The best planner in all the land- Plum Paper. The end. After you read this, you'll be wishing you had one! All of their products are custom and handmade in San Diego, California. I l o v e that they are made right here in the US!
I discovered Plum Paper planners last year as I was going into my freshman year of college. They caught my eye because of the particular student planner that they carry. I was amazed when I started to order it and realized that it could literally have anything I wanted. I'll insert a picture below of what it looked like!

Types of planners they offer-

• Family
• Monthly
• Teacher
• Student
• Fitness
• Address Book
• Memory Keepr
• Notebook

Types of add-ons they offer-

• Home Planning
• Fitness Planning
• Blog Planning!!!
• Direct Sales Planning
• Baby Planning
• Wedding Planning
• My Class Section
• Notes Section
• To-do List Section
• Bill Tracker Section
• Checklist Section
• Contacts Section
• Stickers

You should be completely convinced to go buy yourself one now.

I knew I was going to want one again for my sophomore year, so I ordered another obvs! I switched things up this time and went with regular planner that's in the picture above. I got the Morning/Afternonon/Evening spread with the blog planning and stickers add-ons! I ordered a gold glitter monogram from an Etsy store to put on the front and I'm so happy with it! Below are some pictures of it that you can check out :)

I got mine to start in December since I have SO much going on during that month and the upcoming year! It goes through November of  2016.

The ladies at Plum Paper were kind enough to offer y'all a discount code! Just use Planner10 at checkout to receive 10% off your purchase! The code expires 12/31/2015. Here's their website!

I hope you'll check them out and tell them I sent you!

To adult or not to adult? If you're in your 20's or almost in your 20's- this is for you. When people said growing up stinks, they weren't kidding. We know adulthood is coming, but are we there yet? Here are five signs you're almost an adult:

1. You don't buy the shoes. Y'all- this is the worst for me. I don't mean to sound vain, but I genuinely have a problem. I have no sense of when to stop buying shoes. Don't have that color? I need them. Don't have that style? I need them. You create that budget, but you don't actually stick to it. When you have to decide if you want the shoes or to have gas to get to work, you know you're almost an adult.
2. You'd rather stay at home. I would rather stay home and blog, read, or watch a movie than go out most of the time. Since when did I think about what time I need to be home by in order to get my full nine hours of sleep? (And trust me when I say I NEED that nine hours!) When you would rather be on the couch than out late, you know you're almost an adult.
3. You have to create a resume. How do you pronounce that word? HAHA. I recently had to create a resume for a class and didn't even realize how important it is to have one until I created it. I've needed that bad boy twice since I made it, so thank goodness I had it! I miss the time when  all you had to do was fill out an application and you got the job. When you finally have to sit down and figure out how to create a professional looking resume, you know you're almost an adult.
4. You're Facebook feed. Don't tell me you haven't been noticing all the engagements, marriages and babies. I'm just siting here reading a book about waiting on the right man God has for each person and wondering when I'm going to meet him... Is it really almost time to be settling down? I don't think I'm emotionally stable/ready for that hahaha. When everyone around you is getting engaged, married or having babies, you know you're almost an adult.
5. You're parents are talking about what they'll do with your room. Okay wait, just because I'm moving out doesn't mean you need to turn my room into a craft room, ma. (I'm not kidding-that is an actual discussion that has happened in my house.) Isn't it funny how they think you'll never come home? I guess we should be taking that as a sign they don't want us back. When you want to redecorate your room and your parents tell you there's no point because you're leaving soon, you know you're almost an adult. 

"Are you talking to anyone?" is something I hear way too often. My response is usually, "Not right now" or maybe even a, "No, the last one was a jerk." Let's be honest though, it just never happens for me. There's nothing quite like a friend saying how she's been single for almost a WHOLE MONTH and I'm over here thinking about how I've been single almost twenty....yes, twenty....years. So why has it been that long? I'm a curvy girl with dirty blonde hair and a not-so-shy personality, so maybe not drop dead gorgeous, but I have some things going for me- so what's the problem and why am I the only one out of my friend's who hasn't had a boyfriend yet?

Let's start off in middle school when dating wasn't huge, but it was starting to get to that stage. I would come home telling my parents about the most recent relationship gossip and then ask why I couldn't have that or why did nobody like me? They always responded with the nice things parents say like, "It'll happen one day." or "You're too pretty to worry about it." Fast forward to high school and I was still waiting on that "one day". By this time I had pretty much convinced myself that my personality was too big, I needed to be prettier, etc. I started to get more attention, but it wasn't anything that would last or anyone who wanted something more than the physical aspect of things. I began to try hard to understand what a guy wanted- was it looks? knowledge of sports? a certain hair color? Then I started to giggle at how desperate I was getting and realized that nobody was mature enough for me or nobody could handle me so I would just wait until college. Well now I'm in college and I bet you can already guess...I'm still the third wheel and just a bridesmaid (Get it? Always a bridesmaid-never a bride). 

I watch my friends become single one by one then, like clock work, find someone else. I've witness a lot of problems, drama and heartbreak that I never knew existed. I've never understood how someone can literally go back to the same person that hurt them so badly before, but I guess I wouldn't know without being in that situation. The biggest thing is the girls who rebound so quickly. How do they have no single time??? Up until college I always saw it as a blessing to never be single, but now I'm seeing it as a curse. Is it an identity thing? Maybe they don't know who they are other than being a girlfriend. Maybe they don't know their worth outside of being in a relationship. Regardless- I'm starting to see being single as a relief more than anything else. 

I like to always remind myself how confident I am and that I can do anything I want to on my own, but don't let this fool you because I still wonder what I'm missing out on. (I even go to the extent of redownloading Tinder...awkward). I don't let myself binge watch Netflix series or eat bowls of ice cream as big as my head, but I do get insecure at times. So the question remains- when will I meet the man God has in store for me? I don't know, but that's okay because I know I'll be perfectly fine until then in this time of growth for myself.  

xx, Blaine