My Addiction

We all have those little things that we love, something we can't get enough of, something we have to buy the moment we see it because we NEED it.

I don't share this with a lot of people and still only a few people know, so you should feel lucky that I'm sharing this information with you, but I'm addicted to something and I don't know if there is any stopping me. I've tried to stop, but the problem always comes back.

Friends, I'm seriously addicted to buying beverage containers of any sort. They can be cute, they can be fun awesome colors, some of them are even boring. I'm especially addicted to Starbucks tumblers, of any shape, sort or size.

This obsession/addiction has been something I dealt with for years, since before I worked for Starbucks. I really started to build my collection when I got hired and now instead of paying full price, I get my discount and for some reason, that really makes buying all these things justifiable. Right?

Last night before The Mr. and I went out, we stopped by Starbucks so I could grab a tea. While I was waiting for my drink I started the check out their retail area. The Mr. has mentioned here and there that he has wanted a tumbler for his coffee but has been looking for that "perfect one." So, I thought I would be a good girlfriend and scope it out and see if any caught my eye. In the midst me finding him a mug, I also found one that I really really REALLY liked, and needed.

A customer came into my Starbucks a few weeks ago with this cup and I fell in love with it. Perfect color, perfect size, perfect lid, perfect everything. I knew it was an older tumbler because I hadn't seen it around (did I just admit that I frequent Starbucks that much?) and so when I got home that night, I looked it up on Ebay, $42.99 plus shipping for that sucker.....I love it but I didn't love it that much.

Back to my original story, that perfect tumbler and I were destined to be together. On the lowest shelf of this Starbucks' retail, in the furthest corner, sat this amazing tumbler coffee holder thing. It was sitting there, in perfect condition, with dust on it, as if someone hadn't touched it months. I think I did a dance when I saw it. I don't even have to tell you what happened next, the rest is history.

I am now a proud owner of the most perfect Starbucks tumbler and The Mr. got one too (his wasn't able to be photographed due to the fact that he was enjoying hot coffee out of it already and was not home).

Sometimes I think this addiction is getting the best of me and to be honest, most the time I forget to use my tumblers. I'll either forget it at home or in my car as I'm leaving and I don't go back to get it and therefore, I don't use them as much as I want. I'm going to make more of an effort to use them more often, as it will help save this planet!

Here is the rest of Starbucks collection. Please note that I have more at my parents house and I'm sure I've lost some throughout the years. Please also note that I just bought the red one in the front LAST WEEK!

So tell me, what is your little obsession/addiction? Please tell me that it isn't just ME who has silly obsessions like this.

Wordless Wednesday - My Breakfast

Me? Wordless? NEVER! HAHA....


My breakfast:
1/2 cup - Original Egg Beaters
1/4 cup - Canned Refried Black Beans
1 tbsp - Reduced Fat Shredded Cheese
1 - Mission Low Carb 8'' Flour Tortilla

Don't forget my delicious cup of coffee with:

2 equal

2 tbsp - Coffee House Fat Free Skinny White Chocolate Mocha

Yum yum yum! 

Brrrrr!

I say it all the time, and it all depends on the time of year it is. If it's cold, I would rather be warm; when it's warm, I would rather be cold. Apparently, I'm never happy.

It's really been getting cold out lately and I have to be honest, I am not ready for it. I love to wear sandals and my capri's and obviously, I can't do that in the Fall/Winter. I've been having to wear a sweater lately and not just when I'm outside, we refuse to turn on the heater! The Mr. always has to remind me that since we are in a bigger place we have more space to heat up, which makes for a bigger electricity bill. Thank God we have afghans that my lovely Mother crocheted for us!

The newest afghan is probably my favorite blanket to date. First off, it's two of my favorite colors, green and purple (also Scentsy colors!) and it's huge! If you've ever covered up with a homemade afghan, you'll probably notice that they are never the perfect size; too short and not wide enough! But this blanket is perfect, it covers me from head to toe, it's nice and warm and to make it even better it covers the 6 foot + Mr. that I call my boyfriend! We often have to fight over this afghan because we both love it and when aren't sleeping on it Rambo is! That silly dog!

I hope that my house will forever be blessed with my Mothers beautiful crotched work of arts (that sounds funny), because I am blessed to be able to have a Mom who knows how to make this kind of stuff!

Tonight, I am so so so thankful for my newest afghan. I was freezing when I got home from work, I wrapped myself up in and now I'm warm and comfy!

Wrapped up in my favorite afghan!

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New Favorite Quote

I ran across this earlier today on Pinterest and I fell in love with it. It's true, my parents have always showed that they loved each other no matter what they were going through. I couldn't ask for a better example of what love is suppose to be and look like.

I will be forever thankful of the love my parents have for each other. 

Friends You Love - Meet April from April Showers

I am so excited to participate in my first Blog Hop! I ran across this "Friend You Love" Blog Hop yesterday and I knew exactly who I wanted to write a guest post for me. April from April Showers is someone I met about a year ago online and has because a great friend!

She didn't hesitate to write about our friendship and what it means to her; so friends, I introduce to you, my amazing friend, April!

