Hoppity Ho Monday Bo!

Wow, my giveaway is definitely pop-you-lurrr since I allowed the comments to be open, and comment as many times as you want. My poor e-mail inbox is overflowing with an insane amount of comments. I’m glad that everyone is having such a time with it. I love the little blurbs people come up with, when they write “Enter Me and….my cat just threw up” or something silly like that. It really makes me laugh and I’ve been reading and of course approving every one! A whole lot of days left of the Magnapod contest too. Git to it! Though I don’t need to tell you that.

It is a shame that people are only interested in the contest and not my blog whatsoever. Where are the commenters? Oh right. Over at the magnapod contestttttttttt.

Just one thing before I start here this morning.

I’m not really turning this into a food blog per-say.

BUT!

I have been reading lots of food blogs for about a good 8 or 9 months and I’ve been inspired to become more active, and eat … a bit healthier, since I’m gradually posting about my workouts on here, somewhat sporadically. I even decided to get some granola over the weekend and steal borrow some of the BF’s wild berry yogurt. It was surprisingly good. Almost candy-licious and I was filled up fairly fast with maybe ¼ cup of granola and 3 teaspoons of the goop yogurt. Can you tell I’m not really a yogurt fan? I think the granola definitely adds to it, obvs. I almost took a picture, but I gobbled it up too fast. Maybe I’ll take one tomorrow.

I woke up fairly early (for me anyway. I love me some sleeping in on the weekends) on Sunday at 9:30. You’ll be less impressed if I told you my regular weekend routine pre-alfie. Puppy is on a pooping schedule and needs to stay on it, even on Saturday and Sunday or the whole weekend will go to the dogs. Uh? I don’t even know what that saying means. Alfie was super excited to see me that bright and early, even after going to bed at 3AM with us. He just wasn’t in the mood to potty, while I was there with my hair in a state with my old PJs on laying on the couch begging him to potty so we could go back to sleep for an hour or two more the whole afternoon.

After digestion, I decided to stop giving into sloth and just got up off the couch and started being incredibly productive for a Sunday morning. Made myself some granola/yogurt mix was so delicious I contemplated being a piggy and eating more, but I held off and made some blueberry muffins instead! They were pretty bomb. Bomb = amazing in this context. Not like eating bombs, because I’ve eaten a few not so awesome “bomb” muffins before. No way hose! The doggy bed and toys, and butt-washcloth (he has long hair, need I say more?) were washed. However OUR laundry is still in dire need of being started. I think we do laundry every 26 days or something. Don’t judge, we have to pay for laundry in this apartment we live in! I can usually tell by the amount of underwear I have by the end of it. Switching it up once a day, and counting the clean undies after = XX days that I haven’t done laundry.

Shocking isn’t it? I have tons of underwear, by the way. Thought you’d may like to know that… I only do it when I run out of work socks. I have a lot of those too.

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Back to food, shall we? I packed a nice abundance of snacks for work with me this A.M. My bananas are still to green to be eaten even though I bought them on Friday (!!) so I had to pack other fun foods. Blueberry muffin, squat by my belongings in my purse, some trail mix that will hopefully do me more than a week if I don’t end up being an oinker over it, honey crisp apple (the best apples ever made/thought of/plucked/bought), sweet luxurious old lady strawberry candy. Remember these folks? Oh yeah, melt in your mouth goodness. Always have to have a bitta candy on hand wha? Back to business. Some chocolate pudding (hey, what can I say — I’m just starting out. Gotta weed out the sugary treats one by one here), and two granola bars: sweet and salty, and a chocolate chip. Also no; I won’t be eating my car keys. Hee hee.

That’s basically it for now. Back to the gym for another sesh after work today. I’ll be sweating at “sweat” class. It’s kind of dance-y moves, and I’m completely uncoordinated that I want to quit the class immediately, but practice makes perfect or something along those lines. So I’ll be going back for Class # 2.

By the way. This stride gum is burning my taste buds. Probably best I spit it out. Not my favorite anymore.

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Polyvore my boredom

More polyvore outfits. I swear, this would keep anyone occupied while waiting on significant others to get ready and head out. Moving along…

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Check out the lululemon gear I have going on. They didn’t have these running pants that I bought on huge sale during the Boxing day sale ( saved some good $$$!), but none the less I made it happen. Looks cute hey? I don’t run outdoors because I’m lame, but this is what I’d be sportin’ on a treadmill or just having a generally lazy day and just wanted to be in the most comfortable clothes. For some reason this one didn’t save on my polyvore site. LAME! I really hate those pink and grey “peace sign/striped” socks I have listed – but polyvore isn’t exactly a sock loving website. It was difficult to find! So I went with the first short ankle pair I saw. Thrilling.

Also, I made this svvvanky outfit. Totally made up that word. Loveeeee it.work

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Don’t you love that purse, too? Ugh. I die.

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Shabby Apple

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I e-mailed Shabby Apple back in December asking if I could do a review of one of their articles of clothing, on my website. They promptly wrote back mentioning that they have a company policy about shipping outside of the states and I would have to pay for shipping. That wasn’t a problem, because quite honestly how much would it really cost to have in my hands? I first picked out the half zip jacket from the athletic wear section of their website. Isn’t it super cute? Almost like a lululemon style zip up, perfect for a warm up piece for the gym. Unfortunately Shabby Apple couldn’t allow me to do a review on the new fitness line. As they don’t have the rights to, from the company who actually makes that line.

Bummer.

I guess I could purchase it without problems though, obviously. They did give me an option of two of their popular dresses, Anchors Away or the cute aqua colored 90wpm dress. I chose the 90wpm dress in an extra small.

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After I chose the dress, I wrote the company telling them which dress I’d like to review and I mentioned that I realized I would have to pay the shipping – not a problem! However, I should have asked how much the shipping would cost me initially, as I was surprised when they invoiced me for $29.95. I had the option to pay it, and I didn’t mind doing so as I mentioned before, it’s a review and paying for shipping was fine. Except … $29.95 for a light weight, cotton dress to ship to Canada?

The ladies I dealt with throughout the process were quite kind and prompt with their replies, and I would definitely deal with them again in the future since I’m definitely eying the half zip jacket. In fact, if you purchase from their Shabby Apple store by January 28, 2010 you can take an additional 20% off your purchase by using the coupon code: winter20off. Four days leftttttt!

Well, now that I’m done rambling about what had happened, I suppose I should talk about the dress a little bit!

When I opened the packaging  which was presented in bright colorful tissue paper. The fit of the dress mentioned on their website that if you’re a size small regularly, than to size down as it’s a big make. I did so, and it was a good fit! I loved the cinched sides of the dress and the length – it’s perfect to wear in the summer, or in the fall/winter with some leggings and a cute sweater. I can’t wait to wear this number to work! It’s cute, no? Go over and check out what other adorable things Shabby Apple has to offer!

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