I Tried... Now I Smell

If you read my self summary on the right side there, I said I try to do something new every day. I have to admit that I haven't quite kept my promises.

Today, I was thinking about this so I decided to try something new. That brought on the curry. I've heard about curry and always wanted to try it, but apparently it smells, or actually makes you smell.

I went to the Hale and Hearty right by where my appointment is today and they had Curried Chicken Chowder. It was so amazing. Not kidding. I could go back right now and eat a large bowl. Maybe I'll take it with me for the train ride home from New York.

Long story short: Mission accomplished.

Feel free to try some at your nearest Hale and Healthy.

No this is not a commercial.

xoxo Meila

Present Wrapping

Ah. The joys of Christmas. Lighting the Christmas tree, seeing the snow fall, having hot cocoa by a fire place.

None of that will be happening for me this Christmas. Not that I'm complaining by any means. I'll be getting my tan on.

One thing that never changes wherever you are, wrapping presents. It's great when you get the perfectly square box and the perfect amount of paper, but what about everything else? Have you ever tried wrapping a candle? Fail. You can try to make it look like a giant candy thing with ribbons on either side, but all that's going to get you is a torn present where they can already tell what it is.

Like I said: Fail.

So as I procrastinate from wrapping presents I will instead join my friends for a beer tasting at the local brewery. Yup. That sounds about right.

xoxo Meila

If I could fly, I would still drive.

There is nothing better then a road trip. Even if you are only driving 3 hours into the middle of Pennsylvania to go see your friends and you have an excuse to wear a fancy dress, that seems good enough for me.

The decorating and getting ready, that's all well and good. But there is nothing like drinking is a pretty dress, gorgeous heels, feeling beautiful, and having no one to impress but yourself when you look in the mirror.

I mean I like it. I don't know about anyone else though. :)

So if I could give you advice; it would be to take a road trip, long or short, as often as humanly possibly. Your friends will love you and your family will thank you.

Xoxo Meila

P.S. - I would not suggest eating fast food if you are going on a long trip. Instead, pack a healthy sandwich that won't make you feel the need to... Stop at a rest area. If you catch my drift. Hence my sad face. Especially if you don't like stopping to begin with.

Working Out Woes

No matter how hard I try, I've noticed that working out is never as good as when you're in a gym. You think to yourself, "Well, I'm already here and wasted gas to get to this building with machines in it so I might as well use them." Then, when you get inside you don't want to make yourself look like an idiot so you pretend like you're actually working out... which in turn causes you to actually work out.

Long story short, I'm going to Key West for the Holidays and I need to get back to that bikini body I had in the summer. The problem: it's December and my body is saying, "Umm... what do you think you're doing? It's freaking cold outside and I just had hot chocolate. I worked hard for you for those 3 months of beautifully warm weather and now it's my time. I know you think you're about to work out... but you're not. You're going to get that mat out to the living room and then stretch for an hour."

I'm glad I know what my body would say if it had a mouth... other then the one run by me.

ANYWAY. So I've been meaning to workout all day and then I came upon this picture and said... "If this banana can do it, I can do it."

So here I am blogging about how I'm going to workout... while I'm not working out. I'm stretching. On the yoga mat in my living room.

OkTimeToWorkOut.Bye.

xoxo Meila

P.S. I found this picture here. =)

Go Go Gadget... Camera Arm!!

I'm on a mission to find cute things and take pictures of them. Since Thanksgiving I haven't taken many photos and I feel as though I should... or have myself an adventure. One of those adventures is applying to internships, but I'm going to need to have a goal at the end of all that to drive me to do them and actually finish them. Let's be honest... no one likes paper work.

Here's my idea for inspiration. I'm already getting a pedicure with my friend Meghan tonight so I'm thinking I can look for something to put on my little piggies. Actually, to be frank, they are not very little. I was born with swimmers feet. They aren't gigantor or anything... just long lol. You catch my drift.

If anyone has any ideas for cute pedicures let me know. Also, keep in mind... I'm going to the Florida Keys for the holidays. I'm thinking fun colors are a must.

xoxo Meila


P.S. - Kudos to my pledge sister, Kera, for taking this picture of it. I'm ironically in everything favorite. Shirt, shoes, jeggings, and of course my camera.

Netflix Doodles

I was always jealous of people who could doodle. Well, ok, let me rephrase. Everyone can doodle. I'm jealous of people who can doodle and doodle well. As many times as I have tried I always just ended up with checkers all over my pages. This was also, almost always, in math class. Math just never sat right with me unfortunately.

ANYWAY. I was on Stumble Upon (.com) and came across this blog that featured doodles on Netflix packages. Pure genius.

I wonder if the owner of Netflix wanted people to do this and therefore said, "Make the package as plain as possible. I want to see if anyone draws on it."

If so, thats awesome.


xoxo Meila

Ring Box

With Christmas just around the corner, I've been making gifts upon homemade gifts for all of my loved ones. I Wanted to take a break and making something for me. I was cleaning off my dresser and organizing it and realized I needed some boxes.

I have a jewelry tree, but there is only place for earring and necklaces... so where am I supposed to put my rings?

I love my rings. They needed a home.

I went to Michaels and got myself a 4x5 cardboard box, cute letter stickers, key decals, and navy spray paint.

I was very impressed when Dave set me up a little work shop in his garage to spray paint, considering I was making something girly, but it was nice to have his help.

First I painted the top and bottom of the box over newspaper. I chose not to spray paint the insides because I didn't want anything to get on the rings just in case.

I let them sit for about 2 hours then put on a second coat and that's when I let it sit for the night.

In the morning... it was dry, but it was very much stuck to the newspaper and I realized my coat might have been a little heavy, so be careful of that.

After carefully peelings the lid and box off the paper I used sandpaper to clean up the edges as well as give it kind of that, antique feel.

The easiest part was placing my pearl letter stickers and keys. They fit quite nicely on my dresser top =). I know I'm happy. Spruce up yours to meet your personal style.

Next project? The letter "E".

xoxo Meila

P.S. - Apologies for the iPhone photo... my camera is in my Jeep and I just didn't have the energy to go outside today lol.