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Help Me Help Local Doggos And Puppers!

If you’ve been around this blog (or me) for awhile, you know that pretty much every year I take part in the Maryland SPCA March for the Animals. This year is no different! I’ve set my goal to $500 but I hope to blow that out of the water. This year the March is on April 15th and I can’t wait! It’s always a great time and this year it’s a new location and will include a bar crawl afterwards.

(My doggo Wolf, who’s no longer with us)

If you have the extra cash to donate, you’re amazing. If all you can do is help spread the word, you’re amazing as well. I know it sounds lame but everything helps. I don’t care if it’s $5 or sharing the link with a friend. It gets the job done! The March is the largest fundraiser for the Maryland SPCA and helps keep the place going all year. They don’t receive any outside help and depend on donations to help local dogs and cats have a better life!

You can make a secure donation here!

Small Goals For January

I know, I’m pretty late on this. I wasn’t sure I was actually going to do any for the month. Then I saw everyone else doing their lists and I figured what the hell. This month, it’s all going to be health related. My health isn’t horrible but I’m lazy. I have no issue admitting this. It’s the truth. Especially during the cold winter months. I do want to drop a few pounds, and I know I can do it if I focus. But I just want to feel better too. I always feel great after the gym. I feel more alert and refreshed. So let’s get to the goals!

1. Drink More Water/Less Soda

It’s hard man! I’m not a coffee drinker (most of the time) which means my morning drink of choice is a soda. I know it’s just empty calories though and isn’t good for the body. I’ve picked up some flavor drops for water and grabbed some Bai to keep at work to help fight the soda urges.

2. The Gym

I’m not setting an exact goal. I just need to get there. My office building has a free gym, which means I have no excuse for not going. If I make it once next week, great. If I can make it three times, even better! I just need to get there and get to it.

3. Eat Better

I haven’t had much fast food lately which is great. This is a goal that helps both the waist line and the wallet. I’m actually a huge fan of Healthy Choice Steamers and grabbed a few for work. I just need to figure out a snack to go with them. I might start bringing taters to work too. Doesn’t get much easier than a baked tater!

And that’s it. They’re all very simple but doable. That’s the entire point of small goals! I think too often we have a habit of setting ourselves up for failure. Then we stop making goals altogether. Then nothing changes!

New Year, New Wheels!

Up until my Elantra, I’ve always had some sort of SUV. And I’ve always missed having one. I have a very long drive for work (2 hours total) and when we get crappy winter weather, it sucks. But because of that drive, I needed a vehicle that got solid MPG as well. Luckily, SUVs (especially the smaller ones) have started to close the MPG gap and I felt comfortable going back to one! I started doing my research a week or two ago. I love my Hyundai and decided to stick with the brand. I’ve never had any major issues with the Elantra even though it had almost 60,000 miles on it. I headed out to the dealership yesterday knowing exactly what I wanted. Seriously, I printed out the window sticker from their website. People, I know we all hate car shopping but with the internet, it’s SO much easier these days. You can pretty much check out an entire dealerships inventory now. You can see the majority of the rebates. Remember, information is power! Load yourself up with as much information as possible. And don’t be afraid to walk away from a deal. Can you tell I worked at dealership once? Anyway, I was very pleased with the amount I got for my trade and I was able to keep my vanity tags. Guys, I was really worried I’d lose to my Avenger tags. The vehicles are two different classes but it worked! I got them to throw in a free heated seat as well. Yes, just one. For me. I don’t care if anyone else in my car has a cold ass. I might get the front windows tinted as well but I think my brother in law knows a guy for that. Oh what did I buy? I picked out a 2017 Hyundai Tuscon. In black of course.

The nice thing that wasn’t really planned was the fact we got some snow yesterday. So I was able to see how it handled those conditions and it did great! My car was sliding in the parking lot and this thing didn’t budge. I made sure I picked something that has AWD, and it has a back up camera! It’s really weird and going to take some time to get use to but it’s pretty cool to have. As you can tell I’m super excited to be back in a SUV and to have something I feel safe driving in shitty weather!

Onto 2017

I kinda disappeared a bit during the last part of the year blog wise. I just didn’t have much to say really. I wasn’t going to force blog posts ya know? I’d sit here and open the screen and just stare. but last year was filled with some awesome stuff. Groot was my C2E2 roommate, went to St. Louis for a wedding, attended Wizard World Philly and met a ton of Marvel celebs (and wrote this open letter), and closed the year with going to Chicago for my birthday and checking out Saved By The Max! Plus I saw 15 movies last year and passed my GoodReads goal of 20 books. I finished the year 25 books strong!

But now it’s time to focus on a new year! I already have a few things planned, because that’s what I do. Once again I’ll be attending C2E2 in April. It’ll probably be my only convention of the year. Why? Because in the Fall I’ll be heading back to London to watch the Ravens take part in the NFL International Series. Which means I once again won’t be doing San Diego Comic-Con. I know, I feel like the Girl who Cried Wolf. I’m always shouting how I’m finally back, but then I end up doing something else instead. Honestly, SDCC will always be there. This is the first time the Ravens will be playing in London and I can’t miss it. Plus I’ll get to see Katy again! I’ll be making another trip to Chicago sometime too since I won a free two night stay at the new Pineapple Hotel, The Alise Chicago. They had a Twitter contest and I ended up winning! How amazing is that? Now I just need to figure out when. I’m thinking Summer for once!

I hope everyone had a great 2016 and I hope this year is even better. I know there’s a lot of shitty things happening in the world but don’t let that take away from your accomplishments and personal happiness.

Here’s my first bathroom selfie of the year. Enjoy! P.S. I am now obsessed with LuLaRoe Cassie skirts. Please send help. Or more skirts.

My Hair Is Green Now!

I honestly can’t think of anything to blog about which means you get this. Sunday I headed off to the salon to do something a little different and fun to my hair! This is what I went in with for reference:

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I pretty much just searched for “green and black hair” until I found something I liked. I wanted it to be green, and not a teal. Know what I mean? And obviously I have a different hair cut than this woman! But it showed the color and about how much green I wanted. I didn’t want to go overboard, just wanted something fun and different. I got to the salon at 9AM and I think I was there until almost 1PM? Enjoy this photo summary!

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We actually had to do the bleach twice, but just on the ends. But I didn’t feel the need to take another photo of that. You’re welcome. Autumn (my stylist) actually took her own photos to show on Instagram after she curled it a bit!

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She does some really amazing color jobs. Be sure to follow her if that’s your thing! And that’s how I spent my Sunday morning. I really love how it turned out. It’s just the right amount of green. And I love that even when it’s just my “normal” style it still looks good. And fuck, it feels amazing to have the undercut short again. That was driving me fucking nuts before. Short hair has its perks, but the up keep can be a bitch.

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