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~Happy Monday! We had a fun weekend here and I am hoping some of the productivity that happened over the weekend will carry through into this week. The basement hasn’t looked so clean in ages. I love it! I just want to sit down there and look at it being all clean.
~Is anyone else as excited as I am about Bachelor in Paradise tonight? OMG I cannot wait. I need this train wreck on my tv asap.
~My #nsale order turned out to be super lame. After that Tieks gift card basically forced me into getting another pair of Tieks I just couldn’t justify the Tory Burch boots and / sunglasses. So I got the kids shoes (Nordstrom has the best kids shoes sales), pj pants and a “J” mug for me. Boring!
~Don’t forget that the August Golden Tote sale launches today at 9am PST / 12pm ET! I will try and remember to do another reminder at noon, but just in case I forget, set your alarms. I feel like like a lot of things might sell out this month because everything is just so cute!
~This week should be a little more exciting subscription box wise. I am expecting Julep, Fabletics, Fancy Summer Mystery Box, Honest Co. (although I don’t typically do reviews on that) and Wantable Intimates just to name a few. And, while it hasn’t shipped just yet, I expect that we will be getting August PopSugar spoilers this week! Eek!
~I am working on going to bed earlier (this is such a struggle), getting up earlier and drinking more water (I have SO been slacking and have been drinking lots of Diet Pepsi again). I need to think of a way to kind of remind myself about these little mini missions. I’m thinking of maybe setting a “bedtime” of 12am (that’s early to me) and then setting my alarm for 7am? Thoughts? This staying up till 3am is just to a good idea.
~Has anyone ever been to a taping of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon? Or do you know how far in advance you can sign up to get tickets? I so want to go to a taping next summer but I need to know how far in advance I should be stalking for tickets. Is it just a month or two? How fast do they get taken?
~And this is so super random, but does anyone have any amazing tie-dye tee-shirt secrets? I want to make some this week with the boys (L loves tie-dye stuff), but I want to know if there is something special I can do to make the colors extra bright?
What’s up for your Monday? Any big plans this week? And of course, what subscription boxes are you expecting?
Your basement looks amazing! Where did you find those beautiful shelves for organizing? Ikea? 🙂
Ha! How did you know?? Those are Expedit shelves from IKEA. I think they changed the line to be called something else now, but they still have them.
I tie dye a lot. Make sure you pre-soak your shirts in soda ash before tie-dying., (You can find soda ash at most craft stores and sometimes I’ve seen it at walmart in tie-dye section.) Also make sure the shirts you are tie-dying are made out of 100% cotton. You can look on youtube for some really cool DIY tie dye patterns!
This is exactly the secret tip I was looking for! Soda ash! Plus it gives me an excuse to go to the craft store ;).
Morning!!! We are taking advantage of the beautiful weather and heading to the park with our playgroup this morning. Hoping its not too wet out there since it rained all weekend.
I’m feeling the late night last night. For some reason I turned on The Breakast Club when I went up to bed and yea it didn’t start until midnight so I was up way too late. LOL 6:30am comes so early when I’m not in bed asleep by then. I was slack when N was tracked out so I stayed up till 1 and didn’t get up till like 8:30 but with school I need to be up at 6:30 to have some quiet time and still get him out the door.
Yeah, this staying up till 2-3am must end. Even if I could get to bed at 12:30 after Jimmy Fallon I would be happy!
Ahh… see it’s all Jimmy’s fault! He’s on at 10:30 here. 🙂
I should move!
Your basement looks great!
Today our six trailer guests leave but everyone is still sleeping
My pups even went back to sleep!
I’m taking it easy since Keely took me on a drag out the trailer last night, down the stairs, across the cement patio to the grass. Nothing broken but I’m really sore today
Ouch! I am glad you are okay!!!
Jimmy films in NYC, which is like an hour away from me. I have tried to get tickets for months. They announce it the day before that tickets will be available, and they usually go live around 11am est (they always announce on Facebook.) They literally are gone in minutes. Its like the Allure beauty box, but worse! haha. My sister in law has gone twice and she says it is absolutely worth it! We love him too! If I hear anything about tickets I will let you know! 🙂
Ha! I wonder if you just go how hard it is to get in? I am sure not everyone who actually gets tickets goes to the shows…
I’ve been looking into Jimmy Fallon tickets too because I’m going to NYC next month!
This is the website where you request tickets:
http://www.showclix.com/event/thetonightshowstarringjimmyfallon
And the NBC website says this:
“We typically release tickets for each month during the month prior. That means that April tickets would become available during March, May tickets will be available during April, etc. There’s no standard date or time for releases, but we typically release during normal EST business hours and during the first week of the month (so, don’t worry – no surprise 2AM ticket releases). We also announce on the show’s Twitter handle when new dates are released, so it’ll help if you follow us there: @FALLONTONIGHT”
I’m assuming they get sold out fast so I set twitter mobile alerts for @fallontonight for this week so I would be ready!
