Birthday Giveaway Winner

And the winner of the $25 Starbucks Gift Card is...

I have emailed Cindy and if I do not hear back from her, I will select another winner.

Thanks to all my new followers - I love a fun giveaway!!!

Happy SHORT week to all!!!

Birthday Love at Work

WOWSA! I was so feeling the birthday love at work today!!!

Before I tell you all about that - DON'T FORGET TO JOIN IN MY BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY HERE - only one more days to enter!!!!!! I will pick the winner tomorrow and mail out the gift card next week!

Back to work - well not actually. I am not at work anymore but when I was - what a great day!!!! My actual birthday in Monday and since everyone will be off work that day, my co-workers (Jenna and Sheila) decided we should celebrate today! Yippee me!

I came into the office and found this at 6AM...

Seriously amazing right?!?!?! What a great bunch of people I work with!

Another view of the awesomeness!!

This is the view upwards sitting in my chair - LOL!

And the lovely cake!!!!!! Sooo good - I may have had my FIRST piece for breakfast and my second for lunch!!!!! YUMMO!

Thanks to all the awesome people I work with for this amazing day! It was awesome!!!! I cant wait to celebrate with family and friends!!!!!!! YEA!

Thanks to Mom and Dad for making me!

Ha!

Do you do fun things like this for your co-workers or have you ever had your cubicle decorated if you work? How did you like it?

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5 More Shopping Days

Happy Wednesday!

As you can see in the title above...there are 5 more shopping days until my birthday!!! YEA!! Get moving peeps!  Go get your SHOP on!!! LOL! i am just kidding of course!

I actually want to give you guys a gift for being amazing followers and bloggy friends so I am giving you the gift on my birthday!! DON'T FORGET TO JOIN IN THE BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY HERE - only two more days to enter!!!!!!

But, on the subject of birthdays! Let me just say that Sephora has been the most amazing company this year! They sent me a card for my birthday to go claim a gift and then a week later they sent another card to go claim a gift just for being a Sephora card holder.  AWESOMENESS!!!

Here is what I got!!!

This awesome lip gloss is great!! Never tried it before but it goes on smooth and has a slight minty hint that makes your lips tingle! I love it-the color is amazing also!

 And this!!! It is a two set!

They are both awesome colors and I cannot wait to use the red when my boyfriend takes me to dinner this weekend! Yea me!

Here is the Bare Minerals Moxie from above on my lips on the way out the door this am!

HA HA!

Yes, I am officially getting old!!! Scary when I see those wrinkles!

PS - DON'T FORGET TO JOIN IN THE BIRTHDAY GIVEAWAY HERE - only two more days to enter!!!!!!

Happy Hump Day ya'll!!!

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Friday Favorites and 5 on Friday

Happy Friday!!! YEA! It has been a terribly busy and long week~~~I am so glad the weekend is ALMOST here!

Before I do anything else...PLEASE enter my Birthday Month Giveaway!! Hardly anyone is entered and it is for a $25 gift card for Starbucks...who does not want one of those? I guess lots of you - ha ha! Enter HERE soon!

Well, on to the important stuff!!!

It is time for Five on Friday and Friday Faves!!! YEA!

1. I got this little gem in my last Stridebox. Stridebox is a monthly sub box that sends you fun fuel and toys that relate to running! This is the greatest subscription box there is - I swear! If you run or even walk/jog - you will love the stuff in the box!! Only $10 a month! This ball is great to roll my feet on at work under my desk - it is my new favorite thing!

2. I got this iPhone case on sale at Hobby Lobby (clearance actually for $2.99) figuring I would give it to someone else - I have a lot of friends that love Hello Kitty...but I decided it is so cute that I have to use it myself! LOVE LOVE!
 

3. I was sent this new favorite in one of my other subscription boxes, I think Ipsy and I loved it so much that I ran out to Sephora the next day and bought the full size one! It is only around $18 for the full size and it makes your lips soooo soft and it also smells amazing!!! You will love it - I promise! You can get it HERE!

4. This is a new favorite as of yesterday afternoon! My Birchbox for May arrived and this was inside and I am in love! It smells amazing and leaves my hands soooooo soft!! Where have you been all my life?!?! I will be hitting up Amazing today for a LARGE bottle of this!

5. And last but not least...I am loving my wireless keyboard! This magnetically attaches to my iPad and allows me to type like the iPad is a laptop computer! It is great! As a blogger I am sure you can understand what a game changer this is for me! YEA! Love it! I got it at Costco and it was really reasonable too! You can purchase one HERE too!

I hope everyone has an amazing Friday night and weekend too!!!

I cannot wait to read about everyone's Friday favorites!

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21 Day Fix - Day 4

Hi ya'll!!! 

