Let's Talk Tuesday - Periscope.

Heyo,
Today we talk Periscope & let me begin with;

I DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT PERISCOPE,



but, I do know that it's a big deal. SO I caught my new friend Chris Mcmanamy's latest scope & decided I should probably do a little research. I then found who I am going to call the "Goddess of SM" She is probably my newest interest because she knows what's up. Sue B Zimmerman you are awesome.

I followed her on everything and anything, and on Sunday, she tweeted out; https://twitter.com/SueBZimmerman/status/676037113536712704

at first (to be honest) I was like meh, whatever (bad attitude I KNOW) Then I saw (a follower I already have) tweeted to, +Vincenzo Landino tweeted out that he was doing his top 7 periscope accounts to follow. This really peaked my interest, because I don't know who to follow, so hey I'll watch. I followed up him with watching @fitfabfive5 and her scope on being a badass!

After completely LOVING these 2 I was like well, I should probably watch +Sue B. Zimmerman as well, and I did. Not a mistake.



Hello, Sue is a genius. So I am now a fan, I already love her on snapchat & I am going to watch & listen & learn because Sue you are fabulous! (Suck up much? I KNOW)

I also watched, Amy - +schmittastic who is a doll & a youtube extraordinaire. Every day I'm hustling (ok yes & no, but really every day I'm learning an extreme amount of fabulousness) I don't really do Youtube, but hey, if Amy says they rock, who am I to not at least, check it out? Now I have subscribed to Amy's top 7 YouTubers, I have about 5 bil hours of videos to watch (including Amy's)



Do you follow & love these individuals? If the answer is NO, you should & if you do WHY didn't you tell me about them?

Anyone else I should follow on Periscope? - Please post them in the comments <3

xo.

Let's Talk THURSDAY - Twitter Chats.

Heya,

Well, I failed not by 1 day but by 2 this time... Maybe I suck at these blogging shenanigans but hey whatevs.

On this fine Thursday, I want to talk about my favourite tweet chats & learn some of yours!
It's kind of fitting because Wednesdays are the motherlode of awesome chats.


I spend far too much time on twitter & giphy simultaneously on Wednesdays because GIF's make everything better. EVERYTHING.

(p.s. Slothilda is my new favorite thing!)

So I start my Wednesday chat extravaganza with #BufferChat at 12pm, my time (EST)  which is always complete insanity, this chat has gotten so popular that if you walk away for a minute you come back to a minimum of 100 missed tweets. IT'S CRA. It is so fun and incredibly informative, I learn so much every Wednesday from this group of social media ninjas that I should really start writing things down!



Next up we have #SproutChat at 3pm (EST) which can be a bit serious but I always learn a ton & there are some seriously fun people in here. We get a bit silly! This one is also full of social media ninjas who I can learn an excessive amount from.



And lastly, this one is hilarious & if you've never been, well you will probably feel like you fell off a truck and are tumbling down a hill. When you start to question your sanity, then you may be about halfway to understanding the conversation that is occurring. #SpoofChat is hilarity, I love the people & it's A LOT of GIF's plenty and plenty of GIF's

so that's my 3, I religiously participate & sometimes I miss them. When I do miss them, I cry myself to sleep because it's just not a Wednesday without all my friends! ;)



What are yours? I would enjoy peeking in on a few different chats to see what else is out there, feel free to share in the comments & or tweet me @OutgoingOwl

<3

Lets Talk Tuesday! Who to follow on Snapchat!

Hello Peoples,

Hope you are all having a fabulous week. I spent this weekend at a hockey tournament for my middle stepson, technically today is my Monday & I am exhausted.

Lets Talk TUESDAY - Is actually happening on a Tuesday this week (This is rare, let's celebrate)

Today, I wanna talk about snapchatters I highly enjoy.

I have so many, some days it takes me a solid half hour to watch their stories. #FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) Gets me good with snapchat. I want to know what's going on. I totally want to be in the loop! 

Anyone feel me? Do you snap? If so, add little ol me:

Anywho, enough about me. Without further ado, my favorites (for the moment) snappity snappers:

These are in no particular order because I love them all equally ;) Follow all these fab gals & guys by scanning their snapcode with your phone. 

#1: 

hilarious, awesome, cute as a button, & now a married man! Branden is super fun to watch & does great stories!

#2:

Love this doll, she does lab experiments & cool sciency stuff!

#3:

Totally hilarious, with a smidge of crazy!

#4:

Cutest of the cute this girl. Great snapchat artist & storyteller!

#5:

Today this guy was totally on point. Hilarious!

#6:

Basically the story master - & hes so handsome (I may have a small school girl crush on this one)

#7:

She's a hottie, talks real talk & is always awesome!

These 3 are my most recent followings so I don't know much about them yet, but they are fabulous:

#8:

#9:

#10:

So, what am I doing when I am on my phone all day?
I'm catching up on my favorite snappers (this is only a small collection of all the fabulous people out there)

check out: http://www.snapchat.codes/ for many more amazing peeps.

Who do you follow that I should follow?

<3 Love.

Well, It's Wednesday - Having an Intention

This should be Let's Talk Tuesday - but I suck. 

Let's talk about "Intentions" today. I have begun taking yoga classes again & the instructor always starts his class off by advising we choose an intention for our practice.

in·ten·tion

inˈten(t)SH(ə)n/

noun

1. 1.

   a thing intended; an aim or plan.

