Finally I am Beautiful

For the first time in my life, I can look into a mirror and actually like what I am seeing. For so long I was surrounded by negativity in my life from people I thought cared about me. With this new decade came a realization that I am beautiful and anyone who does not see that does not really know me or deserve to be part of my life. It's all about how you perceive yourself that makes you happy.

Sure I still have flaws but they don't matter anymore. I love myself, flaws and all. For it's my flaws that make me who I am.

This song is called Flawz by Caitlin Crosby. I hope you will embrace your flaws just as I have begun to embrace mine.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

It's Official....I'm Thirty!

My favorite day is finally here, January 12. That means I am officially thirty. To me this is no big deal because I don't feel like I am thirty. Unlike most people my age, I don't have a mortgage or a car payment. I don't have a husband or children. The only person I get to focus on is myself. 

This is my New Year! So today at 6:58 pm, begins my new year. I am going to make this my year. I have a few things that I want to be this year that I hope I can accomplish. I want to get a tattoo. (Sam is going to help me with that in the next week or so.) I want to have my own place, whether its an apartment or a townhouse, Just a place to call my own. And mainly I want to have a REAL job. Not saying I don't like my job now and I do make so great money some days, but I have a degree that is doing nothing but hanging on my wall.

I want to be able to be myself. I am doing a pretty good job of that so far! 
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This is one of the few baby pictures I have. I was the youngest so after my brother and sister my family was all "camered" out!

 

My First Birthday - 1983

My Second Birthday - 1984

Always a Lover of Cake!

My Fourth Birthday - 1986

Strawberry Shortcake will always be my favorite!

I will always love my birthday though. It's the one day of the year that I can have all to myself. Although there are some great people I share my birthday with, so Happy Birthday to my dearest friend Mr. Ed Anderson. He will be 84 this year. Happy Birthday to my France Friend Tad who is 25. And for Jeremy who got me hooked, Happy Birthday to Howard Stern. And everyone else before and after!


xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

I RUN TO BE FIERCE

I RUN TO BE FIERCE by amanda-lynn-brown featuring striped t shirts

Roller Derby Queen

Roller Derby Queen by amanda-lynn-brown featuring a checkered skirt

A Tiffany's Fairytale

A Tiffany's Fairytale by amanda-lynn-brown featuring chain jewelry

Anchors Away

Anchors Away by amanda-lynn-brown featuring zipper jewelry

Peeta's Sunset

Peeta's Sunset by amanda-lynn-brown featuring 18k jewelry

You Had Me At Hello

You Had Me At Hello by amanda-lynn-brown featuring striped tops

Je t'aime

Je t'aime by amanda-lynn-brown featuring a black t shirt

My Perfect Birthday Outfit

My Perfect Birthday Outfit by amanda-lynn-brown featuring cocktail party dresses

My Music Monday!!! 01/09/2012

This week's My Music Monday features He is We singing "I Wouldn't Mind". This song was posted on their facebook last night and I thought it was beautiful. 

The first song I heard by this band was "Happily Ever After" when I was with Jeremy and I have liked them ever since.

All of their songs are great relationship songs, either falling in love or falling out of love.

I hope you all enjoy the music.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

The Final Countdown....7 days and counting.

Well the countdown has begun. There are only 7 more days left until I am no longer in my twenties. It doesn't seem like I am going to be that old. I certainty don't look like I am about to be thirty. I don't have anything special planned for the big day, just dinner with the family and dancing in Nashville with the girls - well Sam anyways. I've ordered my pink, two layer cake, more than enough for the family to eat in over a week. I have some pink glow in the dark balloons and I would love to have 30 pink roses (but I would rather get them for a guy then have to buy them myself).

I've always loved my birthdays and this year will be no exception. People say as you get older that birthdays no longer matter but I think I will always love them. It is the one day of the year I can make everything all about me and not feel conceited :-). 

I do share my birthday with a few people I know. I've known Mr.Anderson since I was a little girl from church. We usually send birthday cards to each other every year.  There is Tad that I met on my trip to France. We are going to meet at Mimi's Cafe for a birthday lunch this year. I am looking forward to that. And of course there is the famous Howard Stern. He is a great interviewer, wish he would give me a job! That would be the best birthday present of all.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

My Music Monday!!! 01/02/2012

New Music Monday had now changed to My Music Monday!

I love Rachael Yamagata. She has an amazing voice and this is an amazing song. Most breakup songs are slow and sad but "Even If I Don't"one is fast and cute. I mean what music video wouldn't be cute that had a tiger and a rabbit as a couple. My favorite lyric is "I never understood my heart." Give this song a listen and then check out her new album, Happenstance. 

Be sure to check back next Monday for another great song by another great artist.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

Welcome to 2012

With the new year come new ideas. Ideas about what your life will be like for you, how you can change to make it better in the new year. We all make resolutions, even if we say we didn't, in our mind there are always tiny thoughts that you say to yourself. "I will lose weight." "I will be happier." For me, I am not making resolutions, I am making promises. Because its harder to break a promise than it is a resolution. These are my promises:

My 2012 Promises

I promise to find a career that I can be proud of and enjoy.

I promise to save enough money to get my own place.

I promise to put aside as much money as I can afford for rainy days.

I promise to erase as much of my debt as I possibly can.

I promise to be happier with myself.

I promise to be prettier on the outside as well as the inside.

I promise to hang out with my friends more.

I promise to wake up and walk/run every day that I can so I can be a healthier weight in 2013.

I promise write more. It is what I want to do with my life after all.

I promise to read more.

I promise to make 2012 my year. After all, 12 is my lucky and favorite number. 

In just 12 days after the new year I will be turning thirty and I promise to make the 30s the best years of my life.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