good advice

from here

fingers crossed

here

happy birthday to my husband

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It's fun to be able to type that ;)

traveling

baby showering

wining & dining

today

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is it time to go home yet?

Happy Friday, only a few more hours!

Go be artsy today!

via grace's birdcage

oops, there goes my thriftyness...

... definitely experiencing major buyer's remorse, but hopefully that's because I haven't held it in my arms yet.

I did however score free 2-day shipping and 1/2 off the warranty.  It never hurts to ask for a discount, right?

Have a great holiday weekend, friends!

A quick brain dump...

It’s been a week of daylong meetings, so by the time I get home my brain is mush and I just want to stream Party Down from Netflix… sorry for the lack of posts!
On Sunday, I attended my second-cousin-once-removed’s Baby Shower. They don’t know what they’re having so we ended up saying “Baby Z” which was frickin’ cute adorable. We played the clothespin game where “cute” was the banned word. I saw the favors (below) and immediately lost my clothespin:

The mother-to-be’s mom (my dad’s cousin) knitted these cupcakes and filled them with the traditional peanut-mint shower combo. I about died from cute overload.

Last Friday, I got a half-assed email from the community president saying that there was going to be a community-wide garage sale… in one week! Andy and I have been franticly pricing and purging since we got the notice. On the plus side, we were really dragging our feet about picking a date for the garage sale ourselves, so after this weekend I can throw away my Hoarder’s application and have overnight guests again.

Hope everyone’s having a great week… not sure if I’ll be able to post a Friday Freebie link tomorrow!

Escalate - Free streaming awesomeness

I am SO looking forward to today's Escalate speaker, Jessica Claire.
Next to Jasmine Star, she is one of my favorite photographers and a complete inspiration to my desire to be a photographer!  What? I haven't mentioned that before? Nevermind, then.

I got exteremely lucky that JC's presenting during my lunch hour today, now I've gotta start charging that iphone.  If you're interested, you can attend the live feed for free online, or on your iphone using the UStream app!

my new pet

there's a crane fly that birthed itself in my terrarium - it's huge and horrifying. i might just throw the whole business away...

What's strange is that in the UK and Australia they call these flies "daddy long legs," yet call spiders by the same name  - so weird.

weekend wrap-up

the hutch is assembled, cleaned, lined and filled with our wedding china

terrarium needs some more moss and plants before I can transform it into The Island

Pretty damn productive for two days :)

six months of matrimony

I ordered a pewter heart from Lisa Leonard Designs for Andy and I to commemorate the occasion.  Note, his name comes first because he was shocked that our invitations and wedding ephemera didn't start with his name - "it's suppose to be alphabetical, right?"

Can't wait to give it to him later today.

Tina Fey

Tina looked great on Oprah... the whole "improv" peoples' conversations was a weird segment. 
Loved that Tracey Morgan got choked up when he said Tina was his friend.

Mad Peeps

Because this caused me to crack a smile after crap week:

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(What's that? It's only Wednesday?!)

good thoughts cannot ever be ugly

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Homework

I enjoy giving myself reading assignments, but I may have a bit too much on my plate for April...

inspiration from mark twain

text added by me, photo by the lovely Pioneer Woman