I'm an Ageist

I found myself in an interesting situation yesterday.  I had gone to my doctor's again for a follow up since my headaches have not gone away.  On occasion, I have had new doctors or doctors in training or whoever come in and talk to me.  I don't have a problem with it.  I figure two doctors are better than one even if one is a newbie.  Anyway, this happened yesterday and I had absolutely no confidence in this new doctor.  And the reason was because he looked sooooo young and I think another reason is because he didn't look the part of a doctor.  How judgmental of me!  Seriously, I need to stop because I'm only going to get older and they are most likely only going to get younger - kinda like officiating.  I think this was the first time that I was 100% sure that I was older than my doctor.  Not that it should matter.

So here I am sitting at home for like the 12 day in a row.  I'm on vicodin and was told to do absolutely nothing for the next few days.  I should be happy that I have a legitimate excuse not to go to work, but I want to be there.  I want to get stuff done and it's killing me.  There is so much to do and I'm just upset that I'm disappointing people.  Blargh!

Childhood reboot

Look what I found at Costco. Another childhood flashback! I remember having the same drawing kit when I was a kid. It wasn't project runway, but the silhouettes were the same. I loved that thing.

Dog picture of the day

What a rough life these two have.

Let there be light part 2

The hubster and I put the light up last night. It was pretty easy, but it hurt lol. I was holding the light up over my head and the hubster had to spend a lot of time screwing things in over his head. But it was all worth it! I looks amazing.

$86 light
$12 conversion kit
$2 wire connectors

Easy DIY project

Black Friday

This Black Friday was kind of a disappointment.  I think it's because the hubster and I have no need for the usual items for sale.  How many vacuums and drills can one household need?  I think another contributing factor was that I shopped a lot prior to Black Friday as a stress relief the week before.  So what did I do last night?

I met up with my friend Caroline to pick up some $5 fleeces at Old Navy for our lacrosse team.  The plan is to embroider them and sell them to our team for cheap (probably the cost of the fleece).  Since I was out, I decided to stop in at Kohls.  I saw that the line was pretty long when I drove past on my way to Old Navy.  I went in and the cash register line was insane!  I walked around the store and picked up everything I wanted and got into line.  I stood there for 15 minutes and it did not move!  I decided it was not worth it to stand in line for an hour plus to buy some cheap sheets.  I dropped the items off in a corner on top of some boxes and went home to go to bed.

I woke up the next morning and headed out to try again hoping the line would be shorter.  I walked in and walked over to the corner where I left my stuff and it was still there!  Score!  I hopped into a much shorter line and 15 minutes later I was out of there.  Next, I headed over to Macy's to see if there was anything I could get and use a $10 off coupon.  No luck there or in the rest of the mall.

Last stop was to Home Depot to pick up some wire connectors.  I was home by 11 and just in time for a delivery.  Overall a very uneventful Black Friday.  I think I'll be staying home to work on some things around the house for the rest of the weekend.

Dog picture of the day

Egg rolls new favorite spot in the house. Door must be open though. She loves to bake in the sun.

SLC 2013

Just finished booking the condo for my 30th birthday in Salt Lake City!  That was the last step.  Flights out and condo done!  I'm so excited.  I got a great condo for a great price and there is still room for more people to come if they are interested.  2013 isn't here for another month and I can't wait!

Breaking dawn part 2 contd

What a load if sucktastic-ness that was. I'm so disappointed. Even as a vampire with a "gift", Bella still managed to suck it up in this movie. She played such a key role during the confrontation and she didn't really live up to it.

I also think that "twist" at the end ruined the movie even though it didn't really. (If you've seen the movie, I think you know what I mean)

Just ugh. And one last thing, if vampires are supposed to be oh so irresistible, why is it that I want to slap nearly all of them because they are whiny little douchebags?!?!

Breaking dawn part 2

I'm sitting here in an empty theater waiting for it to start. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm excited for this movie. So much so that I couldn't wait until this Thursday to watch it. This is it. Bella finally doesn't suck anymore. I've waited so long for this!

Gobble gobble gobble

Just got done with grocery shopping for thanksgiving dinner. When did turkey and its customary fixings get so expensive? I spent $71! Given I did buy beer and stocked back up on soda, but that's only $20. So $50 for a bird and some sides. Sheesh. At least it'll be super tasty.

Let there be light

I had a rough week at work with a big meeting with the customer.  It ended terribly when we were all surprised with a round of layoffs.  Eight people were let go (thankfully I was not one of them, but a good friend was).  It was a rough way to end the week.

I decided to break my shopping ban a week early since there is nothing I want from Black Friday sales. I will be asleep in my warm bed come Black Friday.  Anyway, I decided to hit the outlets on the way to Ikea (that's another story).  I wanted to hit J.Crew, Banana Republic, and Pottery Barn.  These outlets aren't nearly as good as the ones closer to Cincinnati, but since I had to back to Columbus at a certain time, I couldn't squeeze it in.

I scored at J.Crew and got 8 items for $163, not bad.  The shitty thing is that I bought the wrong size in one of the skirts and outlet stock is super sketchy, so I'm contemplating going back this weekend.  Not sure if it's worth the hour there and back drive.  LAME!  It's my fault anyway.

