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How can it possibly be Monday already?!

Friday – My “lunch club” met up at Tazikis on Friday afternoon. I ordered what I always order, the Basil Pesto Chicken Gyro with pasta salad. It was freaking delicious! 

Saturday – My mom and I got started early on Saturday morning. We were at Nordstrom Rack at 10:00am when they opened. We spent almost three hours in there shopping! I wanted EVERYTHING. Ha! They have the most amazing selection of shoes, clothes, purses, jewelry, sunglasses, etc.

My mom got me a pair of Jimmy Choo sunglasses from there for my birthday. Jimmy freaking Choo. I just stared at them in the car on the way to lunch! Love them!

We had lunch at Ashley Mac’s, one of my favorite spots. My mom had never been before and she loved it just as much as I do! I ordered the half chicken salad sandwich on croissant with the baby blue salad and a sour cream biscuit. It never disappoints! Ashley Mac’s is the cutest little place to have a girls lunch. The interior is pink and brown and very delightful.

After that we hit up The Summit. I scored an amazing deal on a dress at Anthropologie!

The Loft was having 60% off their clearance items, I got a sweater for $16!!! SCORE!

After all those great deals, it was time for a little treat. Yogurt Mountain? Yes, please!

After The Summit, we headed to Brookwood Mall for awhile. Then we were off to the Grand River outlets in Leeds. For dinner we had Auntie Anne’s pretzels. They are the only pretzels in my opinion!

We shopped until the stores closed basically. My mom and I don’t play 🙂

When I got home, Chris surprised me with a Puggle painting! You will recognize it from my birthday wish list!

So sweet of him!!! I love little surprises like this!

Sunday – We hung around the house most of Sunday. I got meal planning and grocery shopping done. We started watching Homeland. I think we are going to like it. We also tried an episode of Shameless, and I liked it too.

Chris went to World of Beer on Saturday with our friends from Huntsville, but I am going two weeks without a drop of beer. Can you believe it?! I am sure that will be fixed on Thursday nights with talks of shenanigans conspiring between a few of my favorite blogging buddies 🙂

And that is how you spend the last full weekend of thirty! One more week of 30 coming up, and I am going to do it right!

I hope everyone has an amazing week!

Favorite Song: Promises by Nero – I have always loved this song. Its a great one to lift weights to.

Favorite thing to be excited about: My mom is taking me out shopping for my birthday tomorrow. She has a crazy hectic work schedule and I don’t get to spend time with her near as much as I would like. I can’t wait to spend the whole day talking, chatting, reminiscing, and eating yummy things! My mom has always been my shopping partner in crime.

Favorite Product: This one is sort of an obvious one, but not one to be forgotten. I had strayed away from the B&B Works stuff for a little while out of convenience and I paid for it. My skin started to dry out after my showers and become flaky. Lotion could only do some much. I have been back to these for about 2 months and my skin has never felt better. I wont stray again!

Favorite Recipe: Chicken Enchiladas – I made some enchiladas for dinner Tuesday night. Enchiladas are my FAVORITE thing to order at Mexican restaurants. You know, right after chips and salsa/guac, duh! They are so damn easy that it is stupid why I don’t make them more often. Also, Chris made the comment “best new dish of 2014” after consuming them.

Basically I just take 2 -3 chicken breasts and place them in a crock pot with 1/2 a packet of taco seasoning and cover it with chicken broth. I let it cook all day on low while I am at work.

Then I shred the chicken, and mix it with 1 cup of cheese and 3/4 cup of enchilada sauce. I then take that mixture and spoon it into flour tortillas (about 8). Then cover them all with an entire can of enchilada sauce (and the remaining  sauce in the other can) and some cheese then cook for about 20 minutes on 350 degrees. Wam bam thank you mam!

Favorite Funnies:

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–I can’t stand when I am in a car and the windshield wipers are on faster than needed. The sound of them scraping the window is maddening to me and I must stop it immediately. I don’t care if I am not the driver, I will shut that shit off so fast!

–I sort of love that this is my view on my way home to work. Nothing like passing by a farm. So peaceful. You know you live outside the city limits when you pass a field of cows.

–Speaking of cows, when I was in 5th grade, we were in Canada for a few weeks while my dad worked. (Hawkesbury, ON) Anyways, we actually drove past some cows and my dad informed my sister and I that french cows said oom instead of moo. We totally believed him. Asshole. Every time we drove past that field, Tracy and I would roll down our windows and try to hear the “french cows.”

–Sometimes I get a hankering for something and I just have to have it. NOTHING will satiate me until I get what I want. This happened Monday night. Chris was on his way home and I asked him out of complete desperation to please pick me up some Starbursts on his way. He obliged, so sweet! I guess I will keep him around.

–Some people (ehhem, Lauren) called me out on Monday morning when they discovered that World of Beer was not on our Saturday agenda. In fact, no beer was consumed this weekend. I just….didn’t want any. Crazy, right?

On Monday when I walked in to my office, my co-worker doesn’t even say hi he just says, “How was World of Beer this weekend.”

I said, “Oddly enough we didn’t go. I didn’t even have a beer this weekend”

He said “No beer??? What are you even doing with your life?!”

Don’t worry, I plan on fixing that Friday night. No worries.

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It is officially the month in which my birthday happens to fall. In true five year old fashion, I always think it is fun to create a “wish list” and dream a little. I can’t believe I am going to be…..31. Eek.

Another weekend has come and gone. I feel like I just typed my last weekend shenanigans post yesterday. Not quite sure how that happens. I have noticed that blog land has been particularly quiet these last few weeks. I guess everyone is trying to get as much summering in as they can.

Friday – When you live in a small town, you tend to cling to the local restaurants for some help on nights you don’t feel like cooking but don’t feel like eating out either. Chris and I ordered Landmark BBQ for take out, and the place was packed! If you can believe it, that little shack below had about 15 cars parked out front. Crazy!

I ordered the pulled chicken plate with smoked beans and potato salad. Yum!

Saturday – I had an appointment first thing Saturday morning to get my hair cut and highlighted. Finally. I haven’t been since like March. I told Kerri to take off as much as she needed to make it healthy again. She also added more of the deep dark red highlights this time than she did last time. I was super excited for something new and different. She also makes me want to purchase a curling iron, I liked how she styled it.

After my hair appointment, I came back home and Chris and I had lunch and watched a few episodes of The Good Wife. We then decided to head out for a little while. We headed downtown and looked around at What’s on Second, checked out Bargain Hunt…then headed to The Summit to see what Michael Kors had. (My birthday is coming up soon!) I didn’t really see anything at Michael Kors, surprisingly. I feel the department stores have a better selection that the actual store. Crazy, right? We also walked around Saks to see if they had anything, but I wasn’t sold.

We stopped for an early dinner at Village Tavern. We just ordered the crab dip and chatted. They have the best crab dip!

Then we headed to Trussville and checked out Best Buy and did our grocery shopping while we were out. Groceries are expensive!!!

Sunday – We made breakfast Sunday morning.

And basically spent the rest of the day looking like this while watching The Good Wife and the Carbonaro Effect:

I also painted my nails with the summer block party set.

I hope everyone has a great week!!!!