PSA

To skinny, tan, half-brained girls: If you are going to go to a bar to drink, do NOT ask the bartender if there is going to be Michelobe 64 (A 3:2 BEER!) on tap...Also, if out at a bar, do not look at said chubby girl (cough::me::cough) and tell her that you only ordered a 3:2 beer because "well, at the end of the night...I like to count my calories." If you strictly feel the need to fit in with your pretty-boy friends by counting the liquid calories you are consuming, maybe you shouldn't drink AT ALL. Reality check bizzo...Drinking isn't supposed to be about calorie counting. It's about social interaction and having a good time. Don't ruin it for people like me by acting like the poster child of an eating disorder.

Colds and Bullets.

I have been swept up by a summer cold. It.sucks.
I am trying to maintain a positive attitude (if you couldn't tell) and have realized a few important things over the course of this week: (and forgive the bullets...it's all I have the mental strength for today!)
* Taking Tylenol Nighttime at 6:30 pm is NOT a good idea.
* Taking ONE benedryl allergy at 8 pm is a fantastic sleep remedy
* Colds really, really suck.

I am convinced little man gave me this glorious little cold. I just don't understand how he wasn't HALF as phased by it as I have been. Meh, que serra serra eh?

Happy Hump Day!

Introducing...CLEAN SWEEP MONDAYS!

A television, queen sized bed, closets and dressers filled with clothes, a kitchen table, silverware, pots'n pans, a laptop. These are only a few things taking up space in my apartment. I got to thinking this morning...what would happen if it was all gone tomorrow? If I had to officially start over from scratch... Would I be able to do it? Would my life end up cluttered as it feels now? I honestly think I am too selfish to give up the luxuries that I have been afforded. I have books to read if I feel like reading, an extremely comfortable bed to sleep in, dishes to eat off of, and a crappy dishwasher that helps me to clean said dishes. I have food in my cupboards, and a collection of about 100 or so dvd's I could watch at any given moment.
A coworker of mine recently had her car broken into, and it really got me thinking about all of the material items in my life. I think part of my reasoning is a bit of self-revelation rearing its head. The realization that I don't need to fill my life with more material items. The realization that my life is cluttered with material luxuries that many in this world will never have the opportunity to experience. I wish I were less selfish with my belongings. I wish I could muster up the courage to donate 3/4ths of the clutter that feels like its suffocating me...but I can't. I will continue to hold onto these items..but I think a great goal for the rest of the year is to not add anymore to my mass chaos of clutter. I NEED to begin to take baby steps to thin through some of the items, and make some tough decisions. Do I really NEED most of my clutter? Will I even notice if it is gone? Why do I feel the need to hold onto superfluous items? Why do I spend $100.00at Target, and feel like I have nothing to show for it?!
In the past month I threw out SIX GARBAGE BAGS FULL OF THINGS...and I still feel like I could toss at LEAST SIX MORE bags if I took the time to go through my crizap! That's a lot of unneccesary stuff if you ask me!
So, publicly I will make a small pledge to myself. I will NOT buy anything other than NECESSARY items at Target. In fact, I am going to start taking a picture of each Target purchase as an effort to keep myself honest! If this isn't too appalling to the three of you out there who will read this...I think I am also going to attempt to document the demise of my clutter!!! YIPPEE to throwing out "treasures". I think I can, I think I can!! I think it is EXTREMELY plausible to tackle one area of my apartment a week...so by the end of the summer I should be clutter free and feeling on TOP OF THE WORLD!
Say a disaster hits tomorrow; as long as I have my little man, my health, and a warm place to sleep at night I think life would be pretty swell....at least that's what I'm saying now...

(If you haven't already guessed it...starting next monday I will dedicate my blog to detailing my efforts at cleaning up my life. Hopefully, I will be ambitious and post pictures of the efforts; including (but not limited to) target trip photos, and some "action shots" (try and contain your oooo's and ahhhhh's please..hehehe))

OMG Exciting Stuff Part Duece!!

This morning I discovered I won a THIRD PIF! So, I will choose a third person making my total number of winners amount to FOUR. If you haven't yet heard from me, I'll try and shoot ya an email or leave a comment on your blog. Since I wasn't anticipating on winning ANYTHING, I am going to stagger the mailing of the packages..but rest asured, you WILL receive them..and they WILL bring a smile to your face :) Winner 1 will be mailed out this week, Winner 2 next week...you get the idea....right?

