A Few of My Favorite Things, Part One: Lounging Around the House

In the interest of keeping things interesting on my blog, and also in keeping with the gypsytude theme, I decided I wanted to try something new and talk about my favorite things as the holidays approach. Yes, I do the whole fess up thing, but that's become a bit boring to me. 

And I'm still not entirely sure if anyone actually reads this blog at all. If no one reads it, who will I be hurting to switch it up and if someone does, then hopefully you like the new set up. 

This first post is going to be about my favorite things for lounging around the house. 

 First off, we're gonna start with sweatpants. These happen to be my absolute favorite pair from Gilly Hicks. They're super soft and the fit is really comfortable while still being flattering. I spend a lot of time in them wandering around the house or watching movies in bed. Which I do a lot. Don't mind my little pink tree in the background there. I decided that if I can't beat them, I need to joint them on the precelebration of Christmas bandwagon. 

Next up are mugs of tea. Duh. Anyone who is anyone on the Internet is obsessed with tea. I however have been drinking tea since before it was cool, thankyouverymuch. My mug collection is rather impressive if I do say so myself. However, at present a great deal of it is packed away since my move back home. This ginormous and oddly on point number was a TJ Maxx find with my mom on Friday night whilst we were out shopping and I just had to have it. As this has been a lazy weekend, it's been next to me the whole time full of some steaming goodness or other. 

Chuck the Dog, my 11 year old Bichon Frisé is another member of the family quite familiar with spending the whole day in bed. If you follow me on Instagram, you saw this a few weeks ago when I posted it. If not, here's my adorable dog demonstrating his cuddle ability even though he's not huge on actually cuddling. He likes to be close but not touching. If you're really lucky he'll back his butt up into you. But that's about as snuggly as he gets. 

Last but certainly not least because I'm obsessed with them are the best slippers in the whole entire world. I think they're about 3 years old now but these babies are my favorite things in the world. They don't go outside at all. And despite a childhood refusal to wear slippers at all, I've never once been reminded that I need these guys on my feet. 

Well, that's post one done. The rest will be a bit more interesting than this but I wanted to start it off tonight.

Cheers, friends! I'm snuggling up in bed with The Hobbit playing on my laptop. 

I'm in love with this song.

Much like the Hunter Hayes song I had stuck in my head for weeks back in September, I just wanted to share this Pandora discovery with you. I'm sorry the audio quality is so bad. YouTube has like NOTHING of him on there. I'm a little upset about it actually. But we'll make due. 

It's called "Spoon" by John Neilson. Look him up :)

♥ Chelsea 

Goodness me.

It has been quite a while since I last posted, and for that I apologize. It has been quite the last month with school projects and work has been crazy as well so I just haven't been able to spare a minute to sit down and write out a solid post for y'all. My next big post will be about Thanksgiving dinner. I'm cooking this year and I'll be posting all about that experience for you and letting you know how it turned out.

I honestly don't have a ton to fess up this week, guys.

This last week has just been one where nothing interesting happened to me whatsoever. I went to school, I went to work, and that was about it. In lieu of the traditional fess up, I'll just share some high points of my week with you. I really don't have anything I'm super obsessed with right now, anyway. 

 I was made more aware that I love my job this week, though. San Juan Unified did their annual Principal for a Day event and I had a great time! I got to go to two different elementary schools and take pictures of their guest principals interacting with the kids. I'll post a few of them here:

These are the ones that made it onto San Juan Unified's Facebook page. I'm pretty proud of them, and I had a fantastic time going to the different schools and checking out what they're doing there. I really do enjoy my job immensely and I'm glad that I found it when I did. It's proven to be an unexpected surprise. 

This week was also another good one in the world of online shopping. I am obsessed with big, long sleeved shirts. I got one like 4 years ago at the Walt Disney Family Museum that I wear all the time. It's big and comfy and super warm and I find myself wishing I had more shirts like it all the time. Thusly, I set out to order myself some. The first of which I got from InkOnAShirt as a custom order. They're the home of the adorable "Southern Made" shirts that I've been seeing everywhere on Pinterest lately and unfortunately, despite my fondest wishes, I am about as unsouthern as possible. So I emailed the shop owners and they obliged me with an adorable custom ordered shirt in my Alabama Football colors :)

How stinkin' cute is that bow?! I'm in love. I have another Alabama Crimson Tide Elephant shirt coming from another Etsy shop later on and I can't wait to lounge in my big ass shirts for the rest of the Fall and Winter months. They're so easy to wear with all sorts of outfits. I can go casual with yoga pants and leggings or I can throw on some skinny jeans and boots and look a little more put together than my typical choice of  lounge wear for days when I have to go to school.

Last but not least was getting to spend all day today with my friend Tamiko and her niece and goddaughter. I love kids and I love being able to have a grownup day with my friend where we go shopping for running shoes and have girly chit chat while playing with the kids. 

