blog – Just a Dash

My own worst enemy

April 17, 2013by SymoneFLeave a Comment

At the beginning of the year, we set a goal – at least one vacation for ourselves. No one that we know is allowed to be there and we will explore somewhere new together. For the last two years, we set this goal but it hasn’t happened. Mainly due to the fact that we are in that season of our lives where friends are getting married and ~~most~~ all of them are out of state/country. We have two weddings coming up in the Caribbean and that means I would like to go out and get as much sun as I could which equals bikini wearing.

My mid-section has always been my trouble area. It also doesn’t help that I have a short torso. So I have about 6 weeks or so before these trips begin so I’ve taken it upon myself to start Pilates. The real reason behind Pilates is that I have very tight muscles and after trying one private session, I realised it would be more beneficial to me than Yoga. I am now registered for unlimited monthly mat classes and I intend to do this with my personal training to get as close to my “dream body” as possible while getting a stretch that I hate doing on my own.

I really like it. Or I really like how the people at Nancy Wallace Pilates have made me feel while doing it lol. I think their attitude has made me definitely want to return and inspired me to keep it up. They’ve been great in pushing me past my limits without making me feel like I’m really out of shape. I want to walk taller and sit better and “scoop my tummy in a little more”. I will be going the day after my personal training to help stretch out any soreness that may be brewing.

Coupled with a few dietary changes (no alcohol, no fried foods and a reduction in “white foods”) I’m hoping to be more than bikini ready when I leave for vacation. I’ll be sure to pack as many body-conscious skirts and dresses as I can without any help(spanx) lol.

I’m my own worse enemy.

Only I can criticize myself more than you can.

It’s up to me to do something about the way I look and feel as no one else can do it for me.

So enough complaining. I’m putting my foot down.

While working on my sweet tooth.

I can do this. I’ll get my fat ass to work. I’m bringing my sexy back ;).

I’ll try to do the cupcake shop once a week… Twice max!

Shit… those meringues look good.

This will be hard. But I will do it. I have to.

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Drawing Inspiration

April 10, 2013by SymoneFLeave a Comment

I’ve been really drowning myself into my other blog. It’s based on something that I think about daily and I’m so happy to share with others my “obsessions”. Part of my inspiration for that blog comes from magazines. I love flipping the pages, smelling the perfume, cutting out pictures – some things technology could never replace. Yes, I may be able to have a virtual pin board like Pinterest or Polyvore, but they don’t offer me perfume samples or little cards that I can keep at bay with 5 colors that go well with gray.

With this blog, I like to share life experiences and that comes with everyday things. My struggle to keep fit, eat healthy, share recipes, rant and offer inspiration where I can.

Blogging is very personal. If you don’t have many followers, you are opening up yourself to a few that you may not even know. A few who may know more about you than your family. But it is also something that you want to be of substance, not always a ramble that fails to draw in readers and keep them interested and return to your blog or even subscribe. I wish I had more subscribers but I have this reservation about really putting my blog out there – basically pushing it down people’s throats. I like that people read one post and find me interesting enough to subscribe and see what I have to offer in the future.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I don’t feel like I should post just because. If I take a while to post in between, trust me I’ve started and deleted posts and just left it until I felt like I had something worth sharing. To push posts constantly that lack substance will only get people uninterested.

I sometimes find it amazing that I can sit and watch the world go by but I could never retain information long enough to put it in a post. My mind is like 10 trains going through a squiggly maze and I have to try to pick one train and focus on where I want to go with it. With that being said, I love notebooks. Writing my thoughts or a quick blog post on my phone is sometimes very important because I become so overwhelmed by my thoughts and you can also see y passion/excitement when I do a quick post. It’s like I’m screaming “I HAD TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU!”. And I’m kind of feeling like I have to share with you now.

Hopefully I can keep on this role of being inspired and maybe keep you inspired as well.

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Lipsticks and Round Tips

November 26, 2012by SymoneFLeave a Comment

Over the weekend I started something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time – start a beauty/fashion blog! Yay! One thing that prevented it from happening was not having a name for it, and I guess that they way this name came about it was meant to be. I give you Lipsticks and Round Tips! I was testing different names to see what was available and entered this, and by mistake I hit Enter and then it was born.

Every week I’ve been finding out that people read my blog that I had no idea would. I still live in my own little world that it’s not doing as well as it does sometimes. Seeing that it was a few males that let me in on this I had a little extra nudge to get this going after my sister-in-law insisted that I start it. I just want to be able to share girly stuff and reviews on products I’ve tried and some of my favorite items fashion wise. I am no expert in doing make-up or the know-it-all on every fashion trend but I keep up to date and I take to certain things more than others and I just want to be able to give my input and not be a drag to the males reading :D.

So go on over and check it out, let me know what you think. If you have any ideas or suggestions on things you’d like me to check out or try for you please feel free. In the new year I will definitely be posting every single week, I have a lot coming up for the holidays so you will see a few posts about holiday stuff but after events have passed.

Thank you in advance for your support and share with your friends! I want to know what you think :).

Thank you!