Dog Hair Is An Accessory

Yea. I'm still here.
a million points and $5 to Starbucks (not kidding) to the person who can name the movie that's from.

Here are some things I need more of in my life.

1. Blogging
I need it. I'm not good at it. But I do need it. I miss the whole writing for fun thing and you guys are cool. Along with blogging, I need to get to back to reading the blogs I love too. It's time consuming but I missss it.

2. Live Theater
Tom and I went to a show Saturday. It was called ONCE. Have you seen it? Well, have you seen the movie? See it. To be honest the play is better. But see it.

Quick Story: The play had one set, a bar. Before the show we were allowed to go up onto the stage and get drinks at that bar! HOW COOL RIGHT?! So we went up and hung out and had drinks (in sippy cups) and while we're up there drankin our dranks and the cast comes out and starts playing music! Great Irish music and they're singing and it's awesome and the show was awesome and YAY.

3. Date Nights
Living with your significant is hard. The people that say it's easy are liars or saints. It's SUPER difficult. We're working on it. And date nights help. Everyone needs a little bit of romance in their lives and we need a bunch of it. What are your favorite date nights?

4. Overnight Adventures
Kinda like date nights. But funner. We're in Hartford CT which, conveniently is half way between NYC and Boston. And there's a bunch of shit also close. We need a billion dollars for La's kennel fees but it's very doable. I also plan on looking into dog friendly hotels. Although Lao would be a douche about it.

5. CRAFTS
I LOVE CRAFTS. And I have a lot that I want to do. I've thought about making an Etsy shop but I'm lazy. Also sometimes crafts are expensive. And also time consuming.

Ok so it really sounds like I need more time and money.. so anyone wanna help me out in those departments?

Insta Dump: I'm Not Getting Married..

So Tom and I are great and all but we're not ready to get married. But pinterest weddings wait for no ring! So I'm gonna do a wedding themed post. Relax about it, I'll let y'all know when things go down. And if you appreciate this post go check out the party planning insta dump and the first insta dump I did.

Fashionable chick, awesome instagram.

UM ADORABLE I'M DYING. Also can't find her instagram account..

sooo purrrty. These chicks know what they're doing.

Fashion, make up, and such a cute sash!

Sleeves on this dress are everything. YES SMP.

Cute little blog! AND THOSE BRIDESMAID DRESSES!

I need to buy everything on this site. And I love their instagram.

HA. But really, this is completely accurate. The knot is synonymous with weddings.

LC always knows the deal.

SO GOOD RIGHT? I mean, you know, when you're ready for it.

Justifying Purchases

I don't know about you all but I'm a shopper. Like, annoying amounts of shopping.

Sale on H&M.com? Bought 6 things.
Sale at Target? No problem, I have a Target card.
Happen to be at the jeweler? I probably need that ring.
On amazon.com to buy a replacement blender blade? Buy all the things.
Returned something to Marshalls? FREE MONEY TO SPEND.

It's bad. I try and reign myself in. And about 60% of the I do ok. Unless I've bought something online that I can't return to a store. Then I'm fucked. (I'm not great at shipping returns) But I'm usually buying things that are discounted (hello poshmark) but whether or not it's discounted, I've come up with a great (in my opinion) way to justify those big purchases. Or the little ones.

Here's what you do:
1. if you can, research to get the best price. if you can't or don't have time, skip this one.
2. decide how much you would realistically pay to use or wear the item one time.
3. think about how many times you will realistically use or wear the item.
get ready for a tiny bit of math!
4. multiply your one-time price (#2) by your number of uses (#3)
5. if the answer to #4 is the same price or more expensive than the cost of the item, it's worth it!

My rull life example:
Tom and I host a St. Paddy's Day party every year. We live right on the parade route so on parade day all three of our friends come over and we kinda go all out. And by that I mean I buy a bunch of unnecessary but VERY necessary green shit. See below.

Our favorite bar actually gave us this because I gave the bar tender one of my Samoas Girl Scout Cookies.
Also yes, those are OTK bright green boots.

You're like, "what does this EVEN have to do with justifying purchases?!" Well, you can't just drink anything on St Patrick's Day. You have a few options: Irish whiskey, Irish beer, or Budweiser/Bud Light shamrock aluminum bottles. Or any other beer or drink in a green cup.

ANYWAY Tom and I were in Stop&Shop and saw a thermos that looked like a 16 oz beer can specifically for the occasion. Except it was $10. So now I do my whole justification process and I think, I'd pay $5 to use this once. And I'll have this for AT LEAST 2 years. So I'm good to go!

It was totally worth it.

🍻💋🍀 St Paddys Parade 2015

A photo posted by Adriana (@acosta093) on Mar 21, 2015 at 12:54pm PDT

Also- green mustaches for $2 OBV worth it. Really that was a post to tell you about my sweet beer thermos just as much as it was about justifying purchases.

#wineglassdiaries

For Easter, my amazing cousins got me a magnum bottle of wine (because they know me very well) and these REALLY cute stemless wine glasses with a tiny chalkboard on each one and they even came with chalk.

So after taking these two photos and putting them on instagram..

Hop{e} you all had a good Easter!! And ignore the fact my drawn on Easter bunny looks like and Easter kitten. (How great is that glass tho!?)

Happy opening day!! ❤️

...I realized I loved the idea of dressing up/taking selfies with my wine glass with some little note on it!

I also decided that it needed to have a proper hashtag. I went through a few iterations and settled on #winenotez which is wonderful. But that wasn't what I really wanted. So then it just came to me, #WINEGLASSDIARIES and now it's a thing and I'm excited to do so many more pictures like that!

Keep your pealed for the pics and the hashtag on all my social media! (the links are down there, so I'm going to be lazy about it. I may even start taking suggestions..

Insta Dump: Party Time

Remember this post? My phone is once again at capacity, and I gotta dump that shizzz onto pinterest. And you all know you have about 4543 screen shots of instagram posts. It's time to TAKE A LOAD OFF! And since I have so many pics I'm gonna do a few posts. First up: party/entertaining themed!