A froggy feeling

I have a pretty nasty cold.  Along with having a total frog voice I am running a fever.  Boo!  I stayed home from work yesterday and today was my normal day off.  I forced myself to shower and run errands.  I think once you get moving it can help ya feel better.  I just ran to Target and the dentist.  Nothing exciting except finding awesome new Cool Touch Kleenex's.  Going to Target made me really want to get my tree up.  Hopefully I can on Saturday once I feel a little better and can clean at the afterwards.

If anyone it still taking advantage of Cyber Monday sales today, Victoria's Secret has buy one bra get one half off.  The code is "doubleup"  and free shipping code is "25freeship".  Happy Christmas shopping, or shopping for yourself :)!

Thankful Thursday

• In 8 days I will be with P.  I will feel happy, relaxed, and at peace.

• I am working every day until the day I leave.  I will be busy and not at home. 

• I am seeing where my friend Kelly is having her wedding (it's in August) tomorrow night and then going to the restaurant that is catering it for dinner.  Fun wedding talk ahead!

• That I recently rediscovered Victoria's Secret.  Holy cute stuff!  I am addicted!

Down Time

I rarely have two days off of work in a row, unless it time I'm taking off and then of course I have plans. I am sooooo bored today. I ran some errands and got lunch. I want to pack for my trip to see P next week, but it's too soon and I know it will lead to over packing.

I actually wish I was at work! I know this sounds weird or sad. Right now work is my happy place, much more positive then home right now.

I have plans to meet my friend Marissa tomorrow for outlet shopping and lunch. I think I am going to actually start my Christmas shopping :) I have some vague ideas for P. I don't really know who else other than P and my sister I am going to shop for this year. I don't know if my family will be doing anything for Christmas. I also don't know if I will be getting little somethings for P's family since I don't know what to expect...but that can wait until December to shop for. I know this holiday season will be up in the air and not like years past due to some unrest that's going on. The upside is P and I get to see each other a TON the next two months, actually more than we have ever spent together! WoooWhooo!

I am a total caffeine addict. I drink a pot of coffee every morning and several Diet Cokes during the day. The past two years come October I put my Diet Coke addiction to the side because of the most amazing pop ever!! Diet Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash. It is A-MAZ-ING! Tart and sweet....so good. Totally worth being caffeine free

***On a side note.... I am watching some Tori Spelling show and I can totally relate to her relationship with her mom.  Seems crazy, but it's so similar to mine with my mom.

Annoying

What a great day at work!  I love when I start my week with a bang! I was busy busy with appointments and the rest of the week looks the same!

Blogger is having issues with their stats.  For some reason this is making me crazy!!!!  I am crossing my fingers they fix it soon. 

Tomorrow is Halloween.  I am going to take advantage of mom's and children will be busy tomorrow night and I am going to the mall.  Seems like it will be a perfect time to have the stores to myself.

I am going to start a funny collection of things not to do/say to your hair stylist, and things that are sure to annoy your hair stylist.  I think it will be funny and maybe informative.

Hearts

Both times P has come to visit I took several pictures.  Not anything creative or fancy just something for each of us to have to remember our time together.  When I was still living in my townhouse I was able to have a bunch on my fridge that I could always glance at.  P was telling me that he put up some of the newer pictures I sent from his most recent visit on his fridge.  It got me thinking how I really miss seeing the photos all the time.  So last night I put one in a frame.  Today after work I went to my favorite gift shop/Hallmark shop to get a really cool metal heart you hang on the wall.  It's by Demdaco, they have so many cool options.  I got little flower magnets and a set with an envelope, XOXO, and a heart.  It's really cute and I can change the photos when ever!

I probably spent way too much money on it, but I love it and it makes me so happy to look at!

Post #2

So this is my second post today.  The first one I never published, I was writing from a more emotional place and decided to wait on it. 

I went to lunch with a friend.  She is one of the most amazing friends a girl can ask for.  She totally gets me and can objectively talk though stuff with me.

I have been a total shithead to P.  He's amazing that he still loves me!  Two months is just to long for us to go with out seeing each other.  I have had to much change and craziness for the month of September. 

Lately I am really having a power struggle with control.  I want to know and control so much in my life.  I know it is totally and completely impossible to do this.  I am the only person/thing I have any control of.  Sometimes I get so wrapped up in the future that I stop myself from enjoying all the wonderful things in the present.  I feel bad because I know I keep pressuring P to give me answers that he both may not have or is not ready to give me.

I know his trip home and some time together will be freaking great!
 And I can chill the heck out :)!

On a side note I got super cute boots today.  I can't wait to wear them, I am thinking of wearing them over skinny jeans then night I meet P's parents! Yippy!

Also pintrest is my new favorite obsession!  So many cool ideas.

Settling In

The move happened.

 It's done. 

I am pretty much totally unpacked. 

 I don't want to move again anytime soon. 

I know I will 100% be moving in the next year....

Everything went well on Saturday with the move.  I did most the heavy lifting (literally) on Friday night.  When everyone came to help it only took 30 min of loading and about an hour of unloading at my mom's.  Really the quickest move ever.  I have just been working on getting organized.  I went from a 3 bed 2 bath townhouse to a bedroom, bitty bath, walk in closet and family room.  But all in all it's starting to look nice and feeling homey.

Work has been sooooooooooooo slow.  It's sort of unusual for this time of year, I am crossing my fingers and toes it picks up later this week.  I mean come on people don't ya know I got some more shopping to do for my Milwaukee vaca :)!?!

