Newport RI ~ August 2014

Hello All,

Yesterday I told you about how Mama J and I went to Mystic Pizza as part of our mini vacation. The next day we went to downtown Newport. I hadn't been to Newport in years and years, probably since I was like 3 or 4 years old. 

When we got to Newport right around lunch time so we stopped at the Brick Alley Pub & Restaurant. It was super busy and crowded. We had to wait about 5 to 10 minutes for our table but they took our drink orders while we waited. When we got to our table our waitress came over quickly and  we ordered out food. I got a lobster Mac&Cheese. It was okay but not the hands down best I had ever had. 

The only ify think that happened was they asked us to move to accommodate and larger group but neither of us had any problem. They were very sweet and I appreciated that the hostess remembered us and thanked us again as we were leaving.  

After that we walked around the town and went into all the little shops. We went into the Alex and Ani Store and the Tervis Tumbler Store. As well as many locally owned stores. I ended up getting one of those female football jersery sweatshirts that say the location across the back. You know those things that are all the rage. If you don't I have picture coming up of it.

While we exploring we found a cute little cupcake place that had DELICIOUS cupcake. If you ever see a Cupcake Charlies promise me that you will go because they were that delicious. 

We were about ready to head back to the car when we happened upon a camera store that had memory sticks! So, we stopped in and we bought one for the rest of our mini vacation and here's a little spoiler I got great pictures that coming up soon.

On our way back to our car Mama J wanted to stop in a Yankee Candles store and waited for her outside and snapped this picture.

We decided we wanted to drive around the non downtown areas of Newport and we happened upon a little beach and we got out to put our feet and the water and of course the blogger in me had to take some pictures.

I think this is one of my favorites

I was trying to be a little bit artsy

Then I try to directed Mama J in taking a picture I had in mind for me and it took a couple of takes.

Take One; too centered

Take two; too much on the left

Take three; the final product and what I had envision Thanks Mama J for being patient 

Finally Mama J told me she wanted to take a selife and it took quite a few takes to get the right one and these are just a few of them.

After the beach we headed back to our hotel and relaxed by watching some Criminals Minds. Our last day of our Mini Vacation was by doing some outlet shopping and then heading back to reality. It was a great little break and at the time I didn't know about the one I would be going on the next week. But more on that on Friday. Tomorrow I'm linking up with Natalie for Blogging For Cause where bloggers are writing about the causes that mean the most to them, so if your looking for a topic on Thursday or Friday think about the link up.

Mystic ~ August 2014

Hello All,

Last week I went to Mystic & Newport with Mama J and I had a nice mini vacation. And a MAJOR blogger fail, I left my memory card in my computer. Luckily on the Newport Day we were able to find a memory card for me to buy so I'll have picture for tomorrow's post.

Anyways, we had a nice relaxing morning Tuesday and slowly packed up. Then we were on our way to Mystic. When we got there we parked in a public parking place that was about $13 for an afternoon. After parking we walked about a block and half to Mystic Pizza. Yes, THE Mystic Pizza, the one that the movie was based on.

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Mystic Pizza is decorated with pictures from the movie and had the movie on a continuous loop. Mama J nor I order pizza but the food we had was good. Our waitress was very sweet although we didn't see much of her. I do recommend just stopping by because its worth the experience.

After dinner we shopped around the little town and checked out the small shops. My favorite was this book shop. It looked like it was a small one room but then extended into another HUGE room. It was a book lover dream, I wish I had written down the name.

After we looked around we headed back to our hotel, which was in Groton CT and I forgot the name #BloggerFail. It was write next to an Applebees so we had that for dinner and then relaxed in the room for the night. All and all it was a fantastic day!

Big Brother Recap {Week 7}

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Happy Saturday! Its time for Big Brother Recap. Before I start I want to apologize for the unexpected blogging hiatus but life and bigger priorities got in the way but more on that later in the week. Let's get started on today's post though.

