Venting

So yesterday I decided to take off a little early from work and go down to Roanoke to get my second laser hair removal. As I am driving I see a huge accident on the other side of the road, and I need to go back that way to get home/go to the mall before I head home.

I get to my laser hair appointment and I get the girl in training. (back story my first round of laser did not hurt I seriously barely felt a thing) So she gets started and Holy Hannah it felt like how I picture a tatoo would feel. After about 5 minutes I start smelling burnt hair, which is "normal and a good thing", yeah ok honey you are not the one getting your arm pit melted off.

So after a half an hour my appointment is done and I ask the doctor is different way to get to the mall and the highway. So she tells me the directions. I get into my old beat up car that has no air conditioning on an 85 degree day and head down the road to find myself in bumper to bumper traffic.

But I have my mind set on using my coupon for a free perfume from Victorias Secret. So after an HOUR!!!!!! drive that would have only taken about 10 minutes, I get to Victorias Secret and come to find out my coupon for a free "perfume" is the size of a tester. Yes I drove an hour to get a tester size amount of perfume. I honestly could have killed someone.

I am fuming the whole way home because I have wasted a ton of my evening and I will get home around 8. But I decided that I was going to go for a run when I got home otherwise poor nick would have come over to a nightmare of a girlfriend.

So I just plan on running for like 20 minutes I figure I can get about 2 miles in. NOPEEEEEEE I look down at my ipod to see that I ran 3 miles in 24 minutes. Yes people that is an 8 minute mile. It honestly made my day, I have been telling everyone who will listen.

I got back home at 8:30 Nick and I took forever to decide what to eat, and I was just not in the mood so I threw some whole wheat pasta and some turkey meatballs on the stove and bam dinner was made by 9pm... I know it is not healthy to be eating that late but a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.

Thankful Thursday

I finally remembered to make a post on a Thursday!

1) Its Thursday which means tomorrow is Friday!

2) We had Easter dinner themed staff meeting... Honey baked ham, mac n cheese, etc were on the list

3) 2nd round of laser hair removal was yesterday! only 4 more to go :)

4) super mario brothers wii

5) The incredible weather we are having in VA

6) My mom is coming next weekend!!

7) The game Funglish




8) I ran 3.1 miles in 24 minutes!!

9) Being a Mormon, I hope to have my own I am a Mormon commercial one day

10)My man candy :)

My Loot

So as expressed in my last post, one of my favorite things was this past weekend... the J Crew factory sale. Nick and I arrived at 12 to see a line wrapped around the building for this puppy. Mind you it is slightly drizzling and its like 50 degrees but there was a smile on my face. We get inside and are handed our garbage bag and the price list and dun dun duuunnnn we are joined with 248 other people in picking through uhundreds of boxes of J Crew clothes. Holy Hannah people it was insane I could barely reach my hands in to boxes it was so crowded.

So after about an hour and a half of "shopping" I found Nick and we plop down in the middle of the factory surrounded my a ton of girls and we all start sorting through our stash. So hear is your mental picture. (outside in line everyone and their mom are in leggings and tanks with little northfaces over the top, hello people it is 50 degrees, well I judged too soon cause they were able to try on every single kind of clothing item! I did see a little too much of some peoples mothers but hey I will never see them again so i dont judge them for doing it, I almost wish I had thought of it)

So we are surrounded by stripping people and clothes. Nick was soooooo hoooo sweet and watched me try on shirt after shirt and help divide up my bag into things I "needed" and "maybes" and "less than maybes" hahaha but let me back up. So while I am selfishly looking for only clothes for me my man candy finds me a purse I picked out in the store ($400) and an adorable double brested rain coat anddddddddddddd wait for it..... A PINK PEA COAT!!!!!!!!!!!! oh my gosh I was floored... I got the purse for 30, the rain coat for 25 and the pea coat for 50! Gosh I had been searching for rain coats online forever, wheneever nick and I go out and its raining I am always that girl who is waiting at the door for a car to come drive up and pick her up, and then I have to put my jacket over my hair cause heaven knows I chose the one day out of the week it rains to straighten my hair. but its all changed now I have the cutest rain coat on the planet that includes a hood and it just so happened that it was raining when we got out of the sale. GLORIOUS!
I also bought 9 shirts, a belt, and bathing suit bottoms.

