Happy Almost Friday Y'all!

Can this week just hurry up and be done already? It's been a hell of a week....not just one of my credit card numbers was stolen this week, but TWO. TWO freaking cards? Are you kidding me? One was my debit card, and the other was my business card that --- apparently a merchant I've used both cards at in the past was hacked. I've had a card stolen before, but never two in the same damn week! Now the new ones just need to come on -- I am not a cash girl, and I continuously keep grabbing my debit card when I check out and then have a DUH moment when it's declined.

However, I did go to my mom's last night, who promptly made me dinner, sewed one of my shirts & a pair of jeans that needed fixing and did my laundry for me. These are reasons my mom is cooler than yours :P

But I'm still glad the week is almost over...... Because quite frankly, when the day is over tomorrow, my night is going to be all about:

Yes. Yes it is. 

So, I totally drafted up an entry last night for What I'm Loving Wednesday  and then just let it sit and never posted it. Boo. So guess what?! It's "What I'm Loving Wednesday" on THURSDAY this week.

Saw this on Music City Sarah and loved it. Um, I need this shirt.

WHY, in all my genius-ness....did I not think of this when my Paige was a baby!? I can already see her in this onesie rocking baby pearls. I mean seriously. 

Want to see the cutest thing ever? Betty White. In bunny ears. You're welcome. 

I introduced my Mom to Sweet Brown the other week -- she had never seen her! In showing her, we found this gem! We laughed so hard we cried - this guy made my day. 

Happy Almost Friday y'all!

Monday, Monday....

Happy Monday! I was woken up this morning way too early by my phone ringing -- and ringing -- and ringing. They hung up when I answered, and then I just hit ignore the other times, but it set the tone for my morning: I was not a happy person when I crawled out of bed. Considering I work from home Mondays, I probably shouldn't complain though :P

Since it's a Holiday, it appears there isn't much on TV today - what a bummer. I've got my Monday routine that revolves around Saved By the Bell, Boy Meets World, Designing Women & Who's the Boss. President's Day is throwing off my entire Monday.

Which means I wound up on Pinterest....naturally. Has everyone seen this "35 Things you will never see again, but will want to tell your kids about" pin? And clicked on it and felt ridiculously old?? You can see if here if you haven't checked it out yet...but here's my faves:

6. Anything with a sweeter, more delicious smell than these

Um, who didn't love Mr.Sketch markers?! Cherry and Grape, FTW.

11. A better cereal box prize

Totally had all of these. 

15. Anyone who thinks they're cool with one of these

Um, not only did I get the Raz'r, I got the PINK raz'r.

17. A greater selection of books than in these

I was totally the nerd in the family, and every time we'd have those "Read a Thon", I'd raise the most money in our class because as a nerd, what did I love to do? Read. The book fair coming to school was better than birthdays when we got cupcakes! 

24. A more effective way of collecting candy

Today's Halloween buckets are so lame compared to these. Weren't these from like McDonalds or something too? Or am I imagining that? I had the white & green ones.

I loved this whole list -- although they totally should have included the original Nintendo & Super Nintendo! I bought a Super Nintendo last year to show Kadin what Mario was like when Sam & I were kids....and he was so puzzled by our "huge controllers" that he said made it hard to play, hahaha.

Ahh, nostalgia....

Saturday "date" Day!

In continuing my "best aunt ever" role, my handsome date Saturday was this cutie pie:

We started the day off at Cheddars -- he insisted, because he is obsessed with their croissants. As luck would have it, when we arrived, they sat us in the booths kind of around the bar area, and what was on? Why yes, it WAS the Kentucky game! 

Yes, the god-awful Kentucky-UT game that was just horrendous & painful to watch. But as we sat down and I said "Ohhh they have the game on!", Kadin immediately turned to watch. Throughout our lunch I heard things like "What is Kentucky doing!? Why are they losing?!! They need to focus. COME ON KENTUCKY, WE WANT YOU TO WIN". At one point, he was so genuinely frantic about the Cats losing the game, the guy next to us said "You are teaching him right, go Cats!". While I couldn't have been more proud, I explained to Kadin we were reeeeally losing, and with 8 minutes left in the game, we just couldn't come back. Looking me right in the eyes, he goes, "Well, it doesn't matter if Kentucky wins or loses, because they will always be our best team!" Sigh. I love this boy. 

Watching our Cats!

From there we went to the movies to see Escape from Planet Earth in 3D -- which was seriously adorable. And who teared up at the end? Sigh. I cannot help it, why do they put such sweet messages in kids movies?  I recommend it, Kadin loved it, and they mixed a lot of sweet moments with funny moments - and the cast was great! 

As soon as we got in the car after the movies, he asked "So...where are we going next?" Haha, I'm totally whipped. We wandered all over Super Target before heading to K-Mart - he was on the hunt for a very specific Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toy. 

We checked out the TMNT Lego sets they have out now too -- when the hell did TMNT come back? When I said "your mom and I used to watch that when we were little!", Kadin seemed all kinds of shocked that it had been around that long, LOL.

