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Friday Favorites

Favorite Song – The first installment of my favorite Christmas songs! Merry Christmas Baby featuring Colbie Caillat and Brad Paisley. I love the rock/blues feeling this song has! It is upbeat and super fun to sing along to!

Favorite Workout – Popsugar’s Ultimate 30-Minute Cardio Pilates – An instructor from Burn does this one, and ladies….burn indeed. Seriously, if you need a new full body quick work out you need to check this out. The abs portions are hard core burn in areas of my abs I didn’t know existed.

Favorite Surprise– Chris surprised me with roses, Godiva chocolate and a sweet card on our anniversary! Five days later, and they are still beautiful and perfect!

Favorite coffee time – I love when the holiday themed magazines start rolling in!

Favorite Recipe – I found this baked fried rice recipe on Pinterest. It is quite different than mine and uses siracha, pineapple and cashews. I think next time I will change it up with this! (click picture for link)

Favorite Find – You know that Rosy Vaseline lip product I am constantly raving about, and got several people to buy? (Still waiting on my royalties…) Wellllllll I found a Creme Brulee one at Target for $1,79. You’re welcome!

Side note – The Rosy one is usually found with the lotions NOT the chapsticks. This one I found up front in the cosmetic section where the holiday gift sets are.

Favorite Funnies

This look speaks for itself..

How I feel in my closet getting dressed some days…

When you and your girlfriends get together…

How you look when your skinny jeans fit….

When you’re sitting at your desk and someone pops a diet coke can…

Go link up with Amanda and share your favorites!

November 14, 2014 by Nadine

Uncategorized

Southerner’s Guide to Winter Preparedness

Sounds a little silly right? A southern’s guide to winder preparedness. You are probably thinking, why would someone in the deep south need to prepare for anything? Well, that is the thing folks, down here in the south our girl Winter likes to show up unannounced. Drop two inches of ice on our roads and leave just as quick as she came storming through.

After the snowpacolypse event of 2014, I refuse to be the girl stranded with nothing. I put together somewhat of an emergency kit for my car if such an event were to occur again.

My kit includes boots, an extra jacket, pair of pants, hoodie, t-shirt, gloves, scarf and water. I also have a picnic blanket that stays in my car all year that can double as a bed/blanket if I get stuck at work or in my car to keep warm. If I am at work, I usually have some type of snack with me, so at least I would have a little something to eat. Usually it is almonds or Quest bars. I keep a cell phone charger in my car as well, and I usually have my iPad with me if I am at work. Good for reading or playing games and keeping up to date on social media to see what is going on.

Let’s take a closer look at that jacket, shall we? Yup, it is my high school band jacket! See, this is why you hold on to some things. You never know when they might be useful!

Being stranded is no joke, I hope you are prepared this winter!

November 13, 2014 by Nadine

confessions

Things I Miss

I get all nostalgic about things sometimes. Don’t pretend like you didn’t know, you see me link up my favorite song as something from at least 10 years ago nine out of ten times on Fridays. It got me thinking about things I miss.

1. Pluto – It used to be a planet. Now it isn’t. WTF Pluto?

2. Manners – People these days, especially young people, have zero manners. I see the way kids talk back to their parents and how they act in public. If I acted like that, my dad would have beat my ass in front of everyone and not think twice about it. And you know what, it would have been deserved!

3. The Hills Christmas commercials where they would sing “Hills is where the toys are.” That might be a northern thing, or a Pittsburgh thing. I don’t even know if Hills exists anymore? I don’t think they do…

Hmmmm the little elf looking Santa Claus is way creepier than I remember but this has the jingle that I miss so much!

4. Nickelodeon – When they had all of the good shows. You know what shows I am talking about…

5. Twizzlers Sourz – There are many foods that have come and go, and I miss a lot of them, but if I could only bring back one…it would be Twizzlers Sourz.

6. Opinions – Why are people so damn sensitive about everything these days?! My opinion is my opinion, it is ok if you feel differently. We could even have a little sensible debate about it if you’d like or share our points of view, but at the end of the day…..what I think about something shouldn’t effect your life just as how you feel about something shouldn’t effect mine. And chances are, I won’t change my mind and I don’t expect you to either. No need to get bent out of shape about. And for the love….Facebook breeds the worst of these offenders.

7. My metabolism – Seriously, when I turned 30 it disappeared and never looked back. Rude! I am sorry I used to talk smack about you before, I take it back! Please come home!

8 – JTT – But really, where did Jonathan Taylor Thomas go?

9. AIM – Here me out….I know we have Google chat, Facebook, Twitter, etc…but nothing beats AIM. I felt it was more personal, you could see who was online and available for chat, and away messages you guys. Away messages were everything.

