Monthly Archives: June 2011

Summer Day 3 Answer!

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Excuse the unflattering picture of my tired, afternoon work face. I’m really not that good at outfit posts anyway. Technically, this isn’t an outfit post. I just quickly took a pic of myself in the bathroom yesterday when I realized I hadn’t been doing well on my “Summer Pics” challenge I created for myself.

Anyway, the point of posting this picture is that I am not usually one to wear dresses. Occasionally, I’ll throw in a skirt, but almost never wear dresses to work.

However, after doing the bi-annual closet switch from winter to summer clothes, (MI weather is extreme, there’s really no in between weather) I realized I had a lot of dresses that I could pair with a cardigan or throw-over for a work-appropriate outfit.

I’ve been trying to be proactive and laying out my three business casual outfits for the week on Sunday nights. Why only 3? Well, Fridays are always jeans/casual days at the office and I work from home once a week (usually on Thursdays).

Anyway, I got the dress at Limited for less than $20 over a year ago, and the pink half cardigan throwover is from Express that I got last winter for $10. You can’t see in the picture, but I paired the dress combo with my $80 Tory Burch wedges (so comfy!)

Now onto how I get myself to actually DO MY HAIR and wear it down to work one of these days…

Summer Pics Day 3

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Happy Tuesday, friends! I’m dying to get out of work today to go thrift and hardware shop! I’m taking on small projects around the house to decorate each of our rooms. Today is my first attempt at making a fabric headboard for one of our guest rooms!

I will try to post as my projects come along, but for now, here’s a rather blurry shot for today’s pic post…

What is it?! :) Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Cruise 2011: Dining Room Experience

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So, I am trying to get back to my Cruise Recaps, and I’ve just realized that this is going to make me miss vacation/friends while I am also drooling over some of these food pictures.

For those of you who’ve never cruised before, be warned, that there is food EVERYWHERE. I think I honestly gained about 10 pounds over 7 days. I was being overly gluttonous, but hey, what can I say? When there is food available at all times of the day, I will most definitely be the girl eating at every hour, on the hour! :)

I didn’t do a very good job taking pictures of the Lido Deck lunch buffets and/or anything else outside of the formal dining room, so I will curtail my recap to a review of our week-long dining room experience.

Mr.DJW and I have cruised before, both separately and together. We don’t remember much of either dining experience because when we went together we sat at a 2-top and had more of an intimate experience; and the time we went separately was too long ago for us old fogies to remember any details besides “I ate a lot.”

Our dining experience was so much fun on this cruise as we traveled with 8 others in the group. We made it to the formal dining room each and every night for our 8:15 p.m. table at the Silver Olympian Dining Room.

Our servers: Chulee from Thailand, Bryan from India, and Alan from Turkey were always so sweet and accomodating.

They were always entertaining us, in addition to their amazing serving skills, they were pretty talented dancers too!

All 10 of us got close to our servers and each night we were always the last table to close out the entire restaurant because we got caught up in the “brain-teasers” that Bryan showed us after our dessert. And most nights, we were mesmerized by the magician who came around to show us a few mind-boggling “magic” tricks.

Aside from the amazing staff, I have to admit that the food was pretty delicious. I mean, to get a break from cooking for an entire week was a blessing in and of itself, but the dinners was always on point. They always had a plethora of menu options for each course, including vegetarian, non-sugar, and other non-standard food items to accomodate all of the ship’s cruisers.

I was kind of disappointed with some of the “higher-end” items not being up to par, but that’s how it goes when you’re mass producing meals for a ship of 3,000+ people. Overall, the meals were delectable, and the dessert was ALWAYS delicious. Especially, this piece of heaven right here:

Yup, HEAVEN. It’s Carnival’s signature dessert, Melted Chocolate Cake. Mr.DJW and I always orderd it with extra vanilla ice cream. Literally, the cake melts in your mouth. I’m not even a huge chocolate addict, and I enjoyed EVERY bite.

Their seafood dishes were my absolute favorite entrees. I’m a huge seafood fanatic and all of their dishes met my expectations (and then some!)

And again, their desserts (even the sugar-free ones) were AMAZING!!!!!

My tip for the dining room is TRY EVERYTHING YOU WANT!!!!! The servers are always patient and accomodating. If you see more than one menu item you want to try, go for it! Mr.DJW and I have this habit of being THAT couple who orders practically everything on cruises and at all-inclusives; but hey, it’s our vacation right?

’til next recap…

Summer Day 2 Answer

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Clare was right! The pic is of my beagle terrier, Bailey. I’m actually quite surprised I haven’t blogged at all about our furbabies. But, today is so fitting because it’s Bailey’s 4th birthday! Our furbabies are the loves of our lives!

Bailey is the apple of Mr.DJW’s eyes and has earned herself the title of ‘Princess Bailey.’ My dad is also obsessed with her because she ‘watched over me,’ the few years my parents lived in Tennessee.

If you’ve read my page about them, you’ll know that she was Mr.DJW’s 6 month anniversary gift to me. She was a lover from the first day we brought her home. Most days she acts like a cat. She loves cuddling and following Mr.DJW around the house.

She hates playing catch, but loves going for car rides. She’s got her spot marked in both of our cars on the center console.

Even though Bailey loved being an only furchild, she has grown to be protective of Buddy and is his best friend (most days).

I can’t imagine our lives without the love and companionship of our furbabies.

-Do you have pets? Tell me about them!