That Time I Survived An Earthquake: High 5 For Friday Edition.

I attended my first year of college in San Francisco (as well as visiting there all the time because my G-Ma lives there) where they are pretty much known for their earthquakes. I never experienced one. Not one. At least not while awake. I kinda felt cheated out of the San Francisco experience. But now my life has forever changed. Here in Sacramento, on Thursday night, I felt my first earthquake. INSACRAMENTO! Where we are not known for earthquakes. Like at all. Facebook is blowing up. This is serious stuff. The news is all over it. Like fo’ realz tho. Honestly, I thought it was our new “pet” rat that is living in the attic making a bunch of noise. And then Paul, our roommate, runs out of his room and says “did you feel that!!?”Cody is competing with the local tv news stations to put out a better story. (Obviously his is better, mostly because I love him and I hate the news, but also because his story is way more entertaining.)

Then someone said that Cody was wrong on how intense the quake was and I gave them a non filtered response. Cody said I should probably be nicer, but Paul said it was just hilarious. I am going to go with Paul’s answer.

1. So that was my first high five. It would be yours too.

2. This has been my desk at work lately. We are making playdoh…they just want to eat it…

3. I know I have already showed you this photo, but I just can’t get over it. Her tongue is just chillin’ folded over!

4. We found out our new June special and I am sooooo excited over it. (I am nerdy and I love this whole jewelry thing. Don’t judge.)

5. I was totally entertained when I found this at Marshall’s the other day. Its only $5.99 at Marshall’s which is a steal when you compare it to it’s normal price of $6.00…Fail Marshall’s, fail. 

How was your week??

Linking up with Lauren and Jeanette.

Does Jimboys Count As Healthy?

I really need to stop writing posts so late in the evening. On a good note, I have discovered jimboys tacos and man are they good. I have been bringing my lunch to work with me EVERY DAY since I started (all thanks to Cody who makes it for me) but since Cody has been sick the past few days, I haven’t brought my lunch to work. Mostly because he hasn’t been making it and I have not been able to figure out how to wake up earlier and make it for myself. This whole Cody being sick thing is totally killing my mornings….

Anyways, The weather has been a whole lot nicer these days, yesterday it was only 70! I was thrilled. I am pretty sure we are going to be back in the 90s by the end of the week though. BOOO.

Moral of the story, the weather has been awesome and I love it.

Don’t judge my flabby white arms.

Shirt: Marshall’s
Skirt: Target
Jacket: Nordstrom Rack
Shoes: Steve Madden (DSW)
Jewelry: Premier Designs

PS. I was trying to find some entertaining apps to get for my phone and I found a lie detector app. It was hilarious. And told me I didn’t like chocolate….so I deleted it. It was entertaining for a good 5 minutes though.

Who has some good suggestions for some awesome apps for android phones??

Linking up with Lauren, Kristen, Rekita, Agi, Tara

The Tables Have Turned.

Cody is officially sick. I am sorta playing good non-wifey right now. And by sorta, I mean, I made pasta roni for dinner because I told him I wasn’t making him salmon…..I am terrible. oops. I brought him water and didn’t go to a friend’s birthday to stay home and do stuff for him…that counts, right??

Other than that, I have multiple things on my mind right now. Everything is jumbled together. I just wrote a few thank you notes and put them in the mail box already and now I can’t remember if they make any sense. I am not very good at re-reading/editing what I wrote. So hopefully they make sense.

Also, I needed to share this with you:

That is all for today.

Happy Wednesday!

PS. I love wednesday now that I am working. It means that the week is almost over!

Linking up with Shanna.

I Am Going To Keep This Short And Not So Sweet….

Before I start, does anyone know where I can find pretty HTC one X phone cases besides Etsy?

You know that song Cruise by Florida Georgia Line? I love that song. It’s definitely my ringtone. I do feel like I need to specify which song I mean, though. I like the country version.

As in this one:

It is pretty much amazing. Don’t even try to deny it.

After saying all that, I now need to tell you what I can’t stand.

The non country stations now play a “remix” of this song featuring Nelly. SERIOUSLY?!?!? It makes me really sad inside. No, but really though. It is not allowed to be played in my presence. It is awful.

Dear Country music artists,
Please stop letting non country people remix your songs…they sound dumb and they make me sad.
Sincerely,
The girl who liked you for you.

Ok, that was my rant. I am done…well at least for now. Sorry if I offended any of you Nelly lovers.

HAPPY TUESDAY!

Linking up with Tori

My Dog Is Smelly.

This weekend was busy. I hung out Friday night with one of my friends that I was really close with growing up. She has gone through some interesting changes and she is now gender neutral. I haven’t really talked to her in years (we kinda lost touch after our freshman year of college) so it was a huge change to see her. BUT she is totally the same in every other way. It was really good to see her and Cody thought she was totally awesome. The only bummer thing was that neither her nor Cody were very good at helping me pick out bridal shower wrapping paper….BOOOO.

