Well, hello there, beautiful people! As you can tell by the title of this post, I'm going to be talking about the places that I'd like to go, which is something I hadn't put much thought into before. I never used to want to travel when I was a kid; I was very lazy and content being exactly where I was. I used to just want to make enough money to move into the nicer houses down the street from where I lived. But since I started doing a little bit of traveling, I try to take as many opportunities as I can to go on adventures and see all of the sights. With that being said, these are the places I'd like to go.

The UK
Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Martin Freeman... need I go on? The UK is the birthplace of some of the most talented creative artists that I've ever seen. Even as an unadventurous little girl, I'd always wanted to visit the UK (Harry Potter had something to do with this, I'm sure). I love the accents, culture, and classiness that's associated with the UK and I would love to experience that in person.

Canada
I've been wanting to travel to Canada for a while now, and I have absolutely no idea why. It just seems like a nice place to go to and it's been on my mind since I was 14 and got addicted to Degrassi: The Next Generation, which takes place in Canada. Anyone else remember Degrassi? I don't watch it anymore, but I know there's like, a million seasons of that show.

Australia
Australia is the home of my bae, Troye Sivan. Enough said (just kidding...kind of). But Australia, like the UK, is one of those places that has always intrigued me.

Moscow
I'll admit, I never gave Moscow a thought until the opportunity arose for me to go. The theatre department at my university allows all Junior BFA Acting students to spend a semester abroad in Moscow, Russia during the fall semester to study at the Moscow Art Theatre School. All of my friends who studied abroad told me that they loved the experience and that makes me super jazzed to go!

Los Angeles
No, LA isn't another country, but it's a place in the US that I eventually want to live in and I haven't been there... yet. About a week ago, my older cousin moved to sunny LA with her boyfriend and I might be spending Spring Break there (fingers crossed). I also have another cousin who is moving to LA in a few months to pursue his education in film and the excitement around that makes me want to go there. I'm a person whose energy can be easily be influenced by the weather and in LA, the weather is awesome! I'm from the Midwest, so LA would be heaven for me! Not to mention the fact that most of my favorite YouTubers live in LA.

               So that's it for my top 5 places that I want to travel to. Comment down below and let me know where you guys want to go!

With love from your girl,
Shatece 

Well, hello there, beautiful people! Today's question asks about something that I'm pretty sure none of us think enough about. So let's get to it!

Explain your day in great detail. (This is why today's post went up so late.)

Today, I woke up around 9 AM to the realization that I hadn't paid my phone bill yet. So there's that...
I stayed in my bed for an additional two hours (as I normally do on weekends) watching YouTube videos and laughing hysterically because Tyler Oakley is hilarious. I normally have choir practice at my church on Saturday afternoons, but it was cancelled today because of the weather (It's snowing outside and the streets are covered in ice). So instead, I ran some errands.
My friends at school got me the most awesome Christmas gifts before we all left for Christmas Break, and I had yet to get them one. So today, I decided to catch all of the After-Christmas sales and pick up a few things for them. I'm so excited about the gifts I got for them, but of course, I can't talk about it in this post (just in case they read the blog).
After coming home, I did a couple loads of laundry... exciting, right? (No.) and watched Scandal on Netflix (this went on for about 5-ish hours and will probably continue for the rest of the night).

As you can see, I really don't have much of a life. Like, at all, but that's okay. I know that once school starts back up again, I'll be wishing that I could do basically nothing all day :-) Comment below and let me know if your life is remotely more interesting than mine, which it probably is.

With love from your girl,
Shatece

               Well, hello there, beautiful people! Today's question is one that we've all been asked since high school and I think it's time I seriously think about the answer to it.

Where would you like to be in 10 years?

               In 10 years, I'll be 31 years old, so it's kind of hard to think of every little thing that I'd like to be doing with my life by then. Honestly, I just want to be happy. I know that's such a cliche thing to say, but it's so true! There's really no way to know exactly what I'll be doing in 10 years because life happens and plans can change, but whatever it is that I'm doing, I want to be happy doing it. For the most part, I know that there are certain events that I want to have happened in the next 10 (ish) years and they are as follows (in no particular order):

• Marriage - Yesterday, I talked about how being single can be a good thing, but by age 31, I think I would like to be married (or at least be making wedding arrangements). 
• Travelling - Like most people, I would love to travel and see the world while I'm young and don't really have any commitments. 
• Theatre - As an Acting major, it's pretty unrealistic to know exactly what job I'll have 10 years from now, but whatever that job is, I want it to be in theatre. 
• Children - I would absolutely LOVE to have kids! I'm not sure how many kids I'll have by age 31, but I would at least like to have one.  
• New York - Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to live in the Big Apple, But I'm aware that as I travel, this may change. For now, I still love New York. 
• Family Vlog Chanel - I freaking love family vloggers! I spend most of my time on YouTube watching vloggers like The Nive Nulls, Samika Vlogs, The Shaytards, April Justin TV, Gabe Babe TV... just... a lot of people. Like, a lot. I would love to be a part of that community. 
• Blogging - Of course I will still be blogging! It's what I love doing and in 10 years, I will have learned how to do it so much better. 

               

               Well, hello there, beautiful people! If you read Monday's post, you'll remember me talking about how I wanted to kick off the new year on this blog by doing the 30 Days of Blogging Challenge. By doing this, I plan on 1) finding ways to get better at blogging and 2) sharing more of my life with you guys. I'm really excited about this year so I wanted to start it off by doing what I love, which is blogging! For those of you who don't know what the 30 Days of Blogging Challenge is, it's basically a challenge that's put in place for bloggers (or any writers, really) to consistently post content every day for 30 days straight. There are a ton of variations to this challenge and they all come with a variety of different questions. The questions I will be answering come from two different blogging challenges: one from the 30 Day Challenge found on KatyWidrick.com, and the other one I randomly found on Pinterest (I tried to find the original source of this challenge, but I came up empty).  With that being said, let's get started!

Day 1: Your current relationship. If single, discuss how single life is.

               If I would have been asked this question about a year ago, I would have tried to avoid answering it by any means necessary. I was single then and I'm still single now, but my views on single life have changed drastically since then. As someone who has never been in a serious relationship before, I used to hate being single. Last year, one of my best friends got in a serious relationship and I kept wondering when it was going to happen for me.
               Within this past year, I've realized that now is the time for me to figure my life out before I get serious about sharing my life with another person. Now is the time that I need to focus on doing what I love and finding out what makes me happy. I recently read an article by Megan Sweet of HerCampus.com called"Why You Shouldn't Worry if You've Never Dated Anyone" and it was a HUGE eye opener for me (HerCampus.com has a lot of helpful articles like this one).
               If you feel upset about the fact that you've never been in a relationship before, it's okay. I feel the exact same way from time to time because after a while, being single gets really lonely. Sometimes, it can be hard seeing other couples so happy and in love when you can't share those same experiences. But I've learned that focusing on my own happiness really helps me understand the person I am, and that can be a strong foundation for figuring out the person I want to become. That way, when the right person comes along, I'll know exactly what my standards are and I'll know if that person meets them.
               It's easy to feel like everyone else is doing better than you are and our millennial generation is so competitive, we can't help but compare ourselves to other people, but we need to stop doing that. We're beautiful and awesome and unless we feel that way about ourselves, we can't expect other people to.

               So that's enough of my rant. Comment below with questions or comments, if you have any and stay tuned for tomorrow's post.

With love from your girl,
Shatece