Thursday, September 29, 2011

♥A Few of My Favorite Things♥


Obviously, I have discovered the festival of delights that is the Forever21 accessory section! All of these are under $10, except for the peacock feather fedora which is about $18. Cool huh? Or maybe not cool, if you ask me it's plenty fine, but my bank account may be ruing the day right now.....whatever, on with the show! =)



















Doesn't this necklace put you in mind of the pink enamel heart Gilbert gives Anne?




















If only I had  a normal sized head.....this hat would be MINE!












Oh, there's more, I'm just stopping myself before this post get ridiculously long.....even more ridiculously long then it already is! ;-)

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Watchout! I'm About to Spontaneously Post!!

Okay, okay, maybe it's not as dangerous as spontaneously combusting, but it has it's hair raising moments, right? No? Well, okay then, if you say so! =P

I wasn't going to post this outfit....but then I stumbled upon THIS POST and HAD to, I just had to people! A force much stronger then myself is compelling me right now.....what? Cute purses never take over your motor functions and make you post pictures of yourself on the Internet?
Weird, it happens to me all the time....I think the shoes have been talking.....

 Tank: Wal-Mart
Cami: Jc Penny
Skirt: Made by me
Boots: JcPenny
Necklace: Made by me

Here I am! Can I have the super cute purse now?

WHAT? I just don't get it becuase I'm awesome? Fine.....I wil shake the dust of this town off my boots and fling my arm up in a symbalic gesture of dissmisal.....
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I'm baaack! Hey, that purse is really cute, don't believe me? Go HERE and see for yourself!

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Awkward and Awesome Thursday


~AWKWARD~

~Having to tell people that I'm not the lady of the house or the Mom of the kids who are with me.....Oh, I'm not their Mom, I'm the nanny....they look so confused and turn and walk away. Where do you go from there?

~Awesome number one not exactly turning out the way I'd hoped.....

~You ever run out of deodorant on the first pit? You have a new one, and it's even the exact same kind, but then you put it on and you think that your pits smell way different and every time you move your arms, you feel like a lop-sided freak and you complain about it so much your Mom exasperatedly offers to smell them for you, and to her surprise, you say yes.....the results? One Mother destined for sainthood and one feeling of relief that I am not crazy, they did smell different!

~AWESOME~

~A PLAY I WROTE IS GETTING PERFORMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~My friend finally had her baby (she was a week over due!) and I can't wait to meet him!

~~The fact that my ring tone is the slugs from Flushed Away (Love, love, love that movie!!) singing Don't worry, Be happy! You type in The Slugs on my ring tone search and you get quite a few songs, who knew?


~The fact that my sexy intrigue comes value sized!
Yes, I am just that cool..........................
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What did you think I meant? ;-)


Monday, September 12, 2011

Meet Plan B, Formaly Known as the Bogey Man Under My Bed!

Yesterday my collage group, well more of a young adult group as only one person in the group is actually collage age.....

Anyway, we went on a group solitude trip, as in we all drove out together to the badlands (they turned out to much more pleasant then the name would suggest!) and then we all split off and had a time of solitude, came back together talked about our experience, then went out separately again for a longer time.


The first round I had a plan to read Lamentations 3:21-28 then go from there, but I pulled out my journal first and ended up writing/praying (I normally write as I pray, it keeps me from getting distracted) for the whole time and I came to a realization that had been festering for awhile, it's time for Plan B. 

Plan B and I have never made a formal acquaintance..... because as it happens, Plan B frightens me to death! What is Plan B you may be asking. Well, the some what dismal rags of Plan A can be found HERE. Basically it was what every good Greek girl should do, nice Greek girls are supposed to do three things in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone until the day we die. Okay, I'm not Greek and that quote is from one of my favorite movies, but the idea is the same! Graduate high school, get married, have a family, that's Plan A in a nut shell.
 (Not excited about Plan B!)

Not being one to dwell on the negative aspects of the future (or another name for it is ostrich optimism!) I ignored the wise council of my mom and various others and never planned for the day Plan A failed, maybe not failed, got delayed? Yes, delayed, let's not be to gloomy here!

I will finally admit to having been in a holding pattern life wise since after high school, like Rapunzel, I've been in my tower, sweeping the floors waiting for my life to begin. But, Prince Charming hasn't climbed up my hair, and it's time to climb out if the tower myself.

A few of the facets of Plan B!

1. Finding a real job, one that could be a career if said husband never shows up! 
I like the nannying and the freedom it gives me, but the lack of a set schedule and the lack of a steady paycheck are just not working any more! I've gambled the not having health insurance game and I'm getting nervous my chips are going to get called in! A job that could possibly lead to a career in case my hair is never climbed (fingers and toes and everything else is crossed against that day!) and being able to move out, at the moment I don't feel God calling me to move out, my family needs me right now, but someday.....

