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It’s time for another Thursday Thoughts! If you want to participate, but have no idea what a link-up is, you can check out my explanation of it here.
~Can you believe this week is already over? It’s been a weird one for sure. L had Tuesday off so that kind of broke up the week. Did everyone’s kids have Election Day off or is that just a Michigan thing? A lot of our precinct’s are in schools and they don’t want all those people in and out of the school all day when kids are there (which is totally understandable). Anyway, L loved having an extra day off. And I think WB loved having him home, I know we did.
~I don’t know why I was so interested in this story when I heard it, but did you know that Girl Scout Cookies are replacing two of their cookie flavors for next year? Instead of the Thank You Berry Much and the Dulce de Lech, they will have Rah-Rah Raisin and Toffee-tastic. The Toffee-tastic sounds pretty good! Was anyone else a Girl Scout? I was a brownie. I never quite made it to Girl Scouts. I did used to think that the green uniforms Girl Scout uniforms were cuter, but looking back, the Brownie ones were were it was at.
~Did you watch the CMA’s last night? How fantastic did Miranda Lambert look? And I absolutely loved her with Meghan Trainor singing All About That Bass! I thought it was a great show.
~Did anyone sign up for the Reddit Secret Santa? I did and I am so excited to see who I get! I did a nail polish / cosmetics one a while back which was fun, but I think this will be even more fun since you can get ANYONE! I can’t wait to start shopping.
~I still have a few subscription boxes rolling in this week including Dottiebox, Fabletics, Julep, NewBeauty TestTube, Orange Glad and a few more I can’t figure out in the USPS tracking thing (which I am obsessed with). I actually may even be getting (one of) my November Birchbox boxes this week. I was shocked to see a clicky truck in my account.
~Oprah announced her famous Favorite Things list this week. Remember when she used to do it on her show and the audience members got everything that was on the list? I always wanted to be in the audience for that show. Who didn’t though? Anyway, I thought this knife set was super cool and these Bagel Balls? What? Who invented that magic?
~The more water, less everything else (i.e. less red cups) plan is going well. I have been drinking Spark too, which helps! And I still have been going to bed much earlier than normal (most) nights as well. I am starting to feel not so exhausted when I wake up which rocks!
That’s it from here! What are your weekend plans?
I kind of want to sign up for reddit secret Santa but I am very paranoid about some random having my address.. linked to my username! I like reddit for the anonymity. Plus, a lot of people get scammed by terrible people who sign up to get free gifts but don’t send anything out.
My weekend plans are hopefully going to the All Souls Procession and camping.
Karma will get them!
Did you participate in the Reddit Secret Santa last year? It sounds like fun! Has anyone not received a gift? That would stink :/
I never have before. I am sure there are people who don’t receive gifts. I think it’s the nature of an exchange like that. I do know that they have “elves” that volunteer to send people who didn’t get anything packages!
I sign up for a gift exchange just about every cycle with Redditgifts. I have never been one to not receive a gift but I hate it when my recipient doesn’t post pictures or acknowledge they received what I sent. I just did three exchanges the last go around and while that is more than I normally do, I couldn’t help myself with so many good ones to pick from.
It’s so fun! I really love how you could end up with anyone.
The Reddit secret Santa sounds like fun!! I hope I get someone from a different Country.
If you sign up to ship internationally, you will get someone from a different country.
I’m going to my mom’s today for her birthday so I can surprise her with my new hair cut!
At my college, we have this band called December people who put Christmas music lyrics to classic rock music. It’s a really cool thing to see!
What did you do to your hair??
http://instagram.com/p/vCqeN9MZp4/ this link should show you!
I had shoulder length hair and my mom went through surgery to have a cancerous tumor removed and they shaved most of her head. I told her that when she would go through chemo I would shave my head. She told me she would rather me have a pixie cut so I cut it for her! 🙂
The kids were off f Monday and Tuesday. Other local school districts gave them the week off. I’m not sure why. Reddit Secret Santa sounds fun. I might buy the bagel balls. Have you heard anything about Homegrown Collective? I have a shipping number with no movement. I think my BirchBox, Homegrown Collective, Wantable Accessory, and Eco Emi will arrive in the next few days.
Spending most of the weekend driving the kids around.
I haven’t heard anything about them! Have they been active on FB lately?
We got Monday and Tuesday off as well. I’m a teacher, so I was still working — but no kiddos. Most elementary schools are polling places, and I guess about 15 years ago one guy harassed (didn’t touch or anything, but just verbally harassed) some elementary girls. After that, voting day became a staff development day. We always thought that was silly, as people who are voting during the school day are typically seniors and those on graveyard shifts. Felons can’t vote, so there’s no real danger of sex offenders on campuses, which is what most parents are up in arms about (“there will be rapists and child molesters wandering around the school!”); additionally, no one actually goes INTO the schools. Everyone uses the multipurpose rooms around back.
Anyway — rant over. 🙂
I guess they can never be too careful!
Why doesn’t Oprah have a Favorite Things subscription box? That would be the best!
I signed me and my hubby up for the Secret Santa, I kind of want to do one for my 2 year old, but I think that may be weird to send things to a 2 year old on a secret santa (even though “she” would still send them things on their list). I am not sure. I also wish it would let you match with more people, like I would be matched with 2+ people and do secret santa with both or all of them. I love putting together mystery surprise boxes.
I also realized I don’t know my own likes and dislikes that well lol, and my hubby really has NO clue his own likes and dislikes lol.