Winter Tan Blues

Puerto Rico

Is it just me or are you counting down until the next day off or until winter break? I am absolutely. I am missing the sun, the beach, the ocean, the warm weather.

I NEED some vitamin C in my life. Since fake tanning isn't an option being preggo, I am seriously pale. I tried spray tanning; and yeah at first I was really tan. But then, eventually it started to come off, and I looked spotted.  THANK GOD it is winter and no one could see that because it looked absolutely awful!!!

Also being pregnant I have had very VERY itchy skin. I have been through many different types of lotions and finally have found one that doesn't drive me crazy anymore. In the beginning, I used to get these huge bruises all over my legs because I would be scratching my skin in the middle of the night! Talk about feel like a crazy person!

So I am literally counting down until we buy our plane tickets (pay day tomorrow) then I will be counting down until February 17th when we leave for Puerto Rico.

Earthquake or not Puerto Rico, I am coming to the goddamn beach!!!!

Rainy day today doesn't help either.

Florida.. ill see you later!

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im leaving for florida tonight to go visit my girl.. i cant wait!! i havent seen her since she moved in March and she's about to pop with my niece and although she isn't born yet she is due this month and i am secretly hoping she will happen this weekend lol.... although that isn't my kind of luck.

BUT i am very excited to go there and sit at the pool and I am glad that NO ONE will be ruining this trip for me thank god.

have a great weekend everyone :)

In need of a Vacation

{me at macchu picchu}

I really need to go on a vacation again. I know I just went on it but it was ruined so that honestly didnt really count. Florida is coming up the first weekend of May so that will be cool, but after that.. I want to do something... like 3rd world country again... i miss it.

There are so many different websites to find where to go and how to get there and it basically all comes down to one thing: the price. Honestly, I am looking for the cheapest way to get to wherever I am going and the cheapest place to stay that isn't nasty. So, you'd think that would be easy to find, but then you have the 5 million websites to choose from, and how do you know that that website is cheaper then the next?

I can say that I have planned MANY vacations in my time, and I have never been disappointed with my planning skills. The most important thing when planning the vacation, is finding hotel deals. There are SO many hotel websites out there and places to choose where to stay, that I have found the best deals at Discount Hotels. They literally give you everything on this site. You can find discounts on hotels, flights, cars, cruises...you name it.

Hotels are sometimes way wayyyyyy over priced and if you don't know any better, you might just pay that over priced rate for a crappy little room. The best bet, would be searching hotel discounts because honestly, what is the point of paying $500 for one night when you can pay $100 for the same exact room. NONE! Especially now a days, save that extra money and spend it on something better!

I love to travel, and it sucks that I can't as much now because I don't have that much money, but when i do get to travel, finding the lowest rates to get there, is the best way to go. I just found this website called usa.gov, that when you go there, it has a list of all 50 states and it links to the state website, which is really cool especially since it gives you a bunch of ideas to do if you go to that state.

Go check these out and get planning....summers almost here!!


Where is your next vacation to??

Ahh Travel - Binn, Switzerland

I want to. I need to. I wish. I miss it :(

I was reading today on Budget Travel about a place in Switzerland called Binn. It looks so adorable! I have never heard of it before either and its in the Swiss Alps, a place I would love to go.

Check out the article and the other pictures here.

Ahhhhh i want to leave the country againnnnnnnn.....


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I Need to be Here....

ughhh i need to be there :(

Guest Blogger - Amanda

Guest Blogger by Dishevelled Stars

About a month ago, I was perusing my blog reader when I stumbled upon a post in the Live Journal group jr_nal. A girl had posted her diary writing and collages from a trip to Turkey, pressed into the pages of a Miquelrius book, known for their soft covers and lightly lined graph paper.

Having grown up as a military brat, I traveled all over the world, keeping pages and pages of scribbles, art work, and scrap book memorabilia to document my trips. In ninth grade, I lived in Izmir, Turkey, so her mentions of the almost ghostly call to prayer at 6 a.m., and the incessant meowing of street cats written next to pieces of an apple tea container brought back, literally, volumes of memories.

When I studied abroad in Malaga, Spain, in college, I took with me a similar Miquelrius notebook that I bought at Barnes and Noble before my trip. After reading her post, I decided to pull it out and share some of the pages, hoping to remind myself what it feels like to find everything about a new place wonderful - movie ticket stubs, embossed napkins, postcards, photographs of sunsets - with the thought that maybe I can inspire myself to find a similar wonderment amongst the artifacts of my current daily life.

Here are a handful of pages I found in my Spain diary:

As I've grown up I have stopped journaling this way. I am not sure if this is for lack of time due to work, boyfriends, Gossip Girl reruns, or simply because I do not value spending time alone with myself, a blank book, and the fragments of days I want to preserve the same way I used to. Trite as it may sound, I often hear Ally Sheedy's voice in my head, when, in the movie The Breakfast Club, she says, "when you grow up, your heart dies," which I can't help but feel to be true when I choose more "practical" pursuits over saving the bits and pieces of my day and pressing them into books with the hope of creating something lovely.

I know I do not want that to be true of myself, and that may be the only thing I know for certain at this point of my life, straddling the line of young adult and full fledged adult the same way I used to stand between being a teenager and a young adult, like a person frozen between two railroad tracks with the sound of a horn in the distance.

There are some beautiful inspirations for art journaling in the world, and I mean to revisit these to help me return to a once-favorite hobby. Dan Eldon, the photojournalist killed in Africa, kept intricate, layered pages of journals that chronicled his travels across Africa's continent. There are art books dedicated to the beauty of journals, and even friendly tips to be found on how to keep travel and scrapbook journaling part of your writing routine.

While rereading entries written only a few years ago in actuality, but what feels like centuries ago, can be both embarrassing and humbling, it's moving me to pick up a book with a blank page, a pair of scissors, a pen, and go outside to try and see my day as something beautiful, and worthy of both exploration and preservation.