Monday! EW...

And just like that, Monday is here!  A Monday after any weekend is rough but the first Monday after Daylight Savings Time...

The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon

For real!!  How hard was it to get outta bed this morning.  I always forget that it's so dark!!  I have to get adjusted to it!  So do the kids for that matter!!  Tired cranks were in front of me today!  HA!  But I gotta say...I am loving this lighter later bit!  And it warmed up to fifty today!  My mood is improving, I've talked to my neighbor, who told me she has isn't seen me in for ever!  (To which I promptly told her, I haven't seen anyone, being so sick ALL. WINTER. LONG!  But she offered me so crab salad, and I gotta say it was delish.  We also made a wine date!  Love my little neighbor!! (She's in her 70's BTW!!)

On to the weekend! Or really just Saturday!!  It was a busy one!!  My friends Kerri and Chris, who I talked about here and here, had a first birthday for their daughter Brinleigh. So me, my sister and brother-in-law and nieces headed to the party.  Kerri got close with my older sister Meghan when she became pregnant with her first daughter, Addison.  She asked her for advice, help, etc.  (cause Lord knows she's not getting any of that from Me!!....LOL)

It was a really nice time.  If I was a better blogger, I would have taken more pics!  Kerri did a really great job decorating and had such a fun craft table for the kids!!  Here are the few pictures I did take!

The best of friends...Brinleigh just love her Aunt Mel and Aunt Katie

I know this is a random picture of me and my BIL cheers-ing with Rice Krispies treats, but there's a funny story.  At the party Anthony brought up the fact that he's been with my sister for 20 (!) years.  So....I told him (again!) that I would never forget the night I met him because he was wearing a hideous tiger shirt, had long curly hair and I was thinking, where on earth did Meg find this guy?!? Ha!  He remembers that I was making Rice Krispie Treats.  So we always laugh about it! And lo and behold there were Rice Krispie treats at the party!  So we toasted to twenty years!!  On the table you can see some of the crafts and things Kerri had for the kids!

After the party, and with about twenty minutes to spare when I got home, I headed out to dinner with some of my work besties.  It's always fun to chat it up, drink wine and eat sushi together outside of work.  Another friend we used to work with was supposed to come out from Brooklyn and we were supposed to all just hang at my place, but with the rush that was Saturday (and the Peapod delivery that never was on Thursday), I was really happy to just go out!  Even if our Edamame was taken before we were done!!  But we got some more had another drink and finished that bowl!

Sunday was a quick one!

This was my photo on Insta Sunday!!

Three glasses of wine, Nyquil at midnight and springing forward, I slept in til noon...woo hoo!!  

Sleeping in was great, but then you look up and it's 6!  Ha!!  Did some quick loads of laundry, cleaned up a bit, did some after care duties, and got ready for the week!

How long it takes for the weekend to get here, but how quickly it goes!!  

Looking on the bright side of things, it's gonna be in the fifties all week, I have plans with my sister tomorrow, which I'm really excited about, and when I walk home on Wednesday and Thursday night from school, it'll be light out... wooohooo!!!

Hope you all have a great week!

Linking up today with Ashley at A Cute Angle for Monday Madness and Biana at B Loved Boston for Weekending!

Friday!

A two-hour delay and an early dismissal day!!  Not too shabby of a Friday!!  Another snow storm rolled in Wednesday night, leaving us with no school yesterday and a two hour delay today.  Because it's also Parent-Teacher conferences this afternoon, it was a scheduled 11:30 dismissal.  Basically we'll be in for one period!  Ha!

But anyway... on to the fun stuff!

Style Me Bloggers Link Up

It's a two-fer today!  Linking up with my Style Me Girls...we're gettin' all crafty!!  I really love my post!!  Go check it out here and let me know what you think!  And show my girls some blog lovin' too...they do such fun things and have great ideas!!  Link up with us if your feeling all crafty today too!!

Back to blogging and it feels so good!  

I blogged a bunch this week after being away for a short while.  And I just gotta say, I loved it.Blogging's my favorite! It really is!  I could do this full time!  If only it paid!  HA!  And I know for many it does, but that's not why I do it!!  I do it for me...and I thank you all for following along and reading my ramblings!  Catch up on my posts from this week here!

Currently in my head....Honey, I'm Good by Andy Grammer

How fun is this song?!?!  And what a super cute video!!  Hope you'll take the time to watch!

  

Totally love it!!  And my nieces all do a mean Cotton-Eyed Joe dance to this song!

#KatieDaily2015

I'm daily photoing on Insta and this one was probably my favorite from this week!  I realize it's just a box (#solitarylifeprobs)...but inside the box is the hope of SPRING {The Spring that feels like it may NEVER get here!!} Oh and I still stuck to my goal of not spending money on clothes!  This was an old Ebates check I spent Yes, I had that much...Ebates ROCKS!!  Sign up!!.  

A future fashion post/style me link-up will reveal the contents!

A Friday Funny!

