So sorry!

Hello my blogging bebes! I'm so sorry I have been the worst blogger on the face of this earth! This whole, get a job, 8:30-5 thing is exhausting! Who knew?

Between working all day, trying to fit in some QT with my boyfriend and getting enough sleep so I can function, my blog has fallen by the wayside. But don't worry, I will try to do better. Promise! Here's a little review of what I have been doing with my life...

A little bit of this

Baby sister came to visit for St. Patty's. R to L, Summer, Amelia, and Jennie

Dt was there too!

Also some of this

I went home to watch Tucker's senior night lacrosse game

Giving flowers to his Mama 

Proud daddy

Going in for the shot

Score! Like a boss.

Celebrating with his teammate and partner in crime. These two are a dangerous combo!

Last one.

Fit some of this in while getting ready in the morning

And then lots and lots of this

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Lots of work with a little bit of fun throw in there every once and while. Sounds like a pretty good life to me... Oh and I finally got paid!!!!!! Turns out being rich is not in my near future, who woulda thunk? Whatever, I'm marrying a doctor! I keed, I keed. Kinda. 

I hope my followers haven't given up on me because of my absence. I promise I will try harder to get this ish under control!!! Love!

The ups and downs of being on a schedule again

While waking up at 6 am blows (every morning, even on Friday. Maybe it'll get better?), there are some upsides to having a job. First and foremost, that pay check that will arrive on the 30th of this month. How many days is that from now? Too many. But it's coming!

Another plus is that I'm finally getting back on a schedule. Since I've graduated my life has been extremely flexible and I've done what I wanted when I wanted. Which was obviously fab but I found myself wasting a lot of time and my days eventually became kind of boring. Having no schedule and having a strict schedule are two very different ways of life and I've been jumping from one to the other this past week which has made me realize that having a schedule isn't all bad.

There are some great things about having a schedule. You know what you are going to be doing throughout the week. I know that I have to wake up at 6 which means I need to be in bed by at least 10. This girl needs a solid 8 or she will get cranky. No one is safe when I am tired. You've been warned. I also know that I need to plan my lunch and dinner according to my schedule and what it will allow. Lots of planning, but I know what is coming. Yes, this takes the fun, spontaneousness out of the week but with the stuff my clients bring into my office, I'm sure I will be surprised on a daily basis.

So after a fully scheduled week, I woke up on Saturday with no plans and no idea of what the day would bring me. I've always been a morning person and when I'm up, I'm up. Once I get my solid block of sleep, I'm good to go. I also have an annoying internal alarm clock that will wake me at 6 am even if my real alarm clock doesn't go off, so thanks for that Mr. Schedule. But thanks to Nyquil (allergies have made me their bitch this week. I'm dying!) I was able to catch a couple more hours of sleep and was awake at 8 am to find that Dt had left to go to work for a few hours. Usually, Dt sleeps until about noon which is fine because I know he has to wake up early during the week so I let him sleep as late as he wants and I catch up with my DVR. He has been going in to work on the weekends a lot lately because he's trying to get his Ph.D. finished early so combine the two and I miss out on very valuable Dt time on the weekend which makes for a sad Emily.

Luckily, Dt was home by 9:30 and as we were sitting in the living room I realized I can't remember the last time we were both up, fully awake, and going at 9:30 on a Saturday, so I suggested we take advantage of it and do something like go for a walk. We decided to head down to Main Street, Columbia to take in the sights. It was nice and sunny but a little brisk. The streets were relatively empty but it was nice to be able to spend time with Dt. As you may know, I'm not a fan of Columbia but I do like Main Street. Parts of it are run down but there are some cute shops and nice buildings and it's one of the prettier streets in Cola, I think.

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We stopped by the Mast General Store and bought some candy then made our way to the Vista for lunch. We went to the new Salsarita's which we had never been to but had heard good things about. I thought it was ok. The chips were good but it was like a step up from Moe',s so nothing too fabulous. Am I missing something? Any recommendations? It was kinda disappointing since people rave about it in Greenville but I didn't get it. I'd rather have Qdoba any day!

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And by the time we got home, it was barely 1 and we still had the whole day ahead of us! Fabulous! So while it is hard to wake up early and eat dinner at the same time every night, if it means I get more quality time with my boy on the weekend, I'll take it. Oh, and I'll take that paycheck 19 days from now.

Recap

Hey, hey, hey! How's your week going so far? Mine is off to a pretty good start, I'm slowly getting into the swing of my job. It turns out, waking up at 6 am is pretty damn hard. Whodathunk? But I'm doing it and making it through til 5.

