Planner

In the past, I've used a planner to help me stay organized with my schedule but for whatever reason the last couple of years I've gone without. I've been wanting to get back into the habit of utilizing a planner for sometime now, so when I saw some on the clearance rack at Target today, I decided it was a sign that the time is now, so I snagged one.

$2.50 to stay organized is definitely worth it.

I'm an Adult

Does drinking chocolate milk make me childlike? Perhaps

Does drinking chocolate milk out of coffee mug make it more adult like? Absolutely

Countdown To the First Day of Fall

The first day of Fall is Friday and although I'll be sad to see Summer go, there are several things that come to mind that I'm looking forward to as the new season arrives:

*Fashion - Jeans, hoodies, sweats, tights, arm warmers, knee-high socks, sweater dresses, coats/track jackets

*Food - Soups, casseroles, and hearty dishes

*Keeping warm by the ever classy electric fireplace while watching movies, reading, knitting, and laptopping

*Taking note of nature's changes, especially leaves changing color, during my runs

BBBS Outing

'Lil and I went to Artistic Beads for our outing today to make some jewelry, something neither one of us had done before. It was a great activity for us, where we could sit and talk while doing a fun project at the same time.

There was so much to choose from - what type of jewelry (necklace, bracelet, earrings...), then what kind (elastic, memory, clasp...), and finally what you're going to put on your piece.

We each decided on an elastic bracelet. We thought it would be fun to do similar ones, so we each did colored beads with letter blocks of our initials. 'Lil picked white and blue for her colors and I went with yellow and green.



sidenote: the picture was taken from my phone, and believe it or not, it's the first time I sent a picture from my phone! It feels good to take another step into the 21st century :)

Ben & Jerry's Newest Flavor

Schweddy Balls coming to a frozen food section near you! Well, in 30% of stores that carry Ben & Jerry's at least.

Ben and Jerry's announced the new flavor today. Schweddy Balls, of course, comes from the SNL skit, "Delicious Dish."




The new flavor consists of vanilla ice cream, rum flavoring, with fudge covered rum balls and milk chocolate malt balls.

You can read more here.

Cross That One Off the List

One of my favorite ongoing lists is my "list of firsts" and I love when I get to check things off that list. A couple of the things I've checked off recently include shot gunning a beer and hot yoga. Today I was able to cross another thing off my list - go to a movie by myself.

It was a kind of a dreary day and most of my friends were out of town, so it seemed the perfect day to get this one checked off. I headed to JC theaters, making sure to hit up the early matinee to score the $6.50 movie ticket and sat down to watch "One Day".

The movie itself was okay, though a little too long in my opinion, but the overall experience was very positive and kind of liberating for me.

Countdown Is On