Tuesday in Fall

All the bloggers out there on the internets have been showing booties booties booties!!! So today's temp. out here is 61 for the high.. so its the perfect opportunity to bust out my little booties... the top I got from.. of course... Groopedealz... but the booties I got on Amazon... they were only 17.00.. not bad right?? 

Over the weekend I went to a vow renewel of a couple that got married 7 years ago...now I usually say vow renewels are for people who like to think their love is better than my love... but this vow renewel was kinda sweet... it put me in a good loving mode... So have a wonderful wonderful day and love on that hubsband/boyfriend/ girlfriend/!!!

Friday Friday Gotta Get down on Friday

Where is my photographer?? Sleep!! This outfit is 100% inspired by Amanda from Goatandlulu.blogspot.com.. for some reason she is focusing on her recipes more than her clothes these days.. which is very upsetting because she eats so healthy and I am surviving on Keebler cheese crackers and peanut butter... but I digress... this is an outfit she put up over the summer... this outfit is so stinkin cute it is ridic!!!!

I went on Groopedealz (AGAIN.. .NOT addicted!!) and found the copy... now.. I tried it with the straight leg cropped, but it didn't look as good as the boot cut  I think cuz I'm a shawty.... 

Have a GREAT day today.. its been a five day work week and I worked every damn one of 'em!!!!

What we're wearing, watching, reading...

ok... the sweater I admit is from Groopdealz... I MAY  be slightly addicted to Groopdealz.... There was this thing on facebook about how you know if Target means too much to you when you get excited every time you see a red  ball or a target.... thats kind of how I feel about that daily email from Groopdealz... I look forward to it... thats probably bad right????
I have been absent for so long I havent told you what we're watching and what we're reading...
First... this book.Won. Der.Ful!!!!! I haven't read such a good book in ages... I actually slowed down my reading so it would come to an end slower... great book!!!!
I just got this book in the mail... Entertainment Weekly who I pretty much live and die by recommended this book... so I hope it lives up to the hype...
Next,  another Entertainment Weekly recommendation... you can watch the pilot  now and the series drops today as well... this show is like the "House of Cards" of Amazon Prime...

 this show starts Oct. 15... it is supposed to be like both sides of a coin... I am psyched about it....

So theres some good shows to watch.. but seriously... go out and get "We Are Not Ourselves"... you'll thank me!!!!

What I Wore Wednesday!!!

Look at the difference a photographer makes!!!! I have missed so many WIWW's over at thepleatedpoppy.com and tuckerup.blogspot.com they probably won't take me... 

these jeans are gap straight cropped... my friend told me about them and raved about how much she loved them.. so I found them at Goodwill and got 'em!!!

The shoes I got on Amazon... they're fit flops... good for your heels.. but my foot binding gone bad feet reject any and all shoes... flats make my heels hurt... the fit flops bother the tops of my feet... uggggghhhhhhh!!!

Have a GREAT Wednesday my friends!!!

Some housekeeping...

I got both this sign and the banner from Groopdealz... when I put it up last week, my students said," I like how you decorated the room!!"

I'm back in front of the fridge... I always liked in front of the fridge... and my photographer is BACK!! Yay!!!

yesterday was the first day of fall around here at about 7:27... so we stood an egg on its bottom... 

I got this top from where else?? Groopdealz!!! am I addicted to Groopdealz??? no!!! I can quit anytime I want!! I only use it when I'm stressed, or sad, or happy, or bored, or excited, or curious or any day that ends in y.... I am NOT addicted.... I just need to go on it right now...
Have a GREAT day today!!!!

