My favorite season is football season!

My weekend started with 6th grade football and it's ending with NFL football...and I wouldn't have it any other way!!!

I wish they made this tank for men and not just women because it would be perfect for Garrett :) 

Be back tomorrow with a weekend recap!

This pretty much sums up life in our house lately. I have to remember when Garrett says he's going to write one more email and head home, or that he'll be home in 5 minutes that I have a different time schedule too. Mine is just more like one more store then I'm leaving the mall and I'll be ready to go in 5 minutes.....

I'm just a much more patient person when other people are waiting on me :)

5 on Friday

Today I'm linking up with the 5 on Friday girls! 

This week flew by and dragged on all at the same time. I'm not even sure how that works but I'm so happy we made it to Friday! Now if we could just get a three day weekend.....

1. I got the sweetest picture and elephant necklace from my bff's little girl.  I'm so lucky that she shares her all the fun of having a baby with me! My besties sister actually sent it while she was up there visiting I just love their whole family so much!

                    

2. I purchased my own domain name this week www.ouashlee.com I was having some troubles with blogger and so I just went for it. I kind of feel like blogging is on the way out but it cost almost nothing and it solved my problems. 

                         

          

3. I have the best cousins! The are all a lot younger than me (and most of them are boys!) but they are always happy to hang out with me (they send me pics of prom or their first college football game, so I can live vicariously through them!) Last week these two called and asked if I wanted to take a work break to go to Starbucks, who could say no to that? 

           

4. Garrett and I are heading to the Tulsa fair this weekend to eat all the fried food on a stick we can find! 

                                   

5. I can't leave out this dog. If I'm sitting down she must be on my lap she is not a fan of all my studying if she could I think she would destroy my laptop. Please pet me and play with me and love me!

                                          

Dinner, a movie, and a tangent.

I was going to write a post last night, a throwback Thursday post. I even started going through old pictures to try and get ready for it but then Garrett came home early and said let's pick up dinner and get a movie. 

And living life sounded better than reliving life :) so dinner and a movie won out in the end. 

We also ran to Ulta where I bought a new hair dryer and Garrett couldn't believe it cost so much I tried to explain how it's worth it in order to dry my hair faster, time is precious! I got the Rusk Speed Freak (which comes recommended by Kate and several other bloggers, I was debating between that and the cheaper Rusk W8Less because honestly my arms get tired of holding the hair dryer, I'll see how I like the Speed Freak. Target because it's my happy place and Best Buy for Garrett to buy a second monitor so he can work more from home (which cost less than my hair dryer...)

Then it was off to pick up dinner from Chuy's which I've been hearing about since high school and finally got to try a few weeks ago and I love it! and then home to watch The Bling Ring, which I think Garrett liked more than me because I'm just not that into celebrities...I know I'm not normal. 

I don't like pumpkin either. No pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread or PSLs. I'll take the salted caramel please and thank you! I'm not even the biggest fan of fall, I think it has the worst colors: orange, brown, and mustard just not really my thing. 

Just because I don't love fall does not mean that I don't put Kuddles in Halloween pjs :)

All About Shlee.

Since we are getting back to basics around here I thought I'd start off with a post about me. Like any good (we'll use that word liberally around here) blogger I could go on about myself forever I'll try to keep it to a minimum.

So this is me.

I grew up in a little town on the gulf coast of Florida and never really appreciated that I lived in paradise until a few years ago.

I moved to Oklahoma for college (I have family in OK) and I was Sooner Born and Sooner Bred! I left for a few years but I ended up right back in this college town. I really do love it here. 

This is my boyfriend, G. He works hard and all the time trying to revamp a business but still manages to clean the kitchen almost every night, he loves college football (almost as much as I do), doesn't really care to travel but is usually up for any of my grand adventures anyway. (Though after my broken foot in Hawaii he seems even more hesitant...) 

