Sorry I've been blog MIA lately. After an awesome weekend in Hilton Head it was definitely hard to get back into the swing of the work week. The weather this past weekend was beautiful and we spent the entire day on the beach Saturday. This was one of the most relaxing weekends I've had in a long time and I ate a ton of awesome food!

I came back for the beginning of June relaxed, tan and ready for a new month. I started moving my stuff over to the new house on Monday and now have some of my clothes hanging in my closet. There is still a ton more to move and I plan on taking some more things tomorrow but I won't be taking everything over to stay until Saturday. Along with all the things I still have to move there are a lot of things I have to buy and a lot I want to buy even if I don't really need them. For about a month now I've been trying to talk myself into buying a new duvet cover and I found one that I really love.



It comes with the sheet set and two shams plus it matches the color of my new room, which is a grayish blue, and the cover I have now doesn't but I always have a hard time making big purchases. I also need to buy myself a new tv and a bookcase for my room. I guess it's a good thing I have a job since all I do now is spend money but you only live once!

First off thanks to my roomie over at ajapanesesoutherngirl for the award, I don't know if I really deserve it but thanks for the props!



I'm also supposed to explain what I like about blogging so here it goes...it's a great way to get my ideas out there. I've always been the kind of person who has racing thoughts and I definitely tend to stress out and over-analyze things so blogging has been a good way to organize all my ideas. Along with explaining why I enjoy blogging I'm supposed to give this award to someone but the person I want to give it to is a slacker (you know who you are). All my friends' have awesome blogs though!

In other news I'm sure most people watched the season premier of Jon & Kate Plus Eight and all I can really say about it was it was heart-wrenching to watch those kids. Although Kate said that none of the children are aware of what's going on you know that Mady and Cara have to have an idea that something is not right. I just hope for all their sakes Jon & Kate can work something out.

After a very relaxing Memorial Day weekend thanks in part to the rainy/overcast weather I'm well rested and excited for this 4 day work week. The roomies and I are going tomorrow to our new house to sign all the paperwork so I can move in on June 1st. I'm so excited to start buying things to decorate my room and the rest of the house! Plus I'm one step closer to going home and getting my bed...24 days and counting until I can lose the air mattress. Then Friday I'm heading down to HHI for the weekend with one of my fav families for a little beach time. I'm pretty sure this week is going to fly by and that's darn exciting!

Rainy Sunday

Normally I love a good rainy Sunday afternoon. It's nice to relax after a fun, eventful weekend and get ready for the coming work week but that is definitely not the case today. I'm sick of waking up every morning and seeing the sky outside gray and ready to rain. It seems like for the past few weeks the only semi-nice days have been during the week when I'm stuck inside at my cubicle and by the time the weekend rolls around it's threatening...and delivering rain all weekend. It's fair to say that I have lost all semblance of a tan, even if that tan was a horrible t-shirt one that I got at a Clemson baseball game. The weather definitely doesn't help the fact that I seriously have to start training for the Isle of Palms 10k in Charleston that I'm supposed to run in October. I know I have plenty of time but I'm not motivated to go run when I wake up in the morning to overcast skies and humidity.

The weather has given me a lot of time to read though and I read a nice, easy, girly book in about a day. Now I'm starting in on he's just not that into you. Although I've only read the first chapter so far it already it's scaring me to death. I know the book is supposed to make you feel more secure but so far all it's doing is making me feel like I don't have a chance in heck. We'll see how I feel once I finish.

Since I'm sure I'll be reading an inordinate number of books over the next two months while I rough it without cable I think I'm going to try to turn this blog into a book review site. I love reading and always have (my mom used to punish me by not letting me read before bed)so this should be something I'm good at. Hopefully my recommendations will be fun and helpful...so here we go!



I just finished Jen Lancaster's new book Pretty in PlaidA Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or the Wonder Years Before the Condescending, Egomaniacal Self-Centered Smart-Ass Phase and I LOVED it! For people who haven't read her other books Jen Lancaster is the author of a set of memoirs, Bitter is the New Black, Bright Lights, Big Ass and Such a Pretty Fat and I love all of her books. She is funny, witty and just bitchy enough to make everything that happens in her life, good or bad, a hilarious story. I wish we could be friends because more than anything else I love a person with a snarky sense of humor. Her books are great girly reads with the nice twist that they aren't all about the down and out quirky girl who finds the man of her dreams. Jen is tough and funny and preppy and pretty much everything I want to be because she believes in herself. Her self-esteem is something I truly admire and it doesn't hurt that she kicks butt all while wearing argyle socks, khaki shorts and a Lacoste polo.

Facebook made the quote "All my friends are getting married and I'm just getting drunk" famous and when I first saw the group it didn't really mean anything to me...now it's becoming the story of my life. At first I thought it was only people from college who were starting to get engaged and married but now it's high school too...that's not a very northern thing to do! So I'm sitting here alone in the apartment on a Thursday night and I think I might just have a second glass of wine with dinner.

In better news I'm super excited about moving into our new house in a week or so! It's super cute and even though I'll still be sleeping on the air mattress for a few weeks it is going to feel amazing to be able to hang my clothes in a closet...the suitcases just aren't doing it for me any more. I am going to miss my awesome roommies for the month and a half that I'm living in the house alone. Everyone keeps asking me if it scares me that I'll be living alone and it doesn't. I think the thing that scares me the most is the fact that I don't plan on paying for cable by myself so I'm going to be tv and internet free for the next two months. Any good book suggestions would be greatly appreciated since I'm sure I'll be doing a ton of reading. It will all be worth it though when I we have our housewarming blow out in at the beginning of August!

The Sound Track of My Life

So first things first, I need to stop listening to music at work; either that or find some music that's upbeat. I feel like rap is a little inappropriate but it's the only thing I can think of that won't turn me into a sappy, depressed puddle in my cubicle. Now I love a good, upbeat country song but you type any good singer/band or song into pandora.com and sooner of later the love songs start playing. I've never been the kind of girl who needs to have a boyfriend and for quite a while now I haven't had one but lately I'm just kind of loney. I know I need to just get out there and not worry about it but I think I might be just a little bit obsessed. My mom keeps telling me that it will happen when I least expect it but since I've never expected it that route doesn't seem to be working so unitl I can figure some things out I need to stay away from love songs. Except for my new fav song, "Whatever it is" by my new fav band, Zac Brown Band. There's just something about this song that makes me super happy. I'll try to post it if my computer lets me.

Lazy Weekend

I'm actually really surprised I'm posting again so soon but considering that fact that I have nothing going on other than work I guess it makes sense that I'm kind of bored.

So far I love being back in the south. It's nice to be able to see all of my friends from college without having to book a plane ticket or drive for half a day but being in a new city is harder than I thought it was going to be. I was definitely spoiled in college, there was always something to do and someone to do it with. College life lends itself to meeting new people but life after school is not quite the same. How do you meet people in the "real world"?

The girls I work with are all great but not really people I would call to go out on a Friday night. My biggest dilemma is how am I ever going to meet guys if I don't work with any? To tell you the truth I'm not really sure if there are any guys my age who work at the same company as me and if they do they definitely don't work in my building where the only man is probably 60. It definitely doesn't help that it's common knowledge among my friends that I lack any type of game so I need all the help I can get in the guy meeting department. I guess I'll just have to wait and see and if all else fails...Match.com, 2014, here I come.