This Weekend Was [Cuddle] Perfect

~Friday~

I got to sleep in with Amazing Boyfriend, which is just wonderful in itself.  And to make it even better, he got up to make us breakfast!  -- egg burritos with bacon.

I laid in bed, watched some TV, and soaked in the laziness, while he got things ready.

I got up, we ate, and laid on the couch cuddling.

{There is just something about cuddling with your man that brings calmness and relaxation.}

We watched some shows and football games, and around two, he left to grab us some lunch.

After lunch, we cuddled some more, until around five, we both had to leave -- him to go coach his junior high hockey team and me to my massage.

I left before he did, and headed over to Massage Best Friend's house to get a wonderful massage.

Afterwards, I headed to the rink to watch his last game.

We both headed home when the game was done and I got to cooking our dinner --filet mignon with mashed potatoes and cooked veggies.

It was so delicious!  I had been marinating the meat in my special sauce for almost two days prior to cooking it.

After, we enjoyed a huge big bowl of ice cream and bought a movie on OnDemand called Trespass.

I've never heard of it before, but it had Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman in it.

The movie was INSANE!  Good, but insane.  I was clenching onto Amazing Boyfriend's hands the whole entire movie.  My stomach hurt quite a bit after.  Those types of movies that can really happen do that to me.

I took two Tums and we headed off to bed.

~Saturday~

I got to sleep in until about 10:30(!), which is so wonderful, since Fridays and Saturdays are my only sleep-in days.

I finally rolled out of bed around 11, brushed my teeth, washed my face, and strolled into the kitchen to warm me up some chocolate chip waffles.

It was freezing in my cute little apartment, so I put on some socks and a sweatshirt and settled down on the couch to watch some of my shows.

It was coming up on noon when I decided I should get off my lazy butt up and get started on my Saturday cleaning before I got too comfy.

I got to my cleaning and was done in about an hour/hour and a half.  I was very proud of myself, except for the fact that during my cleaning I dropped and broke our tooth brush holder, that comes in a set.  So I have to go Walmart today to see if I can find it sold separately, so I don't have to buy the whole set again online.

Cross your fingers!

I'm very hungry after I get done cleaning, vacuuming, and doing laundry.

I did a lot of shopping a few days ago, so our kitchen is very stocked up and a sandwich sounds delicious, since I have all the fixin's.

Amazing Boyfriend came home from work around 3ish and we cuddled on the couch, while he took a nap, and I watched TV.

Around 6, I got up to start dinner...something I had been craving for a while --burritos!

And OMG, they were so good!  I cooked up some Mexican rice to go along with it, and I made us some margaritas! Yum! 

We watched some football and ate our dinner, then got right back to cuddling up on the couch.

(I know, we're like pros at cuddling...but we never get to see each other with our work schedules, so when we do, we want to be as close together as possible.)

About 10 o'clock, we remembered to turn our clocks back, and headed to bed.  

(I didn't even have to change, because I, for once, got to stay in my pajamas ALL DAY!  Which was SO NICE!)

We turned on the TV in our room to watch before we fell asleep and found that Aladdin was on ABC Family.

After about 20 minutes, we were passed out...cuddling.

~Sunday~

With the time change and all the relaxing cuddling, I am feeling pretty good.

I got up at a descent time and got ready for church.

Got to church around 9ish and after, headed off to my parents for the day.

I've got to head to Walmart here pretty soon and hopefully Super Mom will be so kind as to do my hair for me, because my roots getting bad.

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I love my life, but this weekend was one of the best I've had in a long time.

Especially with all the cuddling!

How was your weekend?

Massages Are My [New] Best Friend

Working as a nanny for two families this last year that go to the same school, I have become very close with a wonderful mom who's kids are friends with the kids I watch(ed).  After talking with her everyday after school, I soon found out that she is going to school to become a massage therapist.

I little rush of excitement ran through me, because come on, a friend of yours gives massages for a living...um, YES PLEASE!

(Now, Super Mom is a massage therapist too, so I know what a good massage feels like, but being my mom and having 6 other people in my immediate family wanting one if she gives one to any of us, she's never in the massage-giving mood.)

So when Massage Best Friend said if I ever wanted one, I hopped on the offer.

I love being a nanny, but not being a mom myself, it is extremely tough on my stress level and body, even though I've been doing this for years.

