Thursday Thoughts

I'm linking up with Jennifer over at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom for Thursday Thoughts!  This Thursday I'm thinking about...

 

~ I've changed the name from "our little bean" to "our little baby peanutty!"

 

~ I'm already over excessive bloating and gas... not happy, not comfortable!

 

~ Got my FFF box yesterday, what a ripoff and still no e-mail response back!!!  I will be calling tomorow.

 

~ I stayed off of Dr. Google today and what do you know, it was an anxiety free day!

 

~ Mr. Wonderful is working late today... extra money means extra happy wifey!

 

~ My dad says I'm having a boy because peanutty is already giving me h*ll.  Told my dad not a snowballs chance in h*ll, peanutty is a girl!

 

~ Our kids names: Delaney Jacqueline M.; John Michael M.; Peyton Elizabeth or Peyton John Michael M.  Depends on what we have and whether or not we get a boy and a girl in the first 2 trys...  Tim is the last male in his bloodline so he has to have a boy... we are not having more than 3 kids, just not happening.

 

~ Tomorrow is not only Friday but payday and my 3 o'clock Friday and Mr. Wonderful and I have a fun weekend planned! 

 

That's it from here, what are you thinking this Thursday?



So What Wednesday Pregnancy Edition!

It’s So What Wednesday over at Life After I Dew and I’m linking up! This week I am saying SO WHAT if….

~ I'm obsessed with the little bean growing inside of me, like beyond obsessed!!!

~ I'm obsessed with GTS out of every little pregnancy symptom I come across, so far I'm not liking what I see... my doctor is starting to become upset with me and Mr. Wonderful has now put a password on his laptop so I can't obsess at home... Thank goodness for work and my cellphone!

~ No one knows I'm pregnant except for a select few...I'm safe airing it out on my blog since no one on FB knows I have a blog and honestly at this point if anyone finds out I'm not really worried anymore!

~ Mr. Wonderful and I were forced to give a baby a go when we found out that my health insurance sucked balls... see more below... We pretty much talked for 10 minutes decided it was now or never and what do you know...

~ Mr. Wonderful and I conceived our first time trying, there was no couple of months or a year, I got knocked-up right out of the gate... way to go baby, sorry if I ever doubted that you were shooting blanks!

~ I'm scared sh*tless, like beyond scared... not only am I already scared about giving birth, but I'm scared about telling my boss and I'm scared about how Mr. Wonderful and I will make ends meet.

~ I'm having a fall baby, Mr. Wonderful is kind of disappointed that it will be so close to Christmas, but he can blame the suckiness of my health insurance for that... United Healthcare won't pay a dime until we meet my $4,800 deductible.  Tell me again why everyone is so opposed to Obamacare?!?!

~ I have no patience, none, zip, nada... I want to start feeling pregnant and its not happening fast enough...

~ I want to read through my "what to expect when your expecting" book with lighing speed but Mr. Wonderful now wants to read along with me... I'm excited that he's so excited but let me read the book first and then he can read it!

~ Mr. Wonderful is beyond over the moon, like beyond excited that he's going to be a daddy, but has he stopped partying in solidarity of his pregnant fiance?!?  Um no, he just doesn't do it in front of me... Awesome... Glad to know that not only do I get to carry around the bullet for the next 9 months but I get to also be a jealous b*tch too... 

That's it from here, so what are you saying so what to this week? 

An update on Mr. Moo!

For those of you wondering, the gentle giant, Mr. Moo, he's ok!

His ears were overloaded with hair, dirt and gook and none of the canals were inflammed nor were there any infections... plus they didn't have to put him to sleep to clean his ears, he actually let them do it.  Though his ears then did become irritated because of all the hair pulling and flushing of the gook, but he's somewhat back to normal again!

He also had max capacity anal glands and this was taken care of at the vet too.

Now he's back to trying to eat the cat food and of course annoying his daddy, how sweet!!!

Thursday Thoughts

I'm linking up with Jennifer over at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom for Thursday Thoughts!  This Thursday I'm thinking about...

 

~ I'm a day late, I know... but yesterday was incredibly busy and to be honest, I still don't have a functioning computer at home and have to write this at work... I know, I know, I'm very bad...