Oh I am going to start following too! This is so hard!
What color tieks did you end up getting? I am thinking about purchasing a pair to wear on my wedding day! Are they as amazing as they sound?
They are amazing. I think a pair in a bright color or something to match your wedding colors would be amazing!!!
Man, I wish I could have your hours of sleep. I am usually in bed 9-10 and have to be up at 5 am to get ready for work. And I like I”m not getting enough sleep during the week, haha.
My hours of sleep are NOT good! 3am and then up by 8 or 9 depending on what time the kids get up! If they are up at 7 I am in big trouble that day. LOL!
I’m getting my first Pop Sugar box this month. I’m so excited to see what’s gonna be in it! 🙂
I cannot wait!
OMG ur basement looks amazing!! I would keep looking at it all day too if that’s how nice it looked 🙂
My nsale order was BUG this time around. Me and hubs grabbed some shoes (boots for me yay!!) and I got some nice skinny jeans and workout pants.
Are u ordering anything from Golden Tote? The boutique has some great deals for $35!
I got a coupon for the big tote to review. I got the black / ivory eyelet shirt and a green striped one.
I would love to go to see Jimmy Fallon! That is so on my bucket list. One day it will happen.
Do you plan on starting up your weekly newsletters again any time soon? I feel like we were spoiled when you seemed to do what seemed like two months in a row but then stopped.
Oh I know I have been totally slacking! I will work on that.
I went to Jimmy Fallon when it was the Late Show still, when I was on vacation in NYC last March. So much fun! Sat front row! It looks like others have answered your questions about getting tix. Good luck!
Oh, and he came through the audience at the end of taping and shook our hands. Nice guy!
How did you get tickets???
I went online and got some info on his site, then called for a couple wks until I got a recording that they were issuing tix for the week I wanted. I believe I booked them a month or so beforehand. I must’ve gotten lucky and called right when that week opened b/c I had my choice of days, too. They give you wristbands at 30 Rock and then from there walked through the groups and selected who would be in the front rows and asked for volunteers who wanted to be on stage during the musical performance.
You are so lucky!!!!
I totally just set that site for Jimmy fallon tickets as a bookmark since my mom and I are going to NYC again this year for rockettes and I’d love to go see a taping of his show. Maybe also try to squeeze in SNL if we can get there early enough to get in line for tickets this year. My mom was planning to surprise me with SNL tickets last year when we went but our train wasn’t getting in til after the ticket line already happened.
O and you’ll be excited to know I finally put my new update about my artificial eye up on my blog today!
Ahhh, I am off to read!!!!
Your basement looks great! I received Cate and Chloe today. Beauty TestTube is coming tomorrow. Maybe Quarterly 1000 Places on Saturday. I was invoiced last week, but no tracking yet.
Gearing up for back to school next week.
Back to school next week already??? OMG!
I have been to a taping and yes it is very hard to get tickets!!! I would start trying a month ahead the hard part is you cant really pick what day you want… THey have the fcebook annoucements where they release tickets for the following day but i hear that is impossible!!! Sometimes they will release tickets for a few weeks ahead and there is a call in number, I literally dialed in and left my phone on speaker next to me for OVER an hour and finally got 4 tickets!! It was SO worth it, we had the best time, Jimmy was super nice and funny and Cameron Diaz was on! I live in NYC though so it’s easy because I didnt care what day it was…. You are right though, not everyone who gets tickets can go, I hear that they have last minute line for that days taping and you have to show up at 30 Rock at a certain time in the morning and they put your name on a list , then you come back at the time when they have everyone else show up and they have a cutoff time — whoever isnt there by that time they start giving away tickets to the people on the waiting list… I am not sure what the chances are of getting tickets but I’m sure they always have some no-shows… if you are visiting from out of town that may be the best way to go! I think you can get up to 4 tickets! (I’m sure they explain this on their website somewhere) Good Luck!
I would honestly just plan my trip around the date I got tickets! LOL! And if that doesn’t work, I will try them line thing the day of!
I am going to NYC in October and want to see Jimmy! Let me know if you get tickets so I can try the same way! LOL
I don’t need the tickets till next summer but so you will have to get them and let me know how it goes.
I just looked up Tieks and I love them! This could be trouble. Lol…hopefully you are reading this on Tues morning since you went to bed early. 🙂
I actually read this last night but I didn’t want to reply back and get in trouble. LOL!!!!!!!!!!
I won my tickets to Jimmy Fallon, so I got lucky! But when I went it was crazy! I hope you get to go!
So lucky!!