You know you’re a crazy blogger if..

When people ask me about my hobby’s and I say “blogging”, I am pretty sure they think that I am crazy. Maybe I am.

……….

You have blog best friends.

Some of your best friends you have never met.

You reread posts, because you imagine that you and a friend are talking when reading them.

You have more than 15 emails in your outbox asking for button swaps.

Your twitter feed is 90% bloggers

Your calendar has post due dates on it

You’ve been to a blogger meet up

You take pictures with the SOLE intention of putting them on your blog.

Half your sentences start with “I read this blog and…”

You have a blog board on pinterest

Your blog has its own Facebook page

You start working on your blog, and all the sudden it’s 6 hours later.

You get super excited when you learn the smallest tid bit of HTML

You know your favorite blogger’s pets by name.

You can name one link-up going on for each day of the week.

You contemplate buying (or buy) an iPad to read blogs ALL the time

You have your own email for your blog.

When you hang out with REAL people you talk about your blog friends.

You’ve created a vlog

You try to think of talents so you can host a giveaway

Did I miss any?

What do you guys think, are you crazy bloggers? Have you been embraced into the crazy blogging community?

Wonderful Reunions!

Today I have been frustrated up the bum (I’m not sure where that expression comes from — probably the bible). I irritated and bugged for reasons relating to this post. But it’s about time to get over that. There is seriously nothing worse than being in a bad mood. I need to take my own friggin’ advice and just take some deep breaths. There should not be anything about to cloud my day/night.

This weekend should be awesome. Tonight I am hanging out with my KJERSTIN! I cannot wait to see her. She has been one of my closest friends for close to or longer than 10 years. We were little tater tots when we met. She moved to Southern Utah for college, and we’ve had a long distance relationship for about 4 years now. Long distance relationships are hard. We can’t see each other on days that we need a break or are super stressed out and just need some girl time. That would be a long drive for some girl talk. Her parents still live up here, so whenever she has a family weekend I jump in and steal her.

We planned a romantic evening of Kj, her boy and Jared and I to hit up the MacG (Macaroni Grill).

So wish me luck in forgetting about my stressful morning, and look for some cute photos of our reunion on my twitter account in about 2 hours when I am off work!

I love all your blogsters.

This is Kjerstin and I on my wedding day. She was a GORGEOUS bridesmaid. I love her.

Please have wonderful weekends and tell me all about them :)

Fancy those photos!

YAY!

That is how happy I am to be posting this right now.

A long time ago there were 2 girls in high school one was Miki and the other Kyra. Kyra and I didn’t know each other too well in high school, but luckily our little brothers are the same age and were besties (yeah boys can have besties too). A while ago I was pathetically cropping a ton of photos to try and make blog buttons, twitter pics, and profile pictures for my blog. The pathetic that is like I am cutting out Jared’s head, and you can still kind of see him.. Well, Kyra noticed my pathetic attempt and decided she would change my life. She offered her incredible talent as a photographer at KC Photography. So we met up last Wednesday and did a fun little shoot. Which ended in me locking my keys in my car (along with my cell phone, iPad, laptop..), and having to make Kyra drive me back home to use Jared’s cell phone to call Triple A. That’s right. A classic Miki move.

Anyway I must be cursed, because anytime I am having photos done it rains. Our engagements, our wedding photos, these photos. Somehow if you have a photographer with an awesome eye, they can make anything look good. One reason I loved shooting with Kyra is because she really is just easy going, and not shy. Which is good, because I hate it when someone is too shy to tell you your bang are messed up, your zipper is undone, your hands look weird in certain positions and so on. You know what I am talking about, so then you get your photos back and are like what the heck why can you see my undies in that shot?

I know we did a friendly poll voting for my outfit, which ended in me grabbing every article of clothing I actually love and bringing it all! Which I decided is a good idea, because then you know you’ll love your outfit if it is just a combination of everything you love.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for!! Here are some of my favorites from the photo shoot.
 I will put the whole album up on my Facebook page, and I want you all to come see them and comment on them all!
I need help decided which to use for buttons and profile pics!

