2010: A Year Of Promise!

It's a brand new year! A brand new start!

Hopefully this year I can get back into the swing of blogging! I'm starting this year a whole lot different than I started 2009. I'm living on my own, I have a new job, new friends (and old!:-))...it's a little crazy to think about how far I've come in a year.

Now if I can just juggle it all appropriately, I'll be golden!

I've been enjoying living in my apartment with my brother. It's been pretty awesome. It's very liberating and I love the area. I'm going to write a blog about it one of these days, i even took pics to post, tee hee.

If there's one thing I learned this year and actually began to live by, it's that you can't sit and wait for things to happen! you have to figure out what you want and go get it! You can't sit around wishing, hoping and praying. I mean of course praying always helps, but you have to be proactive about achieving goals and dreams. I was tired of sitting around and waiting for things to happen, and this last year, I went out and got what I wanted! It wasn't luck, it didn't just happen to me, everything that I've accomplished I went out to get!

I believe your attitude towards life means everything. You have to be positive, pick yourself up and get back on the horse! You won't always succeed in every single endeavor but it makes the one you do succeed in even better!


New Year's resolutions are always a let down, I try to live day by day rather than set my self up for a 365 Day promise! That's hard! Does anyone make NY resolutions anymore?

Instead of a resolution, I encourage you to make 2010 your year! Dont; just let it happen to you, make 2010 happen for you!

For I Know The Plans I Have For You

Hey everyone!

Things have been a little crazy for me lately, which why I haven't blogged. My last post was about my friend Jeremy and his accident, asking for prayers! boy did you guys come through! I had so many positive and encouraging responses, and I am so grateful for all of them!

My mom and I went to AZ last week to visit Jeremy and his family. We mostly hung out with is family in the ICU waiting room all day, then went back to the hotel and did it all over again the next day. I didn't mind at all, that was what we went for. Jeremy was still in a medically induced coma, but they let us go see him in his room. It was surreal to see my friend lying in the hospital bed. I would pray for him while I stood in the door. There was good news followed by bad news. When one thing was better, another issue would come up. I was able to go see him once or twice a day. The night before my mom and I headed back to CA, I went to see him for the last time in what would be a while, and I started to cry. It always amazes me the things that make me cry. I don't really cry a lot and I'm usually pretty strong and hold myself together. I hadn't cried the entire time we had been there. But I think knowing that I wouldn't get to see him again for a while, until we could make it back out there, it just hit me. That and seeing him lying in a hospital bed just broke my heart.

But I know the Lord has a plan for him. He has Jeremy in His hands and His will will be done.

I really love Jeremy and his family, they mean so much to me, and I'm reminded of that every time I spend time with them.

All of your prayers and encouragement means so much to me! And I am so grateful! Since you were all so sincere, I wanted to give you the update from yesterday. Jeremy has opened his eyes. He's not responsive yet though, but he's off of medications and they are transferring him to another medical center tomorrow. He still needs a lot of prayer, but what you guys have done already has helped!

Again, thank you all so much! I am going to try to blog again tomorrow, I just haven't felt like anything I have to say about my life is quite as important as what has been going on with him. Everything else just seems to fall by the way side.Since he's on the road to recovery, maybe I can begin to write a little more again. But I can't promise I won't be saying a prayer for him in my blogs or that I will cease asking for prayer!

Question: Do you or have you ever felt like your blogs really pale in comparison to greater things happening in the world?

Twitter, Blogging and Beauty!

My friend Allison invited me to a Beauty Blog Launch party last night hosted by HelloPrettyLovesYou, which her friend Danielle helps write for. It was a great party there were gift bags with really awesome products.

It was pretty cool, I did background on Iron Man 2 this week and one of the ladies who did my hair used this stuff called Porosity, and it was really great on my hair, it made it feel soft and moisturized. I looked it up online on Wednesday and it was about $30. I almost bought but decided to wait. So last night, at the launch party, they had a raffle. Allison won this GREAT beach package prize with a swimsuit, towel, flip flops, and a lot of other stuff. She had another winning ticket, and she let me have it, so I went and got the prize. When I looked inside, there was a bottle of Porosity!!! I couldn't believe it!!! It was one of the coolest moments. Here's all the stuff I got:




HelloPrettyLovesYou.com is having a give away, you can win this stuff and more! Check out their blog!

We met some really cool ladies at this party. A lot of them were bloggers and some were reps for beauty products and companies. It was a really cool event to be a part of. I met one woman, Leslie, and she had just signed up for Twitter a few minutes before she had left to come to the party. I showed her how to download TwitterBerry and I started following her. She's really cool, you should follow her!


This whole event got me thinking, I would really like to start writing/blogging about beauty products and even entertainment. I kind of already started that with my other blog. Obviously I don't update nearly as much as a should. I'm gonna have to buckle down and discipline myself to really research stuff and then write about it. I just get so busy. I need to become more passionate about it and really make it a priority. I don't really know what holds me back. I'll have to ponder this. I'm thinking I should start finding a place like a Starbucks or better yet a CoffeeBean (free Wi-Fi! Wooo!) and plan one day a week that I go sit and write. Blog, stories, everything.