B.O.R.E.D

So I left work at around 8:30 this morning.  I got in 2 hours, so that was good.  I was one hour of vacation short of being able to take off the rest of the week due to the weather.  It was snowing pretty hard when I was leaving.  I made it mostly ok, but when I got off the interstate and had to cross an overpass, I must have hit an icy patch.  My car was going sideways and maybe even a little backwards.  I was pretty scared.  Luckily I didn't hit anything or anyone.  I baked some banana bread, made pepper/zucchini fajitas, cleaned my bathroom, vacuumed my whole house, mopped the floors, cleaned the kitchen, washed the baseboards and did all my laundry.  I have caught up on everything on facebook and read all the blogs I follow.  I am counting down the mintues until the Hogs play basketball tonight so that I can watch it on tv.  I am afraid that tomorrow is going to be awfully boring since I won't have anything to do but watch tv.  I am still hoping to get up to Fayetteville on Friday night or Saturday morning.  They got 25 inches of snow today.  We only have around 6 here, but everything is definitely shut down.  I'm hoping that the roads will warm up quickly.  Here is what the filling of my fajitas looked like, except that I also added some cheese and sour cream:

Any ideas for what I can do tomorrow?

Here comes the snow. again.

So I am blogging from my office.  at 6:47 am.  Normally I am still asleep at this time!  They are predicting 6-8 inches of snow for us today, which is a lot for this area.  It pretty much shuts down the town!  And guess who has 23 hours of vacation time, and 24 hours left in the work week.  Me!  So I got up with the chickens (I don't have any chickens, or even know anyone who has chickens) and came in to work so that I could get in at least an hour before the snow starts.  Last night, everyone was telling me that the snow was supposed to start in the night, but I looked on the weather channel website, and it said 8 am, so I got up at 5:45 and made my way in to work.  It looks like now they are saying 9am is when it will all start, so I am hoping to get in 2 hours of work.  The morning commute that normally takes me 30-45 minutes only took me about 15 minutes this morning.  School is cancelled and a lot of businesses are too, so almost everyone was still sleeping when I left.  I am hoping to go to Fayetteville this weekend to see a friend and go to a basketball game, and if this weather screws that up, I will be very sad.  And poor, since I will have spent $60 on tickets for no reason.  Which, P.S. the tickets still have not come in the mail, and that makes me very nervous!

Long time, no blog.

A lot has happened since my last post!

I think I last blogged a week ago, so I guess I will just catch you up from there.

Last Tuesday, I was supposed to go with my bff to look for a wedding planning book.  The plan was to hit up Barnes and Noble and Target and just spend the evening talking and what not.  Unfortunately, the snow decided to come and threaten us with icy roads.  We decided to postpone our outing to another day.

Wednesday- nothing special.

Thursday, Cherry and I did go to B&N and Walmart.  We looked through about 50 million pages of wedding magazines and picked out a cute wedding planner.  We had a very important conversation about the Bachelor and read the People magazine article about the secrets of the show or something like that.  It was very uninformative.  A fun time was had by all.  :)

Friday, by the time I was heading to work it was already snowing.  During my staff meeting from 9-11 am, my dad called me and said that the roads were starting to freeze.  I left work at about 11:30 on Friday and went home.  This was me walking to my car.  I was freezing!

 

The roads were not bad at all, but I was glad to have a half day at home.  I was very productive and I did my taxes and several loads of laundry.  Some friends and I were supposed to have a Glee watching party to catch up on some of the old episodes, but I was concerned about driving in the snow since my street is so steep.  My friend Ashley volunteered her husband to come pick me up in his truck, and so the party went on in spite of the snow.  We had a potluck taco dinner and managed to watch about 1.5 episodes of Glee.  We had fun anyway, despite the lack of Glee-watching.

Saturday, we had a 10 am birthday party.  I decided to be brave and try to drive up my street since apparently the rest of the roads were not too bad.  That was a big mistake.  I could not get up the hill, and just kept sliding around and down the road.  I ended up in someone on my street's yard.  At least I did not hit anything.  One of my friends came and picked me up for the party.  By the time we got done at the party and had lunch, the road was clear.  It warmed up to the 40's by the afternoon, and the snow melted.  I went to move my car, and I got stuck in the mud in the neighbor's yard, and I made an ugly mess in their grass.  I went and apologized and offered to buy them some grass or dirt or something, but the lady said she wasn't worried about the yard, just their sprinkler system.  I really hope that I don't have to replace part of their sprinkler system...

Super Bowl Sunday-  My Sunday School class had a Super Bowl party on Sunday evening.  I don't think I really watched any of the game.  I did, however, probably eat my weight in snacks.  We had SO much food, and I think I ate some of almost everything.  I did discover a new love for jalapeno poppers.  :)  This is what I made:






Mandarin Orange Upside down cakes and candy box caramels.

