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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Bracket Madness

Who out there is ready for March Madness?! 
I don't like sports, but I like to gamble and I love a reason to paaaarty! Plus, I have a foolproof method of picking winners- it involves mascots, team colors, and new this year, region of the US (obviously a Southern team wins).
I have Florida going all the way. E would be horrified since coming from Tennessee, they are one of our biggest rivals!
Tomorrow is a pizza party, kick-off tv watching extravaganza at work. There's nothing like a pizza party when you're pregnant.


Thursday, March 13, 2014

What Does The E Say: A Late Link Up

I can’t even with Ethan sometimes. He lives to embarrass me. This is a terribly late link up, but I just have too many E gems to share with the world (or maybe they should be locked deep away in a dark closet)....
Voyage of the Mee Mee

  • His latest nickname for me is stinkrat. He’s also referred to me a pork chop as well. 
  • Last week while commuting in together (on crowded Metro), I poked him to show him something in the Morning Express, and he responds by saying (too loudly) “No Ma'am, you CANNOT touch my penis!”
  • His parents want to give us some furniture when they move. When they asked him about an item, he told them, "I dunno, you’ll have to ask the Fuhrer." He also has referred to me as “the Boss” or “Heffe” while we shop, talk to his parents, have anything moved, when we had a little bit of kitchen work done, etc.


Ethan on Pregnancy/ a New Baby
  • I was so excited someone finally asked me if I was pregnant. He says “I’ll pay you $5 next time someone asks you if you’re pregnant, look horrified, and say ‘why would you ask me that, do I look fat?!’”
  • Do you think we can register for a Panini grill for the baby registry?
  • I think it's a girl becasue my wallet's been tingling.
He was actually very well-behaved when we went to Babies R Us to register. I think only because we were going to get lunch afterwards and I said I would be too angry to get lunch if this didn't go well.

Shopping with Ethan: (I really should have learned my lesson already and just leave him home when I want to go shopping)

  • A classic, while walking into Forever 21, he loudly asks, “aren’t you waaay past 21 to be shopping here?”
  • Not what he says, but does, takes the stuffed dogs at VS Pink and puts them in compromising positions. 
  • He also likes to find a spot to sit in to check sports. The best was when he sat on the floor by a display in the back on Loft. 
  • He also loves to pick up an XXL shirt and say, isn't this your size? He also likes to wave giant granny panties in the air and say isn't this what you need Kim?


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Humpday Confessions: Pregnancy Edition

Linking up with Vodka and Soda for some Humpday confessions.  I thought I'd give you all a peek into my pregnancy experience thus far.

I walk around with my pants unbuttoned all day with the equivalent of a tube top covering it. For jeans, I have a rubber band that strains to keep some semblance of "pants buttoned".

I might be a little moody. When the cafeteria ran out of big, soft, salty pretzels, I felt apocalyptic. Yea, I wrote them a note too. I'd love to hear the reaction of the person that reads that one. "Hardy har, this fat a** is concerned about running out of pretzels at 2p"


My face is broken out and around my mouth too, so it looks like I have the Herp. (I’ve never had a cold sore, so I don’t know what it’s supposed to be like, but hey, why not start now!)


I am not “showing”; I just look chubby. At least everyone knows now so they can’t judge!
  Sorry, any chance I can get to get a picture of a fat cat on the blog, I must take. It's a problem really.
 
All I feel like eating is (giant soft) pretzels and Mexican food. Unfortunately, both give me horrid heartburn.

I haven’t worked out since early January. I've been feeling much better, it's just that there's such good TV on right now! I keep saying I’m going to walk when it gets warm outside, so we’ll go with that for now.


I know I'm extremely lucky and I can't wait to have bay-bay, so here's some positivity so I'm not too complainy in one post.










Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Spring Fever

I have a bad case of Spring fever. With the warm, sunny weather this weekend, I was motivated to Spring-ifying our home. I'm trying to be frugal, so I can spend extra funds on baby stuff, but I still managed to add some little, happy touches without breaking the bank.

