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New York, New York!
Matt booked our tickets to NYC yesterday! Woo hoo! Since I’ve never been we decided to spend our 1st anniversary in New York. We will be doing all the fun sight-seeing and general touristy stuff. Matt has also apparently made a pretty cool map with tons of food, sights, and parks. Our goal for the weekend is to find and book a hotel. There are tons of choices so we have both picked a few hotels we like. We will compare them and narrow it down.
As it get closer I might try to list some of the places we plan to go.
We also have no Easter plans for the weekend. We will paint the front bedroom (we bought the paint tonight) but that’s about it.
Happy Easter!
~k
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Damn Birds!
Matt and I have been sleeping with the windows open since the weather has been nice lately. Apparently we have a family/flock/gang of birds living in the trees around our house because those damn birds chirp ALL. DAMN. NIGHT!
Last night, at some point, I woke up and heard the birds chirping and I remember thinking I wish these things would shut up. I guess that translated into my dreams because later I had a dream that I let Julio out of the house and he ran and jumped in the pond to get a bird. HAHA! Of course I ran after him but he was in the water with a bird wing in his mouth. Silly kitty, crazy dream. I woke up thinking how funny it was.
Clearly life has been pretty boring lately. 🙂
~k
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Skinny jeans…
I may have gone shopping this weekend and it may have resulted in some sparkly earrings, another pair of wedges, and *gasp* skinny jeans.
I don’t think I’ve really discussed my dislike for skinny jeans. Now I don’t think they look bad on everyone but well let’s just say I think they should be worn with discretion. Anyway my closet is starting to fill up with cute shoes, cute shoes that are mostly hidden underneath jean legs. My only real option, skinny jeans.
Over the weekend Matt and I ran by American Eagle so I could try on a pair of skinny jeans. I mean up until now I’d not had a reason to even try them on but I needed a new pair of jeans and well, you know the shoe issue. I grabbed a couple of pairs and finally decided on one. I don’t think they look horrible but I do feel a little hippy. I wore them to work today, along with my new wedges, and dare I say I actually felt kind of stylish. *AAHHH* I know right?!?!
So I’m still not completely sold on the whole skinny jean craze but I think they will do for summer.
~k
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It bit back!
You might remember I mentioned in the Belize post that I said I kicked some coral. Well this is what it looks like 10 days later. It’s itchy,red, and bumpy. Ew!
~k
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This ain’t no fashion blog
But today I’m going to talk a little fashion. 😉 Last week I posted about the adorable Jessica Simpson heels I bought. Last fall I found a great J Simpson bag at Stein Mart. I pretty much love everything about it and I intend to buy another one of her bags. It is really nice and looks and feels like a quality bag. All in all I have been more then impressed with her items.
Well today I couldn’t help myself. I ran to Stein Mart to look for some flip flops but as I was browsing the sunglasses I noticed she also has sunglasses! OMG! I was pretty excited. 😉 A lot of them were a little bigger then I like but I did find a pair that looked great on. They are a little bigger then my current sunglasses but those are all wonky and drive me nuts. And these were only $16.99. Score! Again these sunglasses feel really nice and much nicer then the other comparable sunglasses.
Bottom line, I love all the Jessica Simpson lines. She is slowing knocking Nine West out of my life. I do wonder if she will move to baby items when she pops. I kind of hope so, though that could be really bad. 😉
~k
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Well I’ve done it…
The hubs stopped by the Verizon store on his way home and bought me a new iPhone. I may have ordered a few
threecases while at work today. hehe!I am still trying to get the damn thing set up but so far I like it. It is definitely different then my old droid but hopefully I will survive the transition. I must say this brightened up my day. 😉
~k
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I feel the earth move
under my feet and man I wish it would stop! Yessh!
Matt and I arrived in Tampa around 5:30am yesterday morning. I know this because the boat was SUPER loud as it docked. Not that I slept much that night anyway. I have no idea what was going on but I could not fall asleep then I proceeded to have to use the bathroom probably ever hour. Joy. Anyway the de-boarding (is that even a word?) process was pretty quick. I think we were off the boat and in a cab by 8:30ish.
A quick breakfast at Panera and then Jill and Steve dropped me and Matt off at the airport around 10am Our flight wasn’t scheduled to leave until after 5pm but I found an earlier flight so we hopped in line and crossed our fingers we could get a seat. There was a small price difference in the tickets and Matt asked what I wanted to do. “Pay the lady! Give her whatever she wants!” With that we had 2 tickets on the 1:25 direct flight in to RDU. Ohhhh Kelly was a happy camper. This flight arrived in Raleigh almost 2 hours before we would have boarded our original flight.
