Monday Recap.
Well let's get this show on the road.. I've got a lot to cover here so let's get started. 
. Okay, let's see.. I wanted to first point out the website changes again that's going to take place, haha. It's pretty much me just going to add scheduled posts on here to bring my website some type of consistency and order. I really hate the idea of having to do that, but right now I'm in the process of moving to a new apartment so I'll be really busy. However, I don't want to go on hiatus or drop my site for a while. I had to think of a way to keep going without having to spend too much time thinking about what to write.
Anyway, like I mentioned I'm in the process of moving out. <3 and I are moving back in with my mom for the time being maybe for just a year or so. It'll make the expenses so much better for all of us, plus our job, school, and friends is in that area. We live a little bit far from everyone which makes it a drag to go out. It'll be great once we move back into the valley, so as of right now our current apartment is a total mess. There's boxes and shit everywhere and it's going to be super time consuming to box everything up. We're not really going to be officially moving into the new place until the end of Feb, beginning of March. Although, that's not far from now and the packing itself is going to take up the time. Plus we're going to need to clean up, carpet clean, and repaint the walls. I'm very excited to be honest! The thing is I'm going to miss the apartment that <3 and I made our first home together. Changes are good and always for the better, but you can't help but miss what's the past. I guess it's time to just make new memories.. good thing there's always a camera 
for that one. Wish me luck, and I'll try my best to blog hop since the only chance I get to do it is at work, 
Okay let's start off the weekend talk.. Uhm, last Thursday was when Ryu had his doctor's appointment. Poor thing had to get shots and well he's usually not the type to get sick or anything, but this time the shots got the best of him. He woke up Thursday morning with a cold, and I suppose the shots just pushed him into getting a fever. If you follow me on twitter or on facebook, you'll definitely know how upset I am with how stupid his pediatrician is, GAH. He's doing much better now still has the runs, but at least he's not holding a fever. I'm glad that it's over with..
I know it's kind of messed up to take a picture of Ryu while he was sick, but I couldn't help but capture the moment. The rag on his head was suppose to just be on his forehead, but he kept squirming around. My baby was running a fever of 100.4 here, and we had just given him baby tylenol and the warm wet rag. That rag trick actually helps. It sucked up all the heat that he had. He wanted to play in his bouncer in no time.
This weekend we went to the cuzzo's house. We spent the whole weekend there and that's why I thought it was my mini vacation. I had a blast, but not many pictures were taken. I have a couple webcam pictures, but those are all on <3's laptop. I'll most likely post those up tomorrow or something. So here's me taking a picture of myself as I was getting ready to pack stuff for the weekend.
Before Top from Reflections, Leggings from Cotton-On
After Shirt from Pacsun, and Jeans from Forever 21
I actually wanted to go over this a little before I continue with the weekend, but I've lost 14 lbs so far since I've started my weight loss plan. I started January 1st, and I think I'm doing good so far. I'm losing weight at this rate because I don't workout, but I bet if I did it'd be a bigger difference.
Here I'm not sure if you can tell, but these were the only 2 pictures I have that had the gap from December til now. Btw, I hate the picture I used for my "before" part. Although, it's the only picture that I had that captured how blah I looked so I used it. The one on the left was taken this last weekend. I can see a difference, or maybe it's just my cheesy smile not being as big,
I'm planning to lose another 20 lbs. My goal really is to lose another 30, but we'll see how each day goes by first. I'm not really in a hurry, but it's nice to see results every week!
Alright back to my weekend adventure. It was super fun. We actually went swimming Saturday evening after it had stopped raining (that's probably the reason why I feel like shit now, but whatever). I had such a blast hanging out although, my sleep schedule is really messed up now. I don't think any of us slept until the following morning. We cooked breakfast, and our friend Miche made some delicious cream puffs. I wish I had more pictures from the weekend, but I guess I just completely forgot to take any pictures!
These are the main pictures that I got that was good quality. I honestly enjoyed the weekend. It was such a great one! I guess that's pretty much it for now. I'm going to plan my scheduled posts and blog hop when I can.
March Challenge!
Okay, I got this from one of my groups from Goodreads! So kudos to them for it, but I also changed it around a bit. I decided to do a challenge and pick a winner for this! There are only a couple rules as to joining this February Challenge! This is going to end February 18! Okay, so this isn't your typical makeup madness challenge, but that's the beauty of it since I will be giving away a good prize I think that this will be worth it! It'll also expand your mind a bit which is why I want you all to do it! It's a great way to learn a little more about different types of people, genre's, categories besides makeup.
Requirements:
- Follow me (you don't have to have a website, but you can see on my sidebar I have google friend connect join me through that)
- When you respond, don't email me it just leave it as a comment on this post, and I'll go through it and sort it myself. Just post your answers along with your comment.
- Optional: Please do advertise this challenge on a post on your site (if you have one of course, if not it's not necessary).
- Optional: Please do join Tuttie MB and support it. I'd really appreciate it if you do.
- Pretty much repost the questions below on a comment on this post, and that's pretty much it!
Mini-challenge.. writing and reading!
