Friday, April 25, 2014

Things Are Changing

Whaddup Team!!

I hope you ladies are having a grand day! Just dropping in to say HI! I know that I am not as active as I thought I would be but LIFE gets in the way all the time. Just dropping in for a few lines, to say that I feel like changes are coming soon. And I think that I'm going to be making a slight change in the direction that I want to take this blog here. Stay Tuned!!

Love you Guys!


Friday, April 11, 2014

Get To Know ME

Whaddup Peeps!!

 Im always looking for topics to talk about on the bloggity! So when I saw this on Odd and Sodz I figured I would do this since I don't know if I have given yall some insight to little ole me.  Her are the questions:


 1. What is your name?
Kayla

I don't know how much to share but all yall need for now is my first name.

2. How old are you?
28, going on 29 ;(

3. What is your ethnic origin?
Black, or the technical term African American

4. Whats your favorite drink?
Sheesh IDK. I love sweet tea and Pepsi....Pepsi is the best soda on the face of the earth...thats it!

5. Favorite song at the moment?
Hmm.....its the most rachet song ever. But its called "It Ain't Nothing To Cut A B*tch Off" I know its horrible but I just jam when it comes on the radio. I'm not proud of it.

6. What is your favorite book?
I don't know if I have a favorite book, but I have a favorite series. Its called The Black Dagger Brotherhood series, by author J.R. Ward. Its about vampires, but not in the traditional suck your blood turn a human sense. Its pretty good with plots...and sexy sex!

7. Favorite animal?
I've always loved dolphins and cats like tigers and panthers. But none of those creatures hold a candle to my baby fur baby Barkley.


8. Favorite perfume?
I don't wear fragrances, 9 times out of 10 I will be allergic.

9. Have you ever been out of the county?
Yes, I've been to Hong Kong, Tokoyo, The Bahamas, and Jamaica! And I"m not done yet....if I only I could afford to leave the country now.

10. Do you have any siblings?
I have 2 older sisters and 3 older brothers....and YES I am a the baby.

11. Whats your favorite store?
Who knows....because of the new budget I'm trying to stick to, Target for clothes!

12. Favorite restaurant?
Its a local restaurant called Kanki. Its a Japanese Hibachi place and its GOOD! Their white sauce is unmatched.

13.Favorite Youtube Personality?
I love LOVE Kid Fury, and GabeBabeTV those are my fave.

14. Favorite movie?
The Color Purple

15. Favorite TV show?
SCANDAL, SCANDAL, SCANDAL! I DON'T CARE I DON'T CARE I LOVE THIS SHOW.

16. What phone do you have?
Iphone 5C

17. How tall are you?
5'3

18. How many pets do you have?
I have 1 dog, he is the first and probably the last dog!  They are too much work!

19. What do you like to do over the weekends?
I love to sleep....and READ....and do nothing! I work two jobs and I barely have enough time for my personal life.

20. Is your hair naturally curly or straight? 
My hair is naturally curly

21. Do you dye it yourself or go to a salon?
I don't dye...my hair is too FRAGILE

22. Do you wear the same style everyday, or do you change it?
I wear what I like and comfortable at the time.

23. How long does it take you to put on makeup?
I hardly ever wear makeup

24. What do you do first? Face or eyes?
Eyes

25. Do you collect makeup or just buy what you need when you need it?
I just buy what I need

26. How often do you wear false eyelashes?
My eyelashes are pretty awesome on their own

27. Do you do a full face of makeup everyday?
Nope I like looking as natural as possible

28. Do you wear makeup when you are home alone or with family?
I don't wear makeup  a lot

29. How many high-end products do you have?
Probably not much

30. Do you plan your OOTD every night or decide when you are getting dressed?
I never plan OOTD.....its whatever I like at the time when I got to my closet. I have an idea....but I never plan.

31. How often do you change your handbag?
Hardly ever.....I will rock non matching handbags because I'm too lazy to change it.

32. What time do you wake up and go to sleep?
When I wake up totally depends on when I have to be at work. I usually go to sleep between 12am-2am which is stupid but thats it.


