This morning

It's been an interesting morning.

When I finally roll out of bed in the morning, I stumble to the bathroom until I put in my contacts and am able to see where I am going. This morning I stumble into the bathroom go to turn on that shower and I see it.

This huge blurry black thing that keeps moving in my shower. I have slight freak out moment and then realize it's time to be a big girl and take care of this, because no one else will.

I did what any logical girl would do and turned the shower on in hopes to drown the thing.

The whole time I was taking a shower I was constantly looking at the drain praying that spider would not come back up.

So much for a relaxing shower this AM.

It was such a beautiful morning on the way to work today, so I had the windows rolled down, sunroof open...plus I had to take Bella to get her hair did at the doggie spa, and she loves it when the windows are rolled down.

It's the least I can do before she has to go and get clipped  and groomed.

Windows rolled down=a giant bird like flying bug in my car.

I about had a heart attack trying to get this huge ass bug out of my car...Bella freaks out and tries to bite the damn thing. 

In the meantime a bunny runs across the road and I swerve to miss the bunny..Bella goes off the seat and into the floor. Big gigantic bird like bug finally decides to fly out the window.

Oh did I mentioned that poor sweet Bella has a problem.

She's OCD and will gnaw and gnaw at her skin until her tail looks like a possum tail.

Not kidding, I should take a picture but I don't' want y'all to think I'm a bad doggie mom.

My groomer just looked at her and gave her the ol' "Bless her little heart"

I told them to leave a lot of hair at the top...gotta balance it out somehow.

Fingers crossed my dog doesn't come out of the groomers looking like this.

Pinteresting

Just a few of my favorite pins....

Umm...yes, please.

So, my friend originally pinned this and wrote "Lyndse" as her caption...I admit..I agree with it, it is me on most days.

Pomegranate Lime Margarita

Key lime anything is my favorite

Happy Pinning and Happy Wednesday!!

A little randomness

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Random thoughts from Lyndse

It really frustrates me so much when cars CLEARLY have their turn signal on and are slowing down like they are going to turn...so, therefore you decided that it's safe enough for you to turn out onto the road.

WRONG.

The #$%@#% little car decides they are not turning and floors it and almost hits you.

Cars that have stuffed animals lined up in their back window like it's a parade of characters...I do not understand the reasoning behind this.

A couple of times I have seen the same three ducks hang out together at the lake. I know this because there are two white ducks and one that is different colors. They are always together...and they are mean.  Mean little ducks. Always attacking the other ducks.

It hit me...that saying, "Birds of a feather...really do flock together."

Of all the shows I DVR, Duck Dynasty is my favorite. I mean, I pretty much supported that company with all these duck calls I bought for my brother. 

My favorite is Uncle Sy.

I wanted ice cream last night, but I didn't want the calories and I didn't want to drive to Braums.

So, I opted for my favorite brewski...Michelob ultra lime. It only has 95 calories...but if you have one, you might as well have two...so in the long run, I probably would have been better off with the Ice Cream.

I have a nutrition/dietetics degree...I know these things.

If I could own a baby hippo...I would.

I find the below quote to be true. 

"I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80's movie, preferably one with a really awesome musical number for no apparent reason"

Why did 80's movies have to set my expectations so high...because real life hookers don't meet Richard Gere and fall in love and go shopping on Rodeo drive...it just doesn't happen.

and there you have it...just a few random thoughts.

Fishing

Hello loves.

Hope your weekend was wonderful. Mine was well...eventful. 

I've decided that my new hobby should be fishing.

This girl loves to fish. 

Oklahoma country girl at heart, I guess.

While googling how to catch bigger fish.....I may love to fish but my love hasn't really gotten me anything bigger than a baby fish.

Put it this way, if I had to depend on my fishing skills to feed myself...I would probably starve to death...not for lack of catching fish...just for lack of size.

Anyway back to what I found while googling...they have a women's fishing tournament. 

I've contemplated very hard about this and thought about two things...

1. I for sure need to enter this, as soon as I learn how to catch big fish.

2. Women's fishing tournaments probably happen at the same time as a men's fishing  tournaments...therefore I could meet a potential husband.

Just saying.

Well, while trying to up my fishing game this weekend two things happened.

I got my first sunburn of the summer and it's not even summer.

I'm a white, white, white girl...therefore, I am now lobster red.

and I learned to not wear flipflops while fishing. Oh and my mom is not useful in situations where I fall and can't get up.

I guess that makes three things I learned.

Let me explain.

I decided to walk to the edge of the lake and wash my hands off...instead I slid down the rock butt first straight into the lake...I tried to get back up said rock but it was so slippery that I fell again..not only once but twice...all while my mom is laughing hysterically. My pole went one way and I went the other.

A few scrapes and bruises and sunburn later...I have decided to re-think these fishing tournaments.

I've learned, in my twenties....

I did an age post the other day about 30 things you should know before your 30...only to realize that, "Hey...I'm still in my twenties...be it, late twenties...but still twenties, dammit."

So, I then decided I need to honor my twenties with a post.

I've heard from all over that people say "You grow in your twenties", "You learn and figure out who you are, what you want to be, who it is you want to be with."

It's basically a lot of you's.

and yes, I can attest to all of the above being true.

Now, mind you...I still have 3 years left in my twenties...and I know for a FACT that I will learn even more about life and who I am by the time I turn 30...but I thought I would go ahead and write a couple things that I have learned thus far as a twentysomething gal.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think the best part of my twenties...the part where you are about to graduate college and have all these plans made with your best friend... that those plans would not happen. Never did I think that at 22 I would hear that my best friend,who was 23, had cancer. Never did I think I would spend the next 18 months watching this beautiful, young, vibrant girl fight for her life only to lose her battle with a disease that is beyond our control.

