Weekly Wrap Up: 1/2/16

I think I'm going to continue doing these on Sunday... but for this week... we're doing it on a Monday! Allllright!

Favorites

Starbucks Salted Caramel Cinnamon Apple Milk Chocolate Covered Grahams- These are delicious! I've been eating 1... or 3 a day this week... only have a few packs but these are such a great candy... there isn't much else to say... the name says it all... it is delicious!

The Original Star Wars Trilogy- After the very sad passing of Carrie Fisher this week, I started watching the Original Star Wars Trilogy. At the time I'm writing this I've already watched A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back once... I'm going to watch them over and over again to do a few blogs... but yeah.

Journal- My friend got me a journal for Christmas... and I've just sort of wrote little things in it... nothing too creative yet... just things that I thought would help me out and be useful... but yeah. I like taking notes, I like jotting things down... so that is quite handy!

Life Scribbles

Sunday was Christmas... we had family over and opened up presents.

Most of the rest of the week someone in my family has had a cold... so we didn't do a whole lot... my mom and I did some planning for my sister's baby shower and I got a few things for my niece who will be here soon, so that was exciting! I'm excited for the shower, it's Sunday... so that will be fun!

Funny thing though: Thursday and Friday I basically Tore my Room Apart and cleaned it up... was not my intention I just wanted to move 2 things... but then I sort of just had to move everything. So that was what I did most of Friday... Which sucked.. but its satisfying now. It's Saturday now and I'm happy I have a nice, clean room for the New Year. Still have a few things to do... but yeah. This is good.

TV Highlights

Everything is kind of repeats right now. I watched the Life in Pieces episodes they had for the marathon. Those were really good... I caught up on Samanta Bee's show and that was really good... obviously I watched Star Wars.

OHHHH and Greg Scott was on Undercover Boss... this is a big deal for me because he is the CEO of New York and Company... and I used to work at New York and Company! It was so funny to see the CEO of the company do the job that I used to do... and it was really hard for him! I could really relate to all the workers in the store... there was just one thing where a male employee who worked at a store and I think he was a key holder... not sure... but anyway he wore the clothes from the store, even though they were women's clothes, he wanted to show what they looked like and he pointed to ripped pink distressed jeans saying that he wished he could wear that but he couldn't because Male Employees were only allowed to wear black and white. That's great to get male employees to wear colorful clothes... but no one was allowed to wear jeans to work! Only a few times a year when we were doing a Denim event... but yeah. I don't think women would be allowed to wear pink distressed jeans! So that was the one thing I sort of had an issue with. Lol.

Noteworthy Snacks

Honeyball cookies... not sure what the real name for them is... but they are really really good. It's really good and they don't get stale or anything. They're just good!

Lindor Mint Chocolate Truffles... my sister actually got a huge bag because it was a pregnancy craving of hers... but it was really yummy! These are so good! I think they're just for Christmas... but they should be all year because they're amazing!

I went to Olive Garden this week... and I think I'll post another blog on what I ordered there because I like doing that with chain restaurants... but yeah. Breadsticks are delicious.

News and World Events

Christmas!

Hannukah!

Kwanza celebrated it's 50th Anniversary! Hope you had a happy holiday, whatever you celebrate.

RIP George Michael, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. It appears Billie Lourde is keeping Gary Fisher, her French Bulldog Brother. And the cast of Scream Queens all supported Billie after her mother and Grandmother's passing. It was really sweet... I'll post the link in the Clickables.

Thoughts
Take a second... or maybe like a while to assess what makes you happy in life and what stresses you out... keep doing what makes you happy... don't do what stresses you out. You'll have a happier life. It's less hard than I thought to actually be happy.

Clickables

Scream Queens Stars Share Support for Billie Lourde

Byeee!

-Shannon

It List: May 2017

Can't believe it's the last day of May... this was a great time for TV... so let's get right into it! 1) Master of None- The second season of this show was really really great! I liked the first season... but this season was just wayyy better to me for some reason... I loved that they had episodes about Italy and about New York... I think they did a really great job and I was so impressed with it... I'll have to watch the first season over again and do a Throwback Thursday on that sometime soon... but until then... season 2 was great! 2) Girl Boss- I finally got around to watching Girl Boss this month too... and I loved that show! At first I wasn't sure if I was going to like it or not... then I just couldn't stop watching it and I finished it in 2 days... which I guess is when I finished all the Netflix shows I'm talking about... but still. Girlboss was definitely really good... and I feel like I could watch this one over and over again too. 3) Unbrea...

Blogmas Day 12: The 12 Days of Christmas Gift Guide

So I thought it would be fun to do a gift guide that every gift corresponds with the price. So like for the first day of Christmas $1 gift that would be good and then up from there. These would be good stocking stutterers and things I just think are unique. $1- Solar Powered Dancers! My mom loves getting the little dancing solar powered people. We get most of ours from Dollar tree... other dollar stores have them too, they're super cute and fun for $1. Its good to put near any plants that you have that way you know they're getting sunlight. It's a good gift. $2- Mini Coloring Book! At 5 Below they had some mini travel sized coloring books for $2. I thought these were pretty cool. I got the Botanical one I believe. Really cute and fun! I would recommend! $3- Ceramic Truck w/ Christmas Tree I saw this at the Target Dollar Spot and I thought it was cute and would probably make a great gift. If you know someone who has a truck or likes the sort of "rustic C...

Scribbles About Food: Gloria Jeans Pistachio Chiller (kinda like a frap)

So since I'm doing all of the Frappuccino reviews, I thought I would give a shout out to a different coffee chain that I like... maybe even more than Starbucks! But I hardly ever go to it because A) People get your orders wrong there a lot B) I don't really live near one! So Gloria Jeans has some amazing drinks called Chillers that are like Frappuccinos, but they have always had a ton of really good and really interesting flavors. One of my favorite Seasonal ones is the Pistachio Chiller. They had this around this time last year also and its a really good unique flavor. Basically it tastes like pistachio ice cream... but in a frozen coffee form. Its pretty cool! And Pistachio is a pretty underrated flavor in my opinion. I don't get it enough, but I always love Pistachio and Almond flavored desserts and this in particular is really flavorful and just a really good chiller. I don't think there is anything at starbucks that compares to it really, its really different...

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