Healthy, Easy, & Quick Breakfast Recipe

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If any of you are like me, you love to hit that snooze button every morning. 

"I swear I'll get up after this snooze alarm"

But really, I know myself and I will probably end up getting up when I only have 10 minutes to get ready. 


It really sucks having to rush in the morning and it's a bad habit I should break, but in the meantime I am on the look out for easy and quick hairstyles, makeup, and of course breakfast to make my mornings a little less hectic.

Leaving practically no time to prepare breakfast, I need something I can just grab and eat in class. That is why I am in love with making Overnight Oats. 

I know this was a pretty big fad over the internet a while back, but I thought I'd bring it back since surprisingly not many people know about it.

It's perfect for anyone who rather stay those extra minutes in bed rather than in the kitchen. 


And bonus: It's packed with a lot of protein to keep you full and happy til lunch! 

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup of rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup of vanilla soy milk (any type of milk you prefer) 
  • 1/3 cup of vanilla greek yogurt
  • 1/2 tbsp of chia seeds (sometimes I add a little more)
  • 1 banana (optional)
  • 3 strawberries (optional)
  • raw sliced almonds (optional)

Process:





Add your oatmeal in a container. I prefer a little mason jar.




Secondly add your milk!



Then your greek yogurt



Next are the chia seeds. 



Lastly you want to mix everything up! I sliced a banana and a couple of strawberries to give it more flavor. Plus I love fruit in the mornings. I also added raw sliced almonds for that extra protein as well as some crunch. 


Once everything is nicely mixed, just seal it and put it in the fridge over night.

And you're done!



In the morning you should get something that looks like this 




Have fun coming up with different combinations! Strawberry Banana Almond is my favorite at the moment.



Happy eating! 


-m












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Interior Design Major

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As you may know if you read my about me section, I am currently majoring in interior design. Usually when someone asks me what I study, it usually goes along these lines:

"Oh wow, so you can decorate my house right?"
It honestly takes everything in me to stop myself from cringing when I hear that, but most of the time I just smile politely and I wait for the subject to be changed.

Truth is, it is a very common misconception that interior designers are decorators and honestly that is not true! You don't even need a degree to be a decorator. 

Interior design is much much more! Although this is my third year in college, I changed majors early on in my freshmen year, so it is actually only my second year in the ID program.

(In my school you actually have to apply and go through a special type of selective admission to get into the program) 

I have learned so much in this short amount of time such as hand drafting, building codes, computer renderings, and so on. 

I'm constantly amazed at what an amazing field interior design is. And to be honest, I am absolutely in love with what I study. 

Of course I'll complain about my professors or doing projects at times, but it really is fulfilling. Interior Design affects everyone and it's up to us to accommodate the needs of a client.

Another misconception is that we only do residential projects. 

Also not true, there are many areas that you can go into such as commercial, hospitality, furniture design, and so on. For example, two of my professors just finished designing a hospital. 


Above is my very first business I designed for my computer visualization class last semester. I know it's far from a professional level, but it gives you a glimpse of what we do. 

If anyone out there is reading this and you have any type of interest in this, I definitely encourage you to do some research and look into it. It really is an amazing career, but you really do have to love it. 


If you have any more questions about majoring in interior design, please feel free to ask me! 

You can also to continue to check up on my blog as I will frequently be updating my readers on my latest projects.

"Love what you do, do what you love" 

Have a great weekend!

-m




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New Semester, New Projects

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To kick off the new semester, my professors have already assigned me two projects due this week!

It's all good though because if there is one thing I learned from my past semesters, freaking out about time won't help, you just got to get it done. 

I'm taking a color and illumination class (even though they will only be teaching the color part this year) and for our first "project" we had to make four gradients out of newspaper. 


I'll be honest, I wasn't thrilled about the idea of this exercise at first. It sounded like something you would give a little kid to do. But it did grow on me and I actually did underestimate it. 



I started from darkest to lightest cutting up strips of newspaper and pasting them on simple white paper that i had measured. 1 1/2" in height and 1/2" in width. 


Of course I use this baby. Compared to other x-acto knives, I love how this one is retractable. 



 Unfortunately, I gave in and used glue stick for this project since it would allow me to move newspaper around in case I messed up (which I did many times). I really don't like this type of adhesive, it gets EVERYWHERE.  On my hands, on my desk, and on my project. It's difficult to avoid smudges, but it's also really easy because it dries so quickly. 



Once I had all my strips pasted, I simply cut the edges to give it a polished finished. If I had more newspaper to choose from I think I would have been able to get a better flow with my gradients, but for the first assignment I'm content with it. Looking at the same colors so closely for hours (yes this actually took me hours) can be kind of trippy. 

On another note Friday is almost here! I wish you all a great weekend! 

-m







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Current Favorites (Non Beauty)

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Music


I don't know what is with this song lately, but I've been keeping it on repeat. 


I have also gone back and listened to all their greatest hits and I've been asking myself why did I ever stop listening to them?! 

TV Shows 


I was spectacle about this show when it first came out, but it is amazing! I love seeing such a great latino cast on TV. It reminds me of a telenovela without the terrible acting. I seriously recommend it, I have already gotten so many people hooked on it! 


So since Parks and Rec is coming to a close I was looking for a new comedy show to start watching and I have to say this is it. The cast has such great on screen chemistry and the humor definitely reminds me of P&R and The Office. Also I have a major woman crush on Melissa Fumero, she is just goooooorgeous. 


Lastly, this show is absolutely adorable. They are on their third season already and every time I watch it I am just blown away with the amount of talent these kids have. It is incredible. I love all of Gordon Ramsey's shows, but I think this is my favorite. Do me a favor and just watch one episode! I'm telling you, you'll be hooked. 


Books 


I know the movie already came out a while back, but I did not want to watch it until I read the book. With Christmas break I finally got around to doing so and I'm hooked! I just finished the first book and I'm already anxious to begin the next one. If anyone is looking for a series to start reading, I highly recommend. Like most books, it does start off a little slow, but trust me keep at it and you won't want to put it down!


***
What's been going on?

This week I began my sixth semester at school! So far I don't feel overwhelmed by any of my classes or professors, but the amount of supplies I need to buy for some of my studios definitely won't be any fun. 

On a brighter note, tomorrow is Friday! Let's finish the week strong.

-m





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