To the best mom in the whole wide world,
I hope you are having a wonderful day.
I love you.
Happy Birthday, Momma-Lou!
What I Wore + Giveaway
Glasses: Firmoo / Shirt: F21 / Skirt: DIY from Goodwill / Belt: Charlotte Russe / Flats: Ross / Earrings: Made by me
Like my new specs? Want your own pair? Well then you came to the right place. Firmoo is a super cool company firstly because they love bloggers and secondly because they sell really affordable, comfortable and cute glasses for those who have trouble seeing and for those 20/20 vision weirdos who like to play dress up (this guy). Read my last review where I attempt to be a sexy librarian here. The only thing you have to do to enter is visit this website and leave a comment telling me what dirty things you’d do for a pair of glasses which pair you want to win.
Giveaway is open for one week & I will announce the winner next Wednesday.
Linking up here!
Across The Universe
I’m sort of at that point in my life (and cycle) where I frantically flip flop between being psyched out of my mind about all the crazy changes that are about to happen (read: moving across the country) and being completely terrified and overcome with sadness about leaving this place and, most of all, these people that I love so much. Not to mention just the general inevitable freakout that comes along with packing your life into an SUV that thinks you’re going 150mph when you’re stopped at a red light.
I get butterflies when I think about pulling out of my driveway — the one that leads up to the house that I’ve lived in (minus college) since 8th grade, located in the city I was born in, in the state I’ve never lived out of. Thinking about all the songs that will play on the ride and the memories that will be made is so incredibly exciting. It makes me giddy. So I’ve been concentrating on those feelings. The ones where we’ll stop at gas stations for Slurpees and beef jerky and sing so loud that it hurts to talk and laugh so hard that we cry.
That way I don’t have to think about the other feelings. The ones that give me that nauseous, acidic feeling in the pit of my stomach. The ones that involve my nephews looking older every time I visit and not being able to hug my mom when a boy breaks my heart.
I understand why people don’t venture out. I get it. It’s scary. Adventures are wonderful in theory and terrifying in execution. I’m ready for this adventure though, and I know it’s time. I hope it brings me to great things that make my heart happy, but I’m lucky to know that even if it doesn’t, I have a whole mess of people back home that do.
Weekend
FRIDAY
Friday night I made the best paleo brownies ever. Yes. Ever. I don’t care what anyone else has to say about it. I’ve made some really, really awful paleo treat creations, but this one was a success. And I ate the entire batch over the weekend to prove it. Don’t worry, recipe to come. I also painted my nails concrete color and promptly, obsessively peeled them off the next day. Oh, and that meal up there was not from Friday night. It was, however, delicious. Bacon wrapped asparagus = heaven.
SATURDAY
Saturday morning I woke up bright and early to run in the Trail of Payne 10K (6.2 miles) at Payne’s Prairie! I got to chat with one of my best friends, Kim, the entire time while looking at the beautiful scenery and I had the perfect excuse to wear these ridiculous socks. We finished at a steady 58:10. It was a nice, comfortable run and there was a chick running with a velvety clover on her face. Awesome. It was super fun and we did a nice little leprechaun click of the heels across the finish line. Hopefully there will be a photo of this to come soon.
SUNDAY
The majority of Sunday was spent at the Japanese restaurant where I am employed. I was wearing a sparkly green miniature top hat, and I kid you not, not a single customer commented on it. Not one. So maybe due to the lack of spirit of my Asian cousine diners, I volunteered to be the DD for my drunken St. Patty’s Day celebrating friends.. because, really, what’s better after 12 hours of work than dealing with a bunch of drunkards wearing slutty green clothes? Nothing, that’s what. It was actually really fun. The only thing I like better than getting stupid myself is encouraging others to get shwasted, and that I did. My girl Jenn even bought me a sparkly rose and proposed to me with her Deathly Hallows ring. It was magical.
In conclusion, my weekend was a success.
