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Friday Favorites!

I’m linking up with Andrea and Erika today!



For today’s Friday Favorites post, I’m going to talk all about my favorite TV SHOWS!  Woo hoo!!  


Since I started grad school, I record a lot of my tv shows and try to catch up on them throughout the week.  It’s also caused me to weed out some shows that I watched before but didn’t have any substance.  Actually, when you see what I watch, you’ll see it’s a lot of reality tv……don’t judge 🙂  And when I started going through everything I like watching, I realize that I like watching tv…I just feel like I never get to do it!

I’ve been watching Scandal since season 1!  I CANNOT believe what happened last week with the character revelations….Russell=bad guy!  What in the world?!  I’m pulling for Olivia to fall in love with Jake (because I’m not convinced that he’s gone) and forget Fitz because he’s married!!  Get with it, Liv!  (PS I didn’t get to watch this last night so don’t ruin it for me!  I’ll try to watch Saturday or Sunday.)

Oh, Mad Men.  How I’ve stuck with you.  It’s been slow at times, but since I’ve also watched this since season 1, I’m not quitting.  I haven’t watched it at all since it premiered on Easter, but all of the episodes are recorded for when I have lots of time.  One thing I’ve loved about this show is the costume choices!  I have really enjoyed seeing how fashion has changed and evolved throughout the 60s.

Does anyone else remember watching this show when TLC was doing specials with them?  Like the ones with them only having 14 kids??  (And I just said only having haha)  Love this family!  I love that they love the Lord and are so open about it.  I also am amazed at how well their family works–the kids are so well-behaved and their household is so efficient.  I loved Jessa’s wedding dress and can’t wait to see her find out what she’s having…she’s secretly my favorite Duggar 🙂

I used to cry in every episode of this show…now, not so much.  Except last night’s episode!!!  Oh my goodness, how sad!  I thought last night’s episode was beautifully written, and the song that played at the end was one of the songs that they played in season 1 with Derrick and Meredith (I have the soundtrack…that’s how much I loved Grey’s).  I have a feeling this season is it.  

Dustin and I like to watch Southern Charm together!  I’m amazed at Patricia’s house with her two butlers and Thomas’s plantation home.  I love Charleston and even though this show is lots of drama, it’s still interesting.  Cameron is my favorite because she seems the smartest.  Landon might be the second smartest–although she lives in a house boat right now.  Not sure what she’s doing or what her plan is.

I am so fascinated with Alaska!  I remember the first time I watched this show and I had no idea that some houses still had outhouses.  No thank you.  I will stay in Alabama where ALL of our houses have indoor toilets!  The housing market in Alaska is interesting and I love seeing all of their houses!  I watch this show whenever I see that it’s on.  I have no clue what day or time new episodes come on.

I read Outlander a couple of years ago for my book club and was so excited when I saw that Starz had picked up the rights to a series.  The book was amazing (just not the end) and I’ve loved each episode so far.  I’m dreading the end though.  The novel is part of a series of maybe 7 books??  I didn’t read any past Outlander, but I read that Starz will have the 2nd novel made into a tv series too.  Love love love this show!  (You should read the book if you don’t have Starz)

This show would be my guilty pleasure.  Sometimes it’s so unreal the things that this family does, but I have to watch.  I’ll watch until they either make me mad or they quit filming.

I know that looks like a lot, but I promise I don’t watch these all the time!  I try to catch up with a recorded show about every other night or on the weekends if I have time.  The best time for me to catch up is really when Dustin is on nights and I’m home alone!


Life Lately

Today’s post is a little iPhone dump from this week.  I’m glad I actually remembered to take pictures of things I did this week because I have been doing a horrible job of that lately.  I think if I can just make it to this summer, then I’ll be good!

I borrowed my dad’s Nutribullet Saturday in order to try making smoothies for breakfast.  I feel like smoothies would be a lot healthier than other options and way more filling.  But be careful, you can make smoothies fattening too!