 

~ I actually kicked butt with my work March Madness Bracket... I'm guessing my ESPN Bracket might not have faired as well... I should prolly go and check on that, lol!

 

~ Mr. Moo is starting to come around again, thank goodnes as I was starting to worry!

 

~ I'm trying to figure out what Subscription boxes to axe off my list as the future hubby says I can only have 3... though thats not including Goodies which is his sub and wittlebee which he says I can keep because it benefits our future chillins, lol.

 

~ It's just over a month and a half till my wedding and I'm sweating bullets... we still have to plan out what the officiant is going to say at our wedding...we really need to get crackin!

 

~ I'm hoping in the next couple of weekends to go over and start assembling my invitations... Shanna, call me!

 

~ This weekend its supposed to be crappy again and I want nothing more than to burrow under the blankets and call it a weekend but we finally get to go back to Canvas & Cocktails and I'm not missing a second of that!!!!

 

~ Medicare might finally be off my sh*t list, I said might as they more than likely will piss me off again, but for now they're golden!

 

Well, thats it from here, have a great weekend!!!!

So What Wednesday!

It’s So What Wednesday over at Life After I Dew and I’m linking up! This week I am saying SO WHAT if….

~ I just got the new Scentsy catalog for Spring/Summer.... Yea I found like six new warmers I have to have and Mr. Wonderful is just going to have to live with the fact that I have ADD when it comes to styles!  I may like one warmer one minute, but then I might like something else the next... hence why its ok for me to own like 30 warmers!

~ Mr. Moo is finally starting to come around from our vet visit on Saturday... he was suffering from multiple issues, but there is no need for me to gross out and scare away what little readers I do have!

~ I filled out two March Madness brackets... I know I'm going to lose, but at least I'm going to have fun doing it.

~ I was right about my step-brothers new girlfriend!  I knew she was trouble and just using my family as her mealticket until she could find something better... too bad my step-brother still doesn't see it... oh well, he'll learn!

~ I caved and bought the PopSugar summer edition box and the Julep Maven Spring Mystery box... good thing I bought when I did as the Julep Maven Spring Mystery box is no longer available!!!

~ I still haven't paid that service to obtain my marriage license... I will get it done by April 12 so I'm not too worried about it!

~ I've been relying on Dr. Google too much as of late, I can't begin to tell you all the different ways I'm dying... its a new way everyday!

~ I've been bad about taking my pre-natal vitamins everyday... I seriously need to staple a post-it note to my forehead!

~ I've got 10 subscription boxes piled in my bedroom waiting for me to unpack them and put everything in their proper place... it's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I live a very busy life.

~ I really should hit the gym after work but am getting really freaking tired of the gym... I know I promised my doctor I would go, but man this sucks!

Whelp, thats it for me...so what are you saying so what to this week?

March Julep Box

My March Julep Maven box arrived several weeks ago and I was stoked to have received it!  When I took the style profile quiz, which mind you I took 1000x just to get the profile I wanted, it labeled me the Bombshell, which is exactly what I wanted of course!  I didn't realize until this month of course, that I could select any of the Maven Styles, even choosing to buy all of the polish colors and the beauty extras.

So without further delay... here is what I received in my March Julep Maven box!

The first look of course!

I chose to add on an extra color, and that is why the one color is hanging out there... it was my add on!

And here is what I received...

Julep Strawberry Mint Lip Balm... ok this stuff smells delish and a girl can never have too much lip balm!!!

My extra add on was Lucky on the left and the two polishes that came in my March box were Minnie and Adrianna!

Lucky- a glittery green with both light and dark green glitter!  I bought it with the intention of painting my nails for St. Patrick's Day... never happened... maybe next year!

Minnie- Warm pastel pink opalescent shimmer!  I am in love with this color as well as the name... I think I might paint my nails this color with one finger another color... I hope to do this tonight!

Adrianna- Smoky pistachio creme!  Or maybe I might paint my nails this color with one finger another color!!!  Either way, I'm in love with this color as well!

