Friday, August 2, 2013

7 Quick Takes {11}

Zippety-do-da it's F-F-F-Friday again!

Which means, you can find me linking up over at Jens

1. I always get so ridiculously excited for Friday's and I don't even care. It's also August which just happens to mean it's my Birthday month!! Hopefully I don't get too annoying because my Birthday isn't until the 31st so I get to drag it out for the whole month. Seth just loves it when I do that:)

2.You know what else this lovely little month happens to bring? A vacation! And boy do I need it. Seriously, it has been way too long. I'm considering trying to talk Seth into moving to Europe so we can get 6 weeks of vacay like they do over there. Somehow I don't think this will be quite as easy as the DVR was. Anyway, one week in the beautiful Caribbean should tide me over for a couple months. 

3. I'm making pickles this weekend! Canning them that is. I've been stockpiling all of my little pickling cucumbers for the past week and I'm hoping they turn out okay. Canning just makes me feel like a little Betty Crocker. 

4. I have what I like to call a Love-Hate relationship with paying bills. I hate paying bills like water and electric because I know they are never going to go away. Ever. I do love that they are relatively small bills though in the grand scheme of things. I hate paying bills like my car payment, Seth's student loans and the house payment because these are much larger bills to pay. However, I do love knowing that someday these bills will be paid off and we won't have to pay them again. Plus what's not to love about transportation, education and home sweet home? #AmericanDream

5. Every year, since graduating, I can't help but suppress the smothering feeling of wanting to go back to school every time the back to school supplies hits the shelves. I seriously love and always loved school. Those beautifully sharpened pencils, stark white notebook pages and un-chewed pen caps get me Every. Single. Time. Maybe someday I'll go back for a teaching degree so I can stay in school the rest of my life while bringing home a paycheck. Enjoy it while you can kids. Before you know it you will be wishing for nap times and dreaming of the day when your biggest decision was the slide or swing-set. 

Stay in school, you fool.


6. I think I've previously mentioned that my mom is a nanny for a little one year old girl named Charlotte. She is pretty much adorable as can be and my mom texts me a photo just about every day of Charlotte's OOTD. Let's just say this girl has some seriously cute clothes. Since she's not mine I don't want to post photos of her but trust me. Anyways... here's part of the text convo from my mom that makes me smile:)



7. I stopped by my Grandma's yesterday during lunch. Her garden tomatoes haven't turned red yet so I dropped off some of mine for her with some additional produce. Conveniently enough she had just finished baking bread and gave me a loaf. Warm-out-of-the-oven to-die-for homemade bread. I guarantee Grandma has given out thousands of loaves of bread in her life and I have had many of them. However, a lot of them are frozen (cause it freezes beautifully) and I have to wait for them to thaw. I forgot how amazing it is straight out of the oven though. Grandmas are the best!

Some of my haul for the week.

Carb gold!



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8 comments:

  1. Student loans are evil. I hate them. I hate them. I love garden fresh produce and warm from the oven bread though.

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    1. And now I'm hungry again:) Student loans are definitely not my friend.

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  2. #5 made me laugh! Had to share that one on FB. Some of them are actually pretty creative.

    August is my birthday month too. And I love it when school supplies hit the shelves too--but as much as anything I love it because it means the kids are about to go back to school so I can actually get something done!

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    1. Right?!! I was cracking up. August is the best month for sure!

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  3. I am glad to hear that I am not the only one that begins celebrating, or at least planning the celebration out loud, of their birthday at the turn of the month! Mine is October 25 and I feel that the entire month is devoted to my birthday! Well, and now to my oldest daughter because she's an October baby too! Happy Birthday Month!

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    1. A month in advance is the only way to celebrate! October is a great month too:) Anniversary month. And thanks!

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  4. Those analogies made me laugh out loud, for realz! And I hate student loans, but I love paying them down. Once they're gone I might even miss how accomplished I feel after putting down a huge payment.....or not. Because then I'll be putting those huge payments into a savings account! :)

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    1. Heck yes! Dollar makes me hollar! I just want them to be done....

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