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Black Friday!

What an exciting night it was. This was the first year that I have ever gone to the mall on Black Friday. Normally, when I shop on the day after Thanksgiving, I go to outlying stores to peruse and see if I can find a good deal on stocking stuffers. This year, I decided to go all out. I left the house at 10pm on Thursday night to stand in the line at Belk with the hopes of winning a $1000 gift card! It was cold, not not unbearable. I am in Georgia, after all. Belk was giving away gift cards to the first 250 customers. When I pulled up, I saw the line wrapped around the building, and thought for sure I wouldn’t be getting one. But about 45 minutes after getting in line, I saw a Belk manager coming around counting. I would soon find out if I was one of the lucky customers. About 30 minutes later, she came back out with her bull horn and notified us all that they actually had 390 gift cards. Wooooo Hoooo. I was sure I was in! They started handing out the claim checks, and i was number 190, so I would have gotten one even if they only had 250 cards. 🙂 Once I handed in my lovely claim check, and had my gift card in hand, I headed straight for the jewelry section to claim a rose gold watch as a gift. I went to pay for my watch and unfortunately I was not the lucky winner of the $1000 reward. I did, however, get a $25 gift card for my time. I’ll take it!

After my time in Belk, I actually went out into the mall among to HUGE crowd of people. It really was amazing the amount of people in the mall at midnight. I avoided Victoria Secret and Bath & Body Works like the plague as those lines were outrageously long. I made one more purchase in Macy’s then called it a night. I was actually in the mall for about 3 hours. After leaving the mall, I went to Ulta, Target and Old Navy (which also had an outrageously long line). All in all, it was a fun night. I had a blast walking around with all of the excited Christmas shoppers and I can say that no violence or craziness occurred. Everyone seemed on their best behavior so I was proud of my GA mall goers. I will probably NEVER do it again, but it was worth the one time experience.

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Me, Hallmark Channel, and a Vaccuum

What a great weekend. It was beautiful outside in Georgia, but I really wouldn’t know. That’s what I heard. My weekend was filled with Christmas movies and cleaning. It was actually very relaxing. I got a lot of cleaning done (which was long overdue) while I watched the beginning days of Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas. I love this time of the year. It seems that most people are very excited for the good tidings even if they sometimes complain about commercialism, missing Thanksgiving, to early for holiday movies, blah, blah, blah. Most say it with a smile.

Me….I love it. I’m ready for the constant calls and discussions with family members. I’m excited to go shopping on Black Friday, even though I rarely make any purchases that day. I just enjoy being out there with all of the people. I can tell I’m loving it to, my skin seems brighter, my hair seems silkier and I feel HAPPY! My wish is that everyone can enjoy this time and appreciate it.

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Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas

I was sitting here just thinking about how excited I am for the holiday movies to start playing on the Hallmark Channel. Every year, my television stays glued to that channel on the weekends. I don’t have much time to watch them during the week since I am working which is why I am so grateful that they play them continuously. It gives everyone a chance to see them. I know, it’s only October and Halloween hasn’t even arrived yet. I already have Christmas on the brain. I’m trying to hold out on my holiday music so that I won’t drive my co-workers nuts….but I’m ready! 🙂

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Latest Romance Reading

I was just reading my last post on books, and just had to quickly blog about a series that I just finished reading. The series is the Moreno Brothers by Elizabeth Reyes. I was completely addicted to these books for about three weeks! They are only available digitally on Amazon, but it was a great find for me! Forever Mine, the first story, was being offered free. If you don’t know, one of my greatest things to do is read the free books on Amazon. Well, I read this book and immediately wanted to know more about Romero and Alex! So, guess what? That free purchase ended in me BUYING three additional books of the series. I’ve read them all except the book for the sister. I hope to get to that one eventually, but the boys were just so interesting to me that I couldn’t wait to read them. I will suggest them to any lover of romance books. What a great find!

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Wow!

Well, I forgot to come back and do a year end review!  Well, hellooo blog. Nice to see you again. I guess I have not had a ton to write about. Not that I ever really did, but it always feels good to write some feelings down no matter how trivial they may be.

