I hit the brakes last week, took a break from blogging and thought I could catch up on some things happening in life.  I missed blogging, I DID! I  missed your encouraging words and advice, etc. Thank goodness for twitter.  It was such a long crazy week.

And boy….What I would give to feel good enough to drink a bottle of wine right now. 

I feel like I was hit by a bus. I have had some funky viruses and sinus infections over the last year, but this?? This??? Holy crap. I have the worst bug I have had in ages.  It started Saturday. The day I had planned Dan’s 30th birthday party.  I woke up feeling kind of tired and blah, but I shook it off. Except that I had this horrible sore throat starting. It was aching and scratchy and my body was beginning to feel out of it.  But I pushed through. Dan’s parents were coming down and we had people driving up at least an hour to be there.  And it was a great get together. It was fun to talk and joke with people I don’t get to see all that often. It felt great! My throat was still killing me, but I was having a good time and I just ignored it. Ordered a few gin & tonics (or vodka tonics), had some amazing appetizers and this spicy pasta that made my throat burn in a bad AND good way. Then the cake. Oh, the cake. I drove an hour on Thursday just to get this amazing cake, from this place called The Flour Shop. If they had been closer, they would have been the place I got my cake for the wedding. It was completely worth the one hour drive. I’m not a HUGE fan of their chocolate cake, but it is what Dan wanted. I had this cake for my bridal shower…And it is so light, fluffy, not at all heavy. The icing? Light as a FEATHER! It almost has a whip cream like consistency. 

We were only out a few hours, and by the time the evening ended? I finally FELT it. Granted, the alcohol probably helped with the crummy feeling, but oh my goodness, the second we got into the car, I felt sick.  It’s a sick that leaves me feeling very happy to just STAY in bed. I did yesterday, pretty much. I stayed in bed until about 11 or 12. Laid there with a book for awhile. Got up around….3? maybe? Watched some DVR’D What Not to Wear. Laid down some more. Came back to the living room to watch a little of the super bowl and the commericals (I was so disappointed at how crappy they were this year). I went BACK to bed at half time, the Colts were winning and I was happy. I had gotten through the day. Sore throat and stuffy nose. Couldn’t get worse than that, right?

Wrong. Woke up at 4am today. I hurt. Everywhere. EVERYTHING. I decided around 5:30 to jump in the shower to see if I could relax and I’m NOT joking — the water hurt.  Hurt as it hit my skin, hurt as it hit my hair. HURT.  I took some more medicine, emailed my professors to say I would NOT be in classes today and I was back to bed until cloose to noon today. I’m just up right now to eat a little bit and then I’m kicking back on the couch. I DVR’d Mean Girls on Saturday and I think I’ll fall asleep this afternoon to that.

Dan is leaving this afternoon (or in the morning? I can’t remember) for some work conference…I really hope that he stays healthy.  Whatever it is that I have? It’s super contagious, I’m afraid. I think I picked it up on Thursday…Went to see some family on Thursday when I was down getting the cake.  Family that was getting over being sick. First my aunt, then my cousin, then my uncle..I only saw the aunt and cousin on Thursday and they seemed to be feeling better…But you never know how long germs chill out in the air. Even if she DID lysol and clorox wipe the place like crazy.  I really think it’s the same because my symptoms came on exactly like theirs. Sore throat. Stuffy, runny nose. Body aches. NO FEVER.  How is that even possible? To have all this without a fever? My temp actually could qualify for low grade fever; I run a 97F regularly, and hit around 99F yesterday.

Anyway, Dan has been the perfect little husband, lysoling this and that, wiping EVERYTHING down that I may have touched. Sleeping on the guest bed to stay away from the germies.  And that’s about it. I need to lay down now. I have been sitting up way too long.

and taking a break.

Nothing is wrong, but I am a little overwhelmed with school right now.

Be back next Monday!

My great grandmother’s birthday is coming up in March! (Well, she isn’t technically MY great-grandmother. She is my half-uncle’s grandmother.  She’s not blood related to me at all. ) She is going to be 90! So we’re throwing her a huge party. And I had forgotten that I had volunteered (until my aunt emailed me yesterday) to make the invitations. Like, 30 of them. So off to Hobby Lobby I went, buying cardstock and ribbon, cupcake decorations, ink, embossing powder and an embossing heat tool (I’ve done this stuff before, but never actually owned one of my own! So it will be nice to have it in my crafy collections…).  I spent close to $80. Which was probably INSANE, but whatever. I have a lot of extras for other crafts and projects down the line…

This is what I’m working on:

Send junk food my way…I only have 24 more to go!

Recently, I found out that for my internship, all I’ll be wearing for 6 months (and even beyond if I get hired in!) is a black top, khaki pants, and black shoes. Kind of boring. Now if anyone knows anything about working in rehabilitation, it will be near impossible to wear a ton of jewelry to add some excitement and dimension to the outfit.  So I’ve been on the look out for cute little brooches and pins. They are small, shouldn’t get in the way, and many are colorful, which I NEED. I need color in my life!

I’ve been unable to find what I really want in stores, so I’ve been scouring etsy. Then, just before I made a purchase the other day, I remembered that Kerri had a store at etsy!  I also had recalled her mentioning one day on Twitter, that she had made new ruffly pins!

I ordered the one she had in stock…then asked about different colors, to which she replied by sending me pictures of the ones she had! OMG, I was in love with them ALL. I nearly bought them all, too.

All I all, I ended up with 5. I still haven’t told Dan about these purchases, either… Hehe…

Anyway, they came in today! While this isn’t the best picture, there wasn’t any good light to get them the way I would have liked them! (She also sent a cute little gift bag; I’m totally storing these in there!)

Aren’t these dreamy??

Pretty olive green, bright yellow, plum, bright blue, and bright pink (it looks red, but it’s totally not!)

Thank you, wishcake, for the lovely pins! And thank YOU for being a lovely friend! I can’t wait to start wearing them. Now I just have to figure out which one to wear first…Until I have to wear the drab colors, you can bet that I’ll be breaking these out even well before that.

I have had issue after issue with my other template and have switched back to a temporary one. While a few of your have offered your services to help me create a new one, my former designer, my brother, offered to make me a new one for FREE! I guess he couldn’t figure out the issues either. The biggest problem is that we weren’t able to recreate some of the issues everyone was having. Sometimes you couldn’t see things correctly, or you weren’t able to comment. He and I had gone over the site using a few different browsers and still, we had no problems.

So while you lovelies have been alluring in your quest to get me to hire you, I can’t beat free — and besides, I love the template he had made for me. I know he’ll do a good job this time around, too! I’m curious to see what’s up his sleeve.

No telling when a new look will be up. Just enjoy this borrowed one for now!