This is my new favorite website. I'm in love.
www.foodgawker.com
Seriously. Go look. Now.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
nomnomnomnomnom
I just saw this website, courtesy of Michelle Coiner, and I had to share.
I totally know what I'm doing this weekend. Who has a birthday coming up? They're getting these.
www.bakerella.com
btw - she is my new hero.
I totally know what I'm doing this weekend. Who has a birthday coming up? They're getting these.
www.bakerella.com
btw - she is my new hero.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Love Love Love
I wish this was my life, but I'm perfectly content to live in this girl's world for now :)
http://www.abeautifulmess.typepad.com/
Also:
http://redvelvetgirls.typepad.com/emma
~and~
http://racheldenbow.blogspot.com/
xoxo
schmash
http://www.abeautifulmess.typepad.com/
Also:
http://redvelvetgirls.typepad.com/emma
~and~
http://racheldenbow.blogspot.com/
xoxo
schmash
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wheeeeee!!!!
It's a new blog post! Can you believe it?!? I know, I can hardly believe it either. I realized that my last post is REALLY depressing, and makes me sound just a little whiny and pathetic, so I figured I'd write a new one to take its place.
This isn't much, but I hope to be better about this in the future, so here's my best shot at a head start! I spent so much time updating my playlist that I'm about to start dozing off in bed without having actually written anything... so here goes!
My life in a nutshell (in order of least to greatest importance):
The Job: I have a great job. I'm really blessed to be at the company I'm at, with the friends I've made. I'm lucky to have a job, period, so I feel doubly lucky to have ended up (for the moment) in such a wonderful place. I could not have asked for a better manager, we have such a great time and work SO well together! Other than the part about me not liking what I actually do so much... the job is peachy :)
The Hobbies: I've become a super geek lately. I'm actually sewing one of those felt Advent Calendars for Christmas. I'm actually enjoying it, despite being painfully slow and not knowing how to do half the stitches. Plus, Mom is always doing some sort of crafty thing like this, so we're getting to spend a lot of time together, since I'm constantly begging for help.
On a super awesome side note: I've begun this project! And I'm really excited :)
Basically, they send you a sketchbook and a theme (Mine is Science Project Gone Wrong), and you have until January 15 to fill 'er up and send 'er in! As long as you don't change the dimensions of the book, anything is fair game! They put a barcode in the sketchbook when you send it back, and when folks check your sketchbook out at the tour, you get an email that tells you where it is!! Cool, huh? I'm really really really excited about it, if you couldn't tell!
More on Hobbies: I've been focusing on my personal style recently. Yes, I realize that sounds totally conceited. I've just realized that I'm actually kind of terrible at being a girl :/ I don't really know what my personal style is, or what things I even like to wear and what looks good on me. So I've been trying to make conscious decisions about what I'm wearing, how I'm wearing it, whether I feel like my personality is reflected in what I'm wearing, and how what I'm wearing makes me look. I guess I just feel like I'm getting swallowed in Ann Taylor, since I just sit in an office building in a cubicle all day long. I just want to feel like me, and I think I'm slowly but surely getting better at being a professional version of myself, not just some corporate goonie.
The Interests: Losing weight, honestly. I guess this kind of goes with the personal style thing, but it's a little more important than that. Promise you won't laugh when I say why!! Larry's lost a LOT of weight cycling, and he's got this sweet haircut and beard thing going, and he looks a lot like the front man for Kings of Leon. Super, super hot. And, honestly, I want to look like his wife, like we belong together. I feel like while he's settled in to his stride as an adult, I've just kind of floundered. He doesn't do anything to make me feel like that, I just want to go out, and when people look at us, they think, "Those two were made for each other!" Is that so bad? I don't think so. Okay, you really can laugh, because it's totally silly and I know it doesn't matter to Larry in the least, I'm just being a girl!
Anyways, I've started a diet called the Up Day, Down Day diet. You can look it up if you'd like, but basically you eat normally on "up" days, and eat 20% of your normal calorie intake on "down" days. You effectively eat less over time, while maintaining your metabolism and tricking your body into staying away from starvation mode. I think the science around it seems pretty sound, and also the method is something I can definitely stick to. I've been cycling with Larry once or twice a week, and I **try** to do yoga at least every other morning. So we'll see how this goes!
The Marriage!: Is great :) I don't think we've ever been in a healthier place in our relationship. We've been put through some stressful situations recently, with full-time jobs, his school, my teaching, family drama, etc., and all of that has forced us to be perfectly honest with each other about everything. I feel like we communicate better and more effectively now more so than we ever have, even though we see each other less than at any other point in our relationship. We've been able to get our priorities straight, set realistic goals for our immediate and distant future, and we've also come to a point where we're content with the things we just don't know yet, the things we can't control. Altogether, we're so much happier together now than we've ever been, and I can't say enough how thankful I am for Larry. I don't think I do a good enough job of telling him how much he means to me, and how proud I am to be his wife!
