Sunday Social

Happy Sunday! I had such a fabulous weekend because I was actually off and it was my Birthday (yesterday) and got to spend it with the wonderful hubby :) Stay tuned for my post about my Birthday and lots of pictures to follow. So once again I am linking up with A Complete Waste of Makeup for

Here are this weeks questions: 

1. What is the first website you log on to each day? 
My homepage is AOL because it gives me the top news stories in different catergories as well as other news from around the world. I love my news.

2. Give us some funny webistes you visit that we need to know about. . .
I wouldn't say that I ever really visit any funny websites but I am such a celebrity gossip whore that I do have my go to websites like US Magazine, TMZ, and a new favorite Realitytea.

3. Pintrest or Facebook? Why?
This was hard for me- I would have to say Facebook, only reason is because I remember when Facebook started and you could only join if you were in college (yeah that was the old days). I have to say I am so glad I'm married and don't have to deal with dating while Facebook is so accesible. How you can so easily become a stalker without even realizing it. Plus I just started getting into Pintrest but I'm loving it so far.

4. Twitter or Instagram? Why?
Hands down Instagram, I love that you can change your photos, follow celebs, and share you pics with ease. I do need to take more pics though. That needs to be my 2013 NY's Resolution.

5. Favorite youtube video. . . post it! 




I LOVE this video! I always laugh my butt off when I watch it. 

6. Biggest online pet peeve? 
When people are on Facebook Messanger and they don't ever respond back to you. Isn't the whole point of having the app so it acts like a text message? You message back! 

Friday Letters

Good Morning Friday! Gosh only one more day until the B-I-G 26! Ahh!! But I will chat more about that during my letters. I am once again I am linking up with the lovely Ms. Ashley for

Dear Birthday: Wow I can't believe that I'm going to be 26! It was just a year ago that I was in Vegas celebrating my golden birthday. Why does that seem so long ago?? I cannot wait to spend the day in the city with the lovely hubby and just walk around and enjoy the fabulous Chicago weather. 

Here are some pics from my 25th Birthday

Dear Leg: Okay I'm sorry I know I was pushing myself with the stupid box jumps (it was seriously like 3 weeks ago) and I haven't rested and keep pushing myself but can't you heal already?? My foot swelled up so bad that I had to leave work early on Sunday to go to Urgent Care to make sure I didn't have to get my leg cut off because of some skin eating parasite I now had. If you think I'm being dramatic here are pics to show you I'm really not. 

Right after my injury- and of course after I finished my work out

3 weeks later! This is after I went to Urgent Care

I know you are all concerned but good news I don't have a flesh eating parasite but instead a skin infection so I have to put on some heavy duty steroid cream twice a day. 

Dear Weekend Off: Even though it's my birthday weekend I am also excited to just be off this weekend! I feel like it's been a long while since I had a weekend off. 

Dear Crossfit: We have a love/hate relationship, most of the time it is love :) however Thursday & Friday's work out are Brutal. What am I talking about?? Here let me share.

Thursday: 

"Fran"

21-15-9

Thruster 65lbs

Pullups

-- Anyone who is serious in Crossfit measures your level by asking what your Fran time is-- 

Friday:

Deadlift 

7x2 80-89% of your 1 rep max (so for me that means 236-263lbs)

Then. . . 

25 Front Squats @ 75lbs

40 Squats

25 STOH (shoulder to overhead) 75lbs

40 Pushups

Can you understand for my love/hate relationship after these two work outs?? Thank goodness I'll have something to celebrate with. . . Sprinkle cupcakes on Saturday :)

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY

Thursday Crush

Happy Thursday! I hope everyone is having a good week so far, I'm excited the weekend is nearing because I have the weekend off and it's my birthday. Woo hoo!! But the weekend isn't here yet and it's Thursday so that means it's time to link up with Danielle for 

It's bittersweet because Danielle announced that this will be her last week hosting Thursday Crush but she's allowing us to host every week and will announce details to come. 

On to my current crush for this week, I am such a sucker for a great handbag and anyone who knows me knows this isn't a surprise. So I have put together some of my favorite handbags that I lust over. 

