lincoln park after dark

I am getting a desperately needed manicure this weekend. 

So I thought I would share my love for OPI nail polish!

I just love all of their colors, but my favorite 

thing is the names of their polishes.

I like browsing their website & just reading the names. 

Lately, I have been getting the OPI gel manicure

and I am loving it!

My manicure last for at least two weeks, usually longer, 

& I am not easy on my nails. 

My favorite colors are Russian Navy & Lincoln Park After Dark. 

But I like getting a different color every time.

And I am not afraid of getting something "funky" 
as my nieces call it.

Here are a few of my favs right now:

Do you have a favorite OPI color?

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c25k update

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This week I started

week 6 of C25K.

I am continually amazing myself 

with this program. 

As y'all might remember

from my last update post, 

I was struggling a LITTLE bit

with running 90 seconds straight. 

Well, last Friday I ran (jogged)

20 minutes

IN. A. ROW!

I think this is some kind of

invasion of the body snatchers thing.

I have found that running

really is a mental thing for me. 

I know it may sound 

a tiny bit crazy

but I actually play mind games

with myself to just

keep my feet moving ;)

 My end goal is to complete a 5k

so I am trying not to 

focus on weight loss;

because I do not want to get discouraged.

So I have not weighed myself

since I started the program.

But I am measuring myself once a month.

And in the 1st month

I lost 

11 inches overall!

I was super excited about that. 

I will say that I still

loathe exercise

and I still struggle every

single time I run

but I am doing it and 

I am not giving up

even though I want to really 

bad sometimes.

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the end

This is my 1st link up

with The Vintage Apple's

Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesdays

and I decided to dedicate it 

to the final Harry Potter movie.

Mel & I have

already purchased our

tickets for the midnight showing. 

We are even watching Part 1 in theaters

again Thursday night. 

It is going to be a full night 

of Harry Potter awesomeness!

I have seen all of the HP movies in theaters

and while I still think

they do not hold a candle to the books

{what movie really does?!}

it has become a tradition.

Who else is seeing the final movie

opening night?

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weekend in pictures

Today is one of my Best Friends' birthday.

Happy Birthday Mel!

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Mel is probably one of the best people I know.

Saturday we went bowling 

to celebrate. 

And then we had cake! 

Mel requested an old-fashioned 

15-layer chocolate cake.

We love her for it!

That was an AMAZING cake.

It tasted just like my Granny's used too.

Then she opened presents. 

She got a couple of gift certificates

one for an hour massage, 

& one for a pedicure.

She also got Braves tickets for a 

game in September! 

It was a fun weekend celebrating 

Mel's birth!

drama drama drama

{via} 

Warning: Venting Ahead! 

You know those people who 

thrive on drama?! 

I really do not understand them. 

If I can help it at all 

I live in a drama-free zone. 

I try to give people leeway, especially 

on Facebook. 

We all have those moments when we just 

need a "woe is me" moment. 

But if you start clogging up my feed 

with those moments 

all the frigging time 

I am going to either unfriend you or block you. 

I never say anything to that person 

because hey it's her page 

and if that is what she wants to use 

her page for I do not have a 

problem with that 

I just do not want to read it. 

What I do not understand is how 

some people 

surround themselves with drama 

and then 

complain about it. 

I think my head would explode 

if I had to deal 

with that stuff all of the time. 

I'll give you an example of someone I just blocked today. 

She apparently had a tooth pulled yesterday. 

And this was her status today: 

"Hurting today :( thanks to those who checked on me the rest of ya who i thgt wld well whatever." 

That is just asking to start crap. 

I do find it 

the tiniest bit amusing. 

Because tomorrow her status will 

probably be about how much 

she hates drama. 

This post may be considered drama. 

So I apologize. 

I just had to rant 

a little bit ;) 

i ♥ surprises!

Okay, y'all, 

when did Tupperware get so cute?!

I received these goodies in the mail this week!

I seriously did not even remember winning these.

So I was super surprised when I was contacted 

by Jessica for my info.

I won this great package during

JG's awesome blogaversary giveaways. 

I was flipping through the Tupperware catalog 

and there are several items in there that I would

love to have. 

I remember Tupperware being serviceable & reliable.

But they have some super cute stuff now!

Thanks so much JG & Jessica!

Y'all are pretty awesome. :)

happy independence day

"Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, 

for the first time, 

it was decided that man is born with certain 

God-given rights; 

that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, 

with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. 

We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. 

Happy Fourth of July." 

~Ronald Reagan~

 

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