And last but not least... Rock Star Hand Creme... it keeps hands hydrated, even after washing!!!  Um, yea, I needed something like this weeks ago...  I wash my hands no less than 100 times a day and im tired of applying and re-applying lotion to them... I can't wait to try this out!!!

I am beyond satisfied with March's box!  Today I got to pick out my April box and I'm even more stoked for that as well!  I love all the colors they are coming out with next month but cannot justify paying the $50 for all of the colors... I did add on two additional colors, pink and green and may even add on the bright yellow... Who knows....

First World Dog Problems!

Le sigh.... The above little hunk of furry love...Hold up...wait...so little is the biggest understatement ever, lol, because that "little" hunk of furry love is actually ginormus!!!

Anyways, Mr. Moo AkA Chase McLovin, yea he's having ear issues again.  Ever since I've had him, I believe I got him when he was seven months old!  Anyways, he's been having ear issues since he was born and its a result of his big furry floppy ears, they don't let a lot of fresh air reach his ear canal resulting in serious infections and ear gunk build-up.

My mom, the biggest saint in the world, she has dumped so much money into fixing his ears that Chase and I literally owe her our lives!  I can't begin to tell you the countless times the vet has had to put him under because they have had to go deep into the ear canal to remove nasty build-ups that have resulted in serious ear infections.  AND its never just been one ear, its always the both of them and one ear is always worse than the other.

We've been lucky the last several years, Chase has not had any real serious issues with his ears, apart from the usual gook.  But ever since Mr. Wonderful and I have moved in together, Chase's ears have taken a turn for the worse.  I doubt that his ears have anything to do with us moving in together, but I'm just giving a time frame.  This past summer was horrible, so many days with 90+ heat and no rain, plus Mr. Wonderful and I moved into a house with no yard, just dirt.  I'm trying to remember the last time that Chase's ears were this bad, but I think it was when the weather was horrible just like this past summer and this winter hasn't really been a picnic either.

All I know is that tomorrow, Chase has a vet appointment and I'm 99.9% sure its going to result in them telling me he needs to be put under so they can do a through cleaning... which in turn means they better be giving me a sh*t ton of sedatives afterwards to keep him from shaking his head!

Ugh, I knew raising a pet wasn't going to be easy, but this particular dog has run me through the ringer!  But at the end of the day, none of that matters, all that matters is that I love him with all my heart and really all he is guilty of is loving me unconditionally and leaving everlasting footprints on my heart!  I would go to the ends of the world and back for him... and that means doing whatever it takes to get him to be my happy go lucky dog again, because I now know for a fact that his craziness these last several months has nothing to do with me, but due to his ears!!! 



Thursday Thoughts

I'm linking up with Jennifer over at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom for Thursday Thoughts!  This Thursday I'm thinking about...

~ Subscription boxes are a racket!  First they suck you in with their regular subs and then they hit you with the limited edition mystery boxes and you just have to have them for fear of missing out on something great.  It's a racket I tell you and why didn't I think of that?!?!?!

~ Um, Auto-Owners Insurance, yea they can kick rocks, I think their practice policies are a joke and I swear they do it on purpose so that people give up and don't file personal injury claims.

~ Medicare is on my sh*t list too... I swear they put into place shady practice policies too so that older people give up and just give in!!!  Too bad I watched my grandma get taken advantage of with shady practices and won't let others either!!!  Ooh, I should be an activist for the elderly!!!

~ So my dream wedding cake...  This one... Yea, it's apparently not going to happen so now its back to the drawing board. 

~ Here is how I feel about the new pope...

And my friend couldn't have said it any better.... and I quote...

"Here's my take on the the new dope, I mean pope. Unless he is going to address the child abuse issues, (having those who got away with it incarcerated), re-distribute the overwhelming gross amount of wealth to actual needy people and stop giving reproductive advice to women, along with getting over the gay bashing, he's just another jerk off in a dumb hat!"

~ And last but not least.... My Monkey Moo... Currently he is going through a loco stage and acting cray cray... but I still love the living sh*t out of this furry beast!

~ Oh and one last thought... For those 80 or so blog readers (I LOVE you for reading BTW!)  Please leave me a comment with a link to your blog so I can return the love!!!