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Hi!  I'm April from April Showers and I'm Abby's friend.  Like...pretty good friend.  She's definitely at the top of the "People I'm Going to Tell When I Get Pregnant" phone tree.  (Or Facebook tree, as it were.)  But at the same time she doesn't quite know enough about me to warrant blackmail. (Yet.)  Our conversations are lighthearted and fun, and I'm so glad we don't have to talk about all our problems or drama in order to stay interested in what we talk about each day.  (Not that my life is that soap-opera interesting, but if it were...)  While I feel completely comfortable venting to her about anything that is going wrong in my life, there is something about Abby that makes me not NEED to vent.  Just a nice conversation turns my day around!  Of course, if anything ever goes awry...I'm on board for a good supportive chat and virtual sob and hug.

Not only are we friends, but we basically keep each other in business.  I mean, I think she has exhausted my list of services and ordered everything I offer.  I currently have an entire cabinet full of Scentsy products and three warmers, but am sitting here compiling a list for even more.  When people come to my house they assume I'm a Scentsy rep, and I just say "No, I know people."   Now if she could somehow send me a Starbucks, we'd REALLY be in business.

Having a friend I've never even MET in real life has proven to me that you don't need to meet in order for a great relationship to be there.  Of course, we attempt to plan to meet at every single opportunity we can...but I won't feel any less of a friend if that never happens.  In fact, I'll just be happy that she won't see my bad hair days.  Or me in an "un-Photoshopped" format.  But if she did I'm sure she wouldn't judge.  Laugh maybe.  But not judge. :P

Love you Abby!!!!!!!!!  :D

Halloween Cookies & Dinner

I won't lie, I'm really glad the week is over and that my weekend is finally here. I'm hoping to have a better weekend then I did last week (and it seem to be going that way) and hopefully I'll get a little R&R in. Last weekend we were dealing with flooding and broken sewer pipes, yuck!

So far this weekend I've been able to watch a movie with The Mr. ( I am not allowed to share the title of the movie we watched because he doesn't want anyone to know he watched a chick flick! Did I just type that? Oops!), sleep in, drink coffee and spend some time browsing the interwebs and I was able to do some baking!

This afternoon I got together with some of my coworkers and we made Halloween cookies! It was nice to hang out with the girls outside of work and spend some time doing something we truly enjoy (not that we all don't enjoy our jobs or anything). I won't lie though, I was a little jealous of the KitchenAid Mixer that I was allowed to use today, I have got to me one of those! My coworker almost has the complete pink set of the KitchenAid set and I'm super jealous but that's besides the point. We made two different type of cookies, one's that looked like fingers and another that looks like owls. We had such a fun time creating the fingers and cutting dough to look like an owl.

Before I left to make cookies I asked The Mr. to get things ready for dinner so as soon as I got home, I could throw all the ingredients together and then pop it into the oven. I made turkey meatloaf and need an onion chopped up and I knew that would take some time so having him do that for me would save some time. After we were done baking cookies I hurried home so I could start dinner. I walked into the kitchen and found this:

What an amazing man! It made my heart happy and made preparing dinner super easy! Anyway, I threw all the stuff together, preheated the oven and made our turkey meatloaf.

I served it with brown rice mixed with salsa and steamed broccoli. I was going to take a picture of the finished product but completely forgot and by the time I remembered, we were almost done eating! Dang it! I could never be a food blogger, I would forget the most important part.

Dinner was great and very satisfying and our cookies turned out awesome! So far, there's been nothing to complain about with this weekend, and I'm so thankful for that! 

Houston, we have a leakage!

I skipped a day of thankfulness, oops. This week has been a long week and I am so ready for a weekend! On Sunday evening, after sleeping the day away, I decided to start a load of laundry. Don't act surprised, it's something I normally do on Sunday's and Monday's, but this time it was different, and not fun.

About 20 minutes after starting the first load of laundry, I walked into our spare bathroom and was surprised to step into a huge puddle of water. The puddle covered the whole bathroom floor (coming out from under the toilet) and the tub was starting to fill up. I automatically called for The Mr. and I automatically knew we had a huge poopie problem!

Because it was Sunday night there wasn't really anything we could do besides soak up the water and hope and pray it didn't leak any more. Monday morning came and we had to get ready for the day, we were hoping that the problem was just a fluke and we wouldn't see any sign of floodage, but we were wrong!

Again, water all over the floor and filling up the tubs. At this point, I was highly annoyed. We couldn't get in touch with our landlord and were kind of at a loss for what do to. We obviously had a "clog," or so we thought, and it needed to get fixed, pronto.

Monday afternoon came and we finally got ahold of the landlord, two plumbers and builder of our unit. They got started on the problem right away and they all thought it was something that was going to be simple and easy to fix....ha! The two plumbers put their skills to work and did everything they could to unclog our mess; only to find out that we had more of sewer problem than we originally thought. One of the main pipes to our sewer had collapsed and we had a major back up!

The rest is history and needless to say we've had some major construction going on around here this week. Showers had to be short, we couldn't run very much water at time, so dishes couldn't be done, and laundry was on a major halt. The past two days they've been working to replace the collapsed pipe and to fix anything else it may have damaged.

I am so glad that we were able to nip the problem in the butt and get it fixed in a timely matter, but more importantly, I'm glad I won't be cleaning water off our bathroom floor anymore!

So today, I am so thankful for properly working sewage and a dry bathroom floor! I am also thankful for The Mr., he had to put up with all my whining and complain during this whole process (and I'm sure there was a lot!).