A Healthier Cocktail - Malibu Island Spiced

 

Summer is finally here in Houston and this girl has been loving the warm weather and fun with friends. I was lucky enough to have been introduced to the new Malibu Island Spiced and today I’m sharing this little gem with you!

 

 

First and foremost, I must point out that this girl LOVES rum! It never fails to make me feel summery and in celebration mode, probably due to the large amount consumed on beach vacations, but that’s beside the point!

 

 

Malibu Island Spiced caught my attention as soon as I saw the bottle… “Caribbean Rum with Coconut Liqueur and NATURAL SPICES WITH TRUVIA SWEETENER – 70 Calories”. Can I get a hell ya?? Truvia® is the all-natural sweetener allowed on Yeast Free so I was happy to see it was used in the new Malibu Island Spiced!

 

Now for my cocktail recommendations…

 

1. Malibu Spiced on Ice:

You absolutely cannot go wrong with sipping Malibu Island Spiced straight over ice and adding a couple orange slices to top it off! Delicious!

 

2. Malibu Sarkling Spiced:

 

 

Typically I only use LaCroix (sparkling water) or soda as mixers when I’m having a mixed drink. They are WAY better for you than sodas and to be honest I just feel better attempting to keep the calories down! So my favorite and go to cocktail is Malibu Island Spiced with LaCroix! Ladies, HEAVEN to my lips! Seriously I felt like I was in Paradise while in the middle of a bar at my friend Court’s birthday celebration! Beware, YOU WILL CRAVE A BEACH VACATION!

 

3. Malibu Spiced and Diet Cola:

 

 

Last, my friend Laura’s Malibu Island Spiced favorite was the Malibu Spiced and Diet Cola. If you’re a Coke drinker this is an awesome, healthier alternative and she really liked it!

 

Now for fun, some photos of me and my favorites celebrating our Malibu Spiced Night aka Courtney's Birthday!!

 

{Laura, The Birthday Girl & I}

 

{My Bear & I}

 

{Laura's sweet Fiance & I)

 

{Me, Michael & Laura}

 

{Me & Laura}

 

So while you're lying by the pool this summer or out and about celebrating with friends you should definitely try one of the Malibu Island Spiced cocktails! You are guaranteed a wonderful cocktail and you can feel great knowing it's a healthier alcoholic beverage!!

 

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MALIBU ® Caribbean Rum with Coconut Liqueur & Natural Spices, with Truvia® Sweetener. 30% Alc./Vol. (60 Proof) ©2013 Imported by Pernod Ricard USA, Purchase, NY

Truvia® and the Truvia®  logo are registered trademarks of the Truvia Company LLC.

PER 1.5 FL. OZ. SERVING. AVERAGE ANALYSIS: CALORIES 70; CARBOHYDRATES less than 1 gram; PROTEIN 0 grams; FAT 0 grams.

*when mixed with your favorite zero calorie mixer. Limes and other garnishes may add calories

 

 

Memorial Day River Trip

Hey there!

Hope yall had a great weekend.

 

A little update regarding my last post... Facebook removed the profile along with any other profiles linked to the IP address and banned it from Facebook, so thankfully any other fake accounts were deleted as well. Sadly enough there really is no way to completely protect yourself when you choose to put your life out there via blog, so its just a risk you have to be okay with making. I would suggest anyone who is blogging to watermark their photos and to enable the right click saving option to help protect yourself. It seems to ridiculous but I promise you will be thankful in the end. No one thinks the crazies are going to prey on them, but unfortunately it happens.

 

Anywho, back to business. 

 

Its been two weeks since Memorial Day, but I've just now gotten time to upload and watermark the photos, so here you have it... Our Memorial Day weekend fun at in New Braunfels!

 

We rented 2 cabins at the river with 10 other couples for the long weekend and it was CRAZY!! It literally monsooned half the weekend which resulted in us getting caught in a rainstorm on the river and drinking a lot in our cabins. Our floats were still so much fun and the concerts were great too! Definitely a weekend full of great memories!

 Our first night there: Roger Creager Concert

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our first day on the river!!

 

 

 

 

 

Second river day when it stormed...

 

 

 

 

Second night at concerts...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One night at one of the concerts I met the sweetest blog reader, which was really exciting! It still catches me completely off guard when I meet people who read this blog and its happened twice in the last 3 weeks!! It was so nice to meet you Jenn! Thank you for being so sweet! I will be seeing you in Houston as soon as we get a weekend in town!!

