boots with the fur

no this is not about the rap song and girls with bootlicious pants or boots with fur...it's about my new boots, they have fur, though it is definitely not the real stuff, and they definitely don't go with apple bottoms...i highly doubt i'd be caught dead in those jeans ever in my lifetime-largely cause i'm not a gangsters girlfriend and i am too cheap....and i'm pretty sure they are way more expensive than my boots with the fur anyway and that is pushing it cause the boots, though cheap, were still more than the 20 dollars that i like to spend on things. so no apple bottoms for me!  about my boots, cause that is what's important here-i got a super lovely deal at the payless down the street-and they are super comfy and even though i'm not a hugely large fan of the little pom pom things that wrap around, i am a hugely large fan of their comfy warm insides and the fact that they are all black and can go with anything i need them to. A+. and they were less than $50, and we got half off on another pair of shoes-yay BOGO! they did not however have the second pair of boots that i wanted to try on in the store, which bummed me out, but i think i like these wayyy better anyway so i'm not as sad-and they will be perfect for helping to keep me warm in the chilly land known as birmingham come next week! at first i was worried that it would be lame of me to wear boots there considering i think it's gonna be freezing cause their weather is like it is here in our coldest part of december-but i have been told that i will not be a loser freak and the only one wearing boots-thank goodness cause i was worried! lame desert girl that i am ha.  i am however slightly concerned about my packing situation.......my suitcase is huge-and while i'm staying for a almost a week for vacation, i have discovered that there are a lot more clothes needed when staying in a colder climate-so much for packing light this go round! big stuffed suitcase it is- i feel like it was slightly obsessive to find all my clothes for the week that i'll be gone, buttttttt i'm rather excited and it is just ten days away now so i feel it is okay to pack early! my justification is that i must make sure it all fits-you can never have too many jackets... or long sleeves, or warm fuzzy socks.  hopefully miss leia's family will not think i am a total freak  with all of my warm clothes!
on another note-it is halloween and i am doing nothing! i would love to at least carve a pumpkin with my boy or something-hopefully that will all work out for next year!  no trick or treaters come to our house so should be a quiet night-especially since joshua and his roommate jesse are having a game night-more like man date, but he'd kill me if i called it that ha :) have a super awesome week!

early pay day's

tomorrow is friday-friday's are beautiful days in the world, well usually, meaning like 98% of the time!  every other friday is also pay day, and that makes them doubly beautiful days in my book!  but today was thursday-the day before friday and the day before friday pay day-BUT there is a wonderful invention called direct deposit that make friday pay day's even more glorious because friday pay days then come on thursdays instead! hooray! it tis quite a miracle if you ask me-and it is my expert opinion we are talking about here so i'm pretttttyyy sure you should believe me.  so today was a glorious day because it was early pay day ANDDDD i got to work at the downtown office which is always fun since you get to listen to the guys make fun of each other all day long while you are doing your work!  i think it might be slightly counter productive but it is awesomely fun and pretty hilarious when rob and dustin, who have become like instant older brothers to me-kinda scary, but they like josh and they watch his football games even though they have never met him which i think is sweet, so i will let them be my older brothers!  so my day was happily entertained while i did boring data entry which became less boring listening to the two of them and then i happily recieved my check in my account which sent me a happy text saying that a deposit had been made so tomorrow i can go shopping with my happy kohl's cash and buy my much needed long sleeves for my big winter excursion to the great deathly cold across this vast united states.......dramatic? maybe-but i have lived here my whole life so anything less than a high of 44 is genuinely considered freezing. period. no ifs ands or buts.  so i will be getting another long sleeve shirt at least!  (i may have already bought two yesterday on a lunch break outing with my mother and they may or may not have been only $4.99 at ROSS......just saying-you don't pass up that deal my friends!) i hope everyone has a happy happy day!

