*kudos to Emily Jacobson for the title to this blog post! I have been laughing about it ever since she said it tonight.
I went to a Mary Kay spa night thing with Kristi King and Emily Jacobson tonight. First of all, can we just talk about the fact I didn't even want to go.
I went to one of these spa night/facial parties like a year and a half ago. It was ehhh...okay at best. Kind of dumb to be honest. But I went. Free facial..can't really go wrong with that! Except you totally could. Anyway, I was promised a $10 gift card to use if I came to the thing. Fine print: I had to use it that night. I'm sorry what? Sucky. So I asked what the cheapest thing I could get is, because let's get real, Mary Kay is on the pricier end of make up sales. To make a LONG LONG story very very short, I ordered a blush. Only she didn't have it with her. She said she'd mail it to me. I was moving in 4 weeks out of state. She said it wouldn't be a problem at all. Alright, no big deal. 4 weeks comes and goes. I text her multiple times in the 4 weeks, each time being promised that the blush would get sent THAT week!
Move it along through the summer in Denver, and I get a text from said MK lady, that she's super sorry it's taken so long and she's sending a bunch of free goodies with it. Okay, I can work with that. Move BACK to Utah, and seriously it was another 3 or 4 months before I heard from her again. Finally, I was so sick of it all that I text her and basically told her I just wanted my money back and didn't care about the product. Low and behold, 3 days later my blush finally showed up...with another $10 gift certificate. Yeah...never going to order from her EVER again.
Fast forward to now. So basically I didn't want to go because of said bad experience, and I was so tired today! I had a million other things I could have done, but I kind of just said what the heck and went. Thank goodness Kristi and Emily both scrubbed out too, because it was a yoga pants kind of evening. Surprisingly, I had a lot of fun, and I actually got to use the product on my entire face (the first time they only had me put it on half my face...annoying). The MK lady that invited us was super cute and way friendly! The three of us had a pretty good time too. (At least I did!) It was nice to get out for an evening with some friends and go get make up/beauty tips.
So now, we're getting ice cream this weekend and some free product and listen to Melanie's business w/ MK. And we might just possibly go to the Pink Party in September...just for the heck of it. Not going to lie, I kind of enjoyed being out tonight at the party. I'm sure most of it was the company, but the atmosphere definitely helped. Thanks for a fun night out Kristi and Emily!!
#MaryKayparty
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
That one time I didn't blog for a month!
Wow! Really I cannot believe it has been that long since I've blogged. I don't have too much to say right now. But here's a quit bit of what we've been up to lately!
I've been working, cleaning house, laundry, and working on my diy headboard--it's taking forever. I've literally been working on it for a month or so. I've have a new-found resolve to get it finished before school starts though! 3 weeks!! (Which reminds me...I need to get on ordering those textbooks.) I'm working out pretty regularly now and I haven't felt this good/comfortable with my body in a LONG time. It's amazing that even though there's not a huge physical change yet, I feel a big mental/emotional change, and that is a great feeling!
Dan has been working like a dog and trying to take it easy since his back relapsed 3 weeks ago. Poor guy is so go go go that it's hard to get him to slow down at all. Thankfully, this time he has done a lot better with working hard but taking the time to rest. He starts school again in a few weeks too, and I think he's excited about it? Mostly, I think he's excited to be done with the summer. It's been one of the toughest by far, but I'm so reassured that this is what we were supposed to do this summer, and it's definitely been a blessing for us.
Ward party tonight that I'm SOOOOOO excited for. Really. This is the party we've heard about since we moved in (we had just barely missed it by a few weeks). So I'm super happy we finally get to go!
We helped our good friends Shannon and Kristi move into their new apt yesterday. Poor Kristi had such swollen ankles from moving all day, but what else can you expect at 37 weeks preggo? She got to set up the baby's room though and the mamaroo! That is a pretty dang cool swing, not gonna lie. Check it out!
It's been a good month. The sister moves up in a few weeks for school, and two of my best friends are coming next weekend for a visit!!! <-- I'm way excited about that if you couldn't tell.
Have a great week everyone! Off to keep sanding that bedframe!
PS. I will finish blogging about Nauvoo. Expect another post on Sunday!
I've been working, cleaning house, laundry, and working on my diy headboard--it's taking forever. I've literally been working on it for a month or so. I've have a new-found resolve to get it finished before school starts though! 3 weeks!! (Which reminds me...I need to get on ordering those textbooks.) I'm working out pretty regularly now and I haven't felt this good/comfortable with my body in a LONG time. It's amazing that even though there's not a huge physical change yet, I feel a big mental/emotional change, and that is a great feeling!
