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Thirty Two

October 11, 2011 – 12:34 am

It’s 12:30pm and I’m wrapping up my night of work. SO before I go climb into bed next to sweet husband I wanted to wish myself happy birthday on my blog!

AND I wanted to share with you what I’m doing to celebrate!

Besides holding one MASSIVE giveaway over HERE, I’m doing

I’ll share all that I’m doing as soon as I can (hopefully tonight!) but I first wanted to pose a challenge.

I’d love you to join me. I’m doing (at least) 32 individual acts of kindness (some random but many for people I love) and I’d love you to do one with me. Just one. To help me celebrate! And I’d LOVE for you to share what you’ve done here on my blog. It can be as small as opening the door for someone, but please share it with me!

Thanks and happy birthday to me! :)

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I’m getting a hair cut tonight and can’t decide how short to go…

October 6, 2011 – 7:02 pm

This is the length right now (photos by Bailey)

My hair’s never been this long and I both love and hate it. Just. Can’t. Decide.

Any ideas?

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me and bails.

October 6, 2011 – 6:59 pm

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I’m a freaking lazy tv addict craving mountain dew.

October 3, 2011 – 6:18 pm

I don’t think my laziness is from not having caffeine for so long, although I will admit that I do miss the AMAZING bursts of energy a huge 32oz would give me, but I think my laziness was just born in me or something. Maybe it’s not just laziness that’s plaguing me though, maybe it’s addiction. To tv.

I am totally addicted to the television and it is hindering me from getting anything done.

You see, RIGHT before all the new shows started debuting I started watching Felicity on Netflix (it streams to our living room tv ONLY). Did any of you watch Felicity? One of my all time favorite shows! And now I’m totally sucked in but there are also like 20 new shows waiting to be watched on our DVR and honestly, if I was on soda I would be staying up a lot later just to catch up! ON TV! Freaking tv!

As if any of it really matters.

But I’m finding myself craving moments when I can just sit down and do NOTHING and just watch something. Lazy.

I could be running around like a mad women 24-7 and still not finish my to do lists and HERE I SIT. Right this second. Chris got home early, took the kids to soccer for me and I’m all dressed ready for my walk but I’m sitting. Watching Felicity. And writing about watching Felicity so I don’t feel like I’m totally wasting time. BUT I should be outside walking before it gets dark and then emptying the dish washer so I can reload it and put away the four huge baskets of kid laundry and finish emptying my email inbox and yet I’m not.

Is it being lazy? Yes. I’d rather be laying on the couch eating pretzels (WITH a big soda of course) and watching a show than ANY of the things I listed above!

Is it being addicted? Totally. If I get into a show I can watch with no commercials all in a row I just. can’t. stop. Like Dexter. And Alias. Those were the two I watched all summer while I worked on the house. Now it’s Felicity.

Ugh. Am I the only loser that LOVES tv? I feel like so many people I know don’t watch much tv and I’m sure they get SO much more crap done!

And you know what truly bothers me? That people ON tv never watch tv. Like their lives are just so damn full they can’t pause to watch tv. And it makes me really jealous! HA!

Happy Monday!

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some Sunday randoms.

October 2, 2011 – 10:40 pm

I didn’t replace the toilet paper in our ONE tiny bathroom for two days and it just BOOGLES my mind that I am literally the only person in this family that is able to take a new roll and replace an old roll. I mean seriously. Is HE handicapped or something?

On the flip side, he did ALL our laundry this weekend. As in like ten loads. There are four huge baskets of clean kids clothes I have to put away tomorrow but he was a laundry rock star. He also can’t wait to get back to school tomorrow! HA!

Gray is super super sick. Thursday we hit the doctor and he started antibiotics for a double ear infection that apparently aren’t scratching the surface if his swollen face, green+goopy eyes and severe pain are indicators. It means a home day for me tomorrow, another co-pay and counting the hours with a crabby+sick boy. Such a great way to start a week!

I’m a week off caffeine! I almost didn’t say anything because it seems like the second I announce my NO soda I run swiftly back to the QT for a 32oz. All I’m drinking is water and I’m actually feeling great! I seriously don’t understand it but my headaches have been minimal and my energy has gone up. The decision was simply based on the fact that I feel like crap most of the time and I was guessing the severe sugar/caffeine highs+lows I was putting my body through had something to do with it. Here’s to hoping this time it sticks!

I’ve given up grocery store bread. I just couldn’t find one single bread without a million crappy ingredients in it so we are now solely shopping at Great Harvest for our bread… a decision that costs us a bit more money each month but gives me incredible piece of mind plus the most delicious bread in my pantry you can imagine.

Ok folks. Heading to bed. If I’m only drinking water my goal is to at least get a little thinner during the process which means I need to get off my ass. The only time I have during the week is EARLY so if I have a prayer of not hitting snooze I need to be in bed before 11pm!

Blogging for 5 minutes was such a good break from editing! Good night!

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