Water Meditation

Hello All, Have you ever tried a water meditation? I tried one last Sunday and it was AWESOME!!! You basically do it in the shower or the bath tub. I found one on YouTube by The Honest Guys. The meditation plays water sounds and music and you feel the water and you make a mindfulness meditation. The meditation is a relaxing way to get you ready for bed. It is a good way to wind down at the end of the day. This type of meditation, as well as other meditations is very healing. The more you meditate, the more healing you can get. It is also a good way to keep calm if you have anxiety. So if you're ever looking for a good way to relax or a new meditation, I'd recommend a water meditation. Drop me a comment below if you've ever tried one and let me know what your experience is with one. Keep meditating, Destiny

Meal Plans

Hello All! This next post is about meal plans. I have recently lost almost 20 pounds and was looking to tone up my body. So I read up on how to exercise/eat to tone your body being I've never done it before. While reading up I realized I needed a certain percentage of foods from each food group each day in order to tone up and flatten my body. So I have started creating meal plans and this past week is the first week I have tried it. Let me tell you, for someone who has never done this before, meal planning is hard! Trying to get the right amount of food from each food group and plan recipes that you can use more than once, is harder than it looks. But I finally settled on a CrockPot vegetable soup for my lunch and dinner meal and my own concoction of carrots in grits for breakfast and it worked out nicely. Have you ever tried to meal plan? How did it go for you? Drop me a comment below to tell me about your experience! Happy Planning! Destiny

Money Saving Tips

Hello All! So, I thought I would start this blog post by asking a question: Do you have any money saving tips? I ask because I love saving money! Who doesn't right? So I am sharing with you a money tip that I learned from somewhere else. The tip was to save all of your fives and then use them when you go on vacation. I was not a fan of saving my fives because I tend to spend my fives. So what I did instead was to save my ones every time I got them back as change. Let me tell you this has been a great tip for saving money. I have consistently been saving my ones for a while now and at first it doesn't seem like much is going to come of it, but then, BOOM! All of a sudden they add up! I counted my ones last weekend and had $108 dollars. I have gotten more ones as change and these ones are going to bring me to a grand total of $114 dollars. I don't remember how long I have been doing it but I have been doing it for a few months now and that has been a lot in just a few months time. So, drop a comment below and let me know if you like this money saving tip, have tried it yourself or have any different money saving tips. Happy Saving, Destiny P.S. Sorry to all my readers for the lack of pictures. I made a vow to make my blog better by breaking it up with pictures. I am new to blogging and it is my understanding that pictures make for easier reading. I have looked at other blogs and found this myself. I would like to include more pictures, but when I do the picture shows up as HTML code. I have no way of connecting or getting in touch with Blogger support for help on this issue. I tried asking the community and somebody tried to help me, but what he suggested didn't help. I have a number of other issues especially with the new interface. If anybody has any clue about how to work this new interface, drop me a comment and I'll give you more details on what I am having trouble with. Thanks for understanding! - Destiny

Changes/Make-up

Hello All! So, if you are reading and following the blog, you know by now I do three blog posts a week. However, I have a full-time job and the demands of my job, plus trying to keep up with three blog posts a week are getting to be too much and too time consuming. So, I will be cutting down to one blog post a week. Now that doesn't mean that freebies and (hopefully) thought provoking questions are out of the question. I will find a way to combine all of these into one blog post, rather than three seperate ones. Now, there may not be freebies added on every blog post, but if a freebie idea comes to me and a blog topic lends itself to it, then I will gladly post a freebie for you to sign up for, when you sign up for the blog. Anyway, now that that's out of the way, I can start on this week's blog post. Now, onto my post for the week. So, the last couple of days I have been doing a lot of thinking about make-up. I tend to have a love-hate relationship with make-up. My stance on it usually tends to change, depending on whether or not I am trying to convince myself if I should use it or not. I'll go through periods where I'll be for make-up because not putting it on means you are "not confident" and using shows you "don't care." And more often than not I'll feel like "what is the point of make-up," "why do women have to wear it and men don't," and how come everyone else is so good at it and mine looks like crap!?" The other day I was leaning towards the latter arguement rather than the former and it got me to thinking, and I hope it will get you to thinking to and I hope that it will start a conversation and some people will comment or have an opinion on this one way or the other. I am going to address some of the questions and thoughts I have about make-up and I am wondering if any of you feel the same way? The first thought I want to address is "why does make-up make me feel ugly?" Do any of y'all feel this way? Please comment below and tell me I am not the only one! For the longest time I did not wear make-up on a regular basis and would only wear it for special occasions. Now, I have a position, that requires me to look professional and while make-up is not a required part of the dress-code, in my mind, if I define professional dress, make-up is included as part of the look. So, now I wear make-up everyday and give my face a break on weekends. But everyday, when I put on my foundation I am now highly aware of how red my skin n is and how much I need to cover up the redness/acne on my skin. Thus, making me fell as if my regular skin is ugly. I looked to the Internet to see if I could find some answers and also to confirm that I am not the only one that feels this way. Most women I know do not feel this way and a few women on the forums where other women have asked this very question have said in a nutshell "I love make-up, what's not to love!?" But still others feel the same way I do and a lot of people respond by saying it is because you are insecure on the inside and have not accepted your body/skin for the way that it is. Which makes a lot of sense to me. Others have said that maybe you are not doing it right, which for me is a high possibility. And some others have said that covering up has made you aware of the flaws on your skin, that you need to cover up. Which I feel is true for me also. I feel it is a combination of all three of these for me. So, tell me, is it like this for you? Surely I cannot be the only one that feels this way. Share your thoughts in the comments below. The next thought I have is "what is the point of make-up?" I mean seriously, what is the actual point!? Can someone help me out with this one, because as far as I'm concerned, there is no point. A lot of women like to argue that "you'll never find a boyfriend if you don't wear any make-up!" But I call BS! Men have stated over and over again, that they much prefer us without make-up, so what's your next excuse? I mean who invented make-up in the first place? Seriously!? Why do we need this stuff. I think I missed the day in girl school when they explained the purpose of make-up because I have absolutely zero understanding of what it is actually for and what are you accomplishing by putting it on? A lot of women also argue the point that it is supposed to accentuate your features, but this point is lost on me as well, due to the fact, as I stated above it only serves the purpose of making me feel ugly. Can someone explain this to me!? My next question is a question that I am sure has been on the minds of women for years: "Why do women have to wear it and men don't?" This seems like a very sexist double-standard that our society has come to. I think plain and simple - if men don't have to wear make-up to look "pretty," then neither should women. End of story. And finally, "why does mine look like crap and everyone else's looks great?" Again, I missed the day in girl school where they taught you how to put on make-up. Without fail, everytime I put on my foundation it looks cakey. Why? It doesn't matter what I do either. Whether I apply with a brush, sponge or my fingers, it always looks cakey. NO. MATTER. WHAT! My eye shadow always looks like an eight year old put it on and my lipstick looks like I got make-up lessons from an old granny! But yet I see all of these make-up tutorials and their make-up looks flawless, EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! Why!? Help! What am I doing wrong? How did you learn how to do make-up? Any tips and tricks anyone wants to give up? Drop me a comment below and let me know! Well this has been a rather long post. Hopefully it was an interesting post and made you think. Am I the only one that has these problems? Am I the only one that feels this way about make-up. Seriously guys! Let me know! Clueless with Make-Up, Destiny

