It's Saturday Morning...

And I'm laying in bed, drinking my Tiny Tea and catching up on blog reading. Can life get any better than this?!

Living on my own definitely has it's perks. I love the relaxing feeling and I love knowing that this place is mine. This bedroom set is mine, this cup of tea is mine, everything in here is mine...minus my laptop because my parents bought this for my birthday a few years ago. I will say this Mac is pretty freaking amazing, this was my friends Apple devise and I love it. So if you don't have one, I recommend getting one.

I am so excited and happy that people have responded to positively to my "rebranding". I know it kind of came out of the blue because I've only talked about it on here a few times a few months ago. Its been a lingering thought and it's finally happening...YAY!

Whenever I'm feeling down, I go shopping and I workout. So yes, I've been feeling down. Why do you ask? I will explain later, it has a lot to do with my personal life and just how effed my head is. I might will need your opinions on this. Anyways... I bought a new workout shirt and a Cleveland Browns (represent) shirt. From Bath & Body Works I had to buy fall candles. They were on sale so I just had to. And yes I have been working out. Actually I can barely walk today all due to walking lunges. It's a good thing, this body needs to lose some fat and get some sexy on. 

Yesterday after work I went shopping for a wedding dress. While wondering through endless stores and ending up not finding one damn dress that was good, I found these magnets. Would you ever want these on your fridge? I think they are kind of funny, but they are definitely not me. Oh and by the way...they are "Strong Magnets" haha. Oh marketing, you will do anything to sell things.

And everyday deserves a #selfie. Even though I wasn't looking my best yesterday, I still had to. I love hiding behind huge sunglasses. I swear this sock bon hairstyle used to look good on me, I don't know what happened because it looks like crap now. Maybe my head got bigger from all the bullshit I've been dealing with.

How's your Saturday morning?

Do you take selfies?

How do you feel about butt magnets?

Friday is my Favorite

It’s Friday and today is just my favorite. It’s my favorite because it’s Friday not because I’m doing anything fun or interesting. I’m actually kinda lame half of the time and I laugh at my own jokes  because I think I’m funny.

Which brings me to last night. I was walking into Trader Joes with my man friend and I said something that I thought was hilarious and he just looked at me like I was an idiot. I swear it was funny. He said that he doesn't want to laugh at all of my jokes because he doesn't want me to get a big head. HHHAAA whatever.

Anyways, onto my Friday Favorites with Amanda from Meet @ The Barre.

Favorite #1 - Netflix. Whoever invented this was a genius. I mean where else can I binge watch Orange is the new Black!?! My man friend and I love eating popcorn and watching this show for hours. 

Favorite #2 - This freaking puppy. He is the cutest thing ever. I made my man friend come with me to look at puppies. We went to Petland but I will not purchase a puppy from there because I know they come from puppy mills and I don't condone that kind of crap. Regardless, this little thing stole my heart. 

Favorite #3 - My new hair color. Picture on the left is my gross sun stripped hair and the right is my amazing dark beautiful hair. What do you think?! Be honest, I need your opinion. 

Favorite #4 - I totally want to make this for my apartment. I think it's the cutest idea. I just need to get off my lazy butt and do it. 

Favorite #5 - Working out in the morning. I am obsessed. I get up, I get to the gym by 6am, I workout till 7, go home, shower, go to work and after work I can enjoy the rest of my day. It's pretty awesome. Why didn't I think about this before?!

I am so freaking happy it's Friday. I can actually relax and just do nothing....JK I have a wedding to go to on Saturday and a dress to go find and buy tonight. Why oh why do I leave things for the last minute?!?

What are your Friday Favorites?

Do you think you're funny?

Do you leave things to the last minute?

New Name & New Direction

Today I decided to make the craziest change to my blog. I changed my blog name from Boarding Together to My Appetizer. This is scary and crazy!! Scary because I hope people understand the direction I'm going towards with this and crazy because changing the URL on Bloglovin' is more difficult than I imagined.

Now as most of you have know, I was in a serious long-distance relationship for 4 years. 2 years we were together in Ohio and the last 2 years we were long distance. We ended up breaking up and now I'm moving on. I needed to change the name of the blog because I'm not boarding together with anyone but myself.

The original blog was supposed to be about our life together and boarding together in life. It was about everything that we went through as a long distance couple and everything that we one day wished our relationship would be. Well that's over, so the blog name needed a change.

Welcome My Appetizer. 

This name has been lingering in my head for a few months now. Why you ask? Well, good question. I figured most people wouldn't understand so here is my reasoning...

I'm in my mid 20s, I'm single for the first time since I was 19, I'm living on my own for the first time, I just started my career and I just graduated college. That's a lot of firsts. And Appetizers are the first course of a meal, my favorite part of the meal to be exact. 

I'm looking at life as a meal. We indulge in it, we savor it, we choose what we like and we customize it to our preferences. 

Does that make more sense now that I explained it? I hope so, if not ask what ever questions you have.

I'm so excited about this change! I needed this! I've been waiting for this! I'm finally making it happen. Until now I've been pretty filtered on here, nothing really expressing myself or showing my personality. That's going to change because this blog is now mine and only mine. So welcome to My Appetizer!

Have you ever made a change this drastic? 

Do you understand my thought behind this?

Are you excited for the changes?

