Week End Recap

Happy Friday friends! I had a really mixed week, productivity-wise. Started out procrastinating way too much, but I've had weird spring cleaning bursts of energy every night! It's like I cannot possibly clean or organize enough things in my house. I'm still trying to purge my closets too, so those are a work in progress. I will share at some point though!

Detox has still been going well. I have slipped up a few times and eaten more carbs than I would like (I confess to eating 3 pieces of cake at the office potluck on Wednesday...oops). Otherwise I've been doing well in the diet department, and I think I have lost about a pound. Very good news. Exercise isn't going quite as well, but I have gotten back into Just Dance for Wii and I went for a walk last night. Baby steps. It's also been 7 days without any unnecessary spending! All I've spent money on is food. Hopefully all these trends continue, because I'm feeling really good overall.

Since I've been taking a lot of things out of my life, I've decided to add something really important that I've been slacking on lately, which is phone calls to my nearest and dearest. Started the trend last night by calling BFF Julie, whom I had not spoken to I longer than I'd like to admit. So so good to catch up with her. Next up is my lovey who is in Denmark in grad school. I can't wait to hear how that is going, and when I can come visit :)

Happy Friday, loves! Hope you have an incredible weekend!

Diet 101

Don't make delicious Paula Deen chocolate chip pound cakes for your coworkers. You will be tempted to eat the whole thing way before it makes it to the office.

Life Detox

Happy October everyone! While I'm sad to see September go, I'm happy to welcome October. This month I'm taking advantage of the mini beginning of the month "fresh start" and detoxing a bunch of different parts of my life.

1. Diet
2. Exercise
3. Shopping/spending
4. Home

Diet: John and I both managed to reach some gross out point this weekend and have vowed to to some sort of "detox" diet for the month of October. Caveat: this is not a true detox. We're mostly just ramping up some healthy eating, and mostly limiting our carb intake. I think this diet will end up being a lot like the Paleo diet, but with dairy. I just need to stay away from the Halloween candy aisle!!

Exercise: I just need to start doing it. Period. Gym, Wii, dvds, running outside. Don't care what it is, I just have to do something. It'll probably end up being some combo of all the above just to keep it interesting.

Shopping: I've talked about my "no shop" months on the blog before. I haven't been keeping up with them as much as I should have this year. And after switching a lot of my spring/summer wardrobe out and my fall wardrobe in this weekend, I realized (again) that I have more clothing than any human being would ever need. Seeing a lot of it piled up on my guest bed just sort of put me over the edge. And saving money never hurt anyone! I'm on the verge of paying off my car (2.5 years early!) and making a really special big purchase I've been wanting for years. Noshop-tober will help with both of these things.

Home: Purging more of the clothes mentioned above. I. Have. Too. Many. I do love most of them, which makes it hard, but I seriously need to take about 100 more items out of my closet and to consignment. We'll see how this goes...

I'm planning a post later this week with some "truth" photos of all my closets and clothes piled on my bed, just to show the general clothes/shopping gluttony. Its bad, but its time to be honest!

Lazy evening

I am a lucky girl to have a boyfriend who makes beautiful chairs for me :)

26.

I turned 26 on Monday, and it was a really wonderful (grown up) kind of birthday. I spent the first half of the weekend in Winston-Salem at homecoming at Wake Forest. I got to see some of my nearest and dearest friends who I unfortunately don't get to see all that often. It was fabulous. Even though the weather was slightly scorching (read: sunburn) for the game, the Deacs won and fun was had by all! We did a little tailgating, a little going out and general reminsicing and enjoying beautiful Winston. I'll go ahead and announce via the blog that W-S has officially moved up to the #1 spot of where I'd like to be living. And I will live there again one day. Can't wait for that day :)

I spent the second half of my lovely birthday at home with my parents. I took two days off from work (hooray!) and was generally lazy at home, hanging out with mom and dad and my grandparents. I also officially entered the Land of Old People because I was thrilled that my parents got me a brand new Dyson vacuum for my birthday. Who is excited about getting a vacuum as a gift? This girl.

I've really been prolonging the birthday feeling, too. It all started last Tuesday when John and I went to the Ben Folds Five concert at the Tabernacle in downtown Atlanta as a little pre-birthday gift. We both had a truly awesome time at the show. I also plan to prolong through this weekend, because we've got big plans to hit up Six Flags on Friday night, and I really want to go to South City Kitchen for my "real" birthday dinner. So all in all, its more like a two week celebration of Brittany. And I love it :)

So far being old isn't too bad!

This week:

-Birmingham
-Too much eating
-A couple of workouts
-Haircut tomorrow (I have never been more excited...my hair is OOC long)
-GA Tech game and tailgating Saturday!
-Preparing for my first time teaching at work
-Tons of meetings
-Date with Jenn tomorrow

All in all, a good week. Looking forward to being back home and getting into my fall rountine. Can I move my boots into my closet yet??

Fall

So many good things, that I can't even discuss most of them right now. Tiffany is married, I got to spend the weekend in Winston-Salem (best place in the whole wide world, if you are unfamiliar) with Erin and other lovies from Wake Forest, I introduced John to said lovies and W-S...just so much happiness going on. I also informed John that we'll be moving to the dash one day. Maybe I should have asked him? I think he'll be happy either way :)

Work is going fine. Had a nice trip to Nashville last week and really enjoyed myself. The BBQ, the honky tonks...so much fun to be had in Nashvegas. Also sad that its my last "regular" work trip for a while. Aside from a short jaunt to Birmingham next week, my behind will be parked in Atlanta for the long haul. Trying to see the bright side of this! While I will miss traveling with my coworkers and getting out of the office, I am looking forward to enjoying Atlanta in the fall. Fall is always so busy for some reason. Between my birthday, homecoming, football and all the holidays, I always feel like I'm in a whirlwind with no time to enjoy friends here. I think this fall will be different!