10. Shrimp Queso from Five Bar – Once upon a time (back in 2013) Five Bar here in Birmingham had shrimp queso on their menu. It was amazing. Amazing. They “took it away for the summer to return in the fall” and yet, it never came back. All I have is this picture of our very last time consuming it. And lost dreams.

Does Wednesday actually happen without my ecard confessions? I’m fairly certain that it does not.

Linking up with my girl Liz for the Hump Day Blog Hop.

November 12, 2014 by Nadine

books, Uncategorized

Book Nerd

Stephanie and Jana have a new link up called Show us your Books! They will host it once a month so that you can link up all the books you read for the month. Basically my nerdy heart skipped a beat when I first heard of this. Also, because Stephanie and Jana are super awesome and I really wish we could all meet up for a ~~beer~~ coffee one day and chat in person!

So my post today is going to be a little different than the rules. I’m a badass like that. Since the only books I have read the last few months have been from the Stephanie Plum series, and I am pretty sure you don’t want an entire post on that….I am going to talk a little about those books and then mention a few on my list to read next.

For those of you who haven’t read or heard of this series, Stephanie Plum is a former lingerie buyer who gets laid off and blackmails her cousin Vinnie into giving her a job as a bounty hunter with his bonds office. The books follow Stephanie’s adventures and you are introduced to all kinds of characters. Every single one of these books has made me LOL at least once, usually more often that that.

I also particularly like the back and forth between Stephanie and two men in the books; Joe Morelli and Ranger. Mmmm, Morelli…..

They are pretty quick reads, usually averaging a little over 300 pages each. I am going to be honest with you, I had no intentions of reading past the very first one when I found out it was a series. My mom gave me One For the Money after she read it and I had run out of things to read and started it as filler. Obviously, they sucked me in!

When I am finished with the series, I am on book sixteen right now, I plan to move on to my “to-read” list which is ever growing. I read Attachments by Rainbow Rowell, so I would like to read Landline as well. I still haven’t read Gone Girl yet either. I know, I know…what am I doing with my life?!?!

I also want to read Eleanor and Park, The Husband’s Secret, Me Before You, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me, and Where are You Bernadette.

What else should I add to my to read list?

November 11, 2014 by Nadine

organizing, Uncategorized, weekend shenanigans

Weekend Shenanigans – The One That Was Productive

You guys, I wasted no time getting stuff done this weekend. I woke up feeling super accomplished and ready to take on the week ahead. A great feeling, actually!

Friday – When I got home Friday evening, I got a load of laundry done and rearranged/re-purposed some stuff in our bedroom, living room and master bathroom.

Shelf in bedroom – The flower on a tree bark was what held our wedding rings, the middle is my bridal bouquet…

Chris’s nightstand

My nightstand – Fun fact – that picture is the first one we ever took together. That is why it is on both sides, it was the picture we each had on our nightstands when I lived in Atlanta and we only saw each other on weekends.

I rewarded my efforts but watching Elf!

Santa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday – I woke up and got right to cleaning the house. I cleaned everything, then started organizing the kitchen pantry. Then I organized our spice cabinet. I couldn’t be stopped..I started organizing and re-arranging other cabinets too!

All of the mixing and serving bowls.

I am beating the lid game with a basket.

The kitchen pantry top shelf, and bottom shelf as well as the floor were completely redone.

All of the spices, oils, vinegar, sauces in one place!

After all that organizing, I got outside and cut the back yard. That should be it for the year as far as cutting the grass goes! We have this weird berry bush thing that is growing right outside our fence that we need to take care of, but other than that…yard work for the year is done! Added bonus, the tree in our back yard has pretty much lost all of it’s leaves. I cut the grass on a lower setting…and it chopped up all the leaves too so we don’t even have to rake in the back yard!

Saturday afternoon we headed to Chris’s parents house to watch some football! Love that the Dawgs killed Kentucky! The Auburn vs Texas A & M game was quite interesting to watch. It is hard to believe that A & M couldn’t get a score on the board with us, yet they beat Auburn. My favorite status I saw after the game, “Auburn just got Auburned.” No statement could be truer.

Our game against LSU had me yelling at the TV several times. Missing a 27 yard field goal is not cool. The last five minutes of the game were absolutely amazing and I couldn’t believe that we tied it up and won the game in overtime! We were all standing up those last few minutes and during over time. It was amazing! It might now have been a pretty win, but it was a win damnit! And we beat our 6 point spread at 20 to 13 🙂

Sunday I woke up, made myself a gingerbread latte and read a good chunk of my book. It was quite relaxing.

We caught up on all of our shows, I meal planned and went grocery shopping. That evening I made flat bread pizzas. I put fresh pineapple on half of mine. Delicious!