Golden Birthday

Happy Golden Birthday Tyler!!! That is what I posted on Facebook this morning and I received a couple of questions, asking if Tyler was turning 50? I mean they didn't think he looked that old, but wanted to double check what was going on.

Your Golden Anniversary is your 50th anniversary, so it makes sense that one would assume your Golden Birthday is your 50th. However this is what I know a golden birthday to be:

"Main Entry:	golden birthday
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	a person's birthday when they turn the age oftheir birth date
Example:	It was my golden birthday when I turned 25 onthe 25th" - excerpt from dictionary.com

Today on February 28th, the birthday boy (see below) is turning 28! Making this an extra special birthday!

We celebrated Tyler's Golden Bday this past weekend when he flew down to Orange Co. It was filled with outlet shopping (I swear his idea), Tyler's first Chick-Fil-A trip, dinner at a brewery, brunch in Laguna Beach, people watching at the OC "swap meet", tiramisu and champagne, relaxing poolside, and we finished the weekend watching the Oscars eating Chinese food for dinner! I feel as though all we did was eat!

Since I can't be there to celebrate in person, I realized there was a way I could "make Tyler dinner...have pizza delivered! It's not a home cooked meal, but let's be honest there is a 50/50 chance I would have gone that route had I actually been in Dublin!

Help, I'm single and can't zip up!

Recently I've adding a dress into my monthly wardrobe rotation. I was inspired to wear dresses more after purchasing a handful for the wedding. I've learned that when wearing a dress, I feel a bit cuter that day. Plus I never realized how comfortable they were and better yet no muffin top! One morning a couple of weeks ago I was planning on wearing a dress that I hadn't worn yet to the SoCal office. There was an added excitement to my morning, I even hummed a little tune while blow drying my hair. When I had completed my primping and priming I stepped into the dress and started to zip it up when I realized that I wasn't going to be able to zip it up myself! It was crushing! I kept trying to stretch my arms down my back, grasping for the zipper, but wasn't successful. I was able to find another dress that I zipped up 99% of the way, with a cardigan covering the last 1%, so it all worked out. Although I was a few minutes late leaving the house.

On my way to work I started thinking, how do single girls wear dresses? Sure many have roommates, but what about women that live alone? Do they simply avoid wearing dresses? What does one in my situation do?  I'm guessing there aren't too many married women living apart from their husbands, but there must be a fix for this!

I thought I was on the verge of a great idea for a new product, until I came across the "Zip Her". The solution for "independent women". For just $19.95 (plus shipping and handling) all of the single ladies can now wear dresses again! Who knows, if it's worth the money. Maybe I could make my own with a wire hanger? Stay tuned....I will keep you posted!

Sparkle!

Yup, that's right, sparkle and I don't mean the sparkle of diamonds or jewels. I am talking about the sparkles in your beverage, aka carbonated beverages. I'm a huge fan of champagne. You may recall a picture of Kellie and I sipping champagne from a Nalgene.

I've even been known to tailgate with champagne at a Tiger's game...there's no shame! I guess it wasn't any surprise that my wonderful MOH and family had a champagne bar at my wedding shower. 

Fear not, there's no need to send me to AA, this love of sparkle extends to any carbonated beverage. I think it adds a bit of festiveness to one's day! When Tyler and I were creating our wedding registries, we looked at a couple of different carbonating beverage systems and decided on the iSi Twist 'n Sparkle. Taking up only the space of a 950mL bottle, you are able to carbonate ANY beverage you like! Juices, water, wine, even milk (not sure how that would taste, but it's possible)! I have become a huge fan of this product. So much that I bought a second one. I figured we needed one at each house, you never know when the carbonating mood will strike :) I'm really looking forward to using this for pool-side cocktails. My first cocktail? A sparkling margarita!

All in the name of blogging and fashion!

You may be familiar with retail chains such as Target and H&M collaborating with high end designers such as, Missoni, Jimmy Choo, and Versace. This time it was Jason Wu designing a line for Target. I first heard of this on the Today Show when they were promoting expensive looks for less. After falling for this LBD, I was hooked. Plus, I thought it would make an interesting post (let's not forget blogging was one of my New Year's resolutions, so I had to make sure that I got this dress :)

I started stalking the Jason Wu collection on blogs, social media, and of course target.com. I learned that the collection would go live on 2/5, but Target was not releasing the time, they kept saying "early morning". I knew I would hit up the local Target store (thankfully it was one of the stores carrying the collection), but then around 7:30 PM on 2/4 I started hitting up Target's social media sites and I decided I might as well stay up and see if I could score anything online. I mean come on, what else did I have to do, this was a solo weekend!

All I can say is WOW! I had NO idea how crazy it was going to be. Around 10:00 PST, they released 3 dresses and chaos hit. Instantly someone posted the link on FB. Many users couldn't access the link and started calling shenanigans! Either they didn't believe people were actually able to make purchases or began blaming Target for their browsers not updating. I'm not gonna lie it got a bit ugly!

Long story short, I was able to order a couple of items at 10:30ish, set my alarm for midnight (they continued releasing a few items at a time to prevent their server from crashing), ordered a couple of more items and then left the house at 6:30 for the store's opening at 8:00 AM.

Pros: I was able to get 6 pieces, which included the LBD! This launch got my adrenaline pumping, just like Black Friday!

Cons: I wasn't able to get my hands on the very trendy black trench coat (even though the Target I went to carried the line, they didn't carry the full line...annoying!) and I was pretty tired by the time I got home. 

Who knows if any of my incoming goodies will actually be cute on. If not these items are HOT on ebay. One of those items is the "Milu Cat" tote. Originally $39.99, going for $130 with 23 bids! Good thing I picked up that item online...who knows maybe it will pay for a couple of plane tickets and I can visit my hubby!

Cars and Coffee

You may remember back a couple weeks back I mentioned seeing a gentleman and a stuffed gorilla at 5AM on a Saturday morning...ringing any bells?

Well, I shared that story with a couple of people at work and come to find out the event was as random as I had thought. It turns out that EVERY Saturday, an event takes place called "Cars & Coffee". Apparently hundreds of car enthusiasts show up and enjoy old, new and exotic cars.

Maybe I should head back again this week and see if I snap a picture of the gorilla! In the mean time here are a couple of pics from their website.