The Good, The Bad and the...Confusing?

I would be lying if I said the last 10 days or so haven't been slightly strange and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not but you can help me decide :)


First of all, this week the weather completely did a flip and went from disgustingly hot and humid to cool and rainy. We definitely needed the rain so it was a welcome soggy mess for a couple of days but rain really has a way of making people look just as soggy as the grass outside and it kind of puts a damper on the whole summer wardrobe and usual sunny commute to and from work. Today seems to be the perfect combination of cool, breezy and sunny so that's a good thing.

Ugh, I will have to write an actual blog post for this next event of the last week, but the gist of it is that in the process of selling my Keurig on eBay I had to deal with a complete jerk. The whole situation gave me anxiety for a week and made me want to climb through my computer and strangle someone. Good thing this guy lives across the country. Thumbs DOWN!


On a more "strange" note - Justin offered to go grocery shopping with me on Thursday night. Considering it works 40 hours a week in a grocery store it's a very rare thing for me to convince him to grocery shop with me so considering he sought me out to help was so completely awesome! We hadn't been shopping in over three weeks so we revenged the aisles of Kroger and took home one of everything - I may have slightly exaggerated the amount of loot we hauled home, but only slightly. So having food in the house is also a good thing - another thumbs up!

On a more recent note - I started watching Gossip Girl on Netflix today. I was in need of another show to have going on in the background of my lazy Sunday and I'm already out of How I Met Your Mother episodes. Considering I have an obsession with teenage dramas I knew this could go either way: loving it and becoming slightly obsessed or hating it and having to find something else to obsess over while I do laundry, drink lots of coffee, give myself a pedicure and love on the kitties! And so far the verdict is I think I'm going to be obsessed...not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, so that gets a confused...eh.

I'm trying to get back to my regular blogging schedule that I had last month soon so I hope that's a good thing for all you FB friends that get inundated with posts in your news feed.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday! I'm off to Draino the tub, switch loads of laundry and refill my coffee cup - ah, the life of the rich and famous - be jealous, outrageously jealous :)

Mega Millions for Mega Dreams

Wow, Worst Blogger Ever Award? Yep - goes to me!

Sorry for being MIA lately, if anyone actually noticed the absence of my obnoxious posting. Although it sounds like an excuse, my crazy busy job and life have kind of taken over lately and to be frank, I really was having trouble coming up with ideas for good blog topics. I don't want to keep writing about cancer, tv shows, my boring life or other things that just aren't that exciting or thought provoking. But, over the past few days I have been thinking about something and figured I would share in the hopes that you will share with me as well.

So unless you've been living under a rock this week you know that the Mega Millions lottery is close to $600 Million. Holy crap, right!?! While everyone's instinct is to go out and buy a bunch of lottery tickets, mine is to constantly day dream about what I would do with the money. For me the fun of pretending and imagining what that money could do far outweighs the waste of money, hope and disappointment that comes with buying a losing lottery ticket (a little pessimistic? maybe...). An amount of money of that caliber can do so much and fill so many dreams. A few blog posts ago I talked about goals. Now, I'm talking about DREAMS. Dreams are things that you would love to do, but may not be the most practical or obtainable. So while I have been living in a day dream land of paid off student loans, fancy houses and wonderful vacations one of my life-long dreams keeps floating into the forefront. My dream of owning my own non-profit organization keeps coming up and I am constantly wondering how much of a "dream" this is and how much of a "goal" it could become.

As someone who already works in the non-profit world I know what how much the right programming, staff and passion can help those in need but that means I also know how hard this mission can be. We all know our state is not in the best position, we have children dropping out of school, not having food in the bellies, no heat in the winter, men and women living on the streets, people struggling to find work or even hold onto the work they already have. It seems extremely daunting and incredibly sad that there is all this need around us and very little resources to fulfill it. I guess that's another part of my dream, helping and putting an end to something that is plaguing our communities... maybe I should buy a Mega Millions ticket after all :)

So, now that you know one of my biggest dreams, I want to know yours.

If you were to win the $600 Million tonight - what would you do with it?

Cold Feet and Crock Pot Pork Chops

Michigan officially has the craziest weather, ever! Yesterday it was about 45 degrees - I didn't wear my coat for most of the day and actually had to open a window in the office because it was too hot in there. Today it was chilly but not too bad in the wee hours of the morning, but it started snowing like crazy around 9am...just enough to make it slippery, slushy and wet. Now, as I look out our window I see ZERO snow. Kind of irritating considering I wore my ballet flats today and ended up with soaking wet feet for about five hours and then snow decides to melt as soon as I get home and don't have to bother with it. BAH!


So I'm all snuggled up at home now, in the lazy-boy under my favorite purple blanket with dinner in the crock pot, catching up on the DVR with the hubs. I have to admit, I feel super strange not being at work (and hesitate to admit that I've been on my work e-mail all afternoon even though I got off work at 2p) but I am enjoying my afternoon off with Justin, who had his fourth chemotherapy treatment this morning. Looks like the drugs are kicking in since he's eating us out of house and home - in the last three hours he has consumed lunch, a bowl of chili and a bag of popcorn. THIS is why they say you gain weight while going through CHOP chemotherapy, haha.


Has anyone else seen this commercial? I think it's hilarious!!

I plan on updating with more substantial things soon, but thought I would brag about my cozy afternoon ;) Also, if this new pork chop recipe turns out well, I plan on completely bragging about that later too!
xo Em.