Friday Letters

Dear hubs,

Thanks for calling me every day to let me know how beautiful everything is at your hotel in the desert. And how large and nice your hotel room is. And how you've had several celeb spottings already. I had fun laying on the couch last night. And I spotted several celebs through my tv. Does that count?

Dear "unfriend" button,

Thanks for being so faithful to remove the drama and annoyance from my daily facebook feed.

Dear sister,

Your Christmas gift came in and I love it {for myself}. Good thing you bought me the exact same gift.

Dear no-shave November,

Are you only allowed to be celebrated by men? Or are women invited as well? Just wondering...

Dear Corey and Topanga,

Thanks for making a possible reappearance so that I can relive my childhood. Or just end up feeling super old since you have a kid on the new plot line.



Gross Pinterest Project

I must warn you that if feet gross you out, you may want to stop reading. This post has some pretty nasty feet pictures. You have been warned!

Also, the owner of the feet wishes to remain anonymous. For the record, it's not me. ha!

I'm linking up today Mythbusters style! I've seen this pin floating around quite a bit...

Click the picture to take you to the original link.

The caption on pinterest says that this will take off a layer of dead, dry skin, so I was very curious to see if it actually works.

Basically, you put a layer of shaving cream on your feet.

Take equal parts warm water and listerine.

Soak a towel in the liquid solution and wrap the towel around your feet.

 Let is soak for 30 minutes.

 Take off the towels and rub around the dry areas to rub off the dead skin.

Dry your feet.

 Apply lotion.

Ingredients--I bought Kroger brand Listerine. I'm not about to spending money on the real stuff when this hasn't been tested!

Does it bother anyone else that this stuff claims to take off a layer of dead skin with the same stuff people use to clean their mouth? I'm definitely no dentist, but that just doesn't seem like it would be good for your teeth.

Foot before

You were warned! Yuck!

Soakin'

 So, after I took He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's feet out of the towels, there was no layer of skin waiting to be rubbed off. It was pretty much the same effect as if you had soaked your feet in water for a while. No change. Very disappointing.

It was an overpowering smell of Listerine--like knock you down strong!

Since I'd already gone to all the trouble, I decided just to go ahead and get the foot file out to do some work.

And then I rubbed in some lotion. 



  Foot after--looks like a moisturized foot with cracks.

I definitely would not suggest anyone else doing this. Maybe these feet were just too far gone that there was no help for them. But you would think that at least some of the skin would come off. Oh well..live & learn.

Anyone have any ideas that actually work for a foot that looks as bad as this one?

Thanks for hosting Katie & Steph!

Downtown Dining

Our sweet friends Rob & Allison invited us to eat with them one night this week. Since Rodney's leaving me to go to Vegas on Wednesday (boooo!), we had to make plans for early in the week. We don't usually go out to eat like this on a Monday night..just for the record.

I had never heard of this, but Memphis puts on Downtown Dining each year. For $20.12 you can have a three course meal at your choice of several different restaurants downtown. I'm talking nice restaurants where you probably couldn't leave without spending over $60 on a typical night.

I love food and I love a good deal, so this was exciting!

We all decided to go to Blue Fin since we had heard such great things about their food.

Demon possessed?

I was a little worried since the Grizz home opener was downtown last night, but we had no problems at all getting parked and to dinner. The food was delish and we will definitely be going back!

Thanks Helene, Emily ,Kathleen and Co-Host Sarah for hosting!

Weekend Update

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! Here's a little recap from my short but fun few days.

We got up bright and early Saturday morning to drive to Starkville to the MS State game.

It was HOT outside, so the game was pretty miserable. It definitely wasn't what I expect November to feel like. Welcome to the South.

Forcing a smile for the camera...

Needless to say, Rodney wasn't too happy with the outcome which made for a long ride back home.

Sunday morning started early with Sunday School, and we received a blessing from Bro. Sam speaking through Stephen's story in Acts. Follow that up with a little Cracker Barrell. Yum!

Self-portraits=yuck. Just a rockin' at Cracker Barrell.

My sweet friend April invited me to a holiday open house on Sunday afternoon, and it was such a success! I was able to buy a few Christmas presents, and there's nothing I love more than crossing a gift off my list!