   "she was full of good intentions"

In yoga, this could be something as simple as. "Today I choose to love myself" or "Today I choose to be strong" 

we are told to hold on to this intention throughout the whole class to keep our mind focused. When you're muscles start to shake or you are questioning why you are doing this to yourself.

(Hey, it happens. Why the hell am I bending my legs in this way? I am not a pretzel, I repeat I am not a pretzel)

It's a good practice though, I like the idea of setting an intention for every day. Today I choose to be strong. Is an amazing idea & practice for someone with a mental health issue. Today I choose to breathe when I feel stressed. That could be your intention (If you have anxiety, it will be a reminder throughout the whole day to just breath). Today I choose to love myself. Maybe you do too much for others without worrying about you. It's not selfish. Sometimes you have to choose you.

From: mindbodygreen.com: "An intention is bringing your attention and awareness to a quality or virtue you wish to cultivate for your practice both on and off of your mat. Some examples of qualities or virtues you might use as your intention include; patience, gratitude, grace, being present in the moment, awareness of breath, love, forgiveness, letting go, releasing negativity, being open to receive, inner strength, or peacefulness."

"Train yourself, breathing in, calming your entire body. Train yourself, breathing out, calming your entire body." - Buddha

Have you ever set an intention in your life? Do you practice yoga & how have you found this to better your life?

xo.

MinsGameBOSS - Week 3 Recap. ByeByeBye

Week Numero Tres.

Hello, MinsGame friends! How is it going? Are you noticing a difference?

My house is looking glorious!

I sold Fiances bathroom vanity (It was supposed to be put in his old house & he never installed it, He moved it around until it finally ended up in our hallway for a year :|) SO I sold that stupid thing. $220 later and I have my hallway back! YAHOOOOOOOO

That was the big ticket item of the week, I've tried to sell clothes in the past & no one wants my old crap (who am I kidding, I wouldn't pay for it either) So I have just been giving it away, just take it & go. I gave away a garbage bag full of kids clothes sized 5-6, yeah buh bye & next will be their toys.

This week was just a lot of garbage. I am so glad to be rid of it all & I never want to see it again.

I have also adopted a "One in = One out" mindset. I got a new sweater & I got rid of a sweater. Actually like 5. 

That's week 3 in a nutshell. Honestly not that exciting but boy am I noticing a difference! 

How goes the battle friends?

P.S. Do not "forget" a day at this point, it's disastrous! I had to find 43 items the other day & it was stressful. So, just don't do that to yourself.

Oh & Happy Monday - Make it Fabulous!

Lets Talk Tuesday (uh, or Thursday) - Christmas.

Hey there!

I hate Christmas or the holiday season, whatever you prefer.

First of all, now I am offending people when I say "Merry Christmas" because when can you open your mouth and not offended someone nowadays. It's ridiculous.

Second, My family kind of sucks, and no one gets together. This is partially my fault I'm sure because I live 6 hours away from most of them, but hey you could come to me once in a while too. We try to make plans & they just fall through because everyone's busy & no one wants to really put in the effort.

Third, the spending is astronomical and stupid. I would prefer you make me an owl out of a toilet paper  tube. Seriously. OR come over & make decorations & cute stuff with me. OR we could go out and get things for amazing organizations like the shoebox people.  I don't want or know what to buy you & you don't want to or know what you're going to buy me, so why are we bothering? 

Four, it's a sad time. I lost my dad in 2007 & it's just not the same, nor will it ever be. (Where's my beanie babies dad? get it together) so that makes it sad. Other family members don't speak to each other & it's just a big old mess. So where's the happy?

This post is taking a turn for the sad, & whiny so I am going to attempt to turn it around. 

I mean, it's not all bad, but if we're being honest, I am just not for this time of year. 

At least there is peppermint everything & holiday movies!

Sorry for being the Grinch, but hey if you also hate Christmas lemme know, or if you LOVE it please tell me why!

xo.

#MinsgameBOSS Week #2 Recap!

Yeah ok,

I suck at doing this in a timely fashion. Technically speaking, today is my Sunday, so just deal with it ;)

WELL, Week 2 was a fun one, I actually was having some trouble. The numbers were getting bigger & my want to hold on to things I "might" use in the future was holding on like sticky molasses.

I got a bit behind on days 12 & 13 and that gave me a bit of anxiety thinking of it as 25 items seemed so extreme but quickly I realized it adds up. Just like that I had 25 items, small things like glommy nail polishes but regardless, 25 items.

I spent a lot of this week on my rendering markers, it's been long overdue. It was depressing though because as each one didn't work I thought about the money I spent on these stupid things. What is a rendering marker? They are very specific coloured markers with a certain type of thickness, they aren't normal because you can layer them to get the colour of things like fabrics, woods, flooring, tiles, etc. Interior Designers used to use them more back before technology took over the world. We needed these in Decorating school and they were $5 a marker (Unless you lucked out and got them on sale) So as I chucked them out, I cried a little ;)

Alas, we made it through! Mom also purged quite a few items & I'm so proud of her!!! She has been trying to get her shit together for awhile but everytime she thought about the amount of crap she has it gave her severe anxiety! So she's making incredible progress and YAY!

Ok friends, go forth and minimalize! Good luck on week 3!

<3 xo.