Weekend Happenings

It should be a pretty low-key weekend for me. I plan on doing some Major Closet Overhaul tonight. I've hit a wall with myself and my wardrobe, and I'm pretty certain we need a good cleanse. I really want to take a bunch of things to take to consignment to help round out my savings for a very special item later this year. We'll see how that goes. I forsee a lot of wine and random Pandora stations in my future to make this happen. Another Friday night living the dream...

As for the rest of the weekend, John and I are going to a birthday party for one of his friends, and we will probably spend the rest on the couch watching Mad Men. Do any of y'all watch the show? We are completely addicted and have been Netflixing fiends for the past couple of months. I think we're mid-season 3 right now. I'd love to discuss more if anyone else is obsessed!

I'm hitting the road to Nashville next week for work, and I'm really looking forward to that. Should be a nice change of pace from what I've been working on lately, and I always love a good trip to Nashville. Can't wait to eat bbq, hear some country music and spend some QT with my coworkers.

What are you all up to this weekend? Any fun plans you're looking forward to? I'm looking SO forward to Tiffany's wedding in NC next weekend and John's first trip to Winston-Salem. OMG I can't contain myself!

Good things

This week has been dragging a little at work, but its also been a really good week for a few reasons:

-Caught up on sleep last night after so many late nights in a row. Thank the Lord!
-Saw Jenn for a food coma/Pretty Little Liars party on Tuesday. We should do that so much more often
-My pool has reopened after being mysteriously closed for a couple of weeks
-Buying a wedding gift for one of my favorites (and getting SO excited to see her get hitched and to go to Winston in a couple of weeks!)
-Planning another trip to the dash for homecoming. Life is good.
-Realized that my birthday isn't that far away. Normally I love birthdays, but not so sure I'm excited about number 26...
-Also realized I'm almost done saving up for a big ticket purchase that is frivolous but that I have wanted for a long, long time

What's making you happy this week?

July & August recap

So, apparently July and half of August went by without me blogging. Oops. I blame this in part to my insanely outdated Internet Explorer software that cannot be updated right now for various reasons, and thus, it is about 100x harder to make blog posts, and I officially cannot post pictures. Sigh. I also blame this (mostly) on the busy-ness of life. In the past 30 days, I have been to Savannah, Canada, Birmingham, and Washington DC. And maybe a little Atlanta thrown in the mix somewhere? Just typing that out makes me a little tired. All the trips were good, and half were for pleasure, which is always a plus! Even the ones that we not for pleasure were still lots of fun, and I got to see a few WF friends here and there, and that always makes me happy. Things that don't currently make me happy: laundry mountains, getting my healthy eating back on track after copious restuarant eating, my condo pool being closed temporarily and of course, my lack of blogging. Also my Olympics withdrawals, which is a whole different story because I have never liked the Olympics until this year. Always learning new things about myself.

So, as I breathe a sigh of relief, I promise I am going to try to start blogging again on the reg. And I cannot wait to catch up on everything that you all have been doing! In the meantime, I'm going to attempt to work on my computer issues and hopefully get back up and running soon.

xoxo

Banks

Bank failures are totally fascinating to me (nerd, I know). In the work I do, we think about them a lot. And of course living in Georgia, the bank failure capital of the country, you hear about them a lot. This morning I was clicking through the front page of MSN and came across an article talking about the opposite--the safest banks in the country. Very interesting! Its kind of nice to think about the flip side sometimes.

I know I ocassionally post things referencing finance or money management, but I'm thinking of starting a weekly post on the topic. Either some good advice I've heard or a helpful article I've found. Hopefully this is interesting to someone besides just me!

Peachtree Road Race 2012

Happy belated 4th of July to everyone! Yesterday, John and I spent the morning doing the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta. Its the biggest 10k in the world (somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 people participate), and it was so much fun! Considering my major lack of training (practically none in the past few weeks), I was really proud of myself! I finished in 1 hour, 24 minutes...much faster than I thought considering I was expecting to walk almost the entire thing. I ended up running way more than I thought I would. The atmosphere and people watching were pretty motivating! John did great too--he ran the whole thing in just over an hour. So awesome.

We did it! Any of you who know me personally know it is completely unlike me to do a 10k, but I'm so glad I did and so proud of myself. Can't wait to do it again!

Beach!

John and I had an amazing time at the beach in Destin, Florida last week. We didn't let a little thing like Tropical Storm Debby get in our way. Luckily, she only came by for one day, which we spent at the outlet mall and sitting in the hot tub through the drizzle. Here are some photos to enjoy:

Lots of sun, free happy hour drinks and seafood was had by all :)

Made it!

Finally made it through two long awaited meetings yesterday and another cubicle move, and it's my Friday off! There's nothing better than a three day weekend when you really need it. And not only have I just made it to the weekend, I made it to my Nashville trip that I've been looking forward to for so long! I'm hoping next week in Nashvegas with my work bestie will make up for a lot of the crap we've been dealing with for so long at work!

No big plans this weekend. Maybe doing a little shopping, a massage and a haircut, and going down to Augusta for a night. Actually, now that I think about it, that's a lot of good stuff going on!

Hope y'all have a great weekend too! Xoxo