Monthly Favorites

I like to do a little weekly obsessions thing every week to show a snipet of what I'm really obsessing over in the past week. Since it's the end of the month, I decided it's best to show you my monthly favorites! Some items can be from past weekly obsessions, while others are ones that haven't cut the list.

 Troye Sivan's Blue Neighbourhood

After hearing Casper Zazz's remix of Happy Little Pill by Troye Sivan, I have been obsessing over the original song! When Blue Neighbourhood came out and I listen to it, I fell head over heels for it. The whole album makes me either want to jam out or helps soothe me to sleep. The songs I would have to recommend anyone to listen to is WILD and YOUTH.

Bath and Body Works Winter Fragrances          

Even though my favorite Bath and Body Works scents are the fall pumpkin scents, winter scents can make the house feel like winter. In Texas, we can have weather from 40 degrees and cloudy to 90 degrees and sunny one day to 20 degrees and pouring down rain with sleet. We dont really get to have a Christmas or winter feel, so the Bath and Body Works products give the winter feel in our home. ESPECIALLY THE CANDLES!!

All of my freaking Christmas Presents    

I was so spoiled this Christmas, my friends and family members gave me so many gifts that were thoughtful and meaningful. When it came to my wish list, I told everyone I'd like bathing products and my slippers. All I really wanted was a record player, which I got! I got everything I wanted and so much more! Some people say I'm hard to give gifts to, but every thing I got was beyond what I thought it would be.

My Laptop

Something that I've been really wanting lately is a new laptop to edit more videos and pictures for personal wants and class. So I've been asking everyone in the book for recommendations or checking out websites about possible laptop options. I ended getting an HP pavilion and I feel like the coolest cat using this laptop.

Tove Lo   

Tove Lo is a Swedish singer who has become popular in the United States for her songs, Habits (Stay High) and Talking Body, and for loving to show her body off at concerts. Recently, I became obsessed with her music after hearing her song and watching her incredible music video for, Thousand Miles.

Master of None

Master of None is a Netflix show that Aziz Ansari created and is featured in, and is incredibly hilarious. The show has very crude and funny moments that I could never think of. Even though I saw the commercials on television I didn't think it was very funny, but I still gave it a try and it's great. I'm currently on the third episode out of the twelve.

 So that's my December favorites! I hoped every had a happy Christmas and a wonderful New Years eve celebration! What did you enjoy and loved about the month of December?

Thanks for reading

xx

Daddy's Home.

On December 30th, I got the chance to take my mom and boyfriend out to have a hang out day together. Our day included shopping, checking out after-Christmas sales, and snacking on some Taco Bell, but what started our day off was a showing at the movies. Since my sister was on a high school band trip and my mom was off, Robert thought it would be best to take her out and go see a movie: Daddy's Home.

German poster for Daddy's Home

What is the Movie About?

Daddy's Home is about a kindhearted radio executive, Brad Taggart (Will Ferrell), who wants to be the best possible stepfather to his wife's (Linda Cardellini) two children. When her freewheeling ex-husband Dusty (Mark Wahlberg) breezes back into town, Brad's feeling of insecurity quickly develops into an inferiority complex. As Dusty demonstrates his flair for athletics, home repair and bad-boy charisma, Taggart finds himself in a no-holds-barred battle to one-up his rival and win the approval of his family.

My Review:

 To me, the movie wasn't as funny and was to the potential as I hoped it would be. I should've know the film wouldn't be that great after seeing the pair in The Other Guys, a comedic cop buddy movie, that I didn't feel was funny at all. The past few movies Will Ferrell has been has been in animated films, and not as funny as his crude adult films, like Step-Brothers or Elf. When I saw the commercial ad for Daddy's Home, I thought is was going to be hilarious with all the crude or dirty remarks between Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. In reality, the commercial showed all the funny parts of the film and the rest of it had bits and pieces of funny moments. Other than what they showed in the commercial, the only thing funny is at the end when show John Cena acting like a jerk towards Mark Wahlberg's character pursuing becoming a stepfather. In this film, the writers hoped for the two big stars, Wahlberg and Ferrell, to hit the audience with tons of wackiness and wicked comedy that would laugh the pants off of any movie theater audience member.
I would have to rate this movie a six out of ten wild strawberries.

A swing and a miss with this movie. 

Thanks for reading!

xx

Discussing Mental Health

My new years resolutions consisted of all sorts of things that revolved around one goal: to be happier. Not there's so many different definitions of happiness and how to achieve happiness, but for me it has to do with my mental health.

What is Mental Heatlh?

Mental heatlh isnt just about taking a day off from work or school. Mental health is our emotional, psychological, and social well-being, and it affects how we think, feel, and act. So many things can cause a dethings can cause a decrease or negative impact  in our mental health: stress, not enough sleep, not exercising, eating unhealthy.

For me almost every single one of these things affected my mental health. I don't get a lot of sleep during the school year( about 4 hours on a good night), I don't always eat too healthy, I haven't been working out, I'm on my electronics way too much,I don't always get the chance to see my family, all sorts of things affected my mental health in a negative way. Not in a way where I felt depressed, but it caused me to constantly worry and stress over little things.

So how are we going to fix this?

Step one: Start sleeping!

Cruisin' for a snoozin' One way I'm going to start sleeping more is by changing my schedule. I've made the decision to not work myself sick. So goodbye constantly working the graveyard shift, and hello working only weekends. That's right, when it comes to working at the nursing home I've decide it was in my best interest to start working the weekend and on school holidays. And during the school week I can just work as many work study hours possible, when I'm not doing anything or need time to catch up on some class work. Another thing that can help improve my sleep schedule is by not constantly being on my phone or computer watching YouTube videos or Netflix. I need to start logging off and help myself get tired by relaxing.

Step two: Relax

Here lately my boyfriend has been poking fun at my feel to constantly stress or worry over every little thing in the book. With this problem, I've decided on a couple of little things to try and help. I've started writing my schedule for the week, writing to do list and completing them, writing down budgeting plans for the month, and by coloring.

With the journaling, I've also decided to try out a mental health journal( example is a Wreck this Journal book) to get my thoughts out each day. Which is something I thought my best friend and I can do together to help each other and our constant stress from school.

Examples of Mental Health Journals:

Coloring in an adult coloring book has helped with relaxing from stress and stepping into my own little world.

Step three: Family comes first!

I think not being able to spend time with my family, friends, and significant other has caused some stress on me. The feeling of taking care of others family members or being constantly asked to work a day and know that person asking me to stay is getting the chance to go home and see their family members caused me to miss my family even more. In the past year, I've tried to make time to see everyone and see my out of town family members, but it never feels like enough. It's Time to start cutting hours of staying out with friends at Applebees or working an extra shift, and time to start getting home relaxing with my boyfriend before he goes to work, grab lunch with my mom, drive down and stay a couple of days with my dad and step mom, or watch a couple of episodes of Parks And Recreation with my little sister.

Step four: Do things to get me

a step closer to my career goals

In the past month, I've tried to start doing little things to get me a step closer to my career goals and it feels like it's never enough. I've started doing more photography, writing and creating my blog, and editing pictures on Photoshop, but there is so much more that I can do to get even closer. This is the time to start doing more that gets me involved with creating publicity posters, commercials, videos with meanings, and doing more in photography.

I feel there are even more things, but with the items I've listed I feel it will help me get a step closer to become a happier and healthier Shaydi.

Thank you so much for reading!

xx