First. Finest. Forever.

I am a pro at blogging about things way after they happen.  Oh well, better late than never, right?

Sometime a couple of weeks ago in August... I went to Fayetteville for the weekend.  On Friday night, I got to see my friend Lyndsey.  Here we are getting some frozen yogurt.  They had an orange flavor that reminded me of the Flinstones push-up pops when I was a kid.

I stayed with my brother in his apartment that looks every bit like you would expect a 21 year old college boy's apartment to look.  Here we are in my grainy iPhone photo...

That Saturday I had to take my car to the shop for the second time in its short 3 month life.  It was making some weird noises after the drive to Fayetteville, but they couldn't find anything wrong with it, and it hasn't done it again.  Oh well, it is just a mystery I guess.

Saturday night, I went out to dinner with some of the other alums of my sorority that live in the area.  This is me and Laura.  Also a grainy iPhone pic, since apparently that is the only camera I have.

Sunday was bid day for the sororities at the University of Arkansas.  This is the main reason I went up there.  It was a fun trip down memory lane, and I got to see a bunch of girls from when I was in college. 

Our bid day sign:

Diamonds with Andrea for old times' sake:

And of course- a picture with the new letters, where I apparently missed the hand on the hip memo:

And I got to see two of the girls that go to my church in Little Rock that are now ADPi's at Fayetteville:

The bid day shirts:

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jasmere deal!

If you have read my blog or known me for a while, you probably have heard me talk about jasmere before.  I love jasmere!  It is a shopping site that has a new deal every day, and the cool thing is that the more buyers there are, the lower the price goes.  Everyone pays the same price at the end of the feature.  I love it when I buy something and I check back and the price has dropped a couple of dollars.  Anyway, until September 17th, if you see something you like on jasmere, use this code to get an extra 20% off:

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It is good once per person and good until 9/17/11.  Everything on jasmere is already a great deal, and then an extra 20% is awesome!  I really love this site and I hope you do too!  I have bought many items from jasmere, such as a bras, stationary, candy, speakers, photo canvases, etc.  It is a neat way to find out about companies that you normally wouldn't come across.  Most of the companies are smaller and have unique products.  And everything that they sell is personally tested by the jasmere employees, who by the way have AMAZING customer service.

Leave a comment if you have any questions!  Happy shopping!!

Eureka!

Last weekend (yes, I am just now getting around to blogging about it), I went to Eureka Springs with some of my friends!  We had a fun time (except for the driving because I get car sick... boo).

Here we are driving around town:

We went to this cute shop.  Looks just like my kind of place!  Too bad I didn't get anything!

It is a cute little town!  And I think we were pretty cute too lol!

What is a vacation without sticking your head into a gross plywood cut-out?!?!

Our group at Ermilios.  We had a very nice dinner.

Here we are in front of the haunted Crescent Hotel.  Please excuse the pasty whiteness of my legs.

My friends tricked me into going on the haunted ghost tour.  This is how I felt about that...

This is the most haunted room in the whole hotel.  There is a 2 year wait to stay in this room.  No thanks!  I would specifically ask for the least haunted room! ha!

Here we are in the morgue.

We also went to see the Christ of the Ozarks statue.  I have been before but not in a long time.

Me (with a funny face due to the blinding sun!) and Jesus:

It was a fun trip!  I have some pretty awesome friends!  I only got one souvenir- a bracelet.  I have not had good shopping luck lately!  Hopefully that will change soon!

Random Happenings

Too much has happened since I last posted, and I am exhausted, so this is going to be a bunch of random bullets....

1.  Man it is HOT!  I took this picture a couple of weeks ago, and sadly this was not the max.  We actually broke a record here!



2.  I went with my friend Cherry to pick up her wedding dress!  Yay!


3.  I had a work conference in Hope.  I got a watermelon.


They are known for their watermelons and have a festival every year that should be coming up soon.  (By the way- my hopes for finding something fun in Hope were smashed.  All I found was a barn and some horse poop.  It is in the middle of nowhere, unless you want to see the house in which President Clinton grew up.)

4.  I made some delicious stir fry.


5.I went to the circus!  It was a fun time, although they wanted $12 for a snow cone.  No Way!

6.  My poor car has already been in the shop.  It was a simple fix (a bent heat shield) and is running like a champ now.

7.  I went to my first Arkansas Traveler's game of the season!  I don't know how it ended since we left early due to the heat, but it sure wasn't looking good.

8.  I rediscovered my love of Cheez-its.  I mean like, I really love them.  :)

9.  I went shopping yesterday because it was Arkansas' tax free holiday.  I like not having to pay tax.  Plus I had a coupon for 20% off at Kohls, so it was an extra good deal.

10.  I got chosen to be in a laundry detergent trial.  I got 2 free bottles of detergent to review over the next 4 weeks.  I am pretty pumped about that!  I love free stuff!!

Handy Homeowner

This weekend, I found myself to be pretty handy.

