birthday week-end

I kicked off the birthday celebrations by treating myself to a manicure. I love getting a gel manicure because the polish lasts forever and I am not very forgiving with my nails. They stand up to laundry, dishes, and working in the yard. I decided on a color changing polish this time because I had a hard time choosing just one. The lighter color pink is the color of the polish when it's "warm" or "hot" and the orangish/coral color is the color the polish becomes when it's "cold". It's pretty cool, especially in a month like March where the temperature can fluctuate 30° in three days. 

I also changed out the St. Patrick's Day chalkboard to make a "Happy Birthday" message to myself for the day! It's the little things sometimes that make you happy and combining crafts with my birthday is one of those things.

I got home from work the day before my birthday and was greeted with a birthday card from the family. My mom knows how much I love getting mail-that isn't a bill- so she sends me cards for all occasions, including my birthday. After I opened that card I realized that it looked quite familiar and pulled out the birthday card they sent me last year. Last year's card is on the left and this year's card is on the right....although you would never know which is which because they are the exact same. Oh mom, you make me laugh without even trying. 

For my actual birthday Cam took me to dinner and I came home and made myself a little cake. It wasn't much, but it was fun to blow out the candles on a cake for my birthday.

We had tickets to the hockey game on Friday evening. These were the last ones for our 2015-2016 flex season passes. A little bummed that it's our last one, but excited knowing that the Capital's already have a playoff spot clenched!

Saturday was spent furniture shopping and grabbing dinner with the entire family. I will say that 26 has already been good to me. I am thankful to have spent the weekend with the family. Now it's all downhill to 30!

quarter life crisis

I recently celebrated turning 25 and happened to stumble upon this on Facebook a few days before hand. Forever Twenty Something hit it out of the park with this article on their page. Now I will preface this by saying I fit into a lot of these scenarios before I turned 25, but this is still a fun list that depicts mid-twenties life quite accurately.


1. You wear the same clothes you wear to work when going out. This is when you KNOW.

2. You have at least one friend (or acquaintance) who is engaged. Like someone your age could afford a ring. People know who they want to be with for the rest of their lives already. HOW?

3. When watching sports, you often pause and reflect on the fact that you are older than, like, half of the athletes.

4. People have graduated from college who were not even in college when you were in college. Wait, what?

5. You love brunch. But it goes right to your hips.

6. You consider a night on your friend’s couch “going out.” You left YOUR couch. You’re out.

7. You do not have time for hangovers, yet the only way you can avoid them now is by not drinking… which you’re not going to do. You’re only 25 dammit.

8. You are like so totally done with college-style apartments. You need to move into a better area. You need to live in a real apartment. The problem: you can’t afford one. *Weeping in a corner, brb*

9. You can count the number of people you still talk to from college on a regular basis on your fingers. Where did they all go?

10. The thought of making plans on a weekday night makes you cringe. You want me to leave my couch? And stay up late? And pay for drinks? On a weekday?! But I have work tomorrow!

11. You’re not sure if it’s okay to enjoy listening to pop music. Especially very loudly with your windows rolled down while sitting at red lights. And you’ve actually wondered when it will really NOT be okay. Like when will you be looked at like you’re trying to be a cool mom and not a regular mom for listening to 5 Seconds of Summer and Iggy Azalea?

12. You’re not the youngest person in the office anymore, but you’re also not one of the “old people,” so it’s kinda awk. Who do you hang out with? You’re not sure. Is it okay that you went to an EDM concert this weekend? Do you keep that to yourself?

13. The thought of buying a condo/apt/house is real. Some of you may have purchased one already… And the rest are just wondering HOW THE FUCK they will ever save enough money to buy, like, a new computer never mind a fucking house.

14. Sometimes you learn what certain abbreves mean or how to do things on your iPhone from someone younger than you, because apparently you’re not “all up on that stuff” anymore.

15. You sometimes have to take a minute, sit on the couch, put on Elton John, and shut your eyes to get away from your REALLY FUCKING STRESSFUL LIFE… oh that’s just me? Nevermind…

My life is definitely numbers 2, 6 (for sure!), and sometimes 8. I thought this would be the perfect post to celebrate turning 25, which I am reminded is halfway to 50, thanks little brother. 

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day in the district

I am once again very much behind on posting. I swear I am eventually going to get good at this whole blogging thing. Just a quick update based on the last few weeks of my life...

My brother and I share a birthday month so we have done joint "parties" before, and now that we are older we tend to celebrate together since we are only separated by a week. This year we took a weekend trip to the capital to do a little drinking and a little sight seeing. It was great to have my mom and my brother there, along with Cam. Here are a few photos from the trip and the hockey game.



starting the day with drinks at the Red Line



on Capitol Hill

rocking the red as usual

Library of Congress

With hockey season coming to an end, baseball season is now underway. This year I will be rocking the red for the home team and also the orange for the boys in Birdland. Stay tuned for more posts about my crazy simple life

so behind...

Apparently I am really bad at blogging because I haven't been on here in a long time. So here are some highlights since the last post. 

First of all my wonderful father turned 50! I had a blast looking through old photos of him and the entire family. As you can see from the photo below he hasn't changed too much, just lacking some hair. We may not have a very affectionate relationship, but we make it work. I know that if I were to call him for something, he would immediately figure out a way to make things better. Happy Birthday to my favorite old man.

The past weekend was by far very busy! Saturday the boyfriend and I went to a superhero/villain/princess birthday party and we had a blast. Both of our costumes were homemade by yours truly, which I must say is pretty impressive. Here are some photos from the party.

The birthday girl and I

Princess Tiger Lily and Captain Hook. We are so freaking adorable, and yes I am biased.

To end my crazy weekend I woke up to this on Monday morning!

I had to commute about 65 miles to get to work and decided not to risk it in this weather. I later found out that where I work only got rain, no snow. Luckily I had my work computer with me and I was able to get some work done from the house. Most of the snow had melted by the evening so I headed back to work on Tuesday. 

I think I have covered most of the major stuff that has happened over the last few weeks. I will try and get better about posting on a more regular basis.