Random Wednesday

When I went to take these pictures, and got the tri-pod out, Baby Fox, ran to where I normally take the pictures, pushed all the strollers and toys out of the way and posed for the camera...he's such a ham!

Okay and now onto my outfit. You've seen me wear this shirt before, but I haven't done an official outfit post on it. So here it is.

Sweater - Old Navy, Pants - Ann Taylor Loft, Belt - White House Black Market (old), Necklace - Target, Boots - DSW

 

And now onto some Random Things:

Microwave Saga - They told us it would ship in two weeks, we finally wrote them and said we never got a shipping confirmation, they wrote back and said it wasn't going to happen for another 3 weeks at minimum. So we went out and bought a cheap microwave, we just couldn't do it any more...seriously, two weeks is one thing, but 6 weeks...a whole other story! It was so glorious to have a microwave again...I commend people who don't have one!

 I've been wanting to start a Valentine's project now for a week, but haven't mustard up the energy to do so, it just involves paint, what could be harder, nothing, so I'm going to start it tonight...by telling you guys I'm making myself accountable, so maybe, just maybe I'll get it done!

I got 7 hours of sleep last night and it was glorious! Note to self: when you get more sleep, you actually wake up refreshed and not ready to go back to bed. Must do that more often...

Speaking of sleep...you know you blog too much and stalk too many people when you start having dreams about them being in your everyday life. For example, last night I had a dream that I went to a mom's group and sitting there was Shanna! Just to let you know, she was just as nice in my dream as I would imagine she is in real life, and equally well dressed. I think she was wearing a red blazer and some sort of colored jeans and boots.

Happy Hump Day, I only have one more day left of work, woo hoo! Off on Monday, off on Friday, three day work week, I'll take it!

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Random Wednesday

Another week gone by and we're already here at Random Wednesday again. It's funny now that I have started blogging, when something happens, I always think, oh that would make a good post, or that would be good for random Wednesday, anyone else do that? Or do I just think too much?

Here's an outfit from this week, typical work outfit, nothing fancy, but it gets the job done.

Sometimes Mr. has problems taking my picture, not really sure. No matter how many times I tell him to take a full length shot, sometimes he just doesn't want to? Not sure what it is, but all the pictures of me with the jacket buttoned up are half shots of me and doesn't even really get the full closed jacket in, so just pretend that I have that picture :)

Jacket - H&M, Shirt - Ann Taylor Loft, Pants - Ann Taylor Loft, Shoes - DSW, Necklace - White House Black Market, Belt - Target (it's on sale right now only $6.98)

 How can you not love a shirt that has strips and polka dots all in one?! I saw it and snatched it up and paid full price. Okay not really, there was a 50% off the entire store, but it was still full price and not on the sale rack, that's how much I loved it.

Colton decided he wanted an outfit post too...sneaky little guy.

So what did I do? I asked him to pose, he's learning.

White Onsie - Carters, T-shirt - Target, Skull Pants - Baby Gap (when Mr. saw these he HAD to have them for Baby Fox, like it was a NEED not a want type of thing, we paid full price and I almost died a little, but we're definitely getting our moneys worth), Shoes - Stride Rite via Nordstrom's Rack

And now onto some Random Things:
 
The display case in the lobby has a mirror in the back. But not a real one, one of those fake ones like you see at Edwards movie theater, you know the ones I'm talking about, it looks like a mirror, but it's really shiny plastic material? Anyway, this display case is placed so you have to look at yourself while you're walking to exit the building. So you're staring and a morphed (larger) version of yourself and wanting to hide in hole, knowing you don't really look like that, but can't seem to look away.

You know you love your husband when he says he's not going to be home for dinner, so you pick up one of your favorite dinners (Persian food), so you can eat half for dinner and save half for lunch another day, to have him come home early and hungry. How can I not offer those puppy dog eyes half of my food...just means I get to get more next week to make up right? Now that's love.

So our microwave broke (2 days ago)...can I tell you how much we use our microwave?! And of course it broke when we were planning left overs for the next two days. So now instead of heating up those enchiladas I made the other day in 2 minutes, it takes 35 minutes, awesome. Just think of how many times you use yours...yep ours is gone, done, finished. One day it was working and then the next it doesn't heat anything. We called the company it was from, Dacor, and they said that it might be the motor and that costs $400-$500 to fix, I almost choked! I told Mr. and being the great guy he is did a LOT of research and he discovered that Dacor has their convection ovens made by another company, Sharp, bottom line he found this one from Sharp that is the same exact thing for half the price, score! Bad news? It will take at least 2 weeks to get here. Bummer, we are considering buying a really cheap one off of Craigslist...Mr. said, is this what camping is like? haha, kidding, we go camping, it's way worse! I guess Baby Fox is going to get his juice cold along with his milk (we might spoil him and heat up his juice and milk when asked). Wish us luck for the next 2 weeks, I'm having to make dinner more often now, since we can't really heat up left overs easily, might as well make the whole dinner again instead of waiting for it to heat up in the oven. I'll give you one last quote from Mr., right when we realized that we were going to have to heat up our dinner in the oven and it taking 35 minutes, he says "we got to get this stuff situated, it's like medieval times in here". Funny guy, I couldn't stop laughing.

Of course when it broke Mr. had to take the trim kit off to see if he could "fix" it (typical guy), and we find that our microwave convection oven is sitting on 2x4's, what? Is that normal? Please excuse me being in the picture.

Bye-Bye Convection Oven, nice knowing you, but you are getting replaced STAT!