Here are a few of the people that were there. No matter where your location, you should look these girls up on facebook. Some of them offer great deals and even free shipping!

There's Sew Sweet Monograms for monogrammed children's clothing as well as trendy adult clothes.

Also, Jewelry Box Auctions was there with these ahhmazing fleece lined leggings. I can't wait to actually wear these when it gets a little bit cooler. They had some adorable jewelry as well. Statement necklaces for cheap!!

Here's the one I'm in love with...

Eighteen dollars!

There was also 31 Gifts, Scentsy, & Blessings Unlimited. There were also some initial door hangers and some precious homemade wooden painted frames, but they don't have websites to link. :(

Sunday night, I cooked dinner for us, April & Dev, and it was digusting. Not my finest culinary moment. Oh well. 

How was your weekend?  

Friday Favorites

I'm linking up with the Bargain Blonde today for Friday Favorites!

• Christmas Music-The day after Halloween means it's time to break out the Christmas tunes. Love them! Gets me in the holiday spirit every time! My current listens include...

as well as several "Now That's What I Call Christmas" volumes. (Yes, they're still around)

• Girls Bible Study- I look forward to spending time with such Godly women each week to encourage each other in the Word. It has been such a blessing and I've loved getting to know each girl! Right now we're doing this study on Ruth...

It's good stuff!

• Aquaphor--amazing...seriously, I need to stock up for the winter months to keep my lips from turning into a chapped mess

• Red cups and holiday drinks at Starbucks-I've been more excited about this than I was when the fall drinks came out. Gingerbread Latte...yummm...

 Have a great weekend y'all!!

Halloween Recap & Pinterest Fail

Hope everyone had a safe & happy Halloween yesterday! I dressed up for work trick or treat as Raggedy Ann.

What a sweet doll! :) haha

And we're back again linking up this week with Beautiful Mess & Keep Calm & Carry On for

Saw it. Pinned it. Did it.

Today's post should be called Saw it. Pinned it. Screwed it up. Because that's exactly what I did.

Everyone has seen the iced coffee recipe from Pioneer woman floating around on Pinterest.

Looks delish, right?

I had gotten fed up with spending so much money at starbucks when I could just make it at home myself.

As you know already, I'm not Mrs. Susie Homemaker by any means, so when I read PW's recipe, I knew I needed to follow it to the letter.

Since she used enourmous container, I needed to use them too.

So, I bought two of these on amazon for $25 each. As well as the cheese cloth and strainer since I had none of these items on hand. I also bought a pound of coffee at starbucks.

After following all the instructions, I was so excited to try my first glass of iced coffe. I am not a patient person, so it was a big deal to let the coffee steep for so long. After pouring the liquid (I'm not even going to call it coffee.) into a pitcher, I noticed it was the consistancy oil. Oh well..maybe this is just a side effect of making it at home. I'm sure it will taste fine.

Nope.

 It was terrible. And the worst part is that I have no idea how I messed it up. Usually I can say specifically where I deviated from the recipe and shouldn't have, but I can't think of a single thing I could have done wrong. 

Now I'm stuck with huge container and cheese cloth that I will probably never use again. Typical.

Halloween Scrooge

I'm not a fan of Halloween. I hate all things scary. Just watching the previews for scary movies gives me nightmares. Driving in our neighborhood scares me with all the spiders and such decorating every yard.

 Last year on Halloween, it took me over an hour to drive from the front entrance of my neighborhood to my house. ONE HOUR! There were multiple hayrides down the middle of the streets (people...hayrides are for fields and back roads. Not neighborhoods.)

I was so excited when I checked my email and had a new email from the HOA saying no unauthorized vehicles pulling hayrides through the streets are allowed. Policemen will be issuing citations. Then at the end it said....Trucks pulling trailers are okay. Ummm..no they're not.

In addition to the slow moving 4-wheelers and hayrides we experienced last year, there were kids everywhere. I don't understand the parents that allows their kids to run free at such a young age. I was so paranoid I was going to hit a kid. They were darting between cars with no adult in sight.

To make me seem even more Scroogy, I will not be handing candy out (again this year). You have to sit at the end of your driveway in our neighborhood if you want to hand out candy. It is way too cold out there!

Bah hum bug!