scarves and hoodies

yay for the nice weather - about DANG time! i finally went and bought a few fall articles.

i am fat. i need to simmer with the adult beverages.

i've been a sucky blogger lately......so i apologize for the three people who actually read my blog. ha.

i'm just so freaking busy i don't have time to generate thoughts, let alone write them.

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other than that, life is good.

why is the above a hyperlink? i don't know. it's not supposed to be. don't click on it.

pumpkins and leaves and all that jazz...

-m

a picture of my lovely grandmother (nana) supporting the Blue Raiders when my fam was in town for an MTSU v MD football game. (GO BLUE, by the WAY!)

back to earth

I'm back!

I realized that I've been MIA since my big 2-5. I don't understand where the hell the time is going, but it's going somewhere for sure. I guess I've just been busier now than ever....well, since college.

I have been super busy with photography stuff....booking shoots left and right. It's very exciting! I hope it all pans out. I still am not nearly confident enough to shoot a super serious wedding, and don't know if that's even the route I want to go...but I am really enjoying what I've been doing lately. Work has been friggin insane. It's our busiest time of the year and I want to scream. Today, luckily, we get to all scream. For ice cream! We're having an ice cream social. I went and bought all the stuff so I know what we're gonna be able to dig into, and let me tell you. I will be elbow-deep in some crushed oreos, gummy bears, and caramel sauce. And I will not weigh myself afterwards. Nope.

So, I don't know if I mentioned it in my bday blog, but my gift this year from the fam/bf was a wii. A wii and everything to go with it. holy nuts. I'm totally addicted. Cord and I have gotten really into wii fit. I am not joking when I say that it REALLY works. Not only are the physical excercies challenging but they're also fun! And somehow, the mental side of the wii fit really works. It guilt trips you a little if you gain wait, or if you don't workout for a couple days. It's awesome. Really motivating. It keeps score of your progress so you're always wanting to keep going to better your own score, and compete against other people's scores. Only Cord and I have stuff set up on mine, so it's really competitive and fun. He gets so mad when I beat him at things. It's funny, we're both definitely better at different things, which is nice. I like seeing him jog in place and do the warrior I pose. tres cute!

I'm exhausted. I need to start sleeping more.

My dad sent me some bday cash (very unexpected and most welcomed and needed) so I'm going to finally get a film camera. I've been wanting one for about 6 months and the time has finally come! I have been stalking the lomography website forever and I just can't decide which one to get. So today might just be the day I have to make a decision and suck it up and just get one! I'm also going to get a pair of rain boots with my bday money. I am so over wet jeans in the rain.

Now that school is back in session, all the brats park on the street by work, so I'm back to the garage and walking a few feet further (big woop, right). haha, big woop. Anyway, it often puddles up back there when it rains, so now I will able to walk through the puddles without the worry of wet jeans all day. can't wait.

I am feeling very inspired and creative today. Feeling a lot like that lately in general. It's nice.

happy friday to me.

i hate you.

so i had an idea.

i wanted to create a blog called "i hate you" and just list shit that i hate and have people join and list things that they hate, but damnit, someone beat me to it.

i hate them.

http://www.hate.blogspot.com/

recent favorite foodadges and teeth

It's been a while since a Muggins food review, so here you are:



These are foodages I'm into right now: :-)



1) Kikkoman Corporation - Instant Tofu Miso Soup. TIME OUT. Why when I google this item does it come up on Amazon.com? Why does Amazon sell MISO SOUP? They need to stick to books. For realz.



Anyway, venting aside... I love this soup. Just add some boiling h2O, and you're good to go! It's dang close to the restaurant quality. MMMM.. *hint - I usually use two packs because one is just not enough. I found mine at Kroger in the international food section!


2) Weight Watchers Double Chocolate Muffins! They are amazing!!!


