27, I'm in My Late 20s Now

"Happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love." Candace Bushnell

It's been a while, a long while. Why? Because I was lost. Lost in the sense of I didn't want to blog unless I was going to be good at it, I felt like I could only blog about one thing, I wasn't as good as I thought I was when it came to prioritizing my time, and so many other reasons. I even posted, probably a year and a half ago, that I wasn't going to force myself to a specific topic and I was just going to write. That obviously didn't turn out well and admittedly, I still had this idea in my head that made me feel like if I wasn't going to blog well (to my unnecessarily high standards) that I shouldn't blog at all. I give up on that, all of it - mainly because I know I need to get out of my head and just do what I like.

Now I'm 27, well I will be on Tuesday, and I am all about new beginnings. Being 26 was the first full year I had in my twenties where I was single. I also used this as a time to try and "figure myself out". I met new people, a lot of things changed for me, and all of it has been a wonderful learning experience for me but I'm not done yet. I'm nowhere near fully knowing who I am and everything I want, which is why I'll be using 27 to REALLY figure myself out. To go along with this, I even rebranded my blog so here we are, "TBD Tina - A twenty-something trying to figure it out". 

This will be my trip of a lifetime - finding myself, self-love, and everything in between. I'm excited for you all to join me on this journey. 

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I'm 25!

Ah - I'm officially 25, I can't believe it! (As if you can't tell from the title of this post and the image above) I'm normally not one to care about birthdays but this one was extremely special. It was by far one of the best birthdays I've had in a while and spent it with some amazing people. 

It started on Friday morning when I went to go get my hair done while I waited for my cousin to arrive from Charlotte. I was SO, SO excited that she came to spend my birthday with me! We spent the day just hanging out until the night hit when we went to dinner and World of Beer. We didn't want to do too much since Saturday was going to be a packed day.

Saturday morning and yay, it's my birthday! Saturday we spent the day at The Winery at Bull Run. One of my best friends got married there earlier this year and it really is such a nice space so I knew this was a great choice. Also, the fact that it wasn't ridiculously far from the city (like most wineries are) was a big factor so that a lot of my friends could make it out. For the evening we went out to dinner and had a night on the town - aka: partying in Arlington.

Sunday was just spent as a nice and relaxing day, unwinding from the hustle and bustle of Friday and Saturday night. Everyone knows I'm not the out all weekend type of girl, so Sunday was just perfect for me. Actually, the whole weekend was.

I am seriously so happy that so many of my friends made it out throughout the weekend to spend time with me on my birthday. I am hoping for an awesome 25th year, especially since I'm officially at the "I feel like I'm going to open my eyes and be 30" age.

Thank you for reading about my wonderful weekend and I hope everyone can have the same awesome feeling I had these past couple days during their birthday celebration, week, month!

Happy Birthday! -- The Boyfriend Basket

Why hello there! I hope you're all having a wonderful weekend. Especially today, WELCOME BACK FOOTBALL! Anyway, I was not expecting to get so sidetracked last week. I only ended up writing one post and now I'm making up for it. I sit and write this as I sit on the couch enjoying some football.

My boyfriend's birthday is on Tuesday but we celebrated this weekend. I gave him all of his gifts when he got home from work on Friday. I set up all his gifts on a side table and put it in front of the stairs so that when he came downstairs, he would see them all.

The tall bag had his new Alfred Morris, Redskins jersey and the wide bag had a watch case that I ordered off Amazon. I am seriously paranoid about ordering things offline but I went for it and was very happy with the product.

Now to the fun gift. I LOVE putting together gift baskets, I love wrapping presents and making things look pretty with bows, paper and anything else I could find. Oh gosh, I'll love doing my gift wrapping post once Christmas rolls around. But back to the "Boyfriend Basket." I put together some of his favorite things and put them together.

I got the basket for $2.99 from Target. I got it specifically so we could use it to organize his bathroom. Starting from left to right, these are the basket contents.

Goodies:

- 2 tins of Pringles

- 3 Kit Kats (2 regular and 1 white chocolate)

- Twix

- Ferrero Rocher

- Trident Cinnamon Gum

Minis:

- Ciroc

- Black Label

- Patron

- Bombay Sapphire

Bath & Skin Care:

- Bleu de Chanel 3.4 oz

- 2 Allure Home Sport Samples

- Bath & Body Works Noir body wash

- Neutrogena Men's Skin Cleaing Acne Wash

- C.O. Bigelow Premium Shave Cream from Bath & Body Works

I obviously got the goodies and minis because they are his favorites. As far as the skin care goes, he never payed much attention to it (like most men) until we started dating. Most of the products, I have gotten him before and he luckily ran out of them just in time! The C.O Bigelow Shave Cream is a first. He has a thick beard that he likes to keep perfectly groomed so I thought he might like it because it would form into a thick lather to help with his shave. Well, he didn't like it after trying it, so luckily it was just a small one. And the cologne samples were given to me when I bought his Bleu de Chanel refill. 

I got the basket filling from Hallmark. I will reuse the filling for a future basket, just like I do with tissue paper and bows that I get. I was very happy with how it turned out.

If you would like to make a basket for your man there are always many different things you could put inside. Gift cards, Bath & Body Works air fresheners (they have a few manly smells, which are awesome) and any of their manly minis, socks, boxers, headphones, etc. You can also go to any department store and ask for samples of cologne and skin care for men and they will give you a ton! Another thing you can do is make a themed basket like movies ($5 DVD's, candy, popcorn, soda), BBQ basket (bbq tools, seasoning, peanuts, beer), and so many other man themed baskets.

Have you ever made a gift basket for your man? What did you put in it? Did your man enjoy it? I know mine did!

I hope you enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Talk to you all soon!