This HOH competition was important because the house had gone into utter ciaos after the double eviction. In this competition they went head to head and had to look at eye chart that spelled out a sentence and they had to say whether it went with the number one or two. The two ladies with glasses passed the eye test and won HOH making Christine and Nicole the HOHs.

The Battle of the Block competition was played by Zach & Donny and Caleb & Frankie. But Frankie was the whole house public enemy number one and Caleb refused to play and try and throw the competition. They had to work together to get 10 balls up to different holes. The winning HOH and BOB players also recieved a trip outside the house and to the Dallas Football Practice Camp. Although Frankie impressed everyone and pulled off the win on his own and saved himself and Caleb.

The Power of Veto and competition is my favorite competition of most season, which is Otev. This year Otev took the form of penguin and gave riddles about the evicted house guest. They then had to find the house guest name and bring it to Otev and the last house guest to do get evicted. Zach was the player to successfully bring Otev all the names.

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So this week started with Nicole nominating Frankie and Caleb and the house agreeing that Caleb would throw the BOB so Frankie would stay on the block and then they might be able to get him evicted. Christine nominated Zach and Donny and wasn't in on the plan to get Frankie out. 

After the BOB Nicole was dethroned and Frankie and Caleb became safe, leaving Zach and Donny on the block. After Zach won POV, Christine decided to Backdoor Nicole and leave her Donny on the block.

If this week had anything it was Drama. As I mention a couple of times Frankie was public enemy number one in the house at the beginning of the week. Mainly because Nicole and Hayden called out Frankie during their please save me speech. The speeches made the detonator question him. Especially after Nicole share a conversastion that her and Frankie had about nominating the four other men in the alliance. This hurt a lot of the guys but especially Zach. 

After fighting out Frankie announce to the house all of his secrets including who his sister is. All of the boys kind of forgave him but I don't think they really trust him and I hope to see one of them work up the guts to backdoor him.

The house once again voted together and chose to evict...

This week's player of the week was hard for me to decide because I really wanted to give it to my favorite player this season but then I really started to think about it and the decision was kind of obvious. This player went from being the most hated player to being in everyone's pretty good graces, he also took a risk and share his personal life secrets AND manage to win a 2 person competition all by himself. So, because of that my player of the week is...

Who would be your player of the week? What did you think of this week? Let me know in comments below. Oh yeah and I am ALWAYS tweeting about Big Brother so if you want to talk about it follow me on Twitter.

Things I'll Leave In Sophomore Year

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Last Week my bloggy Bestie, Natalie wrote this awesome post all about things she's going to leave in last semester. Well today I'm going to kind of copy that idea but instead of things I'd like to leave in last semester I'm going to talk about all the things I'm going to leave in sophomore year.

As many of people know sophomore year was probably one of the hardest years I've had in school like ever! But I'm ready for a super stellar junior year because my summer has been just what I needed so I'm hoping this school year will follow.

So, the things I'm going to leave in last year is...

...The negative energy that nothing is going as planned

...Hell the need to have anything/everything planned, I'm going live life as it goes

...I'm going to leave unneeded stress behind.

...the guilt of getting people who make me feel negative out of my life

...the second guessing about changing my major

...the shyness, I'm going to talk to everyone and anyone

What are you leaving behind as you move onto a new chapter? Let me know in the comments below.

-P.S. My bloggy is going on hiatus. On Friday I found that I was going away from Monday-Thursday of this week and didn't have enough time to write this week's post. Thank you for understanding and know that I have some awesome post coming in the coming weeks. See you guys Saturday for the Big Brother Recap. xoxo

Big Brother Weekly Recap {Week 6}

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This week's Big Brother is part of the reason I fell in love with Big Brother in the first place. Let's getting talking...

This week's HOH was a true or false game. It went to six way tie breaker leaving Donny and Nicole as HOHs.

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The Battle of the Block was played by Jocasta and Zach along with Caleb and Victoria. They had to built a Dominio line and pick 3 punishments that would cause the line to hit the buzzer. Which ever 3 punishments they chose the winning team had to complete. The race was neck and neck through most of the race Caleb and Victoria pulled out the win. And they were stuck with the punshiments of being tied together for 48 hours, 2 weeks on slop and one of them needed to get there heads shaved.

