Tuesday, October 25, 2011

I swear I'm getting back on the blog train!

SO.... Since I've been gone. I have:
1. Decorated and moved into my townhouse with my sister.
2. Run a half marathon. (3:07:31 y'all!)
3. Started teaching dance 3 nights a week.
4. Discovered a fabulous recipe for Chicken "Noodle" Soup.
5. Gotten way too busy to blog! NOT OKAY.

But today I stumbled upon this fabulous news:


And one of the ways to enter is to blog about the giveaway....

Well here it goes.  I love Jack Rogers Navajoes. I swear by them.  I have four colors in rotation at all times -- white, black, platinum and gold.  I can only imagine one color that would make my collection more complete.... ORANGE AND BLUE.

I love my Gators win or loose, rain or shine... In all kinds of weather we all stick together, and we all wear our Jacks to the game!

Thanks Jack Rogers and College Prepster!  For more info, read the blog post on College Prepster (http://www.thecollegeprepster.com/2011/10/giveaway-jack-rogers-college-colors.html)

Monday, July 11, 2011

Mama I'm a big girl now!

I am officially a home-renter!  Whoo hoo!  My sweet mama and my saintly aunt and uncle came down to Tampa this weekend to get me all moved in to the townhouse my sister and I have rented (she helped me move, too.)  I have countless bumps and bruises, sore calves and a ka-zillion mosquito bites from the process, but I'm in!  (It poured in a Noah's Ark kind of way all day on Friday. Wet + Hot = Mosquito frenzy.) 

Anyway, I'll post some pics of what we have done so far tomorrow.  I'm in survival mode -- there's very little decor outside my bed and bathroom.  We still have a chunk-load of DIY-ing to do, and those will be much more exciting posts, but here's where we're at for now.

Stay tuned for DIY posts about the chest of drawers we bought tonight for our TV (which we also bought today!)  and a mean post about my Harry Potter party!

No Bachelorette recap this week... too busy with DIY-ing, I missed half the episode!

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

My so late recap of America's birthday

So work, life and yoga got in my way of posting this sooner, but here I go with my 4th of July recap.

Around 10 am on Friday, the president of the company walked into the creative office and said the most glorious words ever spoken: "Let's wrap things up and get out of here by noon or 1 today." lawdhavemercyIlovethislady.  So I peaced out at exactly 1:12 pm and headed home to lay in my bed and avoid packing for an hour get ready for the weekend.  My sister, Charlie and I were headed for 3 whole days in not our studio apartment. Heaven, I tell you.

Meet Charlie - King of the House
We stayed with one of my sister's friends in her parent's house with her dog and her sister's dog (Her parents were on a post-wedding vacation in North Carolina while her sister and her new husband were on their honeymoon! Yay Newlyweds!)  In case you missed the mathematical equation just there, the dogs = the humans.  It was a wild rumpus if I've ever seen one.

Indeed this is a 3-way tug of war between a 65-lb dog, a 45-lb dog and a 14-lb dog...
The activities of the weekend consisted of laying out (I did NOT get fried! Whoo hoo!), watching the Casey Anthony trial like it was our job, cooking and eating the leftovers for three meals, and watching Modern Family season 1.

Om Nom Nom... Nothing says 4th of July like grilin'
Let's talk these phenomenal Mar-a-Lago Turkey Burgers...  They're a little complicated (you have to saute some of the ingredients before you mix everything together, and well, you have to light the grill) and they have some specialty ingredients, ahem, mango chutney, BUT they are SO WORTH IT.


And we made guacamole to munch on while we were grilling!


I love guacamole. I love guacamole. I love guacamole.
So then I put it on my burger...


So good... make these immediately.
And then we watched some more Modern Family. (SO freaking funny... I joined the bandwagon way late, and I can only hope I can make up for lost time.)   We also managed to work in a 60 minute Hatha class at LuLuLemon on Saturday morning (for free!!) and then a few good dog walks.  No running... EEK.  The half is 3 months from last friday, and I'm not feeling good about our progress.  We'll get there, but right now, it seems very, VERY far-fetched.


Alright, we'll that's the weekend breakdown... lots of laziness and nomity-nom-noms.  OH! And I'm re-reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in preparation for the movie release next Friday.  I'm almost done... I can't believe this saga is nearly over... tear, tear, sob.


Catch you on the flip side.


PS. All I have to say about the Casey Anthony verdict is this... read 2 Corinthians 5:10.  RIP Caylee.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Weekend Recap - Coming Soon!

So my weekend recap is slightly delayed due to a thunderstorm taking out our wireless internet last night.  It was back up this morning, but I didn't have enough time to post.  It's on my to-do list for later... along with a yoga class, dinner, and a trip to Target and Publix... 