High Five

I originally posted this on Instsgram on Monday night after being so dumbfounded by how stupid and just nasty some people can be. You can go ahead and read the comments on Instagram and it will all make sense. I hate it when girls fill in their eyebrows to the point that they look like caterpillars with a heartbeat. Or using your face as a coloring book is never a good look. These are the people that need a high-five in the face with a chair. 

Do you have a list of people that need this?

What pisses you off?

*P.S. follow me on Instagram because it's cool

Lets Catch Up

I know I know, I've been MIA again but life's good right now. Life's real good. Since the last  time I posted on here a lot of things have happened in my life. Such as celebrating my 24th year of birth, hanging out with old friends and always making new friends, attended my first work tradeshow in Chicago, became obsessed with Tiny Tea, Netflix has become my life, dyed my hair, got new extensions, lived off of random quotes, attended some festivals, ate too much good food and drank till I couldn't drink anymore. So like I said...life's been good, real good. We can being picture overload now...

We talked about my trip to Tulum, Mexico at the end of July. Feel free to look at all of the amazing pictures here, Tulum Mexico Trip.

We also talked about my obsession with Tiny Tea, which I am still beyond obsessed with. No I haven't lost much weight which is my fault because I've been drinking like a fish and eating like a pig. Read all about it here, Tiny Tea. 

Then I celebrated my 24th birthday! I cannot believe I'm 24, I know I know it's young but it's old to me. 

Jacket: Forever 21 (old) Tank top: Express Pants: Express  Shoes: Steve Madden Necklace: Francesca's (old)

Then I tried out for the Bachelor and celebrated with my parents, after I got over my awful hangover. 

I went to Chicago for my first tradeshow. 

I work with roof paint and driveway sealer, not glamours at all. 

I got new extensions and I love them. And I dyed my hair to match them better. 

And I lived by a bunch of quotes...

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO!?!

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MY SINGLE LIFE SO FAR?!?

DO YOU LOVE LIFE LIKE I DO?

Tiny Tea

I am a total social media whore. I am on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter all the time. I seriously cannot go anywhere or be anywhere without my phone. With that being said, I follow a good amount of people on all of these sites. Facebook is more my personal thing that I use to you know, creep on people I went to high school/college with or my friends that I don't talk as often to. Twitter is more for following bloggers that I'm basically obsessed with because I read their blogs on a religious bases. Pinterst because well why not?!? The site has everything and anything anyone could ever want to eat, make, wear, pretend to workout and places we will most likely never travel to. And then I get to Instagram...this is my biggest issue. Biggest issue because I check this damn thing about 100 times a day. Can you say PROBLEM!?!

Well since I'm sure you girls (and guys) have noticed that I got through spurts of being healthy and then eating all of the bad foods that ever existed. Therefore, I follow a lot of "healthy Instagram" accounts. Which brought me to YourTea. Can I please tell you how obsessed I have become with this!?!

I check their Instagram account daily. I love that they post before and after pictures, quotes and beach pictures. I highly recommend following them, I mean they do have over 388K followers for a reason, just sayin :)

I ordered my tea on a late Tuesday and by Friday morning it was at my door, literately. It was such quick delivery, and I really liked the tracking on the package.

I walked in the door and tore the package open to find this super cute box that holds 28 days worth of tea that has to be consumed 3 times a day. Also, you are supposed to drink the tea 30 minutes before your meals. Don't worry there are instructions in the box.

The tea packets are individually wrapped and their design is really cute. It's everything I expected and more.

And of course I couldn't wait to try it. I won't lie the first sip was gross, really gross. Then I got used to the taste and now I love it. I drink it 3 times a day before each meal. I'm actually drinking a cup before breakfast as we speak, well type since this is a blog and all. Haha, I crack myself up sometimes, okkkk back to this.

And of course I had to take a selfie of me drinking the tea because I'm cool like that. But really, you have to buy this stuff. It will change your world. I haven't lost weight in the number of pounds that I weigh but I don't think it's supposed to do that. I have noticed that my stomach is much smaller than before, which much the bloat has gone down (thank goodness). I used to drink a lot of coffee before I started drinking this tea and now I don't crave coffee at all and I have energy all day. I just feel all around better after drinking this tea. It's been 12 days since I started drinking this and I'm obsessed. I love the way it makes me feel.

Seriously, you need this tea. 

* I am not affiliated with YourTea and this was not a paid advertisement by them. This was my personal opinion of YourTea. 

Have you ever tried Yourtea?

Do you think you will try this tea?

Do you get bloated?

Walnut Wednesday

Yes I know today isn't Wednesday but who cares I love Walnut Wednesday so I wanted to catch everyone up on what it is.

Basically here in downtown Cleveland we have Walnut Wednesday which is on Wednesdays on Walnut street. There are around 10-15 food trucks that come up for it and it's just a huge party during lunch. There's a little park where people can sit and enjoy their amazing food from the food trucks.

Honestly, I don't remember what this food truck was called or what these things were other than that they were amazing! The left are tacos and the right at empanadas....DELICIOUS!

My co-worker Jess getting some amazing cupcakes. I think she had the Strawberry Lemonade ones and she said they were amazing.

Delicious Red Velvet and Salty Caramel Cupcakes. 

Do you have anything like this where you're from?

Do you enjoy sweets?

How do you feel about food trucks?