Saturday I had a bridal shower. It was supposed to be from 11-2 but it went til 3 and they didn’t feed us! RUDE. Afterwards, I went to the little boy I nanny’s dad’s law school graduation party. That family is so awesome. And the dad has so many degrees its not even funny. But the best part about it all was that I even got diplomas from law school!

On Sunday we kidnapped my sister after temple and took her up to Cody’s parents house. We saw a few open houses (my sister and I love doing that kind of stuff) and Cody’s parent’s pawned stuff off on us….my poor garage.

So thats what we did, plus I was trying to get over this stupid nausea-y-ness . What did you do?

Happy Monday!

Linking up with Molly.

High 5 For Friday!

The only bad thing about today being Friday is that, it wasn’t Friday yesterday when I was sick and blowing groceries everywhere and had to take a day off of work. (TMI, I know) But now I have to go back to work because it is not Saturday…booo. Anyways besides the fact that I feel a lot better, here are my top 5 for the week.

1. Cody had to work an event last night and I was going to go and “network” my premier business but when I got sick and couldn’t go, he took a bunch of catalogs and handed them out when he had time. I was on FB later that evening and saw this. She was talking about Cody! HAHA Awesome.

2. My Birchbox and Ipsy bag arrived this week. and I am thrilled to say they were both awesome. 

3. Feeding the wild bunnies at work.

4. Peetes running out of normal straws so they had to substitute them with bendy straws. I was totally ok with that.

5. This picture/story. Precious.

Linking up with Lauren and Jeanette.

Guest Post #2, Or: ‘I Hope the Next Berry is Bigger’

By Cody (the bf)

Well, the unthinkable has happened. She’s letting me post again. I wrote a guest post back in December, and was sure I’d be banned from the controls of Amanda’s blog forever and ever. But, she’s not feeling well (her new job puts her in contact with a lot of germs) and I offered to write a post for her. Here’s to hoping it doesn’t suck!

Of all the things I’ve (sorta) figured out how to do in my many years on this planet, gardening is the one thing I would never be able to pass on to someone else. Mostly because any time I have a plant that doesn’t die, I’m amazed. Water and sunlight, right? But the lime tree had that, and it looks like Frosty the Snowman’s arm, stuck in a pot of dirt.

This year is the second year we’ve had a small garden in our backyard. It’s fun watching things grow, but it also seems like what we do is completely unrelated to what happens to the plants. Like, if I were to stop watering them, it would take long enough for them to die that I would probably forget why they’re suffering so much. Conversely, if the plants are doing great, I usually have no idea why.

So far our plants this year are somewhere in between. We have a zucchini plant that looks like it’s big enough to start plotting world domination, but our first strawberries of the season looked like this:

 

I ate it (that’s my hand) and it tasted sweet and juicy, but I had to nibble away with ant-sized bites to avoid gulping it down all at once. I also felt really selfish eating it by myself (Amanda insisted, since the one she tried a few days earlier had been gross), since it was the only ripe one on the plant.

Obviously the strawberry plants aren’t going to be much use if they produce a handful of action-figure-sized fruits, so I need to think of a way to make them bigger… maybe I can draw some inspiration from my favorite TV show and add some radioactive material to the dirt to make them grow faster…

Leave a comment below and tell me what hare-brained scheme you would employ to help our strawberries grow bigger. Maybe we should just shrink ourselves so that they would seem bigger…?

P.S. If you’re reading this, you made it all the way through my post. What the heck is wrong with you??

P.P.S. Feel better, baby! I love you.

I Am An Awesome Procrastinator.

Basically, my friends are awesome. I love having friends that even though you haven’t seen them in a while or even talked in a while, the minute you get on the phone with them, it is like no time has passed at all. That happened yesterday. I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to find someone else to practice my Premier Designs business spiel on before I had to have my conference call at 8pm yesterday (cough cough blogger friends!). I definitely pulled out my friend card on my best friend growing up to make her listen to it. I figured I would get home from work around 3:30, skype with her for like an hour (because we know my 20 minute presentation isn’t all that we are going to talk about) and then read my 2 chapters of the book we are supposed to be reading all before the call that happens at 8. Totally doable, right? Well it was but my girlfriend and I skyped for a good 2.5 hours. Seriously, I love this girl. But once 6:30 rolled around we realized that we both had other things that we were supposed to be doing that evening. I just barely got through reading the chapters by 8! And by me reading, I really mean Cody reading to me…

After my call was over, I realized that I hadn’t eaten dinner nor had I written anything for today yet. I also just realized that I have a bridal shower to go to on Saturday and haven’t even looked for a gift yet….. See, I told you I am on top of things!

So this is what you get today. My sad sob story. That isn’t really sad or sobby….

