Instagram!

1. Selfie :p
2. Work laptop
3. Free desserts in our new cafeteria
4. Lots of free food from our new cafeteria
5. Spoiling myself a little with some shopping
6. Fire and Ice
7. Hemp lip balm
8. Roxbury Crossing
9. Shells from the Cape
10. Black and Mild filtered tip
11. Project Runway on Hulu
12. The butterfly room
13. Pizza with Benjamin
14. Tasty Burger
15. Franklin Park Zoo
16. Ben's FJ
17. Sunflowers
18. Gladiola
19. Rainbow
20. Funny carrots
21. Feeding the horses

Instagram!

Here are my photos from the last two weeks on my Instagram. I've been a slacker and there aren't too many, but here we go! :)

1. Tazo Chai tea latte made at home!
2. Institutional Researchers poster my boss hung up
3. Peanut shells
4. Peanuts!
5. Cup of noodles, my guilty pleasure :)
6. Sam and Dan from Sam's graduation
7. My sister and I from our vacation last summer
8. Ben catching butterflies
9. Shadow
10. Ben's kitty Lenny sleeping in my hamper :)
11. Pineapples growing in the Prudential Center!
12. Homemade dinner. Broccoli Cheddar soup baked with rice and chicken. It was eh.
13. My pretty new Vera
14. Wentworth crosswalk
15. Lucky shorts!
16. A house up the street I love
17. Ben's insects
18. I LOVE THESE! Ah, strawberry Pocky sticks! :)

Etsy Wants!

I tried my hand at photoshop today at work. I spent some time in the library playing around with Photoshop and made this of my most wanted Etsy products right now!

I'm trying hard to decorate my room. Ben's room is so full of all things he likes and collects and it's so him. My room is getting there, but my walls are bare! I can't take it. I've been searching for prints and decor, and these are my favorites!

I don't really know how to explain it, but if I were to hang something up, I want there to be more than one. I guess I like repetition? or like how you could make it into a pattern, I really don't know, whatever the case, I don't like it to be single.

I could buy everything from Liz Clements' Etsy shop. I absolutely LOVE!!! her illustrations. The four I have there are

1. Bluejay
2. We Not Me
3. Cry Me a River
4. Fearless

I think the first one I'd buy would be We Not Me. They're all to die for.

Next is the hooks! These will probably be the first purchase overall. I'm scoping my funds this weekend and plan on making the buy soon! I love the pair and how they're gold and gawky and tarnished.

And the owl set. This is so precious! I love how there is 8 of them, and depending on my money situation, I'll probably order these too. I think they're so adorable and love how each of them are a little different. I'd love to hang these throughout my room.

Hopefully if I keep this up (new feature perhaps?!) my Photoshop skills will improve. Not terrible for the first time trying to use the program on my own. :)

Monday Update!

Okay so maybe I should have considered how busy I'd be with my Mom's visit when I was making my schedule. I guess I should of just had planned to start it on an even day, like August 1st instead of... June 25th? Guess I was just anxious.

I got a few of my things done here and there. But mostly I was just so happy to be with my mom and the blog kind of went to the back of my mind.

But I had an amazing weekend.

We got some great food, went thrifting, shopping, flea markets, watched the Olympics, and just bonded and talked. I actually cried saying goodbye to Bernadette at the airport. And usually it's me yelling at her to stop crying and she's sobbing. Yesterday was the opposite. I guess that I've just grown up so much in the past couple of months that I just missed having my mom take care of me. Now instead of me telling her about stupid girl dramas, I'm talking about the bills and grocery shopping and cleaning and my work schedule and this and that. Instead of arguing about stupid things, we both fought over washing the dishes.

I didn't even take pictures! The weather wasn't the greatest so I wasn't too motivated to do that. But, like I said, I was just so into the moment and hanging with my mom.

I showed her the scrapbook I was making for her. She couldn't stop looking at the three pages I made and told her that made her night and she couldn't wait for me to finish it. She's going to mail up some baby pictures she loves, too. She wants a little of everything in her scrapbook and I think that's an awesome idea.

My mom was also so impressed and interested in my little craft life! She was asking me questions and really into it when I showed her some of my favorite blogs. She actually asked me to email her the links!! It was so great to have her behind me with all of this. Usually she's like "oh you won't do that" and now she's like "oh can you make me something like that?!" and I love it! I even showed her Project Life and she thought the idea was really cool. She doesn't think I'll be able to keep up week to week but also agrees it's pretty simple to document each week so she has some faith in me. I can't wait till the new products are available to buy! Ah!

My boss is so good to me. He let me have Monday off so I could spend the day with my mom. He even made sure I got a pay for it :) So thankful how lucky I've been. Except now my week is a day behind. My Tuesday feels like Monday. But that's okay, I can't complain :)

SO! For the UpDaTe!
Today, before I go home from work, I plan to....

• Rearrange the Calendar
• Create 2 goals for the month
• PostalPix order
• Finalize Financial Aid things for the Fall 2012 semester
• Insta update
• Work on some formatting of the blog

 For after work I plan to...

• Catch up on some at home projects 
• Work out "What I Wore" for the first post on Friday
• Clean
• BE PRODUCTIVE!

I can do this!
I know I've been slacking and not doing everything I've wanted, but it's not like I'm sitting around doing nothing. I've just been so busy with things I just need to take care of first. That's life. I know when classes start I'll have way more free time to do all the things I want.

As for home life, there's good news!!! Alex is moving in! So I'm so glad I sacrificed one of my days last week to spend the day with him and Ben and talk to him about moving in. I love Jack but I'm over living with him... I'm excited that the house is about to change up a little bit. Yay!

Instagram

So here is my first Insta post.

Here are my pictures from Instagram since I've had this blog. Enjoy :)

1. Ben and Jerry's date
2. Ducks at the Boston Commons
3. Cheeseboy!
4. Colorful ties
5. Frog
6. Fruit dessert
7. Chocolate dessert
8. Ben driving the boat
9. Ben and I
10. Kisses!
11. Lauren and I
12. Benjamin with my hat
13. Canoe ride with my love


I'll also find a better way to format this in time, but for now, it's okay :) Also, there are some pictures that are repeats on the blog. Sorry! I don't mind them :)