Latest obsession

Okay so if you know me you know what i've been up to lately...watching youtube videos!!!!  I've always been an avid youtuber and i love watching all the funny videos on the internet but lately i've been into another genre of videos....BEAUTY VLOGS!

Errrmagerd! Its like WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS! I love watching the beauty tutorials and makeup reviews, haul, and empties.  I've learned so much about makeup and how to apply it and to never be afraid of drugstore makeup!

Unfortunately for me all these reviews are making me buy all the makeup. My makeup collection has grown significantly since i started watching these videos four months ago. So i luuuurve the makeup!

I've also kind of been inspired to either write a blog about makeup that i've bought and start a review of my own (an engineer learns to be a girl...haha). Mandi and i decided that we needed one day a week to do fun things so we're going to pick DIY things off of pinterest and film them. This is going to be awesome because it will force us to actually do things on pinterest and see exactly how good these DIY tutorials work out. haha  well thats what i'm up too...

oh and did i mention i'm taking 19 credits and i'm interning for a company that makes night vision goggles?! yeah thats happening. haha

Here are two of my all time favourite youtube beauty gurus:

grav3yardgirl

leighannsays

i love gifs

Gifs are quite possibly one of my favourite parts of the internet...ever. Today, ladies and gents i present to you some of my favourite gifs of all time. If you dont know what these are, i suggest you go to Netflix right now and start your arrested development journey. Trust me, you won't regret it.

if you're horrible like me and you cant accessorize...

so like i said earlier i'm an engineering kid so i struggle with fashion sometimes. i love picking out outfits and bags and shoes but when it comes down to the nitty gritty i suck at accessorizing. i usually rock my nixon watch and a couple of rings that i always wear (true love waits, and CTR) but other than that i'm really bad at picking out cool jewelry.

today i was cursing the pinterest circuit and i found this, its awesome! have no fear the necklace is here!

Source: sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net via Louisa on Pinterest

confessions of a jean snob

All growing up my mom took us to shop at stores like JC Pennys and Macys. Not a bad thing if you have three kids to go school shopping and you're poor, its awesome you can get everyones clothes for in one store and for a decent price. 

So i grew up wearing jeans with random names like Arizona brand and Angel and Mudd. I was little and I didn't really care what brand my jeans were as long as they looked "cool" ( i put cool in quotes because i totally owned a pair of jeans with the leather lace up instead of a zipper...ewww).

Enter 19 year old kellie off in her first year of college. i had a really great friend who just happened to be gay and we used to spend a ton of time together and this is where i really started to pay attention to what i wore. i'm an engineering student so that should tell you a little about my fashion mindset, i didnt really give a crap. so i quickly learned alot about lines and colours and jean cuts and i was addicted to watching shows like what not to wear and popular youtube blogs by people like William Sledd. And that is where i began to lust after a pair of designer jeans of my own.

I bought my first pair of designer jeans from a thrift store and i fell in love. From then on i decided never to wear a pair of jeans that weren't designer.

Fast-forward to present day. i live in Utah and i am dirt poor because i'm saving all my money so i don't have to work my last semester of engineering school. I was left with two pairs of jeans left and one of them ripped beyond repair. i almost cried. i now was left with one pair of sevens and no money to buy a new pair of jeans. what did i do? i compiled all of my old clothes and took them to a thrift store in hopes of making a trade for a new pair. No such luck, my clothes added up to $20 and some change and there was not a designer jean in sight.

So ten minutes later i find myself wandering around Macy's with $20 dollars in hand. Admitting defeat i stumbled upon a decent pair of jeans, that weren't really jeans but jeggings and decided to buy them.

 They ended up being a little over $20 which was nice but they were nowhere near the quality of a pair of Seven for All of Mankind or Hudsons. And then i was reminded why i didn't buy jeans like this...ugh.

i just have to make it through 5 more months of engineering school and a new pair of designer jeans will be mine...first world problems. :'(

the benefits of living by your boyfriend

i know this is my second post in two days but come on guys cut me some slack, i don't start my job until monday!

somehow i always manage to end up in relationships that are long distance. until recently, my current boyfriend lived in utah and i lived in arizona. its hard when you're in a long distance relationship because you don't ever get to spend time with that person, sure you Skype or FaceTime but lets be honest, thats NOTHING like having a real boyfriend.

now i live 20 minutes from my boyfriend and he works in the same town i live in! its crazy! i like having a real boyfriend, THEY PAY FOR STUFF! i also like going on real dates where you go out and do things! i also LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE that sometimes your real life boyfriends bring you presents and leave you notes!

being in a real relationship that doesn't suck is FREAKING AWESOME! i also can't get enough of just doing nothing with him, its the best. you can just sit in the same room and do nothing but its 1000x's better than doing nothing by yourself because you're with someone you love!

life in the 1141

after a one year stint of living completely alone i am back in an apartment with roommates! i really did miss having roommates, just the fact that you know that if you choke in the middle of your sleep or accidentally get locked out of your apartment there will usually be someone there to help you is quite the comfort. 

