For me that’s always my birthday, I make it out in my mind that it’s going to be this amazing and great jam packed day of just love and celebration when usually it’s just like writing “ Happy Birthday” on your facebook wall.

Not saying that Birthday’s aren’t worth it, you have to face the inevitable. It’s going to happen so you might as well embrace it. I think it’s all about planning and just expecting for the unexpected. Don’t make it out to be this big celebration because you might be truly let down by the results. For me to make it special all I need is just a great supper with my family, who love me dearly. But also I need my celebration with my friends, since the majority of us are all actually the same age we know what’s going on. I am born a little late in the year since I am a fall baby, it means that most of my friends have been a year older for a bit now and well they seem to be doing okay so why can’t I do that!

Best way to not be disappointed:

• Don’t make unrealistic expectations, so plan something simple like a supper with friends and family. If you are the type of person who wants the bigger parties, then go for it but make sure you have your head on straight that things could definitely go wrong.
• Make sure to have a back up plan of what you want to do, couldn’t get a reservation at the restaurant that you want, then think of another cool place you haven’t tried and go there instead.
• Spend time with who you want to on your birthday, it’s your day spend it with who matters most to you
• Remember that not everyone knows that it’s your birthday, so some people aren’t going to be in a happy mood because they don’t know, some stranger might have a bad day and you might be in the way of it
• Last tip is SMILE, it is your birthday, have a good day, think positive of everything, don’t worry about what might happen, just live it moment by moment because you are starting on another year of your life and do you really want it to begin with you upset and worried, NO. So smile, enjoy it and start a good year! 

Thanks

Jennie

ugh... studying again....

Things that I would much rather do then studying:

Watch all of the television shows that I know are coming on tonight, being thursday means Vampire Diaries and I’m all about Ian Somerhalder shirtless most likely and what girl doesn’t love that and also the x factor which I am crazy interested in.

Sit on my laptop and look at random things which are adorable, for instance kittens, I would love to look at some little kittens playing.

I’d like to see all of my friends, who I haven’t seen in a while because each one of us is currently still in school and way to busy to spend time together.

I would rather go shopping, look at expensive beautiful clothes which I can’t have but it would still be better then studying.

I’d like to sit down and watch a billion youtube videos, as many as I could fit in before I have to go to bed

I’d love to bake something super tasty.

I’d love to paint my nails since I feel like I never get the opportunity to do that, ever.

Maybe even try out some new make up which I haven’t gotten to yet.

Spend time with my family and dog.

Literally the list could go on and on about how much I would like to be doing anything else besides studying, like making a list about what I want to do instead of studying but well here I am, studying again. This is the student life for sure. I hope this works out in the end! We will see

Jennie xx

This month I have actually had a few favorite things that I am absolutely loving :)

The first is a beautiful pair of booties from Aldo called Jons in brown, they are so adorable, also very comfortable and a tad masculine but I am absolutely loving them, pair them with some dark skinnies and a nice coat with a scarf and you are ready to head to school. Plus you’ll look put together even if you just rolled out of bed!

Next is my favorite scarf which is also from Aldo, one thing that I can say is I own a million scarves, for a long time I did not like jewelry at all, for some reason I just didn’t think it suited me, so I really liked scarves because they added a little visual interest to any outfit. My favorite this month was a wine colored scarf which is a color I am loving this fall, I also have a wine colored messenger bag. This scarf isquite cosy, even if I am at home and just feeling a little cold I’ll just throw it own. Perfect for fall and winter!

Next is Aveeno’s Skin Brightening Daily Scrub! I love this product just because it’s brilliant for taking off my make up and it just cleanses my skin like no other product has before. I can’t say anything but great things about it! Perfect!

Another is Fit Me! Blush by Maybelline in Brick Rose, this blush gives me an amazing amount of color, as being quite the pale person I do like to have a bit of color on my cheeks to make me look well living and not dead. This blush is perfect, it is a little bit darker then I thought I would like since it’s a little more brown then I’m used to but I love it, I plan on wearing this till I finish it and then buying it again!

As someone who paints there nails religiously almost every week, I wanted to try this color from Essie for a long time and I finally bought it this month, I was very excited to try it out and well I loved it, painted my nails this color twice now. It’s Essie’s Butler Please, an absolutely gorgeous blue/indigo color. Super impressed by the how long it lasted for me. This color is great since it was one of the colors of the season during the summer and now it’s just a great pop to any outfit as a nail polish!

Every month from now on I am going to have an album of the month this month was Ellie Goulding’s Halycon Days. I love this album, there aren’t many that you can just play from start to end and enjoy basically every song but this is one of them. With great songs added on the second disc of this album. The songs that i loved had to be explosions, my blood, hanging on, figure 8, burn and goodness gracious. Basically it’s a must listen, everyone should listen to it, brilliant album. 

Last but not least, and the majority of you will think “really jennie a textbook, nerd” but it is actually my textbook for my communications course, to say that I’ve actually been keeping up with my readings is an understatement. I’ve never been more interested to do my homework in a really long time. So thankful for beginning this, but I’m not going to force myself into anything just yet. We will see!

So all of these lovely items were my favorite this month! More to come from october, which I am really excited about! :):)

Thanks

Jennie xx

Student problems: Money

I think something that every student can relate to is the whole money issue. Yes, we hear it all the time being a student means that you are continuously in debt. Since you are in school, you can’t work 40 hours a week, and even if you do, what, you work a minimum wage job, where you can’t really afford to pay anything except for your essentials. 

Some people have the option of attending school and still living with their parents which is honestly a huge blessing. I could never afford to do anything without my parents. Yes, this does mean that I still live alone with my family and beautiful doggie. But it does come with it faults, obviously living with your parents isn’t always easy especially when you are becoming more grown. But I love it, my mother is my best friend and helps me with every decision I ever make, I don’t know if this is particularly smart but she has more of a level-headed being. There are ups and downs to it all. But the money issue is something all students can relate too, it’s like well I’d really like to buy some new clothes or should I go out with my friends, and then you look at your back balance after you have paid your list of bills and remind yourself that you won’t be able to either. It’s a hard thing to deal with, the student loans, if you own a car, the car payments, the insurance. You get the drift, there are lots to pay for and not so much money to do so. 

The days of being frivolous are over, when once the money could be used for little things, now you have to count every penny just to make sure that you don’t over spend on anything. 

My best advice for any student is too be smart, know your limits and think that after you finish your education, you should be able to pay some of your debts off. But don’t starve yourself of the things you want. Think of it in moderation. If you really want some shoes then put them into your budget and remind yourself that well sometimes you just have to treat yourself for things. Life isn’t meant to be just barely lived, money isn’t everything but it sure can get you a lot of things and more “comfort” in life. 

Trust me when I say that I completely understand where the whole broke student saying came along because I am definitely trying to live through it. Let’s all be broke together and start a lovely little group where we can swap stories and do things that don’t cost money. 

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