1. February: Suggest me a book with the letter F. Tell me a little about it! You don't have to write a whole outline, but just a brief summary of what it is.
2. Birthday: Give me a famous person's name that was born February (They don't neccessarily have to be a celebrity)
3. Geography: Name a place in the world where you see yourself traveling, or living and why?
4. Favorites: Give me some of your favorite Authors or Musicians of this month
5. Valentine’s Day: Give me an example of your perfect vtines date!
6. Black History Month: Give me a name and a short description of someone you look up to for black history month.
7. Romance: Give me a couple good movies that are from the romance section
8. President’s Day: Who's your favorite president and why?
9. Reader's Choice: Suggest a good movie for me to watch
Alright, that sums up the contest. Now I have to go shopping! I should go and get myself going and take a picture to show you guys what the prizes are! All I know is these are possibilities in the package! A shirt from Kim's site (yes girl I'm most likely going to order from you.. hoping to see what new designs you have :)), beauty products, a book, treats, prety much what comes to mind.. !! i'm excited to go on ahead and do this challenge so PLEASE PLEASE remember the deadline.. i'm feeling very generous to give away great gifts! LOL.
6 mo. & 5 Days old
It feels like it's been a while since I've dedicated a post to Ryu 
. My baby is already 6 mo. and 5 days! He's growing up so fast! His next appointment is a couple days from now and he's definitely going to get another round of shots.
The bouncer from his Godfather
His hair looks funny this way
Ryu is like about 18 lbs when we last checked and I'm sure he's somewhere around 20 lbs now. He's so heavy especially in the car seat. There's absolutely no way of just carrying it for a long period of time anymore. I actually need to get him another car seat we have one that fits from 25 lbs up, but the thing is he's completely outgrown his car seat now. He's not chubby he's long so I'm guessing our baby is going to be a tall person when he's older. That's good since I'm a shorty, lol. I only stand about 5'2" so the taller he is the happier I am. According to the doctor his height is above average on the chart compared to a lot of children his age. My little Ryu is too cute I can't wait til he's a little older so that we can bring him to Disneyland and Legoland, just pretty much where you would take little children to. I can't wait for him to drag me to the zoo, to the movies, and for him to ask me if he can play an instrument or sports!
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Ryu in his little tub
See how big he is it's like he doesn't even fit in that tub anymore!
. He actually loves taking a bath he's so relaxed! He doesn't complain.. actually <3 and I are very lucky we're blessed with a baby that doesn't really complain. He barely cries .. when he does he's either hungry or needs to be changed, but other than that he just tries to talk which is too cute. I'm glad because as new parents we all dread the part where they wake us up at all hours of the night!
He enjoys his picture being taken! He knows when to smile and when he wants to look mean in the picture! He's the love of my life!! Go RYU!
He's trying to learn to sit on his own
6 mo. old training sippy cup
Ryu's quite a fast learner. He's really enjoying that we throw him to doing "older" baby things like learning numbers 1-5 or the ABC's. As much as possible I try singing it to him every night before we go to bed. Oh, and he loves music! He just starts going crazy when he hears music, it's almost like he's trying to sing along with it which is super cute! I will update more on Ryu once I get the ball rolling on here, but this concludes the baby post!
Himegyaru Hair
I tried this hairstyle I watched off of StyleSuzi's channel. I was actually browsing on how the women in japan curl their hair so nicely, and came across her. She has a couple videos all on hair and I guess if you know me personally you'd know that I love japanese fashion. Sometime's they're a little bit over the top, but I like the whole "girly" and "cute" look. I chose this tutorial specifically instead of the curls because I wanted to try something new with my hair up. I barely ever have my hair tied when I'm out just because I think my face is too big or round to have it up, . So this is the first one I came across that was cute with it up. It also didn't look too hard to do, and it really isn't. I don't even think there's a perfect way of putting this look together because you really don't have to do much to get it the way you want it to.
Unfortunately, my hair isn't super long that have a lot of hair to play with to make it messy. It's okay though because it still worked out I'm just going to grow my hair out more see how that turns out next time I try this look. I also don't have long bangs so I just did what I could with my hair. I still think it turned out nice :) The video below is what I followed for this tutorial.
Here are a couple pictures of my hair and how it turned out. I personally liked it because it kept everything out of the way while I was at work. I didn't have to worry whether my hair was falling flat or anything like that. I guess you can say it's a messy look with a bow to add some type of cuteness, lol.
Bow from Forever 21.
I guess that concludes the post. I'm planning to add more of the style posts like this when I have time. I'm usually on the go and I forget to take pictures of what i do with my makeup or hair, ha. So we'll see how that goes.
DNB (Dave N Busters)
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A couple friends showed up pretty late, but it really doesn't matter overall I had a fun time and it was worth the drive there. The night didn't end at DnB. We pretty much got in our cars and drove to our apartment. We continued the massive drinking and games at our place. I was so drunk I was carrying a bottle of vodka and dropped it on our kitchen, and naturally I would think that from how low I was holding it, it would probably just drop and roll.. that wasn't the case, . The thing literally exploded like a bomb with broken glass everywhere, but no one got seriously injured. I cleaned it up right away.