While having a job impacts most parts of my life positively, it definitely negatively affects my trashy tv watching. When am I supposed to fit in my beloved

and my future besties because I aspire to be a housewife (and to look like Gretchen, duh)

My DVR is filling up as we speak but I will have to fit in my guilty pleasures where I can. Luckily, over the last few days I've been able to catch up on the "women tell all" bachelor episode. This has to be a priority because we all know bishes can't keep their comments to themselves on fbook or twitter so I will inevitably find things out before I watch the episode which is the worst! So I watch the Bachelor first. And the ladies did not disappoint.

My faves were front and center! (well technically off to the left but they were focused on for the majority of the episode)

I love them and you could tell they weren't taking shit from anyone!

Did anyone think that they let Ben off easy? I mean I would have definitely brought up the skinny dipping or made him cop to being ignorant to Courtney's hot mess but no. He just sat there being normal, boring, Ben. Yawn. 

Then we have this one.

Did you believe it? Me neither? I think she did a good job of looking pretty while trying to get emotional but I think it was crap. I think she has probably hurt her family's feelings and embarrassed everyone who knows her but I think she was her real self on the show. You aren't bat shit crazy for weeks then all of a sudden let your "real side" come out when you realize that everyone thinks you're a bitch. Nope, doesn't happen. Also, did she let a spoiler slip when she said she "cared for Ben." I mean past tense means something right? If he doesn't pick her, I'll at least have some respect for his boring ass but if he does, then I hope he gets what is coming to him. Sigh...

Well, I'm off to eat the delicious enchiladas that Dt had ready for me when I got home from work. Love that boy!

First day and lingerie

Well, my first day was a success! I didn't actually do anything... I met a lot of new people and promptly forgot all of their names (by the end of the day I could identify at least three by name and face so that is progress). I have lots of clients already lined up and I'll jump in feet first tomorrow morning. So far so good!

Last night I went to a bachelorette party for my friend Mary Katherine. Kat and I met in grad school and our group of girls grew to be pretty close because we saw each other all day every day. Since graduation we haven't seen each other as much so it was nice to get all of the girls together last night. We started the night with a lingerie shower, some hors d'oeuvres, and lots of cocktails. It was very entertaining and Kat got some great stuff that her fiancee will love on the honeymoon ;) As the drinks started flowing the raunchy, bachelorette games began. I'm talking pin the junk on the hunk, penis straws, the whole nine yards.

Keeping it classy.

Eventually we made it downtown to do a little bar hopping. Kat had a list of dares to complete and she was a champ and did them all. I give her major credit for having the guts to do some of those things and she maintained her lady-like demeanor throughout. The same could not be said for the guys who helped her out with those dares but it made for a very entertaining evening. I wish I could tell you I took any pictures but I didn't. I suck. But I'm sure some will make their way onto fbook soon where I will steal them and share the g-rated ones with you. Summer, one of the bridesmaids and part of our cohort, hosted the party with Kat's sister and she did a great job! She's been to quite a few of these things so she knew what she was doing and pulled out all of the stops. I had a blast, drank more than I should have, and loved seeing all of the girls again. I can't wait for the wedding in April, it will definitely be a good time with that crowd and their significant others. Very excited for Kat!

I'm getting ready for my first forty hour week tomorrow and its a little daunting. I don't know how I'm going to do with this whole 8:30-5 thing but I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. Unfortunately, it will negatively affect the amount of blogs I write but I'll try my best to update when I can. Have a great week!

Merry Christmas Adam!

(That’s what my manger calls it, corny or what?) I hope everyone has their Christmas shopping done and are not stressing out. If you aren’t done, then good luck with all of the crazies and try to be nice to all of those poor retail employees who have to deal with the mean crazies. Does anyone else want to confront the crazies and ask if they did not know that Christmas is on the 25^th of December every year and that Santa didn’t spring this present thing on them last minute? I think I’m going to make a sign to carry around with me tomorrow…

Well, since I’ve finished my shift at work for the day, I have the rest of the afternoon to wrap all of my presents (my job has made me a pro wrapper, my fam better appreciate it!), drink my size large latte (yummo!), and paint my nails this fancy color

Sally Hansen Cinna Snap

It's super christmassy and looks great on! Let's just hope I don't chip it at work tomorrow before I get to any Christmas parties. I'll high five someone in the face if that happens! And the bf is home from work so we'll be watching lots of movies. Pretty good day if I do say so myself. 

Christmas Gifts!!!

