Fill In The Blank Friday

Fridays are not my favorite day.  I'm at work for 12+ hours and away from my daughter.  So sad :(  

However, being on blogger just makes the time go by that much faster!  So I'm counting down the hours until the weekend...roughly T-3 1/2 hours yay!  So again blog hopping, I love these linkable posts because it kind of allows me a moment to just ride off the thoughts of another blogger.  Then later when I come up with something witty and interesting I can really delve into it with my all...so for now...let's fill in these blanks!

Linking up to: The Little Things We Do

1. You should always take time to give everyone you love a bear hug.

2. Smiley little babies make(s) the world a happier place to be.

3. I can hardly wait for Maddie to crawl.

4. Tuesday is my favorite day of the week.  (Because it's the only day of the week my husband and I both have off work at the same time)

5. Something totally dumb and ridiculous that I love is The Fresh Beat Band on Nick Jr.  (Maddie and I will be attending a concert of theirs in the somewhat near future! :)

6. If I could, I would be a stay at home mom.

7. I rather like spending 75% of my time in bed. 

WTF HardTail

WTF HardTail???  Is it so hard to sell your stuff on an online website instead of through other stores?? Are you too cool for school?? My patience with you is wearing thin and would appreciate some compensation for the fact that I search for you regularly and only am able to find a handful of items on nordstrom.com, which does not compare to your flagship collection in Santa Monica!  Do I really have to fly into LAX deal with traffic and cruise on out to Santa Monica to get a sweet pair of yoga pants??? 

I am going to list a few of my fave items(from your website) here...you can e-mail me for my mailing addressing and I will accept any or all of the following as compensation for my irritation today... :D

These yoga capris in the natural tye-dye are soo effing amazing. want want want quadruple want (where can I find these?!)

I'm not really into the hobo look, but I really like this throw over.  I would wear this every single freaking day.  seriously.

Do these pants look super comfy or what? Again.  I would wear these 100% of the time with the above pull over!

Am I stuck in the 80s?!? I looove  the off the shower sweatshirt look.  Seriously flash dance much? want!

Those cut off yogas on the legs on top and the long sleeve comfy tees!!

Yes please!!

Side Note to Hard Tail:
Does yoga seriously make your body look like that?? I gotta get to a yoga studio like stat.  I am envious of all these ladies that are like super duper flexible and have zero fat on their bodies.  I want to assume they haven't had children yet o_O

Also...You would seriously make like $1000 from me in the first 10 minutes of your online store being open.  Is that incentive enough???

What I'm Loving Wednesday (Part II - right now!)

Sorry I should have added this to my original post on what I'm loving Wednesday, but I didin't discover that I was loving these until about 5 minutes ago! 

My sister was in Paris last week and when she arrived back she had a bag o' goodies for me.  Should I list the goodies?? I think I shall:

1.  One large duty free box of Kinder Bueno candy bars Mmm if you have not tried them please do they are quite delicious :)

2.  2 very large duty free milk chocolate Milka bars double Yum these are what made me fat whilst traveling through Europe a few years back...

3.  1 tin of Cafe Angelina's famous hot chocolate mix omg so good haven't had this in something like 7 years <- the last time I was in Paris

4.  very cute baby doll for my daughter Madison - how sweet

5.  One box of 16 macaroons from the Pierre Herme - f*ck yeah

So what I'm super crazy loving right now is some Pierre Herme macaroons.  And I would love to say that I'm saying his name correctly with the french accent and a oui oui, but no I'm totally going hillbilly hick on you and with crumbs of macaroon on my lips I'm totally saying it "Pee-Air  Air-May" deal with it!

I took some pics to share my love:

Bingo, bango!

Ooo La La

**Crinkle Crinkle Rip**

**Nom Nom Nom**
(the sound of me inhaling these suckas)

So good, you know you're jealous

What I'm Loving Wednesday...

****I'm procrastinating I know.  At work surfing blogger (shhhh!!!)****Hopping from blog to blog I find the cutest southern blog; I say southern cause it's full of y'alls, which I love!  Anyway she has a "What I love Wednesdays" and I wanted to link up with some fabulous news and I guess this is the perfect way to share too ;)

What I love today:

That I will be a Bridesmaids in one of my best friend's weddings in August! Hooray!!!  And this is how she asked me...

