Monday Blur

Today started off with all of us here in the office, wrapping up payroll and some other loose ends before 2014 gets here. Halfway through the day, the bosses decided we'd be wasting our time if we came in tomorrow, so now, we're off for the next two days! WOO!

I took a break for lunch to run out and take care of a couple things, primarily dropping off lunch to my dedicated stand-in babysitter.. haha.


hello again, piada (:

I got back to work just as the USPS truck was pulling in. The driver jumped out with two little pink boxes and headed our way; needless to say, Elisa & I were pretty excited about our Julep drops!

julep time!!!

Also in work news, we had our weekly afternoon meeting today, since we won't be here Wednesday. Dave & Nancy [we've collectively coined them Dancy, for short reference] told us that Lizzy will be stepping in to fill Nikki's vacancy as our sales person. We are definitely surprised, but I have a good feeling this will be a great step in the right direction. WELCOME ABOARD, LIZZY!

It looks like 2014 is going to be a big year for this office.. and I'm excited (:

Back at home, Rob and I started knuckling down once again on the logistics [an ever-irritating process at this point] of transporting all of his things from Illinois here over the next couple of weeks. We decided at the last minute that rather than wait until next weekend for me to take him back, we'd just get that part out of the way over the next couple of days. So with that being said, we packed up a couple bags, and along with Sydni and the pups, jumped on the road. I captured our starting point of spontaneity...

t-minus 5 hours. let's do it.

I count myself blessed a thousand times over for such an adaptable little girl and cooperative furry twins for taking this last-minute trip in stride. They did so well for the trip; actually I think Sydni had way more fun than the dogs did, but nobody's really counting ;)

hilarious. allllll. the. way. there ;)

We made it here to Illinois safe and sound, and for now, we're resting up for whatever it is we're bound to accomplish tomorrow. We might even get around to celebrating the new year, too, but we'll play it all by ear :).

G'Nite!

xo | cmd

Christmas 2013: T-Minus ONE WEEK

First and foremost, Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. I love the assembling of family, even when multiple stops sometimes feels like a game of Tetris. For us, it's a non-negotiable absolute that we will get together at one point or another, because it's Christmas and regardless of how often we see each other over the other 11 months, Christmas is when we get together and celebrate as a unit, the reason for the season and what that means to us.

I opted out of the mass mayhem of Thanksgiving Day [ridiculous] and Black Friday shopping this year, and pursued the DIY route. My recent discovery of online providers like Julep, and of course Pinterest, made this one an easy vote for me.

julep surprise box for december!

^ I opt in for surprise boxes and they give me cool things like 40% off my next order. Since Julep's are usually around $14/ea for one of their polishes (& worth it, I would say), my enrollment discount + a promo 40%? NO-brainer! I made a big order last week & got a couple polishes for $3/ea. BAM!

And so I made with it on Christmas ordering ;) From there, I picked up some other small, related items for just a couple bucks and was able to put together a nifty little gift for a few girls:

for elisa (top left) & nikki (top right)

A cinch, really. Add some tissue paper, a pretty ribbon and a 'Merry Mistletoes' tag & voilà - done!

I had to save this until the girls got their mistletoes, so as to not spoil anything..

elisa (r) & nikki (l)

DIY success!

Also...... the Blums went in this year on some pretty lil' gift ideas for our clients:

express toffee boxes (:

They're so pretty! I had to snap a shot of them all arranged for delivery before they're gone.
It's really starting to feel like Christmas around here!

Tomorrow = Company Christmas "party" dinner at Zula in OTR. [[yummmm]]
Oh, and btw, Christmas itself is exactly 1 week from today. Chyeah. Wrap your head around that one.... I'm still trying. Hah.

xo | cmd

Julep & A Job Fair

So..

It's not often that I actually get suckered in to the ads on any website.
I did, however, finally cave in to the Pandora sidebanner last week that kept asking me to become a Julep Maven. For the life of me I'm sure I just signed my soul away, but I did it, didn't look back, and got this delivered to my office today:

julep maven... done. (:

Yeah, I'm excited. So what. Haha. Check out their website for yourself and tell me there isn't a nice little plethora of awesome colors there! ;)

Work was work as usual, and ended with a job fair to top it off before I stopped to pick up Sydni.

happy job fair!

Then it was home, to watch The Croods with the mini me!

pretty funny.. i recommend!

My apologies for the lack of edible substance for today.. Wednesday this week was a pretty even-keel event all the way around, and that's okay. This weekend is going to be far from tame, starting with a late evening showing of the Hunger Games tomorrow night with Kalyn, Elisa, Anna & Nikki.

C'Mooooon, weekend!

xo | cmd