My Style Monday and Gameday!

It's another edition of Game Day My Style Monday!

I wore the strapless dress most of the day but the white cardigan when I got cold.

The dress that Hubs got me for our anniversary from "What a girl wants"

Cardigan is from F21

Boots: target

Necklace: Target

Earrings: Etc by Nikki

We got down to Tuscaloosa on Friday, to set up the tailgate.. and *gasp* someone had stolen our spot. Now, we may not own this spot, but it's been our for a while. 

 So, what did we do? We got as close as we could to the other tents. We are mature like that. 

They ended up moving their tents back.

 Late night Target shopping brought us upon this.. 

It's fun.. in da-middle. I am not sure why this was so funny to us. 

 I spied Big AL... and I had to get my pic with him.. even if he did mess up my hair. 

 I got some red sparkly nail polish at Sephora.. it's called "What's your Poison?" Get it.. like a poison apple??

I forgot to take pictures from once people actually showed up at the tailgate.. but it was a good time had by all, with lots of laughs that wouldn't be funny to you, since you weren't there. But.. you are invited!! 

I took this picture for Becca.. I realize the game was a nobody, but there was no sense in the woman next to me falling asleep. I mean, you could only cat nap with the 2 boys that got up at least 10 times a piece before halftime. 

 This picture got a little out of order.. whoops. 

One of the many reasons I love sitting in the zone.. besides real chairs, a locker, air conditioning, and all the Cherry Coke I can drink.. is the red velvet cupcakes. 

Also.. I have a complaint. The student section should NOT be this empty at halftime. It's not cool with me. 

Oh yeah... one more reason I love the one.. Cup holders.

There's only one way to celebrate a victory in my book. And it's doing the Cupid Shuffle in your tailgating neighbors tent. 

Now.. onto my running lately.

The plan was for me to get up Saturday morning before we left for the tailgate and go run my long run of 6 miles.. I mapped out my run only to be told my way in and out of Jay's weren't the best running ideas that I had. So, I decided to go with my safety over my run. The run went through a bad part of town and a busy section with no sidewalks, on top of the fact I forgot my Garmin.. so I decided to a) not get stabbed b) not get hit by a car and c) not get lost. 

I said, "Oh, I'll just do 8 on Sunday instead." So.. I set out to hit the treadmill. Sunday was one of those days where nothing went right. I took my iPad to the gym so I could watch Gossip Girl and found this beauty and thought my luck had turned around!

A PINK treadmill!! I knew my day was sure to pick up! But.. alas, technology hated me and I couldn't figure out how to get the Gossip Girl to play full episodes on the iPad. 

Also.. it was brought to my attention that my treadmill running has been so easy since I don't do an incline, therefore my road races kick my booty because the road is harder to run on then the treadmill. So, I decided to start running on a 1 incline.. which, is taking some getting used to and makes me feel like I am the most out of shape person ever. Which really does a number on my mental toughness. I am extremely stressed right now, and I let all of the other things that I needed to be doing come crashing down on top on my run and I started to feel like I was drowning. I did something I have never done before. I quit. Yep. I stopped running and got off the treadmill. The whole time I was disgusted with myself but I knew what was coming. A mental breakdown. I could feel it coming last week. Being gone on vacation, running a business, 5 weekends in row being out of town-2 of which are out of state, gymnastics, school, laundry, cleaning the house, training, Ladies of the Houndstooth, photography assignments and projects, social networking... it's all so much. Because everything needs something from me. Right. NOW. I guess a good description of me right now is overwhelmed. Or over booked. Or not enough hours in a day.. Take your pick. 

So, instead of throwing a fit and crying and taking it all out on John, I decided to sit down and write out a list. And I delegated certain tasks for John and am trying to look at what is the most important for my mental health to get finished this week. I feel like a mature adult, acting like that! 

I will try to be around the Internets this week.. but I can't make any promises, as I need to drop a ball or two that I am currently juggling. 

See you on the Flip Side. 

NYC.. Day 1.

I'm going to break up our NYC trip, simply because I have a bazillion pictures. :) 

We left C-town about 4 am, to get to the airport- which was nothing but Bama fans and one disgruntled looking Auburn fan- which I wouldn't have blamed him, being as he was stuck in a sea of Crimson in the security line. 

Got to NYC around lunch time. Just in time to check into the room- which was the Marriott Marquis- amazing hotel! Very centrally located. 

We ate at the Carnegie deli- splitting a Reuben sandwich and STILL leave half of it behind.

John thought it would be a good idea to do any shopping and "girly things" before the guys arrived. So, we shopped. 5th Avenue.. H&M, Sephora, Forever 21.. you know, the usual suspects. 

 We literally stumbled upon Rockefeller Plaza and decided to take a picture.. Funny side story. The last time we went to NYC Brooke was with us and we asked a lady to take a group picture with all of our cameras.. I tried to hand her mine and she shook her head and said "No." We laughed about that for the entire trip. Well, a girl asked if she could take a picture of the two of us in exchange for one with her and her friend. Awesome. Then, she praised how much she liked my camera..

Something you may or may not know about me is I am deathly afraid of birds.. pigeons are my worst enemy. I was minding my own business and some dumb pigeon was getting extremely close to my feet- he was going to peck them, I feel sure of it.. 