Fun Freebie Friday

Hello Everyone! It's another Fun Freebie Friday! Today's Fun Freebie is a simple one. If you subscribe to my blog you will start getting my newsletter! That's it! No games or gimmicks, just a newsletter! So, enjoy this little freebie for signing up for my blog and you will be glad that you did. Keep Reading, Destiny

WONDERful Wednesday

Hey! Hey! It's another WONDERful Wednesday! Today's question is: Do you believe in syncronycity? I ask this question following my post on angel numbers. I asked on Monday about angel numbers and today I am asking syncronicity. Syncronycity and angel numbers are similar but different. Angel numbers are just a series of repeating numbers. Syncronicity is repeating names, words or phrases. Sometimes I see things that repeat over and over again. I get sucked into this sometimes believing it is syncronycity. Then, nothing really happens and I realize it can't really be real or something would come of all of these repeating names or phrases. Like angel numbers these only seem to occur in times of intense stress for me. So, what it your answer? Drop me a comment and let me know! Have a great day! Destiny

Are Angel Numbers real?

Hello Everyone! So, I feel like this post is going to get a lot of controversy, so I'm just going to see how it goes. So as many of you know, there is a fairly new New Age phenomenon called Angel Numbers. Basically it is where you keep seeing the same numbers over and over again and are supposedly sent as messages from your angels. Typically these numbers are triple digit numbers such as 111,222,333 and so on and so forth. However, these are not the only numbers you can recieve. You can recieve any number and it has a specific meaning attached to it. So for example, you may recieve a number like 11 or 9 or a random number like that, that you keep seeing everywhere. So for instance, I keep noticing every time I look at the clock it is either 11 past the hour, 13 past the hour, 15 past the hour, 33 pat the hour or 44 past the hour. Almost everytime without fail. I have also started noticing 10 past the hour and another number I notice a lot is 69. And just for fun I look up what these numbers mean and they seem to coorelate with my life, but also at the same time, the message in them never seems to come to fruition. So, this leaves me wondering if any of this is true? Is there a message to be had in these numbers or is it just a coincidence? I mean surely all of these numbers can't mean something. Also, I have OCD, so I just have to wonder if this is not some sort of side effect of OCD and just looking for the numbers because I have determined that these numbers mean something. And confirmation bias also plays a part in this as well. Your brain is wired to look for patterns. If you look at an 11 and decide you are going to see it everywhere, your brain is going to continue to look for the number 11 and will find it everytime. Also, everytime I see these numbers I usually end up misinterpreting the supposed "message" and end up with a huge problem on my hands. Not only that, these numbers only seem to show up in times of stress and usually create more stress for me. So, I have take to calling them Devil Numbers. The Angels know what you want, but the Angels and God are not the only ones that can send you signs. I feel like the Devil can do it too, just to distract you. I feel there is more of a reality to something that is a message from God or an Angel. For example, a break-up, loss of a job, loss of a loved one or close friend, a car accident, etc. These to me are more signs from God and he is telling you to look at your life and figure out what you are doing wrong and change something about your life. I feel like God is not going to send you a random meaningless number. The other thing about Angel Numbers is that they are supposed to go away once you get the message. Well I looked up what the message meant and they are still here, so why does it not go away? I am not sure if I am totally for or against Angel Numbers either way. Like I said these numbers match up with my life, but how can this possibly be real? They are just numbers after all. I don't know, drop me a comment and tell me what you think or if you experience Angel Numbers as well. Think about it! Destiny