This is the 3rd care package my parents signed up to send me from this brand, OCM.com, which I don't know that much about. I thought it would be fun to show pictures of the unboxing and show what was in the box, in case you're here wondering whether or not to get your kids these for college, you're a college student wanting to ask for them, or you're my parents wondering what the heck you just paid for. Let's get started!
What the box looked like. Very cute packaging!
The box had cute motivational sayings all over it!
First look. The products seemed to be wrapped in a burlap bag! How creative.
Here's what the burlap bag was- an ENTIRE BAG filled with coffee-related items! I love anything caffeinated, and the pouch itself was very cute, so I was super duper excited for this part.
Everything that was in the coffee bag! 3 Maxwell House instant coffee packets, 3 packets of Domino's sugar (a nice touch!), 1 packet of spiced apple cider, 1 Kool Aid instant singles pouch, a travel mug, 3 Stash teabags, 2 Swiss Miss w/ marshmallows packets, and 3 Swiss Miss milk chocolate hot chocolate packet. These will not go to waste with me around!
Close up of what was in the coffee bag!
This was what was left in the box after I took out the burlap bag- lots of snacks and candy! But what is under that mysterious piece of cardboard?
All of the snacks that were in the middle layer of the box! Wheat Thins, Chex Mix, cereal to go, Rice Krispies, Dum dums, Tootsie Rolls, Twizzlers (my all time fave), the list goes on! Some are a little smaller than a single serve size, but I'm a terribly often snacker so maybe it's for the best. Hah.
A close-up of some of the things I'm most excited for! Spearmint Chiclet gum, Nutella to go...
Mysterious packaging...what could it be!? My first guess was a bunch of super fragile Christmas ornaments haha.
The big mystery was FRESH FRUIT! I was so surprised to see this...and also excited because I love oranges and green apples, and I'm sure I'll end up devouring the red apples too.
Not exactly an info card, but here's the card that comes with it! Haha, very cute
Here's absolutely everything that was in the box! It was very jam-packed, with the travel mug (which came in perfect time, because all my mugs are dirty and I'm too lazy to wash them this week, hehe), fruit, coffee bag, travel Nutella, etc.!
This was definitely a huge box that was very diverse and exciting! I have pictures from the other 2 boxes before this that I can put up as well if you'd all like! I'd love to share, and it could be like a mini series (: It looks like I'll definitely be surviving finals week this time around! Someone could definitely have had no other snacks in their room prior to receiving this box and be able to survive with all of the stuff in here- there's so much!
Thanks so much for reading! Let me know how you like this kind of care package post (:
xox, Elle
MissGlamBam.com
Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
FTC: This is not a sponsored or paid post, but thanks mom and dad for sending this one along!
~So what if my crappy dorm wifi wanted to take 600 minutes to upload my video yesterday? Yes, it's a slightly longer than normal video, but obviously something was up with the wifi. So I'm just re-uploading it today. Obvi I was slackin' yesterday cause there wasn't a Tuesday Tidbits blog yesterday either....I was just in a super grumpy and nappy mood yesterday, so sorrrry about that.
~So what if I only remembered to watch the last 10 minutes of Ravenswood last night, and by the time I turned it on I was getting so upset about the possible death of one of the characters that was happening that I accidentally punched the remote and changed the channel and couldn't see the end? Yes, I did have a temper tantrum about it at the time, but now that the episode's FINALLY up online (yes, I've been stalking the website ever since), I know what I'm doing this afternoon... (;
~So what if I currently look like a 40 year old English teacher? With my topknot, glasses, grandma sweater, scarf, and cup of tea, I look like I should be in a library reading Shakespeare. However, I'm sippin on my Gingerbread Sweet tea, and it's freaaaaking delish!!! So worth the grandma effect it's having on my overall failed fashion choices today.
~So what if the new hair serum I bought stained my favorite pair of Hollister jeans....I'll get over it eventually, right? Tide To Go will take it out, right?
~So what if I have no idea what I'm going to put in my What I'm Loving Wednesday post yet? I totally spaced on the fact that it was Wednesday until I saw someone else's.....I don't think I have that many new favorites from last week, oh nooo00o0o0o000!
~So what if the campus shuttle driver who brought me to one of my classes today had a head tattoo on his bald spot? He's kind of my hero for it. Lolz.
I think that's all....what are you saying So What to this week?!
Thanks for reading, xox, Elle MissGlamBam.com Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
I just went to CVS and scored some pretty good deals on girly things and snacks, so I thought I'd share the excitement!
Everything I got! You may have seen this picture on my Instagram, where you should follow me for mini hauls on the reg! @elleohelle86
Glaceau Vitamin Water (Energy) $1.77 each or 2 or more @ $1.50 each- I didn't even know these were on sale. Mostly I was just thirsty, and this is one of my favorite kinds of VM. I think this flavor has caffeine in it...I know one of them does and it would make sense if it was the energy one, right?
