Red Letter Haze

On this day 83 years ago my grandma was born.
On this day 13 years ago my grandma passed away.
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Today Chris & I completed another step on the road to marriage.

**Let it be known 2 things before reading: 1. Chris has a very bad habit of talking to me in his sleep, providing me with endless entertainment. 2. I am an instigator by nature, and I discovered that I can provoke these sleep conversations. Hilarity ensues. Case in point:
The other night I wasn’t quite ready [...]

Dear Blog:
Please don’t feel abandoned, I promise I still love you. To be honest, I’m just tired. I promise to shower you with love and attention the rest of the week.

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Dear Life:
Whoa… Slow down!!! Like really, is summer seriously almost over? Am I really doing my Pre-Cana class on Saturday already? And I just realized [...]

Just because I’m in one of those moods:

plain M&M’s. I can’t resist their chocolately goodness! and they’re just a simple pleasure by nature.
kittens. technically any baby animal, but I squeal with delight when I see a kitten. seriously, it’s kind of embarrassing. ask chris.
a good nap. double points if it’s on a rainy day. triple [...]

This past Saturday I went to Velika Gospa, which is the Croatian Festival held at St. Jerome’s in Bridgeport. I’m half Croatian, but until recently I haven’t given much thought to that part of my heritage. The other part of me is Irish and of course I know a lot about that heritage. Up until [...]

So today is Vlog Day at 20SB and I didn’t find out about it until, oh…1230 this morning. While I was climbing into bed. Awesome.
I had to make a mad dash home from work to throw something together for you all, so pardon the suckiness- this was like last last minute:

I should’ve totally included the [...]

I’d like to announce the winners for the free jeans gift certificates but first a little bit on how I selected the winners:
I used Randomizer.org to pick the winners of my Gap Born to Fit Giveaway because all of your entries were awesome and it wouldn’t have been fair to pick based on that alone. [...]

I swear I didn’t send this in to post secret, but I might as well have. ugh-PET PEEVE!!! Whoever you are that sent this in: we are microwave soulmates!!!
Anyway, this week was a pretty busy one. I was supposed to have some guest bloggers but that plan fell through. Perhaps maybe this week. Some highlights [...]