Back to Blogging Day

necklaces circle necklace Lia Sophia
longer necklace Target c/o Goodwill
pants: Marshalls 19.99
top: Target


Good Morning Lovelies!!!!!! I'm back from my extended hiatus... Like I said yesterday...I wanted to figure out a way to improve my pictures... you can see its still a work in progress:(
Whats funny is I actually have a little more freedom to do the blog because my class is so smart... they are really hard workers and really high...My class this year is different from last year's class... no wild puppies.... My job is to make sure they're challenged!!!
My biggest weakness as a teacher is record keeping... I'm really good at finding resources and even putting them into use... but the record keeping is where I fall short... my friend keeps telling me to record record record for data data data for my evaluation... thats what administrators love... DATA!!! So that is a big goal for me... record everything the students do and find    trends in the data.....Doesn't that sound fun??? Thats not why people get into first grade... but its whats going to keep me in first grade so I can get excellents on my eval!!!!!!
Sorry this blog post is so technical... these are the thoughts that go through my head every day....
aren't you glad I came back????

Big love

Hey y'all!!! I am coming out of my blog funk and I have Stacey over at www.tumbleweedhouse.com for sendings a message to ask if I was ok... I am ok... I am stressed but ok.... My biggest stresses:
1. Hubs is looking for a job... He went for one job didn't get it... God has a plan for him.... But we don't know it yet....
2. I am getting evaluated this year but not until March... Yay!!!!!! But I gotta bring  it!!!! I have to be suuuuuuper teacher!!!!!

So I'm desperately trying to send out daily emails to my parents... Most if my witty comments usually reserved for the blog now go into my parents emails
 I know... Bad blogger!!!! Another reason I've been absent: I don't have anyone to take my pics.... I want good pics and I have to figure it out..... I don't want a substandard picture.... Soooo that's the reason I've been Mia..   But having someone as me why ... I was so touched!!! So thanks to Stacy... To quote frank costanza:" I'm back baby!!!!l

Some home improvements...

Hey y'all.... some home improvements that I've been up to getting ready for the fall.... first... I went to Hobby Lobby... O>>>M>>>>G>>> ok.. I thought of Hobby Lobby as like Michael's redheaded step sister... ok.. Hobby Lobby has everything  I've ever wanted, could want, will want... Groopdealz... Etsy... goodbye... I now know that you are right down the street.... So anyway... as my head was spinning spinning spinning going through the Hobby Lobby which btw.. was COMPLETELY stocked for Christmas and Halloween and Thanksgiving all by August 9...I was trying to control myself... ok.. so I got the white tree vase and the flowers and the runner... I originally went for letters (letterrrrrzzzzz!!!) to make a READ sign for my classroom because another teacher did it and I had to copy... but I saw the banners and I made this one instead...

here I am in my uniform... jeans, some shirt, flip flops....

moving on... I got this table at Salvation Army this week for 45.00... my old table was plain old awful!!! It had a ring stain on it that I COULD NOT get out no matter how much mayonnaise I put on it... it wobbled whenever I wiped it down... I just hated it... this one is much much better!!its sturdy, its black and its rectangular so it takes up less room.... 

I got this side table from Goodwill.... the right drawer was a little hinky... so I hot glued it together and its perfect now....this is what it used to look like...

I moved the bench into my room.... 

So we are trying to go legit... all through Goodwill and Salvation Army... and my new favorite store... Hobby Lobby!!!!

Keepin it real...