So What Wednesday

It’s So What Wednesday over at Life After I Dew and I’m linking up! This week I am saying SO WHAT if….

* I received my Pink Fancy box today and immediately wrote an extremely snarky hate e-mail... I ended up with a $25 gift card... I'm still not happy but whatev!

* I've got two weeks left to get my reception invitations made and mailed out yet I can't get a hold of the person who is making them for me and honestly I don't care... picture invitations anyone?!?!

* I use way to many exclamation points in my extremely happy comments or any comments for that matter... so much so that I've actually had people complain!  And you know what... I really don't care... Get used to it or go away!!!

* The new limited edition PopSugar box just came out and it's a $100... I've got a wedding and honeymoon coming up as well as a $200 marriage license I need to buy and yea, I still bought the box anyway, lol!!!  Mind you I struggled back and fourth for quite a while...

* I've got way to many subscription boxes and everytime I try to cancel, the ones that I attempt to cancel put out something to die for and so I re-sub... I seriously need a case of willpower folks!!!

* I'm extremely pissed at a certain someone that I texted over the weekend and they totally blew me off... YET, when they text me and I don't get back to them in a timely manner they pop off at me for it... Guess what... You're on my sh*t list and I don't plan on getting back to your texts anytime soon so get over it!

* Mr. Wonderful is being lazy with the kitchen dishes and so they are piled up all around our sink in our nasty kitchen and really for a weird moment I don't care... but that's all about to change here next week because I am not going to continue to allow for it.

* My twit of a step-sister has no original bone in her body and it makes me laugh... she tries so hard to be like everyone else and all its doing is backfiring in her face and really I enjoy sitting back and watching it happen!!!  That's karma at its finest!

* Sunday is the one year anniversary of my engagement to Mr. Wonderful!!!  He owes me BIG TIME after the disaster last year...  I won't get into details because its not fair to him... but still... he better have something up his sleeve and I honestly shouldn't have to remind him either!!!

* I need to do something over the top for Mr. Wonderful's Easter Basket this year but I refuse to spend more than $20 and I am for sure not buying any candy with the exception of a peanut butter bunny... He already exceeded my expectations with a surprise over the weekend and now I need to top that...  

Thursday Thoughts!

I'm linking up with Jennifer over at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom for Thursday Thoughts!  This Thursday I'm thinking about...

* Only 65 more days until my wedding and honeymoon at Disney World!!!  I can't help but to be stoked 24/7!!!  Anymore it's all I talk about at home and Tim is starting to get a wee bit annoyed!  Don't get me wrong, Tim is just as excited as me, but he said counting down the days speeds up time to him or wastes time, I don't know... All  I do know is that he's just looking forward to it finally being here but he won't count it down like me!

*  I'm thinking that the disconnect between my Microsoft Outlook and my Case Management Software better get over its bad self quickly... Because ain't nobody got time for downtime!

*  I got a sneak-peek spoiler of the upcoming March PopSugar box, yea I'm excited!!! 

*  I've been feeling not so hot this week and today I thought I caught a lucky break...meh not so much as I'm back to not feeling so hot again!

*  I need to get cracking on my reception invitations... I'm having a friend make them and yea I haven't even picked out any supplies to get them made and they need to be done and out by April 1...me thinks I need to get a move on it!

* Speaking of reception... I need to know that status of my wedding cake... will the one I want be made or not?!?!?

* I think something might be wrong with my dog Mr. Moo... he's been acting mighty strange lately and its freaking me out...

*  Tim and I got a membership to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science... we can't wait to make that museum our b*tch!!!  We plan on going as much as possible, plus we will continue to re-new our membership every year... we need a place to get out to when we have no money or are bored!   

So What Wednesday!

 

I thought that I would try something new and participate in a link-up!  Today is So What Wednesday over at Life after I dew and today I am saying so what if:

* I'm getting married in 66 days and there is no way I am going to fit into my wedding dress!

* I'm supposed to be watching what I eat but am about to dig into a big Chipotle burrito!

* I've got multiple wedding registries and keep creating more for the "free stuff" I get for creating one.