I have been thinking lately how peoples minds can at time be their own worst enemy.  I am a total over analyzer.  I think and worry about meaningless stuff and words waaaaay to much.  I let silly things get to me. I want to make a goal to try not to do this as much.  I want to be in power over my own ways and mind.  I am sure this maybe easier said than done, but hopefully being more mind full when I start to over analyzing will be a reminder to stop.

Tonight I have the start of my monthly bunko group.  We always start back in the fall with everyone meeting out for dinner.  I am looking forward to seeing everyone and catching up.

Not much going on

Today was uber, super, duper slow at work.  I got sent home early which is sorta a bummer. 

I came up with a cute idea for P's birthday box, it's pretty amazing.  I had some Michael's coupons so my mom and I went to get some supplies.  I ended up getting nothing other than a stamp....  But my mom remembered she has a huge crate of scrap booking stuff which she let me help myself to, SCORE!  I can't wait for him to get it!

I don't have much else to say.  LOL  I went shopping and to dinner last night.  Shopping was great but dinner was meh!  We went to Cheese Cake Factory which was waaaay more expensive then I remembered and the carrot cake was just ok.  We made plans to do some Christmas shopping together :)

  My life is finally back to not being exciting, which is a good thing!

It's Fine

Fall is here.  Burr!

It's cold, so super duper cold today.

 I had to wear a coat.

I want cider.

The leaves are changing.

I want my house to smell like pumpkin, spice, and everything nice.

I love fall, amen.

P and I were talking tonight again about his trip home. I want to be like enough talking already! Just get here!!!  He told his parents that he's coming in October and asked said he'd like to have them come to dinner with us.  I am really excited/nervous.  From what he said they also seem excited to meet me.  I am most nervous about what to wear to make the best impression.  I want it to be a great outfit, I have one in mind but I am afraid it may be too much.  I am going to need to break down and use a huge DSW gift card I've had from last Christmas and buy some awesome new brown boots! I am also thinking of baking something and wrapping it up for them.  I don't know if it's to over the top, but it's sorta who I am.  Just like I can't spell or use correct grammar I love to give too much to people :)

We were also talking about a new show, Whitney, coming out on NBC.  It looks so funny.  He was saying that he read an interview where she said how when women say "it's fine" it really means "I want to stab you".  I totally broke out laughing because of how true it is.  The past few weeks have been stressful (if you didn't know) and several times when I was annoyed with his responses I shoot out a "it's fine".  Now he knows the truth :).  Although I never wanted to stab him, a knock with a water bottle maybe.....lol


Just an FYI for everyone who uses glass storage containers instead of plastic they break in to itty bitty shards upon hitting tile floors.  I accidentally dropped a Pyrex container tonight and it literally broke into 1 gazillion pieces. What a mess!

Queen Bee

So yesterday was such a slow day at work.  Normally I would be really upset ( I work on commission) but I was sort of relieved to get off early.  I was able to pick up a bunch of cards to send to P plus his birthday card. 

I got a TON of packing done.  All the super fragile stuff I was putting off doing.  Needless to say I feel like I am now the official Queen Bee of Bubble Wrap!  I really feel like when the time comes to unpack ( hopefully with come cutie helping) everything will be just perfect!

My super hot boyfriend unfortunately lives in a different time zone I don't get date nights and to spend a lot of time out.  Granted I do have awesome friends that are so much fun to go out with, but they have hubby's and families of their own to spend time with also.  So I went out and bought a spanking new TV last night!  My mom and Steve talked me into getting the bigger one, it's awesome.  So now I will get to fill some of the nights this fall and winter when it's just me and violet watching quality Bravo and QVC!

After shopping I treated them to dinner at a local diner.  They have the best soup and carrot cake!  I have had serious craving for carrot cake lately.  It may be all I think about....other than P :) 

 I got a slice last night. It.Was.Heaven!

P gets here in 23 days.  I really miss him and can't wait to see him.  I feel like all I want to do when he's here is to be as close to him as possible. I want to ride in the car, hold hands, lay in bed, brush our teeth next to each other....lol!  It's really bad to say this.  But, I know as excited as I am, I am also already dreading when he has to leave.  I know my feelings have grown so much since he was here in August and it was so hard dropping him off at the airport then so I can only imagine how much harder good bye will feel now.  I really hope and have been praying about lately that we get to the point in our relationship where we don't have to do these good byes.  I can't wait to see him!

Peace

WOW!  When I said September was going to be a crazy month I wasn't joking!  Over the past week I have changed plans for where I am going to live come September 24th about 15 times!  P and I have been through the ringer due to my emotions being all over the board.  I now have a 3 month plan in place and am beyond thankful P is still willing to put up with crazy me.  His love is amazing.  He sent anther uber cute card, yup he's the best.

I am enjoying a really quite peaceful weekend at home.  When I first moved here I was so scared of living alone and my house being to quite.  Now I am going to miss that, hahahaha!!  I really believe when there are things in life we are afraid of it's ok because sometimes what you fear is what you need most of all.  Life is full of amazing lessons, I know now I have much more strength that I didn't have before moving here 18 months ago...even a week ago. 

Most of all I am having fun "window" shopping on the Internet, planning all the fun things I want to get for P's birthday box.  His birthday is the day before my move so I want to have it all done and ready to be but in the mail by next weekend.  Putting together boxes for him is so much fun for me, I already have a few little things and am going to the "Big" mall next weekend with a friend to get everything else.  So excited!  By the way USPS flat rate boxes are honest to God the best thing ever.

Along with planning his gifts I have QVC on.  For some reason I am addicted to watching it :). I've only bought one thing ever from it, a grilling thingy for my dad's fathers day gift.  Today they have Philosophy products on.....they make the MOST AMAZING face wash ever!  It's the only thing I religiously buy from that brand but I with I could get it all :)