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This ain’t no fashion blog – Pumps
Yesterday I walked into the office with one of our HR girls. She was dressed nicely in business clothes, I of course in jeans, but I couldn’t help but notice her shoes. Ugh! I’m not much for plain pumps to begin with but these has horribly long, pointed toes. As we walked I kept wondering how in the world she wasn’t tripping over the long pointy tips. I would have killed myself. Not to mention after a day of wearing something like that they would be all scuffed to hell. Clearly I’m not the best walker in the world. 🙂
Here is a pic I found similar to what she had on.
This is the best pic I could find and maybe they weren’t quite that pointy but they had a nice point to them.
Honestly I HATE shoes like this. I don’t think they are attractive AT ALL! Not to mention, where do your toes go? (Yes I know I have freakishly long toes but still.) I think they look unattractive and uncomfortable.
Just so you know what I’m talking about I found another pic of some pointy toe pumps that I do approve of. Would I wear them, probably not. (Long toes anyone?) But I do at least think these look nice and attractive.
I have plans to start with the Christmas decorations tonight so wish me luck!
Happy Friday!
~k
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Holiday Humbug?
I feel like Thanksgiving was super early this year and I’m having problems getting into the Christmas spirit. Last Friday Mom and I braved the crowds, at lunch, to do a little Black Friday shopping. We found a few items and I bought a few more gifts for Matt.
When we finally got home, I pulled in to the driveway and what did I see, Christmas lights on the house! My awesome husband had put them up without me even mentioning it. I think he grumbled something about it being cold as balls over the weekend and Friday was in the 60’s. 🙂 Whatever, I now have lights up outside!
On Sunday he asked if I wanted to help him get the Christmas stuff out of the attic, to which I grumbled, NO! I wanted to have a super lazy day and I had no interest at all in starting to decorate. I still have no interest. My goal all along had been to decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving so hopefully I will be more in the spirit by Friday.
I have decided I want to hang some wreaths on the 2nd floor windows. This could be a challenge but Matt has said he will help. He probably would prefer I not kill myself trying to get them up. Hopefully the windows open for cleaning and we can just stick them out that way. If not I have plans to hang them from the 3rd floor windows using fishing line. Should be interesting. 🙂
Happy Tuesday!
~k
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Matt and I had a nice thanksgiving day. We woke up, finished straightening up the house and waited to begin lunch. Matt put the turkey in the fryer a little after noon and my parents arrived around 1:30. I started the rolls when they arrived and then began cooking around 2:00. Everything went fairly well and by 4 we were almost ready to eat. The stupid corn casserole took a lot longer to cook than the recipe said but it turned out to be a fan favorite.
On the menu this year we had turkey, of course, dressing – it was okay, Mac and cheese, sweet potatoes, corn casserole, green bean casserole – which was actually my least favorite dish, and homemade dinner rolls. I think we now have an Edwards family menu. I can’t believe I forgot to take a pic of our spread. 🙁
I mentioned I was making homemade apple pie on Wednesday night. Peeling the apples was the WORST but making the crust was pretty easy. The pie itself was delicious. It is definitely getting added to the menu but not until I get an apple peeler. I told Matt he was lucky he hadn’t asked for this or he would have been peeling apples. Ugh! I did take pics of the apple pie process so I will share those. 🙂
I hope everyone had a great day!
~k
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Faux Thanksgiving
Last week, Matt decided he wanted to fry a turkey this weekend so we picked one up at the grocery store along with a few other items for our Thanksgiving meal. We decided we would run to Costco and get another turkey for Thanksgiving. Well while at Costco yesterday we couldn’t find a turkey the right size for Thanksgiving so we grabbed a smaller one to fry when we got home. We didn’t think it was frozen until Matt started to cut it open and then he realized the inside was still just a tad frozen.
Matt put the bird in the fryer and we let it cook for a while before I started a few side items. I made some sweet potatoes, which were delicious and stuffing. The stuffing was a little lacking for me and I added some cranberries to my side. I think I’m going to have to play with that a little more. It was also a little too gooey so I’ll adjust my cooking on Thursday. We also made some gravy. It was pretty tasty but it wasn’t quite thick enough for my taste so we might adjust that a little bit more as well.
The bird looked pretty delicious out of the fryer but there were a few spots close to the bone not quite cooked. We just ate around it. 🙂 It was delicious. I’m kind of glad we did a little test run before Thursday, not that we really did anything on the menu but dinner was yummy!
