sunshine + makers mark

Today we had beautiful sunshine! It was crazy wonderful and truly a sign that spring is well on its way! I got to spend my day with my favorite little girl, E, and umm... when did she become not a toddler anymore?! I am still surprised looking at this picture how old she looks in this picture. Anyway, we played outside and ate cupcakes which means today was a good day.

Also, after hunting and tracking these down for over a month, I finally got these Seahawks dipped Maker's Mark bottles. I don't really care that much, but John just had to have one, so he put our names and his brother's on a wait list  after the Super Bowl and the store finally got some in. He did most of the hunting, tracking, and calling- I was just the one who went to the store. John said he plans to never drink his, but the day he does, either something really good happened or something really bad happened. I'm thinking I can sell mine to some crazy Seahawk fan.  They only made 4200 bottles so people are going crazy. There are even internet forums about how to get them and where to find them! I just checked on craigslist and they're going for $100, $300, even $1000- for a bottle that will sit on a shelf and collect dust!! Wtf, people are crazy.

Looking cute for spring time

Yesterday we sprung forward one hour for spring which means spring is well on it's way! Thank goodness. I was getting tired of dusk at 5 pm and wearing a ton of layers because it is cold outside. This quarter in school, I had lab or clinical every school day, which meant I wore scrubs every day while all my pretty clothes rotted in my closet... Then on off days, I'd wear leggings because it was an off day! What a vicious cycle of not being cute.

Next quarter, I'm only confined to scrubs 2 days, so I have 2 school days to wear cute clothes and 3 day weekends (who knows if those will be cute days)! I am excited. You may think this is totally silly, but I'll take my tiny wins where ever I can get them. I think I'll be starting Style Monday posts to start inspiring me to be cuter... starting with this! I made a cute outfit with pieces that look like things I own. Definitely something I would wear and definitely something cute!

via Polyvore

Lil Jon

Uh, we were too hungry to take before pictures of our food, so I only got after photos.

Lil Jon (not to get confused with this Lil Jon) is a little breakfast place in Bellevue that has been there who knows how long. They have a giant Lil Jon sign outside like those diners along the highway that try to attract commercial truck drivers, which is odd because Lil Jons is right in the middle of suburbia. As a kid, I saw the sign all the time, but hadn't ever actually eaten there. It was just a part of the scenery on our way to Michael's. Anyway, I think Lil Jon caught on fire a little while ago and they had to rebuild the whole thing. When they reopened in January, it was a big deal among the Factoria-lites and I finally got to go today!

It was alright. Maybe a step up from Denny's, but honestly I don't know what all the hype is about.

Napping before noon

trapped in this room for 4 hours while it looked like that outside

Something has been really off about this week. After my big test last Friday and an abnormally larger number of assignments due this week, I am relieved that it's all over, yet at the same time, worried that I'm not doing anything very productive... I've spent a lot of time playing PvZ online and rewatching the first season of Arrested Development. Half of my days I am still in my pajamas until at least noon. I didn't have class today and woke up at 7:30 am only to go take a nap at 10:30! Not sure if that's a win or lose, but pretty sure this is the calm before the finals storm. Can we please just fast forward to spring break and spring weather?!

The weekend is over. Again.

Why do these weekends keep passing by so quickly? I make a big long list of things I have to do by Sunday evening, and here I am starting at the top of my list right now! Actually, I will start after this blog post because this blog post isn't on the my list at all, but I feel sad not posting at least once every three days.

The most horrible thing about this weekend is that I am getting sick. I have been so good this quarter at not getting sick, but its finally caught up to me. I've had a headache all day and my throat is dry. I'm pretty sure it's because I've been stressed the past week and a half for that test and now my immune system is like, 'yay! lets relax!" which means I get sick. The good thing is that clinical is over so I don't have to miss any days and make them up later (one of my fears).

There were two great parts about this weekend. The first is that John found us the perfect long distance past time: Plants v Zombies Garden Warfare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's basically Modern Warfare, but Plants vs Zombies themed! It's the best of both worlds: shooting and killing stuff for John, and cute cartoon plants and zombies for me. At the beginning of this weekend I was really bad and I felt like 8 year old me again who was never able to pass the third world (Hercules) in Kingdom Hearts on PS2. But now I can actually keep up with some of the other players online! Let's be honest, those players are probably 8 year old kids whose moms won't let them get actual Modern Warfare, but it's okay because they don't know that I'm a procrastinating college student in her twenties.

The second awesome part about my weekend was that I got to see my beautiful friends from high school! They are the definition of homies- friends from my home. I was so excited to see them that I was convinced to go to Aston Manor as soon as one of them said, "Why aren't you coming?". That usually happens. I left early though because I wasn't really feeling it. It was too loud, dark and crowded. I couldn't even talk to the person next to me and everyone was shoulder to shoulder. I don't think that was really my scene because I am an old grandma and I should be wrapped in a blanket knitting sweaters for all 8 of my cats. 

Anyway, time to start on that list. Have a good week everyone.