Over Size Obsession by jessie-ingoglia featuring prada tote

If I had to choose only one it would be hands down the Hermes Birkin. You can see how obsessed I am about this handbag here. What is your favorite handbag for the Fall?? 

Don't forget to check out my Giveaway- I think it's a pretty good one! 

Once again I'm double dipping and linking up with Caroline for her 

So this week I have to say I'm loving my no chip manicure. I went a couple weeks doing a classic manicure and I don't know how we handled the whole nail polish chipping the second you left the salon. So I couldn't wait soon enough to get my no chip manicure! Here is a pic of my nails that I got done today- 

It's OPI Bubble Bath. 
What are you loving this week??

Someone you should know

Happy Wednesday! I am so excited that today is Wednesday because that marks the end of my 6 day work stretch and a fun filled day of working out, getting in one of my last pool days, and getting my nails done. Can we say Perfect Day?? Anyways. . . I'm really excited about doing today's blog post because I have someone who I would like to introduce you guys too.

Her name is Chelsea and I actually stumbled upon her at Danielle's Blog when Chelsea was doing a guest post (check it out here) about 'How to create your OWN blog buttons'. I found her post to be so informative and super easy to use that after I got done reading the post I opened a new window and was on PicMonkey creating my own button. I was having so much fun and had left a comment for Chelsea letting her know that I loved the post and thanks for sharing. That one comment turned into a e-mail exchange which then turned into her fixing up my button and adding a copy & paste box below! Here is the finished product:



copy & paste code
<center><a href="http://www.glasshalfemptyorfulldepends.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/5394/profilepic3w.jpg" /></a></center>
How adorable??? What I loved is that she did this out of the goodness of her heart and without me asking but her just being nice and wanting to help me out. We have exchanged several e-mails since then and I told Chelsea I wanted to feature her on my blog because WOW what a talent she has in graphic design. Check out some of her amazing work here and also what services she offers here. 
Amazeballs right?! I would love to have that talent to spruce up my blog. But instead I'll have to resort to paying people because my talents run slim when it comes to artistic stuff. Since Chelsea is so sweet and fabulous she is offering my readers a fantastic GIVEAWAY, she is offering 6 customizable social buttons.

All you have to do is enter below and complete the following tasks:- Follow myself of GFC- Follow Yours Truly on GFC- Leave me a comment- Leave Chelsea a comment
The giveaway will be open for one week and I will announce the winner Wednesday August 29th. Best of luck! 


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Me, Myself & I

Hi Everyone! I am so excited that it's that time of the month to be linking up for the

I linked up for the first time last month and had such a great response and enjoyed reading everyone's answers I couldn't wait for this months questions. In case you don't know what this link up is all about there is how it works: 

Here's how it works:

-Link-up goes live the 3rd Tuesday every month and stays open for one week.

-There will be 5 questions to answer each month, posted in advance so that you have plenty of time to write a post.
-If you'd like them emailed to you, we'll put you down on the monthly mailing list.

-Add pictures to your post to spice it up a bit if desired :)

Rules:

1. We ask that you follow each of the co hosts,
2. Pretty please grab the button and place it in your posts & perhaps put it into your side bar to help spread the word :) Don't worry, we won't kick ya out if you don't...we're not Blog Snobs ;)
3. Click on a few other bloggers and make new friends!

1) What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
I would go to law school to become a divorce attorney

2) If you had only six months left to live, what would you do with the time?
I would travel all around the world with my husband. With the traveling I've done thus far in my life I have enjoyed all the different cultures and seeing the beauty of the world. I would want to continue that and if I passed before then I would at least be out seeing the world. 

3) If a front page news article was written on you, what would the headline be?
Compassionate, driven, fitness obsessed, woman who always has a smile on her face but don't let smile fool you she means business and can hold her own in any situation. 

4) What is your biggest pet peeve?
So it took me awhile to think about this one, however it totally annoys me when I take time to enagage in conversation with someone and ask open ended questions to get to know them and they answer them but don't recepriocate and ask me questions. It probably doesn't help that I'm sales and have to engage people all day long so it's a breath of fresh air when someone actaully asks you a question. 