Dan has been working like a dog and trying to take it easy since his back relapsed 3 weeks ago. Poor guy is so go go go that it's hard to get him to slow down at all. Thankfully, this time he has done a lot better with working hard but taking the time to rest. He starts school again in a few weeks too, and I think he's excited about it? Mostly, I think he's excited to be done with the summer. It's been one of the toughest by far, but I'm so reassured that this is what we were supposed to do this summer, and it's definitely been a blessing for us.
Ward party tonight that I'm SOOOOOO excited for. Really. This is the party we've heard about since we moved in (we had just barely missed it by a few weeks). So I'm super happy we finally get to go!
We helped our good friends Shannon and Kristi move into their new apt yesterday. Poor Kristi had such swollen ankles from moving all day, but what else can you expect at 37 weeks preggo? She got to set up the baby's room though and the mamaroo! That is a pretty dang cool swing, not gonna lie. Check it out!
It's been a good month. The sister moves up in a few weeks for school, and two of my best friends are coming next weekend for a visit!!! <-- I'm way excited about that if you couldn't tell.
Have a great week everyone! Off to keep sanding that bedframe!
PS. I will finish blogging about Nauvoo. Expect another post on Sunday!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Gratitude
Tuesday: Basketball night. Leftovers for dinner.
I hate waking up with swollen eyes. It's almost like you can't have a fresh start the next day because the evidence it still across your face. I feel so drained. And it's almost a pain in the butt trying to find something to keep me in a good mood. I'm not in a bad mood by any means, but I'm just kind of melancholy. I could really go for some ice cream right now. Bahaha I'm such a girl.
One way to change that attitude is to think about what I'm grateful for and the blessings I've been given.
Number 1 (and not necessarily the most important): Momma. She is so amazing. I am so blessed to have the most amazing mom in the entire world and I'm so lucky to be able to call her when I'm sad or when I'm happy or just to talk to her and have entirely meaningless conversations. I don't know what I would do without her. She's one of my best friends. I've always appreciated that she's been my mom first and foremost before she's my friend. She's amazing. The life she's lived and made is amazing. I will be forever grateful that she got to be my mother and that I've been so privileged to have her in my life.
Number 2: Good friends. Yesterday was just a down day. It was all I could do to keep myself from just breaking down every 5 minutes. I got a text from a friend that's here in Austin with us and she just helped me to see that I am strong enough, that I can do this, and that I'm not alone in anything. It's always a good feeling to know that someone is out there and someone's thinking about you. I'm grateful for a good friend that was able to help me smile yesterday and realize a lot of things about myself that are hard to see in the midst of a trial or a struggle. Thank you Kristi.
Number 3: Dan. He's my best friend in this entire world. When he came home yesterday, I had kept myself together pretty well by then. Pandora was playing country songs and the song that was playing was called "I Do" and he grabbed me and pulled me close and just danced with me in the kitchen. I lost it. I just cried and cried and cried. Like practically hysterical crying. I don't think I've ever cried that much in front of him. It's funny, I kept trying to do other things and get my mind focused on other things, but he wouldn't let me. He just held me and I just cried. I finally told him just how scared I am about being there by myself for the first month of school and just all of that. But at the same time, I told him that I'll be okay. My sister will be there, Jami will be there, and so will all my mom's family. I'm gonna be fine.
He knows me so well though...how much I try to put on a tough face and hide behind it. And I love that he knows that. I love him. I'm so glad I married him. Even today, I just continue to realize how much I need him each and every day, how he just completes me. Sorry to sound like such a sap, but really it's true.
Anyway, time to head out and get a couple of things done. Feeling better and happier already. This gratitude thing....it really works.
I hate waking up with swollen eyes. It's almost like you can't have a fresh start the next day because the evidence it still across your face. I feel so drained. And it's almost a pain in the butt trying to find something to keep me in a good mood. I'm not in a bad mood by any means, but I'm just kind of melancholy. I could really go for some ice cream right now. Bahaha I'm such a girl.
One way to change that attitude is to think about what I'm grateful for and the blessings I've been given.
Number 1 (and not necessarily the most important): Momma. She is so amazing. I am so blessed to have the most amazing mom in the entire world and I'm so lucky to be able to call her when I'm sad or when I'm happy or just to talk to her and have entirely meaningless conversations. I don't know what I would do without her. She's one of my best friends. I've always appreciated that she's been my mom first and foremost before she's my friend. She's amazing. The life she's lived and made is amazing. I will be forever grateful that she got to be my mother and that I've been so privileged to have her in my life.
Number 2: Good friends. Yesterday was just a down day. It was all I could do to keep myself from just breaking down every 5 minutes. I got a text from a friend that's here in Austin with us and she just helped me to see that I am strong enough, that I can do this, and that I'm not alone in anything. It's always a good feeling to know that someone is out there and someone's thinking about you. I'm grateful for a good friend that was able to help me smile yesterday and realize a lot of things about myself that are hard to see in the midst of a trial or a struggle. Thank you Kristi.