Nothing at Banana Republic which brings us to Pottery Barn and the reason for this post.  The light in the stairway went out about a month ago.  We have yet to change it.  I had the bright idea of replacing the ceiling light with a pendant light to kinda spruce up the space.  So I went with the purpose of buying a light fixture.  Well as luck would have it, they were having an extra 25% off on hard wired lighting.  While purusing the clearance section, I found this.

It's pretty, isn't it?  Even the hubster gave it the thumbs up.  I scooped this baby up for $86 from the original price of $199.  As I was inspecting this at home and seeing if it worked, I found out that this is not a hard wired light and that when I argued with the register girl, I was in fact wrong.  This has a plug, so it's not hardwired.  Oh, well.  That's what they get for trying to sell me a broken one in the first place.  Good thing I insisted on opening the box before purchasing.  So now the problem is to convert the original light fixture to support a chandelier and to convert this plug light into something we can hard wire.  It doesn't look to hard from the tutorials I have read online.  I think that will be a project for next weekend.  I'll have four days to fill now that I won't be shopping on Friday.

Too early!!

It is way too early for this. I love Christmas, but this is ridiculous. Christmas creep is getting out of control.

Good wifey

I stayed hone and missed a lacrosse play day to tend to the sick hubster. I made him chicken noodle soup and has been his gopher all day.

Last night, he woke up at 4 am burning up with a fever. We chatted a bit while I got him a drink and some Advil. He turns to me and says "I'm Bella and you're Edward" because I'm so cold to him. Then he tries to cover it up with "no wait, I'm Jacob because I'm hot and have a six pack"

Lol delusional hallucinatory hubster is a riot.

I feel so healthy

I went grocery shopping and while checking out, I surveyed my groceries and to my delight saw how healthy my groceries were! This rarely happens. The only thing that messed up my healthy cart were the hubster's Mac and cheese frozen dinners. Maybe the ranch was bad too, but the rest was all produce! Go me!

Score!

I've been lusting after these suede Tory Burch Revas for a long time.  I spotted them a while back and then they disappeared for a while.  Saw them again and was determined to get them.  Opportunity knocked when the hubster sold the Tibruon and generously offered me a little shopping spree for being such a great and supportive wife.  I bought some Lululemon crops and was stuck on the next item.

It was between a really cute Rachel Pally cutout maxi dress and these damn shoes.  I almost pulled the trigger on the dress last night, but fell asleep instead.  The dress would have put me over budget and I'm still on my self imposed shopping ban.  I was browsing around Slickdeals.net and saw a Bloomingdale's was having a Friends and Family event.  I popped on over and saw my shoes.  The code worked and would save me $47!  Done!

So now I have these cute shoes being sent to me for 20% off, free shipping, and no tax!  Amazing deal as these never go on sale.  I've been having great luck with all my Tory Burch purchases.  Either 20 or 30% off, free shipping, and free tax.  I guess that's another good reason to live in Ohio, not that many high end stores have brick and mortar stores in the state, so that negates sales tax.

Finally

The last of my eyelash extensions have fallen out. Man, I loved how they looked at first, but they got annoying fast. Rubbing my eyes was painful because the little bead of glue used to attach it scratched the skin under my eye a lot and irritated it. If they hadn't hurt so much to rip out, they'd have been long gone. I'll stick to the strip lashes with glue adhesive.

Rock the vote

30 minute wait and done!

Dog picture of the day

Red's progression from curled up dog to ...???

Inspirational sports movies

I love them. I really do. I'm watching secretariat right now and I love that movie. I've watched a lot of duds, but the good ones make them so worthwhile.

WTF?!?!

This commercial makes me so mad.  Furious. Enraged.

I don't like to talk politics with anyone.  It's none of my business.  And with this election, I knew who I was voting for, but only because I wasn't too fond of the other candidate.  But this definitely reinforced who I was voting for even though this wasn't paid for by the other candidate.  I don't want people who think like this and who support him have the satisfaction of winning the election.  Petty?  Sure, but I'm pissed.

I love a good deal!

So I slipped up and broke my shopping ban.  I went to the Eddie Bauer Outlet in Columbus and bought a red rain coat.  It was 60% off with extra 25% off.  How could I resist?  It ended up being $30!  And it wasn't black!

I also got my free pair of panties from Victoria's Secret.  I still love free panties, but I hope these last longer than the last pair.  I just threw the most recent pair out because there was a giant hole in the lace band which was there on the second wear.  I wore it with the hole, but then the other night, the hubster noticed the hole and it got a lot bigger.  So they had to go.

What to wear?!?

I've never really had this problem before. I have a wedding to attend tonight and I have no idea what to wear. Usually I just go out and buy something new, but I'm on a self imposed shopping ban to give my credit cards a break after my delta buying spree. I've done pretty good so far and have only bought gas and food for te past two weeks.

But the problem at hand, what to wear? I have several dress options, but I'm not really feeling any of them. One I've already worn to a wedding last year, another makes me look like I'm going to work, one is a little to short and I can't breath in it after I eat, and the last one is kinda blah. Gonna have to make a decision soon.