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...