This is in the hot running for favorite outfit ever. Without the kimono this outfit is really nothing. Without the pink wall the kimono is really nothing. They were meant to be.
kimono: Forever21, tee: Old Navy, jeans: Forever21, pendant: Forever21, boots: Urban Outfitters (similar)
The rain, the mist, the pink wall… all of this made Saturday so perfect.
Happy Monday //
x
PS. Can’t stop listening to Mike Mains and the Branches song Everything’s Gonna Be Alright. GET IT AND THANK ME LATER.
I was scrolling through my camera roll on my phone and importing some pictures to my laptop when I realized I’ve taken a lot of neat photos but haven’t edited them or posted them anywhere. I don’t want to overload my Instagram or Twitter or Facebook. So I remembered I had a blog I could post whatever I want on! So here’s a new feature I’m starting called Oh, Snap where I’ll post some cool/kewl pictures I’ve taken and just want to share with the world. 🙂
All of these are from my iPhone
1. Hello. 2. All the SWEPCO trucks after the ice storm. 3. Checkers at Cracker Barrel/Family Date. 4. Freezing while the power’s out. 5. The drive home. 6. Frozen broom at work. 7. Bad day. 8. Free veggies at work. 9. My nightstand currently. I know. 🙁 10. The sweetest dog around. 11. Goodbye.
Happy FRIDAY! 🙂
x
Of all the blogs I’ve ever read, A Beautiful Mess continues to be a place I find inspiration in each post. Emma and Elsie are geniuses when it comes to decor, food and photography.
Both girls are big proponents of printing out photos to see the memories instead of just filing them away on a hard drive never to be seen again. One year for my birthday my sister printed out some of her instagrams that I fell in love with from Social Print Studios (Printstagram). For $12 you can print 24 instagrams! They come as squares which I think is so perfect for hanging on the wall like I’ve done above my bed. I’ve made a resolution to print more pictures this year to put up where I can see or make photo albums, just like 2001.
If you’re going to use this service, I have some advice. I found that the photos didn’t come out looking as sharp as they do straight from the camera. So I’d suggest using mpix.com for glossy prints and better quality. Use this service for fun photos like Instagram. Also, the upload process can be a little frustrating. Connecting to an Instagram account and printing pictures that way is a snap, but uploading photos from a computer is a little more difficult. When they upload the photos overlap each other and if one needs to be rotated it’s almost too late because the controls that appear when you hover over a photo disappear if another photo is covering it up. Does that make sense? Also, if you don’t upload the full 24 photos for $12 all at once, you’ll be charged the full price regardless and in your cart it does not tell you how many photos you have for each size. I ended up accidentally paying $12 for 3 pictures instead of 24 pictures because of this weird issue.
When all was said and done only one of my pictures was rotated the wrong way, but it’s still workable. I’m still coming up with ideas to display them but I want to make a couple books and then eventually make a photo wall with the rest!
Have you ever tried a service like this? What did you think?
Happy Monday!
Oops. I fell down on my blog job and didn’t tell you guys about the nutso deal Forever21 had going on a few weeks ago: BUY ONE GET ONE FREE JEWELRY.
KABOOM. I know. My brain exploded too when I saw it. Don’t worry, I think I bought enough jewelry for all of us to share. I’ll link to everything that’s still up on their site so you can get in on this madness too!
Forever21 does this weird thing where they nail every trend every season and this season is apparently all spikes and studs and geometric stuff. And I bought it all.
stud hoops, geo rings (similar), rabbit ear rings (similar), studded cuff, heart shades (similar), mustache studs
These are still in the package here because they came with a couple of the “jewels” broken off. No worries. A little (lot) super glue and they’re brand new.
triangle geo necklace, pyramid stud cuff (similar)
Since working in a daycare I’ve realized I don’t have that many studs. Fortunately, F21 sells like giant packs of them for no money. This way the tiny babies won’t rip my earrings out and leave me with no lobes. (Another irrational fear.)
When I bought the lightning earrings I must’ve not read the description carefully. It’s an earring and an ear cuff. Which I’m cool with, but just wasn’t what I thought. So FYI…
heart studs, lightning stud and ear cuff, spike studs
These… oh these… they’re so beautiful.
pink studs (similar ish)
Did you get in on this secret sale? I really hope they do it again because I’m dying for some kewl necklaces. Everything I got this round turned out to be really great!
