The Modern Day Addiction

{Day 3}

One Thing You can't Live Without

The one thing I can't live without is my iPhone. I know, I know it's such a modern thing to say but its the honest truth. The addiction I have to my iPhone is crazy. It's always in my hand even when I'm in class. And yes it is bad that I use it in class and I don't pay attention. I'm trying to break this habit but its been hard so far.

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My iPhone has my whole life on it. I use it to text and call people. I use it to get on twitter, intsagram, bloglovin, and any other social media you can think of. I check all my emails on my phone and I even check my grades on it. Recently I have been adding all my homework and different things to the calendar so I can keep track of them in one place. Since I don't own/use a camera my phone is also the only place I take pictures. I have gone so far as to use my phone to keep track of my period and bank account balance. because I can't sit in silence I use my iPhone for music either on pandora, youtube, or iTunes radio.

So as you can see without my phone I would be lost. Life for me would be so difficult and I'd probably have to carry around a ton of things like a camera, agenda planner, radio, and even a check book.

Since I'm talking about my phone I thought it would be a good idea to do a what's on my iPhone tour. I got the new iPhone 6 the day it came out because I preordered it at 3 am the week before. For those who care, I am in love with it. There really aren't that many difference to me except for the screen size and the weigh. My favorite feature is the fingerprint id and the favorites.

My lock screen. It is a picture of my best friend and I and I love this picture.

First page has the apps I use the most and the background is a picture of me and my best friend its yet another favorite of mine; 

Messages, Calendar, Camera, Clock

Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Settings

The bar at the bottom has Safari, Mail, Phone, and Music

The second page is all the other apps that came with the phone that I use but not all the time

Notes, Reminders, Maps, Calculator 

FaceTime, iBooks, Photos, Weather

iTunes, App Store

The third page is all of the apps I have downloaded in alphabetical order. I am super OCD at these apps. 

A Beautiful Mess, Amazon, Bible, Bloglovin

Checklist, Checklist Folder, Etsy, Flow Free

GorupMe, Netflix, Pandora, Pic Collage

Pink Pad, Pinterest, TD Bank, Two Dots

Yik Yak, Youtube, Zulily

These are the two countdown apps I use

The last page has a junk folder and a folder for different social media for the blog

The junk folder has all of the apps that came on the phone that I can't delete but don't use.

Compass, Voice Memos, Contacts

Sticks, Game Center, Newsstand

Videos, Passbook, Health

Tips, Podcast 

Tumblr, Blogger, Facebook

Facebook Messanger, Gmail, Latergrame 

If you have any questions about any of these apps feel free to ask. They're mostly boring apps because I don't play a ton of games. 

xoxo,

Lauren

Teacher to Nurse

{Day 2}

Dream job when you were little/what is is now?

Little Me. I wanted to be a vet at one point as well

Growing up my dream job was to be a teacher. I was always playing school and I always had to be the teacher. That may just be because I am such a bossy person and had to be in charge all the time. There is one time in particular that I came home from the last day of school with all these extra books and papers and made my friend play school with me. It was the last day and I was playing school! I was still in my uniform! Talk about being crazy!

Now my dream job is to be a nurse. It has been a dream of mine since freshman year of high school. I have never before in my life wanted anything more than to be a nurse. Thinking about wearing scrubs to work every day puts the biggest smile on my face and keeps me motivated to keep going in school.  I am extremely fortunate to know what I want to major in college and to feel absolutely happy with my decision. The fact that in just 2 and a hagfish years I will be a nurse is both amazing and scary. One of my dreams will be coming soon before I know it.

xoxo,
Lauren

Shopaholic's Dream

{Day 1}

If you won the lottery you'd...

Let's face it everyone at one point has dreamed about winning the lottery and what they would do. If I won the lottery there are so many things I would do! Most of them would be to help my family out and help us not have to stress so much about money.

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Pay off my college tuition 

Help my parents finish renovating our house

Pay for the rest of my brother and sister's tuition

Go on a nice vacation with my family

Set up a scholarship in my grandma's name at my old high school

Buy a car

Put the rest of it away for the future

I would definitely stay in school and get a job. to me those are two things you need as a person to stay normal and not become lazy. Winning the lottery would help my family and I live comfortable but we would still continue to work and go to school.

And if we're all being honest here I would probably go on a huge shopping spree because I am a shopaholic and won't be able to resist. That would than result in my needing a bigger closet so I guess I would buy myself a nice house to store all my new purchases.

xoxo,
Lauren

Goodbye September, Hello October

September has come to an end and October is about to start. Its hard to believe that we have completed another month! It's even harder to believe that I am in my 6th week of classes! That's over 1/3 the way through this semester.

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How September Went

Sorority Recruitment: It just started and I am writing one bog blog post up to have posted at the end of the week about everything that's happened and my thoughts and feelings. So far its good and emotional but its only been one night. We'll have to see how tonight goes. 