This one below had a little too much spinach in it for a Monday morning.  It was my first one to make though.  I put in spinach leaves, pineapple, papaya, strawberries, a spoonful of nonfat Greek yogurt, a tiny spoonful of honey (to counter the yogurt), and water.

We also started state testing on Monday and I was giving the test ALL DAY.  I was in the laptop lab so I dressed comfy! 
 And my outfit for Tuesday’s testing.  Apparently I have a thing for blue tops and purply pants 🙂  They are comfy!
 Tuesday I was also craving chocolate like no other!!!!  For my break during testing, my sister dropped off some of her dessert that she had made the night before.  It was so good!  It had oatmeal, peanut butter, raisins, and chocolate chips.  Way to go, Rachel!
 We also went and looked at the house progress this week after walking at the park.  I love that our new house isn’t far from the park at all!  I’ll be doing a house post within the next two weeks. 🙂
 This was my favorite breakfast smoothie!!!  I actually bought different fruit and it added a nice taste.  I used strawberries, red raspberries, and blueberries…..so yummy!

I tried this new quinoa recipe last night that my friend Sarah had sent me.  It was wonderful and super easy to make.  I accidentally messed it up and I think I liked the way I cooked it better than what the recipe called for.  If you’ve never had quinoa, you need it!  It’s a little expensive, but it’s a plant food that has tons of fiber and protein along with lots of vitamins like iron and vitamin B.  I’ll post this recipe later, too!

Weekend Recap

Thursday night I decided to experiment with another bundt cake flavor.  I made lemon and made it sugar free.  All I wanted was one piece of it, and then I sent it to work with Dustin Friday morning.  It was so good, and I could have eaten the whole cake!  I am such a sweets fan.
Friday after school Mom, Rachel, and I met up for the matinee showing of The Longest Ride.  It was my FAVORITE Nicholas Sparks book so I couldn’t wait to see the movie.  Let me tell you, it did not disappoint.  It’s my favorite story line and I only cried one time during the movie.  
Excuse what we look like.  Mom and I had already had a looooong day teaching (and a long week) and Rachel had been doing house calls for Hospice all day long.  We were tired.  And this isn’t the best picture, but oh well.

Dustin worked days this weekend, so Saturday morning Mom and I met up to go preview a yard sale in town.  I had been eyeing a leather couch and love seat that I knew would be perfect for our upstairs game room.  When we got there Saturday morning, the furniture had already been sold but I did end up with these Christmas decorations…… 🙂  The mini tree will go in my classroom and the glitter trees are going in the new house for Christmas!!  Eeeek!

The Lilly for Target sale.  Oh my.  If you read Friday’s post, you know that I had planned to meet up with a friend at 6 am to wait in line early Sunday morning.  Well, our area had been getting threats of very severe weather so I ended up staying home.  I researched the online sale and saw that it was being released sometime between midnight and 2 am.  I set my alarm for a little before midnight and rushed downstairs as soon as it went off.  

Apparently midnight wasn’t the release time.  I looked through the online lookbook again and decided to check the #LillyforTarget on Instagram.  THANK GOODNESS I DID!!!  I saw all of these posts of order completions and I started freaking out.  How were these people ordering already when the site wouldn’t work for me?!?!  After reading through the comments, I realized that the mobile site had accidentally opened early.  I rushed to find a shift dress I wanted and it let me order it!  Then I went to get another shift I wanted and it had already sold out.  This was about 12:15-12:20 am.  All of the shift dresses in my size had already sold out except the one I already ordered.
 This is the message I got used to seeing 🙁

I saw this Sunday night and thought it was hilarious!  I sent this to Mom and Rachel because this is so true for us!  Especially on birthdays….cake was ALWAYS for breakfast on birthdays!
This week we start state standardized testing and my test days are today and tomorrow.  Testing lasts two weeks and then we only have three weeks of school left–and that includes giving semester exams.  This year has really flown by!  I genuinely love everyone of my classes and I am going to be so sad to see them go!