I love these things.

1. Minted -- sure there are plenty of sites where you can make customized cards with pictures, etc. but this place has free shipping. And it's easy peasy. And everything is so quirky like Zooey Deshannel. And I made the best birthday card for my dad on it.
2. Charm City Puppies' Easter-themed new puppy pictures. Seriously?
3. Finding out a new, less expensive and BETTER way to clean my make-up brushes. I had been using this weird concoction for months and it smelled SO BAD and it didn't work that well but I'm new to make-up brushes so I thought it was the only way to do it. Shout out to Pinterest.
4. Puppy Weather. Best app ever or best app ever? 

Also, HI. Woodbine Hotine's EP release show (and Benn's last show with WBHL) was announced and it's super soon. Come. Their new stuff is so good. It's only $5 and it's going to be great times. Here's some more info.

I love Etsy forever.

My typical Saturday morning: browsing around Etsy + favorite-ing items + putting them in my cart to buy when I'm feeling wild one weekday evening after work.

I've discovered a few things (and by a few, I mean 1,000+) that are super adorable and worth sharing! I'm not sure if you're aware, but Etsy has a TON of amazing things that I feel like not a lot of people know about! 

Here are some of my most recent finds that I'm having a hard time not buying: 

1. Chevron earrings in seafoam, $7.95

2. Merci postcards, $18.00

3. Wild and free tank, $28.00

4. Macaron sampler , $22.50

5. Grey chevron mini-lanyard, $7.50

6. Confetti birthday card, $2.90

7. Foldover clutch, $32.00

8. Watercolor funfetti iPhone case, $33.00

I love that food is the highlight of my life.

This week has definitely been a week. It hasn't been completely horrible but it hasn't been fantastic. Lots of stress (hi, work life), lots of ouch (hi, sore muscles from running more), and lots of sad life (bye, REEEEEEEEEED).

However, it is worth noting that I took a chance at the grocery store on Sunday night and tried yogurt that I wouldn't normally buy and it was one of the best ideas I've ever had. If you're at all interested in the type of yogurt I eat, I'll tell you. I normally only buy the honey Chobani and I eat it for breakfast every day when I get to work. And because I eat it for breakfast every day, I have a hard time seeing yogurt as something that can be eaten for dessert.
I guess I was feeling pretty yolo and wanted to live it up so I tried one of the dessert-y Chobani Flips...the almond, chocolate chip, coconut kind and it was incredible. 
After a rough day (oh, sigh) and the sad news about Ed Reed, I decided to try it and it seriously brightened my life and made me feel a little bit better. That's how I live, though. Typically food makes my life a lot better, hahaha. No shame.

It's also worth noting that at least March Madness has started. And at least Jacoby on Dancing with the Stars. Am I right?

I love St. Patrick's Day.

The days leading up to St. Patty's Day, I knew I wanted to make Lucky Charms cupcakes. But...all of the recipes I found were either gross (they used the yucky cereal part for a 'crust' for the cupcakes - barf) or too simple and didn't seem festive enough. So I came up with my own way of making them that made them more festive without being disgusting.

I bought:

• white cake mix
• a box of Lucky Charms - the smallest box available
• white icing
• green food coloring for the icing 
• green crystal-y sprinkles

I made the cake mix as it was supposed to be made according to the box, dumped a bunch of the marshmallows in and folded them into the cake batter, then put them in the oven! 

The icing was obviously just green food coloring and the white icing which I just mixed in a little mixing bowl. 

Then I decorated them with the green icing and more marshmallows.

That's it! The worst part was having to dig into the bag of Lucky Charms to get all of the marshmallows out. That took the longest.  But I think they turned out awesome! They're basically Funfetti cupcakes but with the marshmallows as the sprinkles.

I went with friends to Chili's - surprise! - to get food and drinks. Nothing flashy but it was really fun and they got to eat my cupcakes post Chili's.

I love weekends.

This weekend I:

• felt like I was VIP at Chili's with Shannon. Hilarious. If there's a wait, they don't even ask for my last name - they know it, we get seated before other couples that got there before us, we get the best booth in the restaurant, and we get to sneak back into the kitchen to say hi to Dan. (There's your blog shout out, Dan!) Also, shout out to Sean - you're the best. Chili's is probably my favorite restaurant and I don't care if that makes me uncool, hahaha. I love it.
• laid around like a big lazy lazy lazy and watched a lot of winning by the Caps and the Terps. It felt great, though. After last week's hot messiness, I needed to do nothing and just feel like my life was organized and good again. I also spent probably about 30% of the weekend trying to plan fun things to do in the spring because I am 110% over winter right now. 
• went wild in the picture frame section of Target. I'm really into buying photo prints on Snapfish lately. Reeeeeeally into it. So...I bought a lot of picture frames to put up in my room. I'm also about to go wild on Etsy and buy some quote prints. Excited!

Side note: look at what the Maryland SPCA put up on their Facebook Saturday afternoon. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  

Here's a link for you to click on so that you can hopefully donate at least $5.00. Even if only 7 people donate $5.00 each, I'll be at $100. That would be really awesome! 

I love J. Timb.

This past work week was one of the worst weeks I've had in quite some time. Why? Did something horrible happen? No...nope. Nothing horrible happened. I can't think of one bad thing that happened all week - other than traffic, maybe. And at this point, I don't consider that bad, really. Just normal, haha. 