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So Random Wednesday

My first pair of skinny jeans people! They're from Ann Taylor Loft  and they're curvy! You know for those of us that have a little more on the backside then we'd like. I have NEVER found jeans that fit this great! I knew that they had to be out there, all those designers couldn't be designing for those skinny tweens that seem to be buying everything up. I want to buy stuff up too! So if you a little more curvy, or those hips just didn't go back after the baby came, go check out the curvy jeans at Ann Taylor Loft!



Shanna

This whole outfit is from Ann Taylor Loft, I just love that store! I am telling you all about this out of the goodness of my heart and wanting to spread the knowledge and if we buy them, they'll keep making them, Ann Taylor Loft has no idea I exisit or how much I love their jeans. Thank You ATL for giving me the skinny jeans I've always wanted.

Some Random things swirling around in my head:

Making a batch of cookies and then rolling some of the dough into balls and freezing them was the BEST IDEA EVER! Now I can make homemade hot cookies any time I want, take out of freezer, put in oven and there ya go. I have no self control and I'm doing this every night, probably not the best idea, considering I just bought skinny jeans.

Recipe coming soon!

I went to the doctors the other day and got some blood drawn and guess what it says? I'm low on vitamin D, really? I live in one of the most sunniest places and I'm low on Vitamin D. Bottom line I need to start taking vitamin D suppliements, but for the life of me, I can never remember to take them. I have to take 6 stupid pills a day to get the amount I need in for the day. Why for the life of me can I remember to eat three meals a day, but I can't for the life of me remember to take some pills with my food. I hope to get better because I'm supposed to go back in 5 months for some more tests to make sure my levels are good. This is definitely a test I don't want to fail. I've added two reminders at work to take those stupid little things, at least I'll get in 4 pills every work day, now the weekend is a different story.

I want to put more artwork up around the house. We've lived here for three years and we have art sitting on the mantel here and there, and then there is a LOT of blank wall...I think this year, I'm going to try and find some pieces that I love and start putting some holes in those walls. Like these:

 
This actually gives me anxiety because of how much work we did on the house when we moved in, we spent so much time fixing the holes in the walls, and now I want to make more...yikes! I can do this! But why do they have to be so darn expensive?! Both of these are from Z Gallery

What have you been randomly thinking about?

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So Random Wednesday

Hope everyone is getting back into the swing of things, I am still on vacation for another 4 days, woo hoo! It's going to be SOOOO hard to go back to work.

Anyway, since I haven't done an outfit post in a LONG while I figured the new year would be a good way to start, here's my outfit from Christmas eve.

I got this jacket from my husband for Christmas, I absolutely love it.




Jacket - Via Spiga, Dress - White House Black Market (old), Shoes - Jessica Simpson (old)
 

Belt - White House Black Market, Necklace - Swarovski, Bracelets - Forever 21

Some Random things swirling around in my head:

Baby Fox has decided to boycott food (just keep reminding myself, he won't let himself starve)...just when you think you have things figured out, they change it on you and you have to figure out what they are willing to eat, all over again. Joy. On a brighter note, he ate a hotdog for the very first time last night...so maybe he's starting to like real food...keeping fingers crossed we can move on from the pureed food I make him.

I think I like time off of work way too much, I think I never want to go back, although I would miss the extra money from two incomes, so I guess I will go back on Monday.

I cleaned up the entire house yesterday, Christmas decorations are gone! I felt so accomplished yesterday, and ready to begin the new year fresh and with a clean house!

Happy New Year once again let this year be the best year yet! I know I'm looking forward to what's in store for this little family!

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Blue Elmo

Thanks You Shanna for sharing the silence and support and I believe after searching around Neely is the one who thought this up with some friends help, goes to show what a great blogging community there is and how fast something can spread if we really want to.

• Baby Fox thinks Cookie Monster's name is Blue Elmo - Funniest thing ever! Yes Baby Fox you are correct that is a Blue Elmo, good work on your shape and color recognition. Something is sinking in, those flash cards are working! Why did my almost 2 year see this and I never did?

Via

Via

• Happy 42nd Anniversary to my parents!  Once when I was a small chap, I went and separately asked my mom a set of questions and then asked my dad, all of their answers were EXACTLY the same. I don't remember the questions, but I do remember being blown away that they had the same exact answers. I only hope that when Baby Fox asks Mr. and me questions we answer the same exact way.

• Transitioning from no window treatments to window treatments is weird. For example I leave for work at an abnormally early time, Mr. is almost always still sleeping, therefore I tip-toe to the bathroom close the door and then turn on the lights. Then when I leave I turn off the lights and try to tip-toe to the door, which is halfway across the room. Now this didn't used to be a problem because enough moonlight would come in through the windows and allow me to see the door. This morning however, I ran into the wall, literally walked right into it. In my defense it's a small wall that jets out (like 18 inches or so), so when the door is completely open you can't even see the wall. I think I need to channel my inner toddler and get a night light.

• After watching Gossip Girl through the good times and bad times I stayed up way too late on Monday to discover who GG was on the night of,  I knew if I didn't I would just read about it and then the surprise would be ruined. Despite what everyone is saying, I liked who it was (I won't spoil the fun, just incase you haven't watched it yet, or didn't read the tabloids). I thought the episode was good, but I'm a sucker for happy endings, but when the reveal finally happened, I almost missed it. Mr. was talking to me and I said, wait, I think I just missed the reveal! I don't care about inconsistencies, seriously people just enjoy the show for what it is and move on with your life.

• I can't believe I'm going to have a 2 year old in 6 days! Where does the time go?!

He's about a week and a half old in these pictures

And now, he's swimming and jumping into the pool...

I think Mr. and Baby Fox should join the circus, what an act!

Linking up with Shanna at Because Shanna Said So for Random Wednesday