brunettes have more fun
As a brunette I think I have always had this love affair with the idea of being blond. I could never be blond because my hair is a seriously DARK shade of brown. I don’t do highlights or anything else either because the roots show so easily.
And I am kind of lazy.
And cheap.
And keeping up with highlights or a dye job takes effort and money.
But I did finally cave and buy the John Frieda Brilliant Brunette shampoo and conditioner.
I know, I know, that stuff has been around at least ten years. I am a late bloomer.
Anyway…it says that it will bring out natural tonal differences and give your hair dimension.
Sounds like my kind of shampoo.
I’ve been using it for about 2-3 weeks now and the result?
Well…maybe my natural hair doesn’t have tonal differences but it does make is super shiny!
I may not be rocking some super sexy highlights…but I did spend less than $10 for the shampoo and conditioner combined.
Works. For. Me.
Do you shell out extra money for super sexy highlights or just rock what you got like me?
project 52 – 2012 edition
Last year I participated in Project 52 with my friend Allena and some other bloggers. The idea is you list out 52 goals you want to complete in 2012 and for every one you do not complete you must give $5 to your favorite charity at the end of the year. I do a mixture of serious and fun goals. I think fun goals are important because they make us stop and enjoy life and the serious goals are important because they make us become better people
So onto 2012! Here is it is:
- Save more money than I did in 2011 (that’s how I am quantifying that one)
- Volunteer
- Try to get pregnant and sustain the pregnancy. You can read my story here, here, here and here
- Order room service
- Go to one live sporting event
- Be cleaner
- Control my temper
- Do not let the scale control my mood
- Donate Blood
- Be better with skin care
- Get more clients
- To stop worrying so much what other people think
- Get a dog
- Redecorate my upstairs loft
- Get a safe deposit box
- Get life insurance for me and Keith
- Chew less gum
- Make an effort to be more fashionable
- Go on more dates with Keith
- Read 2 classics
- Start going to Temple more often (my younger Jewish self is appalled by my lack of attendance!)
- Go to Dallas more often to see Keith’s family
- Be better at staying in touch with my sister-in-law in Dallas. Hi Jill! 🙂
- Stop Fat Talk! (this is a BIG one for me!)
- Learn to sew a button back on (right now Keith is my go-to man for problems such a these)
- Stretch more
- Clean out my spare (hope to be baby) room’s closet. It is scary in there!
- Give up my reliance on protein bars for snacks
- Make 1 new recipe a month (I totally failed on this one last year)
- Go the Farmer’s Market once a month (I used to be so good about this!)
- Go to Denver for the BLEND retreat
- See more movies
- Stop the Diet Coke habit
- Say “Thank You” more
- Work on my jealousy issues (this goes hand in hand with #3)
- Do something touristy in my home city (Austin, Texas)
- Take a cooking class
- Take and Pass the Texes Teaching Exit Exam
- Finish my CE’s to renew my personal training certification
- Max out my IRA for the year
- Substitute teach
- Be more in touch with the news and the world around me
- Be better about praying
- Make up with a specific friend
- Update my personal property insurance policy
- Keep my 8-year-old car running well by doing necessary maintenance
- Be better throughout the year of organizing my tax receipts
- Get a pedicure every couple of months
- Complain Less
- Take compliments better
- Work at getting in my 10,000 steps a day
- Give $5 to charity for each on not completed by the end of the year
What do you think? Want to do Project 52 with me?
i like the puff
On Sunday I did this workout.
Homegirl is not lying…it was KILLER!
I liked it.
I also decided that I should make something good for dinner. You know because I earned it.
Enter puff pastry.
Oh yeah. I totally earned it.
Puff Pastry Salmon
1 5oz. boneless skinless salmon fillet
1/8 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/3 package puff pastry, thawed
2 tbsp pesto
1/2 (6 oz) package fresh spinach
Preheat oven to 375* F. Season salmon fillet with salt, garlic powder and onion powder.
Thaw puff pasty according to package directions. Lay flat and place half the spinach in the center. Place salmon on top of spinach. Spread pesto over salmon and top with remaining spinach.
Moisten the edges of puff pastry with water (or you can use an egg wash); fold to center and seal the seams.
(Yes I realize my baking pan is disgusting but it add character, no?)
Bake for 20-25 minutes until pastry is puffed and golden.
Serves: 2 (You can make 2 individual packets or one big packet and then cut it in half)
Totally loved every last bite.
How was your weekend?
all over the place
I had my bookclub meeting this past Tuesday night. As always we had such a fun, girly, time.
To see what books we have read go to my Books tab.
This month we decided to read The Kitchen House, by Kathleen Grissom. Feel free to read along with us. I plan to start this weekend!
Well…maybe not this weekend but definitely right after I finish the book I am currently reading; this little gem:
You HAD to know that was coming! I am loving this book. 🙂 Obviously it is about my favorite football family and my favorite football player. There was no way I wasn’t going to like this book.
Oh did anyone forget today is FRIDAY! I thought not. I had quite a random week for sure! Here are some of my more laughable moments this week:
- I had my annual appointment (blah) and my OBG complimented my toes [while in stirrups people] I had to really concentrate on not laughing. But hey, nice of him to notice my pedicure huh?
- I thought I was home alone and started busting out some old school dance moves in my kitchen only to have Keith see the whole thing. He laughed so hard he cried.
- I made my grandma tuna salad using fresh ahi, Fage, lime juice, walnut pieces, celery and relish. She proceeds to ask me how I messed up something as easy as tunafish explaining all you do is open the can and add miracle whip. This had me and my mom is stitches.
- I still haven’t seen The Bachelor because Keith won’t let me watch it without him and he’s been busy everynight this week watching Bowl Games.
- Finally, I couldn’t figure out how to install this program on my computer and drove all the way to my Dad’s house for help only so he could call the software help line and have someone walk him through it.
And with that…TGIF!
Are you in a bookclub?
Any laughable moments for you this week?
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