5 on Friday

It's finally Friday!  Actually, I'm not very happy about this because I've been on vacation from work all week & it's time to return.  Here are some things that happened this week:


ONE  ||
I made a pact with my car that it can get all the service it wanted once I paid it off & that's why it was sitting in the workshop all week!  At least it didn't look like this when I took it there:

Also, unexpected car repairs are terrible things.  I've never spent so much money in one sitting in my entire life!

TWO || 

I've been on vacation staycation all week!  It has been so fun!  I've been living in a hoodie in my air conditioned house.  The temperatures were hot, hot, hot!  Well, except for today.  I live in a place where I have to run both the heater and air conditioner in the same week!

THREE || 

Audrey 2? #littleshopofhorrors pic.twitter.com/UYVwEYrDiz
— Tiffanie W. (@rockin2thesound) May 10, 2014

I posted that on Twitter about the plant I got my mom for Mother's Day & Mushnik's  Florist's  made it a Favorite.  My life=made.  I love me some Little Shop Of Horrors!

FOUR ||
We went to the zoo!  I love zoos, especially smaller ones, which this one was.  Of course, I took tons of pictures of domestic animals that I can find everywhere:

FIVE ||
My mom got a tablet.  Not really a "me" thing, but I'm at my parents' house right now & my mom is screaming at Candy Crush on her new tablet.  I don't have another thing to put here, so I'm writing about that! :)  She also has no idea where the volume buttons are on the tablet, so it's Candy Crush music on full blast! 

So that's it!  Have a fantastic weekend!

5 Shows Guaranteed To Make Me Fall Asleep

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As I said yesterday, I have a tough time falling asleep on command.  My mind just doesn't want to shut down and sleep when I want it to! When all else fails, I turn on the TV and switch to one of my go to shows that propel me on the road to sleep city.  I can honestly say that I've never watched any one of these shows from start to finish.  I don't know what it is about these shows, but once I turn them on and start watching, drowsiness sets in and I can successfully fall asleep.  These shows have saved me from many a sleepless night and I'm so grateful for them!  Trying to fall asleep is the absolute worst! 

Here are the shows that are guaranteed to make me fall asleep on the regular:

 



Unsolved Mysteries:  I remember watching Unsolved Mysteries when I was a kid.  Lifetime has rebooted it and it's so good; what I watch of it anyway!  What happened to these people!?

Dr. G:  Medical Examiner:  Kind of an oldie [as there haven't been any new episodes since 2012], but again, such weird stories.

Dark Matters: Twisted But True:  John Noble [from Fringe] hosts this show about weird science experiments.

Celebrity Ghost Stories:  I love celebrities and I love ghost stories and I love this show.

Crimes of the Century:  Shocking events in recent history, revisited.

 

I watch these shows to fall asleep fast!

 

Falling asleep when I don't really want to is tough!  With these shows, I'm guaranteed to fall asleep fast!  What always makes you fall asleep?  Are there any TV shows that do the trick?  Please share in the comments!

Sleep Thinking

I've been working some early days lately, which means I should be going to sleep early.  My mind has been totally rejecting any idea of a predetermined bedtime, though.  Here are some thoughts that pop into my mind when I should be sleeping:

- Hey, I had that super cool "boyfriend" in second grade.  I wonder if he's on Facebook?  I should probably check that out like right now.  I'm just going to go on Facebook for this one thing & that's it.  *Proceeds to Facebook everyone I've ever met in my life*

- No, seriously, I'm going to lay down right now.  Wait... is it lie down?  I don't know.  Should I Google it?  But, I'm just having this conversation with myself in my brain so no one is going to judge my grammar. 

- What if people could read my mind. Yeah, no one can read my mind.  If they could, I would have been punched in the face a loooong time ago. #somanyterriblethoughts

After that, it's pretty much either just chanting "GO TO SLEEP"! to myself until I fall asleep or "I DON'T NEED SLEEP!" where I just decide to stay awake until I can't anymore.  Either way, it sucks.

When all else fails, I just turn on one of my go to shows to fall asleep to.  Tune in tomorrow to find out what those are!

Hi

Hi!

So...it's been a while since I've last written.  I guess the only excuse for my absence has been that my life has been fairly boring, which is totally a good thing.  I'd settle for a boring life any day of the week! 

Here's a little recap of some of the things I've been up to since I've been away:

READING  // About a million blog posts!  Even though I haven't been writing anything for my own blog, I absolutely love reading the blogs of others!  There are so many great bloggers out there & I love to see everyone's creativity.

WATCHING  //  So many shows!  Last year was all about the movie for me.  I watched about 200 movies last year.  For some reason, I just don't seem to have the patience for movies this year, so shows have been my jam.  There are only a couple shows that I watch in "real time"; the rest I've been catching on Netflix.  I always catch Revenge, The Goldbergs & Drop Dead Diva when they're on actual TV.  Some of the new (to me) shows I've been getting into are:  Lie to Me, Haven, House of Cards & Ringer.

LISTENING // I have to say that I'm so bad about music.  I listen to the same old songs over & over! I've been jamming out to Josh Thompson's new cd, Turn It Up. I also love me some Jon Pardi.  His Write You A Song cd is awesome.  I've been wanting to listen to the new Jerrod Niemann one as well.

REAL LIFE // is boring!  I've just been going to work & coming home & hanging out on the couch!  It's finally starting to feel like spring here, so I'm probably going to be outside a lot more.  I mowed the back yard last week & have yet to mow the front!  It's been raining here nonstop for days, so my yard is currently flooded.

Well, I guess that's it!  If this hasn't cured me of my blog funk, I don't know what will!