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Attention Shoppers

Now through Monday American Eagle Outfitters is giving a 40% discount on EVERYTHING in the store and online! Including the new stuff! ;)

This has got to be one of the best Labor Day sales I've ever heard of!

Get. On. This.

Here are a few things from the Eagle that will help you to start a new fall collection:

1. Sweaters - Arguably the best part of fall (aside from the leaves, the smells, Halloween, and corn mazes).  Discounted price = $17.70

2.  Dresses - Dresses are great for any time of year, as long as you wear them the right way for each season and get appropriate prints :) This dress will look great with #1 on the list and a great pair of boots. Discounted price = $26. 70

3.   Scarves - some are useful, some are useless...either way, this one is cute.  Discounted price = $11.70

4.  Tanks - This printed chiffon tank is great for layering on a cool fall day. Discounted price = $20.70

5. Boots - Boots go great with anything for fall (unless you're one of those short-wearing-and-I-don't-care-if-it's-only-55-degrees-out-I-miss-summer kind of people...if so, please don't pull on a pair of boots).  These boots are nothing short of awesome as they can add a splash of edgy to any autumn outfit.  Discounted price = $41.70

There you have it! Some great picks to start out the fall season.  Quick! You only have two days left to take advantage of this awesome sale!

Homemade Chipotle Burrito Bowl

It can be done!
Recently, I made a trip to Wal-Mart and picked up some Jasmine rice, pico de galo, and a few other things. It was just a normal Wal-Mart raid...but that's beside the point.  When I got home I decided to make some of the rice, but then in a moment of inspiration I added some pico de galo to the mix.  It.Was.Incredible.  It tasted almost exactly like the yummy rice and mild salsa at Chipotle! I instantly knew I wanted to try to recreate an entire Chipotle chicken burrito bowl in my own kitchen.
So I made a plan of attack, and this is how it went down:

1. To make the basis of your burrito bowl, take some jasmine rice and cook it to the instructions on the bag. Once made, add some fresh cilantro, lime juice, butter, and salt.  Done and done.
2. Chicken, chicken. chicken - To make the chicken I followed a recipe on Yahoo! Answers.  I cut up my chicken, then browned it in some olive oil, not vegetable oil.  Once that was done I added all of my spices, garlic, and limes and simmered in chicken broth until ready.  That took about 20 minutes.
3. All that was left was putting it all together! I took a scoop of rice, threw some chicken on top of that, spooned on a good amount of pico de galo, added some cheese (I used a mozzarella and provolone mix), and topped it off with romaine lettuce.  

It was a hit!

http://tinyurl.com/3zneobm
Try This At Home! :)

Cheers to the Freakin' Weekend

That's milk.
The perfect compliment to a few WhoNu? cookies which taste just like Oreos.
{More nutritious, same delicious}
I'd Drink To That [Yeah, Yeah]

It's finally the weekend! Time to celebrate (or if you're Rihanna, drink to that). This weekend a few of my friends and I are heading to a university a couple of hours away to visit another friend who has already moved in and has had a week of classes.  She's so grown up it makes me want to cry...but I won't.  I'm excited to finally see her again! It has been a week after all :P And to make matters even more awesome the university to which she is attending makes Jamba Juice in their union! Methinks this trip will be legen...wait for it...dary.  (I've been watching a little too much How I Met Your Mother) I <3 me some Jamba.  

Wisdom Teeth Update:

I still look as though I could nail a reenactment of The Godfather, but it's getting much better.  Although the right side of my jaw is still more swollen than the left and won't unhinge as easily. Is that a sign of an infection? I hope not!

I hope everyone has an awesome weekend! 

Don't do anything I wouldn't do :)

Word of the Week Wednesday!

- WORD OF THE WEEK -

Pretentious 

This word has been on my mind for a few weeks now, for no good reason other than the fact that I love the way it sounds and feels coming out of my mouth :)  This word is awesome because it can be used for so many reasons.

Definition of Pretentious: (from UrbanDictionary.com) "Trying to sound intelligent by using long, complicated words, even though you don't know what they mean."

Ex: Pete - "Hey, listen to this.  It's post-hardcore emomathglitch rock.  The lyrics really reveal the prerequisite existentialism of the singers inner hades!"

      Ed - "Do you even know what that means?"