1. I'm really proud of my festive wreath I made. With my hot glue gun, I can conquer the world! I've been obsessed with cherry blossoms since we've lived here. I got a branch of fake cherry blossoms, that pre-made stick wreath and glued the chopped up flowers on. I used a natural jute ribbon and glued that bad boy on too. How's that for Pinterest instructions?

2. I began to set our table (my family will be in town next week) and added some bunnies. Those may or may not have treats in them :) This weekend, I browsed Williams Sonoma, oh, if I were a rich girl. My table would be completely decked out for every holiday.

3. A Peter Rabbit-esque bunny purchased at Micheal's. Full price (with a coupon). I plan on expanding my holiday decor over the years. I'll get more pieces after Easter when they go on sale :)

Are you doing anything special to get ready for Spring?


Monday, March 10, 2014

Rants and Raves: Beauty, Shopping, and True Detective

What a gorgeous weekend, amiright?!

I got my hair cut after pondering it for a while. I decided I like it and I like Bubbles in Annapolis for my MD readers.
Geez, who peed in my lemonade?! Will smile more.

I also did some shopping at the Mall, which resulting in a Wetzel's pretzel. I haven't had one before and haven't had an Auntie Anne's pretzel since high school, but I love pretzels (esp. the NYC street ones, mmmm). These were like $3.50 and not that good.  Cna't mess with a pregnant woman's cravings like that Weztel's. Fail.


Sidebar: I thought I was going to be all "organic" and "healthy" during my pregnancy. Yes, not so much. 


I swung by Sephora because I have really been wanting to try the Naked 3 pallete. I am still undecided on whether it's worth the money. Some of the colors look more bronze on me than I thought they'd be. I think I have pale skin with cool undertones, so I wonder if I should stick to "cool" eyeshadows. My bad, should have Googled before the purchase.

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I also stopped by Old Navy to look at some pants. The kind with the elastic waistband.  They were doing reconstruction. In the fitting room, I realized I could smell paint (after 30 min. in the store and not realizing what the stink was). I left asap and complained. I then wrote their customer serivce and they called me today. They are going to call me again after my next dr. appt. So fail for Old Navy for paining in a store where they sell maternity clothes, but then at least they responded to my concern.

Thank God for the True Detective season finale. Spoiler Alert: it was a good ending and it made me happy and I love Woody and Matthew (I'm on a first name basis with them now). I predict Matthew McConaughey will take home an Emmy to go with that shiny Oscar of his. 
 
 



Friday, March 7, 2014

Friday Five: Commercials

In trying not to bore everyone about the details of my pregnancy, I'm going to try to limit "baby posts" to 1/ week :) I look the same and there's nothing exciting to report, so there's your update if you're interested.
Onto more import things- television (j/k of course).
I usually prefer my favorite shows On Demand or DVR'ed, but sometimes, I just need to watch them live, which means commercials. As a kid, I loved the jingles of commercial and it was how I planned out my birthday and Christmas lists.  Now, I can't stand those jingles. Here are my Top 5 commercials I want off my TV. (I'm going to start a new website GOMT).

1. The "cheesesteak, cheesesteak" Geico commercial. What do cheesesteaks have to do with insurance? I have no idea. Plus I get that song in my head and I don't even like cheesesteaks (not that I've ever had one or ever want to try one). That is bad advertising. At least if you're going to have a jingle stuck in your head it should make you think of the product!*



2. The pig singing "boots and pants." I don't even know what this commercial is for. Once again, why would you have a commercial that no one knows what it's for? Update: I Googled this and it is a Geico commercial too! I guess I really don't like their ad company.


3.Gisele for Pantene commercial. I don't know why, but I have never liked Gisele. Am I the only one? IDK, I would rather see a more likeable persona hawk me the shampoo I use. It's not that expensive and I get it at CVS! I want a more "everyday" woman with great hair selling me my Pantene gosh darn it! Plus her and Tom don't need any more money and certainly not any of mine.