33. How often are you on Blogger?
I check it often. But I really like bloglovin.

34. Do you read comments posted on blogs?
I read all comments on my own posts

35. Do you keep a list of products to try as you see other posts?
I don't keep a list I try to remember the site and go back to.

36. How did you come up with your blog name?
Its a nickname some of my college friends gave me.

37. What kind of camera do you use for your photographs?
A Nikon camera my baby got me! Love you Coach

38. What is your favourite drugstore/high end makeup brand?
Im not really that great with makeup so I'm not sure whats out there!

39. What are you doing with the rest of your day?
Now I've finished this I'll probably finish the rest of this work day!

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

ENC Wedding Assocation

Hey  Boos,

How goes it in Blog Land!! I hope all is well! Well for me I have been busy busy with work and life in general. I have to make more time for this blog if I want it to grow.  So with that being said this weekend I went to the wee little town of New Bern, NC with two of my favorite cousins to check out the Eastern North Carolina Wedding Association Wedding Expo.  The ENC Wedding Association holds this event, I'm assuming every year. This was opportunity for brides to be to go to a place where there were vendors, photographers, venues, bakers, and caterers all in one area.  The expo also had travel agents there as well to help with the honey moon destinations. So I know you may be asking why would you be at a wedding expo?? Well lovely ladies me and my beloved coach have decided that we want to get married. There is no ring and there is no date but we love each other and that's what we want to do. So this little trip was more so to get ideas and information for vendors in the area. Save some time  with looking at the Internet and places. So this trip was interesting found some caterers I loved and I can't wait to check them out once the time FINALLY COMES. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with coach and have some beautiful brown babies!! Until that time comes I'm just enjoying life for what it is RIGHT NOW!

SO....what are you thoughts? Is it a tad bit premature to be looking into these types of things?


Lova Ya,

DK

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Choosing to Love

Hey Yall!

For those of you who don't know, I LOVE TO READ! I love reading all types of books. If they are interesting I will read it. I read enough to have it as a feature on this here bloggity but I think it may be a tad bit premature for that. I recently started reading the Divergent series! Although its very young for me, its none the less a good a read. I'm on already on the last book and its not shaping up too well. I don't think I will like how the series ends.  During my reading I found a line in the book that really spoke to me. The lines in the book are:

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I chose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

This line was so ironic because I was just writing about it, in this post. Its so true!!  Because no MATTER WHAT I will always choose Coach!


Thursday, March 13, 2014

My Weekend

Hey Yall!!!

I hope all is well!! I know that its late in the week to be posting about my weekend BUT WHATEVS....I am rebel in this blogging game and I post when I want...however many times I want. With that being said, my weekend was the best!! My love, Coach came down this weekend so that we could celebrate our ANNIVERSARY!!! WE made it 1 whole year! Although our 1 year has been a drop int he bucket for some of you guys its still ours!!  Our year has been filled with some downs and ups and I'm glad that we made it out! I love that man! One year down and a lifetime to go! Love you Babe!! Here are just a few snapshots from this weekend:





Love Ya, 

DK

Thursday, February 27, 2014

RELATIONSHIPS ARE HARD

Hello Kittens!

I hope you guys are having a wonderful day! Its Thursday and one more day till the weekend!! Not much to look forward too considering my weekend will be filled with working and missing a special someone! Speaking of special someones, I just have to say that relationships are hard, SO HARD! There are ups and downs.....and lower downs....and higher ups! Its constant work to maintain your happiness as well as the happiness of someone else. Its work I don't mind doing! ;) But in the same breath its work. I don't plan on sharing the downs and lower downs of my relationship with Coach, I believe there are some things that a girl can keep to herself. But I do want to share that like all relationships we go through times where its not so good, days where its tough and I would rather not go through with that day.  In spite of all of that, I have chosen to love him anyway.  Love him, when he is angry with me for something that I have done, Love him when he leaves the toilet seat up, love him when we are watching movies and he falls asleep, love him when he is annoying me, love him when he won't share his fruit snacks, and love him when  ! I have just chosen to love him IN SPITE OF! Whatever the IN SPITE OF is...I have chosen to love him anyway. If this is the man I'm going to spend the rest of my life with there will be times when the love we have for each other is all that we have and ultimately love is all we need.