one thing i forgot about is what it is like to live with people who don't share the same cleaning/organization habits you do. right now i don't share a room with anyone (such a blessing) but that will soon change in the fall when everyone comes back for school, i'll handle that problem when it gets here, but for the mean time i have another problem. sharing a bathroom. girls are gross, in my time i have seen very few that clean their bedrooms and even fewer that clean their bathrooms.


i like to be organized and clean and being not organized/clean drives me nuts. enter the girl with whom i share a bathroom with. she's a 20 year old art major. not any specific type of art, just art. so right now there are just the two of us sharing a bathroom, not too bad right? well, when i moved in i noticed that she didn't even bother to clean the bathroom and i thought, "oh great, she's never cleaned this bathroom" so i swept the floor and sure enough, i dont think it had ever been swept, she's lived in this apartment for a year. GROSS!!!!! so i decided to do a little compare and contrast secret photo mission to share with everyone.


enjoy!

p.s.

you bet your bottom dollar that's a scrunchie that she rocks from time to time!

 

goodbye my lover, goodbye my friend

there comes a time when we all must say goodbye to something that we love. for me that is my favourite pair of jeans and shoes. i've had so many good memories in these items and i tried my best not to have to ever let them go (including a 4 hour pinterest search for re purposing old denim) but sadly i must say goodbye. Goodbye first pair of designer jeans that i found at a buffalo exchange and goodbye first pair of vans classics that i wore on my first day of college. you will never be forgotten, thanks for the good times old friends.

All sexy men wear capes....not exactly

me

9:42 AM

mmm thor is in snow white...i might just go see it for him...i hate kristen stewart...she's horrible

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Travis Harley

9:42 AM

yeah but thor is in it

and he's awesome

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me

9:42 AM

yessssssssss he is mmmmmmmmmmmm yesyesyes

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Travis Harley

9:43 AM

its just his muscles

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me

9:43 AM

and his handsome face

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Travis Harley

9:43 AM

and his cape

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me

9:46 AM

psh the cape is a given

all sexy men have capes

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Travis Harley

9:48 AM

so you're saying wednesday nights.......... you want me to wear my business cape?

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me

9:49 AM

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

socks and a cape

gag

Thor

Travis and Robin

Are all men in capes sexy? I'll let you be the judge.....

deception

this is kind of cool. well not the lie part but still kind of cool...

Once upon a time...

once upon a time i used to make videos with my friend mandi.... it was great and i miss it.

just creating a time machine...nbd

lately i've been thinking of getting back into something that i love very much...photography. this is one amazing photographer:

can it be autumn yet?

i need the fall time.

fixed on it.

i think this video captures my exact feelings about riding my bike. there's not much like it. this is one of the few things that makes me feel so great and there's no comparison. i love my bike and i love to adventure on it. its such a great way to explore the city you live in, not to mention a huge stress release. there are virtually no cons to riding a bike, think about it... you get to go outside, explore your town or city and discover new places and have new adventures, you dont have to pay for gas, you get exercise, and you get a feeling of freedom. i will forever love my bike and everything about it.

 also here's a quick video on bikes by my good friend greg who loves bikes just as much as i do.

Happiness

my latest struggle has been to define happiness. i know true happiness can be found in the family but i also like what alfred hitchcock has to say about the matter.

Baby, remember on the bus and my hand was on your knee
When U love somebody it's hard to think about anything but to breathe
Baby, I am the cub who was washed out in the flood
When U love somebody and bite your tongue all you get is a mouthful of blood

happy valentines day.... and ish like that.

right, valentines day is today. honestly to me it sounds like just another tuesday nothing really special. infact the only thing that makes this valentines day really speacial is that i have a mechanics (mechanical engineering that is....not like the car stuff, lol) test tomorrow so i get to study for that. how exciting right?! the life of an engineer.

i guess there are things that you think of that have to do with love and marriage and family and friends and all of that romantic ish. i feel like a lot of times as girls we get all worried about relationships always assuming that something wont work out or that something is wrong. i mean, we're girls right?! its what we do for heaven sakes! so i was worried about this girly ish.

sometimes i pray to my HF to ask him what i should be doing or how i should be doing things and 90% of the time i feel like i dont get an answer. i think a lot of the time he allows me to make decisions on my own because he trusts that i'll do whats right and if i do what's right He'll let me know.

last night/this morning i decided to make one of those decisions on my own. at first i wasn't sure that the decision i was making would be a good one because lets face it, when we take our decisions to HF we all kind of feel inadequate, i mean talking to the most powerful being, the person who knows everything and saying, "hi, um...i've made this decision...is that okay?" its kind of scary. so i decided what i did and i let Him know.

i had to trust in myself and hope that this decision was a good one. and you know what? it was. 

im not much of a crier, in fact i hate crying. i hate it because it makes me feel week and usually when i cry its because i'm sad. thinking about it i've only really cried one time because i was happy. the day that that happened was my baptism. it was the best day. up until this morning that had been the only time i've ever been so overjoyed that i actually cried.

i dunno, i guess what i'm trying to get at is that i made a decision and told HF and now i know that everything is going to be alright. i know that He approves and now i dont have to worry anymore. 

one day.

one day someone will love me enough to do something this embarrassing...