Number 3: Dan. He's my best friend in this entire world. When he came home yesterday, I had kept myself together pretty well by then. Pandora was playing country songs and the song that was playing was called "I Do" and he grabbed me and pulled me close and just danced with me in the kitchen. I lost it. I just cried and cried and cried. Like practically hysterical crying. I don't think I've ever cried that much in front of him. It's funny, I kept trying to do other things and get my mind focused on other things, but he wouldn't let me. He just held me and I just cried. I finally told him just how scared I am about being there by myself for the first month of school and just all of that. But at the same time, I told him that I'll be okay. My sister will be there, Jami will be there, and so will all my mom's family. I'm gonna be fine.
He knows me so well though...how much I try to put on a tough face and hide behind it. And I love that he knows that. I love him. I'm so glad I married him. Even today, I just continue to realize how much I need him each and every day, how he just completes me. Sorry to sound like such a sap, but really it's true.
Anyway, time to head out and get a couple of things done. Feeling better and happier already. This gratitude thing....it really works.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Stop trying to find my dirty underwear
So I had done my laundry (the whites) earlier yesterday and they were on my bed in a pile because I had pulled them out of the laundry and then jumped in the shower--we had just gotten back from an adventure down the canal. So my delicates weren't on parade, but they were sitting rolled up in my sheets, in a pile, on my bed.
Dan and I were sitting on my bed and I was folding the shirts and keeping the delicates in a secretive pile under my pillowcase. WELL...Dan, lovely Dan, starts pulling out the rest of my laundry from being twisted up in the sheets! My underwear was getting PULLED OUT FROM HIDING!! At first, he was embarrassed and said he didn't mean to do it...well then he started doing it just to mess around with me!
So I yelled at him to stop trying to find my dirty underwear! What's even funnier was that there were a few people over that were sitting in our living room....so they probably heard me. Because he refused to quit bugging me, I grabbed a handful and threw it at him. Haha. It was pretty funny...mostly because he was so shocked.
Earlier in the evening yesterday, we were at a meeting for EDGE, the company Dan is working for this summer. Kristi King was trying to use her husband, Shannon, as a footrest. Shannon said, "Dan and I do not have the same color of skin." Kristi, after pondering this for a second, responds, "He's not black!" Oh man...we were laughing so freaking hard. Haha they're hilarious.
This morning, Jacie came over and was talking to Abbie and I for a little bit. Tayler came by to see her and say hello, and Tayler saw Abbie's jeans hanging dry over the banister. He made the comment that whoever's jeans those were had no butt. So Jacie came back into our apartment and told us what he said. Abbie said she was offended. Then Jacie startes yelling out the window at him Tayler!!! TAYLER!!! (I said Jacie maybe if you yell louder he'll hear you) TAYLER!!!!!!!!! Well...he heard her. Haha.
She said, and I quote: Tayler! Abbie is offended you said she has no butt! He shrugged his shoulders.
Pretty much, Jacie Ames is hilarious. Abbie...is just Abbie. and... Daniel Haban is the love of my life. End of story.
Great quote I heard yesterday:
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. --Winston Churchill
Dan and I were sitting on my bed and I was folding the shirts and keeping the delicates in a secretive pile under my pillowcase. WELL...Dan, lovely Dan, starts pulling out the rest of my laundry from being twisted up in the sheets! My underwear was getting PULLED OUT FROM HIDING!! At first, he was embarrassed and said he didn't mean to do it...well then he started doing it just to mess around with me!
So I yelled at him to stop trying to find my dirty underwear! What's even funnier was that there were a few people over that were sitting in our living room....so they probably heard me. Because he refused to quit bugging me, I grabbed a handful and threw it at him. Haha. It was pretty funny...mostly because he was so shocked.
Earlier in the evening yesterday, we were at a meeting for EDGE, the company Dan is working for this summer. Kristi King was trying to use her husband, Shannon, as a footrest. Shannon said, "Dan and I do not have the same color of skin." Kristi, after pondering this for a second, responds, "He's not black!" Oh man...we were laughing so freaking hard. Haha they're hilarious.
This morning, Jacie came over and was talking to Abbie and I for a little bit. Tayler came by to see her and say hello, and Tayler saw Abbie's jeans hanging dry over the banister. He made the comment that whoever's jeans those were had no butt. So Jacie came back into our apartment and told us what he said. Abbie said she was offended. Then Jacie startes yelling out the window at him Tayler!!! TAYLER!!! (I said Jacie maybe if you yell louder he'll hear you) TAYLER!!!!!!!!! Well...he heard her. Haha.
She said, and I quote: Tayler! Abbie is offended you said she has no butt! He shrugged his shoulders.
Pretty much, Jacie Ames is hilarious. Abbie...is just Abbie. and... Daniel Haban is the love of my life. End of story.
Great quote I heard yesterday:
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. --Winston Churchill
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