Happies and Crappies- part 1

I'm not sure about y'all, but this week was an emotional blur. Perfect to cap off the week- linking up for.......

Happies

• New classes
• First day of school outfit
• Roomie love
• Success in the kitchen
• Hearing the amazing Carol Wincenc perform with the Waco Symphony
• Performing for said amazing Ms. Wincenc
• Coaching a woodwind quintet as a part of my JOB (so cool)
• Starting a 6AM (AH) workout routine with my dear friend Darbi
• Boyfriend snuggles 

Soon to be happies

• Hanging with Sarah and RP3 (best friends in law, really)
• WEEKEND

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Crappies

• Grad/TA duties. A LOT of them.
• Back to school shock (I have to read HOW MUCH?!)
• Oversleeping
• Stress arguments
• MOLD in my apartment y'all. Mold. Not to mention the management is horrendous.
• Family woes, very heavy heart
• Missed my last flight option to my only audition this semester

This week has been so nuts, I don't even have pictures to post! 

To make up for the lack of photos and for a cheery end to this blog post....

Wittle baby Winston!!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 

You're welcome. 

Happy Friday ;)

For more recent photos of Winston click here and here!

This Weekend, No. 3

Happy Monday morning! I'm linking up with Syndal for "This Weekend, I..."

This weekend was actually a major bummer for me.

Long story short- I've been working very hard towards a handful of auditions for Artist Diploma programs next year. Sent in pre-screening recordings (takes forever to get them "just right"), and was not nearly as successful as I had hoped.

So of course (as I told my lovely boyfriend) "If I'm gonna suck at the flute at least I'm going to look awesome doing it!" Which was a little dramatic of course, because I'm kinda pretty far from sucking at the flute.....but anyways. He sympathetically "Ok baby'd" me and we went shopping.

Found this lovely gem at one of my local faves, Amelia's. $7!!

Also from Amelias, a fun Forever 21 jacket. $14!!!

I felt a little better.

This weekend I successfully bruched with Drew- my first time making french toast! Yummy

And This morning, I woke up to a freezing Waco, and these fun little not-quite-snow-like beads were everywhere.

Happy Monday everyone- I hope you have a lovely lovely day and a pleasant week!

How was your weekend?

H54F part 1

Linking up for High Five For Friday!

1.

I love Pinterest, y'all. But how often do we (I) actually accomplish the DYI or meal projects that we pin?

Yesterday, Thanks to a post by Looks Like Homemade, my freezer is now stocked with 7 pre-made yummy meals (for 2 with leftovers)! After two hours of prep time, all of these meals are completely ready to go- crock pot, go to school, done! It makes me giddy just thinking about it. 

I did make some modifications to the recipies presented (and left out the soy chicken since my main man is not a fan of soy sauce, sad day right?!) so if you are interested I can post a follow up on how the recipies turned out!

2.

This happened. Coolest dad ever, right? :)

3.

Learned that I CAN trim my own bangs without just ruining my whole life.

Also, I love my Cover Girl NatureLuxe balm.

4.

Date night at one of our local favorites- Sams on the Square, or affectionately "Tacos and Tequila"

But seriously, white queso and black bean dip with a delicious margarita?! YUM.

Hope you all had a lovely week! Its about to be back to the grind- are you ready?

This Weekend, No. 2

This weekend, I packed up and made the trek back to good ol' Waco. What a thrill to find out that all of my cold weather clothes fit into my shared room! Its the little things, y'all.

First thing in Waco, literally as soon as I drove up, I met up with Drew (eeeee!) and we drove to eat dinner with our newly wed friends- the Lott's! It was such a treat to not have to eat fast food the first night back in town. Rachel and Andy cooked up a delicios paleo dinner. I could seriously eat this stuff every day!
Of course margaritas don't exactly fall into the paleo category, but Rachel has started a really great blog on the paleo lifestyle if you are interested.

This weekend, I realized yet again how much I hate being away from Drew for any time at all! He flew off to San Francisco to audition for a trumpet opening in the San Francisco Symphony- such an honor! You might remember back in December when he won a job with the Army, and now he gets to add advancing in SF audition to his ever growing resume. Go baby go! So proud of you :)

Here is a lovely shot that Drew shared with me from his day of sight-seeing:

This weekend, I had a lot of alone time and practiced the flute much more that I had been for the rest of the break. Being alone and being a little bit chilly gave me the opportunity to re-wear and re-style my (fake) furry vest (without shame)! I love this vest. Let me repeat: I love this vest. Quite honestly I can't even tell you where it was originally from, because MARSHALL'S IS AMAZING. Am I right??

I present to you: messy grad room and furry vest photo day #1

Vest: YMI (found it! super sale)

Shirt: Boyfriend hand-me-down

Jeans: a.n.a. (jcp, similar here)

Boots: Sam & Libby Fiddler booties

And messy grad room furry vest day #2

Vest: YMI (found it! super sale)

Sweater: H&M, 2010

Skinnies: Levi's

Boots: Sam & Libby

Flute: Muramatsu ;)

This weekend, I finally watched the entire first season of Downton Abbey. Oh my goodness I do believe that the raving reviews were correct! Must. Watch. More.

What did you do this weekend?

This and That Thursday No.2

Happy 2013, y'all!

Linking up with my beautiful friend Sarah for my 2nd "This and That Thursday"!

This morning while updating my phone, all of my pictures (337) got deleted- Bummer!! I'm sure there is a way to get them back, but I don't have a Mac and I'm totally not new version of iTunes (or Picasa) savvy. Double bummer.

Luckily I snagged this New Years Day photo from the boy one. 

That little red ball cube (cube made of....yeah not sure how to describe that one) is the best toy ever invented! We made this cube of 4mm magnets in about....45 minutes. To our defense, we had no idea that we had the exact number of magnets to made a 6*6*6 cube, but we had a blast anyways! My super genius chemist dad brought it home and explained that the name bucky balls comes from the term "buckminsterfullerene" which is basically a soccer ball shaped carbon molecule. Neat, right? 

This is my baby Winston on the eve of my departure to Waco. I'm so ready to get into a routine and to get the semester off to a great start, but I've enjoyed every minute with this little man!!

Sweater- Merona, Target (old, similar here)

Jeans- LC Lauren Conrad at Kohl's (old, similar here)

Off to Waco tomorrow for my last full semester as a master's student- what does 2013 offer you?


See my first "This and That" here!