What I'm Loving Wednesday 4-6-2011

So, I've been feeling pretty blah lately. Life is good, I have no complaints. But blah about my blog. While I blog for me, it's a bit of a downer day after day to do what I think is an insightful or fun post, and then get only a couple of comments. And while I am years out of high school, and Blogland isn't a popularity contest, it's hard not to be bummed sometimes, ya know? I'm guilty of it too, I follow a bazillion blogs, so it's easy to just scroll thru posts on Google reader, and while I may enjoy a post that is totally deserving of a comment, I just scroll past it to read the rest, and forget or neglect to come back to it. But that's something I need to work on. Can't whine about it if I'm not even doing it, right? 

But anywho, I digress. Time to get back to being positive. Whining gets ya nowhere. 

So, I'm linking up with Jamie in today's link party.

1. I'm loving that I did Day One of the Insanity workout last night. I did so much better than I thought I would! I'm just tired of always bitching about the 4 lbs I want to lose (as I grab another Coke from the fridge and sit on the couch). Time to do something about it.

2. I'm loving that it's hubby's birthday next Tuesday. The big 2-8! I plan on making him a fun cake. Not going to tell you what I'm attempting, in case it's a huge disaster and I end up with a big blobby mass of cake mush on a plate. I hope he loves what I got for him.

3. I'm loving that my father in law is coming to visit on Friday. Which means that sometime between now and then, my house will stop looking like a tornado hit it and I'll actually have cleaned by then. Oh, and I like him too so that's always a plus.

4. I'm loving that this weekend, we're driving down to San Antonio. Going to check out the Alamo and the Riverwalk. I went to both of those when I graduated from basic training in 1999, but I don't really remember them.

5. I'm loving how sore I still am this morning from my workout! Means I totally kicked ass last night. Oh, and a word of warning. Do NOT do a Google search for "sore body". Ummmm, ewwww. Not images that I want to see this early in the morning.

What I'm Loving Wednesday 3-30-2011

So, I'm linking up with Jamie in today's link party.

1. I'm loving the 30% off coupon that I got for Kohl's. Which yielded me two pairs of Hydraulic capris (love that brand, fits my tushie well and doesn't show off my muffin top), plus a bunch of new shirts for the girls, and these wedges for me. Candies wedges for $23? What what!

2. I'm loving that I won one of the giveaways thru the fundraiser that Crystal held for Austin. Gotta love donating money and something from my Etsy store to help a precious boy, and ending up winning a prize. I picked these shoes by Carlos Santana.

3. I'm loving that I've been writing down all of my calories for the past week, and trying to keep them around 1500. And I'm especially loving the fact that I've lost 3 lbs so far, and that I went and did Cardio Fit last night with my friend Jen, even though I wanted to sit in my warm house. And I'm loving the pina colada I had afterwards to celebrate.

4. I'm loving all the suggestions I got when I asked for ideas of where to do Arielle's 8th birthday party. I researched all of them, put together prices, number of guests, location, etc. Then I told Arielle what our options are, and she says "I just want to do another skating party like last year." Silly girl, but at least now we know the location, and I've made the reservations.

5. I'm loving that since it's Wednesday, we'll be going out to eat tonight. The girls have practice on Wednesdays, so we go out to eat afterwards. We're trying to cut down on how often we eat out. But I heart going out to eat.

6. I'm loving that my tattoo appointment is this Sunday! Been wanting to get my arm worked on some more since forever, and the guy I want to have tattoo me is usually booked 4 months out. But I checked a couple of weeks ago, and he had an opening for this Sunday, and I got it. Woot! I'm excited! Not excited for the healing process though.

7. I'm loving this video that hubby shot last night when I was working out.

What I'm Loving Wednesday 3-16-2011

I'm joining a new link party. I've been seeing this one around, but haven't participated yet. But since today has been a kick ass kind of day.... voila.

What I'm Loving Wednesday

{one}

These high heel Mary Janes that I scored at Ross. For $15. Five inch heel with a one inch hidden platform. LOVE. And super comfy! But I've been known to wear super cute but uncomfy shoes, cause they're well, cute.

Oh, and I'm not really that pale. I'm about half that pale. And seeing my poor undecorated feet in these shoes just makes me want my foot tattoo all that much more. Pain be damned.

{two}

My bloggy BFF Lesley from So Fabulously Flawed. I know that I can count on her to read and comment on all the random crap that I post. And I can read any post on her blog and burst out laughing. Seriously. Heart this lady!

{three}

Same with Kristen from Who's Watching The Baby. Take all the info above, and replace "Lesley" with "Kristen".

{four} and {five}

This man right here. There is nothing sexier than an amazing dad. There is a quote, something about how I never knew how much I loved you until I saw how much you loved our child. SO TRUE.

And the fact that he didn't bat an eye when I told him I bought another pair of black dress shoes. I mean, women, we all know that we need different kinds of black dress shoes, right? Strappy, open toed, close toed, etc. They're all different.

{six}

The craft project that I've been working on, that is taking so much longer than I anticipated. Happy to be crafting again! I've been in a slump lately. Think $60 knock off for $4. Woot.