Sometimes & Always Vol. 9

Sometimes I am all talk and no action. I have good ideas of what to do but sit around and don’t put them into action. 

Always it is because I worry that my plans will fail and I won’t know what to do. I need to pray for courage and confidence. 

Sometimes, okay a lot of the time I worry about money too much. It is an issue but I freak out about money because I really want to be great with my finances. And I am really great with my money. I need to loosen up a bit when it comes to money. 

Always, I know if I spent money like it seems most people today spend money then before I knew it I wouldn’t have any left. 

Sometimes I go shopping. I’d say 90% of the time I don’t buy anything, get frustrated and go home. If I find something I like, I usually talk myself out of it with the line “oh I don’t need it, It can wait.”

Always, well at leat most of the time this is because of the whole being anal when it comes to spending money thing. It isn’t because I didn’t find anything cute, just not cute enough to buy. 

Sometimes, I read a book and would just love to talk to people about it

Always, I end up telling my parents or friends about it in conversation. But now I will be able to talk to other bloggers about great books. We are having a Blogger Book Club. We are deciding our first book by wednesday night. I can’t wait! Check it out here!

Friday's Letter's- Late Night Edition

friday’s letter’s - late night edition 

Dear Me, be proactive and go and do something next week. Dear blogger book club, I am looking forward to getting to know y’all and reading some great books. Dear Mom, happy birthday weekend! I am so sorry you got transferred to a new school, but this new school is so lucky to have you! Dear Daddy, I hope you have great luck at the big book sale in Greenville tomorrow! Dear Buddy, I wish you would sit down on trips. I don’t know why as you’ve gotten older you have stopped sitting down on trips. I know you have to be awfully tired standing the whole way! Dear weekend, I am so glad to be in the mountains and spend some time with family! My aunt and uncle just got back from Switzerland for the summer and Whit, my cousin is up here as well.  It is always fun seeing family that you don’t get to see all that often! Dear readers, I hope y’all had fabulous fridays and have wonderful weekends! 

a pic of buddy in a car ride this summer where I sat back there with him and actually got him to sit down! 

Isn't he precious?!

Biscoff!

Disclaimer: this is not a sponsored post for biscoff even if it may appear to be!

               If you’ve ever been on a delta flight you know the goodness that is biscoff cookies. just the right amount of cinnamon without being a full on cinnamon cookie.  well my dear friends if you are unaware let me let you in on something amazing. there is such a thing a biscoff spread. it is the biscoff cookies melted down into a peanut butter like smooth and amazing spread. my best friend erin found the spread sometime last fall and it changed our lives. okay so not that serious but it is seriously amazing. but the amazingness doesn’t come cheap. it is around 4.69 a jar and for the recent college grad that is a price I can’t afford often. i bet my hips and thighs are thankful though. but whenever I do splurge on biscoff i end up battling myself to savor every morsel of yummy goodness there is in the jar and not consume the whole thing in one sitting. It is a challenge. my friend madison and I would watch pretty little liars and get the jar of biscoff out. we’d sit there glued to the tv while eating spoonful after spoonful before one of us would call it done for the night. 

          So I haven’t gotten a jar of biscoff in a long time. it’s been months and for my birthday one of the things my mom did was let me pick out a bunch of stuff at the grocery store to buy for baking. (well mainly the stuff was for my birthday cakes, but i threw biscoff in there too!) So I’ve had the jar for almost two weeks now and I’m trying not to just consume the whole thing spoonful by spoonful. I want to bake something with it! I have looked on pinterest but haven’t found what i’m looking for yet. there are so many amazing biscoff related recipes out there but it is still difficult eating post surgery and so I want to make a biscoff mousse like creation. I have biscoff and cream cheese right now as my starting blocks. i’m still looking! and will be sure to report back here what I come up with! 

No More Wisdom.... Teeth

To anyone that noticed my absence from blogging this past week I am back! Bright and early last wednesday morning I got all four wisdom teeth out. It went really well and the office was amazing but the next day reality set in and recovery was not super easy. Overall I guess it wasn’t that rough considering I had four teeth taken out of my mouth ( 2 pulled and 2 cut out). But I guess that’s exactly how I felt. And I really didn’t feel like doing much at all. I slept A LOT and didn’t wake up till about noon almost every day and as silly as it sounds I didn’t even have enough energy to type a whole blog post. Eating soft stuff got old quick, it just isn’t very filling. And for some reason cold stuff made it hurt, so I didn’t even eat much ice cream. Now I have my energy back and feel normal again but the right side of my mouth is still sore and opening my mouth wide enough to eat and chewing is difficult. Most people I know had their wisdom teeth had their wisdom teeth out in high school, so I guess I am just now getting to experience the fun times they did then haha! Well I am going to my follow-up appointment this morning and hopefully I will get great instructions on what to do now to kick this recovery into high gear! And please ignore my super puffiness!

here I am in all my post-surgery glory. the oral surgeon's office gave me this snazzy ice pack wrap that as a life-saver the first couple of days. As was my columbia jacket immediately afterwards, I was shivering when I woke up from the surgery!