Things I'm Loving Right Now

**Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with any of these companies nor did they send me these things for free because I am the voice of the Interwebz. This is just stuff I have purchased that like and I'm telling you about it because I'm a nice person and you're super cool because you read this blog. Kthnxbai!!**

It's SUMMER!!

What better time to talk about all the fun things that are making me giddy right now. It's just a plethora of plunder!!

Since my gray hair is coming in like a freight train without brakes, I've had to change up my hair care routine. I mean, Einstein hair is okay, but when you want to look put together, it doesn't send out that message. Gray hair is rude. It just laughs at you. Dares you to try to make it do something. It's like having a teenager on your head. When you need it to do one thing, it does another and laughs at you. Gray hair, you're a jerk.


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My hair is super fine and dry, but also super fickle. I can't use anything extremely oily or I look like I haven't seen a shower in a few months or that I'm possibly going to buff marble floors with my head at any minute. I gots more sheen than Charlie!!

So when I found something that worked without making me look like a wet cat, I was thrilled!!

These two little gems I found at Walmart. I use them after I get out of the shower and behold, glorious, sleek, shiny, and soft hairs. And it smells luscious too, if I do say so myself. **sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiff**

Yes, this picture is of my hair stuff on the bathroom floor.
Why?
Because I'm professional like that. 

And what is Summer without sandals?! A sad, sweaty, stank foot season, that's what. Ain't nobody got time for that. Living with a house full of dudes, the less stench, the better. From this blog to God's ear! **pulls out Febreeze and Odoban just in case**

I've killed several pairs of sandals this year, including my thoroughly abused, yet loved Born sandals. I had them for close to 10 years and they finally decided to retire. I wanted to cry!! So I had a shoe funeral for them which basically consisted of me telling them I loved them and they made me very happy, but they had to go since the straps were broken and unable to be repaired. Then I tossed them in the trash and had one of the kids take it out before I dug them back out to be unused shoe zombies in my closet. Because that may or may not have happened in the past.

Okay, okay.... so maybe it's happened several times. DON'T JUDGE ME!

So after reading all the sandal recommendations in the Sorta Awesome Hangout FB group, I decided I needed to upgrade to Reef flip flops. I found these at Academy and I'm loving them. Cute and comfy. Two big things in my book.

Then I ran across these at Sam's Club. They were the last pair and needed a home. I'm not one to say no to orphans, so I adopted them. Shoes, you now have a home. I loves yew.

When you have newly adopted orphan sandals, you need some cute nail polish to put on your toes, right? In my world you do. I found these Sinful Colors polishes at Big Lots and Walmart. Some are from the Kandee Johnson line. She's my favorite YouTuber and maybe I want to be her when I grow up.

I'm a sucker for color and being an extremely fair person, I need all the help I can get looking semi-tan. Some of these are matte, but I just throw a top coat on and matte be gone. Matte polish just looks weird to me. I wind up staring at it while I'm walking and run into walls and stuff. In case you didn't know, I am one heck of a smooth operator.

I'm currently wearing the mint one. You'll have to take my word for it because I'm not showing you my hairless Hobbit feet with gnome pinky toes out of courtesy. Yes, I am a good friend. You're welcome.

This next one is my favorite find so far - The Snarky Bar.

I have extremely dry skin, so I pretty much look like a lizard from the waist down. You can see scale-like patterns on my calves most days, even when I use lotion. It's very not sexy and itchy. Totally perfect for a certain awkward someone married close to 20 years trying to woo their husband. I am quite a catch. He is a lucky man. **brushes piles of dead skin away**

I was talking with one of my close friends and mentioned said scaliness and she told me about a bar of soap she had used and how it practically scrubbed all of her dead skin off in the shower. I was like, "WHOA! Sign me UP!!"

Y'ALL!! FOR REAL!!

This is the best body scrub I have used EVER. And I've used loofa gloves, loofas, mesh body puffs, pumice stones (Yes, on my body. Yes, it hurt. No, I didn't care.), store bought body scrubs, homemade body scrubs... pretty much every kind of exfoliant I could find outside of taking a pack of sandpaper in the bathroom with me. Still lizard legged afterward. LAME!!

