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Friday Five

It's a rainy Friday night and I'm staying in, am getting up at 6am tomorrow to run a 5K with my colleagues to benefit Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. I am not begging for donations like the 3-Day but you can make a donation on my behalf that will benefit the Strong4Life program. My company built strong4life.com, lots of man hours went into the creation of it, check it out!

2 weeks since my last update so here is another Friday Five post!

The usual excuse, work! I have not had much spare time during my workday, but lots of exciting things are happening!

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I got some new plants for my little balcony -

3 new plants doesn't look like a lot but it was quite the process for me!

And a new hanging dragon fly stain glass I got at the Decatur Arts Festival -

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I finally got a light blue Clarisonic Mia, obsessed -

How I ever thought I was cleaning my face by rubbing face wash on it with my hands.... It's like a Sonicare toothbrush I'll never be able to not use it now!

Here's some lovely examples:

And it just feels a gazillion times better. Like last Saturday night I had been out in the Virginia Highlands for the annual Summerfest. (one of my fav festivals in Atl) Humidy + crowds + alcohol + fatty food = Ick! When I went home at the end of the night and used my Mia and put on PJ's = Ahhhh :)

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George got groomed last week so of course a photo shoot was in order -

And he had his first beer over Memorial Day weekend

My little cavy is growing up! Oh but a real George update: We've started going on long walks! I had held off because of his weight and being malnourished but I've started taking him on longer and longer walks. We've even walked the belt line trail by my condo a couple times and it's 3 miles!

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I'm trying to eat more fruits and veggies and just more healthy overall. I have such a sweet tooth and crave candy like gummy bears, Twizzlers and Mike&Ike's. (random I know but I love 'em) Anywhere I can get the bag your own candy I'm in heaven because there's fruity gummy candy galore. (Chrissy tells me the serve yourself candy is germy) So I *try* to counteract this craving by drinking a lot of water and eating a lot of fruit. I've started putting frozen fruit in my water, keeps water cold and then I eat the fruit, surprisingly satisfying. The Very Cherry Blend from TJ's is delish -

I've made this fruit quinoa salad twice the past couple weeks, for a family cookout and for a small group dinner. It's super easy and you can add whatever fruit you want. The recipe calls for a honey, lime and mint dressing and the second time I made it with lemon instead of lime and it turned out great. Recipes you can't mess up are best for me :)

Recipe!

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 I'm getting new kitchen appliances delivered tomorrow and on Monday! My yellowing white 70's appliances are getting replaced with new stainless steel, will post before and after pics!

Friday Five

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Saw Gatsby last night and loved it. Listening to the soundtrack right now, obsessive personality much? Saw it at the recently remodeled Phipp's Theater and was maybe the best movie going experience I've ever had, huge leather reclining seats and great concession and drink offerings. Safe to say it's my new fav place to watch a movie in Atl.

Aaannnd after watching Gatsby I want all of this.

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A couple of my lunches this week (been a very eventful week ha)

A turkey lettuce wrap -

And catered lunch at work today, a veggie burger, pasta and salad, and I may have had a cookie too but it was so good totally worth the calories.

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While talking food I have to admit my fitness has been a little lagging this past week due to having caught a stomach bug last weekend. Thankfully it was just a 24 hour bug but have wanted to play it safe and not push myself too hard when I'm feeling low energy. I've gone on a couple long walks with Georgie (he has boundless energy) and one 3 mile run this week. Nothing yesterday or today except the usual strolls with George. Tomorrow morning I'm planning on going to spin and then next week will hopefully be back to my routine of running with a couple of spin and yoga classes in the mix. 

This is what you have to go through to get into the good instructor's classes at LA Fitness spin, get in line at least 30 minutes prior to the start time and put your name on the list, how I'll be spending my Saturday morning tomorrow. I snapped this pic a couple weekends ago but never got around to doing a weekend recap post, haha.

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The latest few things I've ordered from Very Jane and GroopDealz, boutique deals that are emailed daily-

I got the statement necklace to the left in white from Very Jane -

This chevron infinity scarf in blue from GroopDealz but haven't received it yet -

And these fun teardrop earrings from Very Jane that I haven't received yet either but have gotten an email saying that they're on their way!

Way too easy to shop and buy, just wish the shipping time was a little speedier.