Just a little warning that it's going to be image heavy, lol. I got a couple pictures.. there's actually a lot more pictures from Rollie, but I have yet to go through them or ask him if it's okay to post it yet. So these will just have to do for now.
<3 and I are silly. Anyway, I was still pretty heavy here, this is when I started really losing the weight, but the liquor that night didn't help!
This guy is the ex bf... we're on good terms, yea we hang out, but sometimes he can still be a real
. It's all good though, we're okay now
Of course I had to add the picture of the birthday celebrants at the end So this was pretty much our night at DNB. I wasn't able to take any pictures at home. By the time we got to our place we were all pretty wasted and well we just didn't even remember to take pictures anymore. Had a blast though, and the friends are super awesome! Love you guys.
Happy Birthday <3.
was January 14.. I know I suck at posting right on time that's why I'm considering scheduled posts
These pictures were taken at work. Our boss's got our <3 a little ice cream cake and some pancit (filipino noodles) as a little birthday snack after our huge lunch. It was funny because they weren't even there. It's okay though because we were able to enjoy the rest of our day without really doing any work, lol. Here are a couple pictures from the day. We went out the day after his birthday to DNB, but that'll be on a different post just so I can talk about everything properly, haha.
Ice cream cake is courtesy of BaskinRobbins. I think it was a cookies and cream cake which was super
yum. I literally only had a bite since I'm trying to watch my weight, and I knew eating any of this would hurt all the weight I've already lost which would be very, very, bad HA.
Here's <3 acting silly. He did the same pose with the next picture. Idk why, but he likes making that face.. most of the pictures I've seen that Jayjay has of him is mostly like this in the past 3 years, lol.. that sucks cause I can't ask for a proper decent picture of him to keep!
The boys. They're not really dressed how they're usually dressed at work since it's our "casual Friday". Otherwise, they're usually dressed pretty decent. I think this is the day went to go get a haircut too, lol I'm just guessing cause his hair was still long here,
Of course I had to end my post with 2 pictures of me and <3. However, that last picture of me and him look funny, lol. Anyway just a little thing I wanted to say to him before I end the post.
Hi baby (I'm sure you'll read this since you stop by site quite often). I absolutely love you, and I know I'm late for greeting you Happy Birthday on here, but it's still worth something right? I hope you had a great birthday this year with the people that mean a lot to you. Thank you for everything you've done for me and Ryu, and we both absolutely adore you! I hope you have many more birthdays to come and you get where you want in life! Love you!
Website Updates
I'm still in the works with adding new updates to my site here and there. I'm not quite sure if you guys have noticed, but I added a new recipe which is the eggrolls. Please do check that out and comment on there for me, thanks 
. I'm actually still trying to add a couple things here and there to my site which is taking a while and is probably the reason why my site is going on and off at the moment. I apologize for that, since I'm sure for those of you that do stop by and it's looking blah can notice. I am however, glad that I'm almost done with the minor updates and I can continue with the blogging. I actually have a couple photos to post up from <3's birthday at DNB. I'm behind a couple posts that I wanted to do, but it's okay because that gives me an advantage to do scheduled posts. I would hate to do that, but it's really going to be helpful for me at the moment since I also wanted to catch up on some reading. I've been neglecting my ebook and it's not looking good with my reading, lol. I've also been doing tons of cooking lately, but I'm forgetting to take the damn pictures, lol. I get so excited to eat that I forget that I have a cookbook in the makes on here, I also added a Q&A portion to my site, but all it does is really relays to my formspring for me (It's done manually, no plugin or anything for wp). I also revamped my about me section. I'm going to start bloghopping again just because I miss reading all your lovely blogs. It inspires me to continue writing (even when all I write about is complete nonsense). Btw, this is completely random and has nothing to do with what I'm talking about, but I've always wanted to be a writer, although, I suck at it, lol. I never really thought that I could stay on one subject (go figure, right?), but should I start a creative writing outlet for me on here? I was wondering if any of you would actually read and give me constructive criticism on it? I'll just let this trail off til you guys comment :)
On another note, I've been wanting to vent, but I know my offline friends read this junk and well I kind of don't want them to. I hate the idea of me putting password protections on some posts, but I've been feeling really strongly about something lately. I really don't want to talk to anyone I know about it because I'd rather talk to a complete stranger about the situation. It's not really anything serious nor is it anything to do with <3. It's just something that's been bugging me recently, and well .. I think I'm going to do a password protection post just to vent a little to myself. Something to look back and laugh on I suppose. How many of you actually like doing password protected posts? 
Oh, and yea before I forget I'm going to start doing reviews, but not as much as I'd hope for just because doing a review is kind of a sit down trial and error type post. I would probably do reviews on products I only like, haha.
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Abby if you didn't know. I'm fun, young, and crazy. Mother to a beautiful baby boy (07.28.09). Like other beauty blogs, my interests consists of makeup and hair. There's really more to my blog than there is for me to describe myself.
This website was made for me to share makeup tips, looks, reviews, and for personal blogging. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at: xsogirly@gmail.com.
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