Tuesday outfit

As part of my New Years resolution here is my outfit for today. My co-worker said I looked cute!!!! Look at me being all put together and such. Now I know you all are like bitch is wearing a cardi and pants, but seriously this is a HUGE improvement from my old outfits. So cut me some slack.

So the breakdown, I am wearing a necklace my sister gave me for Christmas, I think it might be from a local store. I am wearing a cardigan from Banana Republic. It is Kaki/gold ish and silver. I was not really sure about it when I bought it but now I am so happy about it! My pants are from Ann Taylor loft, Marisa fit. I love these pants. And well my shoes are not on because really I am still rocking sneakers and my bad ass boot. Who needs to see that?

More goodness to come! I am already planning out my next achievement.

New Job = Blogger FAIL

So my new job is awesome. I think I am going to like it a lot. It is going to be a lot of hard "adult" work. I have to do real stuff now, which kind of puts a cramp in my blogging style. DAMMIT I know! I can't even check the blogger websites and have in turn already missed out on a HH this year with all the other bloggers in town BOOO for me!

So I am trying to limp along this year and see if I can keep up blogging. I am not sure if can do it but I am going to try. This whole thing has been really therapeutic for me and I love to read about everyone else.

So for my first post of 2011 I will give you and update on my plan for 2011. One of my New Year's resolutions is going to be taking care of myself. Being healthy, not getting totally wasted anymore, working out (once I can feel my foot again) and keeping my weight under control. These are all things that I kind of do already, so it should not be a big deal. So my big challenge will be FASHION!!!

I am determined to be fashionable at my new job. Not that I was horrible at my last job, but come on, throwing on a pair of size 10 pants when I am now a 4 and a shirt from Target circa 2002 is not really a "look" now is it? SO I got some money for Christmas to buy new clothes from my family and my "poppy" got me a new suit from Dillard's that I totally love. It is like a real one not one from Target that I have had for 4 years that does not fit. I am pumped.

I am going shopping today and I am hoping to find some good stuff. I will let you know what I find and I am also going to try and start taking pictures of cute ensembles I put together at least two times a week. This is my goal. We will see if it happens. This is a goal that should not only help me out but I am hoping will make me take myself more seriously at my new "big kid"job. Here is to a new year!

Confession

I realize I have not been posting here that much lately. Mainly because I have been super busy like the rest of you. I had my surgery last week and my foot is still killing me. I am happy I did the surgery but it is finally starting to set in that I will be unable to workout for like 2 months and I really miss it. I never knew how fast I would feel flabby and out of shape.

I have gained 3 pounds since the surgery, I blame my MIL's cooking and the holidays. But I am really concerned about getting fat again. I need some support and some Weight Watchers buddies to help me get back on track. I have two weddings I am in this year and I want to look fabulous for them, if anything, so I don't look like a fatty next to the beautiful brides! (Not that anyone cares what I would look like anyway)

In the mean time I also have to confess that I may have a slight addiction to my pain meds. I take one get drunk in about 5 minutes take a nap in about 40 and then feel great for 5 hours! Way easier than getting drunk. Way less calories, and I don't get a hangover! HMMM maybe I should stop taking these pills soon....

Random Acts of Kindness

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I am going to start my annual holiday mission of completing some random acts of kindness. I like to make people smile, it makes me feel good, which in turn is not really selfless, but hey, I am trying. So I do small things like buy a random person at Starbucks their coffee. I hope others pay it forward in some way after they get their special thing. I like to think I am living in my own personal "Pay It Forward" movie. 

Anyway, I suggest you all try this this holiday season. Times are tough for a lot of us out there right now and if everyone was just a bit nicer to each other than we could all have just a little bit better holiday! 

Christmas Decor Preview

I am married to Santa's "Director of Awesome Things" - Santa needs to be able to find our house on the big night so Mr. A took it upon himself to get into decorating our balcony. This is what he has done to our balcony for the big day. If you are lucky you might be able to see it from space.

There is lots more where that came from. Will post next week.

My Christmas Wishlist - Just shoes for me please!

I was very lucky to get almost everything a girl could which for for her home for our wedding this year. This is a great thing but it also makes it very hard to come up with a non-ridiculous wish list for my family this year. (God I sound like bitch. Oh poor girl who has everything, boo freaking who.) 

Well turns out what I do need is lots of shoes. I have have been battling this annoying nerve in my foot for over a year now and I am going to finally have it taken out. YEA!!! But that means that I now can't wear almost 3/4 of my shoes. So I have asked for shoes and clothing for Christmas this year. 

Behold my dream shoes: 

Steve Madden Intyce 

They are simple and stylish without being too trendy. I am hoping to get these bad boys or some sort of equestrian boot to jazz up my "flats only" shoe needs. 

From Zappos - Clarks Pump in Pewter 

I feel these bad boys as much as they are plain in style will be a comfortable but cute option for work. I now have to have rummer soles on all my shoes so I am very limited on what I can wear. Annoying! 

From Zappos - Ugg Classic Cardy Boot 

A few years back my friend Janet got these. I have been envious of them since. I need a pair of throw on shoes other than freaking sneakers for the weekends. I am hoping these will be just the shoe for that! 

From Anthropologie - Crinkled Corona Mary-Jane's

Let's face it I am never going to get these shoes. But I love them. I want them and I think my feet would look fabulous in them. 

I have also wished for some new slippers with my new initial on them. I need rubber sole house shoes, because walking on carpet even irritates my foot. Awesome times. 

I hope you guys get lots of great and fun gifts for this holiday! 

Wedding Recap - Reception Part 1

Like 17  months later here is my wedding reception recap in several parts because there are some great pictures. Our reception was in the same space as our wedding ceremony. The hotel flipped the space and I have to say it came out really pretty. I had a very strong opinion about having round tables at our wedding reception - HELL no! I attend meetings for a living, I hate those round tables. So with a little negotiation and persuading the hotel they did in fact not have to charge me double for linens because I wanted square tables I got my way. Here is the result:

Our head table was one long family style table. I wanted my wedding party to be able to sit with their husbands and wives so this worked best for us. 

I wanted pretty soft romantic feeling centerpieces. I loved the red tea lights. 

 Here are the guest tables. Loved the square look. 

 These were the centerpieces on some of the tables at the other guest tables. I bought the wine bottle table numbers on Etsy and I LOVED the way they looked. 

This was our "Gummy Bear" bar. Mr. A and his mom took months having fun picking out all the gummies to get for this. We did this instead of a grooms cake.  

This was our cake table. We had the most amazing cake. I loved the way it was simple and fun. Our coordinator did a good job putting the table together with our florist. 

I made the place card holders myself, another idea I stole from Etsy. My MIL did the names on the cards. 

And lastly our cake topper. I ordered this on Etsy as well. Mr. A loves Spiderman so I made him his favorite superhero on our cake! 

Lot's of fun dancing pictures next!