What's Up Wednesday - A Link up

The end of February...WOOT. Bring on SPRING!!! I am tired of being cold and in bulky coats with frozen fingers and toes. I am OVER the winter weather advisories, slick roads, and forced heat.  Please bring sunshine, warm breezes and flowers!!!  Yes, I HATE winter - anyone who knows me will tell you that I am flat out pissy about months of shitty weather!! So I am thrilled when February is here then GONE..

So what is new??? Valentines Day was awesome. First one in a very long time that was.  I did end up sick a few days later - hence the blog silence - I had a migraine for 2 days then an infection woohoo good times.. * I still need the sarcasm font *!

I am looking to start my closet purge - there are so many things in there that for some reason I can't seem to donate - yet I have NOT worn them at all.. I also have about 50 black tank tops - I should pare them down.. no promises though, black tanks and jeans or a maxi dress are pretty much my standard.  I do love a good cargo pant and tank as well. The jeans I do not wear however are going - there is no reason to keep them, regardless of how much they were- someone else can enjoy them.

I did replace my sneakers over the weekend. I got a pair of Nike Air Max Torch 4's. They are super comfortable.. And yes they are the hot pink and black ones!

I also bought a new sheet set and comforter - shocker they are NOT pink, but a gorgeous gray paisley print.

I have been looking and researching new coffee makers - my Keurig has started giving me issues after 2 years. I am not sure I want another Keurig though. I have been looking at the Ninja Coffee Bar I have heard that thing beats Keurig hands down.  

That's pretty much what's new here - how about y'all?? Have a freaking awesome Wednesday! 

Thoughts on Couples Goals

Its Valentine's Eve and my mind keeps coming back to a popular hashtag. Couples Goals. Spend any time at all on social media and you will run into this - either as a phrase or a picture tagged as such. For a while now that phrase has bothered me, greatly bothered me. Especially when that is attached to a couple you honestly have NO other knowledge of other than what's presented online.

What is forgotten is that you as the public are shown exactly what they and or their publicist want you to see. They cultivate your opinion of that couple, and frankly, they are manipulating your views on who those people are. Certainly, the same can be said for non-celeb couple as well. The thing people forget is that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - they are all highlight reels.

What you see, what you are determining are "couple goals" is a few seconds in a snapshot that sometimes takes longer to edit than it took to pose the pic. From that its determined their life is perfect, and they are the perfect couple and others should strive to be them.  When in all honesty, that couple may not even like each other anymore, they are just keeping up appearances. Both sick of the other and their quirks.

I think the true couple goals are the longtime couples you personally know. Maybe it is the older couple down the street who have 30 plus years of marriage under their belt and you can tell by looking at them year after year despite the crap life throws at them they genuinely care, love and respect each other. Those are the people I want to know more about, know their secrets of life and love.

That is the relationship to me that you should aspire to cultivate. Not the one on Instagram where all you see is the perfect picture posed just so, which makes the world think they have it made and perhaps whats just out of the frame is 3 piles of laundry, the past due bills, the screaming toddler whos teething and the dog whos dumped the trash can for the third time that week.     

Weekending

Why is Monday so close to Friday yet Friday is so far away from Monday?? I could totally support permanent 3 day weekends!! I hope y'all had good weekends..

I did go to the indoor shooting range Saturday alas I did not shoot. I did watch, I can appreciate that for some it's their thing and they blow off steam and even relax this way. I just can't seem to shake the nope I don't wanna hold it I don't wanna shoot it I don't want to do anything more than observe, oh and jump despite ear protection every single time it goes off, and I am okay with that.

After we grabbed brunch at a new diner that had opened up near a friends house - He had gone shooting with us and we decided to stop there on the way back to drop him off at his house. It was meh. I am not used to ordering a breakfast skillet and the sausage in it being pizza sausage and not breakfast sausage. So the entire thing was just "off" for me. 

The rest of the afternoon and pretty much the weekend was spent relaxing watching movies and finishing Game of Thrones season 7 - yes I was late to the party and just over the last 6 months started watching - I am all caught up now and can only say helloooo is it April yet??? I NEED to know what's up with Jon and Dany!!!

Sunday found St Louis waking up to ice everywhere so just chilling and watching TV was perfect. That afternoon I did venture out and grabbed lunch and a few essentials then right back to the warmth and cozy. I am so ready for warmer weather now. I as a rule am not a Winter person anyhow and I am over the coats, boots, frozen fingers and toes.

Friday Things

WOOOHOOO we made it to FRIDAY!!! Its a chilly one here the high is 24 degrees tonight is going to fall to a whopping 13 degrees.. Good grief can we have spring please!!!

Lately, my coffee brewed in my Keurig has just been off so I picked up this 2 step cleaning system on Amazon. This mornings coffee was proof it was worth it!! I will be grabbing another for the next time I have to clean and descale!  The whole kit was $9.99 and I will gladly pay the price for it.

Tomorrow I'm off to do something I have been interested to do but yet scared to do at the same time. I am going to go learn to shoot. Frankly, guns scare me always have; however, I have always been intrigued to learn to shoot all the same. So tomorrow I am going to go face this fear. Here is hoping I actually don't back down. I have been giving myself the talk to - I have done so much in 2018 that I never thought I would be able to do, not only did I do it I thrived. Given that I am can do this as well.

The highlight of my week was this:

and that is the real Mark Hamill himself - I'm still in the corner fangirling!!

The other thing that cracked me up this week was asking Alexa to beatbox - need a smile - go head ask her to beatbox!!

Have a great weekend y'all.

And its February....

I am so glad January is over - it never fails to feel like 94 months long.  I do not mind February much at all - I have before stated its one of my favorite months.. and that has NOT one thing to do with Valentine's day ... its because it only has 28 days and that brings me so much closer to WARMTH !!

The end of January found me tying up a few loose ends. It was a relief to finally be able to do so... It was just one more step needed in the journey to close the last 17 years. It was frankly the one step at the moment that had me so stressed that I didn't even realize that for the past year I have pretty much been holding my breath and walking a tight rope. That is NOT a great life plan by the way. It's anxiety inducing and unfulfilling.  I will be glad when that part of things is completed. 

I will say that even given the stress of January - it looked nothing like January 2018. I was far less upset, less stressed, was less unhappy and unsure of myself and where I stood in my own life. For the first time in YEARS, I feel more assured of myself and where I am in life.  That, in and of itself, is the best feeling ever!

A few things I want to look at accomplishing in February is to read more and watch less TV and get back to being consistent at my blogging.