2. Learning to be a people person.
Not in the normal way, but in the becoming an encourager, couciling, mentoring sort of way. My way of coping with stress and sadness is looking for the humorous, but as I've found, that approach rubs most people the WRONG way! They want touching from the heart words, not jokes about the nurses nose hair or the hospital food.....Now me, I like to laugh in the face of grief and hard times and have a hard time dealing with others emotions because I cope in such a different way. The homeless person or kid who just lost his parents is not going to want my favored brand of emotional dealing. So, yes I will be one of those people who laughs at a funeral, sorry if that offends you!
I know this should have been a part of Plan A, but it never dawned on me that I needed to work on this until Plan B became a reality!

3. Not being jealous and still being able to be friends with people who are in the station of life I want to be in!
Ooooh, this is a hard one. I was never a jealous kid by nature, but now that most of my friends are married I have to constantly drag myself up out of the self pity puddle and slap my little green eyed self across the face! I read somewhere that being the only single in the  group is like being in a room full of people and being the only one missing a leg, you can still function, but you are different and people are not sure what to do with you!
There is only one other girl my age at church who isn't married (no guys, we are saddened!) so the functions with the people our age are family and married centered, can anyone say awkward? But, as it is a cold hard fact that I am single and there is no Prince on the horizon, I need to learn to not fall into the pity puddles and ban the little green eyed monster from my mind!

4. Really surrendering my plan for life and learning to trust that God does indeed know what He's doing!
Hardest one of all! I like to be in control, and the fact that I can do NOTHING to save Plan A is driving my BONKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....
Ahem, sorry.....my journal-ing yesterday revealed just how much I was holding onto the tatters of Plan A, vainly hoping that it would still come true and it may, but I need to be an adult and learn to live in this world with out a husband and family! Does Plan B still frighten me to death? You bet! But, I do feel a strange sort of peace and excitement about finding out what exactly it entails. So, there is still a LOT of praying and figuring out to be done, but yesterday I was formally introduced to the bogey man under my bed, aka Plan B and found out that much like the badlands he turned out not to be so bad after all! 


Thursday, September 8, 2011

I'm In!


I'm really hoping the 90 degree weather has cooled down a bit by then..... =)

Monday, September 5, 2011

Puhleeeeeeeease!

I will be a good girl forever if no one else bids on these and I can get them for a ridiculously low price after YEARS of dreaming of owning my very own pair of saddle shoes! I was 10 when I first saw Grease (I have since learned that this is a "bad" movie, but as I don't understand over half of the "bad" things, I still love it!) and have been hooked on 50's fashion ever since!! You don't know how hard it is to find wide saddle shoes for a decent price! *eye rolling smiley*

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Munch N' Movies


Late summer nights+pizza+giant inflatable movie screen= Munch N' Movies!
They do four movies every year and sadly enough E.T. was the only one worth seeing this year!

Sorry about the color, this was taken with my cell phone!

Eating cake pops! I was really excited about cake pops, until I read a recipe on how to make them.....

I told her to smile and look cute.....

My Moms friend Maura and my Mom

Me and Becca, she doesn't look scary this time!

The main excitement of the night? Seeing this guy.....click on the picture and take a REAL good look! I'll wait while you puzzle it out! I'll give you a clue......he doesn't have a name, it's really more of a tittle!
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Eerie resemblance, no?
I know it wasn't really him, but that didn't stop me from taking sneaky pics and making jokes about parking the Tardis and Rose Tyler! =)

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Awkward and Awesome Thursday


~AWKWARD~

~My feet.....they look like the belong on a 6 year old boy.....for realies.....I swear)




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~I am a boy magnet....
Wait, your all thinking, hasn't she jawed on and on about how she's never had any male interest at all?
Why, yes, I have! Thank you for remembering! The key word in that first sentence is boy.....as long as they aren't shaving yet they follow me around like puppies! What's wrong with that picture people?

~The fact that after a summer free of fires, Central Oregon has decided to explode with them and all the smoke in the air is making me feel like I'm breathing through a straw! And not one of those big ones they give you at McDonald's so you'll drink more either!

~Proactive.....yes, I will admit to after years of only occasional breakouts at "that time of the month" under my chin has decided it's 16 and has been breaking out.....and after seeing  a picture of said chin and realizing it looked like a freshly plucked chicken I decided to try Proactive.....and stopped after two days....how many incredibly tiny bottles of acid am I supposed to rub on my skin two times a day?...Oh, and then avoid the the sun.....ooookay, never mind!

~AWESOME~

~Pumpkin Spice is back at Starbucks! Oh happy day! A white chocolate mocha with a pump of pumpkin syrup is amazingly good.....if you ignore the calories.....which I do! =P

~A make your own bubble tea sampler kit....do I see a bubble tea themed party sometime in my future?.....You sure bet I do!

~This.....Cake.....Was.....Amazing! I made it a few weeks ago and we ate in in two days! =)

~Books you've read over and over, until they're familiar as the face of an old friend! I'm re-reading the Anne of Green Gabes series and am once again en-rapturously in love with them....and more then a little jealous of her House 'O Dreams.....and Gilbert if I'm being really honest!! =)