Catching Up

Long time, no post! I can't believe it's literally been two months since I've last blogged.. I guess you can say time got away from me. But, a lot of exciting things have happened in my life since I last blogged and I can only thank God for everything he has done. Here's just a quick little update.

Since October...

• I got my first car! My parents bought me a 2005 Chevy Malibu in November and I am very very grateful for that, especially since I don't even have a job (yet) to pay for gas. 
• Received an official starting day for work: February 19th (I know, so far). I mentioned in a much earlier post that I got a job as an assistant to a woman who is starting an event planning business. Of course it has been a process but I'm glad that things are finally coming along!
• For the first time in years, I spent Thanksgiving with my entire immediate family (immediate aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.). We were all kind of uneasy that my grandmother could not join us but it felt good to have the family all together again! Losing the meaning and value of family is terrible and I never want that to happen to my family because out of all the things my grandmother taught us all, the most important was that family comes first. I seriously had the best week ever with them.. didn't want to come back to Georgia!
• My senior year of cheerleading has begun! Lots of memories to be made and  of course, seniority privileges :)
• Finished my five college applications before winter break. Goal accomplished!
• Speaking of applications, I got my first acceptance letter today! Not to mention, it was from my top choice out of the colleges I've applied to: Georgia State University. I still haven't come down from the high the words "Accepted" gave me. Too excited!
• Finals are next week for me, then I'm done with semester (currently have all A's for all my classes). Only five more months until graduation!!!
• My favorite holiday season is here: Christmas Season! This is the most wonderful time of the year, for sure! Happy Holidays, everyone :)

Favorite iPhone Apps

If you really really really knew me, you would know that I:

• am obsessed with my iPhone
• am also obsessed with Google programs (never had nor want an Android though, weird?)
• crave organization (neat freak)
• love trying new things

With all these characteristics, I would say I have a good choice in apps (although I'm very picky with my apps) on my iPhone for organization and daily life. So, I just wanted to share a few of my favorites with y'all! Hopefully you try one out :) Anyway, here are the three screenshots I'll be referring to:

Everyday Notes & Tomorrow HD
Third app on the bottom/main bar and second app in Daily category. Everyday Notes and Tomorrow HD go hand in hand and are made by the same company. They both have three of the aspects I love in an app: simplicity, organization, and available syncing with Google (of course). Everyday Notes is a minimalist app that syncs my Google Calendar events and tasks (from Tomorrow HD) and brings them both together in a clean "everyday notebook" style app. In this app, I can also easily add tasks, events, and notes (notes don't sync, but who cares?). Tomorrow HD is the task portion of Everyday Notes, but as a separate app (and web app) that syncs with Google tasks as well. Honestly, you don't really need the Tomorrow HD app on your phone if you have the Everyday Notes app but some people might only want the tasks. Don't ask me why I have both lol. I love them because they have everything I want and nothing extra... nothing. You do have to pay for the Google sync but I think it's worth it because very very few apps sync with Google Tasks and Calendar at the same time and these do the job well.
TV Guide
Last app in Utilities category. Don't you hate having a billion shows to watch but end up getting caught up in other things so you forget to watch them? Don't you hate seeing a commercial for something you want to watch but forgetting when it comes on and never getting to see it? Well, this app works wonders. TV Guide basically is your personal channel guide and schedule (organizing!). It will give you all the channels, shows, and showtimes according to your television network. You can add shows to your favorites, set alarms for shows, and learn about new shows. You might be thinking that you can do that on your TV already.. but what if you're not home when you see something that interests you? or what if your television isn't on? I love this app! I'm not so good at keeping track of time.. and days.. and things like that so it's perfect for me.
Feedly
Third app in Daily category. Feedly is perfect for my fellow bloggers! We all have blogs we follow and love to read regularly but hate having to individually click on each website to read a post. Feedly, which has a wonderful web app as well, allows you to add all your RSS feeds into one place and creates a magazine style "reading agenda" just for you. You can save posts for later, share posts on social network, and change your theme. The app is beautiful! It organizes (told you I crave it) everything so well and also syncs with Google Reader (yay!). One of the other things I love about this app is that I also use it regularly on my laptop. Both the phone and web app make my blog-reading so much more convenient and simple.

Other Favorites: Songza, Pinterest, Springpad, and iA Writer. Check these out!

P.S. I did receive my new e.l.f. order with the correct items! They even came faster than my first order :) Problem(s) solved and customer service worked fine for me.

Update on E.l.f. Order Discrepancy

So as I told you all in my last post, I had some issues with my order from eyeslipsface.com. They emailed me back today (took about 3 days) and told me that they'd ship my correct products ASAP. I'm pleased with this response yet I'm a little cautious as to if they'll actually do it and how long it'll take. I was actually surprised by the response because after receiving the wrong order, I read a blog post that explained another fairly similar problem and e.l.f. gave her a difficult time. I wasn't expecting such an easy response but I'm glad it wasn't such a hassle with me! Stay tuned for another update!