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This just in: I robbed someone on Craigslist.

 

 

Dresser and Side Table for $175.  And with it I am well pleased.  I don't know that I should have it laquored, to be honest.  What do you think?

 

This is the look I'm going for...

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Which is why I bought it for way less on Craigslist as well.  With a little bit of this...

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And bedding such as this...

So that's all I have to say about that.

 

Ensalada

I don't know why I keep running into this on pinterest and instagram but I fixed this salad last weekend and it seems as though everyone else I hold near and dear to my heart did as well.

I was extremely proud of myself despite the minimal effort it took so I figured I'd also share with you my

BLT Salad.

There you have it.  Kind of self explanatory.

 

I don't think you need a recipe for reference for obvious reasons.  However I will say it calls for a buttermilk ranch dressing that I strongly encourage you to decline and opt for a greek yogurt dressing made at home by yourself or yours truly instead-it's so delish and much more nutrish and I'm really big on minimizing the processed foods in the general public.  So there's my philanthropic post for the day.

 

Greek Yogurt Herbed Salad Dressing

1 c Chobani Low-Fat Plain Greek Yogurt

1 T extra-virgin olive oil

1 T fresh lemon juice

1 small garlic clove, finely minced

2 T chopped chives

2 T chopped flat-leaf parsley leaves

Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

 

 

**I added white wine vinegar to mine.  Josh thought it was ranch.  I'm not saying.  I'm just saying.**



Sequence of Events

In case you

were wondering about yesterday's sequence of events...

In this particular order:

 

 

 

So I'm overly proud of that ridiculous chalkboard thing that I made because it's so DIY of me.  Thank you to my little friends who taught me how to do it aka literally had to explain step by step the paint to buy, how to disassemble the old frame {that I found in a pile of junk-us in the attic} to spray the glass AFTER REMOVING IT from the actual frame.  And then to top it off I doodled all cute-say in chalk on it as well which is so on trend...chalkboard doodling, so hot right now.  Ok for real though I'm going too use the hell out of that thing.

 



 

Then to make me feel a little more like a reasonable, un-craft lady, I met a sweet treat of a friend at Ashley Christensen's new coffee shop Joule by the babe's new preschool.  And she is right, we are so hipster now. {My gf, not Ashley Christensen.  I mean AC doesn't know me, so we didn't joke about being 29 year old hipsters together over sinfully chic cheddar gravy biscuits.  Obviously. Sheesh.}



Dear Lordt.

My child starts preschool today.

Que emotions.

A+ Nails, people.

Am I the only one incapable of taking care of this task by myself?!  Honestly yall, I'm about to do some free advertising.  If you don't get your toes done often, you totes should at this fabulous hole in the wall right on the southern Raleigh/Garner/Fuquay just outside the beltline nail salon.  They stay open until 730 people!  That's 1930 to my nursing friends. Don't want anyone showing up at 0730, I mean they're good, but they aren't that good, mmmk?

 

So after I'm the last appointment in for the day and the last customer out, I try and take this snobby getaway pic of me leaving their outdated nail salon decorating ways in the dust {thus irritating other drivers in the strip mall parking lot because I'm not exactly proficient at driving the get-away car hungry AND taking a rear-view sayonara pic at the same time, because I've never done it before, honestly}

 



But I had to take two because the first just wasn't right.  That's better.

 



 

Even though you cant even see the store frontage or the parking lot paradise I had backed myself into {or the Subway, Serenity Hair Salon and it's tobacco loving employees out front sitting on the curb, Electric Beans Coffee Shop and/or AutoBell Car Wash-just to name a few, honey} This is all I have to show for my life-saving visit.

 

So why all the A+ Nail Salon accolades you ask?!  Well in a tragic sequence off events Josh stubbed my freshly painted toe over a Buffalo Chicken Sammie I was inhaling, nearly whole {in a very lady like manner} at Tyler's Taproom in Seaboard Station {those last few details don't really matter at all except to prove that I got out of that dreaded "shopping center" to dwell amongst the favorable as quickly as possible thus regaining all necessary and deserved highest regards, knowing that I only eat bar food in RESPECTABLELY located chain restaurants}-I returned the following day, with a smudge I couldn't handle to look at for the next 2-3 weeks {depending on the budget ;o)}WITH AN 18 MONTH OLD and they sat me BACK in the "spa" chair, fixed my polish and wouldn't accept a dime after listening to my child shriek in excitement over what I have yet to discern.

 

So here you go, glenn coco- A+ Nail Salon.  Get you some.

 

Football

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In honor of football season, football pre-season, football off-season:

 

 

Are you ready for some football?

 

Remember when Hank Williams Jr. was clearly extremely sober on Fox News and compared the president to Hitler and Netanyahu?  And then the general public took his comments seriously? And then ESPN fired him from singing on Monday night football?

Because obviously all of those bullet points are interrelated to form a cohesive complete thought thus natural chain of unthinkable events.

Cocktails.

This is the most appropriate and only acceptable response I plan to expect in light of the news I've just shared with you all.