What I'm Loving Lately

It's only the 2nd week of August and I'm all summered out.  We didn't do anything spectacularly awesome this summer other than more home renovations but when I say I'm summered out, I mean I'm done with the hot temps.  I'm just not meant for hot weather...especially when knocked up.  I've tried to keep my complaining at bay unless it's around the husband because he hates the heat as well so he gets it and can commiserate.  But, with August comes fall just around the corner and I'm in absolute heaven and I'm not so patiently waiting for it.  In the meantime, here are some things that have been brightening my days lately.

Continuing on the fall trend, I made a very quick dash into Walmart this morning to look for something in particular and headed to check out the candles because all of ours ran out at once.  I got my go-to vanilla scent and the pumpkin spice was the only fallish scent they had that this preggo nose could stand.  Some are a little too funeral parlor slash 1980's Elizabeth Taylor perfume for my taste.  And at $5 a piece, you really can't go wrong with these.

I normally get a small caramel Frappe from McDonald's about once a week but decided to give their chocolate chip one a try today; mainly because a small person who shall remain nameless likes to swipe my drink when I'm not looking and the last thing she needs is more caffeine/energy.  It's muy bueno and I kid you not...a whopping $1.09.  Put your credit cards away people.

I bought these shoes off eBay and they arrived this weekend.  I like little accents of leopard prints here and there and these shoes fit the bill and under $13 too!  I normally wear a 9 but these were big...definitely should've gone with an 8.5. I plan on picking up a couple other colors too.

So I'm no makeup guru by any means but I was looking to jazz my routine up a little bit (and help me look less tired...let's be honest) so I finally purchased the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette and love it!

What I'd really love?  A freak August snowstorm :)

A Couple Favorites

I used to be a diehard customer of a certain worldwide coffee shop conglomerate and was visiting a little too often for my bank account's taste while picking up a caramel frap or chai.  I tricked myself into thinking I wasn't really spending that much money there by adding money to my personalized gold card and just paying that way.  News flash...you're still spending money there, genius.  So I stopped going so frequently for awhile and in the meantime, found a cheaper, and somewhat better, alternative.  A new McDonald's opened up near us and we received a bunch of freebie coupons in the mail.  Yes McDonald's...don't shriek and run away.  There was one for a free small Frappe, which is McD's version of the conglomerate's frapuccino. So I decided on a caramel Frappe and let me just say, the golden arches wins over coffee conglomerate.  The caramel Frappe has more of a caramel-y flavor and price wise, it's much cheaper too!  Win win if you ask me.

 

Our neighborhood has a seriously awesome grocery store.  It's one of the largest in the state and has a home department, jewelry store and a natural health department.  It's almost as bad as Target when it comes to sucking your purse dry.  They have a great selection of organic and natural items which is great for those times when I want to step it up a little.  But let's be honest people, I just said I go to McDonald's so I'm not going nuts with the organic ;)  I was in dire need of a bottle of water during one trip so I hit up the refrigerated beverage section and saw this interesting little bottle.

 

I'm sure you've heard how chia seeds are the newest super food...added to the list of 'you're killing yourself slowly if you aren't taking these rightthisverysecond' foods.  They have a few flavors and I love pretty much cherry anything so I grabbed the Cherry Chia and gave it a try.  The flavor is more subtle real cherries; not eye crossing super sweet cherry Slurpee flavor.  The texture is...interesting, shall we say.  Apparently chia seeds make this gel when in liquid so if feels like you're swallowing little balls of gelatin.  If you're totally freaked out by weird textures, I might not recommend this stuff but I kinda like it and I'm getting a little dose of super foody goodness in this bottle.  Even if I am going to McDonald's.