So the weekend before this past one, I got fed up with my digital cable.  See, it has been acting badly for a while, but I knew several others who were also having trouble, so I just thought I would be patient until they got it worked out.  Well, my patience ran out.  So Saturday I called the cable people and they said someone would be out on Tuesday between 8-11am.  Super.  So- then on Sunday I got an automated call saying that someone would be there on Monday between 8-11.  Now I was confused.  So I had to call the company and ask which day were they planning on coming, Monday or Tuesday?  So it was confirmed that they were coming on Monday between 8-11.

So then on Monday, by 12 nobody had shown up so my mom came over to stay at my house so that I could go back to work.  The guy finally showed up in the late afternoon- after approximately 500,000 phone calls to the company...

He declared the problem to be a crappy installation job with old wires and that someone would come out on Saturday to install new wires between 11-2pm.  Sound fishy yet?

So then on Saturday morning after my morning exercise (which I haven't done in a long time and almost was the death of me- but that is another post) I still hadn't gotten a confirmation phone call.  So I called around 10:30 and the lady informed me that I most definitely did not have an 11-2 appointment, but instead a 8am-7pm appointment.  To say that I was less than pleased is an understatement.  I was one angry lady.  I was sure that I was going to have to sit in my house until 7 at night and still they might not show up.  My bad attitude was (temporarily) short-lived though, because the guy showed up at a little before 11.  Then, he told me that he was pretty sure that the problem was not the lines, and that he was wasting his time and mine, but since they told him to run new lines, he would run new lines.  Great.

So then the guy runs the lines and guess what.  Still doesn't work.  SO then I was like well what do I do now?  And he had the nerve to tell me to call the company and set up a THIRD appointment to get a new cable box.  Are you Freaking kidding me?!?!?!  He said that he didn't have an extra box in the truck so that is why he couldn't do it right then and there.  So I asked if I could just go to the store and get another one from the company, and he was like, Well, you can try but they usually won't give you one. 

Well I took my frustrated and slightly pissed off self down to the store.  The guy told me to tell them I wanted an updated box because if I told them that this one was broken, then they wouldn't believe me or give me a new one.  So I tried that, and the lady at the store told me they didn't have any updated boxes.  I was like ok, well I don't care- how about just giving me a different old one then.  She wanted to know why, and so I told her my "symptoms" and she tried to tell me it was a line problem.  I just about blew a gasket then.  Ok maybe not, but I was certainly not leaving there without a new box!  Turns out, they did have some updated boxes, and I got one that day.

Then I came home and hooked it up.  It didn't work at first, but I guess it just needed a little time to warm up, because now it works like a charm.  I must say though, that the next time I have problems with my service, I'm switching to a new provider unless I get a really stinking good deal.

Also on my fix-it list this weekend was my printer.  I got this printer about 2 years ago for free with my laptop.  Right there you should know that it is top quality! ha!  I have never used it because I have always been able to print other places and didn't need to worry about it.  So I finally needed it a week or so ago- got it out to install it- and guess what!  Half of the power cord was missing!  I mean, really?!?!  Luckily my mom had the (matching) missing part from one of her old printers and gave it to me.  So then I resumed the process, only to discover that I was missing the USB cord.  So a long time and a trip to Walmart later, I had an up and running printer.  Woo-hoo!

And then after all that- I caught the stomach flu or something and puked all night.  Lovely.  Aren't you glad you read all the way to the end?  :)

Busy, Busy!!

So a lot has happened since my last post.  I just can't remember what! ha!  I am exhausted and trying to catch up on my sleep this weekend.   The main thing that happened is that I said goodbye to this poor old broken down 13 year old piece of junk:

And I brought home this new one!

And please excuse the gross looking parking lot in this picture and just focus on the new, shiny car.  I was at the dentist and needed to take a picture for all my fb peeps.  haha! And right before this, I got a surprise filling and he didn't use anesthesia! And then I went to get my insurance updated, and I had to wait 30 minutes for someone (and I wasn't being picky about the agent!) to get back from lunch!  I guess the only thing that made that day better was that I got to drive around in my new car!

4th of July weekend

I went with some of my family to the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri over the 4th of July Weekend.  I left on Saturday and came back on Tuesday.  I had an okay time since going to the lake is not my favorite thing in the world.  Can you tell? Lol!

I did score some awesome deals at the outlet mall nearby.  I got a new purse, a pair of jeans, a pair of capris, 2 pairs of shorts, and two shirts.  Basically we only ate food that I don't like (shrimp, hot dogs, hamburgers, pork roast, etc- I am picky), so my diet consisted mainly of cookies, chips, pickles, and an occasional piece of watermelon.  It's a wonder that my new clothes still fit.

My brother tried to blow himself up with our fireworks and got stung by a wasp.  That probably wasn't his favorite day.

On the way home, we made a short detour (about an extra hour) to drive through Fayetteville to see some of our friends for lunch.  I got to see my friend Lyndsey who I haven't seen since Easter, when she made her big announcement that she is having a BABY!

So now I am back home, trying to recover from all the traveling and apparently sleeping on a bed that came with the lake house.  My grandmother's aunt owns the cabin, and she doesn't remember what year she bought the house- but we have a guest book and the first entry is from 1966- so the bed is at least from before 1966.  Lovely.  I'm thinking it might be time for a new one.