5) What is your favorite chick flick movie?
Again this took me a couple days to think about however once I thought of it I started laughing right away. My favorite Chick Flick is The Sweetest Thing with Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate. My best friend and I would watch this movie over and over. It's still funny to this day 

Here is the trailer of the movie


Thanks for stopping by!! 

Manni Monday

Wow it's Monday already?? This weekend flew by even though I worked all weekend it still flew by (thank goodness because I am off on Wednesday). Anyways let's get to what we really came here for which is all things nail polish. I am once again linking up with Glitter & Gloss for



So the last two weeks I've been going old school and getting a classic manicure so my nails could get a breather from the no chip. However let me tell ya I don't know how we all dealt with classic manicures because seriously it chipped 2 hours after I got it done!! So annoyed. However here is a pic of my nails before they chipped. 

It's the new color from Essie called Miss Fancy Pants and let me tell ya it's a LOVE LOVE LOVE! A staple in my Fall nail collection.  However I have another nail appointment on Wednesday and while it was suppose to be a for another classic manicure I just can't deal anymore so I'm going back to no chip. 

Sunday Social

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far, I have to say I'm totally exhausted! I am working this weekend and when I came home from work today I had to take a nap and to be completely honest I thought I had started this post during the week (because that would have been logical) but I hadn't (ugh) I did have a moment where I thought I may skip this week but I just couldn't bring myself to do it. So once again I'm linking up to do



Here are this week's questions: 

1. What were you like in Middle School/High School? Pictures.

WARNING/DISCLAIMER: I just want everyone to know I defiantly went through my awkward years during middle school and I may regret sharing these photos and I had to dig and dig to find these photos. I probably hid them for a reason. haha. 

                                          This was when I was in 7th grade. I mean I am so pale and clearly the start of my awkward stages. Middle school sucked! 

                                             Embarrassing! 

                                       Finally in High School I knew how to do my hair and make up and my nose didn't take over my face.

                                         Homecoming my Sophomore year of HS

My best friend- we were Juniors, still best friends to this day! 

2. What were your favorite past times?
I mean I grew up in the generation where technology was just taking off I mean we still had dial up. How ancient is that?! So my favorite pass time in Junior High was without a doubt was AOL and IMing. How funny. I would spend hours and hours chatting with friends or coming up with fun new screen names. Some of my screen names you ask? Daria256 (remember that cartoon on MTV), Perky565, dKaOvRiNd19 (I went through this odd stage where I loved the band KoRn and liked the drummer David, it was a short lived stage because the boy bands and Britney just couldn't let me cross over to the other side). 

3. What songs were you obsessed with?
 I mean please there is no comparison I was obsessed with Backstreet boys and pretty much any song they came out with. In middle school I was all about Spice Girls (I mean the closing ceremonies please talk about flashback! I still knew every word!) and I loved Posh Spice and I still do love her. And once Britney Spears hit the scene (Hit me baby one more time. . . ) that song was on repeat. I can remember when a girl got it for her birthday and we had a sleepover and all we did was play that song over and over and try and do the dance. I was such a dork.

4. What fashion statement do you look back on and cringe? 
In Jr. High I didn't really have great fashion because I have scoliosis and so I had to wear a full back brace 24/seven so it didn't allow me to wear cute clothes at all. In high school however I would say that I look back and see how obsessed I was with A&F. I look at some of the shirts I wore with the sayings and I think 'I was such a dork' but at the time I thought I was the coolest thing ever. 

5. Who was your celeb crush?
I never really had this obsession with anyone, even to this day I don't have anyone in the celebrity world that I am in love with. 

6. What were your favorite TV Shows/Movies? 
TV Shows:
Hands down- The O.C.
The Simple Life (remember with Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie- I even have them on DVD)
Laguna Beach

Movies:
American Beauty 
The Sweetest Thing 

Well let's put these years back in the box and seal it up! Glad I could share hopefully you got a chuckle and thanks for stopping by!