OH! And as for the (hopefully for the sake of my bank account) final winner! The random number generator chose lucky #18!
Congrats to Erica.

OMG!! Exciting stuff!!

The lovely and talented Swistle started a massive Pay It Forward craze that has swept up the blogger world. I hosted my own contest, as well as participated in almost all a few of the contests posted on Swistle's blog. I am excited to announce that I won TWO of the contests! This makes me giddy, because instead of posting two more contests, I am using our friendly random number generator to pick TWO MORE WINNERS! And they are....
#20, Notameangirl
and
#9, Sara

If you haven't heard from me, I will try and get in touch with you in the NEAR future! Yay for fun contests, and YIPPEE for paying it forward! :)

I would also like to thank everyone who was directed here via Swistle's site, or however else you happened to stumble across this little ol' thing that attempts to be a blog. I hope you keep stopping by!! (Do I have to BEG?! Cuz I probably will!!)

Sunday Nights.

I love my job. I love my office. I love everything about my work week...for the most part.
Yesterday I had gone about my day with a fair amount of ease. I had ventured out to a local farm, picked some delicious strawberries, and managed to keep an eye on little man as he wondered up and down the rows of strawberry plants. [Note to self: The farm ettiquette of a 2yo is a bit left to be desired...he kept occasionally hopping from row to row giving me mini heartattacks. I continuously was scoping the fields to see if the employees of the farm were going to kick us out for his inappropriate behavior...They didn't, and we survived.] In the afternoon, I spent my time boiling sugar and strawberries, and canning homemade jam. (If it didn't feel like a million degrees in my mothers kitchen I probably would have enjoyed myself)
Around six in the evening, it hit me. My gut began to churn as I realized my extended weekend was over. I had to return to work the next day. I had to return to the scheduled "organized" chaos of carting little man to "school", fighting traffic to pick him up in the evening, exhausting every ounce of energy to get a semi-decent nutritional meal made for him in the evening, and adhering to his nighttime schedule of getting him bathed and in bed BEFORE 8:30. My heart began to race.
For almost ten months I have been working a job that I love. This is the FIRST time in ten months I had a mini anxiety attack surrounding the return of the work week. I don't quite know what this means, but I do know I need to do something to prevent my feelings of utter panic due to "the-end-of-the-weekend" from returning. Any thoughts or suggestions? Blow up nanny/housekeeper/husband you say? IN MY DREAMS! :) Happy Monday all! Hope you had a lovely weekend!!

We Have a Winner

This is my "first contest" blah blah blah...I didn't get the chance to sit at my computer yesterday because I was bummed out that I didn't have family or a lot of friends to spend the day with so instead I slept a chunk of the day away because it was the fourth and all. So here I am. I just visited the random number generator site and it produced a random winner :) Congrats to Christina, Steve, Clara and Elena!!! (Note: I wasn't sure which blog to site because this person has TWO blogs listed...so check both out if you have the chance!)
Please email me via my blogger profile. I wouldn't mind a hint as to what you would like to be surprised with too :) (even just a few tid bits such as likes and dislikes)

I was rather cautious about posting this past week while the contest was up and running...not gonna lie; I almost started shaking due to blog-posting withdrawl! Lately, writing on here has felt like an intrinsic emotional balancing tool. Blogger has turned into one of my best friends...wow, that sounds a bit creepy eh?
ANYWAYS... I am happy and excited to return to my regularly scheduled program of writing in the morning and obsessively checking my post to see if anyone had any fun or interesting insight to share :)

On Thursday I had my cable down-graded. I forced myself to cancel my television service because I just couldn't justify forking out fifty+ dollars per month when my small family is BARELY watching television because of the nice weather. Honestly, I was a bit teared up when I came home from work to discover TLC, The Food Network and FX to be snowy and non-existent.
This afternoon, as I was spending the day inside laying low due to a wretched headache that came from NOWHERE, I discovered something amazing. All of my cable channels above 64 STILL WORKED! This includes two of my guilty pleasured favorites of MTV (aka THE REAL WORLD CHANNEL!!) and BRAVO! I am TOTALLY confessing to being a reality television whore, but come on! I'm a single girl...I might as well enjoy marathons of The Real World and Kathy Griffin's My Life On The D-List while I can! :)

How was your 4th? Have you enjoyed your extended holiday weekend?