My favorite part of Christmas is the gift giving! Yes, everyone loves presents but I get a real thrill of picking out the perfect gift for someone and I’m a big believer in giving multiple presents. For example, last year I got Dt a north face duffel, a tennis racket, a few movies, yada yada yada. I just go all out, what can I say? I don’t know why, but sometimes I’m just hit with an awesome gift idea (I’m full of awesomeness if you didn’t know…) and I have to make it happen. Now, this is very difficult to do on a small budget so I usually only shower my family and Dt with these presents but I’d love to be able to expand my gift giving circle one day. Anywhooooo, this year I’ve dropped the ball on gifting ideas (as well as my decorating, what is wrong with me?!? I’ll blame it on the fact that this is the first year in the last 20 that I haven’t been going through final exams on my way to Christmas break so I’ve just let all of this creep up on me. Oh the woes of finally being done with school.) Either way, I’ve let it come down to the last minute and I’m not a fan of that because it means that I’ll be forced to give some shitty last minute gift. Not going to happen, so I’ve been putting a lot of brainpower into gifting over the last few days and have come up with some great ideas! Since my entire family has yet to discover my blog (i.e. I haven’t really told anyone about it yet because I’m not sure how I feel about it…) I can share with you what I’m giving them!

One lucky betch will be receiving 6 months of this lovely service!

Birchbox

She may or may not also be getting this from my parents even though I picked it out. I just thought she would love it (and her sorority sisters will love her for sharing it in their kitchen) so I picked it out for her, from them. Make sense?

Williams-Sonoma

Mama G has for some reason fallen for the jeggings craze. It seems that her BFF was sporting a pair at a recent Christmas party and mom told dad on the way home that she just had to get some (now I have to factor in the wine consumption that I’m assuming happened at the Christmas party but I think she really does want a pair. She’s always looking for ways to be stylin' and profilin'!) Dad mentioned this lovely idea to me but he had no idea what they were called or what the concept even was so just imagine the hilarious convo that we had trying to discover that the item he was describing were the lovely jeggings! I will prob end up calling mom’s BFF just to make sure that what she was wearing were actually jeggings but I’m pretty sure those are what she wants. So Mama G may be getting some of these

I mean come on, homegirl needs a pair of 7’s.

Then the little bro has asked for a plethora of movies including but not limited to the following

Pics from IMDB

Can you tell he’s an 18 year old boy? Gotta love ‘em! He’s also been asking for a belt which I might make happen if I can find a good one and if not, I’ll supplement his movies with something from this store because little bro has taken to camping with his friends (read: getting drunk in the woods with no parents around).

To round to the good ole’ fam out is daddy-o, maybe the hardest person to shop for… he’s asked for one of these babies

Williams-Sonoma

Which I will get him but is kinda lame so I still need ideas for this man!

And last but not least, is the lovely boyfrand. But there’s a problem, as I said in my last post, he has already opened his present. The story goes something like this….

You see, my bf is like a four year old in many lovable ways including the fact that he can’t wait to open presents until Christmas, or his birthday, or anyone’s birthday. This means that he tries to get me to open my bday gifts from him early and badgers me for weeks before Christmas to exchange our gifts early. Every other year, I hold strong and put off gift opening until as close to Christmas as I can get his little heart to wait but this year, I got tricked!!! You see, as I’ve mentioned many times on this blog, I work in retail. This means that on black Friday I was forced to work, which for some reason meant Dt wanted to go shopping. We never do black Friday. But I’ve led myself to believe that he did this because he was so lonely without me. Poor guy. Anyway, I’m not sure if he actually bought anything for anyone besides himself. He bought some video game that had just come out and decided that it was going to be my present for him. Did you catch that? He took all of the fun out of my gift giving by picking out and purchasing his video game without consulting me. I think he did this because he couldn’t come to terms with spending that much money on the game himself, but that he would be spending around that much on me so it would all even out. Ummm, except that I didn’t get to pick it out or even pick it up! Yes, sad, but I got over that. Until one day I came home from work and he was hard core gaming with his new game! What?!?!?! It wasn’t even December yet! Heart is crushed. So my favorite part of Christmas with him was savagely ripped from me and I don’t know what to do now (which may be why I have yet to purchase a Christmas tree…) I was also forced to buy my own Christmas present for myself (because I got the discount from my store) which was super lame but I did end up with one of these babies!

Williams-Sonoma

Once I purchase some half and half and freeze one of those bowls, I will have lovely homemade ice cream in whatever flavor I choose (and dt will get zero input in the first batch or two because I’m bitter. Ha!)

I’m sure I will end up getting Dt something small to go along with his dumb video game but I haven’t come up with anything cool yet. So, I think I’m well on my way and at least my family members will be pleasantly surprised on Christmas morning.

What am I asking for you want to know?

Just one of these

Michael Kors

Isn’t it purrrrrty?

As well as one of these

Target

Which is so random but I grew up taking piano lessons (didn’t appreciate it then, hated practicing) and I recently decided that I’d like to take up piano playing again. Of course my apt is way too small for a full sized piano so something like this would fill the void.

And that’s my current gift guide! I think I’m slowly getting excited for Christmas… Also, work was much better today than Monday which was good. My boss' boss and her boss both came to the store today which is why everyone was so freaked out and the attitudes where at an all time high earlier this week but the visit went well and they told my manager that I was doing a great job. Yea! So that was nice and hopefully things will get back to normal after today. 

Love, Em