Every girl's got her list

Every girl's got her list. You know the list you made in young womens (or in my case when my mom forced me to right before i went on my first date). The list of things you want in a future spouse. Frankly i never gave a crap about a list of things i wanted in a man because if you know me, for a very long time i was anti-marriage/dating/kissing/physical touch. haha. why? beacuse i'm awesome....just deal with it. anyway i never cared and when my mom made me write one out before i went to go visit my now ex-fiance (that still sounds weird, i wish there was another word for it, ex lover? nah....that sounds even worse)


when my mom made me do that, her intentions good, i could care less and i wrote down a bunch of crap not even thinking about it...there was absolutely no thought put into it whatsoever. i would also like to note that my mom was hovering over me as i wrote it so i'm pretty sure half of it is her ideas anyway...haha. 


here is the list i came up with:


1) LDS or christian (there's the mom)
2) easy going
3) sarcastic/witty
4) patient/slow to anger
6) smart
7) be able to make me laugh
7) affectionate
8) common sense
9) active/healthy
10) willing to let me work (come on kellie you idiot, then they just want you to work all the time!)
11) stylish
12) mac user
13) handsome
14) good with ninos (thats good with kids for all you non spanish speakers)
15) working towards/has degree
16) buys me gifts of any kind
17) random- likes to do random crap with me (yes i actually wrote the word crap)
18) quirky
19) not superficial/ down to earth
20) into music/musical/random music




i'd like to revise my list....i think this is maybe what i want?!?! then again i dont know.... then again maybe this list will change in the future after i've lived a little longer...i mean i dont think there could be one guy who will fit all of my requirements and be perfctly perfect in every way but you know thats okay as long as he gets most of the main ones right?!?! haha.



1) LDS or christian (there's the mom) Temple worthy! being LDS isn't gonna cut it anymore
2) easy going
3) sarcastic/witty
4) patient/slow to anger
6) smart
7) be able to make me laugh
7) affectionate
8) common sense
9) active/healthy
10) willing to let me work (come on kellie you idiot, then they just want you to work all the time!) willing to let me work until we decide to have children then i get to be a stay at home mom sucka!
11) stylish i can always change that, how about uses his priesthood and knows a lot about religious crap and is willing to talk about it with me
12) mac user yep, this one's staying in there
13) handsome
14) good with ninos (thats good with kids for all you non spanish speakers)
15) working towards/has degree and to add to this will be able/willing to support a family
16) buys me gifts of any kind i guess not buys me things as much as ISN'T CHEAP ( i hate that)
17) random- likes to do random crap with me (yes i actually wrote the word crap)
18) quirky
19) not superficial/ down to earth
20) into music/musical/random music
21) * treats me well and respects me, this is the most important i dont know how i could have left it out when i first wrote this list but you know what i was an idiot and i'll admit that.


So i guess thats what i want right now... hopefully someday i'll get it. i'm not gonna lie this young gentleman that i'm with now fulfills a lot of these requirements and as i get to know him better i hope he'll fulfill all of them but eh you never know where life is gonna take you so i'm just gonna wait it out and see what happens. until then i've got this nifty list to keep me in check.


cheers.


km

p.s.
you can thank a google search of "lds dating" for this awesome cheesin' image. ha.

15 pounds in 6 weeks...here goes nothin.

Well my friends as much as i love the holidays and food they were not kind to me this year! Haha. At family dinner we started this whiteboard where you write down your goals for the year. Everyone wrote down one and i got super ambitious and wrote "LOSE 15 LBS." yeah, thats right i wrote it in all caps! at the time i meant business. so i set out on the quest to lose those 15 extra buddies i've got hanging out on my belly. 


with the help of my friend Todd we set up a nice low carb diet for me to do. apparently like EVERYONE has done this diet. so i figured if everyone can do it so can kellie. this diet is practically no carbs which means what do i get to eat?! veggies and meat. (and sometimes legumes) yeah, so think about that for a bit.....that means NO BREAD!!! (and no dairy) AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! HEAVEN HELP ME!!! this is like the hardest thing of my life i am the queen of carbs and i loooove cheese!!!! its quite awful.


on the plus side i've alredy lost 4 pounds and its only been like three days. i attribute that to me drinking water like theres no tomorrow. i'm not gonna lie i'm starving!!!! ahhh!!! but in this diet you get one cheat day....oh cheat day i love you!!!


so if anyone has and good veggie/lean meat recipies pleeeeeeeeeeease let me know because i'm fairly sure that after a week i'll be sick of eating salads with grilled chicken. haha.


well as Jess would say....


The adventure begins!!!

Every Man...

So there is this little blog i read called hello giggles and its pretty much one of the most awesome things everrrr. does anyone remember reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird? yeah yeah yah i know it was like forever ago and we all probably hated it because our english teachers forced us to read it and write papers about it but hey its actually a pretty good book. well today on hello giggles i read this awesome article that i think YOU (and by YOU i mean everyone, yes i did just yell YOU) should read it!


enjoy!

How to Be a Real Man, Like Atticus Finch