I have tried many times to do a full month of pictures on instagram with these sorts of challenges, and I actually did succeed one time! I have done the project 365 a few times and the longest I ever got was about 4 months. I do like to update my instagram once a day so sometimes when I don't have anything for the day I check lists like these to get inspiration! This go around I thought I would try to do it both on instagram and on the blog, that way it kind of mixes it up a little bit for me. I like the looks of the topics and already have ideas :) Starting tomorrow you should be able to catch these pics both here and on my instagram- @xxpollypocket along with everyone else who is participating and with the hashtag too #bloggerlifechallenge Here is hoping for inspiration and maybe the option to get through the whole month *fingers crossed* I thought either way it would be a fun thing to try here on the blog :) I always end up sharing the pics on instagram and neglecting to put … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2015
Extra hour of deep sleep is better than going to bed early!
Hey Everyone Well today is looking tons better than yesterday -the money was back in bank this morning *happy dance* With the weather David has started to go into work at 7 instead of 6 and I am telling you that extra hour of deep sleep has been helping me tons! Even though it is dreary and cool again today I decided to push through and get up and see what I can get done- as I always say I can get up and get whatever done and nap later if I have to! I am actually taking a break from writing this post to go grab some coffee :) I'm back :) but i took a break from this post to work on my holiday gift guide announcement post, so now I need more ha ha :) It is moving time here at the apartment place apparently... but would you believe it is the neighbors who drive me MAD that are moving! I already knew miss nosey was moving especially since she makes a point to mention it every time David has saw her for the last month. She is the one that turned David and I in for not picking up … [Read more...]
Holiday Gift Guide 2015 Sponsors Wanted
I have decided to attempt a holiday gift guide this holiday season! The first one I did was kind of a last minute decision and it was very tedious and time consuming in just a mater of weeks, so this time around I have decided to start several months in advance- actually I started pitching on my own back in the early summer for a few things! I am currently teamed up with what will be 99 other bloggers on the Mom Buzz Media to help promote my guide and will be promoting among other groups as well, I will be promoting the guide as a whole on social media , as well as each review individually on my own end from when it goes live (hopefully early in october!) until sometime around mid new years! What I am Looking For: Here is a general idea of what kind of things would fit in my gift guide- pretty well interested in anything except BOOKS (I LOVE READING, but HATE reviewing them) This blog is a lifestyle blog so the options are pretty well limitless! I love unique … [Read more...]
The Money Goes Out- but don’t try to get it back
Phew really did the weekend have to already end? Today is just- UGH. David paid our insurance last tuesday night before we went to bed, via an app. Well..the app glitched and instead of paying the $100 we owed it paid out the entire term of the policy which was over $500. We quickly called the insurance company and they agreed to refund the $400 that was mistakenly taken out. We figured it would be a few days and tried to patiently wait it out. However after Friday came and went we kinda gave up hope for having it for the weekend, even though I know we have gotten our tax refund on Saturday before. We just kinda figured it would be in the bank this morning WRONG.. It STILL isn't back. I emailed our local agent and she verified with me that they had processed the refund back to our bank on Thursday the 24th. David calls at lunch to see what in the world is going on and we get a guy we can barley understand wants every piece of identifying information that you can think of (much of … [Read more...]
Glamulet Pink October#GlamuletPinkOctober @glamulet @brandbacker #sponsored
this post was written in exchange for a promotional item from glamulet in exchange for my own thoughts ideas and opinions. All stories thoughts ideas and opinions are honest and my own. One thing that I care deeply about are the cancers that a woman can face. I personally have had cervical cancer in the past (very early stages right about the time David and I got married) and my mom had a scare with a lump in her breast while she was pregnant with me, and that is a story that I have wrote about before on this blog many many years ago but with breast cancer awareness month right around the corner, I feel that it is worth writing about again. My mom found this lump on her breast when she was pregnant with yours truly, and this was back in the early 1980's and let me just tell you, they were NOT very medically advanced when it came to sort of things like they are today. I had always known that my mom had a lump when she was pregnant with me and that she had showed me the … [Read more...]
Greetings from the redheaded gal
Greetings from the redheaded gal! I finally straightened it and it honestly isn't near as red as I thought it was! It really could use some cutting and maybe some layers though so we'll see how that goes. I hate getting it too short because if I can't put it up in a knot on top of my head I get a little crazy (when it is curly, which is rare but sometimes I like to give it a break from the straightener!) this week has literally FLEW by.. monday was a bit MEH because well MONDAY of course...Then yesterday I didn't realize that David had planned to do a few things and was taking a vacation day.. which ended up working out because we had an extra paper that had to be signed at the lawyers BY him so it saved me at least one if not two trips to have to get it and drop it back off. I have kinda of been arranging my week around getting things together for THE YARDSALE PT II but. it looks like a 70% chance of rain for saturday so.. I guess we'll have to see how that pans out and maybe … [Read more...]