LizzieLovesLife: Week in Review (August 1-11, 2013)

Today, I wanted to start a new blog post that I hope to be publishing weekly. Here I will talk briefly about my previous week and any tidbits that may seem interesting. I plan on posting these like I said weekly either on Sundays or Mondays.

To start off I wanted to apologize for not having any posts up during the past couple of weeks. Isaac and I have been very busy with his new job and having myself go through the job search phase of my career. Luckily, I was able find a job in my dream career of recruiting and will be starting work in 2 weeks!!! I can't wait to start this chapter in my life and look forward to learning and growing as a business professional!

I recently over the past couple of weeks have also started playing a bit with YouTube and made 2 videos. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not a professional at all and this was my first time filming. But, I just wanted to see what it was like and if I wanted to continue to explore that venture. I am still on the fence about posting a lot of videos on YouTube but will continue to ponder it in the future. If you are interested in my YouTube videos I will post the links here.

The first video I did is my July Favorites. This video is where I share what products I have been loving and using for the month of July. I hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx-soqk_YeI

The second video is where I share a haul with y'all from Ulta and Sephora!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUNw94b2rl0

I hope you enjoy those videos and let me know in the comments any suggestions/requests you have for that channel.

Back to some random things that have happened over the past couple of weeks. Isaac and I went up to Raleigh, NC to visit his family and help out with the beginning of the soccer tournament season!! The weekend of Aug 2-4th was a 3v3 tournament and was on Saturday. We all woke up very early that day to be on the soccer fields by 7am to host the tournament.

This tournament was alot of fun to work and I was able to manage the time halfway through the tournament and blow the air horn every time the games needed to start-halftime-end. I always enjoy coming out to the fields and spending time with the Jordan family and all the fellow referees over the years!

The following week, I decided to paint my nails Essie's Bikini So Teeny for the first time. This nail polish is a gorgeous periwinkle blue with some faint tiny sparkles. I have heard great things about this particular nail polish from other bloggers and YouTubers in the past. However, I was quite disappointed in this product. As you may know I don't often or like to put on the whole shabang like base coat and top coat. So when putting this nail polish on I just did as I normally did and painted without these extra steps. Turned out that two coats made a lovely color on the nails and looked amazing. During the end of the day and following subsequent days after I found that this nail polish chips like no other!!! I was so upset when I started noticing my nail polish was chipping!! I painted both my fingernails and toes and where as my toes seemed chip free my nails were totally destroyed after day 2 with this polish. I apologize for not having a picture of my nails with this polish on it but I was just so apauled that the polish chipped the way it did. In the future with this polish I plan on trying it with both base coat and top coat and will let you all know how it turns out.

This past weekend was a great relaxing weekend for both Isaac and I. We were able to celebrate my new job and eat out at Maggiano's Italian Restaurant which is one of my favorite Italian restaurants to go to! Isaac had never eaten there before and although he did like the food would prefer to go to The Cheesecake Factory which was right next door to the restaurant for future Italian endeavors. :) The next couple of days we also had our date night where we went to our new favorite mexican restaurant in the area called Cabo's Mexican Cuisine and Cantina! The food there was so delicious and I can normally have a lunch portion for the next day with the portion size that comes with the scrumptious Vegetarian Platter! Isaac and I went to the movies to see Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters after dinner. I rather enjoyed this movie with all the mythical creatures and scenes in the movie. Isaac's first comment about the movie, "That was a very kid movie...nobody died...and the people who did die just came back to life." Haha he's more into the 300 type movies where alot of people die and its not such a happy-go-lucky film. O well :) I enjoyed it!!

Yesturday, we wanted to start our house hunting expedition! We plan/hope to move into a house of our own within the next 2 years and want to start getting a feel for the different areas and floor plans to houses we may be interested in. I just have to share that we found a Cook Out on our drive!! Now, I don't remember if I have ever been to one of these but I have heard great things about it through different people and Isaac. So, I suggested that we stop by for a quick snack. I had the Reese Cup milkshake and Isaac had a full meal :) The milkshake was unbelievably good however once I put it into my calorie counter app for the day realized it was 7/8th of the calories I typically allow myself to eat, I realized this would definitely be a once in a while treat. Although it did take all of my calories for the day, I did enjoy the milkshake and thought it was well worth it! :)