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Oh, How Pinteresting!

Good Morning my darlings! I have a lot of pinteresting things I want to do right now… and the sad part is, is that I’m motivated to do it, I just don’t haha.  I keep thinking, oh I need to do that asap, and then the days just slide by, each day by day.  But it’s making me realize as I write this, that I’m not getting the most out of my 2013 like I want too, so maybe this will be the push that I need! 

**Also, does pinterest annoy anyone else on blogger with the stupid sources format?  It gives me a pain in the tail EVERY.SINGLE.TIME! It won’t center with my pictures and it’s almost impossible to write a comment under each one, grr…. **




I made this the other night for dinner and it was delicious and super easy.  I steamed up some brocolli to go with it and made 1/2 a cup of rice.  It was a perfect portion size for 2 people! (Excuse the elementary star spangled banner plates)

I’d love to make these for my bff’s
Source: snhblog.com via Heather on Pinterest



Doesn’t this look DELICIOUS!?
I would love this for my room!
I’m absolutely having a favorite things party with my girlfriends! Can’t wait!

I seriously love blogging, but…

blogging

I know I’m not the only awesome person out there who loves blogging, obviously!  But aren’t there a few things that bother you?  I’m not talking about the major things that make some bloggers annoying or not the best, heck, I may be that blogger at times.  But there are also GOOD things in the blogging community that can be so frustrating, things that really bother me! 

Why can’t you know these people face-to-face?  I  know that some bloggers get together and get to meet, but I’ve been doing this for over a year now and haven’t gotten to meet any of my bloggy friends and it makes me sad.  I know one day I’ll get to know some of them, but the truth is, I probably won’t meet all of you wonderful ladies (and a few men in there too)!

Link-Ups, There are so many great ones!  I saw someone tweet yesterday asking how you choose which link-ups to do in a day when there are a bunch of great ones!  I personally am not one of those people that likes to do 2 or more link-ups in a single day.  I know it would probably grow my numbers to be a part of that many link-ups, but the truth is, I don’t think my readers would like to read through all that.  I don’t like for my posts to get too long and at some point I just think too many link-ups is too much!  But seriously, how do you choose?  I join in on Friday Letters and It’s OK Thursday EVERY single week and I don’t want that to change, so when I hear about other link-ups on those days, I want to join, but I can’t get myself away from these 2 that I’ve been doing for so long now.

This needs to be my job!  Do y’all feel that way?  You would prefer to spend so much time blogging, growing your blog, meeting new people, commenting and so on… but there is this whole other life, your real life, that you have to continue on with.  It sucks sometimes, but I know there are people out there who do use their blog as their business and I would love for that to one day be me!  That time is NOT now, but it’s a dream… maybe one day!

What are your frustrations with blogging?  (not what other bloggers do that irritate you)
What is your dream for your blog?
Have you had the chance to meet blog friends IRL?
How many link-ups do you do per week?  Which ones?

Week{end} Re-cap!

Friday night was a perfect evening with the boyfriend.  We did a “Disney Themed Movie Night!”  If you’ve never done it, I strongly encourage it!  We had a great time with some Greek gyro’s and our movie of choice: Hercules!  We had this great idea a few months ago and haven’t been able to do it often, but we plan on pairing food and movies like Chinese food with Mulan, Italian food with Lady and the Tramp.. and getting creative, we could do Pizza and Toy Story (Pizza Planet!).


It was a relaxing evening, good food, and good movie!  Perfect date night, and it’s inexpensive, so if you’re on a budget, I strongly suggest it! 

Saturday was spent working on this blog and working on some work for the job.  I was recently asked to do my first product review, so I worked with that on Saturday as well and I’m so excited to show y’all what I’ve come up with and share the opportunity to give it away!  Post will be coming in a week or so!  Saturday morning was so relaxing, I caught up on some blog posts from you lovely people, enjoyed a pot of coffee using one of my Christmas holiday packets I got in my stocking this year, and I added some whipped cream and cinnamon, perfection!


Saturday Night, the boyfriend and I attempted a bloomin’ onion and boy was that thing good!  You can find the recipe {here}!  It turned out so great y’all! It had a wonderful spicy kick to it, the sauce tasted just like it does at a restaurant.  

We tried using this device that nick had in his cabinet that was suppose to slice it into a blooming onion, but it didn’t work out so well, so we ended up with 2 separate parts of the bloomin’ onion!  It’s ok though, we went along with it.


I wasn’t patient enough to get a good pick of it finished with the sauce, but it was amazing!  Nick really loved it and I’m pretty sure we’re going to make it again, but we may try a “skinny” recipe so it’s not so unhealthy.

We also made our famous avocado salsa!  We got the recipe from {here} and it’s become a favorite that we make frequently!  We also eat it with blue corn chips, it’s just amazing that way!  Seriously you must try it!  We make it for friends and then they become obsessed.  We always joke about inviting them over when we make it, but then realize that we probably wouldn’t get any, so we don’t! Yeah, we’re selfish that way!

Sunday was pretty much a lazy day, I got some good house cleaning done and I did a little more blogging.  I also purchased my Erin Condren planner! YAY! I wasn’t planning on getting one, but I seriously need it… My life feels so chaotic at the moment, I can’t wait to have my goals and to-do lists.  I’d love to use more for the blog to help that grow as well.

Hope y’all had a great weekend like I did.  This was a MUCH needed recharge.  This past week was just plain crummy, so the weekend helped out a lot and I’m ready to hit the ground running tomorrow, hopefully with a good workout! 

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