Also check out kyra:

on facebook

and on her blog

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What do you think?? Are you swooning?

yeah me too…

Is it weird to look at yourself for too long?

A gift to myself

Blogging is hard work. I enjoy it, and I love it very much. That doesn’t mean that it’s not incredibly hard to make time every day to post, answer emails, fix the blog, keep up on your twitter/facebook and answer and read comments. Am I right?

I decided to give a gift to myself. I entered Dorothy’s homemade blogger swap. Dorothy and I were swapping partners, aka swingers. Pretty much the only rule was that the gifts were homemade. We were suppose to send the gifts out on the 18th. Seriously I checked my mailbox every single day after the 18th. I was so excited to get my gift. Even though I made and mailed a gift. I felt as if I was just receiving one. There is nothing better than getting snail mail An awesome package with your name on it. Something that is not a bill!

Dorothy out did herself. She made me the CUTEST clutch I have ever seen. It also came wrapped in twine. I am in love with twine. Seriously in love.

The clutch is coral on one side and teal on the other with chevron print. Seriously, If you can win a blog swap I win.

Plus look how freaking cute the inside is. She used all up-cycled materials. I am in lover lover LOVE

Then as if that clutch isn’t the absolute best she also included COASTERS! Whhhhat?

How in the world did she sew those? I  have no idea. I am better off not knowing I think.

So If Dorothy ever comes to you from Goodbye.. Yellow Brick Road, and asks to do a blog swap…. DO IT! Then you and your puppy can enjoy presents all day long.

Sometimes I wanna scream, but instead..

Do you guys ever get a super stroke of stress irritation? I definitely do. I will seriously be totally fine, and then in a matter of second I am either overwhelmed and insanely irritated. I realize that this is one of my characteristics. I am always trying to battle it. For instance today at work, I am totally in a great mood banging out some productivity, and a certain brother/coworker (sorry you’ll probably read this) made me so angry. Over something stupid… the placement of a printer, only with your brother right? One of the joys when working with your family. Anyway I know that I am sensitive and I will hold onto things. I try really hard to not too explode and turn this into a catty sibling fight. Because seriously all I want to do is freak the hell out and go back to when we were 6 and 7 and pull his hair and punch him in the back with a lollipop in my other hand probably. I bet a lollipop would totally relieve any irritation.

I decided to start taking notes of how I can calm myself down and relax NOT react. Otherwise I shut down. I stop talking to anyone to make it obvious that I am irritated/ childish. Also I am known to be a cryer. I really just want to cry all the time… happy or sad but definitely when I am irritated. In my world crying solves pretty much everything. It can be looked down upon when you are at work, fighting with your brother over a stupid printer. (I already hate that printer - look at all the anguish it has caused me )

These are my stress/anger releasers for when I get mad in the work place or anywhere :)

1. Breathe Deep and Don’t Retaliate – This is big for me, I always want to keep the argument going to prove that I am clearly right.

2. I immediately have to vent – Venting has always been a big part of my release system I always email the hubs, because writing it down makes me realize that sometimes it’s not a big deal. Like not at all.

3. Take a minute to do something you enjoy – {Don’t tell your boss I told you to do this} Pinterest, Facebook, Blog.. don’t take hours, just 5 minutes. It helps get your mind off why you’re irrationally irritated.

4.Forget about it – Don’t let something silly ruin your day or even your hour. It’s totally not worth it.

Do you guys ever get super irrupted at work or anywhere that you need to calm down – What do you do that helps? I am serious when asking this, I always need advice. I am a mess.

Proof That I am also happy sometimes :)

3 awesome blogging tips!

I have been asking lots of questions on twitter and Facebook lately. I am really trying to grow my readership and get the most out of all the channels there are! I decided to write up a conclusions of the top 3 questions I was wondering, so that all you blogging fools much like myself could benefit from the feedback that I have been getting. We will keep it simple and sweet. However if you have more advice on these topics or any other topics that you have come to love while blogging I beg of you PLEASE SHARE!