And who walked out with goodies? This boy right here. And he's so impatient he had to open it in the car the split second we got in.

So, Kadin is really into wrestling, and one of the things he got was one of the Rey Mysterio figures that came with a matching mask for Kadin. It was a tight fit though - and I was thinking it might not fit him. But because he is impatient, I had a feeling he would try to force it to fit and wind up ripping it -- and he wanted me to help him while I was driving. I pulled into the next drive there was, which happened to be a gas station, and started to help him. As we worked on his mask, it dawned on me stopping at a gas station to PUT ON a mask in the parking lot wasn't exactly the brightest idea on the planet.

Sorry to any Tigermarket employees we might have terrified :) 

We got it to fit, and he was a happy boy! And then I got serenaded by the Rey Mysterio music the rest of the way home....

I brought him home and Paige said "I want to go on a date!!"....hahaha. Samantha is always quick to remind her that she's had years of me spoiling her --- and that we did. Since Samantha worked with my father, Paige was at our house during the day and part of the night almost 7 days a week so my mom & I could watch her, plus I went home with my sister two nights a week to babysit from time time Paige was 3 days old - we were never away that baby. That meant Aunt Nicole got all kinds of spoiling time in.

Now it's Kadin turn to be spoiled (but let's not lie, as I shell out $20 for every "A" Paige gets on her report card --- she's still a spoiled one) - and he is loving it.

It's a money spending Friday!

Happy Friday!!! Bring on a 3 day weekend! I've got a dinner & a movie date with my Mr.Handsome tomorrow - he's requested to see that Planet Earth movie, which really DOES look cute! I'm glad little man likes movies now, because I have an excuse to see all these adorable children's movies!

I just bought what's probably the cutest pair of boots you'll ever see in your life:

Adorable. Never mind the fact that the last time I wore rain boots was when I was like 6 years old and got yellow rain boots to match this rocking duck rain jacket:

Ever the fashionista, I also rocked purple leg warmers with my duck rain coat. Don't be jealous. And yes, when I pulled the hood over my head, it had a beak. I would blame my mother on this, but I not only loved this jacket: I ASKED for it for my birthday.

Anyway, the fact is the rain boots were adorable and I was completely convinced that I could not live another day without them. And every Cats fan should have these, right?? And it MATCHES MY UMBRELLA! It was a NECESSARY PURCHASE!

I have no clue why I buy some of the things I buy. Seriously, what possesses me to purchase things sometimes that I’m not going to wear much or --- even worse --- never going to wear? When I cleaned out the closet the other week (you know, when I claimed I was going to scale back, and then couldn’t part with anything?), I found multiple shirts that I remember buying, but have NEVER worn. And two weeks later – still haven’t! I am the most ridiculous impulse buyer, I will buy anything, whether I need it or not. After buying stuff on the SEC’s site, I headed over to Fred Flare – just out of random curiosity, and….now my cart is filling up:

In my defense, this is for my sister because I think it’s hilarious....and her birthday is next month! (Ehhh, lets hope she doesn't read my blog for a month, right? Hahaha Happy Birthday Sissy!)

Seriously, this is a shark oven mitt. Do I seriously need this? Am I ever actually going to USE this? It doesn't matter, because I just bought it.

This is one of my phrases at work that I say alllll the time. (Okay, one of the things that I frequent at work that can actually be written out!) If someone says ‘Just sayin’, one of the girls at work will tout, "Okay, now you sound like Nicole!" Which clearly means Nicole NEEDS these post it notes, right?

Okay, this mini robot is a vacuum! Um,  hello, is this not the most clever and cutest idea ever?! Does my purchasing it mean I'm going to become even lazier than I am now sometimes? 

I clearly need to get off this site before I buy even more crap that I do not need or have no clue what I'm going to do with. Apparently I just enjoy spending money, period. 

And since I mentioned my Cats earlier, are any of my UK folks as heartbroken about Tuesdays game as I am?! You know, the one where Nerlens did this? 

Ouch. Poor Nerlens. It was soooo hard to see on ESPN what he exactly did, but from his screaming, you knew that sucker hurt. Looking at this makes sense. I sure hope he has an easy recovery – 6 to 8 months is a long time. I am super super bummed that he is out for the season – it worries me on how the team will be without him, but we've got some great boys on there this year, so I'll remain optimistic. I'm not counting the Cats out yet! Love my Cats -- and hoping I see Nerlens on the team again next year! 

Web Nerd Ramblings...

Warning: The geek in me is going to come out in this post.

My new Mac arrived last week, and like any true computer nerd, I squealed and ripped it out of the box -- and yes, I left work early to come home and plug this baby up!

I love the world of a new computer --- but I forgot how much I hate getting my settings just how I want them, my color profiles in photoshop, re-setting up all my sites in FTP.... I haven't calibrated my new monitor yet either, and it's driving me completely batty. It figures that my calibration tool doesn't work on my new monitor, so I had to order Spyder4Elite so I can properly get it taken care of, and haven't been able to edit any photos. Eventually, this is going to be set up right & I can start doing more work!