4. The Free Credit report guys. Their first commercial was cute, now it's played out and just annoying. Plus the stupid website sure isn't free. (I mistakenly thought it was, but they "need a credit card" to verify your identify or some bs like that and then they charge you the next month for your "membership")


5. We Buy Any Car. Com. I am not sure if this is local, but the song is horribly annoying. Some guy in a suit and tennis shoes and dancing with his backup dancers singing. I want to stab out my eyes and ears. Better yet, change the channel.


Too bad i want to keep this list at five, because I could continue (Flo from that other insurance commercial anyone?). Just so you don't think I'm too big a hater, here's one I love.

* I love the Lil' Caesar's "bite, bite, sip, sip, mambo combo" commercial. I get that song stuck in my head too, but at least I know it's for a pizza combo- duh!


 Now have a great weekend and get yourself a deep dish $5 Lil' Caesar's lunch combo!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

I Am Nesting

This post should be called "I am Crazy", because I am not that far along (like not even showing) and have already ordered baby stuff online and off my registry! Oh yea, I alrady have a registery, most of which was shameless copied form others registries :)
Some friends have also already given me stuff. They're like, haha, new moms will take anything!  I'm like, yea buddy, give it all to me! I guess eventually you do get a lot of stuff with a baby then toddler.




So I Ethan is definitely going to repaint once we know for sure the gender. I also want little lambs in here. I am waiting for my overpriced Pottery Barn stuffed lamb to arrive.
(We called my mom a little lamb when she went through chemo and lost her hair. It came in all white and curly! Not a happy time, but I think of my mom when I see lambs, plus they're cute. Side story, E calls me and my mom lamb chop and pork chop.)

More pics to come as we I decorate.  Feel free to point me to your favorite Etsy shops :)




Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Welcome to Audubon

I have a serious embarrassing secret- most of the pics on my phone are of my cats and other random animals in my backyard. A lovely snow day yesterday provided the backdrop for the iPhone-Audubon-eqsue photos (I only say that because I got to plant my buttocks firmly in the couch under many blankets and not go to work).

Look how fat my boy is. He got a big ol' booty.

The birds were outta control yesterday. There were no less than 5 or 6 at the feeder all day.

I feel so accomplished too.  I caught up on True Detective, watched Dallas Buyers Club, and finally started Scandal (where have I been- that show is great).  I also got in some really great online informative reading (mostly via Facebook, Gawker, and BuzzFeed). 
Toodle-loo my friends.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Oscars & a Shameful Confession!

Work is closed again today due to weather. I received the email last night, so I actually stayed up and watched the Oscars (well, until 11p, then I got too tired, so I really missed the best parts).
Best Dressed (imo) was Charlize Theron!Well have to see what the Fashion Police on E! says tonight.

I also really liked Kerry Washington and Camilla Alvez's dresses.
I loved Jared Leto & Lupita Nyong'o's speeches, the selfie and pizza, and of course the fashions. Did you get that Jared Leto is 42?! Wow.
What I didn't like about last night were the haters on Twitter. I don't use Twitter (my generation uses Facebook), but I thought it would be fun to see what Ellen and Chrissy Tiegen were up to. My Twitter was blown up with random blogs I've followed to enter into a giveaway, and ya know what, some of them were just nasty (I can't find any good examples, but someone insulted Jared Leto's speech saying play the music! No one puts Jordan Catalano in a corner!) Anyway, I took some time to clean up my following  list- ain't nobody got time for negativity.

Now my shameful confession. I love movies, but maybe I shouldn't claim that anymore. Saturday I decided to watch Heat on HBO on Demand. It took me an hour into the movie to realize that Al Pachino and Robert DeNiro were 2 separate people/ characters. I had to ask Ethan to help with the plot and he was horrified (yet again). That movie is from '95, and he still remembered the plot and actors! Sigh.

Well I'm off to rack up some On Demand bills (I wonder how many Oscar films I can watch today?).  Stay safe and warm!

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