1. Twitter - I have come to LOVE twitter. I feel kind of silly, because I was so against getting one for so long. I love it for blogging because, it’s easy to get ahold of other bloggers. It is real time information, I find out first when people need someone to guest post for them or questions that other bloggers can answer for me. It’s a fun network. I also follow mostly bloggers on twitter, which makes it my go to place for anything blogging related. As oppose to my personal Facebook, which I choose not to contaminate with all my blogging knowledge :)
2. Facebook for your blog - Do it! If you are wondering or debating if you should do this, the answer is definitely. It is kind of the god of social networks. Everyone has a Facebook, not everyone has a twitter or a blog. So for all those people who don’t have GFC or twitter a Facebook page for your blog is the best way for them to keep up. However I do highly suggest that you ask questions, post photos, and do more with this Facebook page than just say “New Post”. Annoucing that you have a new post up is totally awesome, seriously. I just think that you want to give your page personality with photos and questions, so people can interact on your page.
3. Consistency - Be consistent! I can’t tell you this enough. Whether it means scheduling posts ahead of time or however you want to make sure your blog is consistent. Just do it! The most annoying thing to me is finding a blog you love that is posting 5 times a week, and then all the sudden a month goes by with no updated. Then when they reappear I’m not as compelled to read their new posts.

Over the past few days those are the top 3 tips I have picked up. Do you agree/ disagree? Do you have more advice? Once again, please share :)

If I wasn't scared before..

Just to be clear. I am NOT pregnant. However that does not stop me from clicking on a bunch of people’s “baby boards” on pinterest. I don’t click on them for normal reasons like seeing adorable babies in extremely large bows. I click on them because they always have pregnancy articles pinned. This is like birth control for me. I don’t have baby fever, I how I DONT have baby fever. But if I ever get it, I can just remember to go back and reread all these absolutely horrifying articles. Today I came across this article:

10 things they don’t tell you

This article completely horrified me. Not because I don’t think it’s true, but because it is true. It is talking about 10 things they don’t tell you about AFTER you give birth. I highly suggest everyone who has baby fever read this. Just to tame the fever. I like babies and kids, I am not a child hater. I just KNOW that I am nowhere near ready to be a mom or deal with some of these things mentioned in the above article.

°(your period) It lasts as little as two to three weeks or as long as six weeks after birth.
°Your crotch might be a mess. You may be dealing with a swollen, stitched up mighty mess that even Stephen King couldn't dream up
°Your hair might fall out.
° A jury full of mothers with newborns wouldn't convict you if you bludgeoned him (your husband) to death with a breast pump.
°Pooing is scary.


Go read the article, and tell me if you still have baby fever.

Why I never get anything done.

This is the story of a girl. A miki girl.

I work from 9-5 and do the whole bit, right? Usually at work I am ready to go, and productive. I get everything I need to done, plus some. When I look at the clock and see it’s about 4, my body starts to shut down. It knows I need to go home. When I leave work, I never EVER want to go out. I feel like the drive home is the only thing standing between me and my relaxation.

After I get home, I usually take a shower nap and put on some yoga pants. Then I cuddle up with Shia and Jared and we watch all our shows. Our whole line up for the night. Then we meander around the house doing in’s and out’s like laundry, dishes, play a little foosball, take a walk, whatev.

So the moral of the story is. I never get anything done on weekdays, and if I do. It’s very rare. I feel like it is a daunting task to go to the grocery store after work, or out to dinner with friends. All I want to do it head home and relax my brains out!

Am I extremely lazy or does anyone else feel like the exerted all their allotted energy already by the time work is over?

P.S.

Look at this sneak peek of the shoot yesterday with KC Photography. The rest of the photos will get posted on Becoming What I Always Was’s Facebook page, so if you’d like to keep an eye out for them, they’ll be there soon!

Photoshoot help PLEASE?

I am doing a photoshoot today, hopefully. The weather is pretty bad here, and I hope it’s not pouring rain tonight. The photoshoot’s purpose is just to get some good shots of myself that I can use for blog buttons and my social media icons. KC Photography is doing the shoot (I will do a whole feature on her after I get the photos). I have a dilemma though.