These little minions have been all over the place lately...and I guess I have a thing for them!  When I saw this online this week I legitly laughed out loud!!  This sorta just screams Solitary Life to me!! Actually it just screams ME!

Hope everyone has a fun weekend!

Linking up today with:

Erika, Andrea, and Narci for Friday Favorites 

September Farm and The Farmer's Wife for Oh Hey, Friday!

April and the girls for Five on Friday

Jennie for Friday Favorites

Caitlin and the girls for High Five for Friday

  

It's another Style Me Bloogers Link up!!

And today we're getting all crafty!!!  You read that right!  Today I am getting CRAFTY!!
This one was TOUGH!!  I am NOT CRAFTY!!  I wish I was, but I'm not!!  There was a time when I was though, so today we're going back in time!  Kinda like I did yesterday...just not as far!!

I go in spurts...as a kid I made those string bracelets, I made those hook rugs, did needlepoint for beginners... I got older and all they fell to the waste side.

When scrapbooking was all the rage, I hopped on that bandwagon.  I bought the supplies, had parties, went to classes...the whole nine!  And I LOVED it!!  And then, as it does, Life happens, and you move on to the next thing.  But the thing was, I never moved on to the next thing...there hasn't been a next thing for me!  My mom and sister make Shutterfly albums now with their pictures!  I don't (My sister did have photo book making party once, where I attempted to make one too, but truth be told I drank more mimosas than I put pictures together!)  I just don't know...it's not like I don't have the time...because in all honesty, I most definitely, probably do! #solitarylifeprobs  

There was this ONE time I was pretty freaking crafty!!  I made a scrapbook as an engagement present for my bestie, Kerri (and her husband Chris, who you may recall me talking about here) !! Basically I decorated the pages!  And it came out GREAT!!  It pisses me off though, because I can pretty much guarantee that, to this day,  it's not completed...7 years later!!  And I can totally say that because she's my bestie and all she had to do is put the damn pictures in!! LOL

This project was a huge undertaking (and scrapbooking is expensive too! HA!) so my sister helped me with it.  We had a blast doing it together!  She'd come to my house, I'd spend nights at hers. We'd drink wine and scrapbook, and chat and laugh, and drink more wine!  It took us probably about a dozen days over a few weeks in the spring and summer of 2008 to complete it...from planning, to purchasing, to putting together to completing!!  The pictures that follow are of each page.

The first page I completed because it was the engagement, which I was there for. And had already happened, so I could fill the page!  They got engaged during a St. Patrick's Day parade, which, Chris, a firefighter, was marching in.

Page 1: The Engagement

The Engagement Party Page

Bridal Shower Page

Invitation Page

Bachelorette Party

Wedding Day Pages

Wedding Song Page

Better Together by Jack Johnson

                                The Cake Page                                                              The Toasts Page

Father Daughter Dance Page

Honeymoon Pages

First Home Page

 The back cover of the Scrapbook...this was a cute clothy sticker I found that says

...and they lived happily ever after.

Kerri and Chris were married in June 2009 and now have two beautiful daughters!

I really love the way this came out.  After I completed this, my mom loved it so much she made one too, for a friend's daughter as a shower gift!!  Now that I've put this post together, it's made me want to get back into scrapbooking!!  

Go check out my friends' posts!!  They are WAY MORE crafty than me!!  And link up with us!!

Shoes to Shiraz | Two Teens and their Mama | A Lovely Little Wardrobe | R Squared 

Confessions of a Frumpy Mommy | Family Love Inspiration Education  

The Mishaps and Mayhem of Solitary Life | The Blondissima | Positively Learning | Quilty Joy Joy

 Daily Style Finds | Making The Most of Everyday | Puppies and Pretties | She Thought She Could 
 Foxy's Domestic Side | Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After | Sprinkled Just Right

An InLinkz Link-up

Have a great weekend!!

Winter was way more fun....

Home today for another SNOW DAY!!  Even though the calendar says March 5th, things are not looking up for us at ALL!!  The third snow "event" (thank you weatherman for that one!) has dumped a fresh 6-8 inches around these here parts!!)  Condo living affords me the luxury of sitting on my couch and blogging while the plow and pay load drivers and shovelers do the work for me. They all must be making a KILLING this Winter. I for one am so over this.  I was not made for this!  Sure I do my best to bundle up in my scarves, hats and gloves, and still look cute, but I was not made for this weather.  I was made for MEXICO.

The custodian at my school is our unofficial weatherman. He always jokes with me about the weather and I tell him I'm moving to Mexico.  The other day he told me he's had enough of this weather too and was coming with me to Mexico...and would pay for the whole trip!!  Now he asks me everyday, when I'm asking him for his credit card number!  TOMORROW will be that day!!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


Now I know this might sound like a contradiction, but I don't ever remember being OVERLY EXCITED about the snow, but I do know one thing is for sure...it was WAY MORE FUN when I was a kid!!