This is my dog, Kuddles (I didn't name her....) I didn't even know it was possible for a dog to love a human as much as this dog loves me. She's a fairly typical chihuahua in that she hates everyone except for me. She takes loyalty to a whole other level. She is shameful spoiled and doesn't do anything she doesn't want to do, she lives for car rides and getting into bed each night. 

By day I work as the office manager, bookkeeper, advertising guru, all-around-rockstar for my uncle who runs his own business. At night I'm studying for the CPA exam. I had 9 majors in college and settled on one just so I could get out of school then I spent a few years wandering around trying to figure out what (besides a mom (still my number one dream/goal)) I wanted to be. As G studied for the CPA exam, 3 years ago, I got the idea to do the same so here I am secretly scheduling tests (I don't want to have to tell anyone if I fail) and cramming all the info I possibly can into my already crowded head!

A few other notable facts:
- I love to read (lately I've been listening to audio books in the car because I only have time to study)
- I have horrible HORRIBLE HORRIBLE road rage.
- I couldn't spell to save my life
- I love to craft things but I'm not very good at it
- I'm super emotional and often cry at commercials
- I don't eat anything that lives in the ocean
- I prefer late nights and late mornings
- I hate making decisions
- I am not very brave.

31 days

Last year was my first year to participate in the Nester's 31 day in October. I didn't make it all 31 days (which should come as no big surprise, since posting is pretty sporadic around here) but this year I thought I'd give it another try. 

The problem is I had no idea what I could talk about for 31 days, unless of course you wanted to see a new picture of Kuddles every day in the month of October....

At first I thought I might try 31 days of being brave...but honestly that just sounded a little too scary :) 

So here I am with the most generic thing I could think of....

I've been blogging since 2004, not always consistently and not always here but typing away somewhere on the internet. I like blogging, well I guess I like the idea of blogging, I struggle with the actual follow through. *cough* story of my life *cough* When it comes to the actual typing I sometimes shy away from saying much of anything, it's kind of intimidating that I don't know exactly who is reading, and honestly my life is kind of boring. 

I also have a problem with using multiple commas in my big long run on sentences. (I also really really like to start sentences with the word So) I worry about the grammar police finding my blog....

For the next 31 days (well 30 I guess) I'm going to put all of those silly little things aside and I'm going to blog like I just started. 

Back to the basics we go.....

Scarf swap!

The last time I participated in a swap I swore I'd never do another one, for all the good partners I've had the last one was just too bad. I just didn't think it was worth the effort when the risk of getting someone who put one thing from the Target dollar spot or junk from around their house into the box (true story!) 

But Meredith's 5th annual scarf swap just looked like too much fun to pass up and I'm so glad I participated!

I got paired up with Chelsea and I just know we would be bffs! Here's a few reasons why:

1. She has a chihuahua Tucker

2. Her son Jack's nursery is filled with elephants (and elephants are my favorite!)

3. She has a son named Jack and I have a cousin named Jack (ok that one might be a stretch)

4. We both got our scarfs from Loft

5. She is a self described OCD stress-case and that pretty much sums me up, always making everything more stressful than it needs to be...

Anyway onto the goods!

Here is what came out of my cute red envelope! Perfectly wrapped swap goods! (reason #6 we both used Erin Condren gift labels!) It's a miracle I snapped a picture I was so excited to see what was inside!

Ah here it is the scarf! It's so funny because as I was looking around for what I was going to get Chelsea I kept coming back to this scarf, I really liked it! I just wasn't sure if it was it. Chelsea said she liked dark purple for fall this year I wasn't sure this was quite right (for her swap scarf), so I decided on another one (you can see it over on her blog) When I opened the package I was so excited because the reason I kept coming back to this scarf was because I loved it for me!

As if that great scarf wasn't enough she also included these Kate Spade note pads in my favorite colors! Pink, Navy, and  a Red and White one for the Sooners! I just love them!

Pink and Navy, polka-dots, Sooners, and Kate Spade all of my favorite things!

Thank you so much Chelsea I loved getting to meet you through the swap! Everything was perfectly me!

*please excuse the poor picture quality if I had waited to get better ones it would have been time for the 6th annual swap!