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Wearing | my hair in a bun or a high ponytail! I have been loving having my hair longer! I've been growing it out.. although I just found some pictures of me with short hair and I'm considering cutting it... shh!

Sipping | water, ice cold water! I am terrible at getting enough water during the day, but lately I feel like I can't get enough! I tried cucumber water  (just putting slices of cucumber in water) for the first time this week and I super loved it! I can't wait to try it again!

Wishlisting | this, this, this, and this

Writing | lists. I live on lists! If you browsed through the notes on my iPhone, you would see lists, lists, and more lists!

Exploring | information on Parkinson's Disease. My grandmother was just recently diagnosed with this and short term memory loss and it's new territory. I want to learn about it and be educated in how to help her.

Linking up with Anne and Jenna!

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Hearting | my cello! Y'all I'm telling you, I can't get enough of this beauty of an instrument! I know I just gushed about it yesterday, but I can't tell you how beautiful it is! I love it! I am also hearting some new friends I made! These girls are so fun and genuine and best of all they accept me for who I am!

Reading | I have been reading educational books to learn about classical music and the different eras and instruments of those times. It's been pretty interesting! Aside from that, I have Mindy Kaling's book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? that I need to start.

Pinning | everything? :) I looked at my most recent pins and it is just a smorgasbord of pins, from all things Doctor Who, to recipes, to work outs, to DIYs, and house design plans... Pinterest is a great place to get lost, so I try to not go on as often as I might want just so that I don't lose all productivity ;)

Eating | sunflower seeds. When my mother in love was living with us she always had them and we got hooked!

Anticipating | our anniversary trip in March! This is our 6 year wedding anniversary and 10 years of being together! So we planned a big trip to Vegas... and... We are going to see my favorite band LIVE! I'm so excited!! I've told you guys about 2CELLOS before! I can't wait to rock out with them!

I am linking up with Anne and Jenna.

What are you up to?

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Planning | blog posts and my weeks - I have a lot of work to catch up on with Etsy, GAP, and at home! So I am planning out time for all the different projects and work that need to be done.

Hoping | that I can get this mess with my eye figured out.... The other day I had this weird spot in the center of my vision, that was dark and everything was blurry in it. I went to the eye doctor and they said that it looks like I have a pocket of fluid on the back of my retina. So they are sending me to a retina specialist.

Baking | nothing. I got stuff to make pumpkin pie bars, but Derek is out of town, and I don't want to make them until he can take the rest to work! If they stay here, then they will just call my name all day and I can't be having that!

Wearing | Pajamas. Y'all, I could live in pajamas! I always tell Derek that pajamas are my love language! I think it's one of my favorite things about being a human... that we can wear pajamas!

Resolving | to practice the cello for a minimum of an hour a day and at least 5 days a week. I have dreamed of playing the cello since I was a kid, and I am so excited that I am finally doing it... although I wouldn't lie if I didn't say I'm kicking myself for not starting sooner! I could have been playing all these years!

I am linking up with Anne and Jenna.

What are you up to?

pj chat | vol. 2

Happy Monday y'all! It's been pretty chilly here in the mornings but it heats up pretty good during the day (it's 84° right now.. what!? Weather, don't you know it's October!?)

I'm starting the week off with a PJ chat! Today's chat is brought to you by owl pajama pants, a tye-died t-shirt, and mismatched socks. Feel free to join with me and link your pj chat in the comments!!