I feel like I never can pick out cute outfits! I browse pinterest always before I go shopping, and then when I get there. It’s like I have no idea how to put an outfit together. I have gone to TJ Maxx and Ross like a million times this week and past weekend to try and find a new outfit with no such luck. So last night after I got home from a devastating loss at bunco (4 way roll off!) I destroyed my closet looking for an outfit. I obviously love stripes as you will see with my photos below. But Jared and I decided on a final two outfits. This conclusion was NOT easy! Shia was extremely bored with the process. I made a little collage of two outfits.

Which one is your favorite?

Which outfit should I wear?

Outfit 1 (white pants)

Outfit 2 (Coral pants)

Dennys.

Last night I got a random phone call. It was from a friend that I used to hang out with all the time in high school. He was inviting me to go to Denny’s. He had already had this whole thing set up. He was bringing our old crew. It was him, his cousin, our friend and me. We all used to hang out everyday in high school. I haven’t seen them in quite a few years so I decided a late night Denny’s trip was definitely worth it. I put on a T Shirt, Jeans, Scarf and head out the door to go meet up at 10pm. It’s funny to me that I haven’t seen any of these boys in 3 or 4 years, and when I saw them I felt like a senior in high school again. I was brought right back to the old days.

2 of the 3 brought their girlfriends. Jared didn’t want to come (I don’t blame him, ha!). And there was a moment there when no one really had anything to say. It wasn’t awkward at all, and I just had a quick minute to reflect on how much different all of us are now. I am the only one married with a home and a fur baby. We were reminiscing about spring break trips, late nights in my corolla ( we took that car everywhere), ditching class, friends we lost touch with, old boy/girl friends and everything under the sun.

For a split second I missed being in high school. I truly missed not having any bills to pay, nothing to worry about except homework, the only judgement that mattered was your teachers, the biggest fear was your grades, you were able to see your friends every day no matter what, stress ended at 2:25pm, the best sound ever was the school bell letting you out.

High School was awesome so many years ago.

But I only missed all of that for a split second. I also remember being insecure, crying about boys. Not knowing where my life will go, what I wanted to do, having my parents word as law.

I am so happy my life is where it is now. I wouldn’t change a thing. I drove away from my high school friends last night, and it felt good, really good to drive home and cuddle up in my bed with my puppy and my husband.

High School:

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Problems with a ginormo family.

My family is comparatively small. There is my parents, 2 brothers and I. This is what I grew up with. Things were always fun and always crazy. So now that we are all grown up. I am very close with my brothers, we pretty much know all of each others business. I know who they are dating, who they like, what they are doing Saturday night, and I have all of their friends phone numbers in my cell. Even when Jared joined our family nothing really changed. My brothers and parents had an awesome connection with Jared from the start. My dad is always wanting to bring Jared in on business deals, my brothers take him paint balling and golfing. Even with adding someone we have this very close knit family.

When I joined Jared’s family it didn’t feel like a smooth transition at all. I feel like even though we have all known each other for a while we don’t have that close family bond. Sometimes I still feel like the awkward girlfriend at a family dinner. Don’t get me wrong. I love his family, I love all 17 of them. Yes, 17 in total: 2 parents, 8 kids, 5 in laws, 1 niece and 1 nephew.

Here we all are at Devin and Calee’s wedding in June 2010.

Now I don’t mean to say that we don’t get along. We do, everyone is very nice and we have a common bond obviously. I just always crave a close bond with all of them. There are a a couple siblings that I connect with on deeper levels and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate having them in my life. I crave being valued. I really want to share with all of my in laws that deep binding love. Married and transitioning into being a functioning unit was mentally hard for me. To think I wasn’t just a “loveless” anymore, I am now also a DeMann. I feel like to be family there has to be an unbreakable bond and that’s something we should all strive for. If for nothing else than to just say hey you’re my sister/brother in law and I have your back in every way. In your personal life, in your career choices, in schooling, whatever it is I am there. When you have that solidity, then it’s family. Does that make sense?

I have explained this feeling to Jared a few times, and he really does get how I feel with the exception of thinking it’s a problem. He knows the siblings that he connects with and sticks to them. He knows there are parties and get togethers he won’t hear about, and that’s okay for him. But for me it kills me to see photos that are uploaded on Facebook or sitting at family dinner listening to people talk about things that we weren’t’ aware of and it just makes me feel invaluable. I feel like I haven’t made it into the circle yet. After over 3 years, I am still working my way in.

To be clear. I don’t think there is some conspiracy that some siblings are trying to make me feel like this. I think it is a value that I grew up with that Jared also grew up with (family), but we just have always had different families. It’s exhausting trying to keep up with 17 lives, but I am not even given that option. I just find out about everything after it’s done on Facebook.

That’s my frustrations. Does anyone else have this overwhelming issue?

I went a little Facebook Crazy

This is the background of my story today..

So I work in the marketing field. I work for a company that my dad started as freelance and then hired me when I started working on my degree in marketing. Over the past year or so we launched a product called Social Copilot. This product is for businesses who know how important Facebook is for their business, but don’t have the time to update it. We build an interface (well mostly my awesome brother did) and then we “CoPilot” your page.

Now that you have that background info, you’ll understand a lot of my day is consumed with learning about Facebook. Learning how the apps work, how the new timeline works, how to read insights, and industry related content.

Today I got a little sidetrack and was playing with my personal page and my blog’s page. I was having a blast, until I realized I actually made a milestone marked “hobby” for the day I started playing the Sims. Then I made some more… the day that I adopted my iPad and that one day (yesterday) that I overcame the common cold…

So yeah I went a little Facebook crazy.

Then I thought it would be fun to see how many of my bloggin’ peeps made Facebook pages for their blogs? I have come across 2 or 3 and ,of course, liked them. I just want to know how you best use them? Or if some of you would rather like a fb page to see updates instead of blog lovin’ or GFC. I know that when the blogs that I have liked on Facebook put a link to their post I 90% of the time click on it, when I may miss it in my huge blog feed on google. I need some insight here.

Any advice?

Everyone needs a Bully.

Let’s go back into the days before I was a puppy mom. Well, obviously I was a whole different person, because no my entire phone is filled up with pictures of my bulldog, my entire youtube channel is of Shia and everything is Shia related. Right? Totally. Well, before I had Shia, Laughter (pronounced Lodder) had a bulldog (well he still does), but Jared and I would babysit her when he had long hours being a nurse, and when he was able to get away for vacation. Before Shia, Wheaty was my bully. Now Wheaty is like Shia’s Bff. Seriously. 

These are two of my favorite videos of Wheaty. She has such a fun personality, and she's a people please. We thought our bulldog would be the same. When we got Shia she had some of the same personality traits, but she's also really hyper and WAY more stubborn then Wheaty. She won't dance like Wheaty either.

Now don't you all want to go out and get your very own bulldog.

Shia and Wheaty being BFF's

Here's one more video of Shia L. Spinelly, she does tilt her head a lot.

Okay bulldog overload right?

Happy Thursday!

Or as Joey on Friends would say remember it like this:

Monday = One Day

Tuesday = Two's day

Wednesday = what WHEN DAY?

Thursday = Third day!

Nightly Routine

I seriously feel like I have the longest night time routine. I realized this tonight. About 20 minutes ago to be exact. My mom is an esthetician, right? She’s super good at facials, and all things skin. So every time I see her she gives me more and more products to use. We have it down to a pretty great science now. Every season, I have to use different things switch it up a bit because I have super dry skin. Any facial scrub makes my skin peel off on my chin and nose. Then make up makes me look like an iguana shedding it’s skin. Which is only attractive to other reptiles.

Here’s all the products I use pretty much every night. Except when I am too lazy, and just use those wipes and get off my mascara.

I don’t even really know what all the products are. I know the orange tube is like a bleach to even out my insane amount of freckles. They are angel kisses (that’s what my mom used to say) but I have SO many angel kisses. I only want like one or two. In the summer I turn into one big face freckle if I don’t even them out, then I look like I am 8. The spot healing acne gel I swear by. I woke up the day before my wedding with a huge monstrous pimple like the one Chris, on family guys gets and they become friends. Like that! I used this and bam! killed it overnight.