new friends, mother presents and almost wednesdays

it is almost wednesday, and that is a happy thing for me because wednesday means just 15 more days and that means only 2 more weeks til girls day and my big surprise! "WOOOO!" doesn't even begin to describe the happiness....i don't know that there is an exclamation that does now that i think of it-but that is really irrelevant at this point. ha. anywhoooooo, today i made another new friend, well i guess it isn't exactly that, but i'm counting it as such.  i've made two new friends in birmingham just this week!  they are both very sweet girls- i am very excited to get to meet them in person when i go! and leia told me that we're gonna tailgate which i've never done before so that will be way fun and cool too! hooray!
today was a realatively good day-yesterday not so much, it ended in a lot of tears and ugliness and lets just avoid that part eh? but today i worked and i got to play the piano for a good hour, which i certainly miss-i even pulled out my christmas music because no one was home.  i always like to practice early so that by the time rolls around when i'm actually allowed to play then i'm actually practiced up and it doesn't come out so badly!  i do love christmas music, it's probably one of my most favorite piano playing times!
gramma had her final cataract surgery today! i'm excited to see how much more she'll be able to see now with both eyes done, considering the fact that after the first one she had 20/25 vision, i'm guessing this time she'll be pretty well off too!  i still think it's rather funny that she is surprised she has gray hair....but i guess when you can't see it you wouldn't know! though she is 83 sooooo....haha
tonight my mother kindly brought me some new shirts-well they are just cami's to go under shirts, but i appreciate it nonetheless because they get expensive and i always seem to need them!  she found them on sale at kohl's i guess! i don't really care cause they were free! and free is a beautiful thing for me right now and my tiny little budget!  she also gave me her special kohl's cash coupon-basically it's like free money and it's worth a whole $20! that isn't huge probably, but it's huge for me cause i could really use some long sleeve shirts for my trip and for this winter and i really cannot afford to buy any right now! so i'm hoping maybe i can get one or two or possible 3 and only have to spend maybe $20 of my own along with my free kohl's cash!  we'll see if i get lucky enough for that come this weekend when it becomes usable and i have been paid!  woot!  have a happy wednesday!

17 days and counting

so i am officially at the 17 day mark in my countdown!  (if we wanna get technical its technically still 18 since it isn't midnight and it isn't the 25th of october....but humor me, 17 sounds so much closer.)  i have officially been productive this weekend-though by looking at the house you probably would not agree ha.  i did however get out the fall decorations, put all the fall flowers back in their pots by the front door, and put out all my pumpkins, baby scarecrows, and logs and i even helped rearrange all of the backyard furniture!  it's all starting to actually look like a backyard now!  it definitely has a long way to go, but one of these days it will get there.  i am excited to plant some fall flowers in my grandmas old fountain that now sits nicely under one of our big bushes-we'll see if mom lets me plant it how i want :) i also wrapped all of the november birthday gifts and it is not even november yet-there is a first time for never procrastinating ha we'll see how long it actually lasts however!  i also filled out my november month calender on the wall, it is looking quite festive with my hand drawn leaves-and for once they actually look like leaves, it is not questionable as to what i drew like last month's bat/pumpkin attempt!
and the best work i did this weekend was get my football game ticket!  my sweet new friend katie offered me one of her free ones so that none of the boys have to remember to write my name down on the list and no one can accidentally say things they aren't supposed to!  hooray! now i can actually start to feel excited because the pieces are all in order, now i just gotta make sure i stay quiet and  try to refrain from packing (though secretly i've had things that i don't use, i.e. my winter pj's, robe, and sweatshirts, oh and miss leia's thank you gift, and my hat for disguise, all packed since the 15th of october......yes that is pathetic, but i am very excited so i'm not feeling like a loser for it ha :) and i know i'll still end up taking all of it out and frantically repacking the night before, because that is just how i roll!
here's to a FAST, good week! and a super duper fast next 17 days-i'm in desperate need of the manicure and pedicure emily and i are going for before my long flight! and i am dying to see my man's face when he discovers me in birmingham :)