When telling MBF this, she said that massages are good for you and people should get them more often.

I looked up on Wikipedia and found that it is true...

{Peer-reviewed medical research has shown that the benefits of massage include pain relief, reduced trait anxiety and depression, and temporarily reduced blood pressure, heart rate, and state of anxiety.[32] Theories behind what massage might do include blocking nociception (gate control theory), activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which may stimulate the release of endorphins and serotonin, preventing fibrosis or scar tissue, increasing the flow of lymph, and improvingsleep,[7] but such effects are yet to be supported by well-designed clinical studies.}

And after getting a Swedish massage from her last night, I KNOW that it is true!

{Swedish massage uses five styles of long, flowing strokes to massage. The five basic strokes are effleurage (sliding or gliding),petrissage (kneading), tapotement (rhythmic tapping), friction (cross fiber) and vibration/shaking.[27] Swedish massage has shown to be helpful in reducing pain, joint stiffness, and improving function in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee over a period of eight weeks.[28] It has also been shown to be helpful in individuals with poor circulation[citation needed]. The development of Swedish massage is often inaccurately credited to Per Henrik Ling, though the Dutch practitioner Johan Georg Mezger adopted the French names to denote the basic strokes.[29] The term "Swedish" massage is actually only recognized in English, Québécois or Dutch speaking countries. Elsewhere the style is referred to as "classic massage".}

She is awesome at what she does.  I was so relaxed afterwards and told her that I would like to have one on a regular basis.  And for only $30!

YAY for massages!

How much do you love massages?

Where do you go?

Becoming Seriously Attached to Fictional Characters...

I told you here about how I'm reading the Private book series.

I'm reading through them like they're candy sitting in front of a baby.

(If that made any sense.)

Let's just say that I'm going them extremely fast.

(Like one every two days now.)

And it's starting to scare me how involved I am with these books.  I feel like I am Reed Brennan, and I'm living everything through her.

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Like today, I was reading {the 12th} book and she had to break up with her boyfriend as a task in order to save her kidnapped friend, and my stomach was so sick, like I was just about to break up with my boyfriend when I obviously didn't want to.

She goes through so much an insane amount of stress and extreme troubles that I feel that I've been through the same thing.  

Seriously!

I think because this is such a long book series and I'm reading it every day, I feel like it's my life I'm reading about.  And even scarier, I can relate to a lot of the things...

Well, not everything, because people close to her get murdered, and thank God, that's never happened to me, but just her personality and some of the stuff she goes through with friends and boys, I can relate.

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However, on a side note...
I finished the 12th book today (no surprise there) and I'm really debating on whether I want to keep going.  Only because with the way it ended, I think the author has taken it just a bit too far.  And that's really saying something with this series, because just about anything and everything that could happen to a teenage girl that transfers to a private school out of state has happened to her, and that was already a stretch on the author's part.

But curiosity killed the cat, and I'm going to keep reading, because I just have to know what is going to happen next!

Although, I'm sad the series is coming to an end, or at least for now (I hope!).
I don't know if the author is planning to keep going and the books just haven't been written or come out yet.
(I only have TWO books left!)
Sad panda.

However, there are many prequels to this series that I need to read, and there's a series attached to this one based on one of the characters that left the book after the fourth one.

Pinteresting Wednesdays

I am a Pinterest addict!

And I turned Super Mom and New Mommy Sister onto it,

and let's just say...

I think they're more addicted than I am!

If that's even possible!

Here are just a few of what I've pinned this week...

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What I'm Loving Wednesday

I have to say, it has been WAY too long since I've done

Unacceptable!

I need to get my act together and stop being such a downer.

So let's take a look at what I'm loving today...

I'm loving... that Bubble Boy was on last night, so I recorded it, and I'm watching it right now!

I'm loving... (although regretting) that I'm eating McDonalds for dinner.

I'm loving... that I'm getting a massage on Friday.

I'm loving... that I got beautiful pink roses from Amazing Boyfriend for our anniversary.

I'm loving... that tomorrow is my last day of work before the weekend.

I'm loving... that we got a new big screen tv for our family room.

I'm loving... that I got paid today.

And as always, I'm loving... my handsome and wonderful, Amazing Boyfriend!

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October LINK UP!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays,

but I've sadly let it slip up the last few years...

