A Few Halloween Thoughts

I gotta admit it, I'm totally not dressing up today for Halloween. I know, I know, killjoy. But after doing my hair and makeup like that two nights in a row plus catching ANOTHER nasty yucky cold this weekend, I've decided that I'll be quite content with just handing out candy tonight in my princess Belle shirt and calling it good. At least we have sweet decorations.

That's right. Not bad for our first year of decor, eh? All I have to say is that I'm glad that we were able to make it through all of our Halloween weekend events without losing a single dish or costume part -- a record for us! We did win the "Spiciest Chili" award at our Ward Chili Cook-Off, though Owen and I didn't really think it was that spicy and we're convinced that we weren't picked for the Best Overall since I was on the judging committee and it wouldn't be fair. At least the one that did win this year was actually quite good, not soup like last year (weird). We also shockingly didn't win the best costume award, but it's probably because we won a chili award. Man, are we cocky or what? Someday we will win all the awards and we will finally be satisfied. Bwahahahaha.

I am just happy this holiday is finally here because Owen's rule is: No Christmas music until after Halloween. And guess what? TOMORROW = CHRISTMAS MUSIC! YAY!!!!!!!!!

On the Bandwagon

Reasons why today I'll be jumping on the "Mondays are the worst" bandwagon:

• Woke up with the sorest throat, which somehow throughout the day has progressed into "leaky faucet nose." And it's barely into the first week of fall!
• My potentially broken toe that happened today during dance class. As if learning contemporary dance isn't awkward enough, try doing it with a potentially broken toe that causes you to walk funny but you don't want to seem like a wimp so you keep going anyway. And then you have your husband come pick you up in the car from campus.
• Said husband also has to work late tonight on something to do with bugs and fixing them. Which is sad because that means he's not here to kill at the dumb bugs that keep flying around out house! And because I will miss him. 
• Had my third voice lesson today and STILL HAVE NOT SANG A SINGLE NOTE! All that stress and agony over the weekend for nothing........grrrrrrrr.........
• Trying to eat a super awesome dinner of pita chips and hummus and all that's left is little itsy bitsy pita crumbs.
• Gossip Girl season premiere tonight and guess who doesn't have the CW? Me (well, any type of TV) or my sister. 
• Forgot my power cord today and realized what a useless drone I am without my precious machine. I didn't even bring paper with me onto campus. Good grief. 

Boo hoo for me. Hope you Mondays is filled with lots more sunshine and rainbows than mine.

the cure

jacket: dear amanda, shirt: target, necklace: target, jeggings: jcpenny, boots: target

I've discovered the cure to looking sick.

Okay maybe this is not a 100% effective thing, but it worked for me today.

Yesterday when I woke up, I basically couldn't breathe out of my nose. I was tired of looking sick today, so I decided to splash on some red lipstick--what a trick! It distracted everyone from my tired-looking self and instead drew their attention elsewhere. I even had a girl who does makeup at Nordstrom compliment me on my makeup today. Hilarious.

I actually really liked this outfit today, but didn't really get a great chance to showcase it. So we decided that we might as well show off our striped green couch instead. Best part of this bad boy (who was so lovingly donated by our sister and brother-in-law)? It weighs like 5 pounds total. That's right. It's basically completely made of foam. Not so much structural support, but definitely easy transport!

Since today's pictures were of such terrible quality, I decided that I might as well make them at least entertaining. A fair trade-off, right?

day 16- another picture of yourself

Here is a picture of me teaching yoga to my FHE group this past spring. 

I've decided that it is pretty hard for me to find a picture of just myself! I always want to pose with another person, and all the pictures of just me, I'm usually making a face because I think it's funny to look ridiculous in a picture?

Anyway, sorry for no interesting posts lately--it was finals week which meant all I did was study my brains out and then the past two days all I've done is work (data entry...ughh...) and been sick. Just a runny nose/congestion, but man was I grateful for Nyquil last night. No wonder they make good money--that stuff works!