You may win a competition for holding your breath the longest under water, but you will bump your head on the pool stairs to pay for it.
This traffic is pretty rough and there’s no sign of it clearing up. Gonna be a long night of driving to Asheville. (Taken with instagram)
Friday
I like this +/- system some of you gals have instituted - I’m gonna steal it.
+ pay day (first full paycheck from new job!) i’m still adjusting from the bomb that was dropped on my bank account from moving, so most of june rent & bills will come from this sucker, but that won’t leave me nearly as poor as it would have with the old paycheck
+ ordered the new GPS that so many of you sweet folks chipped in on to replace the one lost in smash and grab 2k12
+ joined the gym so i can start getting in shape (and go to spin class with this lady!)
- now i have no excuse for the state of my rear
+ i have a plan for dropping some lbs and getting back in shape that Brooke is joining me on, and I kicked it off by registering for a 5K that is 3 weeks out (since I also have a 10K on the 4th of July - ha!)
+ finished a lingering task on my work to do list & had a good meeting with my boss ;new job is still really awesome
+ planned a trip back to birmingham to work in one of the stores and also spend the weekend with Sister next week!! i’ll also get to try on my wedding dress while i’m home since it was shipped to my mom - eek!
+ wearing my new favorite scarf
+ we’ve been trying new smoothies here in the office for the past few days, and i can hear the blender working on the next batch right now. new job perks are perky.
+ heading out of Atlanta right after work to head to asheville, nc with blake! we are hiking mount mitchell tomorrow, so please pray that i survive a 13+ mile hike once more
+ pool time planned with fruity wheat beers and multiple bottles of wine for sunday and monday relaxation
What do you think? The pluses win? It’s a great day, folks!
Loving this new Target scarf for the summer - awesome bright pinks and soft orange. (Taken with instagram)
I got my first haircut in almost 6 months on Friday, and tried to hit a midpoint between “OMG just please barely cut it, I need long rapunzel hair,” and “Chop it all, right now, I need to look like that cute picture of Katie Holmes!” by taking about three inches off. Of COURSE I can’t figure out how to make my hair do exactly what the lady did (I am hopeless with a large round brush and blow outs) so I’m trying to find some other styling options. I’ve always loved Kendi’s hair, and am thinking about trying to recreate her curls she’s been wearing with her shorter do this year. My hair is just a bit shorter than hers when I wore it wavy yesterday and Monday, so that should work okay.
I’ve tried three different curling wands at this point, and I liked the one I have now with my longer hair but fear it won’t work as well with the shorter do. I want a larger barrel and am thinking if it isn’t tapered like most wands that it will recreate the look I have in my head better. Or should I just go with a traditional curling iron that is 1.25” around and not use the clip?
Alright, we’re going to make it happen.
An Atlanta Tumblr Meet Up
Thursday, June 7 - plenty of time to clear your schedule
Neighbors Pub in the Highlands
6:30pm
Don’t make me be lame and drink by myself because you know I will.
I’ll be there with bells on - hope to meet all you ladies! (And by bells I mean tumblr approved stripes and neons, I’m sure!)
Currently experimenting with how many times per week I can wear black and white stripes, a faux bubble necklace or both before my new coworkers catch on to my addiction. Today is day two in a row of stripes and the third necklace sighting since last Monday. (Taken with instagram)
Yesterday was too much fun. We went to the East Atlanta Beer Fest and as always was the best ever. Too many samples later and we cabbed it home, ordered $40 worth of Chinese delivery, passed out at 8pm and slept til this morning. So we had General Tso’s for breakfast. Whoops.
Yay for Atlanta fun! And seeing old friends! And making new ones! And beer!
Moving To Do List
Obviously we’ve already tackled the major parts of moving, but now I’m trying to get a grasp on the little tiny details and things that need to be changed over that are somewhat of a hassle.
Find jobs in Atlanta(Yay!)Find new place in Atlanta(Double yay!)Give notice to Birmingham landlord(Thank goodness for no lease!)Buy moving boxes and reserve moving truck(Buying and using as many Rubbermaid tubs as you can afford instead of all cardboard moving boxes is one of my mom’s best moving tips - they stack so much easier, are easy to access if you accidentally pack something too soon, and can be resused in so many ways once you move.)Don’t have a heart attack while Blake is driving a 16 foot moving truck through Birmingham and Atlanta traffic(Worked around this by accidentally leaving Birmingham around 6 PM and driving 55 mph at all times and stopping for dinner at a truck friendly area so we didn’t arrive in Atlanta until 11:30 PM)Cut off Birmingham utilities and set up Atlanta utilities(Pretty proud that I managed to do all this on my own - not because it was difficult but because I may have forgotten to do this at previous apartments when I got stressed during the moving process. Now we are starting to get refunds from deposits at the old place + had no deposits here so that is some sweet spending cash for new furniture.)Pack(Yuck.)Move(Double yuck. Is every move just the move from hell?)Unpack.(Umm mostly done? Still missing some key furniture - dresser, bed frame, bedroom reading nook, and something to serve as a pantry - so some things are chilling in their Rubbermaid boxes.)- Buy new furniture. (See above, but we have bought a new leather arm chair to match the living room couch and the sweetest IKEA couch with a chaise lounge on one end and a pull out, pop up section that turns it into a guest bed in the second bedroom. Blake and I may have utilized that feature the other night when we wanted to watch TV late at night and fell asleep.)
Forward mail- Change address on magazine subscriptions
Get second parking spot inside the gates and a new clicker(Became a big priority after my car’s break in)- Get Georgia driver’s license (I scheduled some time to do this after I get paid next week - sadly my current AL one still has my Mobile address on it, where we haven’t lived for more than 1.5 years. Oops!)
- Get GA library card (Just applied online and will pop in this weekend to get my card!)
- Find a vet for Denny
Open Bank of America bank account(Since that’s what apparently everyone in GA uses - our landlord wants us to just transfer the money to his account each month, and so I need to have an account to either transfer to him or to Blake so he can transfer it to him. I’m going to use it as a rent/bills/household expenses account and keep my WF account as my personal groceries/gas/shopping/all the fun account.)Register to vote in Georgia(Very important this year, eh?)Change billing address for bank account and shipping/billing addresses on accounts like Amazon, Birchbox, etc(Would hate to have my box ship to the wrong place - oh wait, that’s exactly what Birchbox did this month even though I changed my address 1.5 weeks before they shipped out.)
Are there any other little annoying details I’m forgetting about?
The things you own should be something that you truly love, and most the things we buy aren’t.
How Heidi N. Moore Does Money | The Billfold
I’m working on this.
