Postcards of my life

So I'm sitting here listening to the cover of "Wagon Wheel" by Mumford and Sons on repeat and don't have a lot of words to go with my thoughts. Oh the irony. But with my little sister preparing to take the ACT and SAT it got me to thinking about my college essay. This was the essay that got me into every college I applied to. While I'm still attempting to locate the essay somewhere on our ancient computer in our basement, which looks like a giant dinosaur next to my cute little MacBook, I'm pretty sure it was entitled either "Snapshots of my Life" or "Postcards from my Life". So that is what I'm entitling today's post.
I really want to find that essay and see if I actually did all of the things I said I wanted to do in college! I am pretty sure that I did most of it, but I think it would be great fun to re-read it and see how much I have (hopefully) grown. So instead of writing about a lot of stuff I am finding quite boring, which includes anything really to do with what's going on in my life now, sad but true, I have decided to post some of my favorite pictures taken while studying abroad in Belize and Guatemala. Feel free to add captions to any of the pictures, and all of these pictures are owned by me :)

I love black and white pictures with people in them, it gives it such an authentic feeling to me! Here's to the almost end of February! It's going to be a good week, I can feel it!

I wish I was Adele

Legit, I really do wish I had the life of the singer Adele. All of my Wikipedia facts lead me to these conclusions. Adele was born exactly one month before me. She has won Grammys, given up drinking (already, I know!), moved out of her parent's place, has a British accent that's sweet and sings amazing songs, need I say more? Not to mention one of my current favorite songs is "Rolling in the Deep" and in it not only does Adele kill it, but I also really love her make up in it! Her whole look is fabulous. It also really makes me want to wear false eyelashes around all the time. True story, I wish I could wear them all the time! Check it out, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw&feature=related

Adele also described her music style as "heartbroken soul". Now I wish I was that cool or more of an artist where I could describe my style as "heartbroken soul". Not that I would ever do my make-up in a heartbroken way unless it was like for a photo shoot or anything like that! All this make-up talk may have people wondering where is this coming from? Well, here it is. I am a make-up junkie. There, I said it. I mean I always have been too, I've always loved blending my eye colors and am pretty sure that I was the only girl at my Turnabout in high school to do a dark red lip. In the past couple of years, I've expanded my make-up products and the circle I have done make up on. I have had no professional training but I love it regardless. I've done make-up for my older sister's friends for a couple events and this past summer did make up for bridesmaids and will be doing more bridesmaid make-up in March. I love making people feel beautiful on a very special day without taking the attention off the bride herself.

My current passion is my pink lip stain. I bought it on a whim to help me get in the "celebrating" mood for Valentine's Day. The first day I wore it (yesterday), I got a very nice compliment from a woman at the Clinique counter while buying some bronzer with my mom. Score, win from the make-up artist herself. Now I kind of wanna wear it all the time! It really makes me feel a little more powerful as I walk around in public, jobless and kinda lost in the mushiness of this day. Behold the power of pink, not that its my favorite color or anything...

But I truly cannot complain about my Valentine's Day this year. One of my AMAZING friends (thanks Ms. Kathryn Cross!) sent me a beautiful bouquet of pink roses on Friday and they look even better today in the sun and dare I say, warm temperatures? The sun was shining bright, my nails were painted in Katy Perry's OPI's collection in a delicious pink sparkly color entitled "Teenage Dream" (I and I got a compliment on it whilst buying my clothing today too!)  I got a fabulous massage, took a shower, put on my power pink lip stain, got a lovely pedicure, made sure my Mom AND Dad got each other gifts, bought some adorable spring clothes (which I cannot wait to wear!). So I really can't complain about my day. I tried to focus on all the great people in my life who already love me for me, pink lip stain and all.

 My lipstick isn't as pink as it was earlier today but you get the gist. Loving the lip color, nails and my wonderful roses! Loving the pink lifestyle in general :)

"But, February made me shiver"

The title of this post comes from lyrics of the famous American Pie song and couldn't be more perfect. Reason being that I absolutely dislike the entire month of February. Now, I could go into a long list of reason as to why I hate February so much. It would probably begin with Valentine's Day and end with too much snow (thanks again Snowpocalypse of 2011)! But I'm not going to sit here and complain yet again, haha small victories everyday!

I don't really have much to report or really feel like sharing at this given point my friends. I am in training again for a 5K in March, working on getting the time under 30 mins! The job hunt...well we'll see about the job hunt (fingers crossed). Made my Valentine's today, which I truly do enjoy doing regardless of my ill feelings towards February! My next post will be a follow up on the books I've read. I've recently bought some spring clothing (wishful thinking)! I'm way too obsessed with piperlime.com! I am also really excited to look for a dress to wear to a wedding in May, please comment with any suggestions and remember that I'm 5'10, so nothing too short :)

In closing, my friends know how much Belize means to me. I know I talk about it too much and it may bug people but I just know that I was truly the happiest that I have ever been in my life when I lived in Belize. Certain people and things will always be able to make people happy. But to me, it was a place and a culture that allowed me to realize a lot of things about myself and I made a lot of inner changes during that point of my life. I am truly blessed to have been given that opportunity to find more of myself and I know that there will be many more instances such as this that will help me become a better person in the future. I wish the same to all of you readers for 2011. May it be a year full of positive changes. Here's a picture of my most favorite Valentine's Day I have ever had in Belize 2009.

"If karma could dance, she'd tango forever."

~ To Travels & Trunks by Hey Marseilles