the "golden years" or whatever they call them

so i've been doing a lot of thinking lately, which may or may not benefit me, i'm never entirely sure about that, but this weeks thoughts have been about the "wonderful" years that everyone says happen between the ages of 18 and 22 or whatever the window is.........uh yeah. how about whoever said that should reevaluate their thinking.  while i will agree, that there are some exciting things that seem to happen in this window, i would not say that these are the "BEST" years of life by any stretch of the imagination.  i guess if you were going off to college on mommy and daddy's paycheck and partying it up with your friends and roommates every weekend, this WOULD be the ideal time of your life since you have ZERO responsibility AND the convenience of always hanging out with your friends. other than that right there i see little in the way of "wonderful".  a large majority of the time i feel the exact opposite.  maybe its because i royally suck at finding the positives right now-but i feel like you turn 18 and the world says, "hello, you are an adult now, this is the real world" and at the same time you can do absolutely nothing completely on your own.  yes, you can take care of yourself, move out, have a job, go to school, pay your bills.....whatever. but there's still a lot that you can't do because portions of the "real world" say you are not allowed to yet.  so which is it? are we really full fledged and responsible adults at 18? or do they just want us to start to feel that way, then mature another 3 years, THEN dub us full fledged responsible members of society? it's a question i have yet to answer.  there's a lot in this "age" of life that i feel i am held back on, most of it is out of my control, and while i should probably just go with the flow and leave it alone, i don't feel that i should have to if i'm legally considered an adult..but there's not much i can do about it but sit back and let it pass.  maybe in a few years or ten or fifteen years down the road, i can look back and say "wow, to be 19 again." but i highly doubt it.  to be completely honest it feels like high school all over again.  i'm still "allowed" to make my own decisions, but essentially someone else is still controlling them.  it is less than appreciated.  while i know some of that control is done for my own good, i'm pretty sure about 88% of it is NOT necessary and is done sheerly because it can be.  i'm fairly tired of it, but exactly how far do you go to push that envelope before you're in hot water and in trouble with those "watching out" for you?  so far, i have yet to find a nice way to do that, right now the option is piss everyone off, or go along with what makes them happy til there's a better way to get out.  so unfortunately i'm stuck with the latter, which less than pleases me.  hopefully someone will take the "i'm a legally responsible adult" thing to heart one of these and ACTUALLY let me be one. or maybe never, considering our generation and the terrible reputation that they have given those of us in this age bracket.....
at least it is friday.

it's wednesday!