So, in place of editing photos, I've been doing a lot of coding for a few sites....which brings me to some of the recent things I've found on Pinterest. (How did I find anything before Pinterest?!)

Yes, my fellow web nerds - this shirt exists. Cutest ever. I am on the verge of hitting the buy button too.

Annnd just when you think they couldn't possibly get any cuter....

I laughed. I love this. 

And this one is mine --- my new contacts case came today! I also ordered a Ctrl V & Ctrl C case too. 

And because it's Valentines Day, it's imperative I close with a photo of my Valentines! (I'm fully aware these statements totally make me sound like a mother. This is what happens when you're obsessed with your nieces & nephews) I was so tired tonight I didn't head over to my sisters, but my Saturday date night will be a dinner & a movie with this little man! 

My three Valentines! Love, Love, Love my babies!  I don't really care what's going on, how could you look at those faces and not smile? 

Catching Up....

Who knew such a little remodel could make my week so insane? Finally -- the bathroom is complete--- after the dude completed it, and then spilled mortar down the drain. Which obviously meant -- no water could drain. The painter was supposed to come Tuesday and then just never showed up. I might have thrown a hissy fit, but clearly it worked as everything was complete Wednesday!

Because this gets shit done. 

But moving on...

Last weekend, I went down to Georgia for girls weekend with my bestie. We had actually planned on going to Alabama during the day on Saturday, but the snow kind of threw us off, and we didn't want to go over the mountain. Where the hell did that snow come from, anyway? Thank goodness I decided to go Friday and have two days --- god knows that my panic in just Nashville in snow flurries would have been insane trying to drive over Monteagle Mountain!

Anyway, instead of venturing out for the day, we opted for Lazy Girls weekend -- we went to a late lunch and then headed to the Winery. We were back at the house by 3:00, where we promptly changed back into our pajamas, started putting a bottle of wine in the crock pot to mull it,  while opening another bottle of wine to start drinking. (And why is it everyone back home looks at us like we're crazy when we talk about mulling wine?! Is like Georgia the only state that knows how to rock their wine?!) 

And because we were apparently afraid of being snowed in again with no wine, I bought six bottles of Concord, and Rita bought three bottles of Georgia on my Mind & Blueberry.  Forget the milk and bread, we had wine! Priorities people, priorities.

Every girl should be so fortunate to have a best friend that starts drinking wine with them at 3:30 in pj's while bitching about men, cheering on Kentucky Wildcats, singing Gene Watson, watching chick flicks like When Harry Met Sally & taking stupid silly pictures with the iPad!  

I decided last week to make an iPad change and picked up the iPad mini. Um, seriously, do you even realize how much lighter this is than the regular iPad??? Even with my case on it, I forget it's in my bag sometimes. 

I picked it up on the way to GA, which meant once we downed a few bottles of wine -- the more we played with the camera and giggled and took ridiculous pictures like this:

Yes, we're nerds. I know. 

Mom, Samantha & I saw a screening of "Safe Haven" this week...is there ever going to be a Nicholas Sparks movie that DOESN'T make me cry? I heard the book was fabulous, and I absolutely loved the movie. I guess I'll pick up the book now and see the comparisons (yes, I'm doing this backwards).

Watch the trailer. And then drag your boyfriend out to see it. 

Adventures in Remodeling....

This has been quite the week. Thursday, the guy my landlord hired to come remodel the bathroom started working. He was given an extra key since I was heading to Georgia on Friday. I came home Sunday and immediately noticed my lock was different and my key no longer worked. Luckily, the guy was here working so I could get in.

I called the neighbor on the other side of the duplex and asked him if he knew what was going on -- the guy working, Lupe, doesn't speak English very well, and I could not understand him at all. Lupe was showing me that he changed the locks, but I just didn't understand why. The neighbor tells me that Lupe locked himself out on Friday, and the landlord called the neighbor. The neighbor said he broke in, but he fixed the window they had to use to get in. So I have NO idea why Lupe decided to change my locks, and I'm not happy about it. Had I come home in the middle of the night, I would not have been able to get into my own apartment.

My poor apartment is such a mess. He laid a sheet down -- and why, I'll never know, because it did NOTHING.

My neighbor sent me these to show me what a mess this guy was making of my floors.

And when I get this, I realize he's using my towels! My towels, while he is putting tile in the shower and using grout. What???

After sweeping and running a swiffer....

Today I ran to the store and got a new mop, and a TON of different cleaning supplies, just grabbing whatever I could in hopes that it will help me restore my floors. If I can't get them to look good, I expect the landlord to hire a cleaner, because I have taken such great care of my floors in the almost-three-years that I've lived here.

And don't get me started on my front porch -- anyone know the best way to clean a welcome mat? The welcome mat I have was my Granny's, and he used his saw and all his tools on his, so it's positively disgusting. I mean, is there a certain cleaner I can use for it? 

Lupe is here finishing up,and then I think a call to the landlord is in order. We clearly have to establish a better plan for when things need done in the house - because a PLUMBER changing my locks while I'm out of town, with no notice is definitely not okay. 

Fingers crossed today gets better!