friday, and i'm in love!

oh how i love miss summer b. for giving me a reason every single week to think about all the things, big or small, that i just love love LOVE.
and today, ALL i can think about is spending the day at the pool tomorrow with my best friends. cooling off, floating around, maybe getting some color (if it can penetrate my layer of 70 spf because this girl burns EASY!!). and maybe...just maybe....rocking a fancy 'do.

i LOVE me some front braids. and who else rocks it better than lauren conrad?? i admit...i was tres intimidated by the braid. i've never been able to french braid or anything...so making it work on a little piece of my own hair was a challenge!

what i always end up doing is braiding the front, shorter layer piece of my hair into my longer hair, and back towards my ear. so then i can pin it in place and pull the whole thing up. i haven't done it for the pool yet, because i HATE getting burned in my hair part....but maybe i can figure something out.

and while i'm at the pool...my nails will be shining.

this is essie's "steel-ing the spotlight", aka the most awesome metallic polish ever. it's a little silver. it's a little gold. it's shiny...but not TOO shiny. it's a fab neutral that's way more fab than most neutrals. try it! you'll love it.

and of course...i am LOVING all the awesome music from glee's finale this week. so so SO good. see, the hubs and i have a thing about journey....he loves them. and so listening to so many, i love it too now. well...most of it. i still think "wheel in the sky" is stupid.

but imagine my SHOCK, when the hubs took the remote and turned up the tv when this song started!!! it was so awesome....this was VERY close to being our first dance song. it wasn't....but we did play it at the wedding.

"i'm forever yours....faithfully"

happy friday my dears!!!

this is why i need a stylist. or more money.

because i am IN AWE of how amazing carrie underwood always looks....and i wanna be just like her. except i like my hubs better than her hockey-playing man...even though they are PRECIOUS together.
last night, she handed him her SO CUTE purse when she won at the CMT awards last night. and that dress?! that purse?! those shoes?! i want the whole damn thing. i love her.

so ladies...i need YOU to be my stylist today. next week, i have a meeting for a fundraising event i'm helping with...i've never done something like this, and the only reason i'm on the committee is because the president of the chamber of commerce raising the funds is a close friend, and i kept telling him i wanted to help...so he made it official.

the meeting is at their home, nothing super formal and fancy...but you know me. i wanna look awesome. cuz that's how i roll. plus, getting toward the end of my work tenure...i wanna rock out all my dressier stuff before i'm sitting home crafting and have no reason to!!

so i'm thinking this dress, with my khaki blazer i rock with the sleeves rolled up, and a long multiple strand of pearls/crystals. the sleeves have a little blue and white stripe you can see with it rolled up...so my question is, will these shoes match?

my beloved kate spades. that have been worn twice in their gorgeous little lives. does the blue give a little pop with the orange and the neutral of the blazer/necklace? or too much?

narrate my life, with nerdiness and awesome

let me set the scene for you:: monday afternoon. sitting at my computer during the shows i produce. browsing around the AP wires. and i see a little something something that says "science, morgan freeman" or something equally vague. because that's how the AP rolls with story titles. and so...i click. and proceed to FREAK THE EFF OUT.

because one morgan freeman, master of all things awesome, will be narrating a new show on the science channel.
doesn't this picture SCREAM "let me teach you all the wonders of the universe....plus, wear a badass earring. cuz i'm morgan freeman".

courtesy of the science channel's website, the description of the new show is "Through the Wormhole will bring together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of science — Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and more — to reveal the extraordinary truth of our Universe."

ummm...i don't know what a lot of those words mean...but my sci-fi nerd husband kinda wigged out when i showed him. it sounds super smart though right?? plus...IT'S MORGAN FREEMAN.

if you want to know more about the show, HERE'S the actual website from the science channel. the first episode comes on tomorrow night at 10pm, and it's about whether the idea of God is possible, or in our brains or something like that. which is SO up my ally.

cuz i'll admit...while some sci-fi stuff goes over my head...for all intents and purposes, i am a card-carrying nerd. of the loves to learn variety. give me some national geographic channel, some discovery channel, etc etc...and i will learn these crazy little facts and then spout them off for the rest of forever. making myself feel smart =)

so who's gonna watch this biznass with me??? and more importantly....how AWESOME would it be to have morgan freeman narrate your life? he's my top choice....sorry james earl jones.

a little glitter makes mondays more fun

happy monday darlings!! i had a wonderful weekend of shopping and new fun things for myself...so monday morning was a little brutal.

i'm a rocking a new mani today, after putting it off friday AND saturday because i was too sleepy at night to wait the extra hour for everything to dry. tragic right?
this is an OPI color, kinky in helsinky, plus a coat of my new sally hansen "rockstar pink". it's mostly dark pink glitter, with a little blue, red and gold in too....it's SOOOO cute on, i just can't take a non-crappy photo to save my life.

and please remind me of how cute i say this is when i'm STRUGGLING to get it off in a few days!! that's the worst with glitter polish....but i love it so!

also....forever 21 is trying to ruin my life.