hooray for wednesdays! i don't always say that, but this week has been pretty good considering the crappy one that was last week!  i have gone walking every morning-and the weather has been wonderful!  this does mean that i have to be up before 7....which does not please me after going to bed at midnight, but hopefully i'll start to have the opportunity for a better sleeping schedule soon!
this week has been rather busy but at least it's all in a positive direction. it is definitely much needed!  i had a hair cut yesterday, which always makes me feel better!  plus i love my girl time with miss sharon cause she is amazing!  i even had my eyebrows waxed this week-which may not be a big deal to most, but since i have had like NO hair for a year, i've had no need for eyebrow fixing-so its a miracle in itself to have to go back in! EXCEPT......the eyebrow lady kindly told me that i have uneven eyebrows- I was thinking she meant of course that the two large bushes on my face were uneven and needed fixed so i said "they probably are cause i haven't had any eyebrows for like a year and they just recently started growing like crazy." And then she says (as only the chinese ladies at the nail place can say), "No, no, I mean on your face, one is higher up than the other.  But don't worry, i will trim for you so they will never notice!"  THANK YOU EYEBROW LADY!!!! that just really made me feel SOOOO much better about myself!!  Now everytime i walk by a mirror i wanna get out my ruler and make sure they don't look too uneven before anyone looks at my face!!!! geez i'm gonna be self conscious about it forever now!  she didn't say it to be mean, i think it is rather funny myself, and i must say she did a fantastic job! best i've had so far, but i'm still worried about my one high eyebrow now.....
lots of things have made my heart happy this week.  for instance, Emily texted me in the middle of the day and told me that her wonderful man called her while he was at the airport waiting to leave for Honduras-he'll be gone for two years, so it's kinda a big deal! and they got to talk twice!  they are such a sweet love story-i am rather in love with the fact that they are in love-or i guess i'm more in love with the fact that Emily is in love cause we've been best friends for probably a good 8 years now, and i could not be more happy for her :) i love that we are sharing a lot of the same experiences together-it definitely makes life very fun!
AND Joshua has been a booger this week!  okay maybe booger isn't the way to describe it!  he is such a sweetheart, but sometimes he tortures the crap out of me!!!!!!! i love it but it certainly drives me crazy!  he told me recently that he was working on making my ring-if that isn't enough to torture me then i don't know what is!  so of course i'm excited as crap that he told me this and just DYING to know what it's gonna look like and when i get to see it and when he's gonna propose!  and then i started freaking out about it because i'm Alycia Hall and that's what i do-so i've overanalyzed ever possible way that this could possibly go down and i KNOW i'm not even CLOSE because i so do not ever figure out what Joshua plans SO basically i'm now torturing myself cause he just gave me baby clues and nothing i can actually go off of!!!!! and he likes to remind me about it OFTEN! and when i tell him i need some more hints he gives me a roundabout answer so he doesn't actually have to give me the hint-he thinks he's a brilliant genius and i think he's a big fat meany :) but i do love that he is excited about it-he's pretty cute when he's very excited-and i love that he always thinks of the sweetest ways to surprise me!  this will be yet another surprise in the books for him when it comes time, and i still have nothing on him.....YET!  he also oh so lovingly told me that he was surprising me for my birthday.....UH seriously?!?! he is just trying to kill me before december even gets here!  i have no idea what he has up his sleeve but that boy better not do something crazy!! we will have to see how it goes-maybe he'll forget about it once i have some points on the board ;)

hmm...

hmmm is how i feel at the current moment, well hmm is my excuse for not knowing how to fully describe all the thoughts in my poor little brain actually.  have you ever been just totally and completely confused and bewildered and lost and lonely and sad and upset and overwhelmed at once? that would pretty much sum up the interior workings of my brain right at this moment i think.  i don't think i can fully articulate them, it's just one of those things....i am a fix it person, and i am currently in a situation that i have no real control over, which therefore limits my ability to "fix" like a normally do.  this is a somewhat difficult thing for me to fix, especially in my first born "have to have it right" personality.  sometimes i want to curse my birth order personality, today is one of those days.  i also feel like this is maybe a learning moment where i should hand the reigns over the the man upstairs and let Him guide me through.  i trust him, but somehow i still seem to be having trouble letting go-stupid human-ness sometimes, i know what is best for me, but somehow i can't seem to fully detach, i feel like there's something more i'm supposed to be doing, but i think in actuality i'm actually getting in the way more than anything.  it doesn't help that jz is struggling just as much or more.  it is kinda just an ugly rut for both of us i think.  but to be completely honest, it is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it scares me.  i am so unsure of everything right now.  we both are.  its like the last two months have been bad news and lots of unexpected curve balls that have totally wrecked us, i'm sure there is something good to come out of it, but sometimes when you look at it, it feels like the good may never come and you don't know how much more you can really handle before you just completely break down.  lets hope that we can at least hold on another 26 days.....it is extremely crucial....more crucial than most human minds can comprehend.  it will be necessary for more than just the simple fact of a vacation and a weekend get away, it will be a confidence booster for the man, or at least a glimmer of one hopefully, and a relationship rebuilding, not so much rebuilding, more like just quality bonding? i'm not sure of the word i'm really looking for here, its time for us to just be and forget the yucky hard stuff and just be and have fun.  i'm not completely sure how to pull it off quite yet, but i think i'll be working some overtime hours to swing some kind of fun activity/double date thing with a bud and his girlfriend to help get the boys mind off of the ugly at least for those 4 days.  then the last few weeks of the semester and season will hopefully be a little more bearable.  honestly if it doesn't work, i'm afraid of what might happen, and i'd rather not even touch on that cause it scares me more than i can put in words.
on a similar note, hopefully i don't get in trouble for this later, but currently i'm pretty sure only 2 people read this so i'm probably safe........how long do you do something to please someone else before it becomes unhealthy for you?  i mean honestly, if you are only doing something for someone else, that you purely hate, should you really do it? i guess the real question is more like, how do you help support someone who feels like doing the thing is the only option?  it is something i am working on, my "first born fix it" side says that there are lots of options and that regardless of what someone else thinks, there are always ways to make it work if you stop doing the thing you didn't want to do in the first place, but then the other side of me says, its better to stay out of it and just support and hold a hand and keep encouraging........sometimes i would really love a simpler decision instead of a hard one, like one day where my biggest decision ALL day would be which toothpaste box i think looked nicest and that would therefore influence my buying decision.......HA :) that probably is more than ridiculous, but i have to admit, i think that would be more than a lovely day!
sorry for the lengthy post, but this was intended for my thoughts, so this is what you get :) i think maybe after all of this thinking it's time for some prayer and bed, tomorrow is a new day at least, and maybe i will successfully find an answer when i quit looking so hard.  i'm starting small, i think, finding God in one small thing each day that i don't normally notice or look for, and one thing i tend to under-appreciate each day i will make sure i acknowledge and be thankful for.  it is a start at least in a positive direction, and that is always a good thing :)

