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Normally I come here on Mondays and share my weekend shenanigans with you. Today, I just don’t feel like doing that.

Today I wanted to come here and say What. The. Fuck. There are no words that can describe the way I felt when I first heard the news of Orlando yesterday morning. My first thought was, this must have been a hate crime. Pride parades and celebrations happened all over the country this past weekend. Then news started circling that this was an ISIS related terror attack and the number of deaths started to climb.

The shooter was a US born citizen who evidently has ties to ISIS. I am sure there are many more like him all over our country. And that? That scares the crap out of me. It also makes me so sad to think that we live in one of the greatest countries in the world and our own people are turning their backs on us.

It is a scary world out there these days. Whether attacks like this are from hate, mental health issues, terror attacks….it just sucks. It sucks that I never care to enter a movie theater for the rest of my life because of a shooting that occurred in one. It sucks that any big crowd event makes me a little nervous as in the back of my mind I think….this would be the type of even that a terror attack or mass shooting could occur with masses of people being in one spot.

I don’t want to to think like that. I don’t want to be on alert of my surroundings at all times. I want to be that young little girl who used to be left to play outside in the backyard for hours without supervision. The 12 year old that was dropped off at the mall with her friend. The kid that went to school everyday without it ever occurring to her that someone would bring a gun.

That isn’t the world we live in anymore.

Today? We turn on the news and here of murders pretty much every day. It is almost like we are desensitized from it because it is such a common occurrence. I am not saying bad things didn’t happen when we were younger, because they did. But not on this scale.

I feel so helpless. I mean, what can we do to make it better? Compassion and kindness of individuals can only go so far. I feel like our leaders are failing us. The FBI knew about this guy. Why was he allowed to buy two guns recently? I realize there was no hard evidence of what he was about to do…but shouldn’t we have been looking a little more closely?

Some changes need to start being made. I am not a super religious person, but I find myself praying for our country. For future generations. And for some peace that when we walk out our front doors in the morning, we are a little less scared.

June 13, 2016 by Nadine

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Weekend Shenanigans

My goodness that first weekend of June just flew right on by, didn’t it? It was rainy on and off all weekend here in Alabama. This is basically what the entire weekend looked like, with bursts of random sunshine here and there…

Friday, Laura and I were supposed to try a new restaurant that just opened. Unfortunately, the line was about 40 people long out the door and no food is worth that kind of wait!!! No need to fear, we had Skycastle next door as backup. A delicious backup it was! We split the buffalo chicken dip with house made chips and I ordered a burger and side salad as my entree. The side salad totally makes that a balanced, healthy lunch…right?!

Saturday morning I finished reading Fooling Around and started Mug Shots. Both have been on my Netgalley for quite some time! I then cleaned the house and beat Wooly Yoshi! This was all I got for beating the game…

Bullshit, right? I wanted a damn medal. Or at least a cookie! I started to play NES remix…but I don’t really know how I feel about it. It wasn’t my favorite.

Chris and I headed to Crazy Horse for an early dinner. It is a locally owned restaurant in a small town near our house. The food and service is always outstanding and we are lucky to have such an establishment so close! I almost always order the 5 ounce filet when we go there. They don’t bring a knife out with your meal because the owner believes the steak should just tear apart with a fork or it wasn’t cooked right. And it always is perfect! Normally, I am not a huge fan of fried green tomatoes, but theirs are the shit!!!! They always come on the side.

We hit up Target after our dinner date to get the weekly grocery shopping out of the way, then headed home to watch a SVU marathon of our own.

Sunday morning I had a hair up my ass to clean more of the spare room. My goal is to not have any storage left in our guest bedroom and turn the spare room in to a home office for myself. Chris has an office in our basement. It is ridiculous the amount of bags/totes we have. This pile I pulled out from the bottom of the closet in the spare room.

I am donating some, giving some to my sister, and kept just enough to have for when we need but much more organized! I also got rid of a huge bag of shoes, probably about 10 pairs. And a whole lot of clothes that were hanging between the two spare closets. Why do I hang on to this shit? I haven’t worn/used any of it in the four years we have been at this house.

After a down pour, Chris threw some burgers on the grill for us and I made side salads to go with them. Delicious!

I spent the next two hours finishing season two of Grace and Frankie, reading a little and just relaxing after the huge clean up that morning. We then decided to try out the new Netflix original movie The Do Over with Adam Sandler and David Spade. It was cute. Then we checked out Ali Wong: Baby Cobra. The girl is hilarious!!! Here is a little snippet….

Then I realized that it was Sunday night and the bliss of the weekend was coming to an end. So sad when the Sunday night blues kick in. I hope that you all had a fabulous weekend!!!

Linking up with Biana.

June 6, 2016 by Nadine

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Weekend Shenanigans

May sure came quickly and it just seems to be flying right by. I mean, how is it May 9th already?! And more importantly, how is it Monday??

For whatever reason, last week was exhausting. Friday evening we settled in for some TV and retired rather early.

Saturday morning I finished the book I was reading, cleaned the house, kick some Wooly Yoshi butt on the Wii U and then we headed downtown to grab a late lunch at Fuego. We couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day…well entire weekend…here in Birmingham. Just look at the sky!!!