This thing... is AHHHMAAAZING!! I got the Sweet Breeze one.

It felt like I sandblasted myself in the shower. I'm not kidding, I was having an Herbal Essences moment scrubbing it on my hips. I probably should have been embarrassed, but I was just so amazed that I didn't look like Lady Vastra anymore I didn't care.

It smells fab and it's made in the USA with natural products if that's important to you. You can check out more of their products here. They also have a Passionfruit Coconut Oil I'm going to buy. It smells so good I get all Joey Tribbiani with myself. "How YOU doin'??" RAWR.



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Moving on to lipsticks before this gets too awkward.

It's too late, isn't it?

Crap.

I'm still in the process of figuring out my favorite Summer makeup looks. It's kind of hard to find one since Summer + Texas usually = melt your face off temps. That's not very conducive to wearing makeup. I did find these Burt's Bees lip crayons on Amazon that I'm really enjoying though. These have been my go-to for the last few weeks. I really like the nude color with a neutral lip liner. If I don't wear a slightly colored liner with a nude lip I look like this.

Not my best look.

Although my husband probably would enjoy that look from time to time, preferably when I'm in mid-rant about something he doesn't give a hoot about. We won't talk about how often that really is. This is why I make him pie. He earns that stuff. 

So these are a few of the things I'm loving right now. What cool summer stuff are you loving right now?? 

A Peek at our Spontaneous Kitchen Remodel

So we have lived in this house 11 years now. It definitely doesn't seem like 11 years! It's easy to keep up with because we barely made moving in before boy #3 was born. Like we literally moved in the last of our stuff and 3 days later, I birthed a ginormous baby. That's cutting it pretty darn close!

When we first built this place, my kitchen was ama-zah-zing!!!

Copper and cabinets for daaaayz!! 

Gorgeous cabinets.

Plenty of workspace.

Loads of storage.

Beautiful copper countertops. 

It was seriously a showplace.

And I LOVED IT.

Until I realized copper countertops are like having an infant in your kitchen. 

You have to baby them. There is no "I'll just wipe this down with soapy water and be done."

Nope. You have to keep them dry or they oxidize and stain your clothes. Not to mention how copper is like a giant mood ring and almost everything will leave some sort of spot on it. 

I am not neat in the kitchen. Real life happens. Flour showers happen.

I need a way to clean up easily. 

So for 11 years, my countertop cleaning routine was scrub off anything stuck to the counters (use a razor blade if need be), dry them with a towel, and then spray with glass cleaner and wipe down. It never felt like it looked clean to me. I was always worried it looked gross when I had guests. I daydreamed for a long time about updating the countertops. I mean, I married a guy who sets amazing tile. He can make amazing things. He is extremely talented in multiple trades AND has supreme taste in women. (HELLO. He married me after all.) But I didn't want to trouble ... harass him about it because Super Hubby needs some downtime.

Imagine my surprise when he announced a couple of weekends ago,

"Hey, we're going to re-do your kitchen this weekend."

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Part of me wanted to laugh it off, but the desperate housewife part of me was all over that idea like stink on a skunk. I was so tired of it taking so much longer to clean the kitchen. I was just done.

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We went from mood ring copper ... 

Look at the shiny spots, ignore the cake. 

to these lovely formica countertops. 

And we updated the sink from black fiberglass to white cast iron.

This is a picture I took in Home Depot and texted to J to make sure I had the right things. Words cannot express how I loathe buying plumbing stuff. 

Then, J blew my tiny little mind by putting in a tile backsplash.

Ignore the heinous lighting. We're working on
updating that so it doesn't look like we live in a cave.

Y'ALL!!!! It looks so DIFFERENT!!! It's beautiful!! It's like someone else's house with my stuff in it! 

And of course, I don't have any pictures of it as of yet since I'm trying to rearrange storage options and we are in the middle of living. I will get an updated, BETTER LIT picture up ASAP.

We still have a few things we'd like to change... 

update from caveman lighting to a daylight tone...

build new barchairs...

change up the arches over the oven and sink...

swap out the glass in the corner cabinet...

add knobs and pulls to the drawers and doors... 

