Why Monday, Why??

You guys, I am a total fail whale today.

 

I had fantastic weekend, I have tons of pictures, (well maybe not tons, but a lot) and I got home late last night and was way too tired to upload all of said pictures and create a coherent blog post. And then I got up this morning and Monday happened, so I still didn't upload pictures and write a blog post. Well, other than this lame one.

 

So all of this to say the weekend recap will have to wait till tomorrow ('cause I won't be able to upload pics until I get home tonight), and I will link up to all of your lovely ladies then. Because this post isn't very link-worthy. Come back tomorrow and I will be much more riveting! Or at least marginally more riveting. I can guarantee I will feel much more alert and clever than I do today, because today I feel like this:

 

 

Although there is one thing I need to mention because it is monumental:

 

THE JAGS WON!!!! OMG!!!!

 

 

I really can't top that, so I'm done.

 

 



Fiirrriiidaayyy!

This is how I feel about today being Friday:

This week could not have dragged by any slower than it did. I kept thinking, today's Friday right?? Nope just Wednesday. But it's finally here and 

Favorite Song: 

I LOVE this song, it's perfect for running and it's so upbeat and fun! Plus I love Adam Levine's voice mixed with the rap/R&B style.

Favorite Workout: 

Running was the thing this week! It was just too gorgeous to work out indoors. I have to be careful with running because my knees are horrible and they get really sore from high impact stuff. But I LOVE running, especially when the weather is as beautiful as it has been this week! 

Favorite Food: 

I don't have a picture *sad face* but Adam made THE best General Tsao's chicken on Wednesday night! It was seriously just as good as any I've had from a restaurant, or better! On top of that, he had everything ready to go when I walked in the door, so I just sat down to a delicious dinner! Love him! 

Favorite Purchase: 

My new Jags shirt! I have TONS of Gators shirts but I didn't have any Jags shirts, and even though they're pretty much awful, I still feel like I need to support the home team! Plus it's cute and it gives me something to wear on Sundays when we go to Hurricane's to watch the game. 

Favorite Funnies: 

Linking up with Meet at the Barre, September Farm, and Momfessionals!

 

eShakti!

AKA that blog post where I show how awkward I am in front of the camera. Please excuse my blinding pale-ness, I'm really not sure why I am so pale in these pictures.

 

I have heard so much about eShakti, so I was super excited to get an email from them asking if I would like to review one of their custom-made dresses! Um, yes please!

 

I went on their website to order and found the customization very easy to do, just a few measurements, pockets or no pockets? (always pockets!!), choose your length, and your done!

 

I love the classic style of this dress! It was a little more snug in the waist than I expected (and I did measure my waist a little big to make sure it wouldn't be too tight) but the elastic in the back makes it work. Plus I love how the gathered waist looks, it gives the illusion of tiny-ness! And the length is perfect, not too long and not too short, I could easily wear this for work.

 

The only thing I wasn't thrilled about with the fit was the bottom of the bodice was a little too big, like there was just too much fabric under the bust, so it doesn't have as much of a custom fit look there.

 

I ADORE the colors, I like that it's a little different and unexpected with the deep plum and navy blue together. I like that, though they aren't traditional fall colors, they work perfectly for fall because of the deep, rich, warm tones.

 

The keyhole top is lovely and really adds a nice detail. If I am wearing it to work, I would probably wear a cami under it just to make myself more comfortable. I don't like feeling like I'm constantly tugging at something to make sure it covers everything, especially at work!

 

 

Overall I think this was the perfect style for me, it cinches in my waist and then the full skirt (but not too full!) skims my hips so as to be forgiving to my problem areas!

 

Plus it has POCKETS!!! Ok, I'm a little obsessed with dresses with pockets, I think it's the best idea since yoga pants.

 

Go check out eShakti here, and don't forget your promo code!!

 

Click here to shop! :)

 

 

Use code gracemakesnew and get 10% OFF when you shop at eShakti! Valid from 10/16/2014 to 11/16/2014.

 

Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to go drool over all the pretty dresses and stuff...

 

Linking up!

 

Currently...

I'm taking a little break from confessions this week, so I thought I would fill you in on everything going on currently, since I know you're all dying to know...

Feeling really out of it at work today. It's rainy and gloomy outside and my allergies hate me so all I feel like doing is curling up with a good book and my puppies. They should have bring your puppy to work day. Yes, that should be a thing.

Planning to carve pumpkins and watch some of my favorite "Fall" movies with Adam on Friday night! Yes, we are wild and crazy and our Friday nights are epic. (BTW I haven't actually told him yet that we're doing this so fingers crossed!)

