Goals + Wishes + Pictures, Oh My!

So I'm already on my second [if my first was a grande from starbs, does that make it my third?] cup of coffee today. I do need to do a major shout out, I don't think I would have been capable of getting out of bed this morning without Daylight Savings. I'm sure when I get home from work + it's already dark, I'll be singing a different song, but right now I'm digging it. I have all the things today, wishes, goals, AND through the lens! Let's do it to it!

ps, I took this picture with my iPhone. Can you believe that? hashtag thanks VSCO cam.

Last Week's Wishes //

just kidding. I didn't accomplish any of them because I could not get my act together last week. I didn't even pack for the weekend until Friday morning before work. I had 400 instagram followers for about a day, then as soon as I said something about it, I lost 5? so... I'll just leave that there. 

This Week's Wishes //

that super fun craft project :: that I am going to knock out this week. has anyone used liquid nails instead of hot glue for wine corks? I'm only 34% sure I can find my hot glue gun... 

schedule at least four posts :: how many times can I talk about my editorial calender and not post about how I made it? 

minimal dining out :: I have the Auburn game to save up for and I also need a new gameday dress now... so I'm shooting to make almost all of my meals this week [exception: special occasions like a birthday...] 

November goals // 

Since I already recapped October goals + how I kicked butt here I'm going to go ahead + skip to November goals. [BUT HOW IS IT NOVEMBER ALREADY]

start planning everything for while I'm in Europe :: oh my god, my Europe trip is officially "next month" I'm panicking a little. It's already paid off [what whaaaat] but I have to plan blog things since I'm on the fence about toting my laptop around Europe... anyone want to guest post between 12/29-1/8? 

actually participate in the Holiday Hunny challenge // I hit 99 by Halloween because I totally forgot that I would spend almost all of actual Halloween in a car Jacksonville bound. I'm actually quite irritated with myself because 99 out of 100 is so stinking close. So here's hoping I kick #100byChristmas booty. 

take more pictures // I promised a million times to take all the pictures at Georgia Florida + all I ended up taking pictures of were the sunset after the game + one really sad, cold face at the end of the game. liar liar pants on fire. 

SPEAKING of pictures, let's look at October through the lens!

LeBeaufest 14 || The Lucky Dress [I think that picture is technically September, oooops] || Oktoberfest in Helen || Georgia Voter! -- in making this collage, I realize I did a horrible job of taking pictures in October. Get it together, self.. 

So! What do you have planned for November? Linking up all the places because it's Monday, obviously..

Weekly Wishes Fourteen!

HAPPY GEORGIA FLORIDA WEEK Y'ALL! 
It is officially the last Monday in October! I cannot believe it. I totally failed at my pumpkin patch goal, I'm sure I can stop by one in like a parking lot. but it's just not the same. I do believe this is as good a time as any to catch up on my October goals + weekly wishes!

October Goals //

blog every weekday in October // we're on pace for that! I've even scheduled a few posts for this week. 

mast at least one aspect of manual shooting // GUYS. I think I have a good grasp on the whole aperture thing and I'm pretty proud of it. I'll do a photo dump one day this week...

get on top of my budget // CHECK IT. y'all I've saved TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS for Europe. CHECK THAT! 

Last week's wishes // 

finish my book for blogging for books // okay, well I read most of it, keep an eye out for the review this week! 

write + schedule all of my "five things to know" posts // duh I realized that I couldn't completely do this because I like to include what happened the games before and stuff. I do have them all started though! I'm considering it a success because I did start all of them. 

find a ticket for gafl // DONE. It may or may not be in the Florida section, man it's a good thing I'm pretty. 

corn. maze. // womp womp womppp

This week's wishes //
clean the stove // we don't use two of our stove burners because they smell bad when they get hot. I'm assuming this is because they're dirty, so I'll be trying to clean the kitchen this week..
super fun arts and crafts project // I have another wine cork project planned! I want to get it done this week, or at least started this week...
hit 300 likes on facebook // I am a measly 13 likes away. Have you liked me on facebook yet? [side note, I'm two followers away from 400 on Instagram, wanna be lucky 400??]
finish my book + review for blogging for books // I'm so close y'all.

With that, I'm going to get back to work. What are your goals this week? Linking up for Weekly Wishes, obviously! 

Weekly Wishes [lucky thirteen]

No, you've watched Hocus Pocus at least fifteen times already and it's not even Halloween yet... October is going pretty well, can we talk about the lucky dress being nine and zero. NINE wins + zero losses. Can we just? Let's talk last week's wishes + make some more!

last week's wishes ::

figure out Georgia/Florida // all but done! I just need to get my hands on a ticket + I'll be all set. World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail party, here I come! Anyone want to donate a ticket? I promise I'll wear the dress! 

corn. maze // son of a biscuit. we were planning on it but then didn't get our act together, maybe I'll roll this one over to this week..

ask someone to take my picture // hollaaa -- I've had a couple of people offer, because they're the bomb.com, including Jennifer @ Tin Can Cozy. Now I just need to get my act together enough to get my picture made! 

this week's wishes

finish my book for blogging for books // I mean, come on. It's been sitting on my dresser, I love to read, I'll just have to make an effort to finish it, write my review, and pick my next book!! 

write + schedule all of my "five things to know" posts // there are plenty of games left and helloooo easy day taken care of right there. Biggest ones being GAFL, Auburn, + Tech.

find a ticket for gafl // because duh. 

corn. maze. // see above.