First and foremost...don't forget to enter my birthday month giveaway HERE ...it is your chance to win a $25 gift card for Starbucks!!! The odds are great as not many people are entered at all!!

I am just checking in to report on the 21 Day Fix so far!

It is officially the morning of Day 4 and I am already down 6 pounds. I realized that this may be water weight but I am still thrilled!!! I am also very hungry but I expected this as my eating has been way out of control and I eat way too large of portions!

Anytime I am hungry I just tell myself that it will all be worth it when the weight is gone and I can feel confident again!! "Nothing tastes as good as being thin and healthy feels!!" Right?!?!

Anyone that is thinking about doing this....make sure you are ready to make the commitment! It is really hard!!! I could lie and say it is a piece of cake but that is completely not true! It is hard and it is strict but it is also only 21 days! The eating plan seems to be the most difficult for me! No white flour or sugar - I think the sugar part is killing me!!! But, again, I keep telling myself it is only 21 days! 

I like the workouts much better than I thought I would too! There is 7 different workouts so you do not do the same thing twice in any week which is  great for variety~but, they are really hard! Each days exercise is only 30 minutes and they make a point to break everything down into one minute intervals and the trainer says "you can anything for a minute right?" HA HA! Sometimes it feels like I cannot! HA HA!

Also, they show modified versions of all the exercises too - they are great for me!

And the only equipment required for the workouts is handweights.

My masseuse, Kristina, turned me onto the 21 Day Fix and I am so glad that she did!!! I feel better after only four days and cannot wait until Day 21 to run back to her and give her my final numbers and show her how awesome I look thanks to her! Hopefully, this will set up a pattern in my life to eat more reasonable portions and make better food choices down the road also!

I'll keep you posted!

Searching For A New "Normal"

I am currently searching for my new "normal"!!

My normal used to be working out like crazy EVERY night and focusing on me and that was awesome for a period of time. Now, I have met a special someone and I am still trying to figure out how he plays into my life, my decisions and my fitness to be really honest.

When I was single and had nowhere to go and nothing to do it was easy to focus on working out three hours a night and losing weight. I wanted to feel better,. look better and BE better.

Then I met him! Now I already feel better (he tells me I am attractive just the way I am) and I know I have lost enough weight that I look okay (but I want to get to my goal weight) but the scale is slowly creeping the wrong way! That is NOT okay! I worked so hard to get the weight off that I am not starting over! So, Here we go!

Yesterday was DAY ONE of the 21 Day Fix! I am excited that I started and I am currently starving but I am sure that I will adjust in a day or so! Right???!?!

After just one day, with the measured portions of food and the daily workout supplied by the 21 Day Fix, I have realized that my portion size is fiercely out of control and my exercise has gone from three hours a night to about 1 hour a week!!! The total body workout last night kicked my butt-it did not help that I did it REALLY late when I got home from his house too though.

So, how will I squeeze this all in? I think I have it figured out now! 

New normal day...work at 6AM...no lunch and head home at 2PM. Tanning on the way home and arrive at home at 3PM. Do the workout for the day at 3PM and then head over to see him at 4 or 4:30 when he gets home. Work in his yard planting and weeding and hanging out, etc. and then out to a healthy and measured dinner and home by 9PM. Shower and in bed by 9:30PM or 10PM. That should be do-able - at least for 21 days, right?!?!?

Lets see if we can get this scale moving in the right direction again and be happy in a relationship too!!!! Why should it have to be one or the other?

Please Comment: Anyone else have any experience with "happy eating"? How do you all balance your significant other, kids, job, activities? This is hard and it is only me so I cannot imagine what you other women go through!!!

PS  -Don't forget to enter my birthday month giveaway HERE!!! There is hardly anyone entered! Another week + to enter!

Nature in full swing

Today's post will cement the idea that it is finally Spring in Pittsburgh!!!

I put up my hummingbird feeders and look who I saw visiting yesterday?!?!? Two of them actually! Love these little guys - and they are back - YEA!!!

And another view - aren't they so cute?!? I will get some new ones today with the screen open so you can actually see them better and not the screen grid - ha!

There are two nests at my BF's house...they were actually from last year and I told him that they would not use them however, I have again been proven very wrong! He insisted we leave them there and they came in and added a little grass and laid a few eggs already!!! Cant wait to see these baby robins...

And on the note of babies: Look at these little guys! This was also a nest from last year (proven wrong TWICE!) and the little babies are hatching...I think it is a little warbler bird but we are going to work on identifying mom soon so I can report for sure what the babies are! Literally just hatching!!

 So excited for Spring and Summer in Pittsburgh!

What do you like most about Spring? Do you love birds or hate birds - I am pretty sure there is no middle ground - HA!

PS - Make sure to enter my giveaway for a $25 Starbucks gift card HERE!! 

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