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1.  The best surprise ever would be, (I'll have to agree with our hostess here) a getaway would be GRAND.  It wouldn't have to be anything fancy or even lasting more than a day, but it would be so nice to get away for awhile just the two of us and try to de-stress a little. Or else I may turn into a little monster soon....and not in Lady GaGa terms....

2.    When my daddy would pull me around on my sled when I was a little girl  is my most favorite memory . Seriously, I have the best dad EVER. I know he must have gotten soooo annoyed that I would beg and beg to be pulled around just a little bit more and he would have his buddies over. Oooh and I remember once in the driveway there were frozen puddles and we 'ice skated' in our big ol moon boots. Okay, I have a lot of fond winter memories with my dad. ...I could go on and on....

3.  The hardest, but most worthwhile thing I've ever done was   letting go of a few things that I NEVER thought I could. Letting go of regret, of denial, and of doubt.

4.  The best part of my day is   curling up in bed with a book and my girly doll kitty. (We have two boys, too, she's my girly doll.) Actually, what's even better is if I don't have to go into work and its just me and a book and coffee/tea and crawling back into bed. Soooo nice. 

5. Something I like that most people don't is     going to the dentist. LOVE. I have the best dentist ever, and he is so little-boy-cute.  And I just love getting my teeth cleaned. Dental hygiene is KEY people. Actually, I have a dentist appointment on Tuesday. Rawk.

6. Something I am willing to fight for is   marriage, family.

7.  Something you might not know about me is  that I gauged out my ears when I was in high school. You know, when you make your earring hole bigger? I think I was a size 8 or something, nothing too crazy. But I didn't do it long at all because whenever I was spacing my holes out I was like, what is this nasty smell? It smelled like rotting flesh! It was my ears I finally figured out. So that was gross and I stopped, and luckily, my ear holes went back down to a normal circumference.

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1.  Something that is very near and dear to my heart is, animals. I can't stand to see any type of animal brutality. These little critters offer us so much love...they deserve all your love back people!

2.   A beautiful Friday OFF work is good cause to celebrate .

3.  The most fun I ever had was   going to Pennsylvania for my brother's wedding.

4.  True friends are   hard to come by, easy to keep, life-long and PATIENT.

5. Something that makes me terribly happy is    bodies of water.  Crisp autumn days. Walks through the woods. Ice cream. 

6. A good way to spend a sunny day is   well, today I am spending it on my new Ostrich chaise lounge that I got from Target and finishing up The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini. Lunch soon with the hubby!

7.  My favorite celebratory food is  pasta. LOVE pasta. Could eat it everyday (and actually do quite often). Gotta love ice cream, too. Our local ice cream shoppe has the greatest ice cream---Blue Goo Flavor Burst---yum!

 

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The Little Things We Do Link-Up

1.  When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is, feed my cats--lol. They won't let me do ANYTHING until I feed them, so its automatic now.

2.   I can hardly wait for   the new house!.

3.  The quickest way to my heart is   listening to me    because   ....I don't know...I have a complex?

4. A little known fact about me is that    I used to play the drums!! But primarily I suppose I'm more a piano player---I taught myself when I was little. I've been told I have a "piano player's hands" meaning I have looooong fingers.

5. The best part about my job is    I get to help people and they are thankful for it and don't have a sense of entitlement (like they did in my last job)

6. Something I just couldn't live without is    eye liner. BLACK.

7.  Something useful that I wish I knew how to do is  dance. I'm awful. Okay, I apparently have a complex about a lot of things!

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Linking up with "the little things we do" this week:

1.  The highlight of my week was  winning/(using today) a FREE paid time off day!

2.   If I had to classify my interior design aesthetic it would be   well depends on my mood--how about modern country chic?

3.  My first vehicle was   a turquoise Chevy Beretta--can't remember the year. The whole car shook like a bowl full of jelly if you went over 50 mph.

4. An item I need to have in my day in order to function is coffee and FiberOne cereal bars.

5. My favorite way to waste time is  by reading different blogs start to finish :) I know, creepy, right?

6. Right now I could really go for   a mango smoothie.

7.  This weekend I will be  cleaning and organizing probably!

What I'm Loving Wednesday!

YAY HUMP DAY!!! 

Linking up with Jamie for this weekly ritual:

 

This cute little golf bag birdhouse my parents got the hubby for his birthday:

These adorable little birdies I picked up at Dollar General today for $2 each:

Welch's Grape Juice. I LOVE grape juice. Could drink it all day. LOVE communion hah :)

Special K Blueberry Crisps---these things are soooo good and addicting. They remind me of blueberry poptarts. 

Tea infuser

Finally used my tea infuser for the first time! I've had this cute little kit for quite some time (got it from the beyond amazing World Market) but have just been plain lazy with my tea and using tea bags. Yes, I am BOTH a coffee AND tea person. Yum. I had a period of time last year where my doctor restricted me because he thought there was something wrong with my heart. So in between that day and the day about a MONTH later when I saw my heart specialist I could not have any caffeine (which includes chocolate), alcohol, limit stress and limit exercise. It.was.awful. Mostly because I didn't know what was going to happen, though. Honestly, I'm still not entirely sure what the deal is, but my "issues" have been minimal since that time and the heart specialist told me to go ahead and get back to my life and just let him know if "other" things happened. So ANYWHO....

Look! Ain't it cute?????!

Exterior of box

Interior of box

Earl Grey--my favorite!

Fill infuser with tea leaves

Put in mug

Steep!

Serve! Yumm

Just another lovely Ice Storm...

We had another ice storm here last night. Luckily, it was nothing near like the ice storm we had last year, but its still pretty bad. Our roads are just caked in ice. So pretty though! We didn't have to go out in it at all last night but I guess for those who did, some were stranded for up to five hours on the roads and many out-of-towners had to find a place to stay in town overnight. Now, my town isn't the largest in the world, but its not itty-bitty (like my hometown of 300, lol) either. I think there's maybe 15,000 people? I dunno, but anyway, the state police was saying this morning that there were literally hundreds of accidents last night in and around our town, due to the weather. Yikes! I'm so happy I stayed in and watched Teen Mom 2 on Netflix last night haha!

This is one of the roads that surrounds our house--and no, that is NOT water. Pure ice, baby!

Welp, I think I am off to bake some muffins! :)