We pulled in the driveway right at 4:00. Hello house! We opened the door and waited for Mr Julio to greet us. I think we may have been more excited to see him then he was to see us.
After we got the car unloaded and settled in Matt mentioned the house was moving. It was moving for me too. My mom told me this might happen so we dealt with it and I took a few Dramamine before bed. This morning I woke up and man oh man I was all over the place. I grabbed 2 more Dramamine and laid down for a few minutes. Then Matt got up. He walked downstairs to turn the hot water heater back up (since I’d already taken a cold shower) and when he returned he asked for some meds. HAHA!
I think it’s funny he was fine on the boat but needed meds when we got home. Anyway, as the day went on the “rocking” started to subside. Now I still feel a little sway but not as bad. Hopefully this will be gone by tomorrow morning.
~k
We will start posting the travel blogs today, hopefully with pics. 🙂
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A Post About Shoes
Because let’s face it. I am officially on vacation and well I’ve been too busy to do a Pinterest post. 🙁 Bad I know. But anyhoo, I got new new shoes! Woo hooo!
A few years ago I bought a super cute pair of black patent open toed, sling backs from Target. They were awesome. I wore them all the time and they looked amazing. Well in true fashion I wore those puppies out. Like I wore them long after the tip of the heel broke off. Finally I knew I had to throw them away and I was pretty sad. Anyway, I started looking a few weeks ago for another pair with no such luck. And last night Matt and I were getting our clothes together when I figured out I couldn’t bring/wear a certain dress because I didn’t have shoes to match.
Today Matt and I were eating lunch before I ran to TJ Maxx to exchange a belt I got him a few weeks ago. Turns out he needed a bigger size. Shhh! 😉 As we were talking he was like “and find you another pair of black shoes.” Okie dokie. 😀
I ran through the shoe section at TJ Maxx {have I mentioned they opened one down the street from my office? Well they did and I LOVE it!} I was just about to give up when I saw a super cute pair of nude open toed, sling backs by Jessica Simpson. They were a size 6 and I decided, although a bit snug, they would work. Then I turned the corner and realized they had a whole display of them, including a 6 1/2. Score! I tried those on and sure enough they fit like a
glovesock. Now I have super cute nude shoes. I’d been thinking about nude shoes for a while and this pretty much made my decision for me.Cute huh?
I noticed once I got home they have a bit more gold then I could see in the store. In the store they were definitely nude. Oh well. You know I love gold shoes too. 😉
~k
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March Madness
is here! And for a girl who could care less about basketball I love March Madness. Or I should say I love the tournament. I pretty much tolerate basketball during the season but Matt loves it and he is always watching the Wolfpack so I have become a fan, sort of.
If you had told me a few years ago I would be watching the tourney and cheering on teams I would have told you no way in hell! But alas here we are. After my divorce I got way more into sports. Mainly college football because at the time I worked with all guys. If I wanted to be in the conversation I had to know what was going on and having gone to Auburn helped because I already loved college football. That was the same year I filled out my first NCAA basketball bracket. I don’t know exactly how well I did but I had Florida winning it all and they did. Beginners luck, absolutely! Now this is just part of my yearly routine. It helps that work encourages friendly betting and offers a free dinner for the bracket winner. Oh and did I mention I can watch bball on my computer all day? Yeah that happens. 🙂
The Pack plays tomorrow at 12:40 so I will be sporting a tee shirt to work and rooting for my fave ACC team. 😉 I might even have them advancing to the next round. Wish them luck!
~k
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What to do?
The great phone debate has hit our house. iPhone vs. Android. Currently I have the HTC incredible and honestly I think it is pretty darn incredible. Granted it is my first smart phone but I love the functionality and more importantly I love the SIZE! In world where “it’s a phone, it’s a tablet” is becoming the norm, I’m not really okay with that. I have a tablet and I have a phone. I don’t need a tablephone. I don’t understand why the Android phones are continuing to get larger. The 90’s aren’t back! Give me a small, yet functional phone! I need something that fits in my hand since I have attachment issues. 😉
Yesterday Matt informed me I was eligible for an upgrade and I could get the iphone if I wanted. Basically I haven’t asked for a birthday present {hello I got an elliptical} so this is his, you can have this for your birthday if you want gift. I am fine with that but I hadn’t expected my upgrade to be so soon. I figured it would be a few months from. I have not really prepared myself to make the switch. AHHHH what do I do? I could hang on to my incredible for a few more months in hopes of a smaller droid, or I could make the switch.
Anyone want to leave a comment with their vote? you know you want to 😉
~k
PS – in unrelated tech news, the travel blog is up! we will try to update while on our cruise next week so i will not be updating here. and if you are lucky i will blog about the cruise in the next day or so. so stay tuned.
