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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.
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So apparently
When you have a really few bad days at the casa you come home to this….
Yep, that would be wine, cookies and Easter candy corn (seriously who even knew they made that!) But that leads me to what a
wonderful husband I have. I know I say it ohh about once a month but I truly married a wonderful man.There are so many things he does that make me so grateful I finally found him. Mind you I had to move allll the way to NC but I think he was well worth the trip. 😉
I love you Matte! Happy 10 Monthiversary. {2 more to go! Watch out!}
~k
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Spring is here
Well it has arrived on our door. 🙂 Over the weekend I finally took down the Valentine’s Day wreath and changed it to our Spring wreath. This burlap wreath is so versatile, it’s great. Just a few simple changes and it can go from one season/holiday to the next.
~k
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Man Pleasing Chicken – Pinterest Post 2
I made this recipe Sunday night and I must say it lived up to it’s name. I’m not a huge chicken fan mainly because most of the time it still tastes like boring old chicken but this was pretty tasty. The recipe is super simple too. All you need are a few chicken breasts (or thighs) and 1/2 a cup of Dijon mustard, 1/4 cup of maple syrup and 1 tablespoon of rice wine vinegar. I ended up using red wine vinegar because I couldn’t find rice wine vinegar at Target and I don’t think it really mattered.
Mix the ingredients together. I used a large measuring cup. Then put your chicken breasts in an oven safe dish, salt and pepper both sides. Next pour the sauce over the chicken but make sure to leave a little for dipping. I also basted mine about half way through. I baked my chicken breasts for 30 mins at 450*.
I am definitely adding this recipe to my “must make again” list. And going forward pinterest posts will receive a PP Two Thumbs up or a PP Fail tag.
Oh I forgot to take pics of the before but here is just how good man pleasing chicken was.
~k
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I am having issues with my blog header/page lately. I want a change, I want to keep the owls but
I want something different. I feel like I have no creativity lately for this. Maybe I will find my creative
juices after a week long vacation. That happens in a WEEK! Wooo hooo!
In case you haven’t noticed I have added a travel blog tab to the top of the blog. Matt and I plan to
start documenting our travels. We really should go back and document our London Trip from a few
years ago. I will leave that one to the hubs. 😉
PS I’m just trying this out. I’ve seen a few blogs that do this so we’ll see what I think.
~k
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Happy Birthday Brooklyn Grace!
At 2:53pm today Brooklyn Grace made her entrance into this world. I actually knew Brandi was at the hospital yesterday and in labor when I wrote my post about her birth announcements. 😉
It was a really long day as the girls anxiously awaited word Brooklyn was finally here. Awww! Such an exciting day. I can’t wait to meet the newest little VIP’er.
~k
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An announcement….
I can do that. 🙂
I am currently working on birth announcements for Brandi over at Pigtails and Pacifiers. Baby Brooklyn should be here any day now and she needs a cute little card to tell the world she has arrived.
I am really excited to start working on these. As much cussing as I do while I’m in photoshop I really enjoy stuff like this. I’ve even been asked to make Save the Dates for a girl at work. Thankfully her wedding is next year so I have some time before I need to start working on hers. I’ll definitely post pics of all of these when I get done. Maybe one day I can make some money but for now it’s a fun hobby. 🙂
~k
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Subway Art
I think this stuff is super cool. I love all the different things I run across on Pinterest. Well baby Brooklyn gave me the perfect opportunity to finally make something. Granted Brooklyn Grace hasn’t made her debut yet but I have a feeling she will be here shortly.
As you know a few weeks ago I went to VA Beach for a baby shower, Brooklyn’s baby shower. One of her gifts was a subway art with her birth stats. Of course I couldn’t put the real information in because she’s not here yet but I told her mom I would fill in all the correct information once she arrives.
It took a good bit of time and a lot of cussing {clearly this is very normal for me} for me to finally get everything just as I wanted. I also managed to lose ALL my hard work one night when my computer decided to restart. Dammit! And wouldn’t you know I hadn’t saved anything. This actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise because I started over and the whole thing went much quicker. While researching how to make these I saw a few people had used Photoshop. But I found Publisher was actually much easier to maneuver.
Here is the semi-finished
~k
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You will not defeat me frog! – Pinterest Post 1
I am happy to report my first Pinterest project (for the blog) is complete. There was lots of cussing and I’m pretty sure I used a half a roll of thread but my frog is complete! Actually it looked like the sewing machine threw up on me tonight. I had thread everywhere.
Okay so here’s how it happened. The other night I set up my new sewing machine and cut out my pattern.
Front and back. I had quite a few issues with my corners and ended up ripping out the seams a few
3ishtimes. I finally was like what the hell and just kept going. I’m not sure what I did but my seam got better and I continued to the end. I must add that I might be the slowest sewer in the history of the world. For serious I was like putt putt putt around this thing but I did it!
Completed sewing. Then it was time to turn him right side out. I started with the legs.
Then I worked the rest of the body out. I used a chop stick to help me push out the corners. This was actually pretty tedious and was almost slower then my sewing.
Right side out and empty. I used about a half a pound bag of rice to fill mine. I added a little bit of cloves to make it smell. (I might have added a tad too much.) You can use any herbs you like. Cloves were not my first choice but it was the best smelling herb I had in the pantry.
Filled but I haven't sewn the bottom closed yet. I must say my hand stitching it pretty atrocious so there aren’t any pics of that but once you have your frog full you just stitch together the bottom.
And front. 
Front He’s a cute little guy and he’s all mine. I think I will add some eyes and take him to work to sit on my computer. 🙂
~k
