my current temptation

Starbucks Shaken Iced Tea Lemonade. I have been trying to knock it off at home b/c $3 a pop just is not getting it nearly once per day (it's a problem, i admit it). So my Liption Cold Brew bag + Crystal Light lemonade was a pretty good fill in. Until today, I used Lipton Black Pearl tea and whoa, what a delicious difference. And you have got to see these pyramid shaped tea bags, super fancy. I just boiled one mug of water in the microwave and then steeped the tea bag. An hour or so later it was cooled off and I made my concoction. Delicious!

I also am a new-ish owner of a salad spinner. I got one at Walmart for $2.97 and it works perfectly. I am not sure how I did without for so long. Goodbye sopping wet papertowels on the counter. I made this salad for lunch: (cannot find the recipe on my computer so here goes)

1/4 c. balsamic vinegar

1/4 c. olive oil

1/4 c. real maple syrup

Whisk together for dressing. Salt and pepper to taste. Add this to spinach or any greens you like, walnuts, extra sharp cheddar cheese cut in chunks and a sliced or diced apple.

Ok, and I just read somewhere about using your waffle iron as a panini press or to cook other things. Has anyone done that?

***edited to add: when I make this at home, I use one packet of artificial sweetener (the Generic by Kroger if you must know). At Starbucks, I get one Splenda for the tall and grande sizes and two Splenda in the Venti. I don't like my tea very sweet so take that into consideration.

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check out whose page is on Ali Edward's blog

MINE!! She is showing some examples from people who participated in the week in the life project (getting tired of that mantra yet?!) and lo and behold if you scroll down here, you will find two of my pages. Ali is really an inspiration. I love her style in all things but she is certainly a go-to, always return to, person for scrapbooking ideas. Click around on her blog, tons of good things there.
I have a few more pages in the works for my "week" project and hope to get it nearly done this week if I can. I am getting super anxious about uploading it to Shutterfly and having a real book printed. Pin It

more pages for "week in the life"

The top one is just a general page to cover a large topic, and one I had LOTS of pictures to support. I plan to include more like this. The next, is the first page of the album. I got pretty far behind due to my computer setback. Everything is up and running now. I just need time, motivation, and the clean house fairy to drop by and absolve me from those duties.
Although I did not take a camera today, my little soccer star scored TWO goals this morning. Go Shelby!

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the last cry of my External Hard Drive

I really, really am thankful that it sent me a few clues to it's impending demise. Thankfully when I took it to my techie friend/co-worker at my new job, he was able to "get it spinning" and download everything onto their server for safekeeping--much more comprehensive than what I did yesterday just to preserve my absolute priorities. Anyway, a new External Hard Drive purchase is in order. Seriously, a hassle but again, totally grateful not to lose all my precious photos and digital goodness...60GB+ worth. Pin It

day 2: a week in my life

Definitely click on the above picture to make it big enough to see, and maybe even read!
I did decide on a few things. One, I changed the font to one much easier to read, per Olivia's suggestion/comment. The rest pretty much mimics the first day, and I went back and changed that font too. I am working now on my first "extra" page which is highlighting the food pics I took during the week.
I have had some serious computer problems again today, making all of this much harder to do. I think the root of the problem is my external hard drive, so I copied and moved around a bunch of files today for safekeeping. I think I will replace it regardless of what my tech friend figures out tomorrow. It is imperative to my digi scrapping!

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