Dear...

dear friday: can you be over now? so far, you're not being nice to me. how dare you cause me to impale my foot first thing this morning?  i don't care what you say, it wasn't my fault the piece of jewelry wire was on the carpeted floor... dear super amazing IT guy: thank you for setting up my new laptop and not laughing at me when i couldn't connect to the internet because i didn't turn the wi fi button on.  you rock. i definitely owe you.  dear mom: i hope you know how much i love and appreciate you, not just because you drive me around when i don't have my car or buy me cool tech devices.  dear hair: stop being unruly!!!  dear potato chips: seriously, stop leaping out of your back and into my mouth! i've told you, we can't see each other anymore.  dear sunday: please be awesome and let me earn a lot of money.  momma's broker than the oldest joke.  dear pomegranate and cranberry green tea: thank you for being utterly delicious.  dear fiance: i miss you. hangout saturday night?  xoxo

On a not Friday Letter kind of note...

Remember the Live Healthy Challenge?  Well the last two weeks have been all about healthy eating habits, and let me tell you, I have been failing miserably.  I start out every morning with the best of intentions - eat some yogurt and such.  (Yup, still choking it down.  I'm starting to kind of like the cherry kind even.)  But somehow I keep breaking down and buying chips or a candy bar or making something baked and not healthy once I get home (unless I eat a dinner of chips or something).  Yesterday I even purposely bought myself healthy (healthier) snacks for work: OatFit oatmeal (100 calories each package - super yummy too!), Special K bars (100 cals), Nature Valley granola thins (80 cals)...and walked to Subway for lunch (1/2 turkey sub, no dressing, on honey oat roll)...and still ended up eating an Almond Joy and chips.  UGH.  I don't know why I just can't seem to re-train myself to stay on the right track.

I'm not super concerned with my weight or anything like that.  I'm pretty happy with myself, and so is my fiance, but I just know that I'm not as healthy as I can and should be.  So I've been trying to push myself to eat better and get more (or some, because generally I get none) exercise. 

 But it's been a really hard road just trying to re-train myself.  Yesterday I bought ingredients for berry smoothies, (frozen berries, yogurt, juice) so I'm hoping that having one of those for breakfast and a healthier lunch will help to keep me on the right track!  And it has been a couple weeks since I've had soda! (Um except one small malibu & coke...forgive me, it was so yummy. and it was only one!)

So I'll be posting more in the next few weeks about how I've "tricked" myself into eating healthier and doing more exercise.  I haven't lost any weight, but my migraines have been pretty much nonexistant since I changed up most of my worst eating habits!  What are some of your favorite ways to stay healthy?

P.S. I've decided on this as my signature, because that's actually how I write my name in real life :)  T that looks like a 7 and all. 

Happiness is...

...being surrounded by your (many) siblings, the only people on Earth who can verify that all the stories you tell about your parents being crazy are true.

...your hometown.  Sure, you complain every day about how badly you want to leave, but then you wouldn't run into all of your old high school friends at WalMart, now would you?

...bare feet on your porch on an unseasonably warm day.  Come on, summer time.

...a really cute outfit, just for lounging around the house.

...watching your incredibly talented friends perform in what used to be a church.

...getting to marry your very best friend.  <3

Maison sweet maison...

{so, maison totally means house in French}

{so, you'd totally assume I was talking about home sweet home right?}

Nope.  Talking about the most fabulous candle I think I've ever purchased at Marshalls.  Although it totally sucks to buy candles there because then you NEVER find them again.  No bueno.  This particular delicious candle has a label on it of the brand "Maison", and is Raspberry Fizz flavored scented.  And you think I can find it via Google?? Wrong.  So so sad.  Needless to say, if someone works internet magic and finds it for me, we're best friends. Like, officially.

Anyway.

My new laptop came.

I convinced my mom that I needed a new one for my birthday (true.  I needed a new one badly, my old one didn't have enough RAM {whatever the heck that is} to run any of my stuff properly), and then HP had a sale and booooosh. New laptop.  Hurray for superbly loving parents.  Thank you mommy.  And also, my birthday is in August if we're keeping track.  Early birthday gifts ftw.

So, now I've finally figured out how to connect to the internet (push the wifi button...duh) and have successfully reinstalled my photoshop actions...we are sooo back in business.  Woot Woot.

Oh and here, just cuz.

{mason jar candles}

{apple blossom candle}

{beeswax candles}

{citrus candle}

Some fabulous candles I intend to purchase from Etsy when I have more in my Paypal account...though I did just buy the Apple Blossom one.  I'll be sure to make you all jealous by talking about how awesome it is when it comes in :)