THINKING ABOUT: Some upcoming posts for this month! I'm excited for these next few weeks! I have some recipes to share and maybe a couple crafts! :)
EATING: Nothing at the moment, but we did buy some of those cappuccino chips (purely out of curiosity) and I just can't say anything good about them. I mean, I don't like cappuccinos (or really any kind of coffee type drink *aside from pumpkin spice lattes*) so I don't know what I was expecting... but they just aren't good... EW!
LOVING: My autumn nail colors (for this week at least) Essie's Good As Gold and Revlon's Totally Toffee - I love fall colors!
WATCHING: We don't have cable, but we do have netflix and hulu plus and so we have been catching up on some shows that we watch together; Parks and Recreation, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, New Girl, The Mindy Project...
FEELING: Inspired! I recently found something and it has brought back a dream that I've had for as long as I can remember! I will share more later on, but I am excited and kind of nervous at the same time :)
LISTENING TO: Classical Crossover music! I just can't get enough of it lately!
READING: Little Women - I never read it when I was younger and I totally missed out! It's a good book! I can't wait to watch the movie again (I vaguely remember parts of it - so I don't know if I have seen the whole thing or not) when I'm done!
THANKFUL FOR: My mom and our relationship. She called me the other day just to chat about the recent Roloff wedding and how they (my parents) are expecting 2 inches of snow overnight!

What are you up to currently? If you have a post share it in the comments below!! :)

pj chat | vol. 1

So for the past two weeks or so, I have started a bunch of different posts and before I could finish writing, I got interrupted and so I have like a billion drafts half written sitting there waiting to be finished. This was one of them...
I have seen posts like this on other's blogs and I thought it would be fun to start here at The Found Life. I don't remember what everyone else called this little series, but I'm going to call it the pj chat. Why? Because pajamas are my favorite and you can always have a good real conversation when chatting in pjs. And because I work from home in pajamas.

proof:

Real life. this shirt is like 4 years old and it has big holes in the armpits (why!? I mean I don't scratch them or anything that would cause holes!) but it is one of my very favorite shirts! oh and today, I had some errands to do so I got dressed and when I got home I went straight for my pjs and when I picked my pants up (they are from target by the way and are the most comfortable ever, however in the picture Target has on their website the chick is wearing heels... I don't know maybe I don't know anything about fashion... but I just don't see these pants (which are like sweat pant material) being paired with heels... or anything but slippers or socks) some tylenol fell out. I put them in my pocket last night to take but I guess I forgot about it and I fell asleep with it in my pocket. woops.

Anyways, I'm just going to get right to it now.


THINKING ABOUT: The future. I am a planner and there is a lot going on... or not going on (I don't know?)... in life right now, and I want to make plans. But each thing depends on something else to happen before we can know if the next thing will happen... which sort of stresses me out.
EATING: String cheese. This has been one of my favorite snacks since middle school! My best friend Liz (Hi Liz!) and I were on the mat crew (we kept score/time, took care of medic stuff like a broken nose) for the wrestling team in high school and we traveled with them to all their meets and we would both bring extra string cheese for each other!
LOVING: The cooler weather! It's just a little taste of Autumn which is just around the corner and I can hardly wait!! All the pretty colors and the scarves and sweaters and of course the pumpkin spice lattes!
WATCHING: Haven. I am a dork when it comes to what I watch on tv... well we don't have cable, we just have netflix. But I love all the syfy shows (Eureka, Warehouse 13) or other science fiction type shows (Dr. Who, Alphas, h20 (a show about mermaids - go ahead and laugh), and terra nova). I have been watching it non stop the past week!
FEELING: Determined. I had a little eye opener today - I couldn't tell you exactly what it was, but I am excited to take on life and get things done!
LISTENING TO: I love singer/songwriter music and lately I've been listening to the Foy Vance Radio on Pandora! If you haven't heard of Foy Vance you should go check him out!! (One of his songs is part of the reason behind my blog name!) But right now I am listening to the hum of my hard drive and the little snoozes of Hubble and Phoebe they are sharing their bed and being so cute!
READING: I just finished the 21st (and most recent) book of the Stephanie Plum novels. I have LOVED this series and I am really really hoping that more come out!! They are funny and exciting!! Such a good read!
THANKFUL FOR: My husband and everything he does for our little family! He works so hard and I think that sometimes I take that and him for granted.



So, that's it! Feel free to join in you can call it the pj chat or whatever you would like!! :) If you do join in, share the link to yours in the comments below so I can follow along!! :)