Online Bible Study: We are on week 5 of the study and I have been doing really good with keeping up with the readings. I missed two days, once last week and the one yesterday. I just got so busy and forgot about it. The main reason is I usually do the study at night and both nights I was super busy. Here's to hoping I can keep up with it because I made it half way!

Grades: My grades have been amazing so far this semester! I'm actually a little scared to write that because what if I jinks it! I need to work on my sociology but we've only had one test. Here's my grades so far:

Statistics: A (93%)

Nutrition: A (100%)

Creative Writing: No grades yet

Sociology: B- (~86%)

Informatics: A (95%)

Research Design: A- (~90%)

Blogging Challenge: I finished the whole month! And I posted on time every day! That not only makes me super happy but also proud! I had a blast doing this challenge and the prompts were so interesting. 

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What I'm Looking Forward to in October

• Recruitment being over and have a sorority officially picked: I pick on Friday and I can't wait! I know that everyone else wants to know what I pick to. 
• Halloween: Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and this year it is on a Friday. I have no idea what my costume will be but I can't wait to find that out.  
• Fall Break, meaning a 4 day weekend: That's in just two weeks and I can't wait. I need the time to catch up on homework and blogging. As you can see I can't wait for a lot in October but it's going to be an exciting month. 

October Goals

• Finish the Bible Study: It ends on October 24 and I am determined finish it. 
• Complete another blog every day challenge: Yep I'm taking on another challenge! I put a lot of thought into tis month because I will be wide as busy but the prompts were just so interesting that I had to! The challenge is hosted by Taylor at The Daily Tay and Helene at Helene In Between . 
• Stop using my phone so much in class: I am on my phone almost every single class every single day. It's really bad how much I am on it and I need to stop. I also need to stop online shopping nd blogging in class (that's what I'm doing now oops!) 

Here's to a great and busy month! 

xoxo,

Lauren

Bloggy Community

{Day 30} 

Do you having a blogging community in your city? Tell us about it. If not, would you be interested in meeting up with other bloggers in person? Why/why not?

Since I come from such a big city I am sure there is a blogging community but I am not a part of it. I am such a new blogger that I never looked into it. I do know there is a community for bloggers in the Northeast coast, which is where I am from. It looks interesting and I am thinking of joining it.

As for joining a blogging community in the future I would be more than happy to! It seems like so much fun and I would love to meet over bloggers in person. Just thinking about hanging with another blogger makes me super happy. I'd join a blog community in my city because it would help my blogging and give me people who blog to hang out with. As of right now I don't know anyone in person who blogs.

I just want to say how proud I am of myself for finishing this monthly challenge. Not only did I complete the challenge I did it on time every day and I did it on the weekends! At the beginning I had a bunch of major doubts because school had just started and I was going to be busy. This was so fun to do and I want to thank Whitney over at Love Letters and List by the Observant Turtle for this challenge. You did a great job with the prompts!

xoxo,
Lauren

Mac and Cheese from Generations Before

{Day 29}

Share a recipe that has been passed down

This isn't my mom's but it looks pretty similar (Source)

The only recipe that I know of that has been passed down is our mac and cheese recipe. It came from my dad's mom and my mom now makes it all the time. It is a huge hit for everyone who has ever eaten it. My mom gave it to a few aunts and family friends but they can't make it as good as my mom ;). I'm giving this recipe to you guys to try and making. I'm telling you everyone will love it!

2 Tbsp Argo Corn Starch

1 Tsp. Salt

1/4 Tsp. Pepper

2 cups Milk

2 Tbsp. Margarine

8 oz. Shredded Cheddar Cheese, divided

8 oz. Elbow Macaroni (about 1 3/4 cups) cooked and drained

In medium saucepan combine corn starch, salt, and pepper; stir in milk until smooth. Add margarine. Stirring constantly, bring to boil over medium-high heat and boil 1 minute. Remove from heat. Reserve 1/4 cup cheese for topping. Stir in remaining cheese until melted. Add elbows. Turn into greased 2-quart casserole dish. Sprinkle with reserved cheese. Bake uncovered in 375 oven 25 minutes or until hot and bubbly.


My mom follows this measures loosely same with the time. We like out mac and cheese to have a golden brown top but some people don't so its all up to you. We also tend to add a ton of cheese to the top. That's usually my job when I'm around and I go a little overboard. But hey you can't have too much cheese!

xoxo,
Lauren

Halloween Movie Bucket List 2014

Last Tuesday I found out through Twitter that Hocus Pocus was on Lifetime. Well we all know how I spent my night! Watching Hocus Pocus until 2 in the morning even though I had an 8 am class. Than I was home on Friday night and found Hocus Pocus so I watched it yet again. You can never watch seasonal movies too many times. It's what makes the holidays special!

Well I was inspired by all this make a Halloween Movie Bucket List. I love my halloween movies and can;t wait for them to start playing again on tv. Here's my most watch list.

Hocus Pocus

Halloweentown

Halloweentown 2

Beetlejuice

Halloween (1978)

Halloween II

Halloween III: Season of the Witch

Casper

xoxo,

Lauren