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Where I've Been.

At the Ke$ha concert last Friday with Lynds and two of her friends.

I’ve become inadvertently pretty busy these days, except not with anything super crazy. It’s a mix of the following:

• VEDA (Vlog Every Day in August). Not that making videos itself takes a lot of time, but editing them takes a bit of time and watching and commenting on others’ videos takes up a bunch of time. When I’m not reading blogs, I’m watching vlogs. (And loving it, by the way.) Check out my channel here.
  
  
• Wedding fever. Okay, I know I mention the upcoming wedding of one of my best friends a lot, but you must understand that I am wedding obsessed in general, and this is the first wedding I've actually attended, never mind the fact that it's someone to whom I am really close. Being a bridesmaid is a lot of fun for me, and I’ve been busy with dress fittings, finding shoes, finding a good strapless bra (arguably the hardest part), putting together a special gift, and planning the logistics of that weekend.
  
  
• Time with friends. I’ve recently: had a girls night with Lyndsay; seen the Glee 3D movie with Ashley; baked cupcakes and gushed about wedding details with Melissa; went to a Ke$ha concert with Lyndsay and her friends; watched the SYTYCD finale with Ashley.
  
  
• Time with E. I typically spend at least half of every weekend with him, since that’s the only time I get to see him. Luckily, he’ll be back at school starting next week, meaning he’ll be a twenty minute drive from me! Of course, that likely just means we’ll spend more time together.
  
  
• Working and doing chores. I’ve been doing my best to pick up as many hours as possible at my part-time job so I can keep up with wedding costs. The job hunt is on hold because I'm trying to keep my anxiety levels low as we get into the last two weeks leading up to the wedding. Also, in lieu of paying my parents rent, I do odd jobs around the house. Recently I let my hours fall by the wayside (I’m supposed to clock five per week), so I’ve been doing a ton of things from yard work to scrubbing the shower to re-painting the banisters.

So basically, life got in the way of blogging. Which is totally acceptable, but I miss it a lot. Once VEDA ends and the wedding is over (in two weeks!), I should be back to a more normal posting schedule.

In the meantime, tell me what you've been up to! I've been trying to stay up-to-date on blogs, but catch me up anyway.

virtual baby shower!

Last month, I got a lovely little e-mail in my inbox with the greeting, “Hey there, blogger!” I don’t get many of those, so I was understandably excited from the start.

I was asked to participate in a very special celebration that included creating a video blog. Even before I finished reading the e-mail, I was bubbling with enthusiasm and knew I needed to take part. So what’s all this hullaballoo about?

We’re having a virtual baby shower!

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In case you haven’t heard, the ever-wonderful Erin of The State I Am In and her husband Ted were blessed with the news that they would be expecting twin baby girls. Her pregnancy journey has been a nerve-wracking and emotional one, with the entire blogosphere biting their nails and crossing their fingers along with her every step of the way as she struggled with her infertility. It seemed like a no-brainer that we’d have a blogger-hosted virtual baby shower to celebrate her little girls.

So, that video blog I was talking about. We were asked, in honor of Erin’s twins, to talk about our favorite things that come in pairs. After tossing a few ideas around in my head, I finally settled on what I was going to talk about and got down to vlogging.


There you have it! Please visit Renee's blog to see a full list of "attendees" to what is probably the coolest virtual baby shower ever. Congratulations again to Erin and Ted, and I hope you loved your surprise!

20sb vlog day!

It's 20sb Vlog Day! Yesss. I'm really excited, and you should be to.

Never heard of 20sb? Well that's sad. Go here! ASAP! And check out more vlogs here.

Before I post my vlog, I want to share my harrowing tale of recording this thing. I decided at 4:30am that I was going to record a video, and I did, and it was great. But I used my digital camera (because sometimes my webcam is spazzy), so Youtube and Vimeo didn't want to upload it. So I went to bed, frustrated.

But! I'm convinced this one is just as good, although I look a lot more tired here. Also, I lucked out and my webcam decided to behave. Yay!

Anyway, here we go.

Please pardon the following:
- my inability to look at the camera for more than like, 5 seconds at a time
- the constant hair touching and adjusting
- excessive use of the word "ummm"
- the fact that the video goes over the requested 2-minute limit... oops.



And yes, I did in fact quote Anchorman at the end, because it's the best movie ever. And because I'm kind of a big deal.