Special K Pastry Crisps in Chocolatey Delight $1.99 normally $4.39- I love these but have never seen this flavor before (which spoke to me because, duh, chocolate!), and at that price I couldn't walk by without them!
Cosmo with Miley Cyrus on the cover $3.99- I don't normally get this magazine, but Miley's outfit kind of caught my eye, and even though I told myself I'd never get this issue because the headlines kind of bothered me, I thought I'd try something new just to poke through when I'm bored (or over Thanksgiving break! Weeeee, I'm hoping for some actual free time coming up!)
Dr. Scholl's For Her Comfort Insoles $13.29- I probably spent a pathetic 15 minutes in the insoles aisle trying to pick out a pair. Since I'm limping around now instead of putting all my weight on my crutches (I sprained my foot and my ankle about a month ago and am in a slow recovery, if you're new to my blog), I thought I'd treat myself and make the pain every time I step a little less intense. My foot is so sore today from using it over the weekend and to get around today, so hopefully these put in my sneakers will make my feet happy and more comfy.
M & Ms White Chocolate Candy Corn $.59, saved $.60, 50% off Halloween candy & some merchandise- I'm not sure if these are M & Ms or actual candy corn, but the bag was cute and it was so inexpensive and it looked yummy, so I picked it up. Nothing like after-holiday deals! Especially on candy...muahaha. Obviously my sweet tooth was acting up at CVS today....whoops.
Rimmel London Glam Eye Precise Design Liquid Eyeliner (all Rimmel cosmetics 40% off, plus a $2 off any Rimmel cosmetics purchase coupon from the coupon machine, so I paid... $1.89!)- This little booger is the entire reason I went to CVS. My pen liquid liner by Flower ran out and dried up on me while I was getting ready today (it's been doing that the last few times I've used it too), which is disappointing because I only got it in July. My Maybelline one has lasted over a year and is still as juicy as the day I got it! Shame on you, Flower. This looked similar and was ridiculously cheap with all of my coupons, so I got it. Hopefully it works out!
Do you like blogpost hauls? Or should I do video ones on my beauty channel? Let me know what you think below! They're both fun for me!
Dear Elle, I'm too upset to even think straight and be able to type right now. This is why....be right back, hating myself.... >:(
That's my memory card. That I use in my camera to make videos!!! It also has a lot of pictures on it...luckily it still registered with my laptop, even in this state, so I was able to transfer everything on it onto my laptop. I hope that was everything....I feel like there should have been more on here. BUT STILL- HOW DOES THIS EVEN HAPPEN? I've had my laptop in my backpack with the memory card in it before and it never...bent! It was in my laptop case in my backpack that I haven't thrown around all day...so what the heck happened?! They're not supposed to bend that way! Crying, crying, crying for days.
Dear Mayor Tom Ford, I'm sick and tired of hearing about you on CNN literally every single day. Get your shit together! Stop swearing at the paparazzi! Ashleigh Banfield wouldn't even play the footage of the rude things you said because she said they were so bad and vulgar....that's not cute, stop it. Think about how much you're embarrassing your wife, kay thanks?
Dear universe, The sinkhole I just heard about on the news sounds exactly like the beginning of the movie This Is The End. Terrible movie, but still....I'm gonna be on the lookout for spontaneous eruptions of fire and aliens and shit. Scary.
Dear Z, You're my best friend.
Dear foot, I'm so proud of you for being able to carry some of my weight this week. You've been doing really well- keep it up because I'm getting impatient and being unable to carry around my own coffee because I'm too busy crutching is really a terrible thing.
Dear girl who is always in the arts building lobby at the same times on Monday Wednesday Friday that I am, I feel like we will become best friends eventually. We're like twins right now with our matching cream-colored infinity scarves and our Macbooks on our laps. I would be more social with you, I bet, if there was some coffee in me and if this wasn't my favorite time of day to blog.
Dear Grav3yardGirl aka Bunny, Your videos can take me from a bottom of the barrel mood to a fantastic, laughing mood. Your videos have been my go-to for bursts of laugher or just a pick-me-up all week. Thank you for letting loose and just being yourself, and for giving me something to look forward to, and for being more hilarious than any other human being I know. Please come to the East Coast and do a meetup! I would literally die.
Just another Throwback Thursday video, except this week it's a video for my second channel! Enjoy, and let me know if you like me doing vlogs because I have others to share/ can film more over the upcoming vacations!
Thanks for watching!
xox, Elle
MissGlamBam.com
Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
I've had such good vibes goin' for the past few hours...this may just be the best Thursday Thoughts ever cause I have some great news!
~I just got out of a class that I thought was going to be super long and boring 25 minutes early, so I'm back with plenty of extra time to blog about the good news I'm brimming at the rim with!