Well, what’s been up with me since the last time I blogged? I’m back in school getting a Business Management degree. I’m obsessed with YouTube. Lately, I find myself really into beauty, makeup and hair. Well, I’ve always been into those things as well as shoes, clothes and accessories but I just never really wrote about it. I’ve been loving my beauty vloggers. They all seem like so much fun and I have gotten some great tips!

I just purchased new make up by Mac. Only foundation, lip liner and gloss but they were some great buys. I have received many compliments on how good it looks. My normal make up is Bobbi Brown which I love well. My foundation color for Bobbi Brown is Almond and my foundation color for Mac is NW45. I’ve been using the Studio Tech since my skin is normal to dry. powders and anything really heavy usually make my face itch. I’ve also started using toner and have rediscovered my love of sea breeze! My face actually looks all glowy and fresh. 🙂

Ohhh, for my hair, I have discovered Organix! I love this stuff! I have used the Macadamia Oil and I can’t believe how well it works. I was originally a little skeptical because I normally use shampoos and conditioners that are specifically for people of color hair. BUT, this stuff is amazing. I washed my hair, no tangles or kinks. I conditioned my hair, no tangles, or kinks. I lost very little hair in my comb and even though I let it air dry, I was able to get it pretty straight for the next work day. Now, normally I NEVER do my own hair because it’s just such a hassle. I get my hair professionally done every two weeks and even though I know I won’t stop that regimen, I can be a little more confident doing my hair in between those times.

Well, looks like I had a lot to say today. I’m sure I will think of more later. All in all, I think it’s been an exciting year for me so far. Or, it could just be that summer is here! 🙂 Always happy in the summer.

Til Next time….Deni

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Something that always annoys me.

Something that always annoys me about these weightloss infomercials (besides the fact that they are full of lies) is that they always have people that USED to be skinny but got big as a result of the aging process. I have yet to see someone who has always been big losing all this weight. There probably has been some but I haven’t seen them yet! I have also not seen, in my personal life, someone that has always been big lose weight and keep it off. Maybe that would give me more incentive. I don’t know. Just a thought.

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My 37th Year

Well, my birthday just passed and I’m officially OLD. I kid, I kid.

Actually, I don’t feel old at all. I guess I’m the epitome of “young at heart” because that’s exactly how I feel. I know that I still have a lot of years ahead of me and I’m going to need every bit of those years to make my dreams come true. I can’t put my finger on exactly what I think I should be doing, but I know that the life I’m leading right now is not my dream. So starting this year, I want to make it MY DREAM LIFE. I want to find my creativity and come up with the perfect plan to live out everything my heart desires.

I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed of being famous, but I have definitely dreamed of being successful and comfortable money wise. I never dreamed of being rich, per se. But I never saw myself lacking.

When I was younger, I thought I wanted to be a nurse. I went to nursing school and everything….of course I never finished. Three years into the program, I realized that wasn’t really what I wanted to do. I wasn’t all that great at science, which should have told me that I shouldn’t have been in that field anyway! But I was to stubborn at the time to really see that. Finally, I was forced to, though. My grades weren’t up to par and even though I switched my major to business, I just became so lost and disheartened that I FAILED at something.

Now I know Nursing wasn’t for me. But it’s been a very long road at finding a new dream career-wise. I still struggle with it now because I know what I’m doing right now is definitely not what I envisioned OR what I really want. So the big question is….what do I want? That is by far the toughest question I have had to answer. I want to find the answer this year because I think that is the key to my happiness and success.

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Dreams

I’m sitting here very early in the morning watching a movie titled Medicine for Melancholy. It made me start thinking about the dreams that I used to have when I was younger. Falling in love, having children, great dates, great career….etc. All things that never happened and probably never will happen for me. The question I find myself asking is what do you do when your dreams don’t come true? Do you make new dreams or do you hold out? I never considered myself as an undriven person, but I guess I just never felt passionate enough about these things that I could figure out a way to make them happen for me. Hmmm…just thinking & typing.