And I had to do a quick pose with my little Maddie-boo and do a quick text back with the caption

"Hell Yeah!!!"

Sorry I look like shite, it was 7:00pm post work!  But I was excited!!!



crucial.com

I am an avid picture taker.  I've always been borderline wanting to go "pro", but never really had the guts or the self confidence.  I pretty much think I suck, but I enjoy taking pictures so much...

Anyway I take like a million pictures a minute and my little ol' iMac can't handle the uploads.  Well not that it can't handle the uploads, but I have minimal RAM since my computer is like 4 1/2 years old.  It literally takes like 30 minutes to save 150 high resolution photos to my computer. Ugh.   I have a 2007 20 in. iMac with 1GB RAM and 250GB memory.  Not that much nowadays, back in the day it was like the shiznit!  So after my computer disaster a couple weeks ago I went to the Apple genius bar made sure my computer was functioning properly and the guy Josh I spoke with suggested I upgrade my computer with more RAM!  What a genius, right? I didn't even realize that was something you could do?!

The way he explained it to me is this...ROM is solid memory and RAM is current memory (I think).  But his analogy was pure genius!  ROM is like the parking lot and RAM is like the freeway to get to the parking lot.  So I have 250GB of memory in my parking lot and only 1 GB of memory to have all that information travel to my parking lot, sheesh how does my computer even function?? I have 1 lane for traffic and like a million cars trying to use that one lane.

My solution?? Well I can't really say it was my solution considering Josh is the one who gave me the website and what I should get, but still the solution... to buy more RAM!  So voila crucial.com

I went to the their website downloaded a little scanner thing that scans my computer to see what memory would be best for my system.  Click Click Boom there it is.  I have the option of upgrading to 2 GB, 3GB or 4GB.  I'm like hell yeah 4GB let's so this thing!  So I ordered my 4GB of RAM or whatever for $49.99.  I'm so pummmped to get it in the mail and install it and get my little iMac moooovin'!!

I also purchased LightRoom 3 and I'm hoping my computer can handle all the new stuff and I'm going to start taking like a million more pictures on top of the millions I already take!! Woot Woot

I'll update once I have all the new stuff installed, I know you all are on the edge of your seats in anticipation! o_O

Backpeddling...

So I wrote a blog a week or so ago regarding the "Muffin Top" how utterly disgusted I am with such a thing and how I would never be caught dead sporting one of those...

and then.....

...it happened.

I couldn't stop it!  It just happened.  I'm so embarrassed.  I have no words...

I'm disgusted with myself...

(lowers head in self defeat)

Kirsten: 0

Muffin Top: 1

At least I have a baggie shirt on!



Photo Challenge: Remember

So I was recently turned onto this blog a couple weeks ago by a fellow photo fanatic blogger and I really really enjoy it, a lot!  The blogger has a lot of interactive posts which is super fun.  Each week she posts a photo challenge with a theme (normally needing to be associated with your children), but this week there is an exception.  This weeks theme is "Remember". 

I went scanning through my collection of pictures from over the years.  I originally wanted to do a picture from our Honeymoon in Bora Bora, oh how I love to remember that romantic time with my husband where we basked in each others love post wedding and slept til noon everyday (the sleeping part being key since I'm a sleep deprived mama).  Then I went to pictures from my trips to Europe and China.  I thought,  I really want to remember all the amazing things I saw when I was travelling around the world.  Then I realized this is a great opportunity for me to really focus on myself, since the rules are waived for the week and the focus does not need to be a child or really anyone else for that matter.  So I went inside and came across this little nugget...

This is a snapshot I took on our trip to Hawaii a couple of years ago; pre-wedding, pre-baby, pre-stress.  I'm not saying that my life is too stressful, I love the stress of being a working mom and a devoted and loving wife, but when I want to decompress and remember a quiet moment, this is the moment to which I travel back.

  My toes in the moist, warm, sandy beaches of Hawaii being splashed ever so lightly by the cool ocean waves.  No noise, no sound, nothing other than the salty breeze whispering in my ears and kissing my freshly tanned cheeks. 

Mmm....I remember.

Thanks for helping me remember Paper Mama! :)