That was the first time ever in my life I have watched someone fight so hard with all they had. She showed me what real true strength and faith and love was. To this day, she is the reason I give 100% in volunteering for Relay For Life. Little did I know that later in my twenties, that moment, the moment she told me she had cancer, would so strongly shape the person I would grow to be. 

I have learned that it's OK to not follow that boy. I have learned that you have to go with not only what your heart tells you, but that little thing called a brain. Not listen to what other people are telling you should or should not do, saying things like, "he was right for me and that I should stop being so picky." I learned that it's perfectly OK to stick to what it IS that I know in MY heart is right.

That was the first moment of my twenties that I knew I couldn't change myself and who I am for some boy.

That one day, the man I am meant to marry will come along and love me for who I am and not expect me to change. Now, that man...who will love me for me...I will move anywhere and whenever for him.

(as long as it's no where cold...I just don't like the cold)

In a heartbeat.

I know that now.

That laughter really does solve everything in the world. Whether it be a night out with my closet girlfriends having the time of our lives...or looking back at old photos of times shared with those who are no longer with us. Laughing through good times and bad is what life is about.

Laughter soothes the soul.

I've learned to not date guys I meet at biker rallies.

Or to date motor-cross guys...or just said motor-cross guy in particular.

That red dirt music is good for the heart, mind, body and soul.

That a guy who loves Jesus, his momma, OSU and knows how to two-step...is my kind of guy.

That little brothers grow up and go off to college and start their own journey at discovering who they are and the man they are meant to be...but when they come home to see their sister...they are still the same little boy that always melted my heart. That it's ok to let him grow up and to make mistakes...because you once made the same mistakes at his age...but he'll learn from them...that's what your twenties are for.

I learned in my twenties that friendship really can carry you through anything. That it's work. Just like any relationship, all the friends have to work at it to stay in touch. I've learned that no matter what life brings us, we always come together. 

Friendship...that's the best medicine.

I've learned to love wine.

I'm more of a mature drinker now that I am older.

Tequila doesn't quite go down as easily as it did when I was 21 or 26.

That you might not always get your dream job right away....but it's the notsogood jobs that will lead you to your dream job, or to your new friends, or to your husband...I have learned you might not like where you are at that time...but you are there for a reason. Whatever it may be.

I've learned God has a plan for you.

To trust and  to have faith

I've learned in my 20s...that when life gets tough...because it does, when your heart gets broken...because it will, that when things don't always go your way...because it won't....that it's just the way it is.

It's not always perfect or pretty or wrapped in a bow

But it's your life and you are only in your 20s one time...so you should embrace it for all it's worth and enjoy the ride.

Oh, Pinterest how I heart thee

It's that time of the week again...my favorite link up...

Amen

Happy Wednesday loves!

Age is just a number, right?

Hola Senorita's....

So, there are just a few things in life that scare the holy bejesus out of me...

Clowns

Mascots of any kind except of course Pistol Pete and that's only because I was friends with the guy who was Pistol Pete while I was at OSU...so I knew he was legit.

BUGS.of any kind.

Take last night for example I tried to kill some huge, weird, brown bug in the garage last night with a mop and then when that didn't work I ran it over with a dolly. 

Why I didn't just step on it... the thought never crossed my mind.

and....turning the big 30

mind you I am 27 and have still have a few years before the dirty thirty, but I'd be lying if it didn't just make me slightly nervous to think I will be what I once that was older than dirt.

Now that I am close to that number, I'd like to think that it isn't old.

Anyway, I feel as though here lately 30 has been popping up everywhere. Maybe because one of my best friends just celebrated the dirty thirty birthday yesterday...

Happy late birthday Sara bear.

and maybe because Glamour published this book, 

I guess the thought of turning 30 has always scared me because I have this made up list in my mind of what life is supposed to be like when I am thirty.

As in married and on my way to having babies...but considering this is happening in two years or so...that doesn't give me much time...but then again...you never know. 

I feel like Rachel on Friends..the birthday episode...when she turned thirty and had this whole life plan only to realize that she shouldn't be dating the young hot 25 year old assistant who is riding the scooter up and down the hall way.

Man, I love that show.

Here are the top five highlights from the book that the Today show picked out the other day...

By thirty you should know....

1. How to fall in love without losing yourself.

I sometimes ask myself, God or whoever is listening...as to why I haven't fallen in love and met the one I am supposed to marry. Only to realize that when I was younger and thought I was in love...that wasn't love. Had I married that guy, I would have changed a lot about the person I am. And no one should have to change themselves to be loved...you should be loved for who you are.

2. The confidence to quit a job.

Been there, done that.

3. The comfort of living alone.

I have said it and I will say it again...living alone was the best thing for me. I love knowing the fact that I can make it on my own. It's nice to have that feeling of indepence and secuirty and the feeling that you are soley responsible for the dishes and feeding the dogs....it's a good feeling. One to only be beat by when I have a family of my own and know that I am perfectly capable of taking care of them without burning the house down...because I already tried that as a single 20something gal.

4. The knowledge your body is beautiful.

This is a work in progress....in fact, this has been on my mind a lot lately...I want my body to be healthy...it's the only body I got.

5. The belief you deserve it.

I struggle with this one sometimes...I am very blessed and I appreciate everything God has blessed me with...from my family to friends, health, a roof over my head, food, etc....sometimes I feel like I am being selfish in thinking I deserve something...but I am working on it...because everyone deserves everything their hearts desire.

I can't wait to look back at this post...when I am 30 and see how much has changed....hopefully I will be able to look back at my twenties with a smile and embrace my thirties and all that it has in store.

Got to love this thing called blogging....to see where you were going and how far you've come.

P.S. I'm linking up today with four lovely blogs to showcase other blogs and to meet new people : ) Y'all should link up as well...