Linking up with Jennifer of Conversion Diary for today’s Quick Takes. (photo credit)
1 – I am currently on Day 5 of being (mostly) sugar-free and it’s going okay. I’m hungry all the time, which I’m guessing has to do with the fact that I’m not eating the right foods. I’m eating enough, but instead of replacing all the sugary foods I used to eat with better, more filling foods, I’ve just taken out the bad foods. This is all a learning process, though, and I imagine I’ll learn so much more in the coming weeks.
2 – I’ve been thinking of deleting all the games I play on my phone (Words with Friends, Hanging with Friends, Scramble with Friends, and Draw Something). Currently, I am playing 55 games between the four games. Fifty. Five. Games. That’s pure insanity. At the very least, I’m thinking of deleting my Draw Something account since it’s become so overwhelming to keep up with. And I’m just not creative when it comes to drawing anything that it’s not fun anymore. I think it’s time to just delete it and move on. The world will not end.
3 – My mom and I are planning to take a little weekend trip to Orlando next month. I still have one day I can use on my 3-day Disney pass I bought back in January and my mom has two days. And since it’s such a drag driving all the way to Orlando, spending an entire day at a park, and then driving home, we decided we’d just spend the weekend there instead. I really can’t wait! Since I don’t count my mom’s marathon as a vacation, I don’t think we’ve been on one since July! And now we’ll have this weekend in April, our 6-day cruise in May, and then another 4-day cruise in June. Exciting, exciting!
4 – I know it’s weird, but I get a strange thrill out of paying all my bills whenever I get paid. I keep a log of what needs to go where for each paycheck and it’s fun for me to make a plan of where my money will go. Maybe living in constant financial disarray most of my life makes me so thankful I can easily pay my bills, as well as pay for extras, that doing so is fun? I’m not sure. I’m getting way too deep about money for a Friday morning. Don’t get me wrong, I still get a little bummed out when the majority of my paycheck is gone before I even see it thanks to bills, but the thrill is always there.
5 – I’m trying to decide if I want to chop my hair off again before my cruise. Sometimes, I see photos of myself with my shorter hair and get such longing to be back there. But then it’s so nice to have longer hair that I can pull up in a ponytail whenever I don’t feel like styling it. I don’t know what to do!
5 – It has been a crazy week in the NFL. First, Sean Payton gets suspended for a year (losing out on over $7 million dollars, as well!) for the bounty controversy, Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely, as well as penalties for other coaches involved. Listen, I follow a host of Saints fans on Twitter so I’m not going to get involved in the mess. I’ll just say that I think this penalty is necessary and needed for change to come for any other bounty schemes happening around the league because it’s a disgusting thing to reward a player for physically injuring another player. That is not football. Also in football this week, Peyton Manning is now a Bronco (WHY, PEYTON, WHY?!?!), and Tim Tebow is now on my most-hated team, the New York Jets. So, sadly, Tebow and I have broken up. (What? You didn’t know we were dating? Funny… neither did he…)
6 – I’m so excited about my weekend! Weekends are always exciting for me, but since I’ve been doing my sugar-free thang for the past five days and Saturday is my cheat day… I am super excited! Saturday will be the first week since the beginning of February that I won’t go to boot camp (I haz a sad) but I will be going to the salon to get my hair color freshened up and my eyebrows waxed. And somehow, my mom and I managed to book the same appointments, just flip-flopped. We didn’t book our appointments together, yet somehow we managed to do just that! The rest of Saturday is up in the air but I smell a trip to the mall with my mom in our future! Sunday, I have tentative plans with a friend to spend the day at Busch Gardens. I haven’t been there in a long time (despite the fact that I have a pass to go for free!) so it should be a fun day. And Sunday night is our #twookclub chat! We’re discussing Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close so anyone who has read the book is free to join in. We’ll be discussing it on Twitter at 9:00pm EST!
7 – Speaking of #twookclub, if you haven’t voted for our April book, you have just a few more days to do so! I’m closing the poll at 8:00pm EST and will announce it then. Currently, there are two books tied for first and another one close behind, so get your vote in! Head on over to the Goodreads page, scroll to the bottom, and you’ll see the poll. I can’t wait to announce the winner!
When is your next vacation? Any fun weekend plans?
I have a lot of fun plans coming up soon. I wrote about them on my blog yesterday. Two trips to Florida, a dinner with my grandparents, an all day wine tour and tasting in NC, and a Charleston trip raincheck my cousin and I have to make up from when we didn’t go a few weeks back. I’m so excited for them all! Especially since we’ll be going back to Universal on one of the FLA trips. They can just stick me in Harry Potter World and my weekend will be made. 🙂
Also, I like your hair short, but I can empathize with wanting to keep it long. I’ve been thinking about cutting mine off, too, but the last time I did that I began to regret mere weeks later. Mayne you just need some new hairstyles to freshen it up a bit. I keep meaning to look into some simple ones necause I’m so bad at doing my hair. Plus, it’s thin and fine and so hard to make it cooperate. Boo.
#twookclub always sneaks up on me! Last month I spent all of Sunday reading and just barely finished in time, and this month I’m not even halfway done yet. I’ll have to find some down time to read tonight and this weekend.
I don’t really have any fun plans this weekend. Some friends are staying at our house, but because one of them is in a dance competition in town, so I don’t know how much “hanging out” we’ll actually get to do. Oh well!
My next vacation isn’t until August, or at least that’s when my next planned vacation is. It should be interesting since we’ll have a 6-week old baby with us!
I like your hair short. I love your blond highlights!
Next vacation is road trip with Treavor in April to Arkansas. Next is Vegas in May. Excited but also terrified that time is passing so quickly.
Wait – what about locks of love!!! J/k, if you really feel strongly about having shorter hair, I say go for it!
Oh wow, that is a lot of games that you have going on! I just have WWF and am debating deleting that because even that is sort of overwhelming for me at times!!
I constantly debate getting rid of all my games on my phone too, but I don’t have NEARLY as many as you do. I deleted WWF 2 or 3 times in the past but I always download it again. Maybe one day I’ll lose interest completely.
Also, I totally feel you on the short hair thing! Mine is pretty grown out (other than my bangs) but it’s just SO hard for me to keep up in the summer. My curly hair so SO short right now even though straight, it’s unmanageable. So I either have to grow my hair out for summer or cut it short again. I just can’t decide what to do! First world problems, sigh. Haha. I think your short hair is SUPER cute though, and if you can style it in the summer too, it might be fun to go back to! Maybe just long enough to be able to tie it back if you really want?!
Have a fun weekend!!
I don’t worry about deleting anything, I just take my sweet time so the 30 people playing me on Draw Something can just “nudge” away 🙂 I’m going back to California at the end of April to be in my high school best friend’s wedding, then the next weekend it’s off to Pennsylvania to be in my sister’s wedding. These are whirlwind trips so I don’t know that I consider them “vacations” 🙂
I don’t even play games on my iPhone other than The Game of Life or Monopoly. I’m excited about your upcoming weekends with your mom and the vacations that are coming as well. You look pretty with short hair. Also, now that Tebow is free, can you give him my number? Thanks. 🙂
Here’s a great blog post from a girl in London who gives ‘eating healthy’ tips: http://www.thelondoner.me/2012/01/anti-diet.html
She has a list of things your craving and what you can do to satisfy that craving 🙂