Two weeks in Review! Spring in full swing!

I love spring. It's a special time of year when people can dress up. Of course, people dress up all year round but Springtime fashion has a certain prettiness that winter, autumn and summer outfits just don't match.

Don't get me wrong. I love the rich jewel tones and elegant fabrics that are mainstays in fall and winter fashions. I also enjoy the casualness of summer attire but springtime styles just seem so fancy.

Vintage Spring Style...Love it.    

 



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Spring Fashion Then



Week in Review. 

• Watched two performances of High School Musical in which my daughter was performing. Saturday date night with hubby.
• Hosted son and his friends for video games and hot dogs. Planned his upcoming birthday party.
• Shopped for dresses for daughter who is interning at BET in Los Angeles.
• Shopped with daughter number two for a spring outfit.
• Hosted mother for visit and shopping at thrift town and the mall.
• Cleaned house. Sorta.
• Started Family Reunion Facebook group page for hubby's family reunion.
• Gathered pictures from previous reunions to post. Pictures need to be scanned. Sigh!
• Reviewed pictures of myself and family from years ago. *smile*
• Caught up on stuff at work. Spent the next week day dreaming.
• Lunch date with hubby at Dead Fish restaurant in Crockett.
• Attended follow-up medical appointment with hubby.
• Hit the gym 2 X last week and 2X this week. Walked daily
• Practiced mindful eating for past two weeks. Packed and ate lunch daily.
• Cleaned out kitchen cabinets of expired canned foods. Organized kitchen.
• Cleaned out kitchen cabinets of unused pots and pans. Donated them to Thrift Town.
• Bags of unused clothes to Thrift town.
• Met beautiful & friendly cat with extra toes on all paws.
• Snuggled with daughter when she returned from late play rehearsals.
• Planned post on mindful eating.
• Planned post on mindful mothering.
• Reserved condo in Hawaii for Thanksgiving week.
• Researched airfares to Hawaii for Thansgiving week.
• Started watching Starz miniseries DaVinci's Demons. My new favorite show.
• Withdrew from the July Bar Exam. Sigh! I'm doing everything but studying regularly. The last day to withdraw for a 60% refund is April 30th.
• Developed this new obsession with the color yellow and lemon related decor. 
• Planned Grandmother post for Mother's Day.
• Signed petition at change.org to get Married to Medicine reality television show cancelled. The fight was just too much.
• Coached daughter in college on marketing herself for a job.

Goals for upcoming week

• Sort pictures and scan them.
• Update Family Reunion Facebook Group page.
• Continue to eat mindfully.
• Finish reading Wallbanger.
• Exercise daily.

Week in Review!

• Purchased and planted vegetables.
• Purchased flowers for front porch box.
• Stayed faithful to vegan diet for one week. Broke it on date night with hubby. He took me out for drinks and appetizer. I was starving and the guacamole and chips didn't fill me up. So I ordered some calimari and ate the up along with the sauce which I think had some egg in it. Then ate two bacon wrapped scallops. Stayed vegan all day on Saturday but then ate a hamburger on Sunday. Sigh. Starting again on Monday.
• Social event/ lunch with new co-worker.
• Walked with co-worker one day.
• Completed reading review for Constitional Law. Getting 77% correct on the multistate multiple choice questions. Need to get that up to 98-100% by exam time.
• Date night with hubby.
• Visted with parents.
• Booked hotel/condo for Thanksgiving Family getaway. Need to find reasonable priced airfare. I know it is a holiday week so prices unlikely to come down too far. Hoping for a special. Sigh!

Goals for next week

• Finish reading review of Evidence and possibly Criminal Procedure.
• Considering taking Kimberly Wilson of Tranquility du Jour - course on Mindfulness e-course; her Creative and Conscious Business e-course. I am especially interested in her business course because I am impressed with her ability create brands and be able to support herself in a variety of ways. Especially her ability to travel and host retreats. She also offers mentoring sessions as part of her e-courses and I would be interested in talking to her about my lack of ideas or far flung ideas.
• Save money.
• List stuff on ebay.
• Visualize business ideas.

Week in Review! Easter Weekend and April Foolish!

Egg rainbow photo captured from Pinterest from 3.bp.blogspot.com

I was fortunate to have my daughter home to visit this holiday weekend. She arrived late on Thursday night and stayed until Monday morning. I took Good Friday off from work and got my hair "done" early that morning. My daughter used my car and did a few errands. That evening I purchased the goodies to make a "Low Country Boil". Simple ingredients include some large shrimp with the shell on, crab legs, corn on the cobs, bag of red potatoes, packages of hot links. I cooked it all up an poured it on my large turkey platter. My small family sat around the table for quite a while peeling and eating. It was a great way to start off the Easter weekend.

 



My husband took us all out to the Cheesecake Factory in Walnut Creek for lunch/dinner on Saturday. It is my oldest daughters favorite restaurant. I had a huge hamburger. Hubby had his favorite chinese chicken salad.

I boiled some eggs but I didn't mix up the coloring. So I didn't have any colored easter eggs this year. I do have a bag of plastic ones that I set on the table for decoration. My kids all asked for Easter baskets. However I didn't prepare any. Sigh!

marthastewart.com by way of Pinterest.com
 

Other accomplishment this week include:

• Getting my hair done.

Okay this is not me but it is the color of my new hair extensions. Picture snatched from the web.

• Attending the 1st annual WCCUSD Jazz Festival in which my son planned the bass guitar

Photo by Todd Thompson via Pinterest

• Regraded the Fab5 entries. Guess I should have read the instructions the first time.
• Cleaned out my closet. Filled two large garbage bags with clothes to donate. Packed up some stuff to return to store by mail.

Mariah Carey's shoe closet via Pintest / InStyle Home Magazine

• Cleaned out daughters bedroom so that older daughter would be able to have a place to stay. Filled three bags of stuff to give away to thrift store. Younger daughter is growing up and realizing that she doesn't have to keep everything. Daughter wants to know where the tennis shoes are in Mariah's closet.

Mariah's closet Pic from Pinterest

• Sat in the sun on good friday on my own deck and drank coffee.

Things I'm thankful for this Easter Week:

• Hubby and son started talking again.
• Hubby and son played Madden Football. Son's favorite video game right now and decided to help his dad learn.

Thanksgiving, a year and a half ago. On Carnival Cruise.

Things I need to work on:

• Studying for the bar exam.
• Exercise
• Working Out
• Scrapbook of pictures from February 2013 cruise.
• Being mindful

Wishlist for the coming week:

• Plant flowers in front flower box.

image from katy-d-i-d.blogspot.com

• Plant additional vegetables in backyard garden.

epicurious.com via google