Both were super easy and pretty good.  All the caramels got eaten, and almost all of the upside down cakes got eaten.  I was very glad not to come home with too much sweet stuff, because I would eat it all!

Today is another slow day at work.  Hopefully things will get more exciting around here really soon!  And I don't have any jury trials this week either.  Jury duty so far has been really easy!  :)

Drama

This weekend was a crazy one, that's for sure.
Friday was pretty tame.  Just a boring day at the office and a few shopping errands to get things such as this:

A very important item!

I also got a few things on sale at Kirklands (which you will see later) and some stuff to make goody bags for my 5th and 6th graders at church.

Saturday was the one that almost did me in.  I started to get a migraine around 11 in the morning.  I had a wedding at 2 to go to, and I was putting off getting ready until I figured out if I could go or not.  The headache was not too bad this time, but I was having some crazy vision problems and I couldn't see out of my left eye very well, so I didn't think it was a good idea to be driving.  After a lot of ibuprofen and a coke and just laying in bed trying to sleep, it finally went away enough that I felt ok to go to the wedding.  I didn't really know anyone else at the wedding or reception, so it was a little awkward.  Also earlier in the day, my bff Cherry had texted me that she had gotten engaged!  We already had a small get together planned on Saturday night, so I decided to make it a kind of surprise engagement party.  I made the world's ugliest cake (seriously- I was so embarrassed), but between the other wedding/reception and going to eat dinner with my family, I didn't have time to (a) fix the cake or (b) make another one.  At least it was kind of dark in there so maybe noone noticed?  It tasted good anyway.  Here's a pic of me and the bride-to-be:

                                                   

Not to mention that my ex-boyfriend is going to be the best man and I will be the maid of honor.  Um, awkward.  :)  That was a very strange evening.

So Sunday, I went to church and then headed to the mall with my friends Mary and Ashley.  I only got one shirt for my sister at the Gap for $1.27 including tax!  At least my one purchase was a good one!  Well I guess I really got another thing- we made a stop at the cookie stand, and I got one peanut butter M&M cookie which cost more than the shirt I bought!  Then I went to my grandmother's house for dinner.  I made it home in time to watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition.  During the commercial breaks I did this:

I bought these things at Kirklands on Friday, and finally got around to hanging them.  This is the window above my bed, and I hung these above the window.  You really don't want to know how long that took me or how many nail holes are behind them.  Whenever I get sick of them and take them down, there will be a lot of patch work to do.  :)  However, they are exactly the same height above the window and exactly the same distance apart.  I was not prepared for how much work that was going to be.  I had them perfectly aligned once, only to discover that the left one was 10 inches from the center and the other was 8 inches.  I was pretty mad.  haha.  But now they are hanging straight- I just hope one doesn't fall off and hit me in the head while I am sleeping!  (or while I am awake, for that matter.)

Today is another slow day in the office.  It was also my first day to have to call for jury duty.  This week I do not have to go in, which I guess is good.  Tomorrow will also be a slow day in my office, so I was hoping for a little bit of excitement in the courts!  :)

Jasmere Code- good this weekend only

Jasmere has released a code good for this weekend's feature only.  If you enter the code SFLUVC then you will get 12% off!  It ends Sunday.  And remember, the more people who buy- the lower the price gets for everyone!  This weekend's deal is with Chic Canvas for a 24 x 30 canvas. (There is also a smaller canvas with a smaller price tag.)  The retail value is $165, and right now the jasmere price is $71, and then $62.48 with the discount code.


If you are not already a member of jasmere, go here and sign up!  You can have the daily deal emailed to you if you prefer.  And also they pick a "fan of the day" from their facebook friends to win that day's product for free!  I have been a "fan of the day" winner.  :)

Jasmere has all kinds of neat stuff.  I have made several purchases for myself and for gifts.  The customer service is wonderful too!  So if you need a canvas made either for yourself or for someone else, now is the time to buy!  The voucher is good until May.

Pictures?

One more thing- can you see the pictures on my blog?  I just noticed that none of them are loading for me, even when I refresh the screen.  I tried to put one on here from my facebook- but they wouldn't load either, so I'm thinking its something with my computer?

Thanks!!

Beth Moore

Yesterday, my friend Ashley and I went to a meeting put on by Lifeway about the upcoming Living Proof live event featuring Beth Moore at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock.  I am super excited.  Remember my 30 before 30 list?  Well- seeing Beth Moore in person is on there, so I am happy to be checking another item off.  :)  I haven't been doing so hot in checking off my items.  I need to get busy on that!

I ordered my ticket this morning, so it is official.  I will be going to see Beth Moore in April!  Woo!  If you are planning on going, let me know!