Why was it so bad then? I had a serious case of Negative Nancy-itis and I could not shake it. Nothing was bad - but I was able to make anything bad in my head just by putting a negative spin on it. FUN. One of the most frustrating things for me is being in a negative mood/grumpy mood and not being able to get out of it - no matter how hard I try. It actually ends up making my mood even WORSE because I'm mad I can't change it. That's my life.

I was starting to get really wild and out of control by Wednesday evening -- not even some online shopping and a run while watching Ellen could help me at that point (WHATTTT?).

And then...Thursday morning at 10:00am happened. 

After a lot of anxiety (hey, Jackie) and stress and finding out (the hard way) that apparently our work computers hate it a lot if you try to buy tickets from Ticketmaster so they won't let you order them, I was able to get Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z tickets at M&T for me and Paul! Ahhhhh yessssss. We're way at the very top, in the back - usually where we sit for Ravens games, haha. But that doesn't matter! Tickets weren't that expensive and I get to see my crush that I've had since elementary school in real life again and be in the presence (it kind of counts...even if I am really far away) of Jay-Z. 

After this, my brain and my week got good and life is normal again. So, just want to shout out to the Ticketmaster gods for hooking me up with being able to buy tickets under $100.00 so I could afford tickets. Thanks a lot. 

Oh, and P.S. - feel free to click here and help me raise $$$ for the little puppies and kittens.

I love weekends.

I've felt so unproductive the past few weeks/weekends but this weekend I feel like I finally got my groove back.

This weekend I:
brought my bangs back to life. They've been missing for probably the last 2 months and I'm so happy to have them back. My face isn't the same without them. I need them in my life. My stylist/hairdresser laughed at me because I was so excited about her cutting them, haha. She said, "it's the little things in life." Holla. Except bangs are not little things to me. They are everything.
hooked myself up with a new purse. Finally. FINALLY. I have been using the same one for probably two years and that's not very girly of me. I'm so picky about my purses/bags which is the main reason why it's taken so long. I'm also cheap and can't afford all of the nice ones that I actually do want. Either way, I went to Target and found the perfect one. It was only $30.00 (the cheap-o in me was so happy) and it's just perfect. Again, it's the little things in life. But purses are kind of big things, right?
celebrated my BFFs new kind-of job (or field placement) by going to Chili's. Chili's is the perfect place to celebrate. And you know what? It got her a free molten cake. Where else could you get free food/dessert just because you're celebrating something? PROBABLY NO WHERE. Chili's is the best. 
watched some of the NFL combine with Paul on Sunday morning. Hilarious. Google "Mike Glennon" and TELL ME HE DOES NOT LOOK LIKE HE'S 16 OR 17. He's my new obsession because I'm going to love laughing at how young he looks. Can't wait til he gets drafted. He'll be the new Anthony Allen. Or maybe not. No one can replace Anthony Allen in my life. But this Mike Glennon kid already has me lol'ing. I've got a weird sense of humor, I guess.
played (more like watched) baseball with Shannon, Nick, Paul, and Steve. I'm definitely not very sportsy. I try (sometimes). Can it be spring already so I can be outside and not be whining about the wind/how cold my hands are?

If you haven't donated and want to, there's still plenty of time! My Fundraising Page.

I love 5ks + animals.

Christmastime craziness + work ridiculousness + being lazy because it's winter and cold weather and snow make me lazy + Disney vacation life + being astronomically (yeah, it was that bad. I don't think I've ever used that word in a sentence before) sick have kept me away from blogging for the last 2-ish months. But I'm going to try really hard to update a lot again!

A lot has happened but luckily (or is it lucky? I graduated college) for everyone that reads this and doesn't care about any of my life recaps - in which case, you should stay away from my blog, I have a horrible memory and can't remember anything that happened (in detail). So...instead, I'm going to talk about two things that are coming up that I'm really looking forward to.

It took indecisive me about 2-3 weeks to decide I was ACTUALLY going to do it, but I registered for my first 5k and it's the Color Run! I'm doing with some of the same lovelies that I spent my SuperBowl night with (AHHH RAVENS AHHHH WORLD CHAMPS WHAT'S UP). They've already seen one bad side of me - the side where I drop all of the bombs (F bombs, etc) and make up inappropriate insults (like Kaeperbitch) - so I'm excited for them to also see the side of me that's sweaty and gross too! Bonding. Obviously, I'm also pumped about just getting to do my first 5K and it being the "happiest 5k on the planet." I started running again today. Doing a mile has been my speciality for years so stepping it up to 3.1 miles might be a challenge but I'm excited about it! I gotta get myself in shape anyways so it works out. 

Remember last year when I first started this blog and blogged about the Maryland SPCA March for the Animals? Did you hate that I would always talk about it and ask for you to donate $$$? If so, I'm really sorry because here we go again, hahaha. 

Here's a link that will take you where you can donate: My Fundraising Page.

Please donate? Please? For me? For Sasha? If you don't do it now, be grateful that I'll give you other chances via Facebook, Twitter, etc. over the next few weeks! 

It really is for a good cause. The Maryland SPCA is the greatest. And a big bonus is if I get to my goal of raising $300, I'll buy Sasha an adorable costume to walk around in (TBD)! Last year there were a few beagles dressed up as sharks. COME ON. Imagine the pictures. 

Last year, my goal was $250.00 and I'm pretty sure with the help of a lot of really great people, I exceeded that. Please donate and just imagine Sasha (possibly) in this costume: