Friday Randoms

This feels like the longest week ever! So happy it's Friday. Here's what I have been up to (and let me tell you, it's exciting!)

After three years together, my favorite curling iron finally gave up on me. It's been trying to go peacefully for weeks but EH kept fixing it and we kept trucking along. It became tiresome having to fix it mid-way through every morning so I broke down an ordered 2.0.

It's so shiny and gold and perfectly accents my gold ribbon tiles, don't you think?

What IS holding up surprisingly well is my shellac manicure from last weekend. It's Bastille My Heart by OPI and I love the color.

Thursday night I accompanied a friend to the Arkansas Business of the Year Awards. It was freezing out which limits my cocktail attire so I settled on this leather sheath from Anthropologie that I've had forever and never worn. Don't mind the messy closet.

Or the oddly serious facial expression?

The night was fun and ended pretty early which is nice on a work night. Now it's the weekend and I'm ready for a nap.

Recent Little Victories

We've made it through half of the work week! Here are just some random thoughts that I'm documenting for no other reason except I feel like typing and well, really that's it. And because what person doesn't enjoy creating a new list, I present these random thoughts to you in list form.

1 // I've mentioned it before, but birthdays in EH's family last almost a week and this year was no exception. Out with friends on Saturday, steaks and presents on Sunday, sushi dinner out on Monday, and down to his hometown for dinner in the Chef's kitchen on Tuesday. All in all, I think we celebrated the heck out of his birthday!

 This was the main course of the technically..fourth birthday dinner? The steak was perfect and there on the left is the most delicious pile of crab mashed potatoes ever. I think we all would have eaten our weight in these if given the opportunity.

2 // Moving on from birthday celebrations, I discovered this week that IcyHot is the greatest invention ever when you have a random body part in pain - like me with my shoulder. Who knows what I did because I'm certainly not the most active person, but luckily EH fixed me up and not only do I smell minty fresh, but for the first time in weeks my shoulder isn't killing me.

3 // Hydrangeas are some of my most favorite flowers. We're lucky that we have several in our backyard but they are fickle to bloom (probably as a result of us being fickle to trim them back each year). Luckily we were gifted this beautiful bouquet which somehow instantly makes our entry table so much fancier.

 4 // Every year EH and several of his buddies go The League style and have a big Fantasy Football party for their draft. We've hosted before and this year we're hosting again - so if anyone has any recipes for a large crowd, will you send them my way? And also please cross your fingers that my potted plants make it out alive. (That's a story for another day!)

There are my randoms. Hope you have a happy Thursday!