Snow Days!

On Thursday, Dallas got about a foot of snow- breaking their all time record for the most snowfall in a 24 hour period. The weather totally knows I'm here.  The previous record was like 7 inches or something back in the 1960s. All of this to say…I learned how to drive in the snow on the way to work that morning, got to go home at 1 and had Friday off! Hello 3, almost 4, day weekend!

1.  I went for a little snowy adventure - so here are some pictures of everything within 50 feet of my apartment, covered in snow.

2. I learned that people who grow up in places where the weather does more than just be extremely hot don’t let the cold, rain, snow, or anything else get in the way of their getting dressed up ever so cutely. They just wear trendy sweaters and shawls, tights, and boots that I know for a fact cost more than my rent.

3. On rainy days it is 100% allowed to wear Wellingtons to work. Good thing I bought some in Arizona when I had absolutely no use for them. I’ve already worn them twice here.

4. I worked a wedding last weekend at The Mansion on Turtle Creek. So so SOOoO pretty! A bunch of pew-markers got left in my car so I have flowers all over my apartment!

5. The mother of the bride brought us sugar cookies from this cute little bakery.  It's so bad that I don't have someone to share them with!  I've already had WAY too many.

6. I finished a painting. This was trial number 2…the first one was super-duper ugly.

7. I did my “mending”. My grandmother would be so proud of me…for actually doing it, and also for using that word. Mending. I like it.

8. Fixed, altered, accessorized, whatever you’d like to call it- a pair of boots I bought a year ago and haven’t worn because they looked weird. Well not.any.more!

9. Took pictures of my Sea-Monkeys because I know you all are DyiNG to know what they look like. The one in the picture is the fatty cannibal, and he still looks small.

10.  Went dancing and to the Aquarium with new friends!  So fun!

to my.friends who are getting.married...

I’ve been holding out on you. I check a whole list of wedding blogs every day. There are a lot of gorgeous weddings, some great vendors, and a bunch of DIY ideas.


1. Style Me Pretty

2. Style Swoon

3. 100 Layer Cake

4. Wiley Valentine Paper

5. Oh So Beautiful Paper

6. Pretty Pretty Paper

7. Elegance and Simplicity

8. Ruffled

9. The Royal Scoop

10. Quail Bridal

These sites range from vintage weddings, stuff that’s different and trendy, to paper goods, and bridal fashion.

Where have all the Sea-Monkeys gone?

I have been a pet owner for less than a month.  I've never really had my own pets before, mostly because I don't like things that lick, get fur everywhere, and smell bad.  And because pets are all high-maintenance and stuff.  Not for me. 

After my Sea-Monkeys hatched, I went from owning zero pets to owning 75.  Or at least I thought there were 75.  They were so tiny and swimming around really fast, so it was hard to get an accurate count. 

Every day I look at my Sea-Monkeys, just to see how they're doing and every day, the number of little fish has gotten easier and easier to count because there are less and less of the little guys swimming around!!!! 

I'm down to TWO little fishys!  One of them is really big....like the size of 4 normal Sea-Monkeys and the other one is itty-bitty....like maybe it's a baby.

Where did the rest of them go?  I have no idea.  They're not floating at the top of their little plastic aquarium. 

I made a list of things that COULD have happened to my Sea-Monkeys....

1.  The really big one is a cannibal fatty and ate all of his little fishy friends.
2.  I fed them too much.  I gave them one small scoop of whatever it is that they eat every other day just like the instructions said.  Sometimes they still had food but I gave them more anyways because I decided they wouldn't eat the old, soggy fish food anyways.
3.  I didn't feed them enough.  It said to wait 5 days before you feed them for the first time.  I thought that was a long time, especially for babies, to go without eating and I almost decided to feed them anyways....But I didn't. 
4.  The water wasn't pure when I hatched their eggs and I accidently poisoned them.
5.  They could have gotten too cold.  It has been extra cold here!
6.  They didn't get enough natural sunlight....the sun hasn't been out in like a week and a half.  Who are we kidding, I haven't been getting enough natural sunlight. 
7.  Maybe there were only 2 from the very beginning.  I was sure there were 75, but they were swimming so quickly....
8.  The instructions said to oxygenate their water frequently because they need to breathe.  I didn't know how one would go about doing that, so I skipped that part....so maybe they suffocated. 
9.  Maybe they died of boredom because I hadn't gotten around to buying them their shiny diamond surf boards.
10. They just disappeared.  Into thin air...or water. 

I just remembered that those shiny diamond surf boards were supposed to keep my Sea-Monkeys from becoming "over-weight"....maybe I should still get them because I think I own one tiny-over-weight fish thing.