Here's a sneak peek -- this is my favorite picture from the weekend.

Charlie went swimming!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Jeremiah 33:3

I had to share this nifty find...

Absolutely gorgeous print I found on Pinterest.
I have an addiction to Pinterest y'all.  The kind of addiction where you could spend hours wasting precious time doing nothing but looking at pretty pictures of food and clothes and interior decor... oh man.  But what's really cool is that my infatuation with type and prints leads me to find AWESOME prints like this one -- and even cooler, so often I find prints of bible verses that remind me of exactly what I need to be doing. 

So sign up for pinterest and get yourself some inspiration.

America the Beautiful

Last night, instead of packing for this glorious 3-day weekend celebrating my second-favorite holiday (first is Christmas), I painted my nails red.  A girl's gotta have priorities.  And, newsflash, I can pack in five minutes -- nails I cannot do quickly. 
My Instagram of my red nails... classic.
I love, love, love Essie Nail polish.  In fact, I believe I have a "strange addiction" to buying nail polish and painting my nails.  I used Red Nouveau -- a fabulous red with an orangey undertone.  

Essie - Red Nouveau



Though my nails and toes are painted perfectly, I'm still fiendin' for these Lilly Pulitzer shorts. Maybe I'll buy them on sale for next year?  $58 full price shorts = not in this working girl's budget.

Lilly Pulitzer - Walsh Shorts, $58, lillypulitzer.com
Starry Blue Cherry Bomb
Alright, well more on America's birthday later.  Celebrate safely y'all.  AMERICUH.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Bachelorette Recap - Bentley is GONE...

I can't for the life of me, tell you why I watch this show.
Monday night means I'm watching The Bachelorette... whatever, at least I'm not on drugs. 

Anyway, the Bentley counter broke halfway through the show when it hit a kazillion.  Unfortunately, I don't know the exact number of times his god-awful name was mentioned... hopefully it will be no more.  Poor Ashley, she's surrounded by seven hot guys and all she can think about is getting closure with the douche bag who only went on the show to make her look like an idiot get exposure for his business. Well, exposure indeed.  Here's what I'll give you, Bentley:

Fathers, load your shotguns and protect your daughters!
Ashley, on the other hand, gave him a much classier send off, a lovely straight into the camera with awkward eye contact "F--- you, Bentley."

Now, that's what America's been dying waiting for.

However, I managed to work some blog-reading into my lunch break, and discovered this gem from Ashley Spivey, Ashley H.'s biffle from last season, aptly titled Ding Dong the Douche is Gone!  Ashley S. brings up one stellar point: we've all been there.  We've all stuck around for the guy who wasn't worth it.  Now, most of us didn't do it on national T.V. torturing viewers and inspiring drinking games with the number of times we mention his name, but we've all been there.  We've all been duped, played, fooled, whatever way you say it, and unfortunately the Bentleys of the world are not few and far between.  Let's just hope the mentions of this one become so.

Let's talk J.P. ... 
He's just so dreamy...
He's my front-runner, but because we all know the Bachelorette is never predictable and always the "most dramatic season yet"... I think she's going to send him home. GASP.  Watch the previews again.  You don't see him much, then there's some drama about regretting sending someone home, he says "still in the back of my mind, I'm thinking I'm not ready to propose." and then, someone comes back in a "dramatic twist."  

I'm calling it now, it will be J.P.

Anyway, here are my other reactions from the night in no specific order: 
  • Ashley is gorgeous, but that Tinkerbelle hair and barely-there dress for the rose ceremony got two thumbs down from me.  The dress could have been tolerable if it had been a gown with a sheer tulle skirt, like where the beading faded or something... or she could have worn something different. #justsayin
  • Mickey sucks for storming out.  Way to be an adult, not.
  • Lucas, what are you still doing here? I don't see it. 
  • JP. JP. JP. Marry Me. JP. JP. JP. So hot right now.
  • I'm annoyed by Ryan almost as much as Blake was.
  • Constantine and Ben F's bromance freaks me out.
  • Chris Harrison, how much do they pay you for this sweet gig?
That's all folks, see you next Tuesday, for the most shocking Bachelorette recap ever.
 

Whoooo hooo!

Let the blogging begin! I decided to start over and pave a new road for my new blog in my new life.

A little about me first...
Shaking Bernie's hand... whoa.

I just graduated from the University of Florida at the end of April, moved to South Tampa and started my first full-time job the first week of May, and moving into my first (town)house in the first week of July.  I'm taking my first stabs at being a yogi and I'm running my first half-marathon in October.

There's a lot of "firsts" going on in my life right now.  It's scary and it's excited, and damn if I don't think it's blog-worthy.

Care to join me on the adventure? Welcome aboard... I'm humbled each time I find that someone wants to listen to or read what I think.