And in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, watch this video and have a chuckle.
Linking up with Sami’s Weekend Shenanigans.
Friday’s Letters
(via)
Dear iPhone, I did not realize the extent of my severe addiction to you until we were parted since 5pm yesterday until now. I’m pretty much having withdrawals. Your love is my drug… I like your beard. Dear Google, Stop trying to make fetch Google+ happen. It’s NOT going to happen. Dear Readers, since Google’s royal douchiness is taking away Google Reader anyway, please please please don’t forget to follow One to Nothin’ on BlogLovin, Feedly (you can import your entire Google Reader here in, like, two seconds), Facebook, Twitter or Google+ if you’re into it. I don’t want to lose any of your beautiful shining faces. Dear Work, You’re ruining my Florida Bucket List plans. Quit it. Seriously. I’m moving across the country. Nobody got time for that. Dear California, You give me butterflies. I absolutely cannot wait to start my adventure with you. Dear Bod, I really hope there are no adverse effects to overdosing you with canned coconut milk, because that’s been happening.. a lot. And that running thing? Yea, hasn’t happened since this post. Fail. Dear Whole30, I have less than a week left of you already! You have flown by this time around. Dear Ziggy, When are you going to write a guest blog post for me? Methinks the people want to know what the pudgy beagle has to say about all this.
Dear Friday, this is my party jam for you. Always. Link up yours with Whit here!
Dear Friends, Have a great weekend. I’m off to work.
Dear Friends, Have a great weekend. I’m off to work.
Stupid Things I Did In College
In honor of it being Thursday and all, I figured I’d throw it back for y’all. Back to the days before I started blogging about every single moment of my life. Back when binge drinking didn’t deter me from binge drinking the following night. Back when I had a reason to wear a different costume every week and ordered pizza at 5am on the reg. Back when I was in college and did stupid things (not to say I don’t do stupid things now..) Here are just a few of the stupid-est:
I went to Dunkin Donuts almost every day. By this point I absolutely knew I was severely lactose intolerant and some how still managed to get a cream cheese lathered everything bagel with a medium iced coffee with cream and Splenda obscenely often. This also goes for aforementioned 5-star pizza. There is definitely not a lactose-free version.
Fraternity roadtrips all around the country = drinking straight out the bottle on busses. (And usually making their pledges do it too..)
Those t-shirts gave us free access and free drinks at just about every bar in Gainesville. Too bad it was pouring rain.
Just taking awful photos of myself and posting them on the internet for the world to see in general. Kind of like I’m doing now…
Fraternity formals are just never a good idea. There was definitely some a lot of puking involved.
When I lived in a dorm and had to walk down, like, three flights of stairs to get to the washing machines (which required massive amounts of quarters), I would pretty much hold off on doing my laundry for months at a time — sometimes taking said dirty duds home to do it there instead.
Wednesday night is when college kids get into the world’s trashiest strip bar ever for free. I’m still a little scarred by it.
Yea, I took this rubber chicken everywhere. It makes THE worst noise, kind of like a narwhal dying a slow and painful death. I think I remember my friends pouring shots into it one time too.
So yea. That’s just a little taste of the dumb things I did from 2007-2011. And yea, I would absolutely do them all over again. What kinds of shenanigans did you get into in college?
What I Wore
Dress: Billabong / Necklace: Kohl’s / Shoes: Target
As far as I’m concerned, it’s springtime.
Now go put on a dress and link up with the dress dare.
Linking up here.
Run Ziggy Run
What is it about black and white filters that make everything so much less gross?
And obviously I’m referring to my face over there since my dog couldn’t look gross if she tried. Even when she stops in every single mud puddle we pass on our runs, drinks from them and then pees in them. She’s just the cutest. We went 6.4 miles today and I love, love, love this time change. Yea, losing an hour of sleep always sucks.. but I’m a total night person and I cannot stand running in the morning, so more daylight = more running with less scary monsters-roaming-around-in-the-dark to worry about. It’s pretty much perfect. Andddd this guy gets to run the Trail of Payne 10k on Saturday with one of my super cool friends, Kim. I’m super pumped. This is my way of saying I better start running more since I now have no excuses not to. For more of my thoughts on running click here.
