smartphone boycott.

as some of you may or may not know, i am boycotting a smartphone of my own. i'm trying to stay strong with my env3. for the most part i think they're unnecessary at this stage in my life. i'm not running a business where i need to be connected all the time. from my point of view people just use them as a crutch or time waster to check facebook or play words with friends while they are already out with other people. check this out for some smart phone owner lolz.

the one thing that continually draws me to the iphone is the photo apps. i get a little bit jealous checking out blogs or facebook photos with those cool filters. they are my weakness and will be the reason i cave, i know it.

fear not because one of the blogs i follow recently posted this! that's right kids, instagram filters as photoshop actions. snapfish had a special for 200 prints for $2. these two events caused me to play around with my photos so i can have some prints for decorating my new apartment:

this is using the nashville filter. i think it's my favorite. emza & hot dogs are also my favorite.

this is the brannon filter. it does better with indoor photos than the nashville one.

this one is the walden filter. it's my least favorite. i think it's because i'm so pale and it accents that. it's growing on me though.

this is the earlybird filter. it'd be cool if this was sunrise and not sunset.... get it earlybird... i'm hilarious!

there you have it, my way of staying strong on my smartphone boycott.

my first infographic.

I entered this contest for a chance to meet, you guessed it, Katy Perry! The contest was basically to submit art showing your love for Katy Perry for a chance to meet her. Since I'm kind of an infographic nerd I decided that was how I was going to show my love! Check it out below:

OMG I am so excited because I was chosen as one of eight finalists in the contest! I had been OCD refreshing the Nylon Magazine site all morning when I saw the finalists and mine was one of them I abandoned my front desk duties in a giddy sprint to call the boyfriend/parents/random strangers. Check out the site here for all the other awesome finalists. If you like me a whole lot you could leave a comment saying mine is wonderful ;-)

Currently I'm geeking out on my lunch break at Greenberry's and enjoying a mango bubble tea. I think it's what Katy would do in my situation. Incase you were unaware of my love for Katy Perry you can check out my previous blog posts on her here and here!

Gonna be rocking out to Last Friday Night (TGIF) for the rest of the day! I find out Tuesday if I win :-)