Six Word Saturday - #18

Show my Face blog hosts Six Word Saturday each week. I love this meme, because it is so simple yet can tell so much

Here's what you do: Describe your life (or something) in just six words.

Going dress shopping today, need luck!

I am going to two weddings in the next month.  Ideally, I would love to find two dresses, but one would be fine as well.  Oh, and I dislike wearing dresses.  I am a jeans and t-shirt girl!

SUGAR

If it has chocolate, I like it.  If it is most cookies, brownies, cakes, etc, I like them.  Candy bars, yes please.  Chocolate milk - I'll take two glasses!  After lunch, I eat dessert.  After dinner, I eat dessert.  Sometimes when I want a late night snack, I eat more dessert!  Keep in mind I never eat a whole candy bar or a whole pie or anything, but I eat a lot of sugar!

Every so often, I decide I want to lose some weight.  A few years ago I lost about 25 pounds and was looking pretty good, so I know I can do it pretty easily.

New Year's Day was the day I decided I wanted to try to cut out sugar.  That day after lunch, I gave in and had a Hershey's kiss.  By dinner time, it was a bit better and I only had a mint.  Somehow, by the next day, I felt a lot better.  Since the first day, I have had 1 small thing some days, and no dessert other days.  I'm amazed at how easy it was to cut back my sugar intake so drastically.

But crunchy snacks like chips and crackers...don't get me started on those LOL

Update on the Earring Resolution

I literally have nothing to talk about.  A crappy thing happened yesterday but I don't want to talk about it!

But today, I managed to put on two different earrings.  I was at work for hours before I noticed!  Eek!

The Other Daughter and Summer on Blossom Street (#12 and 13)

One of my resolutions last year was to read more books.  I accomplished that goal!  Unfortunately, I failed at the blogging side of things.  So now, I am going to write some reviews over the next few days or weeks of all of the books I read last year (there were more than 11, and my sidebar will be updated to reflect that).

Since I don't remember what order I read in anymore, we'll call these #12 and #13.

I just finished "The Other Daughter" by Lisa Gardner on the 30th or 31st.  It was an amazing book, and only took me a few days to read.  It revolves around a woman around my age named Melanie Stokes.  She was adopted by a rich family who took really good care of her.  And then a reporter shows up and tells her about everything he dug up on her past.  The book gets really intense from there.  The cast of characters is really well described.  I felt like I knew each and every one of them.  I was happy when they were happy, but felt their pain also.  I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but I never saw the ending coming!  Very well written!

"Summer on Blossom Street" by Debbie Macomber was a must read for me.  I love Debbie Macomber and the Blossom Street series is 1 of my 2 favorite series by her.  The book revolves around a few key characters.  Lydia Goetz owns a yarn shops and always offers fun classes.  She is married to a man named Brad and her sister Margaret also works at the yarn shop.  Phoebe Rylander was new this book and had just broken up with her fiancee.  Bryan "Hutch" Hutchinson is also a new character.  He and his family own a chocolate company and he is very stressed over his job.  Alix Turner is a regular.  She used to be troubled but now works at a bakery and is married to a youth pastor.  Anne Marie Roche owns a bookshop and has an adopted daughter named Ellen.  While there are some other characters in the book, these are the main ones.  It's so sweet to see how much knitting does for these people.  These books make me wonder if people from small towns really are that nice and close!  It sounds so amazing!  This series is great because you don't have to read it from the beginning to understand what is going on.  I did though! hehe

Silly Haiku Wednesday - #13

I only did 2 Haikus last year...eek!  Not good!  Here goes for 2011!

The basics:
Haiku is simple! It is 3 non-rhyming lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively (a great way to use your fingers!)

This week’s theme is: Resolutions

Thinking about goals

Want to be nicer always
Going well so far

Goal number two is
To wear earrings more often
Two out of four, eh

The Queen's Meme - #1

Mimi of The Queen's Meme hosts this fun meme each Tuesday.  I am trying some new memes out and like the questions this week, so here I go.

"Welcome to the Queen's Meme #66. We're all about ones today in the year of the ones. Do the math."

1. What were you doing at 1:11 am on 1/11/11? I think I was sitting on Steve's futon/couch under a heavy blanket because he lives in his unfinished garage and it is freezing in there!  If not, I was in the warm house with his sister.

2. Did you watch the New Year's Eve hoopla on television at midnight or did you make your own hoopla?  I watched the hoopla on TV at 9:00 pacific time with my mom, then went to Steve's.  At his house, 4 of us went outside right after midnight to yell.  It was fun!

3. I know this is a tired meme question and really should be retired, but can you tell us just ONE of your New Year's resolutions?  I want to wear earrings every day.  So far I pass because I ALWAYS wear earrings in my 2nd and 3rd holes.  I want to extend it to my 1st hole though.

4. What was the one greatest lesson you learned in 2010.  To only be facebook friends with people who won't use your facebook to try to get you fired from work!

5. Can you recall a news story from 2010 that affected you greatly and/or personally?  It was pretty big news across the world when a boy from Santa Barbara was hit and killed by a drunk driver somewhere near his college (Brown).  I blogged about it a lot.  It's been almost a year now, I can't believe it!

6. If you could have just one thing in 2011, what would it be?  I'd like to have the winning lottery numbers!  It was 290 mil yesterday and is 330 mil now.  Do you know what I could do with that kind of money???

7. Pick an age: 20 or 11. Which one was best for you and why?  Definitely 20.  At 20 I had just moved back home and couldn't be happier.  I had two jobs that I loved and made all kinds of new friends.  At 11 I had just switched schools for the 2nd time in 2 years.  Never a good thing for a kid.

SB Axxess Year 2 #2

I finally used my Santa Barbara Axxess card on something other than food!  The nail place that I go to, Ocean Nails and Spa, accepts Axxess!  The deal there is save 20% the first time, and 10% after.  I have acrylic/gel nails so any discount is greatly appreciated!  I only save a few dollars each time, but it adds up when you have to go every 2 weeks!

The guy there who does my nails is great!  He does a fast and efficient job, and has yet to cut me!  Everywhere else I have gone I have always gotten tons of cuts.  They have a large selection of polishes and are able to do tons of nail art also!

Below are a few pics of some of my manicures (and yes, I like my nails really short!) if you're interested LOL

 Pretty blue

Really pretty purple...but only in the sun!