Thankful for the $50 Amazon gift card Adam just gave me out of the blue last night. He had redeemed some reward points he had and I knew he had plans to order some stuff for his RC projects, but I had no idea he was ordering one for me too! *Insert heart-eyes emoji here* Totes made my day! Now I will agonize over what to spend it on for at least 3 weeks.

Excited for the trip to the Corn Maze we have coming up in a few weeks! I know most people do this in October but A) I didn't plan ahead very well and B) this is Florida we're talking about so maybe by the time we go it will feel *slightly* more fall-like.

Frustrated with Swagbucks. I have been on the site for a couple of months now, and I was happily accumulating points, mostly through their surveys, and redeeming them for gift cards until the past week or so when all of a sudden I was getting disqualified for every.single.survey I tried, some even before I answered one question on them! So now all I am getting are the little everyday tasks which are worth a grand total of like 20 "bucks" a day, and maybe one or two surveys at the most. Now I realize it's free and I am grateful for whatever I get, but it's frustrating to go through most or almost all of a survey (most are mind-numbingly boring and take at least 20-30 minutes) only to be told you are DQ'd and you get nothing for your time! Grrrr. Ok, I'm done whining now.

Relieved that we don't have any cake jobs this weekend and can just relax and take it easy on Saturday and feel like I have a full weekend! (<---Yay for run-on sentences!)I just feel like when I work Friday night and most of the day on Saturday I get to Monday and I don't feel as rested, even if I get plenty of sleep.

Looking forward to lunch because I have really yummy leftovers from last night! Aren't I lucky my husband is a great cook??

Linking up!

Disney Recap!

Finally! I know this took me forever to get to, but I had to have a while to sit down and do it because I knew it was going to take a while to get through the eleventy billion pictures and pare them down to a somewhat non-ridiculous amount for a blog post. And boy did it ever! You guys, I'm really sorry in advance for the overabundance of pictures ahead.

So we arrived in the land of magic and fun on Sunday evening and proceeded to take goofy pictures in our room at the Swan:

Then we walked out to the Boardwalk to look around and enjoy the beautiful non-stifling weather! 

This is the last time you will see my hair down in these pictures. I straightened it every morning and the Florida humidity was like LOL, no. So up in a ponytail it went! 

Next we went to Downtown Disney for dinner at Planet Hollywood. 

The next day we started out in Animal Kingdom to ride everything we wanted to ride there (Expedition Everest, Dinosaur, and Dino-rama!) We also decided to ride the Kali River Rapids thinking, "We'll get a little wet, but we'll dry fast and we can run back to the hotel if we need to!" Yeah, we got soaked. We just happened to catch pretty much all of the biggest "rapid" on the ride. You can't really tell in the picture, but trust me, we were drenched! 

So that was a pretty uncomfortable bus ride back, but we were able to change clothes, so yay for that! Of course it pretty much rained half the day every day we were there, so we stayed drenched the whole time. But we made the best of it! 

Next we headed to Magic Kingdom! 

 That thing in the top right corner is called LeFou's Brew, and it's SO good! It's frozen apple juice with a hint of toasted marshmallow, topped with passion mango-fruit foam. Sounds really weird, but it's delicious! The one on the bottom is the coffee float made with vanilla soft-serve I always get from Auntie Gravity's in Tomorrowland. Yes, that is a poncho Adam's holding in the bottom picture. We wore those a lot.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Haunted Mansion, and the Riverboat

I just got a picture of Marie from Aristocats, NBD. 

That evening we went back to the hotel and watched a ridiculous amount of crime TV. It was awesome. 

The next day we spent in Hollywood Studios! 

Lights, Motors, Action! Show

Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater where we ate dinner! Then we were ready to head back to the hotel since our shoes and socks were soaked through. We had some funnel cake on the Boardwalk that night because, clearly we had not eaten enough yet. 

The last day we went back to Magic Kingdom and finished up the day at Epcot. 

Main Street decked out for Fall! 

On the People Mover

Never enough shots of the castle! 

Test Track! 

In China! 

The ball! 

I don't have a pic of it, but we had the BEST caramel corn ever in Germany at the Werther's store. We were standing outside of it trying to decide where to go and the caramely, buttery smell wafted over. We were both like "WHAT IS THAT???" and we literally followed our noses over to the shop. Of course we got a bag of the caramel corn (it really did taste like Werther's caramel!) and a chocolate caramel filled cookie that was the size of my face. 

That was the end of our trip! We had a fabulous time in spite of the rainy weather! I can't wait to back as always, and until then, as Mickey would say...