~It's freaking gorgeous and sunny and beautiful outside, and is climbing slowly back up to the 50s for the weekend. HALLELUJAH! I kept doing all of these crutch-themed photos...I could like start an Instagram or Tumblr and call myself Crutch Girl and just have all of these mysterious photos with my crutches peeking out of them. Lol anyways...
~MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL, I GOT THE OKAY TO WALK AROUND IN PLACES OTHER THAN THE PT OFFICE WITHOUT MY AIRCAST/BOOT/BIONIC FOOT ON! I mean I could've taken it off whenever I wanted since it's just velcro, but I was told to bring my matching shoe to my appt today, and I left wearing it too! It hurt a little to bend my foot that way to put it in the shoe, but after that it hasn't bothered me. Their reasoning is that "I'll have more support in my sneaker than in my boot," which makes no sense to me because the boot was MADE for support, and has like a million layers of foam and air cushions in it. But either way, it was a super good day in that department.
My PT person put it on my backpack because I had no other way to carry it... do you like my new keychain?! I'm actually not too embarrassed of how dorky this looks, I'm more proud of being able to walk without it, and I kinda feel like SuperWoman about the whole thing. It's casual.
~One of my physical therapists is a reincarnated version of George Lopez, I swear. He looks so much like him, has his voice, AND HIS LAUGH! That's the scariest of all, the laugh. His sense of humor is slightly different though, thank goodness. Today one of the exercises they had me do was to start with my feet shoulder-width apart, then kick with my good foot (while standing on my bum foot, EEK!) and kick "George" in the back of the leg. They kept telling me to aim for his butt, but 1) that was a little...weird...for my taste and 2) I physically don't bend that way yet.
~Class registration went well, I only got locked out of one class, which is pretty good! I mean, this is supposed to only be the second day for freshmen to register, but a lot of freshman classes were practically full already, so there must be a loophole! Anyways, I had picked out a second choice for that class anyways, so on Mondays I'll have a whopping 4 classes (starting at 9am, ugh), but on Tuesdays I'll only have one, and it starts at 11 (so I can sleep in to get rid of the torturous memories of my jam-packed Mondays). Good thing my Monday blogpost is at night, cause I'm gonna be busy! The only thing that bummed me out about this lock out was that Miranda and I were gonna be in the same class together, along with possibly my other friend Emily. Boo :(
HEADLINE: Crutch Girl sighted with two matching, real shoes on, for the first time in almost a month.
~My registration time was during my PT appt., so I had to stop my gait-stepping to go log on and pick my classes. I did it in exactly 3 minutes, because I was so well-prepared and had all the course numbers, etc., written down (; George Lopez wanted to put me in the torture tub of Arctic death and destruction while I was registering, but I was like uhhh no way, my laptop is smooth as a stone and would probably have slid off my lap and into the whirlpool in .025 seconds had I attempted that. Clearly my coordination is crap....that's how I ended up in PT in the first place, right?
~I'm debating about whether to miss the first hour of a capella practice tonight to go to my third merit point event this week (I'm gonna have amazing housing next year, fingers crossed!)....there's this cool women empowerment thing going on, so of course Miranda and Emily want to go (I'm the one that told them it was going on, so you're welcome ladies). I haven't missed practice in awhile, so I feel like that could be excusable...possibly? What to do, what to do...
~I guess that's all for today. I'm just super excited about wearing matching shoes!!! And also about the fact that I can walk around with only one crutch now- I keep doing that to go to the bathroom, and it's so nice to be able to go to the bathroom without a wheelchair taking up the entire room! I'm shaky and look like an old person when I do it, but progress is progress, and walking was all the wanted all along.(:
Keep on the lookout for my Thirsty Thursday post later today- I'm reviewing a tea this week! How unusual, I know.
Thanks for reading! What are your Thoughts this Thursday?
xox, Elle
MissGlamBam.com
Youtube Beauty Guru & Blogger
P.S. I forgot to post my beauty video that went up later in the afternoon yesterday in my What I'm Loving Wednesday, so here it is so y'all don't miss it! (:
My Throwback Thursday video will also be up later today! Love you all! <3
I've been dying to write this post since I wrote the one from last week...the favorites have just been piling up! I love writing all of my posts, but this one is probably my most favorite weekly series because it's a lot of beauty favorites, so it's like a secret favorites video that people who just watch my videos and don't read my blog won't see! I'm here watching Ashleigh again (she was in my last week's Wednesday Favorites post, if you're confused), and Miranda's about to just brought me my cup of iced coffee and is joining me in the lounge (and is currently reading over my shoulder because she can't wait to see what my favorites are!) So let's get this show on the road!
I'm sorry that this is the most ratchet logo ever. Someone make me one!
