A Beautiful Mess App

GUYS!

In case you've been living under a rock the A Beautiful Mess App came out today and it's amazing! Elsie and Emma are obviously the queens of the blog world and getting to have a little bit of their creativity at your fingertips is amazing!

Check out some of my creations:

OH and no big deal but Emma liked my photo! Fangirled all over the place!

Yeah. I'm pretty excited about it...obvs.

Anywho.. GO buy the app. It's gorgeous! Those girls sure know what they are doing!

xoTaylor

Secret of the Week

Mother's Day Edition!

Some of the secrets were mean this week (actually most of them). Makes me sad and grateful, even though I don' always act as nicely towards my mother as I should. Let's count our blessings this week instead of taking inventory on our wrongs.

xoTaylor

Who wants to win stuff??

Heyyyyyy y'all! Who wants to win this amazing prize?

That's right! You can win a gorgeous Amazon Kindle filled with six books by some incredibly inspiring authors! This is part of the campaign that I'm working on for my internship! Trust me, these books are actually amazing. Go to https://www.facebook.com/WomenWhoRunIt  to enter the sweepstakes.

I'll also be writing an article about each of the authors that will coming out in the Women Who Run It weekly e-mag. Sign up for that while you're on their Facebook page. Seriously do it.

The prize giveaway if June 15th so get your butt over there and enter. Besides this amazing prize, we will also be giving away prizes from Lulu Lemon and Victoria's Secret. Talk about the perfect giveaway.

Now go enter! Do it!

xoTaylor

Currently

*I'm part of the work at home crew! (It's fun!)

Obsessing over: She & Him Volume 3! I just downloaded it this morning and gosh Zooey Deschannel can do no wrong. Besides having the best album artwork that I've seen in a long time, this album has got me hooked on my first listen. I want the record now!
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Working on:  my internship responsibilities! I work from home for my internship Monday, Wednesdays and Thursdays. This has been my first week and it's been very full and very fun. It's crazy to me that I started with so little direction on Monday morning and here I am on Thursday with so much done and so much to do. I can't wait for the first article to come out and share it with you!
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Thinking about: jobs. I sent out more resumes for jobs in Toronto this week and I'm really hoping to hear back soon. Gosh I never thought that a job search could take so long and be so stressful. 

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Feeling: sleepy sleepy sleepy. Boy have I had a very full week. The weekend needs to get here ASAP so I can sleep in and do absolutely nothing!
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Wanting: to have a very productive day today. I'm feeling a tad bit...unfocused this morning (hence me blogging right now). I think a bucket of coffee is in order to get me out of this little morning funk!
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Wishing for: Jordan to just come home already! He's been gone since Monday and probably won't even be home until late tomorrow night. His new job took him up north on his second week! He's been working in cottage country and staying in a nice cottage in the woods, having fires every night and eating bbq'd food. That part I'm jealous of, the 11 hour days...not so much.

Sorry this is a day late! My day was incredibly full yesterday! I interned from 9-2. Did training videos from 2-5. Went on a jog with Tessa at 5:30. Came home, ate, wrote an article for my internship and then Erika dragged me to the gym with her! BUSY!

Well, off to chug some coffee, dance around to She & Him and then get back to work.

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xoTaylor

Weekend Update

*A lot of frozen treats were consumed this weekend*

This weekend was one of my best yet. I had no school and no work to worry about. I was a free bird and I definitely took advantage of it. 

Friday night Jordan and I went to a BBQ at Erika's house for her mom's birthday. Poor Jordan ended up being the only boy there because Erika's boyfriend had to work but we still had fun. After we came home we brewed up some coffees and cuddled up on the couch to watch Seven Pyschopaths. We love that movie.

Saturday was a wonderfully lazy day. We went to the market in the morning and I bought some beautiful flowers and even some herbs to make an herb garden. I love it! I'll share it with you soon! I was babysitting (dogsitting?) Clyde this weekend so I took him for a very long walk when I got home. It was absolutely beautiful out and so relaxing. When I got home Jordan and I went out for dinner to our favourite Thai restaurant and then out for frozen yogurt. Dee-lish. I had the night to myself after so I hung at home watching girly movies and painting my nails.

Sunday I woke up with zero plans but found my day quickly filled. I went out to breakfast with my family and then immediately after went for a bike ride with Jordan. It was so awesome! First ride of the season. We biked all around town and stopped to grab some ice cream. Jordan got bubblegum and I got Rainbow Sorbet. How funny is his ice cream choice? Silly boy. I headed to the gym right after that with Erika and we worked our butts off...literally. We're finally back to our pre-Florida stamina. I went home and showered and then picked Erika up again so we could go out for a girls dinner. It was such a good dinner. I loved seeing those ladies! After we went out for frozen yogurt. I just couldn't say no! That's right people three frozen yogurt/ice cream trips in two days. I REGRET NOTHING!

Well I have about five minutes until I will be starting my first day at my internship. It's a bit weird because it's all from home so I'm literally sitting at my desk right now in my pyjamas drinking a coffee! Talk about my kinda job! 

Wish me luck!

xoTaylor

Secret of the Week

xoTaylor

Florida Fun

My trip to Florida was one of my favourite vacations so far! It was so fun to be with some of my favourite people and to get to enjoy the sun while everyone at home was freezing their butts off! Here are a couple of shots from the week:

Jordan and I did not start off our vacation on the best foot. We missed our connecting flight in Chicago and ended up being stuck there for six hours! That made us very late and Erika and Jon had to wait at the condo for us to get in and drive from Tampa! We finally got in at 11pm and we were all dying of starvation so we found one of the only open restaurants and devoured some food together. The rest of the week was pure perfection. We went to Busch Gardens (a theme park/zoo), we went to the beach, hung by the pool, ate delicious food, shot guns (we're officially Americans now!) and just had a good time. It was the perfect way to relax post-exams! We were all very sad to go home.

When I got home I immediately hugged my favourite family member (don't worry, he's everyone's favourite too):

I LOVE HIM!

I've been busy since I've been back! I worked the first two days (lame) and I finally had the day off today but I had to wake up early to have an orientation over skype for my new internship. Did I mention I got the internship!? I'm pretty excited about it. It's gonna be a lot of work but I'm really excited to do something to forward my journalism career and writing for this e-mag will be great! It's geared to women so I feel like I am an expert already haha. I start Monday so I'm kind of nervous!

Well that's what I've been up to. Relaxing and having the time of my life and then getting slapped in the face with reality and all the responsibilities that come with it!

This afternoon I'm meeting up with my friend Tessa for coffee. She's one of my dearest friends (been close since grade school) and I haven't seen her since December because she's been in British Columbia for school. Needless to say, we have a lot of catching up to do.

Enjoy your Thursday pals. The blog will be back to the normal schedule next week.

xoTaylor