Good morning, loves!
Hope this post finds y'all having a fabulous start to the new week! :)
Today is gonna be a complete random mess of a bunch of things..just try and stick with me!
First up: weekend recap.
So if you haven't already figured it out, I work at an ice cream/shaved ice/sno-cone shop. It's actually my dad's shop and because I am such an amazing and selfless grateful daughter, I work for free...and I work everyday. Mon.-Sat. from 12-8 and Sun. from 1-6.
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| Sorry it's a little blurry...but there it is! Pretty cute, right? |
Anyway, because I work so much and so late..that doesn't leave too much free time for this chick. So Friday night, Jordan (being the best best friend that she is) agreed to wait until 10:00 to eat dinner so we could go out after I got off work. To make it even better, my sweet daddy (showing his gratitude) offered to pay for our meal! How sweet :) Love him so much!
So we got all dressed up and headed to Greenville around 8:45 and decided to try and eat at Mellow Mushroom. At 9:30...there was a 30 minute wait for TWO people. Seriously?! And I was worried that we were gonna get funny looks from people for eating so late...psh. Yeah, right.
So instead we took our cute butts to Olive Garden, our true favorite, and had a wonderful dinner! If you've ever made the mistake taken the time to look at the nutrition facts for Olive Garden, you know that their dishes are most definitely not healthy. So normally, J and I just get soup, salad, and breadsticks...but since it was girl's night, we chose to treat ourselves (and vowed to start a very vigorous workout this week) and divulge in this goodness....
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| J's chicken parmigiana on top, and my chicken scampi on bottom. |
I used to get chicken scampi every single time that I went to Olive Garden, until that fateful day a year and a half ago when I chose to look up the nutrition facts..and I hadn't had it since. Until Friday night, that is. Promise that this isn't gonna become a regular thing, though ;)
Funny story: J and I always joke about whether or not people think we're a couple when we go out to dinner. And we especially made a joke about it Friday night when our waitress asked if the check was together or separate and we both said separate and I handed her my dad's card. I find this especially funny because I'm about 5 inches taller than J and about 40 lbs. heavier so it would make sense that I would be the "man" in the relationship and pay for dinner...which I did. And did I mention that halfway through dinner I told her to try some of my chicken and because we're so close..I just stabbed a piece with my fork and reached over the table and she just ate it. Normal for us, but probably didn't look so normal to the table sitting across from us. Whoops, sorry. ;)
We finished the night with this bad boy...
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| Sonic banana split -- delish |
Moving on!!
Saturday morning, J and I reunited once again for a mini shopping trip. Since I work all day, my mornings are reserved for any errands that I have to run, which requires me to get up super duper early every day. Anyway, I had been needing a new pocketbook for a while now so I headed to Marshall's and found this little beauty...
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| TH, only $30! |
I reallllly wanted this beauty by Steve Madden because it was the perfect bag for summer and only $40....
But I know myself all too well and this bag would be beige by next week. :(
Sunday: Went to church, went to work, and came home and enjoyed every bit of this yummy-ness...
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| Hibachi shrimp and grilled veggies = Heaven in a box. |
Next up: my sweet girls.
For those of you who follow me on Instagram..you've probs seen this picture. But when I was loading up the car for work on Thursday, I left my car door open while I went inside to get something else and walked back out and saw this...
This was after I had already told her to get out 3+ times...anybody else see the sheer disappointment in her face? Broke my heart :(
Later that day/night...we had a terrible storm and after I got home, I was about to give sweet Daisy her insulin shot and when I opened the door to the garage..she charged right in! She hates storms. Therefore..this was the scene in our kitchen for the next 45 minutes...
Daisy not lying on the sheet I layed out for her, and Rue guarding the kitchen to make sure she stays put and doesn't infringe on her territory.
Sweet sisters, right? I know. I raised them well.
Moving on: my mom.
My mom loved to read just as much as I do and she had acquired quite the book collection before she passed. I needed a new book to read after finishing NS's "The Lucky One", so I grabbed one off of our bookshelf Friday and when I sat down to read it later that day at work, I opened it and found this...
This may not seem like a big deal to some people, but to me it meant so much. I used to see her handwriting every day, and over the past 8 years I've only seen it a handful of times. So when I do see it, it just makes me feel really close to her, especially knowing that I was about to read one of her books. Love you mama, miss you so much.
Lastly: blogger help.
I am once again in need of some blogger help. Everyone know those cute little twitter, facebook, pinterest, instagram, and email buttons?
HOW/WHERE DO YOU GET THEM?
Please help a sister out. I'm desperate.
Have you stuck with me this far?! If so, praise you! ;)
Be sure to come back tomorrow for my Bachelorette recap!!
And I promise, promise, promise to FINALLY do my birthday weekend recap sometime this week..so keep checking back for that as well!
Have a fab Monday! xo