* I want to eat every piece of Easter Candy there is out there... Christmas through Easter, stores put out the best candy ever... Peanut Butter Easter Eggs anyone?

* My house, it's a mess, I really should be nesting but its the last thing on my mind.

* Is it sad that I'm most looking forward to my honeymoon and not my wedding?!?!  I mean don't get me wrong, I'm excited to finally be getting married, but seriously, I can't wait to have all of Disney World at my feet!

* I spoil the dog way more than I should, they are only here for a short amount of time so why can't they live life to the fullest?!?!  And by fullest I mean a tummy full of treats!

* I own over 100 pairs of shoes and I've gotten rid of a fair amount as well, yet I want to buy like 6 more pairs from ShoeDazzle that are freaking adorable!

* I own a ton of nail polish colors but have yet to wear all of them once... Guess I better get crackin!

* I really should be eating but this blog post is more important!

What are you saying SO WHAT to this week?   

Who Am I?

My Name is Stephanie B. and in 67 days I will be Mrs. Stephanie M.

This is me

I am 31 years old!

I am a paralegal at a personal injury law firm and have been in my line of work for over 12 years!

I have 3 college degrees... I was a busy girl!

I had a shoe addiction which led to a subscription box addiction and now I'm just saving money for my next big addiction!

I'm currently addicted to The Pretty Little Liars book series... I refuse to watch the show until I am caught up on the books!

I read Cosmopolitan and US Weekly.

My favorite things: Target, Hello Kitty, glitter, sparkles, the color pink, Scentsy, my iPad, my e-reader, Sushi, Froyo from Menchie's, my shoe collection, my Precious Moments collection and my make-up collection...there is so much more but little space and time to catalog it all!

This would be the love of my life, Mr. Wonderful, AKA, Mr. Tim M.

We got engaged on St. Patrick's Day 2012, see how happy we are!!!

Mr. Wonderful and I moved into our first house together in June of 2012.

Mr. Wonderful and I will be spending our Honeymoon at Disney World and by default we will be getting married there too!  The story behind this is a blog post of its own which I will share!

Mr. Wonderful is my Best Friend, no one in the world makes me laugh the way he makes me laugh!

Mr. Wonderful does everything in his power to make sure I'm happy!

This hunk of furry love, who is my world, is Monkey Moo, AKA Chase McLovin!

These other two hunks of furry love would be Lillian (R) and Mr. Ticket (L)!

This beautiful woman, she is my mother and has made me into who I am today!

I had to add this second picture of my mom, because yea, she is pretty much amazing!!!

This wonderful woman on my left, she would be my Grandma and the little time I had with her I wouldn't change for the world!

There is so much more about me that I would love to share but I feel like I shared the most important parts!  Besides, you will get to know me better the more that I post and until then, a little mystery never hurt nobody!

Way behind the 8-ball!

So I started blogging like a long time ago...like 2010-2011ish...around the time that I was unemployed!  I kept up with it a lot, only because I really honestly had nothing better to do, that and my farm on Farmville was not in need of farming at the moment.  But when I became employed again, my blog went to pot.

The blogging bug bit me again back in November of 2012 thanks to Jen over at Ramblings of a Suburban Mom!  Her blog is hilarious and she has two of the most adorable kids I've ever seen!!!  You should click the link to see what I'm talking about it, you won't regret it!!!  So of course I pulled down my old blog and started a new one over at Cafe Press.  Well that blog didn't last long due to it, in my opinion, being to complicated to work. 

So once again, here I am trying to give it another go, that and I have a lot of exciting things in my life that are coming up and of course I want to share them with the world, or at least people that will stop over and read my blog.  I can't shoot for the moon right away, I have to work up to it!

So... welcome those of you that have stopped over to see what I'm about!  I promise some good reading, or at least I will try!!!

Oh and for those of you new to me... I'm getting married to the love of my life Tim in 68 days!  I'm not keeping track or anything, lol!!!

Here is a picture of Tim and I the day after he asked me to marry him!!!

I promise in the next blog post or two to introduce myself and give you a glimpse into my life...or at least just enough to keep you hooked ;o)

Till my next post, stay classy and keep reading!