My favorite product is the little eye drop bottle. It’s generic latisse. (photos of clients) My lashes are long and thick now. I longed for lashes since all those mascara’s are only for people with gorgeous lashes, you know? This stuff is a miracle worker. I love my lashes now. Also what is your favorite face scrub, I can’t find one that I really like. I use the green bottle now, but it’s not my favorite. Do you guys use tons of stuff or is it just me?

I decided to share all this with you, because how many of us really love our skin all the time? I have been getting complimented on my skin for a few months in photos I upload, and I wanted to share that there is a lot of product behind my clean face :) Seriously if anyone is interested in anything let me know, and I’ll get my momma to hook it up :)

Here’s some clean face photos. When ever I am taking photo’s of myself I make weird faces.

Let's discuss my pet peeves?

Okay I am sure all of you are so sick of hearing me complain about how I don’t feel good. So I decide to vent about everything else that has been driving me batty.

1. When people ask you to do things for them, when you already gave them all the tools to do it themselves. If you didn’t want to do it yourself, that’s fine. Just don’t ask me to stop what I am doing to get you logins, info, and admin’s if you plan to just have me do it. Ya know what I am saying?
2. I hate when I am trying to nap and the sun just is at that wrong level, so you can’t hide from it no matter what.
3. Hard boil Egg breath. I love hard boiled eggs, but I don’t like to smell like them all day.
4. Game of Thrones last night, HELLO thanks for the hour of porn.
5. When Jared goes to sleep way later than me, and I am exhausted in the morning and he’s all chipper. I envy his lack of need for sleep. How do people live off of 4 hours of sleep a night? My body is angry unless I get a solid 7.
6. When people still my food in the fridge at work! Oooh this angers me. Mostly because today my throat hurts and I brought yummy water, and had it chillin in the fridge. I went to get it and BAM some horrible person stole it. Maybe not a horrible person, but a bad decision.
7. I don’t like when I log on to blogger and there is a solid 5 scrolling pages of link-ups. I like link ups, but I don’t like to read the same content across a bunch of different blogs, ya know?

Okay, I feel like that was a solid venting session. The good news is… remember playing the Sims? Yeah… I found a FREE version on my iPad. Needless to say while I was laying in bed this weekend. I had some great entertainment. My sims are all gardeners, and they make butt loads of mula. Today I wish I was a gardener, because it is so nice outside, and I wouldn’t mind getting a little sunburn. Maybe I’ll take Shia L. Spinelly for a walk when I get to go home. Which is in half an hour! Yeah budddddy!
Which reminds me… Do you guys like the Pauly D project? I am still undecided.

Sickly dead Miki's

Lately in my life I just keep wanting everything. This might be normal for some of you, but it is so not normal for me. Let me give you some insight. I have always been an extraordinary budgeter. When I know exactly how much money I have “extra” that month. I always would be like oh if it’s only $100 do I really want to use $20 on that shirt. My answer was always no no no. Somehow my miI feel as if I may be dying or at least I did. I hear that a sickness has been going around, and everyone is getting it. Is this true? Are all of you sick? The pessimist in me just wants to sleep all weekend and be waited on hand a foot doesn’t that sound nice? But the realist in me says, “hey girl get on up” It’s suppose to be nice this weekend. It’s been kind of iffy weather here in Utah for quite a while. I really want to make the most of the sunny weather. Take Shia out to the park, Take Jared out to the park..

Anyway. All I have done today is wake up to call into work sick, eat some panda that Jared got me. Then sleep sleep sleep.

Can I insert a side note here: When you are sick you should definitely buy an iPad. I seriously just downloaded apps all day today, well when I was awake. My favorite so far is called Sleep Pillow. I downloaded a sleeping app. Yeah that’s me… It plays cute noises to me while I was sleeping, so I was able to make believe I was in a forrest. But not a scary one, just ones with baby deers and frogs. Now that doesn’t sound scary. then it started to rain. I must have been in a cabin at that point, because it was a down pour.

