Tagged myself!

I saw a fun little blog post over on Taryn's blog, so I decided to tag myself and join in the fun.

Here are the rules:

1. Take a pic of yourself right now
2. No primping or preparing
3. Just snap a picture
4. Load the picture onto your blog
5. Tag some people to play along

So here's my crappy cell phone pic. I'm actually in a training class at work today, but I'm on my lunch break.



I wish I would have actually blow-dried my hair today. I'm not diggin' it, lol.

I'm not going to go around and tag people, so if you read this and want to participate, consider yourself tagged!!

All about my bag

My friend Rachel over at American Beauty tagged me with this and it seemed like fun, so here it goes.

1. Post a picture of whatever bag you are carrying as of late. And whats in it? No cheating!

2. I want to know how much it costs. And this is not to judge. It is for entertainment purposes only. So, spill it. And, if there is a story to go along with how you obtained it, I'd love to hear it.

3. Tag some chicks. And link back to this post so people know why the heck you're showing everyone your bag.

Ok, so here's my bag...

I actually JUST switched this out the other day. I've been carrying the same big black leather bag for a few months and needed a change. Plus I wanted to try and downsize and organize. I found this bag online for 60% off, so what was originally $65 was only $26...plus shipping of course.

So here's the inside...

And here's what I carry in it...

• A smaller purse - this is where the downsizing came into play. The larger tote holds everything I MAY need on a daily basis, and the smaller purse holds what I need if I run in somewhere like my wallet, sunglasses, cell phone, lip gloss/chapstick, keys. Plus I can add and remove things as I need them.
• Gloves
• My badge for work
• A compact
• An inhaler
• My other wallet that holds a bunch of cards I hardly ever use and my checkbook
• Sharpie, pens and a pencil
• The bowling scores from the other night
• A planner
• Various lip glosses
• Brush
• Feminine products
• Motrin
• Hand sanitizer
• Right now a banana, orange and some nuts - the food items change daily
• Always some type of gum
• Bottle of water

And now I tag:

Jill at Here and There
Meredith at La Buena Vida
Julie at Simply Me
Julie at ...backto the basics...

Let's be honest...

So Meredith over at La Buena Vida tagged me with the "Honest Scrap" award.

The rules are as follows:

1) Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.

2) Show the 7 winners names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with "Honest Scrap." Well, there's no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.

3) List at least 10 honest things about yourself.

Well I don't have too many followers of my blog, but I was able to pick 7. So Rachel A, Rachel L, Karen, Alyssa, Jessi, Danielle, Melissa, you've been tagged!

Okay..here we go!

1. I hate flying! I'm sure most people know that by now since I've definitely done my fair share of complaining about it on here, but I hate it! I'm sure if I did it more often I'd get over it, but I don't know. There's just something so unnatural about it.
2. I'm pretty much scared to death to have kids. That's not what's preventing us from having them now (we're just not ready emotionally OR financially), but when the time comes...oh dear lord. I'm worried that I'll be sick the entire time, I'm worried that I'll have a difficult delivery (and don't even get me started about that whole process), I'm worried about the lack of sleep afterwards, I'm worried that I'll freak out over every little thing that might "hurt" my child. Ugh...like I said...the whole thing just scares the crap out of me.
3. Stemming from #2, I'm worried I'll suck at being a mom. Anyone that knows me in real life knows that I'm quite the sarcastic person, not very emotional and really just don't give a crap about kids right now. I don't think people can even picture me as a mom. A few friends of mine have recently had kids and I visit them as newborns and then I'm over it. I don't want to hold them, I don't need to smell their heads...lol. I just don't have that urge. Will I ever? Part of me wants to have at least one child in the future, but I definitely don't have that deep burning passion to be a mom.
4. I love candy! Seriously. Any kind of candy, give it! Oh and gum too. I have a giant bag of gumballs at home and every night I cram like 9 or 10 of those babies into my mouth and go to town. I'm like a little kid at the store when we turn the corner and enter the candy aisle. Sometimes Jim has to act like the adult at that moment and tell me no, I already have too much at home...lol. And with Valentine's Day around the corner, let me at those candy hearts! The Necco ones...the ones that everyone hates. Mmmmmmmmm.
5. I have very little patience, just like my dad. There was this one morning where I was getting a piece of American cheese for Jim for his omelet, and I couldn't get the stupid piece to separate from the rest of the block without it breaking off in little pieces. So I pretty much squeezed the whole block in my hand, tore some pieces off, threw it in the sink and stormed off. Yeah...I tend to like to throw things when I lose patience with something. I'm trying to get better and just take a deep breath and move on, but sometimes...ugh. Yeah, and how is that going to work with kids? Patience is sort of a necessity with children.
6. I would love to own my own pizza place. Jim and I met (13 years ago!) at our jobs at a local pizza place. I worked in pizza for like 3-4 years and him probably like 4-5 years. We would love to own our own place someday. And not a franchise...our very own store. Too bad we'd probably have to win the lottery in order to do so, but maybe someday...
7. I love sour cream! I put it on noodles, dip fries in it, and use way too much on potatoes. Good thing we buy light sour cream :o) Sour cream and BBQ sauce are pretty much my favorite condiments. Sour cream is a condiment right?
8. I'm really annoyed that I don't have my camera yet! Being responsible sucks and I'm sick of it! lol But we did so good at paying off our credit card debt so of course I don't want to go piling on the debt again. I think I'll have it soon though. I should have a bonus on my next paycheck so that should cover more than half of the cost. Yay!
9. I think I have more restraint than I give myself credit for. This mostly has to do with shopping. I've never been a crazy shopper with a credit card from every clothing store imaginable, but I do love me some shoes. Like yesterday, Steve Madden had buy one clearance shoe and get another one for 50% off. I had two pairs in my basket which added up to about $80 (not too bad for two pair of Steve Maddens) but I didn't buy them. I was a good girl. And Jim was proud of me for not buying them too. And this past Christmas...I could have gone crazy buying a bunch of fun decorations, but I knew I really had nowhere to display or store them so I didn't buy one thing! I used to just buy anything that I liked. Now I actually think about my purchase before doing any unnecessary spending. And this shopping has nothing to do with our credit card debt. We had that before we even moved in together.
10. I started taking piano lessons when I was 9 years old, through about age 19. I was classically trained and can read music like nobody's business, but I often envy those that can't read a lick of sheet music and can play with such ease. I try and sit down at the piano and make up a song, and while I'm successful with coming up with a chord progression that sounds cool, it never amounts to anything more than that. In all reality, I just need to start spending more time at the piano again. I miss playing. I do have a full size keyboard at our condo (that I just had to have because I knew I would miss having a piano in the house), but it's just not the same as a real piano.

I've been tagged!

Ok so I've been tagged by A Perfectly Cursed Life. I've never been tagged before so here goes it. I guess the deal is that I'm supposed to list eight things about me and tag eight people to do the same.

Eight Things You May or May Not Have Known About Me:

1. I can play piano...started taking lessons when I was 9
2. I love beets
3. I'm a pretty shy person until I get to know you better
4. I'm the oldest of three
5. I've never been pulled over
6. I went to Europe for 3 weeks with school when I was 18
7. I hate mushrooms
8. I'm quite sarcastic

And here’s who I tag:
1. Life as Mr. and Mrs.
2. Journeys of Mangonett
3. Life in the Fun Lane
4. All Things G&D
5. marital-bless
6. Beyond the Smile
7. Life with B&A
8. Home is Where Your Gnome Is