In other news, I wanted to announce the two winners of the Bimuno IBAID giveaways. Congratulations to Susan and Ross - please email me to claim your prize!
As for this week's musings. Well, where to begin? On Saturday I "celebrated" my 29th birthday with one year experience. I can't say I was overly pleased about this milestone, but I managed to make it through the day without breaking into tears. Success! The worst moment was using the elliptical a day or two before my birthday and putting age 29 in there for the last time. The second worst moment was when my husband and I were looking into symphony tickets and we found out that he could claim a discount for under 30, but I could not.
On a more positive note I enjoyed pedicures with some of my lady friends, two lovely dinners, a play and a brunch. I also received a new DSLR camera. More on that below. And without further ado, my links!
So first of all, wow excited and wow overwhelmed. I was successful in opening the box and charging the battery. I even attached the strap to the camera. After that, I was lost, to say the least. It has been a long time since I felt so ill-equipped to do something or to learn something new. I followed the instructions for putting on the lens - 15 minutes later I was successful. Then I tried to remove the lens. That was a complete and utter mystery to me. So much so that I had to turn to YouTube to find out how to remove it (it was so easy!). I also turned to YouTube to learn how to use the monitor instead of the viewfinder. Don't even get me started on all of those settings. As a result, I sought out some beginner articles on using a DSLR and came across this one. I can't wait to sit down and try some of this out. I did snap a few pictures, with my model Hugo, of course!
We are big smoothie lovers in this house and have one pretty much every day. Recently we have been adding frozen kale and we have found out we prefer it over spinach in our smoothies! But, every once in awhile it is nice to mix it up, so I was happy when I came across this post. I am dreaming about the chocolate-covered strawberry and peanut butter and jelly smoothies - delish!
We are trying to kick our savings into high gear for a few home projects we would like to take on and are working on de-cluttering our lives. De-cluttering is one of the goals I have set out for myself this year. The first of these projects is to organize our utility room, which is currently in very dismal shape. This particular post falls in-line with these goals.
We have been working on a few of their suggestions already - for example, eat everything in the pantry. We haven't necessarily eaten everything in there, but we have really been working to clear out produce as much as possible instead of allowing it to land in the green bin. The go free suggestion seems a little daunting, but I had one major success this past week through GetGifted. I claimed a gift for Foreign Affair in Halifax and discovered that my gift was a $50 gift card. I was certainly excited about this, but was skeptical about whether or not I would find anything for $50. Well, serendipity shone on me that day - I scored a pair of cobalt blue 7 For All Mankind skinny jeans (regularly priced at $295) from the "now or never" rack, marked down to $50 on a tax-free day. I walked out of there without spending a cent and on a shopping high like no other!
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