Honorable mentions// clean up + out my closet [honestly, can't I pay someone to do this? I'm offering margaritas and sopapilla cheesecake, plus my eternal love if you do my laundry...], accomplish 10 miles towards "100 By Halloween" since I'm on track to hit 100, complete the perfect gameday playlist, and take more pictures with my fancy camera! 

Obviously, it's Weekly Wishes time, so I'm linking up! What shit are you gonna get done this week?

Fall Bucketlist Status Update!

It's been three weeks since I set my Fall Bucket List, so surely it's time to check-in right? Right. Let's see how I've done so far! 

corn maze // not yet, fingers crossed on this weekend though!
bonfire + s'mores // I mean, is it even possible to have a bonfire without s'mores? [turns out, yes, because if it's too stinkin' hot to be near the bonfire, you won't want s'mores. fact.]
hike kennesaw mountain // planned! keep an eye out on Instagram for pictures!
pumpkin beer // this will probably be accomplished more than once, let's be real..
spiked apple cider // because apple cider needs a little Captain in it. I also found this recipe for caramel apple cider SANGRIA. sign. me. up.
oktoberfest in helen, ga // check out the recap here! 
pumpkin patch // I need pumpkins for pumpkin crafts!!
hay rides // honestly this, the pumpkin patch, and corn maze will probably be one trip!
georgia/georgia tech game // planning this now!
camping // this is still a hard sell, I wonder if I could camp on my own + eliminate the search for a place to stay for GA/FL?
apple picking // the Ellijay Apple Festival is this weekend, anyone want to go?!

I'm thinking maybe I should add on a few more things to this list, what do you think it's missing?

Lebeaufest 14 + Weekly Wishes

I've been battling a stupid cold this week, so I didn't do too many exciting things this weekend, but I did manage to knock half a thing off of my fall bucket list! It was too damn hot Saturday night, but we still had a bonfire -- I even bought s'more stuff, but we didn't quite get around to making them. The bonfire was at Jennifer from Tin Can Cozy's annual Lebeaufest! So I'm going to share some of my pictures + then a quick recap on weekly wishes!

Lebeaufest did not disappoint, never does. Plus we had the musical stylings of Steve Nebraska, who has an album coming out soon! Now let's see how I did on my weekly wishes..

last week's wishes: 
have a no spend week // I'm counting this as a success, because the only thing I did spend money on was groceries + cold medicine. ps, I discovered that Alkaseltser's daytime cold medicine has some caffeine in it, so I wouldn't recommend it if you're trying to nap..

knock off two things from my fall bucket list // oops. failed at that one. did cross bonfire off the list, and I bought s'mores stuff! we had planned to go to the corn maze sunday, but it rained all morning so we didn't, and obviously in the afternoon the sun came out and it was beautiful.

finish decorating my bathroom // I did really poorly this week. I can't even blame it on being sick because I didn't admit I was sick until Thursday. wah wah.

this weeks wishes:
figure out georgia/florida // I have a ride to Jacksonville but I haven't made any plans other than that, I feel like this week is the "figure it out, or stay in Atlanta" week. So we'll see where I can get on that. maybe I should work on getting tickets for Auburn + Tech too...

corn. maze. // make it happen, captain! so many fun pictures to be made!

ask someone to take my picture // I want to put my stuff on the Atlanta Bloggers website [ ps how awesome did Becca + Melissa do on that website?! ] but I don't have a nice picture of myself and everyone else looks so pretty! So I need something that resembles a headshot and at the very least doesn't feature me being at the bar, which is where most of my cute pictures come from.

What are your goals this week? Linking up with The Nectar Collective for Weekly Wishes!

Weekly Wishes :: Eleven + A Giveaway!!

These wishes go to eleven! I'm linking up with TNC, because I like to get shit done.. Let's start with how I did last week and then move on to this week!

last week's wishes ::

work on my editorial calendar // check it y'all. I even planned a post to talk about my editorial calendar, so how 'bout them apples?

organize my closet // okay well just no. I'm the worst. 

knock three things off my fall bucket list // hey -- two is close to three right? I'll post about the adventure that is Oktoberfest in Helen later this week too. Pumpkin beers were probably cheating though. I mean I'd drink pumpkin beer if it wasn't on my bucket list too..

this week's wishes :: 

have a no spend week // aside from the obvious expenses [gas + probably groceries]. I need to be saving for Europe anyways..

knock off at least two things from my fall bucket list // you know, kick butt, take names, do better than I did on my summer one. it's so bad I'm not even going to link back to it..

finish decorating my bathroom // I'm almost done and it will also make a great blog post. I'm apparently at a point in my life where I think through by saying "oh I should take pictures of this so I can blog about it" 

So that's what I have on the schedule for this week. Hopefully it will keep me from stressing about the UGA vs. Mizzou game this weekend, that's for like all the marbles right now. What are you working on this week? 