The point is that I slept like a baby doll. A dead baby doll.

I woke up feeling like I could at least try and get out of the house and put down the iPad. Now I’m just on my laptop - so I guess I am technology driven. Anyway Im going to my old roommates bday party tonight. Bets on how long I will last. I have dibs on 30 minutes. ha ha. At least I am going right?

Anyway will you all write awesome blog posts, tweet and Facebook a lot this weekend to keep me entertained.

Here’s some dog pictures to make you laugh. Who doesn’t love a good bully?

Things I do as a crazy dog person.

I am a crazy mommy to the pupster. I'm eccentric. I do weird things, i saw a dead cat on the road the other day and started hysterically bawling. Yes, I am so ODD. I just had a flash forward at that moment that Shia could escape and run down the road, down the other road, on the on-ramp and bam, just like that - she could be roadkill. That's why I bawled. Not just teary, seriously my driving glasses were fogging up from the waterfall happening on my face.

One night we were in St. George, and of course Shia was with us - she was too hyper too sleep. I attached her to my arm by tightening her collar around my arm, so she wouldn't be able to run around the house and wake up everyone else (my whole family was there + some friends and my uncle). Anyway the next morning after a horrible nights sleep, because Shia was pawing at my head and crying and being incredibly naughty and NEEDY. My dad had to unattached Shia from my arm, while she was sitting wide awake on top of my head! I did all that so she didn't have to sleep outside. Seriously? Yes, that's me. Needless to say Jared was not incredibly pleased with me the next day. He may have even said that I care about Shia more than him, and I chose her over his sleep. I definitely don't care about Shia more.. she's just a child, she needs me, and he's a grown up and doesn't need me like she does. That's all.

This is Shia on my pillows. She is laying on all 3 of them. notice that paw, just showing me who's boss. If I lay down that paw is definitely swatting my head.

Last night Shia and I painted our nails to match last night, while watching game of thrones. Shia also spoons me closer than a pea in a pod every single night. She knows when it's bed time and put her head on my pillow and get ready to sleep the night away.

Every morning I have to wake Shia up, physically carry her off the bed (she's not a morning dog), get some food and water in her belly, force her out to pee, and then I proceed to tell her my schedule for the entire day. "Shia, I think I'll be home around 5 today if I can get out of the office after that long meeting on time.. Oh the meeting it's just about if we think that twitter is worth incorporating into social copilot. Interesting you should ask, Shia here's my opinion"
Except it's usually 10 minutes not 2 lines.

Shia had her own dance with me at our wedding and her own photo booth session.

What do you do as a crazy dog/cat person?
and what's your consensus am I nuts?

Hide that, girl!

I thoroughly enjoyed the little bit of spring that I saw this weekend. I went to lunch on Friday with some coworkers, I was probably outside for like an hour. Look at this arm! Silly farmers tan is coming is great. Check that off of my summer to-do list :)

Shia also is working on her tan. Funny side  note: in the summer Shia has to wear puppy sunscreen (which is the same as baby sunscreen), because she gets sunburns under her white fur. She is as much work as a child!

Lastly. Remember this predicament? Look what I did! Jared went golfing all day on Saturday and instead of lay in bed and enjoy the day as per usual. I decided to make a gallery wall. I love the empty frames idea. I have seen it floating around pinterest. I dug through my garage and found all our frames. I love frames, so I am always collecting them. I had brown and gray spray paint on hand, so I was able to paint them on saturday too. In a few frames, I put scrap book paper in them, just to add some depth. I used a few D's to decorate, standing for DeMann. Also on the right side you can see some white boards with black middles. That is chalkboard paint. I thought it would be fun to add a vintage touch. This whole wall was inspired by this girl :), she was camouflaging her thermostat, and I was blending my breaker box. I know it's still there, but it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb anymore. Do you guys think I did good? I am insecure, I  need reassurance! I was also thinking about painting our breaker box's center with chalkboard paint, so you could keep foosball or pool score's on there. Is that lame?

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Happy Monday!