We like to refer to that as the satan fountain in Five Points.

We enjoyed the amazing patio weather, ordered some chips and salsa and taco salad and it was perfect.

When’s the last time you had orange soda??? Delicious!!!

Saturday evening we spent some time with Chris’s parents and then when we came home Chris’s friend came over and I decided to curl up in bed to start a new book, which was amazing and I am almost done with it and hope to have it in my link up post tomorrow!!!!

Oh and I also got the May Allure box in the mail and tried out the Foreo and OMG!!! I am in love!!! I cant wait to get a review up on this box in a few weeks, it might be my favorite yet!

Sunday we celebrated Mother’s Day with Chris’s family at my SIL. They ordered in Moe’s and we hung out for awhile and then got our grocery shopping done and came home to watch the Chicago shows; Med, Fire and PD. I might have also enjoyed some mint chocolate chip ice cream inside a waffle bowl. YOLO.

And just like that, the weekend was over. I hope you all have a fabulous week!!!

Linking up with Biana.

May 9, 2016 by Nadine

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Weekend Shenanigans

Hello there mid November!!! You guys…I was looking at my calendar this morning and I realized that next week is Thanksgiving!!! Like, what?!?!?! How is that even possible?!?!?!

I hit up the Sephora VIB sale on Friday to snag the essentials that I was out of. Foundation, airbrush and UD eye primer. Oh, how I wanted to much more!!!! Buttttt Christmas presents. I have bought hardly any of those, dang it!

I went in wanting Too Faced new primer….but I wound up hating it after testing it out. After a few different ones I tried, I ended up coming home with a Lancome one. I haven’t used Lancome foundation in years but I really feel like I am going to love this. I will check back with you after I get the proper introduction!

I got to stop at Birmingham’s newest addition: Trader Joe’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how I have missed this place!!! When I lived in Atlanta, I could basically walk to my nearest Trader Joe’s. It was a several times a week stop for me and I realized on Thursday just how much I missed it! I picked up a few of my favorite things and introduced Chris to them all this weekend. He was totally on board!

Gorgonzola Cheest Gnocchi

Prosciutto and Arugula Flatbread

Perline Pasta stuff with Prosciutto

Soooo basically we ate all the carbs this weekend!!!

Other than that, Saturday was spent watching football! All the games went in my favor! I watched my GA Dawgs beat up on Auburn, my Crimson Tide roll all over Mississippi State and just for fun I enjoyed Arkansas kick some LSWHO ass.

Sunday we got up early and headed to Waffle House and Target to get our grocery shopping done. We were back home before 9:30am!!

Then I spent the morning Christmas-izing house while watching Elf and Bad Santa!

A little sneak peak at the decor…

The rest of Sunday was spent catching up on our shows and watching Friends.

I hope that everyone had a fabulous weekend!!! Did your team win this weekend? What did you get at the Sephora sale?

Let’s hope for a speedy last full week of work this month! Linking up with Biana.

November 16, 2015 by Nadine

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Weekend Shenanigans

Oh, hey there Monday. You sure did come quick!!! Time for Weekend Shenanigans!!!

Things that happened this weekend:

I cleaned the floors, vacuumed, cleaned the kitchen and dusted the whole house.

We watched Georgia lose to Tennessee.

We watched Alabama suck ass for nearly 3 quarters before finally deciding to show up to play some football and take over the Arkansas game.

I cooked Cheesy Jalapeno Pinwheels and Pastry Pizza Wraps.

Three loads of laundry were washed, folded/ironed and put away.

I caved and bought a bag of fall peanut M&M’s and proceeded to eat half of it in a matter of hours. Clearly demonstrating no self control.

We started three new TV shows…

Quantico – This show is about a class of FBI trainees and there time at Quantico. The show flashes from the present to the past, as one of the students becomes a suspect in a bombing and there are flashbacks to how this came about.

Should you watch it – While this might be my least favorite of the three we started, I am really enjoying it. I like it better than Chris I think.

Limitless – Based on the movie, this show is about a guy that takes the drug NZT and joins in with the FBI to see why his body does not have the same horrible side effects as others who have taken it. Little does the FBI know, he is working with someone to get shots and that is why it works for him.

Should you watch it – While it can be a little cheesy at times, I really like this. I would say absolutely watch it if you have seen the movie. I haven’t seen the movie and I still enjoy it, so the movie isn’t a requirement. Bradley Cooper stars in the first episode to pass the torch to the TV show, so there is that.

Blind Spot– A girl wakes up in a bag in Time Square completely naked and covered in tattoos with no memory of who she is or what happened to her. There is a tattoo of an FBI agent’s name on her back and she is sent to him. They start following clues from her tattoos to find out who she is and what happened to her.

Should you watch it – Absolutely!!! This is by far my favorite of the three and I can’t wait for the rest of the episodes!!!

Things that didn’t happen this weekend:

The back yard didn’t get cut.

I didn’t finish the book I was planning on having done for tomorrow’s link up.

No organizing of my clothes took place.

No healthy eating was had.

No day hit even 10,000 steps on the ol’ Fitbit.

How I feel about today…