(2 years ago - I believe I just walked my brother up the street and back
and

last year - Amazing Boyfriend and I moved in to our cute little apartment)

I mean, I haven't even been to Knott's Scary Farm in about four or five years!

That's pathetic! 

So this year, I'm trying to changing that...well, somewhat.

Tomorrow night, Amazing Boyfriend and I are going to Knott's Scary Farm!

And I can't believe he's never been, so he's in for a real scary surprise!

I am so excited!

As for Halloween day itself, I'm not quite sure what I'm doing, because Amazing Boyfriend will be working all night.

And...I don't have a costume :(

Mostly because they are just too darn expensive to only wear for one night.

So, I'll figure something out, hopefully.

See, I'm trying. Haha.

Anywho, I'm linking up with Casey Leigh and three other ladies for 

October Followers Fest.

If you're new to my blog,
I'm Sarah.

I'm an ALL OVER THE PLACE BLOGGER and love getting new followers and comments.
To find out a little bit about me, click here.
To find out why I chose my blog name, click here.

Feel free to take a look around and I hope you enjoy what you find
and come back for more!

And, if you're already a follower...GO LINK UP!

What Last Night's Boredom Led Me to Find -- Check it Out!!

Last night while I was bored sitting in class,

I was a huge Pinterest-ho.

I think I was on looking at pins for about four hours -- which is the entire time of class.

(Yes...I was paying attention, kind of...a little.)

I was extremely tired and I had a hard time controlling my laughs when a few of these caught my eye:

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HAHAHA...am I right?
I questioned myself on putting that last one up, but come on, a kid drew "scissors!"

Okay, let's get to the real reason why I'm writing this post.

I stumbled across one that had an extremely long description, and when I started reading the first few lines, I became very intrigued.

It's a list of home remedies, if you will, that gives you easy tips and knowledge about food/cooking and everyday things.

So, of course, I thought of you guys and felt I just had to share!

Here you go...

♥ Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.  If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.  

♥ Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.  It will stay fresh much longer and not mold.

♥ Peppers with three bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.  Peppers with four bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

♥ Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.  It will help pull the grease away from the meat.

♥ To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.

♥ For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed.  Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies.  Let set for a minty frosting.

♥ Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic, and at the end of the recipe if you want a stronger taste of garlic.

♥ Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert.  Simply chop them up with the food chopper.  Peel, core, and slice a few apples.  Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples.  Bake at 350 for fifteen minutes.  Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream.

♥ Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat until warm.  This keeps the crust crispy.

♥ Easy Deviled Eggs: Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag.  Seal and mash until they are all broken up.   Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, and keep mashing it up, mixing thoroughly.  Cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg.  Just throw bag away when done - easy clean up.

♥ Expanding Frosting: When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes.  You can double it in size.  You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount.  You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

♥ To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water.  The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

♥ Newspaper weeds away: Plant your plants in the ground, work the nutrients in your soil.  Then wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go, cover with mulch, and forget about the weeds.

♥ Broken Glass: Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.

♥ Place a dryer sheet in you pocket.  It will keep the mosquitoes away.

♥ To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper.  The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.

♥ To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum.  It an be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.  

♥ Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip to eliminate static cling.  It works; you will not have a clingy skirt or dress.  Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.  Place pin in seam of slacks.

♥ Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.  Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup.  Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

♥ Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep in in the glove box of your car.  When the windows fog, rub with the eraser.

♥ If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two.  It unseals easily.

♥ Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs.  It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth.  It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.

♥ To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it half with apple cider vinegar and two drops of dish washing liquid; mix well.  Flies are drawn to the cup and gone forever.

♥ Dryer sheets cause a film over the dryer filter that will burn out the heating unit.  You can't see the film, but it's there.  It builds up on your clothes and on your lint screen.  The best way to keep your dryer working for a long time (and to keep your electric bill lower) is to take the filter out and wash it with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush at least every six months.

Done any snooping around on Pinterest lately?

Pinteresting Wednesdays

I love Pinteresting Wednesdays!

With the beautiful miss newlywed Michelle @ The Vintage Apple.

So here we go... enjoy!
(I kind of went a little crazy this time with pictures...oops!)

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Hair Style Proudness!

After cleaning all day, I decided to do a little something with my hair.

I recently bought some pieces from Ulta that I have been wanting for quite a long time.

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And thanks to all the helpful how-to videos by Imogen, I was able to pull this off...

Pretty cool, huh?

I am very proud of myself that I was able to do this.