OH but before you go how about entering to win fun stuff from Sephora! Happy Monday!! 

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September :: Through The Lens

One of my September goals was to take more pictures so that this post would have pictures from more than one weekend! I think I kicked that goal in the hiney, let's talk September through the lens!

row o n e // more Georgia games, there's never enough | sweetwater reunions | roommate surprises

row t w o // family Braves time | all of the dog pictures! |  if I bought my fancy camera, so I had to take a picture of it right? 

row t h r e e // just the most delicious jalepeno poppers | margs on the rooftop | HOLDING THE BLOG BATON!

Speaking of Instagram, you should definitely follow along so that you don't miss the fun shots, like this gem: 

I'm kinda good at #tbt, if I may be so bold. May the force be with you! What kind of pictures did you take last month?

Wait, She's Saying "Black Widow Baby?"

If I don't take a picture with pumpkins or my shoes in pretty leaves today, will I still be able to call myself a blogger? I feel like that's literally all that my Instagram feed is today. The high today is 87, so nothing says fall like a temperature that high, am I right? Anyways, it's Wednesday, so it's time for confessions!

That Black Widow song came on in the car when we were sitting in traffic coming back from Athens on Saturday, and I was singing along, I thought the words were "I'm gonna love you like I'm packed with a baby" instead of "I'm going to love you, black widow baby" or whatever. packed. with. a. baby.

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Last night my roommate and I realized that we could throw Bear's ball at the ceiling when our neighbors start misbehaving and we definitely did that a bunch of times. Stay tuned, because it's only a matter of time before we make a bad throw and break all of the things in the kitchen. Or they might call the leasing office on us..

I wanted to do the #Blogtober14 linkup today, but I could explain what I would do if I won the lottery in one short little list: payoff all of my credit card bills, student loans, etc., buy a jeep wrangler, and then quit my job and travel the world until the money ran out. Maybe I'd put some in a savings account for when I got done traveling. That's it. 

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Yesterday, when I found out that it was the 16th birthday of Baby, One More Time I maybe cried a little that a song I remember being released was old enough to drive a car. I mean has it really been SIXTEEN YEARS? I don't deal well with getting old y'all. 

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Saturday we had to sit in our actual seats since they've oversold student tickets and we can't us our student ID's to get into the student section without using them to come in the gate. Our actual seats were in the 600's. SO CLOSE TO THE SUN. I was wearing sunscreen, but still managed to get fried. Even better than my nose looking like Rudolph's is the bangin' cowboy boot tan line I have on my legs. SUPER cute y'all.

That's all I have today! I'm off to plan a visit to the pumpkin patch ASAP [can you believe my roommate has never been to one?!] What do you have to confess today?

OCTOBER GOALS!

Monday is like a bad penny y'all. Keeps showing up. This past weekend, I easily lost ten years off of my life by not breathing for the last three minutes of the UGA game. Then the Falcons broke my heart, again. So let's recap on Weekly Wishes + goals. OH and I guess since October is Wednesday, I should probably set those goals too. I can't handle it. Let's start with September's goals!

september goals ::

increase followers -- Y'ALL. I particpiated in Rebekah's September giveaway and not only did I grow followers, but I made new friends! OH AND I HIT 100 BLOGLOVIN' FOLLOWERS. A HUNDRED! 

make more pinable images to strengthen photoshop skills -- I played around with photoshop a lot. even used it to edit all my fancy camera pictures. so, success

take more pictures --  I've already started putting together my September Through the Lens [I always want to spell it lense and that's not a word] post + I took oodles more pictures this month than last month. 

blog every weekday in september -- I ONLY HAVE ONE MORE DAY TO GO. y'all. ONE MORE DAY AND I ALREADY WROTE AND SCHEDULED IT! sorry for the screaming.  

last week's wishes :: 

organize my closet // nope. I actually made it worse. oops. we'll just roll it over to this week..

write + schedule my posts for #blogtober14 // oops. I didn't finish this, but I did start it. soo that's sort of a success. 

plan something cool for Thursday because I'm holding the Blog Baton! // oh good! I did accomplish one of them!! I had all sorts of fun holding the Blog Baton last week! 

this week's wishes :: 

work on my editorial calendar //  so I made one, but I haven't really done anything else with it. Now it's time to plan posts + be organized. boom. 

organize my closet... for obvious reasons. 

knock three things off of my fall bucket list // uh oh. that's probably a lot. but I have at least one, maybe two planned for this weekend. so I should be able to swing three! 

october goals :: 

blog every weekday in October // if I could do it in September, why can't I do it in October?

master at least one aspect of manual shooting with my camera // I'm still learning how to get the right lighting + aperture settings down. so I'll keep taking pictures and get better. 

get on top of my budget // in line with needing to organize my closet and be an adult, I should really get on top of my budget as well. so I'll be pinning and researching and building something I can really stick to. I promise I'll share if I come across anything super helpful! [other than ebates, because if you shop online and you don't use ebates, you're throwing money away.]

That's it for me today, what are your goals for October?