Cool Hubby who takes pictures instead of helping his wife in need...

 I wanted to go to Grand Central Station too.. and you know what? There was no Gossip Girl OR Serena Van Der Woodsen.

We went back to the hotel and took a cat nap and then headed down to Little Italy for some Lombardi's pizza. This was also Fashion Night Out in NYC and I thought it would be "fun" to go check it out. Another thing you may not know about me is large pushy crowds sent me into a panic attack. So, um, Yeah. We had to leave. 

Made it back to Times Square.. I am looking a little worse for the wear. Pushy crowds and near fatal accidents over a pair of shoes will do that to a gal. 

I will most likely sprinkle our trip throughout some other posts.. Just so you don't get too tired of all the fun we had. 

Yep. It's Another Vlog.

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Yep. It's another q&a vlog. I am kind of obsessed with vlogs at the moment... 

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1.How did you come up with your blog name?

2. What do you think about blog/twitter drama?

3. What's your favorite place to shop?

4. On your ideal day off/free what would you do?

5. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

6. What's your favorite beauty product?

7. What's your most prized possession (not a person, so your baby/kids don't count!)?

8. What's your favorite food?

9. What are your pet peeves?

10. What are your fears?

11. What's been your favorite Halloween costume?

12. Did you/ do you play sports?

13. What famous person do people tell you that you look like?

14. Any freaky talents? Show us! (As long as it's not vulgar... we aren't running a porn link up here!)

15. What's the stupidest thing you've done for money?

Link up!
Also.. we are getting scarily close to my 400th post and no where near my 400th follower. So. I am little disappointed in the Internets. It's cool though. I've still got an awesome giveaway planned. 

Alabama vs Penn State.. Our trip to Happy Valley

I'm not really sure why they call it Happy Valley, since it's in the middle of NOWHERE. But, whatever.

We boarded a chartered bus bound from NYC to Happy Valley for the Penn State game. 

The bus ride was about 5 hours and once we got off the exit, traffic was horrible. Luckily, we had a bus driver that would jump in front of traffic. Pretty sure people hated us. It probably made them feel better that they mooned us. 

Anyway, Here was my game day attire.. 

Dress is from Ellie Crimson 

Necklace: Ellie Crimson

Earrings: Etc. by Nikki 

Shoes: Old Navy

Jay likes to make this face. Don't hold it against him. 

After our 5 hour bus ride, and our "tour guide" making fun of people on the street and a couple of episodes of Gossip Girl, we made it. 

I was shocked to see people literally tailgating out of the back of their cars.. no tents. Except by the stadium, those peeps had tents. 

And? Girls don't dress up for games. EVER. I saw more girls in jersey's than guys. And they looked at me like I dressed for the Prom. Whatever. Don't hate.

Our seats were about 2 rows from God in the End Zone.. but who cares? We were in Beaver Stadium.

I would like to say that Penn State did their white out game for us. Which I think is the coolest thing in college football. It was completely white sprinkled with crimson. I don't care who your cheer for.. NO school can do a white out/orange out/black out like Penn State can and the rest of you are posers. Stop copying something awesome. 

The turning of the "S"-- which looked wonky towards the 4th quarter since they were leaving. 

 If you didn't watch the game, then we won. 27-11. We painted their stadium crimson, peeps. 

 The bus ride back was... eventful. We sailed into NYC about 1:30 am. Girl was tired. I tried to sleep on the bus, but between the peeps sitting next to us who were ENTIRELY too drunk and the dude harassing the bus driver about his love life, I got about an hours worth of sleep. And I was FREEZING. Thank God I stole that blanket from Delta airlines on the way up. I may have jumped off the bus otherwise.

Funny story.. You know how drunk people think they are hilarious when they are in fact the most annoying person on the planet, when they have had WAY too much to drink? And all they want is more booze? Well, the passengers talked our bus driver into stopping at a TA to get more beer for everyone and it turns out, we went out of the way to go to the only TA on the way in a dry county. I had a silent laugh and watched the people next to me pass out. John thought for sure they were going to puke. They were THAT DRUNK. We are talking, falling in the floor, climbing into the empty bus drivers seat before we left, and honking the horn. 

I got some good stories out of it anyway.. :) 

Roll Tide!

Next up... I'll tell you about our NYC trip!! 

Pinterest for Wednesdays

It's Wednesday. So you know it's time to link up with Michelle at The Vintage Apple!

We just got back from NYC Monday night and I am catching up on e-mails and work and I PROMISE to have a post ready about all the fun things we did.. SOON! Until then.. enjoy my Pinning!

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Y'all. I laughed entirely too hard at this picture.

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I love this idea.. I hate to just throw those awesome bags away!

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I love this! Minus the weird horse picture on the wall.. Okay. I kinda dig it too.

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This outfit needs to come live in my closet.

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Girl, you know it's true.

Q&A Vlog

I asked the Twitter to submit some questions for me to answer in a vlog.

 It's about 10 minutes of your life you will never get back. 

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I say Umm and Anyway, entirely too much. Apologies. If you would like to torture yourself in listening to me again, feel free to leave a question in the comments. 

It's a Pinteresting Wednesday!

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I am digging the side buns..

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Yes please! 

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I wish I could paint my own nails like this! 

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I think all I need is about 2 hours a day in the gym and a personal trainer..