quiet saturday

I will say that today has been fairly quiet, minus of course the yelling that has been going on during the UAB vs. UTEP game.  It is nearly impossible to watch a football game and NOT yell however, so I do believe it is acceptable. Plus, today the boys played great!  And they won their first conference game so that is double awesome!  The final was 21-6, all 21 of our points came in the second half, for those of you who care to have a UAB football fact of the day lol.
I feel super incredibly lazy today.  I am guilty of staying in bed til nearly noon-I think I woke up at like 11:20, and I didn't even bother getting out of bed til like ten to noon, just in time to set up the computer for  the big game.  I know I got off work late, but that might have been a bit of overkill in the "sleeping in" category to be honest.  I won't lie though, it was QUITE wonderful and much needed-however, I am less convinced that "beauty sleep" actually works after seeing myself get out of bed today ha :) I still have yet to understand how if I don't move when I sleep and I wake up in the same spot I crashed in, my hair can somehow always be such an ugly mess, its usually just weird looking, but still, I mean seriously, talk about embarassing.  I'm kinda hoping to conquer ugly hair before poor Josh decides to marry me and has to wake up next to monstrous hair every morning that might just scare the living crap out of him and make him run away, but then again, as I say this, I think back to the time I had mono and how INCREDIBLY MONSTROUS I looked for like 3 months, and if that didn't scare him away, I guess my ugly morning hair won't be such a problem.  Besides, he'll one day vow to love me no matter what, SO that means he HAS to love my ugly morning hair too. SUCKER :)
Now that the UAB game is over, I guess I should get up off my lazy butt and do something, but I'm feeling like maybe today is a chill with sweatpants and no make up and do nothing incredibly productive.  I think I might soak up this non productive day since it's gonna be back to work on monday!  At least there's only another 26 before my "girls day" off!  Thank goodness!

ahhh Friday....