Happy Tuesday!
Weekend Adventures
Weekend update time, friends!
Friday night consisted of working all night dealing with crazy people. Specifically a young man with a severe stutter asking me out while his sister was in the bathroom and a Native American man who was very concerned about losing a piece of his soul to a photo snapped by a customer at another table. According to him, our duty (ya know, as restaurant workers) was to confiscate said camera phone, delete his soul off of it and all-around invade some woman’s privacy. Methinks homeboy should’ve taken a few extra puffs from the sacred peace pipe before indulging in some hibachi food.
All day Saturday was spent at the Japanese crazy house until I got cut early and spent the rest of the night snuggling with my pup, painting my nails and starting season one of the Vampire Diaries. Dangerous territory, my friend. Me + CW shows = Instant Addiction
And then Sunday was epic, just like almost all my Sundays have been lately. Me and the bearded man headed to St. Augustine early Saturday morning and ate at The Floridian on Cordova Street (at my parents’ suggestion). It was such a cute restaurant with cool art on the walls, mismatched salt shakers and all local, organic meat, veggies and even vegan squash/carrot bisque. Oh. Em. Gee. Then.. then I saw that they had vegan cupcakes too. So.. I cheated on the Whole30.
It was one of those #YOLO moments where a vegan cupcake and partying with my cousin that I never see collided with one another to create a calorie-intake nuclear bomb explosion of awesomeness right there in St. Augustine beach. I did resist the bread though, and those pickled shrimp things with capers and peppers? Amaze-balls. Basically.. it was worth it. I don’t plan on cheating again though. 10 more days.
The rest of the day was filled with a Celtic Music & Heritage Festival, hanging out at the fort, eating gourmet popsicles (mine was avocado and coconut! yummm), playing on the beach and bar hopping with my cousin and some other friends we managed to collect along the way. The night even ended with a bonfire. I now have a sunburn, a cold and a bit of a guilty conscience, but again, it was a perfect day, with perfect weather and perfect people. I’m marking that down as a win (and another item crossed off the FL Bucket List).
Linking up here!
Foodporn Friday
Instead of boring you all with every single recipe I’ve used thus far in my second Whole30, I figured I’d give you all a massive foodporn photo dump (so many gross words in one sentence. You’re welcome). If you’re interested in knowing the recipes to any of the above photos, let me know and I’ll hook you up. But the important thing to remember, friends, is.. today is FRIDAY! Let’s get our high-fiving on.
1. High five for waking up early enough to go to the bank AND the grocery store this morning, and even doing the dishes. Kind of like this except I don’t even have the day off. Now that my pantry and fridge are stocked with caveman-approved foods, I feel pretty confident that I can handle the next 13 days. Even though Publix smelled like a cookie-flavored mouthgasm.
2. High five for Miranda Lambert. That chick is sassy and I love it. This video made me smile this morning. So did the fact that I was awake early enough to actually see music videos on TV (see first high five). Yea, I’m usually asleep until the 11th-ish hour. Don’t judge me, monkey.
3. High five for Pinterest ab workouts! This one rocks my lower abs and makes me so happy when those never-before-used muscles hurt the next day. This one was also used yesterday on my hatehandles and these bad boys are great for the buns of steel.
4. High five for Flight of the Conchords. If you haven’t seen these goofy New Zealanders getting their song and dance on, I suggest you do so immediately. Starting with this and this. I finished season one this week. Amaze-balls.
5. Lastly, high five for Whitney and backing that azz up! (Is it just me, or does that chick need her own gif already..?) Here’s my Friday party jam (Yep, I know all the words. And yes, I’m dancing to it right now).