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The POV was played by Christine, Nicole, Zach, Victoria, Caleb, and Jocasta. In this competition they had to zip line pass window that show comic book version of all the house guests. They  had to then put the comics in order on the other side. Which ever house guest did the fastest would then win. Victoria maxed out her time and got disqualified and Christine and Nicole were neck in neck but Christine was the ultimate winner.

Christine after winning the competition
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Donny and Nicole both knew that they didn't want to put Hayden up and each had their own person they didn't want to go up. They each had their own alliances to take care of. But they both agreed if given the chance they would backdoor Frankie.

Donny nominated Caleb and Victoria and Nicole nominated Zach and Jocasta. After the BOB Zach and Jocasta remained on the block and it looked like the plan to back door could be done. Especially after Christine won POV. But for the first time all summer the POV wasn't used leaving Zach and Jocasta on the block.

Nicole and Hayden reached out to Cody and Derrick to start a new alliance. Derrick and Cody thought about it but ulitmately the alliance fell through after who they decided to evict. 

For the first time this summer the detonators weren't in power and one of there own were up on the block. Frankie, Christine, Derrick, and Cody spend a good amount of the post POV ceremony thinking they were going to keep Jocasta and get rid of Zach.

After Christine didn't go along with Nicole's plan to backdoor Frankie the alliance between Nicole, Christine and Hayden was completely ruined. 

Hayden and Nicole remained adorable and dorky throughout the week.

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Zach and Frankie's bromance hit the rock when Zach was put up on the block and goodness know what that means for their relationship.

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We haven't really seen the drama that will probably unfold next week after Thursday's night live show.

The house went back and forth about who would go home they didn't all agree. By a vote of 6-2 the house sent there first member jury who was...

Before I announce my player of the week I need to talk about the double eviction! The HOH competition they were given different stats and they needed to say whether the number was too high, too low or equal to the number. This game was won by Caleb! He nominated Hayden and Donny. 

The Power of Veto was played and they had to jump over hurdles and into a ball pit. In the ball pit they would find 3 rubber duckies run over the hurrdle and then grab a power of veto medal. The first player to compete that task would win. Donny won and took himself off the block. Caleb replaced Donny with Nicole.

The showmance was ended with a very divided house they sent the second member of the jury who was...

This week was a hard week for me to decide who would be my player of the week. I could see a couple of players getting that honor but all of the had big reason not to be my player of the week. I ultimately decided on the player who is running the house but also managed to get one of the last floater out of the house. Because of this Derrick is my player of the week.

COLLEGE TIPS: Things You Need But Might Forget

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School starts again soon? Say What? For all you freshmen out there I have compiled a list of things that weren't on my original list of things to bring.

1. An Umbrella, raincoat or rain boots or any combinations of those things.

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Most college are open and you will eventually have to walk outside in the rain. If you don't like getting wet then have these. Plus you normally can find some cute ones to wear!

2. Business causal clothing

There are couple of different reasons you might need those. One is classes, normally if you have to do a presentation the professor wants you dress nicely. Also there are sometime events on campus that you might have to dress professionally. 

3. Some where to store you shoes

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If you are anything like me you probably have a good amount of shoes. At home you may leave your shoes all over the house or at the bottom of your nice size closest. But in college you are in small room and might find having a organizer more useful.

4. You're warmer clothes

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Yes, you move to school in the middle of August normally but a lot of the time the weather can turn on a dime and you don't want to be stuck on campus with only short sleeves. 

5. An open mind

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You are going to meet a lot of people when you go to college and be offered to experience a lot of new things. When you're scared and nervous you will probably gravitate towards things you liked in high school or the type of people you hung out with in college. But you're best friend or favorite new hobby/activity/club might be something you never thought you would  do.

And those are things that I feel like a lot of college freshmen forget to bring with them. If you've gone to college what do you think most freshmen forget? Let me know in the comments below!