Long time gone: Resolution check up and My life since

Wow, it's crazy to think the last time I made a post was in April! Ok quite frankly it's not crazy at all it's not like I was really blogging in a timely matter anyways so... I don't even write in my diary anymore... I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad.

I ended up stumbling on my own blog (after I once again forgot I had one) and decided to read it all because I'm narcissistic like that and I barely have any posts so why not? With great sorrow I read upon my 2016 New Years Resolution List.

Out of the twenty main goals I made for myself I can only say I've done four so far fml.

• "Go for walks with Cheesie. Ride bike to the park"

Let's be honest I am only doing this because Pokemon Go sooo...

• "Eliminate soda and other beverages I know I shouldn't be drinking from diet"

Eh, i'm still drinking Sprite and the occasional "other beverage" but I'm doing good.

• "Save up a part of checks for sole purpose of having a shopping spree."

Why did I think this was an actual goal??? I do this all the time and it causes me pure hell?? 

• "To not be a disgusting slob in bedroom cleanliness."

Actually did! My room actually looks quite nice lately even now!!

I feel so bummed because it's been EIGHT MONTHS. That's more than half the year and I did nothing. Like all seriousness I better go skiing this year and buy a sketchbook because I'm really feeling despair over this year I wasted.

Using the word "despair" made me think of this guy and omg I'm posting a meme from an old anime a watched in my weeb days I'M REGRESSING!

Well despite the current state of my resolution list I haven't done nothing. In fact some interesting stuff happened in the four months I was absent.

My job went down leaving me practically jobless and working other locations. My bank account went into the negatives for the first time this JUST happened today yay!! I paid off very old library fines before this so that's a relief. Payday is Friday though and my job is back so I'm not stressing to hard.

I am much more social. Not entirely by choice, but a big thanks to Pokemon Go.

Also here is a big one! I'm talking to LDS (Mormon) Missionaries. I'm also going to church as an Investigator for the first time and not a Visitor. I always said that if I ever joined a church it'd be the Mormon church. Mainly because I grew up with it in a way. My family is mainly LDS and I've been visiting since Primary. I went to Young Womens and Girls' Camp and even now without my grandparents taking me I am going and attending the Relief Society meetings (among other YSA meetings). I know how the church culture goes for the most part and never feel quite right when I'm in another type of church or worship service. Also most importantly I believe in this church and what it has to offer.

September 24 exactly one month from today is the day of my baptism.

I went to a Too Faced event at Ulta!

Dominique signed herself and I up for an event at ULTA run by Too Faced! 

My dumb self came with a full face of makeup that the poor girl had to take off.

They had a bunch of makeup artist giving full makeovers and giving lots of tips and tricks! The lady I had, Erin(?) was especially great! She did my full face and did a lot of techniques I usually would never want to consider, but now I'm gonna try. Highlight, bronze, blush, bright  lipsticks, etc. 

Definitely inspired me to step up my makeup game!

*this too happened about a month ago and I'm just now getting 

around to posting it. I'm trying to clear up my drafts!

Oops, I did it again!

By "I did it again" I mean "I went blonde again" and 

by "Oops" I mean it was 100% intentional and wanted.

I feel this is a moment worth blogging.
even if it happened over a month ago whoops.

Ayee lurkers follow me on Snapchat though
@AlexTeriah

Fight Like A (Magical) Girl♡

Gratefully, I have no horror story behind why I felt the need to buy self-defense products, *knocks on wood and prays this continues* but just because I have no said "horror story" doesn't mean I shouldn't take precautions for my own safety.

Like the proverb, "don't lock up the stable after the horse is stolen," 

You shouldn't wait for some tragedy to occur to finally take precautions. Especially the ones that could potentially save your life!!!

When I told my dad about my new self-defense purchases,  I expected him to be all proud about me being cautious. Instead he said,

"I wish you came to me first if you wanted to buy self defense stuff"

"what we need to get you is bear mace, like Dog the Bounty Hunter AND a taser"

I'll make sure to add that to my list dad. For now though I have my gold pocketknife, two things of pepper spray (both pink one for my lanyard and one for my purse), and a gold owl/kitty brass knuckle keychain thing which is probably more effective than my keys.

and it's all held on by my new Sailor Moon lanyard, so I'm always reminded to Fight like a Magical Girl♡

PSA! The difference between Lilac and Lavender!

Lilac is a warmer color with more pink-red hues to it.

Lavender on the other hand has a bluer hue to it and it's cooler! Hence why the phrase is lavender-blue dilly dilly. 