This has been kinda a ridiculous week, I won't lie.  Things have been SO busy and SO stressful.  Sometimes I am just ready to give up completely, sometimes I want to just pull my hair out of my head, sometimes I feel like doing nothing but crying, and sometimes I want to just scream.  There has not been much laughter or smiling, except on the rare days when I can webcam with Joshua or he tells me something exciting.  I will say the best part of the week was when he told me he was so excited to finally have his idea for my ring and that he was so excited to have all of the pieces and couldn't wait to tell me more but wanted to keep it a secret still.....BOOGER!  He knows how much I hate having so little information-it kills me.  I do think its very sweet that he is so excited about it and tries so hard to find things he can tell me without giving it away! Its pretty cute!  I'm quite excited myself to see how it all turns out and what it looks like and I'm dying to know how he's going to propose, but unfortunately I will have to be waiting for that, because he won't even HINT at it......again, BOOGER! SO unfair, but I don't really want him to spoil it so I guess I'll try to exercise some PATIENCE.....which is nearly impossible because it was the one and only virtue that I was unfortunately, NOT blessed with.  It seems to be increasingly important lately-and yet, I still have no luck!  Maybe one day by some miracle it will appear-until then I should probably be checked for high blood pressure!  In other news, my Christmas gifts that I ordered online last week are almost here......well half of them are here and the other half are still being shipped......USPS is incredibly SLOW sometimes.  And I less than appreciate it when they SHOVE my WHOLE LARGE package into the TINY mailbox instead of nicely getting off their lazy behinds and walking it to my door. RUDE. Thank goodness nothing has been damaged yet, or someone would be getting an EARFUL. As soon as they arrive I do believe that I will only have 2 items left to find, and that my friends is a miracle, and I took care of 7 families, 4 friends, 5 family members, Joshua, 3 birthdays, 2 baby shower gifts, 1 wedding gift and 1 thank you gift-all under $350. I am kinda awesome if I do say so myself.  I even got a "me" present or two cause I needed one!  Yay me!  I am seriously counting down the days til November now-the wait is KILLING me! But hopefully the time will go fast and things will work out great! 

Seriously...

This week has been less than stellar.  Like WAY less.  Its quite possible that a large contributing factor to my bad attitude is pms, yay hormones, but the other part is idiot people.  I feel somewhat bad for having a venting all of my negativity post, but then again I don't, cause quite frankly I don't currently feel bad about any of the thoughts in my head right now.  I may have seriously jealousy issues, but I don't really care about those either right now.  Since I can't name any names and I can't really say what I want to, I'll just say this:  I'm sick and tired of watching people DO NOTHING and get handed everything.  I am tired of listening to all of the BS about how it will come back to bite them later.  I'm tired of having to act like it doesn't bother me.  If you want something, get off your lazy butt and go do something about it, get rid of your entitlement attitude and actually do something to benefit the society and community of people around you.  I don't feel sorry for any of these things-so don't say two words to me about how rude they might have been.  Hopefully this week is much better than last.  I can't take anymore stupidity and I don't need anymore bad news.

