Girls Weekend.

(Sarah and I during one of our girls weekends in 2010 in Jacksonville)

About a month ago, after a particularly weird couple of days I was hashing through the deets with my friend, Sarah, from Purdue who has also relocated to Florida (she's in Jax) and we decided we were long overdue for a girls weekend away. And so, I bring to you Girls Weekend 2011 in....


Saint Augustine, Florida. (cred)

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For those of you who haven't been to St. A before - it's similar to Charleston, SC or Savannah, GA but the Florida version, naturally. It's historic, quaint, full of fun stores, neat museums, beautiful beaches, and a million places you can walk too. I love it there but haven't been in a few years and so I pitched the idea to Sarah of making a girl's trip of a weekend there.

Since she was totally on board with it my mind has been running wild with ideas of where I want to go, what I want to do, what we absolutely have to see (when did I become such an overacheiving tourist?). I've already pitched the ideas of horseback riding on the beach, ziplining through the alligator farm, riding on a pirate ship, and attending a murder mystery dinner theatre. So we'll see just what adventures we land on.

Looking forward to time with a special, fun-lovin friend, away from Tampa but still full of sunshine and summertime TLC.

Eeeee!

Love,

B

My Dreams Lately...

...have looked a little bit like this:

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I can't wait to go to New York City, can you tell? We bought our New York City Pass's this week so we can site see like crazy tourists on extra large cafe mochas. A few of the things on our intial hit list:

- MOMA

- A broadway show

- Tea at the Plaza Hotel

- Empire State Building/Ellis Island

- Times Square

- Macys!

- 911 Site

- Dillion's Candy Store

- Grand Central Station

- Chinatown

- Little Italy

Who votes I take my laptop and blog from NYC?!

Love,

B

Action.

Today's prompt: when it comes to aspirations, it's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. What's your next step? - Scott Belsky, Reverb10.

Ack, I have to take more action? Man, I feel like 2010 has been all about action. I've been working towards my goals at a crazy pace and there's a big part of me that would like to coast at least for a month or so before I tackle anything new. Is that wrong?

Alas, no rest for the weary. I will try'n relax a bit while thinking through my goals for 2011. That's how I plan to use my time while at my parents home in Indiana over Christmas. But come January 2nd when I return to Tampa, I will hit the ground running.

When I was home last, I went on a lunch date with my Dad and laid out my 5 year plan with him. As mentioned in a recent previous entry, my Dad is the one I go to for advice on practically everything. He's also great at helping me keep my plans. He pushes me but he also guides me and gives me a leg up when I need it.

I've made several pretty big goals for myself over the next 5 years and a little regretfully, I can't share them with you here - yet. But there are some pretty big tasks I have to accomplish myself to make them a reality so that is what 2011 will be for me - working towards reaching those 5 year goals. Over the next few weeks I'll really have to give myself a dose of my own medicine and think about the sacrifices I need to make now to get me from point A (now) to point B (then).

Prayers and advice welcome over the next couple weeks while I really do some hard self examination and build a game plan.

Love,
B

Randomness.

First off, I want some comments telling me what you fabulous people are up to for Labor Day Weekend….traveling? Staying put? Relaxing? Grilling out? With friends? Family? Tell me the deets. I love holidays and hearing how people spend them.

My plans are still working their way slooowly into place so I don’t have too much to share on my front yet. I’ll tell you what I do know. I will be spending the holiday with friends but sadly, not with any family members. Jess and I are headed on a road trip, our first in I can’t even remember how long. Too long. The plan is to head to Atlanta and meet up with some GA friends up that way for a night, maybe two? Exact details are ALL TBD. You know how hard a lack of plan is for me – I’m an itinerary kind of deal. Hazard of planning travel for work regularly? Perhaps.

Can I share something else sad on the organizational topic? I actually stooped so low as to make myself a chore list this week. I know. Shock. Horror. Patheticness. The list could continue from there. But it seems that after a weekend away (on the road) you have to have a plan to get caught up on the things you would have done over the weekend, if you’d had a weekend. Last weekend was Nashville, this weekend is Atlanta. So this girl had to get a plan or her house was going to be a hot mess. But still, I can’t believe I resorted to a chore list…I use to shake my fist behind my mom’s back about those growing up. She posted one in my bathroom while I was in HIGH SCHOOL. Embarrassing, right? : ] Good thing I survived the humiliation so that I can share with you all about it now – it was touch n go for a while there.

I like to occasionally post fashion related thoughts (or statements). So on that note, has anyone been to see Lauren Conrad’s collection at Kohl’s? I’m not a big Kohl’s person myself but they’ve recently been carrying Vera Wang’s line and well as LC’s – both of which have some cute and somewhat reasonably priced items. I invested in a LC by Lauren Conrad dress last night that I adore.



Thoughts?

Ok I promise that images of the home improvements are coming soon!

Love ya,

B