Thanks for Listening

Love ya,

DK

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Genuine

Hey there!!

I hope you all have had a wonderful few weeks and a lovely weekend. My weekend was jammed pack with working and spending time with my love, Coach and his princess.

So I have absent for a little while and something has been laying on my mind to say. I hope this doesn't come off offensive and I mean this in the best way. I follow many blogs, and due to blog lovin I'm starting to gather a microscopic following. I'm fairly excited about that. But I'm always wondering, the people who are following me. Is it because you want more followers, and you don't care what I'm talking about? Or do you really like what it is I'm saying?

I feel the pressure to grow my blog, and blog every day so that I can keep up and build a following very fast. And that's not why I'm blogging. I'm blogging because I feel like I have something to say and its interesting. Not because I want to make money or any of that. ALTHOUGH if money comes into the equation, then that's great! But I'm not doing it for the coins....I'm doing it because its FUN. I ENJOY IT! I'm not going to succumb to the pressure of blogging everyday, having fancy blog designs, and offering giveaways. I want to do it the old fashioned way.  I want people to genuinely like what I"m putting out. And like me because they think my blog is cool and not because they're trying to build their following.

If you are reading this blog because its cool and you like IT GREAT!!! If you have commented and you like it GREAT! But I don't just want followers for the number count, I want people who like what I have to say to follow me!

Just sharing some things that were on my heart!

Thanks For Reading!

DK


Thursday, February 6, 2014

New Specs

 *this post IS NOT SPONSORED, just sharing my opinion on the service and product(I PURCHASED)*

Whaddup Team!

How goes it on this fabulous Thursday? So I'm here with a review. Being a single female with a considerable amount of debt I'm always looking for ways to cut costs. A friend of mine told me about www.coastalcontacts.com  This website allows you to pick out non-prescription/prescription frames of your choice and they will ship them to you. Coastal contacts also has an offer where your first pair ever purchased at coastal contacts is free! YES my friends FREE! You get the frame and lenses for free. You pay for the shipping and handling costs! So....in all actuality it isn't FREE FREE but you are saving much more by just paying the shipping costs. Now for some picture overload!


This is what the box look likes



The contents of the box




And little ole me!

I think they are pretty nice for how much I paid! I can't complain! So if you looking for a cheaper alternative to paying top dollars for glasses Coastal Contacts may be a good choice.

Love ya,

DK

Friday, January 31, 2014

Blog Design

Hello Guys!!


I hope you all are doing well on this lovely day! I also hope my peeps living in the south who have experienced snow are safe and sound with no MAJOR mishaps. I have gotten around ok considering I need a brand new set of tires. Bad to the bone I tell ya....bad to the bone!  So anyways this post is about blog designs. Since I began this blog and started writing posts, 35 more than I actually thought I would  EVER write(YAY ME) I knew that if I kept up with it I would eventually want to change the look of things. I have considered doing the work myself....youtube and google my way thru but I don't know if I want to put in the tears to make it look a certain way. I've also looked into purchasing a template or someone to do a site but it can get kinda pricey. For now I think I'm leaning towards the template just to be done and look a little better than the template Blogger has.

One thing I have noticed is that other bloggers have these elaborate websites. That their picture lights up and moves around the page, The different posts are listed with pictures that flash. I think the actual software Flash is overused. Trying to read the content of their pages is hard because I'm having a hard time trying to navigate through your site. Which is a turn-off. You paid all this money for the site to look a certain way, and its elaborate and YOU LOVE IT, BUT I can't read it because I can't get right to the content. Personally I love blogs with simplistic layouts and design. I like blogs that I can scroll down your page and see your posts, they are easy to find. I know haven't been blogging that long, and I may not even have room to say anything but it was something I noticed because I browse A LOT of blogs. The one that have TOO much going on I don't read them. I'm missing out on content that I may love but if I can't find it I won't stay too long.

IF you guys know of any inexpensive templates or tips I can learn to do it myself...PLEASE don't hesitate to let a girl know! Till Next Time!

