Currently Obsessed With....

1. Even though I work at Starbucks and I spend a lot of my time there, I still LOVE everything about it. I love all their drinks, I love the customer experience you get while you are there, I love all their mugs and tumblers they have...I just love it all! It's also a really good company to work for!

2. I love this show so much. I've watched every season and just can't get enough of it. My sister Rita and I used to watch it together every Wednesday & Thursday, that is one of my favorite past times.

3. I don't got anywhere without my iPhone, even the bathroom. My iPad usually stays next to my bed so I can read or play games before I go to sleep, but I just love them.

4. I love everything about Wordpress! I love the blogging experience, I love all the themes available I love how sleek Wordpress blogs look.

5. Oh Pinterest, why are you so addicting?! I can spend hours on this site and not even realize it. I've gotten a lot of wedding ideas, home decor ideas and great dinner recipes. Thank you Pinterest for saving my life.

6. Burt's is the way to my heart. I love this chapstick and carry it with me at all times. Before it was really popular there were only a few places you could get it (small Mom and Pop shops) and it was like a million dollars but I would still buy it because it's the perfect chapstick! I remember how excited I was when I could finally buy it at WalMart or Target!

If all my friends had a blog....

It seems that my blog name has been the laughing stock lately within our group of friends. The other night we were sitting around having a few drinks, enjoying the beautiful Summer evening when my "blog" came up and we decided to give everyone their own blog name. I won't lie, we all had a good laugh!

So, please...meet my friends and what their blog names would be....if they really did blog!

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One thing I love about our friends is that you can always count on a good laugh no matter what the situation may be and everyone knows how to take a good joke! I always look forward to spending time with this group of people and I always know it will be a good time!

Oh, How Pinteresting!

My weekends is finally here and it started early! I went to work at 7:30am this morning and was off by 11:15am! Yesssss! I am so looking forward to these next two days! I don't have any major plans and I really don't want to do anything either. I'll probably do some laundry, work on the save the dates, clean the house  a little and cook dinner. I probably won't even leave the house and I'm super excited about it!

Did you notice the new look? I really like it! I originally moved over to Wordpress because I loved the look and availability of different themes, and I finally found one that I really like and couldn't live without. I really like the color choices and how simple and cute the theme is all together. What do you think?

I've been on Pinterest a lot lately looking at wedding things (everything wedding seems to be the norm lately). Since switching the wedding to Vegas it's been a little hard for me to get fun ideas for the wedding or reception. I don't really know what's allowed (I really need to call the restaurant) but I want to do a few things that will add our touch to it, you know? There are so many DIY wedding ideas, I want to try some and see how they turn out. If they turn out great, I'll have to figure out how to get them to Vegas in one piece.

Here are some of things I've pinned recently, some of them aren't DIY but I think would be awesome to have at the wedding!

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Source: weddings.theknot.com via Abby on Pinterest

The Weekly Dish

Happy Tuesday! Today I'm linking up with Natalie and Bella, it's the first dose of The Weekly Dish and I'm super excited to join in on it! This weeks topic is Mixtape Madness, so I threw together some of my current favorite tunes to jam out to. They are in particular order and I may or may not know all the words to all of them......

So, sit back and jam out to some tunes for a bit! Are any of the songs some of your favorites right now?


click on the link button on the widget to view more of my favorite songs

Lil' bit of Everything...

...or more like ramblings...

The Olympics are over and Fatboy Slim is playing some jamming tunes which got me in the mood to blog. I'm not sure how they go hand in hand, but whatever.

I'm excited for regular TV to be back on, I've missed the few shows I do watch, and it will be nice to go to bed a decent time again. Since I close a lot, we didn't start watching the Olympics until after 9 or so, so most nights we were going to bed around 1:30am. Those late nights caught up with us quickly, I don't think we stayed up as last this past week.

The save the dates are still sitting on the kitchen counter in the boxes that they came in, that's my goal for this week. I have to get them sent out here soon, although all the important people know when and where the wedding will be. I have Thursday and Friday off this week and I plan on working on that.

Oh my goodness, Spice Girls are on stage, RIGHT NOW! Spice up your life, folks! ;-)

I haven't had a lot to write about lately (I'm not as exciting as you all think) and I got tired of doing all those link up's but then it's just quiet around here. Maybe I'll do a link up or two a week, just to keep the blog going.

Work has been work and I'm still taking it day by day. I still find myself saying "it is what it is" a lot, and I'm working really hard on finding that work/life balance. The Mr. has told me time and time again that I take things way too personally, (especially when it comes to work) so I'm working on checking out of work when I clock out and leaving home at home, we'll see how it goes. If anyone has any tips on how to do that, I'll gladly accept them!

Here's to a new week with hopefully more to write about!

233 days!

Yesterday around 5pm it hit me, I'm really planning my wedding. I'm really going to get married. I knew back in January when The Mr. asked me to marry him that I was going to get married but it actually finally hit me.

I bought my dress late in January and I had a little moment then too but yesterday was different. At 5pm, I was in the kitchen cooking dinner and the UPS truck drove up, I knew the package was coming but as soon as I opened it, I had to take a moment and just take it all in. We got our save the dates, and I know it's something so small, but these are going out to all our family and friends. All the important people that are going to watch The Mr. and me become one. This shit is getting real, you know what I mean?

After dinner, I talked to our wedding planner from the chapel about pictures, our bridal party and my bouquet. Little by little, it's all starting to come together. March will be here before we know it, seriously.

The next couple of weeks are going to be filled with stuffing envelops, writing addresses and getting these save the dates out!

I (we) have a lot to do before March but everything will work out and before I know it, I'll be a married woman. Holy. Moly.

...for myself

It's been a little over a week since I blogged, I needed a break, I needed to just sit back and just enjoy life not behind a computer. There will be weeks when all I can think about is blogging and just when I start to do good, I decide that I don't need to spend every waking moment on my blog or reading blogs.

You all know that I love to blog and I hope to someday write about all the exciting things my little family and I are doing but for right now, it's just The Mr. and I and we're saving for a wedding. There really isn't much going on here besides work, small visits with family and friends, and super late nights watching these dang Olympics. I'm okay with that too, I'm exciting to be planning my wedding, I'm exciting to be working (really, I am) and I'm excited for the Olympics (especially staying up until 2am!).

Sometimes I have to remind myself why I blog, I'm not blogging for other people, I'm blogging for myself. I'm not ever going to a world known blogger and I'm probably never going to have 1098490 followers, and that's okay. I read a lot of blogs and I find myself getting flustered while I'm reading their blogs. They have thousands of followers, they blog everyday, they take amazing pictures and they "live" these amazing lives. I may not take amazing pictures (I sure wish I could) but I can't say that I don't have amazing life, because I do. I just don't flaunt it peoples face and make it seem like we're rolling in the dough and we never have a bad day, because I'm so sure, everyone has bad days!

For a few weeks, I was just blogging and joining in on a bunch of link ups and though there isn't anything wrong with that, I really didn't want my blog to turn into that. I want to actually write and talk about everyday things, but somedays it's the same thing over and over again, so I don't blog. I've said it before and maybe I just have to keep reminding myself, but I'm blogging for myself and for my future family. If I don't blog everyday, if I don't post pictures in my blog and if I don't talk about things that interest you, that doesn't make me less of a blogger or not as cool.