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So the cat's out the bag! Bites & Banter 2 is loading!! World Mental Health Day is held on October 10th each year. This year, we've decided to celebrate Mental Wellness and promote Mental Health Awareness by launching Bites & Banter: The Mental Health Edition! Date: Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Time: A cool 3.30 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. Venue: So glad to have @bellabites (Marabella) back on board! Hosted By: Paula J of the Casually Living Blog Guest Speakers: Reveals are loading.... Sponsors: @valerie_exotic_designs @khalcomm @simplyescape868 @betty_bakestt @paige__tt @servicewithasmilett @thecloset868 @itsy_bitsy_clothing_co @ldpsugarsuitett & more! Dress Code: Wear something cute. Tickets: $125.00 TT Interested Participants are asked to pre-register here as there are limited spots available! Refreshments, Goodie Bags & Door Prizes! Hope to see you there! About Bites & Banter:  Bites and Banter is a local women’s empowerment event, ...

Let me tell you how my Januarys are. After the New Year, the birthdays come in early for me. My mom and my niece's birthdays are back to back and one of my friend's is the following week! If my wallet was on life support for Christmas, it definitely flat lines in January, LOL. But of course, I have a few things up my sleeve that work really well to make everyone feel special on their birthday and still get some change after I spend. Here are some tips to keep your wallet alive when celebrating birthdays: 1. Everyone needs a birthday cake. I don't really like fancy cakes for my birthday - and by fancy I mean like the Tiramisus and the well-decorated cakes plastered over instagram and so on. You know the ones. (Sidebar: There are some really talented bakers & cake makers out here. If that's your vibe, catch it).However, let's not pretend that the supermarket doesn't sell some relatively good and reasonably priced cakes, though. They aren...

A little different from Ariana's song title, thank you, next but get into it. You know that story about the chicken who bakes the bread and through the whole process she asks all her animal friends to help and they basically tell her no? If you don't, when she finishes baking the bread all the animals gather around because they wanted to get a piece of it, but she was the only one who put in all the hard work and had to check them on some 'remember when you didn't help me' type thing. Here's a couple real-life scenarios... Want to know who really wants you to be successful? Start something, like a business or anything really and ask your friends to like or share the business' page. You'll see how fast, fingers begin to get arthritis, Internet suddenly goes down in their area or the ' yea, I will ' but the notification never comes. via GIPHY I'm sure you know what i'm talking about and you might know the following scenario...

"What's on your mind?" That's the infamous Facebook prompter for users to update their status. But, what's really on your mind? Would Facebook - and all who follow you - really like to know what's on your mind? If you haven't guessed it already, this post is about mental health. I know, it's early in a New Year and this is a heavy topic but it must be talked about. My little random blog is probably not going to make such a drastic change in the world but i'll be sure to discuss real issues and somehow influence you guys in some way to feel comfortable enough to share your thoughts with someone. It's healthy - contrary to the way we were raised, right? In some way, speaking about how you felt was taboo. I remember my first panic attack. I was seventeen and in a classroom on my laptop. We didn't have a scheduled class at that time, so I think I was playing a game. All my classmates were in their worlds doing whatever and I just ...

It's 2019! It's a whole new year! I'm glad that we made it and i'm super excited for what's in store for me (and you) this year! I don't believe in New Year resolutions because I rarely -  if at all -  ever keep them. Listen! Since 2016, I was supposed to lose weight and let's just say I did the opposite of that, LOL. But, i'm such a believer in chasing what you want for yourself. So...... if you want a new car, well you know what you have to do to get that. Save.....maybe sell your old car and save... but you'd just have to take the necessary steps to accomplish that goal. Sounds like a great plan in your head but it's a ton of work and i'm sure you'd agree. Here's where vision-boarding comes in! I learned about vision-boarding a couple years ago and recently I found a vid about it again and I was like *in my head* " you know you never did that vision board you said you were gonna do that one time".  And h...