Music Monday

Hope you all had a great Monday!

Old Navy, Gap & BR Sale: 30% till 8/24

Here are some of my favorite fall looks from these stores:

Gap

Old Navy

Banana Republic

Favorite Outfits of the Week

It’s that time again already.  Here are the outfits that inspired me this week.

 

 

 

Feelin’ Blah

I’ve been such a blog slacker ever since my vacation.  I think maybe I’ve run out of much to say or I’ve just been really tired at night.  Can’t decide.  Today was very full.  This week that is.  I’ve made cupcakes 3 times in the last 10 days.  Twice frogs have broken into my house and I have freaked out! Went from Grocery shopping twice a month to going 3 times this week.  I stayed late at work two nights this last week and went to the gym 4 times this week.   Things are happening in multiples for me lately, just wish they were all good things.

Today my sister’s family came over to go to my pool, it has a nice beach slop entrance so it’s easy for the kids to go in and out of the pool.  Afterwards I made super duper chocolate cupcakes for them all.  My other brother in law came over to help fix the weather stripping under my front door (which is how the devil frogs are violating my home) so I sent him on his way with some cupcakes and a tentative date for bribed babysitting to get the work done on my door so quickly. 

The Chocolate Kisser Cupcake – ok I know it needs a name change, I’m working on it. 

Matt came over that night and we had all these big plans of burgers and bowling.  We made it to the burgers but after that we felt so full and yucky we just wanted to go home.  And we did.  We are such a lively bunch…lol.  I also wanted to make another batch of cupcakes for Matt’s sister’s family (the reason for my 3rd trip to the grocery store that week)  We are going over to see their new house after church tomorrow and I felt it appropriate to bring something. Also it’s the welcomed excuse I need to try out a new cupcake off my list.  The other two batches I’d made this week I’ve made before.  This time I tried my Curious George cupcakes.  Not sure why, the name just felt like it fit. They are also my first Peanut Butter creation and my first time making homemade frosting. Homemade frosting is not my favorite, I usually never like when I taste other people’s, it’s never as good as what comes in the tub.  The texture of the recipe I made was very creamy so it didn’t spread or stick to the cupcake like I had wanted, so things got a little messy.  I muscled up to try one cupcake because I was soooo full from binging on Five Guy’s burgers and fries.  I couldn’t enjoy it like I wanted to.  It’s an extremely rich and peanut buttery cupcake.  No pictures of this one I’m afraid, I was very frustrated with the messy frosting that I just didn’t think about it.  Also I was unsettled half way through baking when I noticed frog #2 of the week hoping across my living room floor.  Luckily Matt was there this time to get it immediately out of my house! I’ll be curious to see if everyone likes the cupcakes tomorrow. 

So that was my night.  Still feel yucky from all my food.  I barely ate all day until dinner and boy did I stuff my face.  I’m really tired right now, got up at 8am to go grocery shopping and the gym and baked all day.  I’m ready for bed!

Sweetest thing EVER!

So if you know my day to day activities it does not include the news, no paper, no nightly news, nothing.  Except for what they show on the Weather channel.  The only time I watch the news is when CNN is on over the treadmill I happen to be on at the gym.  Tonight I saw one of the sweetest things ever.  Let me preface it with, watching the service men return home and seeing their spouses and children get surprised and cry is very touching but I’m sorry this doesn’t beat what I saw tonight. Service men reuniting with their dogs!!! I almost started crying on the treadmill! I have a huge soft spot for dogs. Watch the CNN segment, these reunions are one of the best things I’ve ever seen. Ok kids reuniting with their dads is pretty great too.

I posted a couple of the full versions of the reunions that were just super adorable that I found on You Tube.

Favorite Outfits of the Week

This last week I stumbled upon several different outfits I want to try out. Here are my top favorites.

When life gives you lemons you make cupcakes!