I. WANT. THIS. NECKLACE. it's sooooooo fun, so hayley, so needs to be in my closet. but shipping from F21 is a little insane...and i don't have a store within 100 miles of me. a friend went to 2 stores in ATL this weekend...and NOTHING!!! has anyone seen this near them? do i need to suck it up and pay the extra to get it shipped to me??

also, hubs has a phone pre-interview this afternoon for his big-time, impress the boss and make big money interview wednesday!!

love is a temple, love is the higher law

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i figured, what better way to celebrate the friday i'm in love series, by the lovely summer than to take a little trip down memory lane. i actually thought about this last night, when my darling husband was trying to go to sleep, still obsessively checking his email, and FINALLY hearing something from his potential job. his inbox told us "talks are getting interesting...but GOOD interesting". no clue what that means....but good is good i guess!!

anyway, i got a flash of a blog post i wrote long long ago, from a blog i've made private and mostly just kept around for myself....the dateline is january 15, 2007....the monday AFTER i told my then-boyfriend that i loved him for the first time. that boyfriend is now my husband.


there is something strange about love. the way it makes people act, the way it makes people feel, the way it can consume whole ideas and create such extreme reaction.

there is something i realized about love a few days ago.

the first time you fall in love, it's amazing. it's like nothing else you've ever felt, and you swear you'll never feel this way again. and it's reckless and it's without abandon and it's a feeling that seemingly has no boundaries and no limits and also...no logic.

and then that first love ends. and all of those hopes and dreams come crashing down, and you swear up and down you will never feel pain like that again, that nothing has ever been so intense or jarring or emotionally draining ever before.

and then love comes along again.and what i realized, is while yes, there really isn't anything to compare to first love....that's not a bad thing. because it is reckless and throw caution to the wind and all of that, but it won't always be like that. so few people end up with the first person they fall in love with.

when you fall the second, or third, or 42nd time...it's always, always a calculated risk. because you KNOW the pain you've been through before, and you fully understand that giving your heart away means you are potentially putting yourself in front of the firing squad.and when you realize you would glady do all of that, risk all of those horrid, soul-scarring emotions just to have those good things too....that's when you know it's real. when you're willing to give your heart to someone, knowing entirely too well they could stomp on it and hand it back in 100 pieces for you to try and put back together alone...and you still can't imagine anyone else having it. on that day, you really realize what love is about.

i know now.

the countdown is on...and i'm still shopping

it is now official. my last day at my current job is june 23rd. a wednesday. a wednesday that's less than 3 weeks away. which is SUPER FREAKING SCARY. and also really exciting...because its the break i've been longing for since last year, when i signed a one year extension to my contract to get me through my wedding.

now...i just have to figure out what's next. and wait for the company that seems to be peeing their pants over hiring the hubs to ACTUALLY FREAKING HIRE HIM. ugh....he does not do waiting well...he's like his wife in that respect =) so last week's wait turned into this week's wait...which turned into today's wait, and hopefully not next week's wait also.

and so of course, with impending unemployment....of COURSE i decided to do some online window shopping, after an email from payless about 20% off, plus buy one get one 50% off.
i think i might love these wedges. i'm totally a summer wedge girl...makes a jersey dress look a little dressier than flip flops, but they're so freaking comfy that it's LIKE wearing flip flops, but taller. plus, the gold is kinda cute running through there.

and these flats are just too fab to me. of COURSE they're christian siriano, which makes them even more awesome...cuz he is =)

i have a hard time finding flat sandals i like, because SO many are gladiator style, or have that really long piece in the middle between your big toe and the next toe....which are super cute on others. but i've got looooooong toes. like, people make fun of me when they notice how long they are. i can pick stuff up with them. so emphasizing the length of my size 10's and creepy long toes is NOT. COOL.

the best part is that both pair would be about $34 total.

let's just say a little good thought to the universe the hubs gets a call, and i find a job, so i don't have to give up my shopping habit...

not a happy hayley

because i'm working late. well...working a weird shift that puts me not getting home until 9:30 tonight.

because of this.
i do take solace in the fact that hopefully this will be the LAST election (it's primaries in alabama) that i will EVER have to cover...not just participate it.

the worst part about working late? missing this.

sweet mother of all things glorious and wonderful....this is the BEST. SHOW. EVER. don't worry...you'll get a whole post about why i love wipeout when the actual season starts later this month.

i take solace in new purchases...like this.

isn't it purty?? i love the swirls, and how awesome it's gonna look with jeans, and white crops, and my white dress and my blue dress.

and that it was $30 orginally, and i had a 20% off coupon, AND THEN the awesome cashier at target went ahead and took off a $2 coupon that printed out with our purchase, so it ended up being only $22. LOVES. IT.

be back on the regular tomorrow my dears!!