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The crud
On Saturday Matt and I went to the NC State game. A few of our friends had their small children with them so of course Matt and I have fun playing with them. Matt was lucky enough to get to hold Taylor who is almost 2 for most of the 1st quarter while I played with Thomas who is 4.
I love little kids and I love playing with them until, until their little kid germs get on you. Honestly I have no idea where this stupid head cold came from (it’s been going around) but I am NOT enjoying it at all! It started maybe Sunday night and I woke up with a sore throat on Monday. Tuesday was pretty much the same but I could fee the congestion in my head so I stopped by the drug store for some Sudafed on my way home. I knew I wouldn’t sleep great if I took one so late but I knew I needed to get something in my system. Needless to say I did not sleep well that night.
Wednesday morning I took more Sudafed and decided I would take Nyquil and Afrin before bed. Ahhh. I slept much better last night but as soon as I got up my head stopped right back up. Boo! Thankfully I don’t really feel that bad aside from not being able to breathe. So that’s good. I just hope I can kick this crap to the curb and soon. And I hope Matt doesn’t get it. He’s already said he’s going to be a big baby if he gets it.
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Biting off more than I can chew?
This year Matt’s parents will be in England for Thanksgiving and his brother will be working in Atlanta. My parents are now about 15 minutes away so they will be joining us for Thanksgiving. This will be the first time in about 3 years I think.
Since Matt and I have been together, I have been determined for us to find our own Thanksgiving traditions, including foods. The past few years we done this and that with the hopes of finally nailing down a menu but this year, this year I am going to do all of the cooking myself (I’ve even labeled all my recipes so I will have them moving forward). Matt will deep fry (with our oil-less fryer) the turkey and I will make the sides.
We sat down the other day and came up with a rough menu. Yesterday at work I started looking for recipes for the items we want to have. I guess everything on the menu is pretty standard but I really want our kids (and us too) to look forward to the familiar foods that are Thanksgiving. I am also adding a few new items to our menu this year including homemade rolls and an apple pie. 🙂 I had a test run with the rolls a month or two ago so I know what to expect but I’ve never made an apple pie. Honestly I’m looking forward to this little experiment. I’ve decided to make the pie the day before. This should allow me plenty of time to cook the food without worrying about dessert. I also plan to prep a few items the night before so I can just throw them in the oven when I’m ready.
Hopefully the day will be semi-stress free if I have a plan. I’m sure the wine will be flowing so that will also help. 😉
~k
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I’m glowy
A few months ago I mentioned my new makeup routine. I am still totally digging this combo but in the past month or so I’ve added something else to my skin care regime. I added Cod Liver Oil capsules. Of course, I stumbled on this little gem on pinterest one day (apparently this was something I saw, read and did not pin.) Anyway, I thought what the hell so I ran to the vitamin store and picked up a bottle. The bottle contains like 500 pills and was around $15.00. Pretty good deal really.
So I’ve been taking the Cod Liver Oil for a month or so now and in the past week or so I’ve noticed how much “glowier” my skin is. I even had a friend text me to see if there was something I wasn’t telling her. No that’s not the reason my skin looks nice. I am really starting to think it has to do with the Cod Liver Oil. It’s the only thing I’ve changed recently. I’ve only had a few small breakouts since I started taking it too.
If you are looking to add a little something to your skin care routine I would highly recommend adding this oil. It has tons of benefits not just skin related benefits. But who doesn’t want glowy skin?
~k
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It’s the little things
I mentioned we moved into our new office, finally. Well we just found the mother load of office supplies. I LOVE (like it’s kind of weird) office supplies. I had a job in TX and I got to order the office supplies. Favorite thing ever! I was always buying myself the good pens and stuff. It was fun. When I moved to NC our office was very short of office supplies. It was like pulling teeth to get simple things like white out. So you can imagine my excitement now that I sit a few feet away from the office supplies! WOOHOO!
I probably should have prefaced this post with I’m a huge dork!
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These boots are made for walking
Oh man I hope so!
My new boots arrived from shoedazzle today! They are great! I was a little worried about how big they would be around the calf area but with my jeans on they fit just fine. I was scared they would look a lot too big, even though it seems like all the boots now are that way, I like a more tailored look. I don’t have any great pics bit here goes.
Happy Election Day!
~k
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Mr Julio is 3
Julio’s birthday is November 4th according to me and Matt. I can’t believe he’s been in our lives almost as long. Not a day goes by that he doesn’t do something adorable!
Happy birthday Julio!
~k