Hey y'all... I know... long time no see... I wish wish wish I had some legitimate reason for not blogging like " I was in Paris!!! " or " I was helping a third world nation feed its kids"... no... its none of the above... I have been in a flux between getting ready for school and saying goodbye to my long lazy mornings of sleeping, drinking coffee, listening to "Watch What Crappens" (If you like "Real Housewives of ANYTHING.. listen to this podcast!! You will thank me) and going to Goodwill...
On top of that I have been trying to improve my relationship with my hubsband....everyone knows our relationship has had ups, downs, really downs, and up again... but I want to have something really meaningful for us... I want the separation we went through to mean something for us and make us stronger... We have been doing the 40 Day Love Dare... a book I got and it has an inspiring word and then an activity for you to do each day...
This is what I have discovered about myself so far....
I have this tendency (obsession) with having conversations with people inside my head... I have confrontations, play out the whole thing... now the other person I'm imaginary talking to doesn't really say anything.. its pretty much just me right up on my soap box going off and in my mind I'm a mixture of Norma Rae, Lt. Frank Slade (Scent of a Woman), Oprah, and Iyanla Vanzant.... but at some point I say to my crazy brain, "ok.. now that the confrontation's over.. what now???" and I have to let go of the feelings... this whole summer has been an imaginary conversation with Tim... my co worker who I got into a fight with last May... He and I have gotten into 3 other fights like this and theres always scar tissue that builds up and it definitely takes its toll... so I have to make the decision.. what now?? we work in the same place and I'm going to see him every day and what to do??? ugggggghhh... I don't know....
now what does this have to do with my love dare??? Last year at this time my hubs was living in Virgina and HE was the one who I was having the imaginary conversations with... now that hes here... I can talk to him in person... I have to replace the crazy irrational conversations I"m having with people with real life conversations with my hubsband... I have to put him really first in my life, my mind, my actions... I have to let go of these petty interactions with people and focus on my wonderful husband who I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! if I replace the anger, the bitterness, the resentment, and replace it with gratitude for my marriage and my hubsband and my home, my family... I can be happy... I can let go.... I'm not all the way there... but I'm close....
and thats why I haven't blogged for a week...

Going back to bed...

I love sleep.... Sleep is one of my favorite things... in the summer it is my favorite thing to do...
Every morning goes like this in the summer:
5:30... Little dog slams body against his crate to tell me," HEY!!I'm up and I neeeeeeeed to go to the bathroom... NOW!!!!!!... so I let little dog out of his crate an he and slightly bigger dog go outside... I go back to bed....
5:50... let dogs in.. go back to bed....all three of us are happy... me, little dog, slighly bigger dog
8:00...little dog looks out the window while he sits in my laundry basket at the end of the bed... whines profusely about not being able to bark like a loon at any and all activity going on outside.. (this may include but will not be limited to: squirrels, mowing, work going on outside, or wind) whining not effective enough.. so little dog comes to stand on me to tell me, " I NEED TO GET OUT THERE!!!" so get up.. let dogs out again...go back to bed
8:30... waken up by dog barking like a loon at? looks like nothing to me.. but its got him pretty upset... let dogs in...go back to bed...slightly bigger dog takes place at pillow.. little dog sleeps at the end of the bed.. takes short power nap.
11:00... dog back in laundry basket making sure nothing is going on outside... uh oh... looks like that wind is up to no good again... hes gotta get out there.......ok.. I'm UP... get up.. let dogs out... get coffee....
11:20... bigger dog has now had it with little dogs barking and has now separated... "No.. I'm good.. I don't need to go outside.. he is embarrassing this whole family with his antics... if he wants to bark.. let him do alone... I'm going back to bed....

OOTD

Happy Friday Lovelies!!!! The star of my OOTD today is the shoes!!! I got these shoes from where else? Groopdealz!!! and why oh why did I not get some before??? I am in love with these shoes!!! They are super comfortable, give me much needed height, and I think they look good with these skinny boyfriends... I like the skinny boyfriends but I think the flipflops I usually wear with them  make me look stocky... these are way better... now I have to work them in to every outfit...

A Late What I Wore Wednesday....

Its my sarong part 2... this sarong I got at Groopdealz as well as the flipflops... 

I was all dressed up yesterday because I had a whole like grown up outing... I met my girls for dinner first and then I asked my hubsband if he wanted to meet me for a drink after.... so Jack and hubs came out and had dinner while I had drinks... and the place we were at had a trivia contest... Now Jack is an "Office" fanatic and I don't know if you know the episode where they went out and played in the trivia contest... so we stayed... we were in first place until the very end where you had to wage points on the final question... so the question was, "What is the disorder that is characterized by delusions of grandeur and an over importance of self?" so hubs gives me some name... I didn't know... turns out we were WRONG and the answer was megalomaniac.... uggggggghhhhhhh!!!! I think I have that!!! How could I have gotten it wrong?! 

In any case, I got to see what people are doing while I'm  sitting on the couch in my pj's at 9 at night... once a year outings are pretty much all I need... 

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