We get out of there around 5:30 and we head over to meet our friends Mckay and kalee for dinner. We went to Hibachi.... can we say delish. I want to kiss the person who makes the white sauce. After dinner we headed back over to their place to watch youtube videos and just hang out since we only see them about once a month.

Yesterday Nick and I went to church, came home and ate some grub, went over to his house for him to change and then headed out to Lexington to walk around and soak up the gorgeous weather. We both wore some of our new clothes and looked pretty dang adorable. We just laid on the grass and talked about what we didnt feel like cooking for dinner. We headed home and i fell asleep for an hour and half to wake up at like 8pm! We made plans to go over Nicks cousins house at 945 so we booked it over to my house so we could eat a little something and then went over to the Hiatts to play Wii.

Great weekend with the Man!

I will post pictures when I can. I dont have internet at my house so I am limited on my blogging resources.

Thankful Thursday

Yes, yes I know I missed last week, but I was at a conference for work and the hotel makes you pay $10 a day for the internet so that wasn't happening.

1) J CREW SALEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I dont think anyone is more excited for the Jcrew clearance sale than me... I would bet on it. I have had this weekend marked on my calendar since January.

2) I had 16 people at my spin class and a total of 18 bikes... yessss it is that good :)

3) I found out that glee is Lady Gaga and 90 minutes next week yay!!

4) Nick and I beat world 1 on super mario brothers last night, can I just say this was not an easy task the castle is beyond ridiculous

5) I actually enjoyed General Conference, I may be the only Mormon who doesnt look forward to church on TV for 8 hours... but this time I was happy listening to it.

6)My friend Debbie is Prego!!!!!!!!!!! woohoo super excited to help make baby crafts

7) I found out Washington and Lee is buying the body pump program!! I have been wanting to train for pump for a while now and here is my opportunity!!

8)Sushi :) Nick and I got some on Saturday and whewwww it was delish

9) Nick and all of his cute dates he thinks up (he found a movie theatre that has loveseats and a button to push to get drink refills, and then we went and shopped at some antique stores and I got a Tiffany's charm for $20!)

10) Drive in movies

Thankful Thursday

1) Canteloupe- I have eaten a whole one since last night.... I am an addict

2) Burn Notice- Nick and I have become obsessed with this show... you learn how to make a bomb out of anything, Fiona has adorable shoes, and Micheal Weston is a hottie and a half GREAT TV

3)The gorgeous weather we have been having, low 70s is just so perfect for anything

4)Jenna rearranged our living room and it looks so much cuter!!

5) Double stuffed oreos in my filing cabinet (its a love hate relationship)

6) The Glee volume 5, I added 4 songs frmo there to my spin class on Tuesday and it was probably the BEST class I have ever taught

7) Nick's toe is getting better (ingrown toenail, it was touch and go for a few days haha)

8) Peanut butter and graham crackers- nough said

9) Debbies fruit dip. For craft/girls night Debbie made fruit dip from strawberry creamcheese and luff, holy hannah it was delish

10) My cutie pie boyfriend :)

11) My nieces and nephews they are just way too adorable for words

101 things to do in 1001 Days

These are in no particular order

Katie Gahan
THINGS TO DO
This list of 113 goals was started Mar 20, 2011 and is scheduled to finish Dec 15, 2013.