What are some good last minute bridal shower gifts that you have given? I need ideas!

Happy Wednesday!

PS. We have bunnies that come and hang out on my school’s/work’s campus. I saw them for the first time yesterday and even got to give them carrots! Highlight of my life!

Linking up with Shanna

Gel Nail Polish

I think Mani/Pedis are probably one of the best things about having a job. When I do my own nails, my right hand always looks really dumb. The only problem with getting my nails done, is that at my job, I seriously wash my hands at least 10 times a day. Every time I see a kid, after I take them back to class, I wash my hands. These kids drool a lot and they really like to put their hands in their mouths. I don’t do bodily fluids well, so hand sanitizer and soap and water have become my new best friends BUT hand washing and nail polish don’t get along too well.

I have reached a discovery. I decided when I was in the nail salon the last time, that I would try getting the gel polish in a solid color. I had gotten the french gel polish for weddings before and thought that it was awesome that there was no dry time and that they lasted longer than regular polish but it didn’t last too much longer than normal. Also, I am one of those people that when it chips, I NEED to pick at the rest of the paint. I can’t just leave it. I know it’s terrible, but I know I am not the only one who does this.

Well I got my nails done on Saturday, April 27. Only this past Sunday, did I finally have to figure out how to take them off! That is a whole 15 days of nail polish without it chipping! I was totally impressed. It was definitely worth the extra $10.

The one con I found with this stuff, is figuring out to take it off. I searched pinterest and (obviously) found plenty of ways. I just felt really silly doing it.

Like I said, I felt ridiculous.

You need these things. You also need one of those wooden cuticle stick thingies. And they did say that you needed a remover with acetone in it, although I didn’t try it with an acetone free remover so I don’t know if it would work or not.

You need to buff the nail polish so that you break through that top clear coat. Then dip your cotton balls in the remover and place on your finger nail. Then cover with tin foil so it stays and wait.

After a little while, you can take them off and start scraping the nail polish off with your stick. This process works so much better if you have another person to help but this way definitely beats the alternative.

Have you found a better way to take off your gel polish?

Happy Tuesday!

Linking up with Tori

Never Ask Your Parents If They Need Anything From Costco.

This weekend was nice. I actually felt like I got a real weekend. On Friday we went to the Dixon May Fair and saw Jon Pardi play. I even got my own press pass that we ended up  not even needing. We kinda just walked in and no one really said anything. Well maybe the people waiting in line to get in did…
Of course we had to get churros! Have you ever had the frozen churros from Raley’s/Bel-Air?? They are incredibly delicious!

We had curly fries and my BFF and I somehow got almost a free bottle of champagne. They caught on by the end but we ended up getting an entire bottle for $4 each! They weren’t even giving anyone else champagne. We got them with our awesome and yet true story about how Cody and I went looking at rings that day and we were now celebrating. (The story is true BUT that is just the short version. Cody hasn’t proposed…yet)

Some girl also took her sheep out just for me! (yes, I am sure she would do it for anyone but let me have this, ok!) I thought it was awesome.

We celebrated Mother’s Day on Saturday and drove up to where Cody’s parents live. They live in a really rural area and right now there is a housing development trying to weasel their way into building like 1000 houses on part of the land. We have been trying to follow it because we are totally against it but we hadn’t been up there in a while. It was awesome to see all the signs and the entire community raising awareness. These signs were everywhere! I can’t wait to be able to call this place home one day.

On Sunday we just were doing normal old (un)married couple things. I think the best part was clearing off the washer and dryer! I forgot what it looked like! It was fabulous.

Getting back to the title of this post, we decided that it was time to make a trip to Costco again. My dad called just as we were about to leave, and like the good daughter that I am, I asked him if he needed anything. He said he did and told us to come by on our way over (they live 10 minutes from us) so that he could give us his list and some money. I was stoked because normally when people ask you to pick them up stuff from the store, they pay you after, and I don’t know about you, but my bank account doesn’t always agree with that plan. We got to my Dad’s and he hands me $300 cash, his credit card and huge list of things to get! UMMMMMMMMMMM…..Our cart looked like this

This wasn’t even all of it! We had to get another cart because it didn’t all fit….
His cart.

Our cart.

So much stuff! Thank goodness we took my car because it wouldn’t have all fit in Cody’s “Asian Mobile”

Needless to say, our fridge is no longer this empty. (Yes, that is empty for us)

We ended the day by busting out the BBQ for the first time this year and we were actually able to eat dinner outside.

The potatoes got a little burnt, but everything else was super good. (Cody had fish, don’t worry.)

We were even able to turn on our outdoor twinkle lights.

And last but not least, we got a strawberry off our strawberry plant! Cody said it tasted delicious.

Happy Monday! I hope you had an awesome Mother’s Day weekend!

Linking up with Molly.