Shut up Alex, it's fucking purple.

#SoPretentious 

No I won't shut up! It sucks when you're online shopping for what's supposed to be your lavender bedroom and you buy a bunch of different items that are marked as lavender! Then you get them and they're lilac or some varying shade of purple.

I wanted my bedroom to have a dreamy lavender effect, but instead it's now the fucking setting for Fifty Shades of Purple.

NY16 RESOLUTIONS♡

It's January 1st. 

Que the annual "New Year, New Me" nonsense

and here's gratuitous photos of me to began 2016♥
it's only cider in the picture.

My resolution is to fix my long departed physical and mental health.

• Wake up with the sun, fall asleep at a decent bedtime.
• Start morning Wailana yoga and Bikram yoga again.
• Watch the sunrise and fall more often.
• Go for walks with Cheesie. Ride bike to the park.
• Eliminate soda and other beverages I know I shouldn't be drinking from diet.
• Write and doodle more! Buy a sketchbook! Paint!
• End the day with meditation.
• Make a workout plan! Start jogging again!
• RESTART MY HOOP JOURNEY!

Another resolution is to invest in myself.

• Get my hair done professionally. Get hair trims, blowouts, deep conditioning treatments.
• Get nails done more then four times a year.
• Stop being lazy and take the time to do make up and hair.
• Research different hairstyles for my type hair.
• Research new makeup techniques.
• Save up a part of checks for sole purpose of having a shopping spree.

Also working on my future is my resolution.

• Get my drivers license finally!! (I swear this has been on my resolutions list for like four new years  now...)
• Get my own car.
• Go to college.
• Maybe even a new or second job.
• To not be a disgusting slob in bedroom cleanliness.

Lastly I want to go somewhere I never been (new state, country) and try something I've never done before (idk probably skiing)

19+ The Apartment Project

And before I get all angsty and forget to actually talk about what the hell my Apartment Project is let me start on a sweet note...

I got my birthday wish and petted a sheep!! So when I'm looking back on this blog I will now remember my nineteenth birthday as the birthday my wish to pet a sheep was fulfilled!!

Now for the angst that comes with the age nineteen. I wasn't really excited for my birthday this year. I mean what's so special about turning nineteen? You've already been a legal adult for a year and you still got two more years till you can go off and legally drink. The way I saw it nineteen and even twenty were just pointless filler years inbetween the anticipated eighteen and the exciting twenty-one!

Well as I'm learning with most things I thought about "adulthood" I was wrong completely. Turns out nineteen is an important age. It's the age that you are right on the border of adolescence and adulthood. Sure you can walk around and say your grown technically, but you don't have much in life to show for it. Sure you can argue you're still a young teenager (nineteen), but best believe someone's going to check you if you act like one. You're fresh out of school and society now expects you to join the working world (assuming you're like me and didn't go to college). You live with your parents, but you don't want to live with your parents. You might be making money, but you're still not financially-independent and definitely not financially-wise.

I could go on but to put this simply, nineteen is like being put on a mental kid-adult seesaw and it's hell. Angst over.

Which leads to "The Apartment Project" that all started with my mother. I don't listen to my mom often, but I remember this advice she gave my sister once after Dominique got her first job. My mom told her that she should spend her paychecks on buying furniture. Everything from couches, kitchenware, etc. That way once she was ready to move-out on her own, she wouldn't have to stress on buying furniture to fill her empty home and instead could focus on the more adult-things like bills and whatnot.

The advice was for my sixteen year old sister, but little twelve-thirteen year old me was the one to actually take it and run with it.

The first thing I did when I started making money (graduation and work) was just what my mother's advice entails. I bought a bunch of furniture beginning with my room.

I started with my bed. I bought a new bed frame (a cute twin daybed), a mattress, new comforter, sheets, bed skirt, silk pillowcase, canopy, even false flowers to wrap around it and really pull together the dreamy effect.

I also have other things like purple and white curtain (see through...), a purple minifridge,  a new white desk, misc, and the newest addition a rug to finally cover my unsightly tiled floor!!

Still on my list to get is a white dresser, new sunblocking curtains, and a modest-sized tv. One small enough for a bedroom, but big enough for a living room.

After I finish up collecting the main things for my bedroom I plan to move on to bathroom furniture, then kitchen, then living room. Hopefully by the time I'm collecting living room furniture I'll have more of a direction where my life is going.

I want to record as much of this "Apartment Project" as possible so I plan to make a post again when my room is done which should be soon☺
i even have some before pictures from a long time ago for the moment which are quite shameful... I'm a hideous slob.