We have made the decision to look for a rent house when our lease is up here, because 1) we want a yard and plenty of room for babies and 2) we don't want to buy since we don't know where Larry's school will take him at the end of this program. We have also decided: SPOILER ALERT!!! that we are going to start trying to have a baby by late spring 2011!! After having many detailed discussions about our goals and values and desires for our life, we've decided that we're ready. There are a lot of factors that go into this, but I won't bore you guys with that stuff. Some of it's financial, some of it is our physical living space, some of it is our age, and a lot of it has to do with our emotional maturity. We're just ready, and we're going to be so excited when it finally happens :)
Anyways... I hate to leave you on a cliffhanger like that ;) but I'll be posting soon. I love you!!
xoxo
schmash
This isn't much, but I hope to be better about this in the future, so here's my best shot at a head start! I spent so much time updating my playlist that I'm about to start dozing off in bed without having actually written anything... so here goes!
My life in a nutshell (in order of least to greatest importance):
The Job: I have a great job. I'm really blessed to be at the company I'm at, with the friends I've made. I'm lucky to have a job, period, so I feel doubly lucky to have ended up (for the moment) in such a wonderful place. I could not have asked for a better manager, we have such a great time and work SO well together! Other than the part about me not liking what I actually do so much... the job is peachy :)
The Hobbies: I've become a super geek lately. I'm actually sewing one of those felt Advent Calendars for Christmas. I'm actually enjoying it, despite being painfully slow and not knowing how to do half the stitches. Plus, Mom is always doing some sort of crafty thing like this, so we're getting to spend a lot of time together, since I'm constantly begging for help.
On a super awesome side note: I've begun this project! And I'm really excited :)
Basically, they send you a sketchbook and a theme (Mine is Science Project Gone Wrong), and you have until January 15 to fill 'er up and send 'er in! As long as you don't change the dimensions of the book, anything is fair game! They put a barcode in the sketchbook when you send it back, and when folks check your sketchbook out at the tour, you get an email that tells you where it is!! Cool, huh? I'm really really really excited about it, if you couldn't tell!
More on Hobbies: I've been focusing on my personal style recently. Yes, I realize that sounds totally conceited. I've just realized that I'm actually kind of terrible at being a girl :/ I don't really know what my personal style is, or what things I even like to wear and what looks good on me. So I've been trying to make conscious decisions about what I'm wearing, how I'm wearing it, whether I feel like my personality is reflected in what I'm wearing, and how what I'm wearing makes me look. I guess I just feel like I'm getting swallowed in Ann Taylor, since I just sit in an office building in a cubicle all day long. I just want to feel like me, and I think I'm slowly but surely getting better at being a professional version of myself, not just some corporate goonie.
The Interests: Losing weight, honestly. I guess this kind of goes with the personal style thing, but it's a little more important than that. Promise you won't laugh when I say why!! Larry's lost a LOT of weight cycling, and he's got this sweet haircut and beard thing going, and he looks a lot like the front man for Kings of Leon. Super, super hot. And, honestly, I want to look like his wife, like we belong together. I feel like while he's settled in to his stride as an adult, I've just kind of floundered. He doesn't do anything to make me feel like that, I just want to go out, and when people look at us, they think, "Those two were made for each other!" Is that so bad? I don't think so. Okay, you really can laugh, because it's totally silly and I know it doesn't matter to Larry in the least, I'm just being a girl!
Anyways, I've started a diet called the Up Day, Down Day diet. You can look it up if you'd like, but basically you eat normally on "up" days, and eat 20% of your normal calorie intake on "down" days. You effectively eat less over time, while maintaining your metabolism and tricking your body into staying away from starvation mode. I think the science around it seems pretty sound, and also the method is something I can definitely stick to. I've been cycling with Larry once or twice a week, and I **try** to do yoga at least every other morning. So we'll see how this goes!
The Marriage!: Is great :) I don't think we've ever been in a healthier place in our relationship. We've been put through some stressful situations recently, with full-time jobs, his school, my teaching, family drama, etc., and all of that has forced us to be perfectly honest with each other about everything. I feel like we communicate better and more effectively now more so than we ever have, even though we see each other less than at any other point in our relationship. We've been able to get our priorities straight, set realistic goals for our immediate and distant future, and we've also come to a point where we're content with the things we just don't know yet, the things we can't control. Altogether, we're so much happier together now than we've ever been, and I can't say enough how thankful I am for Larry. I don't think I do a good enough job of telling him how much he means to me, and how proud I am to be his wife!
We have made the decision to look for a rent house when our lease is up here, because 1) we want a yard and plenty of room for babies and 2) we don't want to buy since we don't know where Larry's school will take him at the end of this program. We have also decided: SPOILER ALERT!!! that we are going to start trying to have a baby by late spring 2011!! After having many detailed discussions about our goals and values and desires for our life, we've decided that we're ready. There are a lot of factors that go into this, but I won't bore you guys with that stuff. Some of it's financial, some of it is our physical living space, some of it is our age, and a lot of it has to do with our emotional maturity. We're just ready, and we're going to be so excited when it finally happens :)
Anyways... I hate to leave you on a cliffhanger like that ;) but I'll be posting soon. I love you!!
xoxo
schmash
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