Current Obsessions!

Haven't done one of these since... well since the first one. Here's what I'm loving these days:

 The fact that my baby brother can enjoy Chimy's in Norman just like I did at the original in Lubbock. Between the Lubbock and Fort Worth locations, I have some of the greatest memories.

 First off, I'm not loving how disgusting I look in this picture, how dirty our apartment looks, and how teacher-esque I'm looking, but I am loving my mustard yellow pants. I have never been a yellow person before, but lately I can't get enough!

 This beautiful scene from Steph's wedding in Albuquerque. 

 My sweet, amazing, good looking husband that has been completely picking up my slack while I have been so tired with the end of school and extra training I needed to do. I'm seriously the luckiest woman in the world. 

(Quote from one of my students while looking at a picture of Dustin in my room: Wow, is that Dustin. I didn't expect you to be married to someone so good looking. 

um... thanks?)

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I'm reading this for my book club right now. I can't wait to give a book review on it. It is AMAZING!  

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 Why, yes, that is a picture of One Direction. The sweet girls that had dance parties in my classroom after school got me hooked on them. I'm a boy band lover. The first step is to admit I have a problem.

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 The fact that these two hotties will be playing tomorrow in Dallas. I'm completely devestated I'm not going. The last time they toured together I was in the 10th grade. That night pretty much started what the rest of my high school memories would be. If you have tickets that you don't want, I will gladly take them off your hands.

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That I will be catching some rays in this beautiful little Mexican resort in just a little over a week. 

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The Hatfields and McCoys three night special that was shown on the History Channel. I already kind of want to watch it again. I'm a total history nerd if you can't tell.

Last, but not least

The baseball team from Harvard dancing to Call Me Maybe. Not only is it one of my favorite songs, but any guy that will dance to it gets an approval by me. 

Current Obsessions

I decided to start a series of current obsessions that I have. I'm always finding something new that I'm in love with. I try to take pictures of my actual items, but some of it is clothes, and I'm too lazy to get up right now to get dressed and take a picture.

I present to you my Current Obsessions.

I love the new cords that Loft has. I love how you can match them with so many colors. I currently have I think 3 styles and 4 colors of them. They are super comfy.

Infinity scarfs are probably the top of my list right now. This one is from Loft. The link will take you to their scarf page. They have so many more. There was a red one I was out for, but they took it off their page when they ran out. I just bought a gold one from J.Crew that goes with everything!

I would say pretty much everyone owns a pair of riding boots now. These are from DSW. One night Dustin was in a super good mood and took me out for happy hour and boot buying. He's a good one, I know. I wear my riding boots all the time. They are super comfy and really add to any outfit.

I'm posting this from J. Crew. I actually  have the iPad 2 case, but could only find a picture of the phone cover. They have a ton of cute iPad covers and some are even on sale right now. It doesn't have a cover for the screen, but it was so cute I couldn't pass it up. It was only $20 on sale too.

For Christmas I always get one of those Estee Lauder gift sets. This year's lip gloss and lipsticks were awesome. The glosses are Electric Ginger and Orchid Passion. The lipsticks are Exotic Orchid, Candy, and Barely Nude (which is my favorite) I still wear Tiger Eye and Bois De Rose from last year too.

I've been in need of some new tights to wear under dresses and stuff. I hate spending money on those things. I got these for $5 at Target. They had them in pretty much every color. I have some black ones too I wore to church and I really liked them.

Going along with my colored cords, I just got these red jeggings from Gap. They had a blue and purple color too. They are so super comfy.

I had passed this WonderFILE at Bed,Bath, and Beyond several times. I finally picked it up. It folds up like a suitcase, but then comes out to this huge file holder. It has 4 corner pockets, one big pocket in the center, 2 small pockets, and another small one up top. It is perfect for my 5 classes, plus answer keys, and pens to grade with. I was worried it wouldn't fold up well, but here it is with about 150 manilla pieces of paper that are folded. Excuse Ferguson in the bottom picture. He is always up in my business.

My brother's girlfriend, Alexa, got me a whole set of the Japanese Cherry Blossom lotions and soaps from Bath and Body Works. One of the lotions came in this jar that looks like a jewel. I love it. I think when I'm done with the lotion I'll clean it out and use it as a jewelry holder.

I just recently became obsessed with Essie nail polish. I have never been one to paint my nails, but since I started using this about a month ago, I have been manicured up. It is sort of expensive at $8 a bottle, but I can go about 1-1 1/2 weeks without my nails chipping. The first picture is everything I bought the cuticle stuff, base coat, and top coat. The second picture is the colors I've gotten. I love them.

You may think it's weird that I'm showing you a taco salad, but I love these things. The other day I was dying for a taco salad, but knew if we went out to get one the shell would be deep fried, I would get about twice the portion I wanted, and I would obviously have to get chips, salsa, and queso. So while it Target I found these over by the cheese. It comes with these cardboard shapers. You mold the tortillas it comes with to the shapers and bake them for about 6 minutes. They are just the right size for a little salad.

Erin Condren Bliss

I have to say that I cannot take credit for finding this new little obsession I have. My sorority sister Mandell writes Nameless for Now that I just love. Mandell just got engaged a few months ago and I love following her excitement of planning a wedding. I do have to say it is more fun watching some one else plan than me be the one that is stressing. I loved planning my wedding and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out, but planning one was enough.

Anyways, Mandell did this post, and I immediately went to Erin Condren's site and just about fell in love. It has so many things that you can personalize. It took forever for me to find what I wanted. My mom gave me a gift card for Christmas to buy some things off her site. I spent forever looking and finally decided on a new day planner and a pad of paper to make lists on.

Here comes another little freak part about me... I love planning things. I'm crazy about it. I set a whole day to color coordinate my planner and I carry 1000 markers around with me so that I always have all my colors ready to plan. I love to make lists of all kind: wish lists, to do lists, grocery lists, party lists, book lists. I could go on for forever. I'm obsessed. Literally. I think there is something wrong with me. My favorite aisle at Target is the one where they have all the organization things. They have all those pads of paper for grocery lists or planning out your meals. If you came to our apartment you would see bits and pieces of this organization, but at school every one thinks I'm nuts. I plan way out in advance with my lessons because I just love to plan and I'm super organized inside of my room. I can't wait to have kids and have their little areas organized for them to drop off their back packs and such.

Okay... moving on before you start to think I'm too weird and stop reading. I finally decided on  the 2012 Life Planner. If you wait until August you can get the 2012-2013 one. I almost did that because school wise those calendars are just easiest for me, but I couldn't wait. I chose to the picture collage cover so I could decorate mine with wedding pictures since that is obviously my current phase of pictures I adore. The planner is awesome. It has pages in the front for important dates. It goes week by week breaking your days into morning, afternoon, night. I love this because I can look at a certain time frame, and since I'm trying to lose weight I can monitor my eating habits easier. It has a zipper pouch plus a pocket in the back to keep things in. In my case, I can keep appointment reminders and my 1000 pens to color coordinate.It has great motivational quotes for each month too. I also got a pad of paper to make lists, of course, for my desk at school. Love! Erin Condren has so many other things you can look at on her site. You should totally check it out.

 The box!!! Isn't it cute?

 The wapping when I first opened it. I obviously took this picture after opening. I was just too excited.

The cover of my planner

 It has my name and my favorite bible verse

 The pad of paper I got. It has a notes, doodles, and to do section. I like the calendar at the bottom as well

 From the desk of Taylor Hotchkiss

There was a little envelope inside that had gift cards with my name on them. There were only a few to show as a sample, but I love them!