3) I'm sure you all have tried Morningstar products, but I really love the spicy black bean patties! I ate mine today on a whole wheat English muffin, a little bit of cheddar cheese, some light mayo and it was DELISH! Mmmmm I wish I had like 10 more. And it is REALLY filling. Of course, I did just have my ww muffin for dessert, so maybe that's why I'm so full. Those things are HUGE! :)


Well, that's it for my food review.... just love to spread the love of food. Also, check out Hungry Girl for a great guac recipe. Looks tasty and quite healthy!

So, back to life. I'm "moved" into my new place. Right now, my new home is full of boxes. Some full of total crap that needs to just be thrown away, and some full of things that I have NO idea where they're going to go. My roommate swears that I've been married before because I have so many things, it looks like they are all wedding gifts. HA! No, it's just my mother and her goals of making me domesticated some day. I think I'm less domesticated now than I was in college, believe it or not. I don't want to cook, I've gone back to eating frozen meals (for the most part) and never wanting to do anything "home-y."


I just noticed something funny. While spell checking this email (because I just KNEW I had spelled "domesticated" wrong, but I didn't) I noticed that this spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "google." How ridiculous is that? Oh, I also spell ridiculous wrong. Every. Single. Time. But yea, don't you have to sign in with a google account to use this blogger? I just find it ironic.

So yea, back to life. Other than the insane move and dealing with both crazy landlords at once, life is hectic! Effing hectic! Helping my amazing friends Steph and Amber with wedding stuff (which makes me never want to get married!), work, annoying co-workers, yard-sale-ing, attempting to see my bf on a semi-regular basis....it's been busy!

Oh, and I'd like to give a thank you to Emo Mul, for always keeping me on track in our conversations, and I really wish she was here helping me type this blog, because I realized I tangen-ted all over the place.

Oh, one more thing. Answer me this: I'm guessing it's because I grind my teeth to death in my sleep, but I constantly have dreams where my teeth are getting yanked out, or I'm missing teeth, but it's always my molars, never my front teeth. My dreams are very realistic, always in color, always very sensory.. like I can feel the pain or smell the smells, etc. Last night, I could feel the whole in my gums where my teeth once were. Isn't that strange? I wake up and I feel around a little bit and realize I still have teeth!
Any dream analyzers out there have any answers??

:-) fin.

gobbledigook!

Yes, it's the name of the amazing new Sugar Ros song, but it's also what I see when I look at those captchas. Why don't my eyes understand those squiggly letters that are smooshed together and somehow 3-D yet also 2-D. 99% of the time, I am making double (and sometimes triple) attempts to make a comment on someones blog, be a myspace friend, etc. It's funny too, because the words get so much easier to read after the second time. They go from "seR@#$@%@#$%@#$%$#", to "dfdfd." Why must they put the "l's" so close to the "t's" and such. It's HARD TO READ!

It must be my self-diagnosed mild dyslexia.

why i love blogging.

As a quasi-new member of the blog world, I am still finding things that I love about blogging every day.  

Some examples:

One - a friend was having a bad day. a really shitty, bad day. i could see it in her face. i said, "hey man, what's  wrong?"  She said - "ugh, read my blog."  I did. It explained everything. We hugged it out.

Two - I got to experience a blog/real life connection last night when at a party, two blog buddies (who did not know eachother in real life), met in person.  I was watching them talk and I thought to myself, I know that this person is Chester Copperpot, and I am going to bet that this person is The Blonde Mule, because I was told by The Orange Bicycle who she was!  

I watched them introduce themselves and chat - and then within about 3.2 minutes, they realized, 'WAIT - ARE YOU CHESTER COPPERPOT?? WAIT - ARE YOU THE BLONDE MULE??" It was glorious.  I love blogging.  Chester turned around and said, and THAT'S Muggins Mouse! I'm kind of new to blogging, so I've only dabbled a little in The Blonde Mule, but I recognized her name and I believe she recognized mine!  It was great. Cyber buddies actually now know eachother in real life! 

Blogging is amazing, and it gives us a way to vent, brag, complain, question, or just randomly type. Blog therapy, for sure!!  No, there is nothing that can beat human interaction, but it's still pretty damn cool.

honest to blog.