Living Social Deal: Starbucks

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Here is a link to get a $10 giftcard to Starbucks for $5!! 8 more hours left to get this awesome deal!!


oxox,

Emily 

Friday Funk and Funk-busting

I'm going to be real honest. 

I hate goodbyes. I hate them. I despise them. 

I've grown up with these friends and saying goodbye to them yesterday was just downright torture. I have friends headed to Arkansas, Arizona and other places in Missouri. 

I tried to hold it all in last night, and I did ok until the drive home. It was raining and of course I had on some sad music and I lost it.

I woke up this morning and I was in a total funk. 100% ican'tbelievemyfriendslefttodayidon'twanttotalktoanyone funk. I sat in bed and sulked. Yes. I am a child. 

These are the friends I've grown up with, fought with, laughed with, cried with, and lived life with. I know that people grow up and time marches on. It's part of life, but it doesn't make it any easier.

annnnnd, if I was leaving for college today, it'd be no big. But I have one more week at home and y'all can just pray that it passes by real quick like.

I decided that getting dressed up and going out would be good for me. Starbucks and some unnecessary shopping at Target with Kyle would do the trick. 

And blasting music and singing at the top of our lungs was part of our afternoon. 

Just getting a little bit of fresh air and getting my mind off it. Sometimes, that's all you need.

Oh and working a double tomorrow too.


Tell me what your funk busters are. I'd love to know. 


I'm out.

It's OK Thursday

It's ok that I'm ticked because my perfect sunburn suntan is peeling off. Ewws


It's ok that I'm not wanting the summer to pass by too quickly. 


It's ok that I'm obsessed whenever my toe nails and finger nails match.


It's ok that I have an extra bikini, hammock, and towel in my car at all times.


It's ok that I check a package's tracking repeatedly until it arrives.


It's ok that I want to know my college roommate sooner that July 15th!


It's ok that I have an obsession with Target. Period.


It's ok that I'm in a rut at Starbucks right now. I order the same drink, same size.


It's ok that I'm redoing my blog design again


It's ok that I'm mad whenever the new people at work get more hours than me.


It's ok to agree to disagree on something.


Happy Thursday,


oxox,


Emily 

Gray to May

Almost May anyway...

I LOVE spring! Spring means summer is coming and that is my FAV season! We go from gray of winter to bright and fun! 


This is what I've loved about April! 


*The weather. It has been mostly gorgeous with some rain and cold nights in classic Branson fashion


*Nail polish shades for spring are so fun! Robin's egg blue and coral kiss are my favs!


*Jewelry in coral and anything white make me so happy!


*Easter! I found the perfect dress from Apricot Lane and I'm so in love! 


*Starbucks! I went from ordering white chocolate mochas or carmel macchiatos to caramel frappachinos and passionfruit sweet tea lemonade! 


*I can still wear scarves, just light airy ones instead of thick warm ones.


*It's the perfect weather for shorts and long sleeves or jeans and a tank!


*I can wear my chacos again!! Anybody else a chaco lover?


*April was the last full month of school for me. Speaking of which, graduation is in 5.days. 


Happy Monday!


Love,


E

Spring Favorites

Today, I'm linking up with Neely and Amber to show my favorite things about Spring! Spring is by far my FAVORITE season! 


My color crush this spring is: Coral!

I love my Chacos. I'm heading to the park today with a friend and I can't wait to do some hiking and wading in the creek. Chacos are perfect for that!

I love weather that looks like this!

I love spring scarves. Remember my post here? If you need some handy dandy ways to tie scarves this is your post!!

I love this tweet from my friend Addie last night! I know it has nothing to do with spring but i thought I would share.

I'm so excited to be buying a hammock soon! Spring is the perfect weather for that!

I love these Tory Burch shoes for spring! Coral again...

I love spring drinks from Starbucks! I especially love passionfruit sweet tea lemonade. 

I love spring because it means graduation in 38 days!!! I'm so excited!!! I will NEVER have to be in high school again. 

Spring is a great reminder to get into shape for summer!! Speaking of which, I need to get back into running. I slipped a little bit while I was out of town!

I love spring nailpolish! There are so many bright, fun colors! I'm obsessed with the Essie spring2012 collection. 

      What about you? What are your spring favs! Is is weather, food, friends, clothes? Make sure to go link-up with Neely or Amber!

Giveaway Winner

Winner of my Starbies Giveaway is:


#24 Alyssa from Diary of Me! 


Congrats!


Please email me your address:
eduncan93@gmail.com


OXOX
Emily 

Last day to enter my Starbucks giveaway!