Happy Hump Day! Weeee! Finally back to work for me. Kicking this strep’s buttttt.
xx
Thursday night I tossed and turned wondering why I was so hot. Finally at 6:30 Friday morning I checked my temperature. 100.9. Nice. My throat was swollen and sore beyond relief. I called in to work and went back to bed. I slept on and off, only waking when my body needed to swallow, until four in the afternoon. I checked my temp again. 101.7. Great. My friend at work had gone home with strep earlier in the week so I assumed that’s what I had. (I’m a doctor, obvi.) I finally moved to the couch from my bed with my down comforter and pillow. I hadn’t eaten since the night before but starve a fever feed a cold, right? The only thing I wanted was ice cream. My throat was so hot anything else just didn’t make sense. So for the rest of the night I had two homemade blizzards while a cold pack wrapped in a wet rag cooled me down. By Saturday I only had a low grade fever but still slept for most of the day, eating yet another blizzard. Sunday I slept even more but came out of the fever fog with a throat so red and swollen my spit wouldn’t even go down it. I gagged back up some ibuprofen (are you loving this, yet?) and tried to go back to sleep. I abandoned all of my stubborn I’m-gonna-heal-myself tactics and swore to go to the doctor Monday morning. That night my sister started throwing up. (Hey! Anyone wanna come over for dinner?) I woke up this morning at 8:15 and convinced myself to finally get up. I found her on the couch. She’s been throwing up all day. (Seriously. Dinner?) Mom and I went into town and had the shortest doctor’s visit of my life.*
*By the way, this place is really amazing. Health Care Express is a clinic but it’s brand new and they take insurance. I like it so much better than my old doctor’s office even though my doctor was amazing. You don’t need an appointment and all the workers are kewl and wear jeans! They have coffee and cocoa and ask if you want water while you wait on the doctor and they’ll sent your meds to any pharmacy you want. Love love love. I go here now because I hadn’t been to my doctor in so long and now I have to go as a new patient and they’re not taking new patients now. This place is a little more expensive but for what I need right now it’s perfect.
We walked in and I made myself some meh hot chocolate from their complimentary Keurig. (I know. Faaaaancy.)
The same girl that called me back the last time I was in for strep called me back and took my temp and blood pressure and asked if there was any chance I was pregnant. No, I said to which my mom said, thank goodness. She left and brought back what I knew she would; the longest cotton swab I’ve ever seen and started heading it towards my mouth. She asked if I was a gagger and I meandered around giggling and then WHAM. Cotton swab in the back of my throat. I gagged about three times and then coughed the swab out of my mouth. She said, I think I got it. HAHAHA I HOPE YOU DID BECAUSE THAT CANNOT HAPPEN AGAIN is what I wanted to say.
A few minutes later the coolest old man came in and said, Welp. You have strep! To which I replied yay! He sat down on the table next to me and listened to my breathing and I had to take four of the deepest breaths I’ve taken since I was a voice student which made me cough like I’ve been smoking a pack a day for six years. (We Taylors have the best lungs.) He prescribed me some meds and we were off. I bought Pepper more dog food and then we swung by Schlotzky’s where Macklemore handed us our food. I tried getting a picture but mom was all no don’t embarrass me and I was like whatever YOU don’t embarrass ME. So if you’re ever at Schlotzky’s in Longview tell Macklemore what’s up and ask him what happened to his music career. Thrift Shop was killer.
So now I’m home and just took my steroid pill and almost gagged that up because it is THE most vile pill I have ever put in my mouth. I don’t care how good it makes me feel. The taste… I would take ten butt shots before I take another one of those. Butt shots > steroid pills.
Hope your Monday doesn’t taste like steroids.
xx
Today was one of those days. You know the kind; it tests your patience and pushes you to your absolute limit and then nudges you over it all the while laughing manically and stealing all the chocolate.
It started decent. And not the kind of good decent where you can tell that the day will be alright but the kind of decent where your boss spills a whole glass of milk as soon as you walk in the door. We’ve recently stopped putting all the kids down for a morning nap which has made them…a little crazy. Times ten babies? That could rattle even the strongest person’s patience. I ended up staring blankly at the wall by the end of the day looking, I’m sure, as crazy as any of the parents have ever seen me.
I was so drained by the time I got home I walked right into the shower. The water felt so good I cried. For no reason. Cried. (Quick! Hot guy coming! Hide the girl crazy!) (Just kidding dudes, that totally doesn’t happen.) The hot water washed over me while I tried to figure out why I was crying. Sure, the five hours of sleep I had last night might’ve had something to do with it. Or the ten hour day I just had pacifying ten sleepy and teething babies that just wanted to be held. Or my dwindling stash of chocolate. Or because my Forever21 order isn’t in yet. Or because I spent too much money at Target last night.
I stepped out of the shower clean and revived. I sit here now watching the Scrubs episode where Carla has her baby for the millionth time and eating all the chocolate I bought yesterday (thank God) and trying to get Pepper to snuggle. She’s not having it. I feel better. Still might have a drink, later.
You ever have days like this? Can we all just curl up in bed and have a sleepover and only eat popcorn and chocolate and watch Netflix? And now I know what I’m having for dinner.
Here’s to a better tomorrow.
xx
How many times did I mention chocolate in this post?