      Pete - "Um...well, no."

      Ed - "You're so pretentious."

Another reason to love this word is for its undeniable sense of irony.  C'mon...the word pretentious means trying to sound intelligent?  The word itself makes someone sound as if they've been raiding their thesaurus for fun.  

And thus wraps up, Word of the Week Wednesday!

Michigan "Haul"

I've noticed on quite a few blogs that bloggers sometimes upload and post these things called "hauls" that are completely consistent of showing off the the purchases they've recently made. So! I've decided to post my very first haul showing off the things I bought in Frankenmuth, Michigan :)

This little guy is a VooDoo doll that was made to inspire creativity.  I'm definitely bringing him to college :)

Mmmm :) Who doesn't love to smell good!? I found this soap and lotion duo in a cute store that specialized in wool blankets and such.  I fell in love and I'm hoping I can find this brand on the internet!

I'm on a dorm room decoration kick and I found these two posters to hang on my wall!  Love them :)

These boxer shorts came allll scrunched up in what looks like mini-shorts. Once you put them in water, boom! Life size boxers.

I found the cutest hat store in the downtown district.  Cannot wait for fall!

These awesome mustaches came from a joke store that was full of cute and quirky things! Too funny :)

And lastly, after a riverboat cruise (that made me super sleepy) we went to a bakery named
SugarHigh <---awesome name.

They had so many adorable and tasty cupcakes to choose from, I ended up getting the Mint Chocolate Chip. Yum.

So, there you have it! My first haul :)

Missing Teeth Monday

    Guess who just got their wisdom teeth taken out? This girl! And let me tell ya, it ain't no picnic in the park.  When I first got to the doctor's office I found out that the way the doctor's put you to "sleep" is by an IV.  I've never, NEVER had an IV before and as of lately I've been psyching myself out about needles.  When I heard that lovely bit of news, I admit, I started crying.  I know, pathetic.  Oops! I even asked the woman who put in my IV to tell me a story to get my mind off of what was happening/going to happen.  It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that she was kind of taken aback, so instead I told her that I would tell a story.  She met me half way and asked if I had any pets.  Just as I was telling her about my beloved puppy, Mac, I was out.  I mean, OUT.

    When I woke up, I was numb to the world and I felt good. It was like coming out of a cloud of happy unawareness.  

Then the happy meds wore off and I was left looking and feeling like this.

Don't I look happy? 

I'm really hoping for a speedy and complications free recovery.  For now, I'm just going to keep watching 27 Dresses...I swear this movie is on TV all of the time haha :)

Peace. <3. and Dry Socket.

How To: Make a Dreamcatcher

This is your How To guide on making your very own dreamcatcher :)

BUT FIRST - a little background on the legend of the dreamcatcher...

Dreamcatchers are one of the most fascinating traditions of Native Americans. The traditional dreamcatcher was intended to protect the sleeping individual from negative dreams, while letting positive dreams through. The positive dreams would slip through the hole in the center of the dream catcher, and glide down the feathers to the sleeping person below. The negative dreams would get caught up in the web, and expire when the first rays of the sun struck them.
I've recently jumped the bandwagon on the Native American design trend so I'm fascinated by these little  hoops.  Not to mention they'll look awesome in my dorm room!

Step One:

Take some leather and wind it around your hoop of any size.

Hint - take a clothes pin and pin the top of the hoop to secure the leather while you work all around.

  

Step Two:

Take some sinew (it's like a sticky twine) and measure out about 3 arm spans for bigger hoops and 1 to 2 1/2 for smaller hoops. Then, weave the sinew around the hoop and through itself to create a spider web effect. 

Warning - this may take a few tries...it did for me.

Step Three:

Finishing out your dreamcatcher.

Take some feathers, beads, and leftover leather to create a gateway for good dreams to come back to you :)

Tie a strand of leather to the bottom of the dreamcatcher and then take a bead and slip it up the strand.  Take some feathers and secure them into the bead.  Make any design you want and repeat however many times you want along the bottom of the catcher.

  

Presto Pesto...there you have it, a dreamcatcher :)

...Side Note

To make an inner charm like the one above: Before you tie off the sinew, take some beads and other charms to thread through in the center.  THEN tie off the sinew.  

Sweet dreams :)