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I adopted George on February 15 so this past Wednesday I have had him 3 months :)

Pic to the left was taken by the adoption counselor at Fulton County Animal Services after I'd signed all the papers and everything was official, pic to the right was taken this past Sunday at my parent's house while celebrating Mother's Day (day after my stomach bug ick). 

Milestones in George's life over the past 3 months: Weight gain, got neutered, developed an affinity for sleeping atop plush pillows and eating chicken and rice, started going into the office to earn his keep ;), has made lots of new furry and non furry friends and of course a new home :)

Wordless Wednesday

 Just playin' fetch at work!

Mayhem at the Office

Last week my company had our annual week long event, literally called Mayhem. You are put on a team with fellow coworkers and compete in all kinds of games throughout the week, a lot of alcohol and food provided too of course. (Last year's week of Mayhem) Some pics from the week -

Mariachi and margaritas for Cinco De Mayo

Monday night we went to Game-X, a new game spot downtown to enjoy unlimited games and an open bar

Look what I spotted, a giant Doodle Jump game! I've kind of gotten over my obsession though and just played once, it wasn't that fun you just moved the lever to make Doodle move.

Parker throwing a punch!

Part of my blue team playing trivia on Tuesday, we tied for last :( But had the cutest mascot!

So people get very competitive during Mayhem... One of the things you can do to earn points for your team is social media. Every time you tag your team name your team gets a point. One of my coworkers even stooped so low as to use George!

We were not pleased.

Wednesday was paint by numbers and King of Pops

Pics: Top two is the painting coming together (each team painted a portion); Middle left is balloons in the ladies bathroom from team orange (who won the whole week, boo); Bottom left are the yummy flavors KOP had for us (Banana puddin' was my fav); And bottom right is sweet Bella joining in on the festivities. She loved paint by numbers!

King of Pops even made their sticks especially for our event

Thursday was "the big day" which consisted of field day type activities all day long: Three-legged race, dodge ball, water balloon, flip cup and tug of war. You know a typical workday.

My team won dodge ball, at one point we only had 1 player in but he beat a whole team, needless to say we were very excited

Flip cup, totally normal 2pm activity on a weekday

My team playing tug of war

Parker falling at tug of war

Then getting an award for it the next day

So needless to say a week full of mayhem, need a full year to recover until the next one!

Lauren's Bachelorette and Wedding Weekends

 What I've been up to the last couple weeks, my cousin Lauren's wedding festivities!

We celebrated her bachelorette weekend here in Atlanta where the group stayed at the W Hotel in Buckhead. Her room was all decked out -

Cutouts of male celebs all over the room, haha

Ready for dinner Saturday night

Dinner at Seasons 52 and hanging out at the hotel bar afterwards. I found these funny scratch off cards that dare you to go up and do ridiculous stuff to people, it was entertaining enough just reading them haha

Sexy diva bride to be!

Whole Foods cookie cake (I kept asking for fun bachelorette decoration on the phone and the lady from the bakery responded in a monotone voice, "We only do balloons and flowers." But turned out well and was delish -

With the rest of the bridesmaids -

The following weekend we all gathered in LaGrange for Lauren and David's wedding!

Beautiful flower arrangement at the rehearsal dinner

 Lauren and my other cousin Karen the next morning at the bridal luncheon

Wish I could have dessert after breakfast everyday

 

Spent the afternoon doing hair and makeup, right before the ceremony -

All ready to go :)

The 2nd star of the day, my cousin Karen's sweet little boy Landon, so presh

After the ceremony

Lauren and David's entrance, first dance at the reception and our bridesmaid's bouquets

Landon borrowed mine en route to the reception :)

Their cake was amazing, white cake and white butter cream icing, David loves desserts, when I sent him a list of questions to answer for a bachelorette game one of the questions was, "What is your favorite dessert?" His answer, "Yes! I love desserts." :)

Groom's cake, David sells and loves cars, he got Baby Pearl for me :)

Great band

Party animal!

Sending them off with sparklers! They took a limo to the Georgian Terrace that night then off to Bermuda in the morning.

Meanwhile George was living it up over at Austin's house, I mean Sheena and Ben's :)

Cavy's gotta stick together

 

Made himself right at home :)