I mean look at that face, guys! How can you not love her?! I've nicknamed her Princess Thundercloud after several pretend stormy bits of the day. My dad used to call me that when I was little, although I was decidedly more set in my crankiness than this little one is. She'll start tearing up for a second and let out a scream but if you look at her and say, "Hey, no." or "None of that.", she's done. Tantrum averted. When I was the reigning princess of stormy moods, it could go on for days. But I mean, who else am I gonna pass the legacy on to? I don't have any nieces or nephews of my own yet and I don't know that I'll be having kids of my own at all, so she gets the honor of taking over my throne for the time being. 

But, admittedly, after carrying her around all day, I am exhausted. I'm going to turn in now and get some sleep. I have a long day tomorrow anyway involving an oil change and battery cleaning for Ariel (who is my car) and I'm gonna have to be up early to get all of that tackled. 

Nighty night, guys.

 ♥ Chelsea

Falling Back on a Lazy Sunday

I really wish that I was a more productive human sometimes. I'm one of those people who always feels the need to do something with my time to make it count, and if I don't, I spend all of the time that I do spend doing nothing worrying about what I should be doing right then.

Today was not one of those days though. I spent it at home in varying locations, from my bed to downstairs, and all over my room while kind of sort of straightening up and putting things away. Mostly I watched a whole lot of Parenthood and Cooking Channel. I have papers to grade and some homework to pretend to be doing but in the mean time, I'm going to continue being a lazy human and watch Once Upon a Time when it comes on in a few hours with no plans in between. Enjoy your Sunday night, guys!

A Week in the Life

Well guys, not shockingly at all, another week has passed and I decided that instead of a fess up, I'd just give you a few photos from the week and take a second to chit chat about what all I've had going on. It wasn't nearly as long of a week as some of the past few have been, though. 

Monday was a work day, as usual, but it was not a 12 hour day, thank goodness. I got to do some cool things with an awards program that my school district internship is putting together and I got to finish up a great story about one of our high schools that I had a great time covering last Friday. 

And then I came home and I just vegged out and watched all my favorite TV shows. For some reason, Sleepy Hollow and Bones are on some nonsense hiatus and have been for the last few weeks. BUT Hart of Dixie this week was great. I actually was really happy for Lemon and Castle was ok. I still don't understand Alexis' boyfriend or where the heck he came from at all. I know they met while she was on some trip but when did Alexis become a dumbass? That kid is so obnoxious. Mr. C this, Mr. C that. Shut it, man, shut it.

 I also got to make myself a mug of pumpkin pie spice hot chocolate. My obsession with this comes in waves. Sometimes I make it all the time, and some years, I don't have a single cup whatsoever. I have a kickass hot chocolate maker that my mom gave me from Williams-Sonoma 2 years ago, and I'm obsessed with that thing. You legitimately take ground chocolate and steam milk in the microwave and the lid is a built in mixer/frother. It's just magical. And a teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice makes it all the better. I LOVE it. 

Tuesday was a school day. Boring. Nothing to report. Except that I got a little baker bug and decided to make some pumpkin bread that we got at Trader Joe's. I'm sure that this stuff was supposed to be healthier than Krusteaz or some other brand of boxed mix, but I was not a fan. It was literally crummy. It was not cakey and delicious like the other brands, and despite cooking it for beyond the maximum amount of time, it liked to fall apart way too much for my taste to be honest. 

Wednesday I stayed home from work because I had 3 different projects for school to work on and I was feeling a little bit of pressure for time. I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and assume that there are very few people who hate group work quite as much as I do. I don't know when other people got so oblivious, or mediocre, but I find the whole thing frustrating. Especially because professors assume that you have nothing better to do than work for their class and because your schedule is soooooo open, you need to try and coordinate it with the other people in your class who also have nothing better to do. I'm in two groups and both of them are full of some people who really shouldn't force other people to risk their grades on them. 

Thursday was one of the best school days ever. I not only got up on time, but I had time to style my hair, do my homework and get to school on time. Then I got to my math class and for what I predict will be the only time this year, I received a perfect score on a test. Not that I won't try for a repeat. But I'm pretty not good at math. So I can honestly say I'm not going to be doing that again. 

I also did not fail my RPTA test like I thought I did. I got a C. Which I can certainly recover from. C is doable. F's not so much. So all in all, it was a pretty solid day, schoolwise. And because my mother refused to buy any candy this year, I was forced to celebrate my super duper day with a margarita. Happy Halloween to me! Best kind of treat I know ;)

Slapped some makeup on for dinner too. Do I see dark lips and curled hair?!

Today was pretty meh. I'm exhausted. I'm watching Parenthood on Amazon Prime (my new obsession) and hanging out trying to muster up the energy to make a little bit of progress in my room because I'd like to make some progress in here this weekend, cleanliness wise. I need to go through my closet and whatnot. I wanna put on The Blind Side and some sweats and chillout. That'll probably happen here in a few minutes. 

I hope you guys are having a great Friday night and that you enjoy your weekends as much as I will as well!

Nighty night ♥