My Summer Mantra.....

I'm not normally a country music lover, but this song reminds me of a time when I was young and carefree, hanging out with my girlfriends.  You know, when summer was actually fun and not filled with working at the damn PC.  Back before we were grownups when who cared if we paid the bills, just as long as we had a good time. 
Cheers to those days!

All time low...

First, let me say that tonight was Taco Night and Taco Night is my ALL TIME weakness. 

Let me begin this quick story by telling you that after work today, I went to the gym.  I came home in my sports bra/workout tank thingy that looks very similar to this



because it was sweltering outside.  I was then informed that it was Taco Night.  This provided a great amount of anxiety for me, since I'm on WW and all and Taco Night being such a HUGE weakness...so to decrease said anxiety....I drank half a bottle of SkinnyGirl White Cranberry Cosmo.
After preparing my fourth (YES...the number after THREE) taco, I was walking towards the table and the taco slipped almost completely off my place and half of it broke off (complete with meat and cheese) inside of my sports bra.  So....I did what ANY sane person would do....I ate it right out of my sports bra thingy.  Literally, picked it out piece by piece and ate it.  Not wanting to waste a single morsel.  The hunger from being on WW is obviously starting to make me lose my mind.  The proof is in the story above.  The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.  Consider yourself informed. 

It's all about the benjamins, baby......

Okay...well, maybe not benjamins...I guess more like washingtons.  Bottom line is...I got paid.  So, my funk is official O-V-E-R!  Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
Sad to say, but having a little bit of change in my pocket makes me in a MUCH better mood.  Today was my day off, so I got up early and headed to the mall to shop for Mr. D's upcoming birthday.  However, I got a little sidetracked while I was there.
I was feeling so crappy about myself because I've been doing nothing but working PLUS I've been broke, and we all know that women need beauty maintenance and without it a little funk can turn into a jump off the roof situation.  So, my eyebrows had not been done since I finished student teaching, so I treated myself to my first eyebrow threading.  Let me tell you....I will NEVER go back to waxing.  My eyebrows look amazing and it was super quick and to be honest, not as painful as I thought it was going to be.   Here's a video if you wanna see the threading process in action.

It was only $12 to get it done, which is about the same as waxing.....so you have to try it.  Hell, they can even thread your WHOLE FACE.  Which I am sure that the lady would have loved to recommend for me if she could have spoken any English, but I didn't have THAT kind of time and I'm sure neither did she.

Moving on....I then took a little visit to White House Black Market which is one of my favs, but usually not a fav of my budget or lack thereof.  I had been eyeing a certain top for the past six weeks, no joke.  The said top was on clearance, but still WAY higher than what any sane person would spend on a shirt.  Good thing I wasn't feeling very sane.  I bought it because it's all I have been obsessed with for the past six weeks, plus I lost 2.4 lbs this week at WW so it's my "push" present.  You see, I have friends who have husbands who buy them extravagant "push" presents when they have babies.  I guess it's a gift for actually pushing the thing out instead of deciding to hold it in????  Heck, I don't know.  Anyway, I bought this blouse for myself as a "push" present.....a reminder for me to continue to "push" my plate away from my face.
I will be putting this blouse in the back of my closet and when I wear it and my husband asks me when I got a new shirt....I will act as if he has offended me and swear up and down that I have had the blouse FOREVER and have worn it often, and that if he ever paid attention to me, he would know that the shirt was not new.  AND I will tell this lie with style and grace while looking fabulous in my new "push" present and will bow as I accept my Oscar. 

I also ordered my first official lesson planner for the school year from http://www.erincondren.com
Check her out....the stuff is SO cute. 

I got sucked into Books a Million on my way home and came out with three books, which I hope to read before schools starts.  I do have books at home to read....the second Fifty Shades book and a friend of mine let me borrow all of the Outlander series.  I've lost interest in Mr. Grey and I can't seem to get into the Outlander series despite desperately wanting to like them. Anyway, I bought The Hobbit, The House on Mango Street, and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake.  I figured that since I am a Language Arts/Reading/English teacher, I should have read those first two....but I haven't.  I went into Books a Million to buy Gone Girl, but they were sold out.  So, instead of walking my happy butt back to my car....I stayed and bought those books.  Story of my life today.

Oh, and did I mention that I went to the tanning bed.  I mean, a girls gotta feel good about herself and the Casper look does not look good on this gal.  

In case you're wondering....I did buy Mr. D TONS of birthday presents, which hopefully will help him to forget that I have driven my car WAY over the required mileage for the next oil change in 5 million degree weather.

The moral to this post is that I just got paid and now I am almost broke again, but I sure did enjoy myself today immensely.  Warning....another funk is sure to be on the horizon as soon as I come to terms with how much money I now do not have.

I wanna take you to....funkytown

I'm in a major funk.  I've got no interesting stories because lately I haven't had much of a life.  I have done nothing but work at the PC day in and day out and try not to lose my mind...which is a full time job itself, let me tell you.  When I don't have time to do anything but work, I tend to get into a MAJOR funk.  So, here we are. 

So, in an effort not to spread my current negative mood....I am sharing some Pinterest crafting projects that I've done for our new casa.  Some of my pics aren't the best quality, but you'll get the gist of it.

This lovely project is in our office.  I wanted a poster or canvas of some of my favorite books with the quotes from each that I adored.  I found several posters at Teachers Discovery, but thought that surely I could make something cheaper.  Here it is.  A canvas of my favorite books  with the quotes from each that speak to me in some way or another.  All I did was print off the cover of the books from online, type up my favorite quotes from each book, and modge podge them onto a blank canvas. Easiest craft ever and saved myself a TON of money!

Saw this idea on Pinterest.  A cute way to dress up your thermostat.  Mr. D didn't understand it, but he's a man, so....

This is a horrible pic, but it was even more horrible without the flash.  Basically, I took a frame that I liked and put scrapbook paper behind the glass.  I then got a key made to our new home, painted it a tiffany blue, and mounted it on the scrapbook paper behind the glass.  Viola!  The key to our first house together in a beautiful frame. 

I confess, I'm a doily kinda gal.  I love them.  Period.  If that makes me an old lady, then so be it.  I painted several paper doilies to match my half bathroom and then modged podged them to a blank canvas.  Mr. D told me that he is not a doily kinda man, but since I'm in charge, the doily art stayed. Ha!

And finally, my favorite craft......

My mom bought us this GORGEOUS antique frame for a housewarming gift.  I bought the letters to our first names and the letter to our last name, wrapped them in yarn to match our bedroom, and hung them inside the frame.  It's definitely the focal point in the bedroom, and I double heart love it....despite the fact that the yarn wrapping part was a TOTAL pain in the hiney.

So, there  ya go folks...a little look into some of my completed crafts.

On another quick note, Kathy on the Real Housewives of New Jersey said something FREAKIN BRILLIANT on the last episode.  She said, "Sometimes the pride becomes bigger than the fight."  This is all TOO TRUE of a particular fight going on in my own family.  Perhaps the Jersey housewives can teach some of us stubborn Southern families a thing or two...... Just sayin.