~Tide To Go This stuff has saved my butt SO many times this week! Normally I just use a stain stick I have in my room that I also really like, but that stain stick doesn't dry and makes the spot blue until you wash it, so it's not like you can wear that article of clothing again before laundry day. I put my Tide pen in my backpack last week, since I'm CONSTANTLY getting stains...literally, every single day, I stain at least one thing that I'm wearing. It usually happens the second I pick up a coffee cup. But anyways, I've been using this pen, and it dries clear so you can keep on wearing whatever piece of clothing you wore, and it completely takes the stains out! You could probs go a really long time without having to wash something if you just used this pen every time you dropped something on it....jussayin.
~Aussie 3-Minute Miracle Deeep Conditioner I have been obsessed with hair masks and deep conditioners ever since my Paul Mitchell Moisture stuff ran out...I forget the exact name but it was in my August Favorites video!
Anyways, this is my "home deep conditioner"- when I go home for the weekends, this is the one that I use when I'm there so I don't have to drag the one I use on campus with me. This is actually my mom's that she got when her hair got really brittle a couple years ago, but she never really uses it so I thought I'd help her get rid of it (; it's probably one of the cheapest deep conditioners out there, and makes your hair soo0oo0oo0 soft! The second I wash it out I feel my hair get softer, and I don't even use a regular conditioner afterwards- my hair is de-tangled enough to be able to comb it out without even a leave in conditioner or anything! Amaaazzzing. (Miranda would like me to point out that the sub-name of this is Moist, a word that she hates with a passion. Please change this, Aussie.)
I don't own this picture.
~This isn't so much of a thing I love, but more of a thing that maaaybe won't suck- next semester. My class registration date is tomorrow (during my PT appointment, so I can picture it now- my feet will literally be in the torture tub of Arctic death, and I'm gonna have to jump out and go get my laptop to sign up for classes lololol. This should be interesting) Anyways, it doesn't look like I'm gonna be in a math or a science class! The req'd science class I'd have to take is already all filled up (which I don't understand, because they were like that yesterday yet freshman registration started today, but it's a freshman class? Wut? Who is stealing our classes?) and I should technically be all done with math classes since I took really high level, AP math classes in high school. The credits haven't transferred properly though, so I have some beef with the Registrar office that I haven't gotten the chance to take care of yet, so that will all have to happen next semester! Oh no, poor me....all liberal arts classes, what will I ever do?! (You could cut my sarcasm with a knife).
~My New L.L. Bean Jacket My mom bought it for me at a sale literally two weeks ago, which was perfect timing because ever since yesterday, it's been freezing here! It's supposed to be good for up to -20 degrees, which it hasn't been yet, but it's sure felt like it! I got a pretty plummy purple color, and it's lined with flannel on the inside. Unlike every other winter jacket I've owned in the past, it doesn't make me look like a huge puff ball, and actually has a little form to it at the waist! It's comfy and light and not too bulky- perfect.
~Throat Tea I'm doing a full review on this tomorrow for my Thirsty Thursday post (most likely), so I won't go into detail or even say the full name! But long story short, I keep waking up with a sore throat, so I'll have this tea in the late afternoon or night. It's delishhh and works semi-well. Mostly it just tastes good and the warmth is soothing to my throat.
~My Giveaway & also my followers It's kind of lame to me to post this as a favorite, but I just looked at my blog followers AND THERE ARE NOW 7! SEVEN!! I had 3 a week and a half ago....I'm guessing they're newbies who found this majestical blog of total seriousness because they have to follow it for my giveaway. BUT EITHER WAY, I'm really really glad you all are here and I'm so happy to have you! I hope you like my posts, and always feel free to request something if you'd like to see me do a post about it. Here's my giveaway, if you haven't entered yet- it's super easy and there are 2 winners!
~Colgate Optic White Enamel White Toothpaste
I picked this up on my trip to Target last weekend (which I will post sometime this week!) because my Aquafresh Whitening toothpaste (in the orange tube) worked okay but not to the level I'd like, and the taste kind of made me nauseous because I'm very picky with my mints. THIS ONE WORKS SO WELL! My teeth look whiter and more clear/less stained, if that makes sense- I feel like the entire tooth is one uniform shade, which wasn't exactly the case before. The mint taste is okayyy, it grew on me throughout the first few times I used it. The toothpaste has a weird warming sensation when you use it, which I can't tell if I like or not. But I really do love this stuff, and it was only around $3 and on an endstand in Target. It makes me look forward to brushing! Every time I have a meal, I'm tempted to go run to the bathroom and pull this stuff out. Plus it's in the kind of tube I like where the cap doesn't completely come off, so that's another plus!
That's all for now, folks! I'm uploading a video to my beauty channel right now- an 8 minute video shouldn't take 3+ hours to upload! The crappy dorm wifi is definitely not a favorite! I'll put it here when it's up!
Thanks for reading! What are you loving this Wednesday?
