Technically, I ended up with a “Snow Day” today.  It wasn’t meant to be that way, but that’s exactly how it worked out.  Also, this post may be a little too much personal information for you – fair warning.

Yesterday, I wasn’t feeling my best… I thought it had something to do with the ever changing Mississippi weather, but when I finally got home last night, I quickly realized exactly what was going on.  A UTI.  You see, I get these pretty frequently.  I know exactly what they are when they happen, I know the exact prescription I need, and in my opinion, I shouldn’t have to pay a doctor for that information.  They really need an OTC med for this thing!

I was getting ready for work and just knew that I was going to have to go to the doctor today.  I text my boss and told him I wasn’t feeling well, I knew what was wrong, I wasn’t contagious, but I needed some antibiotics and that I would be at work today, I just wouldn’t be feeling my best.  With the snow-pocolypse of the South {don’t judge us, mmkay!?}, he told me to just get to the doctor first thing and not to worry about coming in unless he ends up needing me.  So here I am…. with an unplanned off-day.  It’s ok though, I had tons of blog work to do.

Now, before you tell me all the ways to prevent a UTI, I can assure that I know them.
Yesterday, I wore these work pants that are little snug in my nether regions… I will refuse to wear those again until I lose a few pounds in the tush.
I drink a lot of caffeine – I love my coffee.  Instead of just coffee though, I happened upon a few diet soda’s this past weekend….  I seriously need to take a lesson from myself because this is my rant on soda:
There have been times in the past when I would drink a single sip of a diet coke and immediately feel a UTI coming… you think I’m crazy?  I’m not kidding.  Soda’s are so unbelievably bad for us, yet we still drink them.  I still drink them.  Every time I get a UTI, I make the correlation that I’ve recently had a soda.  I don’t drink soda’s very often, if I do, I try to drink Sprite, but it never fails that I have an ugly UTI waiting for me around the corner after I sip on a soda.  BAM.  I need to learn my own lesson.
I definitely don’t drink enough water.  I’m trying to get better with that at work, I have a good drinking system, I just need to increase the amount that I drink.

When I started getting UTI’s frequently, I started taking Cranberry pills.  They are a amazing!  I can pop a few of those and it goes away.  Sometimes though, sometimes… I don’t catch it in time and I end up in unbelievable pain, heading to the doctor for some legit drugs.  There was a time when I would take a cranberry pill every single day to keep UTI’s away, I’m thinking I need to go back to that.

This was after just 50 minutes inside the doctors office.

The other frustrating thing though… I’m allergic to pretty much all the heavy drugs, so I get stuck with Cypro which takes a few days to kick in.  Luckily I don’t break out in hives by day 4 though and it still kicks the infection to the curb, so I guess I can’t complain.

And my last frustrating thing…. I just started this new job.  My health insurance doesn’t go into effect for 90 days, so this idiotic UTI sucked a whopping $130 from my bank account.  Talk about feeling broke – especially when I told them exactly what was wrong and exactly what I needed.  I practically did their job for them!

Ladies, I’ve never been pregnant and I’m 99.9% sure pregnancy is worse, but I would like to bet that on the list of female crap that we deal with – a UTI/Bladder Infection ranks #2, even above our regular monthly friend.  If you’ve never had a UTI, feel blessed.  When I get a UTI, I can’t think of anything else, I can’t imagine another ounce of pain, I just hate it…. hate it so much.

Delicious! Arbonne Tea and Fizz Stick mixed together – perfect on this chilly day!

So here’s to being healthier by losing some weight so my pants aren’t so tight, by drinking more water, and by steering clear of the soda crap!

Sadly,  I’m not feeling my best today.  I’m not sure what’s up, but I feel just kind of bleh…. low energy, minor headache, can’t concentrate… that type of feeling.  I’m still going to try to get some work done tonight for the blog though because this poor things has been a-suffering since I got this job.  I’m also going to pick up some Arbonne products I purchased, so I can’t wait to share those this month!

This past weekend was wonderful.  I headed out for Starkville on Friday after I got off work.  I went straight to Lacy and Noelle’s because we had planned the most spectacular girls night.  #Itwasthebestnightever Some of you may think that a girls night should involve going out with just the girls, enjoying a nice dinner and some drinks while being dressed all fancy.  If you do happen to think that, then you haven’t encountered me and the most stellar of girls nights!  Our girls night consisted of a homemade veggie pizza, cheese sticks and marinara, strawberry cupcakes with cream cheese icing, and mulan.  I hadn’t seen these girls in way too long and it was quite obvious that we missed each other.  I did instagram these pics, sorry about that, I try to bring different pictures to different social media outlets, but I didn’t really have much else to go on here.  Also, if you saw my instagram, did you see my hashtag and did it make sense?  It was a HIMYM reference and I kept singing that throughout the evening.  Lacy and Noelle are somewhat lame and don’t watch nor like HIMYM so they didn’t find it as funny as I did.  If you know what I’m talking about, then I greatly appreciate you and the fact that you like HIMYM.  Also, if you’re now singing #Itwasthebestnightever in your head, I assume you’re also singing #catsittinforlilysmom and #catfuneral because I did that too.

On Saturday, I met up with Nick and we went to a wedding in Starkville.  The wedding turned out to be more fun than I expected considering I hardly knew anyone except the Bride.  Luckily, Nick had some friends mingled in the crowd, so we conversed with a handful of people.  Eventually though, I got the dancing bug and that’s what kept us there the majority of the night.  I didn’t get any of my own pictures, but they had a photobooth and Nick and I got a strip of pictures.  I put one of the strips in my office today, so my office is starting to feel like my own!

On Sunday, Nick and I ran some errands around town.  I needed a new headlight, so we picked that up and Nick fixed that for me. {Seriously don’t know what I would do without his expertise!} We went to Lowe’s, Tuesday Morning, and Walmart.  Because I got the new headlight, Nick really wanted me to drive part of my trip home in the dark so I could use them and see how they worked and if I liked them.  Because of that, I decided to stay for dinner, so we ate dinner on campus with his meal plan which saves us a lot of eating out money.  As always, it wasn’t super exciting to leave, but I had another great weekend in the books.  I’m so incredibly thankful for the people in my life and the blessings they bring!

Since I wasn’t feeling well today at work, it made the day seem a lot longer than usual…. I’m glad to finally be home where I can get rested up while catching up on things here and there.  I feel completely bogged with ideas for a thousand different things, I need to get pen to paper and jot all this stuff down.  I still haven’t caught up on my bloglovin feed either… a majority of my night will be spent doing that as well.

How was your weekend?
What do you usually do for girls night?
What’s your favorite go-to Disney movie?

I adore my people.

I can assure you that it was not my intention to skip out the past few days.  My original plan was to get back into town Monday night and post about my trip to Atlanta from this past weekend.  I got back into town and I was exhausted, so I didn’t.  I have been nothing but GO GO GO since I got back into town.  I finally had tonight to relax a little and catch up on some things – like laundry and cleaning and blogging.

This past weekend, Nick and I headed to Atlanta to see his best friend.  It turned out to be a wonderful weekend and we experienced some new and exciting things!  (Don’t worry, Nadine, next time I plan a trip to Atlanta, I’ll be sure to stop by and visit you!)

Here is what we did on Saturday