Last day to enter my $10 Starbies giveaway! I even added another way to enter, making a grand total of +9 ways to get entries! I'll post the winner tomorrow morning! good luck!

Emily 

What I'm Loving Wednesday

I'm loving that it's 60 degrees today and it totally feels like Spring! 


I'm loving that I won another giveaway this weekend from Tara! :)


I'm loving that I leave for Israel in 2 weeks! 


I'm loving that I found this Northface for half price!

I'm loving that my check from my grandpa came!


I'm loving this dress I found on Modcloth! 

I'm loving that I had a starbies date with my little brother! I luff him!

I'm loving that I'm figuring out who will be taking my senior pictures!

I'm loving that I'm getting my voice back little by little!

I'm loving all the new music on my iPod!

I'm loving that I've had extra time with the sibs this week!

I'm loving the fun silver nailpolish I have on right now!

I'm loving that I'm working the coffee shop at church tonight!

Happy Wednesday! 

Top 10 Tuesday: Bucket List

Here we go for week 3 of Top 10 Tuesday! Show me the Top 10 things on your bucket list! Note: this is not an impossible bucket list ie: climb Mt. Kilimanjaro    or win the Nobel Peace Prize. I want goals that I know I can probably reach. Luckily for me, I found most of mine in picture form via Pinterest! I can't wait to see what is on y'all bucket lists! 

1-

2-

The way that I'm in a starbucks rut,

it could take quite a while!

3-

4-

I've never done this before.

Summer 2012?

5-

I live no where NEAR a beach,

therefore it goes on the bucket list.

6-

ahhh Paris and London.

someday

7-

I've been to about half of them 

and driven through about 35. 

8-

I'm always changing my mind about what

 I want to do when I "grow-up" ha! 

remember this post? 

Hopefully, I'll have a job that travels!

9-

Yes I know! This is simple.

It seems easily reachable.

But, I don't see it happening for at least 10 years

therefore it goes on the bucket list.

10- 

This seems like something that shouldn't

be on a bucket list, because it should come

so naturally. Something that isn't a life goal.

not for me my friends!

Happy Valentine's Day too! :)

Starbucks Giveaway!

Giveaway Time!!

Since I didn't do anything for my 1 year blogoversary or my 100th post, I thought today would be a good day for a giveaway. Snow is falling and I could really go for a White Chocolate Mocha from Starbies right now! Too bad the roads are awful! :(

Here is a just a little something to cheer you up! The giveaway will go through the end of February! and i'm trying Rafflecopter for the first time. We'll see how it goes! :) good luck! 

PS: if I get to 100 blog followers, I'll giveaway a 2nd giftcard!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Meet Me

I'm SO excited to be linking up with Neely from A Complete Waste of Makeup today! I've linked up with Neely before because she co-hosts the fun It's OK Thursday link-up! I thought I would share a little bit about me and hopefully get to meet some new bloggy friends in the process!

1. Tell us why you blog

I started blogging right around a year ago. I wanted my family and friends to be able to read about my life (if they wanted to of course). I took a big blogging break over the summer, but started back again full swing in the Fall. Most importantly, I've loved meeting blog friends and finding out that we all have alot in common. I've loved the support system I've gotten, most recently for my efforts in running a 5K! I've loved all the fun link-ups I've participated in and the giveaways I've won too! :)

2. Tell us about your blog

My blog is called a Beautiful Beginning. (I'm guessing you saw that already tho). My blog designer, Jenn, helped me pick this out and I love it! I'm about to graduate high school and go to college. I'm on the beginning of becoming my own person and branching out. I'm in the middle of figuring out who I really am. I love what we came up with!

My blog is a little big of everything. I blogged about Pinterest, friends, music, coffee (hello Starbucks), running, and everything in between. I don't have just one "type" of thing that I talk about. Queen of random! :)

3. Tell us about you

I'm 18 years old and I'm a Senior in High School!!! whoop whoop! I'm almost done! Graduation is on May 5th! My family is very close. I'm a daddy's girl through and through! I have 3 siblings. I love to have fun and be crazy! I'm not a morning person. I love staying up late with a cup of coffee or tea and watching TV, blogging, or reading a book! I dream of being a big name blogger. A girl can dream right??!

* I LOVE Target. and i can spend alot of money there in a short amount of time. It's a weakness. I walk in to buy 1 thing and walk out with $116 worth of stuff. True story.

* I love random. I am random.

* I use exclamation points and capitals for no special reason at all.

* I love coffee, especially if it's Starbucks! * I love all things Vera Bradley. I especially love Hope Garden.

* I love spring. fresh starts, warm weathers, shorts, work, flowers!

* I love loud. I shout almost everything I say. I have no shame. I love to be fun and I love to be loud!

* I try to be real, especially on my blog.

* I love shoes

* I could eat blackolives by the can. Oh wait! I already do that! I think I'm secretly Italian!

4. Tell us about your job

I have two jobs actually. Because I'm still in high school, I do most of my work in the summer/fall. I work about 50 hours a week in the summer! I've worked at Cold Stone Creamery for 2 years! World's best ice cream not that I'm biased! Last May, I started a job for Adventure Ziplines. I'm a photog, front-desk girl, ATV driver, you name it I've probably done it (besides being an actual guide because you have to be a guy and you have to be strong. two things I am not :) I love it there! I've said it before but they are def my 2nd fam!

5. Tell us about your city

I live in Branson, Missouri! The "show-capital" of the world! I LOVE it here. Summer is my favorite season, probably because "the strip" (Hwy 76) is packed full of tourists. Cold Stone is out the door with customers and the ziplines take full tours every 15 minutes. I work all day and then hang out with friends/co-workers until 2am at McDonalds after we close! Branson's weather is SO weird. It snowed last night but it was 65 deg. the entire month of January! It's so unpredictable but i LOVE it! There is so many fun things to do here too! I've lived here for 8 years now, the longest I've ever lived anywhere! It really is a great little town!

6. Tell us about your favorite activities/hobbies/things to do.

I love hanging out with friends. I love cooking/baking. I have a HUGE sweet-tooth! I love taking pictures and posting them all over facebook :) social media queen right here! Recently, I've loved running, especially outside! I love my church and my smallgroup I'm in. I love blogging: reading and finding blogs, as well as writing my own.

I just started a new link-up on Tuesdays called Top 10 Tuesday! We've done food, music, and tomorrow with be the Top 10 things on your bucket list!

I can't wait to meet some new bloggers in Neely's link-up today! Thanks for letting me share a little about me!

Happy Monday!

It's Ok Thursday

It's OK:

* There is snow on the ground. Branson is finally in for some winter weather

* That today is a sweatpants day *see above statement*

* That I've gotten 13 more followers on Twitter this month

* That I want to graduate SO bad. Senioritus much? 114 days

* That I LOVE painting my nails, but don't always make time for it

* That I'm tired, but I'm finished the first 5 days of C25K

* I've had Coffee or Hot Chocolate every day this week

* I've had multiple Starbucks dates this week too.

Monday Randoms: back to the real world

~Christmas break is over. No more staying up till 1am or later watching movies and drinking hot chocolate. No more hanging out with friends during the day or all hours of the night. No more being lazy in PJ's all day. These two weeks have gone by way too fast.

~This also means no more sleeping in till 11am or later. boo. 6am here I come. I am NOT a morning person.

~I start back school tomorrow. I'm not excited to start, but I am excited to know that this is my last semester of high school. ever. period. i'm done with high school after this. am i really this old??

~I'm hanging out at Starbucks with Addie tonight. It'll be fun. It always is. I LOVE being with her. It'll be a perfect way to say goodbye to Christmas break.

~I'm starting C25K today. I'm excited to be exercising and getting in shape. It's a 9 week program. My goal is to run a 5K by March. I need all the encouragement I can get! :)

~ We're hanging out with Celia today. She's flying in to Branson and we get to spend the day with her! I love her :)

~I have a ton of talk about. I'll probably end up writing a 2011 recap post and a 2012 looking forward post :)

oxox,

Emily

Monday Randoms

I haven't done one of these posts in a looooong time! my apologies. So, here we go! Get ready for this, it's going to be long!

~Christmas Break. It's finally here. I can't believe my last fall semester of high school is done! Time flies.

~2011 is coming to a close. It's the 19th of December. Time flying by again. But honestly, I'm ok with it. I'm ready to be done with High School.

~I picked up my final check at the ziplines today. I can't believe that the 2011 season is coming to a close. I won't be working there again until Spring of 2012. I will miss it for sure! I'm blessed with wonderful bosses and I've made some of the best friends, and big brothers that a girl can ask for. It was a highlight of my summer/fall/2011 for sure!