 

 

It was a great trip, we just wish the weather would've cooperated! Regardless, we were thankful to be there and thankful for the meaning of the holiday, to celebrate and pay thanks to our soldiers. Its so easy to get wrapped up in holiday festivities and to forget why we have them. We met a soldier on leave, home for 2 weeks, on our trip and it was such a nice reminder of why Memorial Day is so important. For all of you with family and friends who serve our country, THANK them for everything and send my thanks as well!

 

Hope everyone has a wonderful week!

That Time I Got Catfished

Well yesterday turned out to be an interesting day!
Long story short... A very sweet blog reader sent me this email yesterday morning:

Let me promise you, that is NOT what you want to read at 9AM! Especially when you're home from work sick with a stomach bug. Talk about adding the icing to the cake.

So I followed the link to find this:

That my friends in a whole Facebook page of MY photos made by a crazy impersonator.

WHO THE HELL DOES THAT?

I cannot even begin to tell you how freaked out I was to see this. First off, who the hell tries to be someone else?! That's absolutely insane.

After looking through the profile I was even MORE creeped out. If that's even possible.

1. This lunatic has 307 FRIENDS. 307 "friends" accepted a friend request from "Brittany Jones" yet not even ONE of them knows her. I know this to be true because THAT IS ME and I know NONE of them!!!

2. This status update was my favorite:

Are you joking? You "love your life" so much that you are IMPERSONATING SOMEONE ELSE. Really?!?! I guess what she meant to say was... "If you don't love your life, find someone on the internet, steal all their photos and PRETEND TO BE THEM. Huge typo Brittany, HUGE!

3. My poor friends even fell victim to this catfish.

And please note that all these photos have "likes" and comments. Who comments or "likes" a photo in which they know no one in the picture?!?! Sorry Rache, Reghina and Steph! I love yall and apparently she does too!

4. These are the pages I... I mean Brittany likes:

Wildcat Moving in Lexington, DY9ASTY, which seems to be a basketball fan page and Lesbians. Yes, making out lesbians. Lets be clear, I have nothing against lesbians. Never have, never will. I actually have family members who are homosexual and I love them dearly. On the same note, I'm not one to "Like" any kind of sexual preference pages with anyone making out. Who the hell wants pictures of making out people popping up on their Facebook all day. No one. Interesting choices, Brittany.

5. Next, if you're going to try to borrow my life, please get your fact straights:

Lilly is a GIRL. You should probably let Clint know that, Thanks. Oh and since we're sharing lives these days, why don't you start paying half my bills too asshole.

6. Last, I better be invited to the Oldham County High School Reunion or I'm going to PISSED. I mean, I did graduate from there even though I've never stepped foot in Kentucky!

I had 83 comments on Instagram and 71 on Facebook regarding this Catfish aka Brittany.

Here are some that made light of this insane situation:

 

Apparently this happens more than you hear of... SCARY!

Last, I want to thank Amy and Delaurah for notifying me about this scary situation. This profile has been up and running for over a year and half and I never would've known if it weren't for these sweet ladies! Thank you a MILLION!!

All jokes aside, this is one of the most insane things that has ever happened to me. This is also a HUGE eye opener. I'm making light of it now, but yesterday that was NOT the case. Its scary what insane people will do.

I love this blog and for so long it was my passion, my absolute favorite hobby. So much has changed in the last 6 months regarding it. Between the anonymous hate mail, the GOMI creeps and now obsessive identity thieves, I've lost the love for it. Its beginning to affect my life in a negative way and to be honest I'm really not sure its something I want to continue doing. Words can't explain how it feels for strangers to send emails telling you how fat and gross you are (mind you I've lost 20 lbs! If you think I'm gross now, you shouldn't look at last year's bathing suit posts. Shit was worse back then!! ;). For people to follow your Instagram and Blog just to find anything they can to post on a hate forum for other creeps to comment on. And now for someone to steal my photos and to pretend to be me. Its just not worth it and honestly its down right SCARY.

Until I figure out what I want to do with it, I'm going to try to protect my life as much as possible. I no longer will accept anyone via FB that I don't know. If anyone knows how to make your blog photos where people are unable to copy them please comment with your email so I can email you. All photos will of course be watermarked now. And I'm considering deleting my blog email account. I'd hate to do that but its just being abused and I can easily comment back to you all via the comment section on this page.

I really hope this doesn't happen to anyone else! Just beware what you post via the internet because you never know what lunatic is going to try to steal your face and make it their own.

And Brittany Jones... KARMA IS A BITCH! I'll let God take care of you. Best wishes.