Today I’ve had a lazy Sunday. I worked a little on planning out more cupcake ideas for future baking days while I watched the finale episodes of SYTYCD. I’m baking Lemon Cupcakes for a birthday at work tomorrow. I call them my Pucker Up Cupcakes. I haven’t made cupcakes in months, but tonight this is what inspired me to pull out my past ideas and add to them. I came up with some fun flavor ideas; playing with Coconut, German Chocolate Cake, Raspberries, Apple Pie filling and Carrot Cake. Not all together just in case you were wondering. I’m going to have to start making more of my cupcakes but I just can’t eat them, so I’ll have to find reasons to make them and give them away. I’m sure others won’t complain. I got way off track with my eating habits this last week with the family beach trip. And last night was just as bad with a hearty dinner at Longhorn Steakhouse, but it was yummy!

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Cupcakes are done. Still finishing up the Finale SYTYCD. If you watch the show you already know who won. I’m a little behind on my DVR watching. I’m just glad no one spoiled it like my old boss did with the American Idol finale. I’m about to find out who won…..and the WINNER is……

MELANIE MOORE!!!!!

She was my top pick since the first episode, so I’m glad she won tonight. Now that SYTYCD is over that is it for me until fall TV starts. Good thing for Netflix Instant Play.

Hello Cupcake!!!

My niece’s 1st birthday is coming up on 8/31 and I’ve decided to make the cupcakes for the family festivities. The theme of the party is undecided at this point but I’m getting excited about all the cute cupcake ideas I’m finding. Which ones do you like best?

Panda Cupcakes:

Sheep Cupcakes:

Monkey Cupcakes:

Little Piggy Cupcakes:

Owl Cupcakes:

Cookie Monster Cupcakes:

Blog-cation

I went on a little vacation from blogging. Sorry about that. It was a combination of being really tired and not up to typing and being on vacation with my family. I’m waiting on the pictures from my sister before I start sharing about my trip. So for tonight we will talk about my favorite subject of Clothes. Yes yes I’m obsessed with talking about clothes. Tonight I was updating my shopping budget and I think I have to cut myself off for August. I started keeping track of all my purchases on a spreadsheet at the beginning of the year when I felt I was spending too much money on redoing my winter wardrobe. Since then I have realized I have an addiction of constant shopping. The spreadsheet helps me determine my boundaries which seem to stretch with my mood and also determining do I really need this shirt I just bought, maybe I should return it. This time of year is even more dangerous for me because of all the great sales on the summer clothes that are being transitioned out. The Loft has really been sucking me in lately. And it doesn’t help when they email out that all sale stuff went from 30% off the marked down price to 75% marked down. I can’t help but zip over to the Loft website and check out what they got not to mention the end result will be spending my lunch break driving to Loft to see what they have left in the sales racks. I just can’t help myself!!! But I don’t want to talk about the summer clothes. I want to share the fall goodies that are showing up that I’m keeping my eye on. I’ve perused all the usual suspects tonight and did a little online window shopping. I just have to fight my natural urges to purchase any of this till next month.

GAP

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OLD NAVY

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LOFT

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Thursday Night

Tonight was a typical Thursday.  Went to the gym and did some running and my yoga class.  My left quad has been hurting since I got off the treadmill so I hope it feels better tomorrow.  Whenever we had to balance on our left legs in yoga tonight, I was very wobbly.  Got home and made my typical after workout dinner – a scrambled egg & canadian bacon wrap with a side of cauliflower – then turned on my dinner entertainment, the DVR.  SYTYCD announced tonight who is in the finale and I’m so happy my picks are there.  Next week will be a good show. Sorry I haven’t posted my favorite routines or music from this week’s episodes, so if you liked that stuff I’ll post it next week when I let you know who wins. 
Tomorrow is Friday and after work my vacation begins!!!  I’m going on a family beach trip from Sunday thru Wednesday.  It will be chaotic but fun.  I asked my sister about if there is wi-fi in the beach house and she isn’t sure.  A little nervous about that.  It’s funny to think how just 10 years ago we could go places without worrying about if we could connect to facebook and getting in our cars without cell phones didn’t cause anxiety or an immediate u-turn home. Funny how times have changed. 
This is even funnier or is it more funny.  Who knows.  I’m all about retro and vintage but this is just ridiculous.  This is Lenny Kravitz walking the streets talking on his cell phone with a hand held adapter made to look like a retro phone.  Why would you do this, why????  It really looks stupid and whatever company came up with it is even worse than the person who bought it.  But it does make me laugh!