~Tonight, we went to Dixie Stampede for their Christmas Show. The show is good but the food is incredible. I ate all of my food, plus some of my siblings. I enjoy food, what can I say :)

~Speaking of food, I eat alot and that being said, I need to get in shape. I'm tired of being tired. I'm tried of being out of breath and having awful cardio. I just wanna feel better and get fit. I bought the C25K app this summer and did nothing with it. It sat on my iPhone. I looked at it and refused to try it. But, after talking with multiple poeple and reading blogs (Dawn, Mary-Kay, and Katie) I've decided to give it a go! It's a 8-9 week program, so hopefully by Spring I'll be running a 5K!

~I had coffee with Addie last night! literally love the girl! O and she agreed to run a 5K with me. She'll push me and that's what I need.

~This week I found out that one of my guy friends in going to Israel with me. That means my friend Emily, myself, and Malachi will be going! I am SO excited! There is also a group on facebook for Israel2012, and I got to connect with some of the other High School seniors who will be going. I can't wait!!!

~I love Christmas break because it means staying up late, sleeping in, drinking hot chocolate, coffee, and watching Christmas movies!

~On Friday I turn 18. I'm old. I don't plan on doing anything crazy.

~NBA starts in 6 days.

~Because my birthday is this week, my inbox has been flooded with all my free offers for Starbucks, Cold Stone, Fuddruckers etc etc etc. More reasons that I need to run a 5K

~I bought my first pair of Miss Me's last night at Apricot Lane! I've been wearing them today and I LOVE them!! They were totally worth the money I spent. I also love the back pockets and the way that they sparkle. Butt bling ha!

~My car is almost to 90,000 miles. Random fact from the queen of random.

~I only asked for 3 things for Christmas/Birthday combined. They were 3 pairs of shoes. One of my favorite quotes is from Marilyn Monroe. "If you give a girl the right shoes, she can conquer the world"

Happy Monday!

Love,

E

It's OK Thursdays

Today, I'm linking up with Cait and talking about It's OK. This is my first time participating and i'm very excited!

* That my senior year is flying by. My 1st semester of high school is almost done

* My CofO interview is tomorrow which is the final step in the admission process

* It was 55 degrees in Branson yesterday

* I'll be 18 in one week

* I leave for Israel in 85 days

* I graduate in 142 days

* I have my graduation party planned. Date, location, and invites done.

* That somedays my hair goes into a ponytail.

* I have less sleep because it means staying up late with the people I love the most

* I have over 50 Christmas movies at my house to watch

* That I've had Starbucks 6+ times in the past 10 days

What are you ok with?

Happy Thursday!

25 Things about Me

My friend Cait, over at Fit, Fierce and Fabulous is doing 25 things about me. I thought I'd join the bandwagon so ya'll can get to know me. I feel like I've been a little bit out of the blogging loop between Thanksgiving and working a TON over Black Friday. I apologize!

Feel free to write 25 things about you on your blog, and leave me with the link.

1-I LOVE Starbucks!

2-I love everything about summer time. no school, shorts, Chacos, work, it's perfect.

3-I can't handle scary movies, like barely even Star Wars. It's bad.

4-I say like ALOT, especially when I get excited.

5- I've had 3 surgeries on my mouth alone. That's about 3 too many.

6- I've lived in 6 different states. West and East Coast.

7- I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm realizing the consequences of that.

8-I have a freakishly weird memory. Like little, small details. Don't judge.

9-I have no food allergies.

10-I won't leave the house without my purse, chapstick, iPod, and my phone.

11-I'm addicted to Target. I spend way to much money there. Our Target also has a Starbucks which is double trouble.

12- I tweet all the time, but I'm awful at #hashtagging. Truth.

13- I don't like mustard, cottage cheese, miracle whip, or pickle relish. I will only eat a little bit of mayo.

14- I would love to be a famous blogger. We'll see how that works out because I have 39 followers right now. ha!

15- I can be very sarcastic. fluent actually.

16- I'm very honest.

17- I'm scared of clowns and mascots at football/basketball games. I will scream and run away.

18- I'm also scared when people jump out and scare me. I will scream bloody murder, and start running.

19- I love music! all kinds, artists and genres. I love finding new music and having my own personal jam sesh in the car.

20- I don't like frosting on my cake or cheese on my pizza. un-American?! sure.

21- I love my Chacos and wear them all the time, or I did in the summer. I still have a Chaco tan and it's almost December. I love it.

22- I love to dance, but I can't do "it". I look like a mad women, or a fool.

23- I'm not athletic at all. I don't run. But I am very competitive, so if somebody challenges me, I will take them! win or lose.

24- I'm a night owl. I would rather stay up late and work than have to get up early anyday.

25- I love to travel. I want to go to Europe, and do the Italy, France, England, Scotland tour. I'd really love to go to London next summer for the 2012 summer olympics. wishful thinking...