Love Ya,

DK

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Lessons I want To Teach My Kids

Hey guys!

One of the things I'm looking forward to the most and no time soon might I add, are babies!! I love babies and to have a few of my own would be just added blessings to my life. With that being said there are few things that I want to teach them as they grow. I compiled a list of some things I feel like are valuable lessons. When these lessons came to mind there was no particular order just thoughts.




Never trust anyone with color contacts, not even me

Never talk to strangers

Honesty is always the best way to go

Never be ashamed to ask questions if you don't understand

Remember me and your dad will will always be here to support you

Always trust your instincts

Everyone that smiles in your face, doesn't always have your best interest in mind

Trust God

Never trust a big butt and a smile

Always be INDEPENDENT


Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Where I have been

I have been gone for a while. Due to recent events I will have more time to dedicate to this and my personal life which is wonderful.

***PICTURE OVERLOAD***

Here are some photos of my life thus far. These pictures are from my birthday trip to Atlanta. My baby hooked me up! He planned the whole thing and I was presently surprised. He be KNOWING!  We went to dinner, The Georgia Aquarium, saw the Best Man Holiday, and went to the Coca Cola Museum. He also got me a few gifts! He really planned the whole thing....and I was so happy! I cried like a baby when I had to leave him and go back to my life! Long distance is TOUGH!





























Just a few more....I promise these will make you smile....if it doesn't....you hate KIDS and dogs! My nephews and my furry son! Don't judge me...He needs a haircut and he just got one Friday I promise! My babies Nicholas and Jacob(Nick in the orange and Jack in the blue)





Until Next time!

DK

Monday, January 20, 2014

Whats in my Purse

HEY NOW!!!! ITS BEEN TOO LONG!! Hey guys *waving* hope your holidays were awesome, filled with family and festivities. My holidays were awesome and so glad that things have calmed down around here. Since November, I have celebrated a birthday,  been travelling a lot, working a lot, and being sick A LOT, strep throat is NO FUN.  Since things have slowed down I hope to get back to blogging and building this thing. I was over at  Allison's page and she did a "Whats in my Purse" post and I thought it was cool considering I had only seen it on YouTube. So I figured why not follow suit! So.........







*DISREGARD FLUFFY PUPPY*

1.  My shoes, coach got these for me on birthday trip to Atlanta GA(which I'm going to post soon, with just pictures from the trip). I love these shoes so much so that I don't want to mess them up from driving or getting them wet so I wear another pair and then when I get to where I"m going I switch them out. Am I the only one who does that? 

2. My adult sippy cup! LOL.....coach got this in a gift bag from a basketball tournament he went to. He gave me this cup and I take it to work and drink my water out of or anything I'm trying to take with me. 

3.This is my travel bag....filled to the brim with "feminine hygiene products"

4. This is a little manicure set I got from a former coworker. Perfect for grabbing hang nails and the little whiskers I get under my chin and neck. 

5. My wallet, where all the magic happens

6. My lip balm, is from Bath & Body Works. I'm too lazy to actually look at the title of it....but its their brand. And yes, I'm too lazy to count my earphones as something separate. 

7. A little compact from Wal-Mart for like a dollar

8. Lotion, yall I'm so dry....just dry all the time. I stay ashy in the winter time. I hate putting it on under my clothes...its just so uncomfortable. But I don't really like my hands to look like I have been punching bricks. 

9. Gloves, sometimes I like to use gloves when my hands GET really cold. These gloves were .94 from Target. The ones that are for smart phones, the thumb and index finger have special fabric or something.  I find they don't work that well....but for .94 they will do. 

10. My Pick! So...I'm a natural girl and sometimes I need to pump my hair back up, this does the tricks most times. 

So that's about it. I thought I would have way more junk then this, but I just cleaned out my former purse and the new one I put the important stuff in. I guess not enough time to acquire junk. 

Wisdom Teeth

Hey guys!!!


I finally got my wisdom teeth removed and they took me out the game. I don't wish that on my worst enemy. The pain has been so OUTRAGEOUS. I'm glad I'm on the up and up! Look forward to posts later on this week.

DK