I just finished watching a great movie called, “We Bought a Zoo”. It is an incredibly moving movie, but I cried ALL the way through it. Literally sobbing at one point. I won’t ruin anything for anyone, but whew! Clearly living in the south with my “farm life” has made me attached to animals and we all know I love people ;-) Ok I’m kidding about the animals, but truly the acting was so great that it really made me feel what the family went through. It wasn’t the exciting brainless PG movie I was going for, but I recommend it! I’m tired of laaaaame acting so it was refreshing! Thank you Matt Damon for taking on a role in a family film-who knew??

Well Summer is almost here. I spent 20 minutes outside this evening in the 90 degree heat catching some sun rays to get some Vitamin D (thank you Steve Kuert). I can’t spend much more than that in the sun because…well I am a red head and I FRY! Summer is honestly my second least favorite month. I really dislike Spring because the allergies get SOOO bad that I can hardly breathe. It’s been like that my whole life (thank you Tulsa) and it’s always crazy weather which almost always=tornadoes (thank you Tulsa). Then after last summer’s nightmare heat and working in a front office with a broken air conditioner…Autumn and Winter are looking better and better all the time! The fall is hands down my FAVORITE season and I am hoping we have a Fall wedding *wedding bells chiming* (ding, ding) ;-) Back to summer…I hate looking for swimsuits. Let’s be honest…I don’t care if you have the smallest, tan, and toned body, it’s just a weird process. I literally have not bought a bathing suit in 5 years and before that, it had been 9 years lol. This is coming from someone who has had a pool outside my back door all 9 of the years of my 2nd most recent suit purchase ;) I often end up throwing a tank top on and shorts anyway (because clearly I’m not laying out and burning my skin) so it hasn’t mattered to me. However, it is time to buy a new swim suit so I was looking at shoes on Target last night and found some fun mix and match pieces. I found a cute tankini in colors I love and a fun pattern. I clicked the box or size and it said, ” 1, 2, or 3”. I couldn’t find a button for a sizing chart and since it’s been forever since I purchased a swim suit I assumed it was a new method of sizing. If not I knew I wasn’t going to fit into a 1-3 in regular sizes so I took a chance and clicked what I thought would work. I go to “checkout” and all of a sudden I see that it says, “Plus size” swim suit. It all made sense now as to the different sizing. I’m glad I saw that or I would have spent the summer continuing to wear my 9 and 5 year old swim suit. Since I don’t care what it looks like but I want something to beat the 100 degree summer temp, I have a new pink bathing suit coming my way (thank you Target). 

Since it’s swim suit season, it only seems fitting that I would buy and devour half a bag of Mint M&Ms in 24 hours right?? Let me clarify that by bag I mean I had about half of the 6 servings of these candies. If you have not tried these new M&Ms I encourage you to try them with the mindset of NEVER buying them again. It’s like M&Ms have enticed us for years with the “green” M&M on commercials and then unleashed her fury of good taste upon us with her Dark Chocolate Mint insides. I was typing away at emails today and would take 3-5 at a time and*smack*smack* (okay, I don’t REALLY “smack” but I wanted you there with me in the story). Finally I realized what I was doing and I sealed the bag and chunked it across the room. Don’t worry it didn’t hitting anything but a crate of pillows because our furniture is gone for our move. Upon impact it was clear that I did NOT seal the bag (silly cheap closure) and they sprayed all over. Deeply focused on what I was doing, I sighed and returned to my work.  Sad to say, I did not pick them up until dinner for fear I’d devour them in my focused state of mind. 

If only I’d bought a zoo, then I could have just fed the animals the remaining M&Ms. I did however eat 2 more just now…what’s two before bedtime right?? ;)

Off to bed on my mattress on the floor (which I am grateful for) but long to sleep in my own bed in Tulsa next week!! That’s right I’ll be in good ole T-Town for my baby brother’s graduation!! WoOp WOoP!