1Get a massage

2Get a facial

3Be more positive

4Read my Scriptures everyday

5Try a new restaurant

6Give a compliment to someone everyday

7Say "I love you" to someone other than Nick everyday

8Read 10 new books

9Buy a new Coach Purse

10Buy a new car

11Run a half marathon

12make baklava

13Be more grateful

14Learn how to salsa

15Buy Rosetta Stone for French

16Get my personal training certification

17Study for the GMAT

18Learn to swim

19Make ice cream from scratch

20Go to Philly

21Stomp grapes at a vinyard

22Watch 26 movies I've never seen starting with each letter of the Alphabet

23Kiss in the rain

24Get married

25Dance in the rain

26Leave an inspirational note inside a book for someone to find

27Host a dinner party

28Go rockclimbing

29Sing karaoke at a bar

30Go on a road trip

31Have dinner by candlelight

32Be kissed in front of the Eiffel Tower

33Lose 5 pounds

34Take an ettiquette class


35Go to a concert

36Learn how to ballroom dance

37Complete a jigsaw puzzle

38Leave an inspirational note in a book for someone to find

39Cook a fancy dinner party for my friends

40Write a letter to someone who has inspired me

41Try 5 new recipes

42Update my resume

43Take a martial arts class

44Keep a diary

45Travel to Greece

46Change my hair

47Ask 10 friends to suggest one book, and read them all

48Throw a party

49Organize a hide and seek with at least 20 friends in the Ikea

50Go to see an Opera

51Watch the sunset

52Travel to Africa

53Learn to play tennis

54Watch all the movies I am ashamed to say I haven't actually seen, though often pretend I have

55Go on a road trip without a pre-set destination


56Update my blog at least once a week

57Participate in a protest

58Learn to juggle with five balls

59Put $5 into savings for every goal completed

60Go to Nashville

61Vote

62Take a bubble bath

63Watch an entire season of a television show in a weekend

64Have a picnic in the park

65Send Christmas cards

66Write a list of everything I want to change about myself

67Bake a cheesecake

68Go to an NBA basketball game

69Find a personally inspirational quote and work it into a piece of art or home decor

70Get a makeover

71Play poker in Vegas

72Ring in the New Year in Times Square

73Find a Geocache in at least 5 states

74Take a tropical vacation

75Go skinny dipping

76Go swimming in a lake/ocean at night

77Do Karaoke (in a bar)

78Do a home improvement project

79Own an iPhone

80Inspire someone to make a 101/1001 list

81Write a list of 100 places I would like to visit in my lifetime

82Make a loaf of bread from scratch

83Go to Boston

84Buy flowers for someone.

85Change my hairstyle

86Go camping with friends

87Stay at a bed & breakfast

88Do something for a person that has made a difference in my life

89Spring clean and donate or chuck out

90Study 6 different cultures per year; have a themed weekend for each with food, music, culture and geographical info

91Go to Disney World

92Go somewhere by train

93Kiss someone at midnight on New Year's

94Get a psychic reading

95Buy a nice pair of sunglasses

96Help build a house for Habitat for Humanity

97Go to a Lady Gaga concert

98Go to the doctor for a physical

99Attend a ballet

100Send a secret to PostSecret

101Watch 10 documentaries

102No fast food for a month

103Keep a journal for a year

104Attend trivia night at a restaurant or bar

105Read a novel in French

106Make a blanket fort

107See Michael Buble in concert

108Visit a country I haven’t been to yet

109Attend a midnight movie premiere

110Bathe under a waterfall

111Travel first class


112Learn yoga

113Have my teeth whitened

114Go a month without chocolate

115 Do my hair 6/7 days a week (I am not ready to commit to everyday)

Aveeno Tinted Moisturizer

I read beauty magazines at the gym, blogs and articles online, and get hypnotized with commercials. Aveeno always has the most convincing commercials and ads. They have a new product out, tinted moisturizer. I read some good reviews so I went to Wal-Mart and grabbed my shade. I tried it for the first few days, and I found it a little thick and cakey. I was not able to blend it well and it would leave lines and such. Well one morning I woke up with my face uber parched so I slabbed on some Mary Kay moisturizer and then put on the aveeno....Perfecto... that is all that was needed. It wasnt the greatest of coverage but I will take it. So I have been doing a little mixing in my hand, putting the mary kay and then the same amount of aveeno, mixing it and then applying it to my face.

All in all it is an OK product. I would say test out some other brands first. I had previously used covergirl tinted moisturizer and found that to be a great texture but a super small bottle.