YouTube!!!!

Okay, I haven't posted a blog since October??!! My poor blog must feel so neglected! I have not been a very good blogger but I am going to start working on changing that! I started making beauty related YouTube videos towards the end of November and I have really been loving it! I was thinking that my youtube channel would be a great way to incorporate my blog! We will see how that goes...I have a tendency to plan on blogging and then forgetting about it!

Anyways, I want to share my channel with you guys! My user name is tinamarie1884! I have started making friends through youtube and it's so much fun! One of my friends approached me about being in a collab channel that she created and I thought it would be interesting and a great way to meet more people! The name of the collab channel is Glamourdollsx6 and I am your Wednesday Girl! So every Wednesday, I am going to post a video on the channel that has to do with that particular weeks "theme". I think it's going to be really fun! :)

So, what I am going to do is try to post pictures on my blog that correlate with my videos like swatches, pictures of outfits, items from hauls/reviews, make-up looks and things like that! Please let me know if you have any requests for videos and I'll talk to you guys in my next post! :D

I love.....

MAKE-UP! I am in love with make-up, hair and anything beauty related so I decided to switch my blogs to beauty blogs!!! Stay tuned! (:

Let's try this again....

Update: I stuck to my routine for about a month and a half until I went on vacation in August then it all went downhill. I ate whatever I wanted and didn't exercise until this past Monday August 30th, I got back into the groove.

I am not that mad at myself because even though I took a break for a few weeks, I still really have the motivation to get back into it. I created a workout schedule for myself and I have started watching what I eat again. A lot of fruits and vegetables, no daytime snacks and only drinking water. My workout schedules is as follows:

Monday, Wed, Fri: Abs, Arms and Squats (3 sets of 20 reps each)/ 30 minutes on the tredmill.
Tues, Thurs, Sat: 60 minutes on the tredmill
Sun: Rest day!

I'm still keeping track of my daily workouts on my dry erase calendar so I can visually see my progress. My ultimate goal is to loose 20 lbs. So like before, I will weigh myself once a week and jot down that part of my progress on my calendar as well. I really want this so I am not going to let myself slack this time. I know it will take some time to see the results that I am looking for so I am not going to get discouraged! I am just going to keep telling myself that I am going to be so happy when I get where I want to be!

The 60 minutes on the tredmill kicks my butt, but it feels really good to push myself, and I actually feel like my efforts are worth it!

Motivated!!!!!

Okay, it's on again! I revived my workout routine except this time it's different. I bought a tredmill from my friend and tomorrow I'm going to get it in my apartment and I'm going to start really working out. I'm sort of motivated by Shaytard on youtube. He made a goal for himself to run 100 miles before the end of the month and he keeps track of his miles on a dry erase board...sounds like a good idea to me. I'll have to think of what goal would be realistic for me but I'm excited! I feel like I will be feeling more of a difference then I was on the Wii Fit. I'll start the Wii Fit again too though because it's fun! I have to stick with it this time or I'm going to be really angry with myself. So, yeah! Hopefully I will keep with it so I can update this blog more often to report my progress.



It's nearing the end of the month so I am going to do a June favorites post so I can share all of my new favorite products for this summer!!! Hope you are all enjoying life! (:

May Madness!

I'm getting ready for a busy next couple of weeks! This weekend, I'm celebrating two gratuations and a birthday which will take up the entire weekend! Drinks tonight to celebrate Ashley's deliverance from college!!! Orioles game tomorrow night with the gang for Johnny's birthday! Then I get to reunite with some old friends on Sunday to celebrate April's graduation and VERY recent engagement! My best friend Nicole is graduating this weekend too!!! So....congratulations Ashley, April and Nicole! I'm really proud of what you ladies have accomplished! (: Next weekend, I am going to a wedding on Saturday and then leaving first thing Sunday morning for Ocean City for a long awaited week of relaxation with my love! I'm so excited and I cannot wait!

Oh! Fun fact! Last night James tried calling DC101 for the last set of Chili Cook Off tickets and he WON!!! He was even on the radio! It was pretty cool, especially considering how unlucky he claims to always be! haha. Good job bb!

So, onto other stuff. I have recently fallen inlove with the youtube beauty community! I have learned some really helpful make-up tips and I have also learned about new products that I have been loving lately. I have so many new favorite products thanks to the gurus on youtube. I was thinking about creating my own channel but I don't really know....The picture at the top is the start of my favorites for spring/summer - From left to right: Light as Air, Refresh Mint, Yellow Kitty! I just realized the Refresh Mint looks like it has a hair-do because of the make-up brush behind it! haha.

Some bad news...my workout routine died about a month ago lol. It's sad and I'm going to have to revive it again soon but in the mean time........8 more days until the beach and 2 hours until the weekend begins!!!! (:

Not gonna lie...

Okay, I'm not gonna lie, I have not been very disciplined over the past week! :( I did really well with my work outs at the beginning of last week, then I got busy and was not able to do my nightly routines. Then on Saturday, my friend had all of us over for dinner and it was so good so I ate way too much AND I drank soda! This is just getting worse lol. In my defense, my hip was hurting really badly from my side leg lifts that I was probably doing wrong so I couldn't really work out but it feels better now, so tonight I will start again!

I'm going to try drinking water when I get hungry so I don't eat junk food. I think there is an addictive agent in junk food and that when you stop eating it cold turkey you go through withdrawl. Maybe that is a bit extreem but it's hard to not eat any junk lol. Doesn't matter, I'm not going to do it!

Next thing is, James and I have been sick lately, him more then me. We came to the conclusion that it has to do with our apartment. So this weekend we are going to dust, vacume and steam clean the carpets to see if it makes any difference. I cannot wait to move out of that place!

So, here I go again, starting my non-stop working out everyday to get to my goal of 120 by summertime! PS: Me and my work BFF got new sunglasses, check them out! haha.

Monday sucked!

I had the worst day ever at work yesterday! I hate when that happens! So having the worst day on top of being super busy resulted in me forgetting to eat breakfast and lunch! When I got home, I worked out then made dinner and passed out watching James play Rock Band!

Even though yesterday was an off day on my workout schedule, I decided to work out anyway. I also made a change to my workout routine. 30 minutes on Your Shape and then 30 minutes on Wii Fit. I get a really good cardio workout with Your Shape and on Wii Fit I can really concentrate on my abs and my arms plus I really like doing the hula hoop, the boxing and the running (which I do with my free weights in my hands!) I think I'm going to get Wii Fit Plus!

For dinner, I made muscles in tomato and garlic sauce. It was so delicious! I had that for lunch today too. I went to Giant and got 10 for 10 grapefruits! So yummy! Now we have cantaloup, honey dew, apples, grapes and grapefruit to snack on!

I won't do another weigh in for another week because I think our scale is broken, or not working correctly or something weird. It tells me one weight and the wii fit scale tells me a different weight. We'll put that on hold!