A Trip Down Memory Lane....Sort Of

Okay so this is slow coming but I'm finally getting around to it-it's hard to keep up with a blog sometimes when life is craziness!  Anyway, so on Thursday Nicole last minute had an emergency and could not go work the Highland High Varsity Football game (why it was on a Thursday, I do not know, other than the fact that cox 7 was there and wanted to film everything, but they were largely a pain and in the way and I did not much appreciate having to work around all of their crapola), so being somewhat experienced at the same job, I told her I would cover for her......this was largely in part because I had NOTHING to do for the evening seeing as Nicole would not be around and Mom and Dad always go out for date night on Thursdays, plus Josh is kinda like 1300 miles away at the moment so that doesn't leave much for hanging out there, and I do believe he was on a "man date" as I would call it with his suite mate Jesse (who happens to be a very nice suite mate and he and Josh are super good buds and I love that!) SO anyways, I went to cover this game, slightly, okay more like incredibly, terrified because its been over 2 years since I have had to fix anything similar to a helmet and the mere thought of something breaking during game time gave me a heart attack so I was pretty sure I would surely die if anything were to go wrong....I probably would have survived seeing as some fire fighter people were there since there were fireworks, but still.  I'm pretty sure I shocked the crap out of most people cause no one knew I was coming and no one would have expected me, so that was kinda cool, plus I got to see so many teachers and coaches that I enjoyed working with when I was there!  I even saw Mr. Vincent, who is the sole reason that I became involved in sports! He's pretty much like a smaller version of my own father and I definitely miss working with the guy!  It was definitely kinda a strange experience since the last time I was on or near the game field was when I was still in high school and when I started dating Joshua.  Part of me loved it, but there was a part of me that felt way funny, I think largely in part because the players I used to know are no longer associated with the numbers I remember and because I only know like maybe 7 of the kids that are still there!  Thankfully nothing went wrong during the game, and I had some great conversations with old friends and teachers!  It was overall a very good evening!  I kept having strange flashbacks of all the times I spent on that field and all of those great memories, its so weird to think that it was really only 2 years ago, but sometimes it feels like it was 20 years ago with all that has happened in the last 2 years.  I don't necessarily miss all the sweat and stinky boys, but I do miss being so close to all of the action, and the great relationships that were built, and it will always be (yes this is preparing for cheesiness, so deal with it) special because it is where I met and fell in love with a very cute football player! :) 

Dear Hobby Lobby, You Are AWESOME!

So I have to say today was an overall good day, minus the part where my phone completely quit working-but the nice lady and dude and t-mobile fixed it and now its all better!  I went to the chiropractor in the morning and the nerve that was pinching my lower back has been loosened so no more pain or bulging disks-hooray!  I also went to Hobby Lobby in search of  a piece for a craft so I can finish it up........and wellllllll i can never go in there for just one thing and come out with just the ONE thing....its quite horrible really, but when you freaking SCORE how do you NOT walk out of that wonderful place without?!?!?!?!?!!? it is quite impossible, if you were wondering......in case you were also wondering I did some research and Hobby Lobby exists less than 15 miles from Birmingham! SCORE Joshua for picking a school near Hobby Lobby so that when I move I never have to be without!!!!! I knew I loved that boy :) just kidding......BUT seriously, I think I might have to die if I had to move to Birmingham and there was no Hobby Lobby, I mean its bad enough that the nearest IKEA is in like freaking Kentucky, which I know isn't super far away but it is not just downtown! and that my friends is unexceptable....on EVERY level. So anyway, lets just be happy about Hobby Lobby :) Today when I stopped in I super scored because I'm awesome :) well mostly it's because THEY (meaning the wonderful people of Hobby Lobby) are awesome and they were having a super mega sale on almost everything I have been looking at the last 5 times I've been there!  I have been a very good girl and I've been saving my money, but they seriously have some super cute things that I just need to have in my possession at some point, and today my patient waiting paid off, cause I didn't pay more than $5 for any of the things I have been eyeing :) I saved 40% and 50% on everything I bought today :) I even got a super awesome Christmas gift for my mother, who I know was eyeing it last time we were in the store but she never buys things unless they are on sale either-now you know where I get it :) Now the trick will be to keep her away til the sale is over so she can't go discover it herself and therefore kill the awesomeness of my gift shopping :) I love finding a wonderful bargain!  And because I know there was more there that I was eyeing and my mom mentioned something else about it today...I'm going back tomorrow to score again haha this time to find more Christmas gifts! Because gifts under $10 is a wonderful thing don't you know? and I'll be done before I ever hit the Christmas rush!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOO! I also have the dreaded task of  buying a new pair of workout shoes....yuckkkyyyy. Hopefully that will go better than I see it going in my head right now! Maybe I'll score big there too and find something wonderful that makes me want to workout all the time! Okay enough about bargain shopping! It's time for bed! And tomorrow I shall tell of the wonderful evening I had working Highland's Varsity Football game...just like old times, except way not....ha! Have a wonderful day!

xoxo,
Aly