One Warm Snowy Day

Today was supposed to be really warm. It got warm enough to go without a jacket, but it wasn't hot or anything. Now it's chilly. And it's supposed to snow! I'm uber thrilled for the snow to come! =) Fall is probably my favorite season, but I look forward to winter and the holidays all the same.

Here was my day:

• Read a little (I really need to go write a few more reviews on amazon)
• Help clean up the kitchen
• Watch Hogan's Heroes
• Go shopping for wedding gifts
• Get totally let down at Walmart

Okay, I'll elaborate a little on that last part. Walmart is supposed to be there for people, ya know? Well, I went there today to get some things for doing my hair for the wedding and to get some other things for someone very special who has a birthday coming up...... My list for the hairstyle? 

1. A nice headband
2. Bobby pins (These essential hair helpers tend to evaporate after a month or so at my house. Anyone else have that problem?)
3. Styling gel

Okay, so I wasn't totally surprised at the lack of nice headbands. Target seems like a better place to go for that. Still, it's disappointing when you can't get what you need at Wally World. 

Moving on to bobby pins? The rack was empty! How can they be out of BOBBY PINS?! I finally found a pack of 48 pins for 4 dollars. You do the math. 

Yeah, four dollars divided by 48 bobby pins equals: totally dumb purchase IMO

Three strikes and you're out, eh? Not too hopeful about the styling gel. But I actually had the opposite problem here. They have about 50 or so types of styling gel. And as I said before, hair products are pretty foreign to me. So I have no clue if what I got will work or not. But at least I got something!

So that was the less productive part of my productive day. Oh, well. 

Time to go make some guacamole - if the avacados are still good! Hope you all have a fantastic evening!

O Happy Day!

Remember this post???

http://ramblinrose506.blogspot.com/2011/01/coat-love.html

Well.... Today I got the yellow trench! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! I'm ecstatic! I've only been looking at it with sad longing for months.

It was 60% off.
I had that $10 off that I told you about yesterday.
Mom had an additional 15% off.
And I still had half of my Christmas gift card.

I'm very happy!

Fun Things on Friday

Today I'm just going to name some random things that I think are fun/cool/whatever. Maybe you'll find something you like somewhere in my mish-mash of happiness!

First up: I got a card for a free birthday drink from Starbucks... so I finally got to use it yesterday. I got their passion tea. [For those of you who don't know this, I am not a big fan of coffee, but tea is my favorite drink ever! So it only makes sense that I get the cheapest thing at Starbucks even though I could have whatever I wanted.]

Anyhow... I got my tea at a Starbucks near King Soopers and then sipped on it for awhile. We ended up in Target and my tea was gone. I was really sad 'cause it was so good! Then I had a thought: There was a Starbucks in Target, and I can get free refills with my registered gift card... The only problem would be that I was in a different location. But I really wanted more tea, so I went and asked. And they gave me the refill! Totally made my day!

Item numero dos: 

Anybody read Terri Blackstock? I love her books! Most of them, anyhow. My dear friend Bailey has a job as a receptionist, which gives her some time to read. BUT... since she's working all the time, she can't get to the library a lot. Enter moi, her library-addicted friend with similar reading passions... I check out books for both of us. (It makes me feel a little bit better about have nearly 40 items checked out when I know it's between two people!) Anyhow... enough of the background. The simple fact is this: Bailey said that she wanted to read Terri Blackstock's Restoration series. So I checked out the first two. I stayed up til one this morning reading the first one. It grabbed me from the very beginning. I wish I'd just checked out the whole series at once, but I suppose that wouldn't have been good for me health-wise. lol Anyhow... if you like suspense, survival stories, or maybe even sci-fi, give this series a shot!

Next up! This post is waaaaay cool. Hayden's blog is one of my new favorites! I love finding kindred spirits online! Anyhow... I am going to have to find The Art of Tangled at my library. =) The art for Flynn Rider? I am SO glad they made him the way they did! Some of the concept art was pretty awful!

More happiness? I got a $10 off coupon for Kohls --- for a minimum purchase of $10! And I still have half of my Kohls gift card from Christmas. Do I sense some shopping coming on? I hope so! 

This week I wore sandals and flip-flops! Winter used to be one of my favorite seasons when I lived out in the country... but since we've been in the city? Not so much. So I'm really looking forward to more warm weather! I was going to post this video right onto my blog, but embedding has been disabled. LAME. But that's a song I've had stuck in my head at different points this week. Hmm... I should watch that movie again. =) Love it! 

Aaaaaand last, but not least:

Today we are celebrating my sister Erin's birthday. Her actual birthday is tomorrow, but we've got some things going on, so we're celebrating tonight. I got a Papa Murphey's gift card 1/2 off from Plum District, so we're going to have pizza! And then us girls will probably have a movie night and watch Tangled. Assuming, of course, that we can find out why the audio on divxstage isn't working. 

Anyhow... That's some of my life's happiness right now! I hope ya'll are finding lots of little things to cheer you up, too!

Toodles!

**All images courtesy of Google

Coat Love

Okay... I've been trying to convince myself that I'm not one of those insane people that has a fetish for a particular item of clothing. Well, I guess I am one of those people after all.

Women and shoes get thrown together a lot, and I'll admit that I have more than one friend who's into shoes. I have friends who do purses, shoes, t-shirts, hats, etc. And I thought they were crazy to want so many varieties of one thing.

Now I realize that I'm kinda getting the same way. With jackets and coats. Unfortunately (or perhaps FORTUNATELY), most jackets and coats are outrageously expensive, so my closet isn't completely loaded. My wish list is loaded, though. Especially when it comes to trench coats. Look at these beauties!

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I'm not sure that I would look good in the yellow, but the style is *awesome*, is it not? It makes me think of Captain Wentworth, therefore jacking the coolness level up some billion points. =P

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Totally awesome. My friend Mary is the one who introduced me to this Nancy Drew style jacket. I am going to be looking for it on eBay for awhile until I maybe actually get it! =D (yeah... in my dreams)

This sweet little coat cannot be found anywhere. Or anywhere I looked, I guess. It used to be available in camel and navy, and isn't it just adorable? LOVE.

I can't find this one, either. Other than this picture from a news article on the fact that trench coats never go out of style. If any of you have a clue where it came from, let me know! I really want to find an adorable affordable trench. Do those three words even go together?

So yeah... Confessions of a trench lover. =D

Toodles!