But we're not in a major hurry on those right now. We will work on those in intervals. 

I'm in absolute awe of my kitchen. And my husband and sons. They spoil me.

Unfrump Yourself Update

Hey there!! So sorry it's been a while. The last few weeks has just been bombarded with shenanigans and honestly, I've been left with absolutely NO words. I'm in full Grumpy Cat mode.

Look at these things to do!

NO!

Hey, you need to do this...

NOOOOO!! 

Yo, get this done!!

UH-UH!

*to-do list taunts me* Cash me outside. How 'bout dah??

How 'bout  NOPE!!

*covers ears and hums*

La-dee-da!! I can't hear yooooooou, adulting!!

But alas, the adulting must be done, so adulting has been happening.

Peter Pan, you knew what you were talking about with that not growing up stuff.

So in the midst of adulting, I haven't done super great at looking adulty and unfrumped. 

I have come across some simple outfits I'm really loving and have worn them several times because they're easy and cute.

I'm really a big t-shirt and jeans gal, so my summer go-to is shorts or denim capris, so you'll probably see repeats of those in a lot of upcoming pictures. 

This t-shirt, Y'ALL!! This has fast become my favorite shirt this season!! Target, you are my favorite.

This was just a simple, extremely comfy outfit I wore on a slightly chilly day. I'm pretty sure that hoodie isn't going to be back out for a while. 

 And this t-shirt!!! I wear this one at least once a week. It's so dang comfy!! AND HUGE! This is a medium and it's pretty big. 

These capris are amazing. Nine West elastic waist skinny capris. They're comfy, simple, and go with a lot of tops. My only issue is the pockets on the front are fake. **side-eye** Do not tease me with fake pockets, people. I need pockets. I have stuff I need to carry! Like keys, gum, lip balm, small rocks I pull out of the washing machine, spare change I find in the couch or abandoned in parking lots, and occasionally rogue Legos or a cow's tooth in the middle of my floor. Pockets are life. Stop it with the fake ones, bruh.  

I found these capris at Sam's Club. The shirt too. I'm really loving the clothes at Sam's Club. They're good quality and affordable. I had to replace a pair of capris I previously purchased there this year. For some reason, it is frowned upon to wear jeans with a see-through behind. I think that's a double-standard. I mean, did you SEE the pants with clear windows on the legs? Maybe I just needed some clear plastic on the seat of those pants and I could have had a booty window. How do ya like me now, fashionistas?? 

This was a simple "around the house" outfit.  Yeah... I totally cheated and wore capri yoga pants, BUT it was something I wouldn't have been ashamed to be hospitable to drop-in company. 

Here's my modern version of the homeschool mom look. No denim jumpers, but still denim. I felt comfy and cute here. And I think I *almost* look like I know what I'm doing here!! Like some sort of responsible adult or something! WHAT THE WHAT?! 

I KNOOOOW!! 

Shocking! 

I had to include these shoes. They are my new faves and have a fun story. 

So I was window shopping on Amazon for shoes one night before bed. I found this pair of Aerosoles (One of my favorite brands) for $24, so I popped them in my wishlist for later. 

The next day, I ran to Goodwill to scope out their, well... goods. I always go look at the shoes in there. I've found brand new and slightly worn Converse, Uggs, and various other expensive brands in there for $10 or less. I scan each aisle carefully and didn't find much until I reached the very last shoe aisle. Low and behold, the EXACT SAME SHOES I just put in my Amazon wishlist the night before... IN MY SIZE for $6.00!!  You better believe I grabbed those puppies immediately. I would have elbowed the Pope if he'd made a move to grab them off the shelf. I was ready to fight for them. Thankfully I didn't have to. But I did have my "bail me out" sisters on speed dial if I needed them. 

So obviously I'm not unfrumping as much as I intended to, but I'm working on it. I shall prevail. I've been trying out some new makeup and skin care items lately I'm planning on sharing with y'all in upcoming posts. I'm going to do my best to blog more regularly starting with this post.

SOOOOOO....
What are some of your favorite spring/summer clothing items or accessories you're loving this year?? Let me know because I may need to add them to my list too!