When I was a kid, my Poppy, my Dad's dad,  had a home in East Durham, NY where it snowed ALL the time!!  We spent Winter Recess (and my birthday) up there for so many years and there was always so much snow. I absolutely didn't mind the snow here!! HA!  Behind the house was nothing but woods and I remember us snowmobiling and sledding down this huge hill...for hours!! We'd have massive snow ball fights!  Sometimes, even though it wasn't the safest thing in the world, my dad and uncle would hitch the sleds up to the back of the snowmobiles and we'd  go spinning around around that way too!  It was such a thrill as a little kid going down that hill and such a blast!!
Once though, and only once, it wasn't fun, when my sled veered off course and into branches that cut my face up and landed way to close to my eye!!  LOL.

After fun days in the snow, all the kids would come in, drink hot cocoa (while the adults had something stronger!) and play...and argue, I'm sure!!

This is very random, but I have a memory of all of us sitting around my Poppy's very small TV and watching Days of Our Lives and my Uncle Ed all of a sudden busting out "Like Sands through the hour glass...so are the Days of Our Lives"...that got us all laughing!  Was Uncle Ed a closet Days watcher?!?!

Now that I'm recalling all this, it kinda of makes me wish we still had that place in East Durham so that my nieces and nephews could enjoy it!  I'm also wishing that shutterfly was around in those days so I had pics to share!

Back to reality...I'm home again...cozy in my house as the snow falls, NOT having to use the sick day that was planned, today.  Seriously...every sickness known to man, I have had this winter!!!  Ugh!!  I'll do some blogging, some reading, realxing, and clean out my DVR.  Has anyone watched Secrets and Lies?  I have the first two eps on my DVR!  And looking forward to tomorrow...FRIDAY!!  Silver Linings people!!  Silver Linings!!

Linking up with X-tremelyV and Penny's Passionfor Thinking Out Loud Thursday!

Come back tomorrow when I link up with the Style Me girls...showing off my crafty side!

My favorite room!

Linking up today for another edition of Show and Tell Tuesdays with Andrea at Momfessionals! Today we're supposed to show you our favorite room in the house!  This is a little tricky for me! In Condo living, the kitchen and living space are all connected!  So I'm just gonna go ahead and call my favorite room in the house the Great Room!

This is pretty much how it is...

Looking out from my kitchen into the living room, one would probably say, the living room is in front of the kitchen, technically speaking but It's all one room!  LOL

Now if you're a regular reader, you know I DO NOT Cook, but I gotta say I just LOVE my little kitchen.  I love the wide counter tops and my deep sink. Eating alone most of the time, I sit at the counter more than at my kitchen table.  My favorite feature in my kitchen though is probably the collection of wine cork holders I have above my cabinets!  It makes it really "homey" I feel!

My living room area is also a fave.  Living this solitary life I do, I spend the most time in here.  I don't spend too much time in my bedroom, because I feel like it's far away (if that makes sense!)  Honestly, I just sleep there!  HA!  I like spending most of my time in the living area because it's spacious and open!  I have a comfy couch that I watch TV on, work on my blog on, and read on! 

These chevron chairs might be my favorite things in the room!

Last year I participated in Andrea's What's On Series where I went into more detail about what's on the walls of this space too!  Check it out {here}!  This is where I've decorated most and can show off a bit of who I am in the house to visitors.

I like that the great room is a space where everyone who visits can spend time, be comfortable and enjoy!  And because it's just me here, I can do the same when I'm alone!  I hope you enjoyed a little taste of my home! 

Until next time....

Weekend Rewind

I debated posting a Weekend Wrap Up today because I basically did one thing all weekend long....

THIS.

Netflix

#SolitaryLifeProbs

But then I thought I'd post anyway because I am thinking I can't be the ONLY person who spent the weekend doing this!!  Now I didn't make it all the way through Season three yet, because I actually went back and re-watched a bunch of season 2 episodes!  I find myself saying WTF a lot when I'm watching the show and laughing out loud!!  

Pease tell me I was not alone in my all weekend bingefest...Did you watch too!?!?

I did actually make it out of the house though Sunday for a little bit!  My mom came over and we went to brunch at one of my favorite places.  Mom and I NEVER really do anything just the two of us, so it was really nice!  

It was after this pic when I told my mom she'd be my daily photo on Insta, that she asked, "Now why can't I have an Intagram?"  LOL Then she said..."it's day 60 of the year ALREADY?!?" #forrealzma

To see my daily photos on IG follow me @missmitch2

Then it was back home to my usual Sunday...laundry, lessons, blogging, and such! With maybe a few eps of House of Cards thrown in there!  HA!!

And the finale of Downtown!  Which I just really LOVE too!  I laughed out loud and unexpectedly bawled!

OH and it SNOWED a fresh 6 inches!  Enough for a two-hour delay tomorrow. 

UGH!!  Isn't it MARCH?!?!

And just like that it's already Monday again!

Have a great week!!

Next weekend I promise to be more productive!!  

Katie

Linking up today with Ashley at A Cute Angle for Monday Madness and Biana at B Loved Boston for Weekending!