{"id":195,"date":"2013-01-22T17:07:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2013-01-22T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:28:29","slug":"195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/195\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Tuesday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday, friends! I hope you all had a great weekend.<\/p>\n

So, I have a confession to share.\u00a0 Friday night after work I decided to wait for it…wait for it….go the the MALL.\u00a0 I know what you are thinking.\u00a0 Shame on you, Jill.\u00a0 Have you learned nothing in your year of no shopping?\u00a0 Aside from a few random purchases a few weeks ago from some gift cards I saved up, this was my first real shopping experience in over a\u00a0 year.\u00a0 I would be lying if I told you I was not excited.\u00a0 I also made a pact to myself this year to NOT BUY CRAP.\u00a0 An 8 dollar shirt from TJmaxx might sound like a good idea until it falls apart a week later and there goes 8 dollars down the drain.\u00a0 So I walked my butt straight into the Banana Republic (outlet, duh) and bought 3 new nice dresses for work. \u00a0 Dresses are the easiest thing ever.\u00a0 You don’t have to think about them, you just throw em on and BAM, people think you are so put together.\u00a0 Joke is on them.\u00a0 Well, sometimes.<\/p>\n

So as I was driving home all excited about my\u00a0 3 new quality items, the good feeling started wearing off and the guilt set in.\u00a0 I should not have bought those.\u00a0 I did not need them. But I deserve it! But do you really? You have a wedding to save for!\u00a0 What is wrong with you!?\u00a0 You know how it goes.\u00a0 Truth is buying yourself a few nice things really can lighten your mood, make you feel good to go into work, make you feel confident.\u00a0 It is when we start playing with the territory of doing this too often. \u00a0 So instead of returning them, I went home and started purging yet more clothes to make up for it.\u00a0 Keep in mind people, not only did I not buy ANY clothes last year but I also got rid of a TON. Ten garbage bags worth to be exact.\u00a0 Yet, my closet still looked like this:<\/p>\n

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Confession:\u00a0 This is only one of my closets.\u00a0 Pathetic.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, this is the amount of hangers I got rid of over the year:<\/p>\n

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So I got home and to make myself feel better about my new purchases, decided I would get rid of another bag full of clothes.\u00a0 And that is what I did.\u00a0 Man does it feel good to get rid of stuff, so cleansing!\u00a0 I feel better.\u00a0 Get rid of your stuff people!\u00a0 It’s better than therapy!<\/p>\n

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Saturday morning, my pup and I met the run group for a nice 10 miler along the river.\u00a0 Was great weather for it! And of course what good is a long run if you can’t have a breakfast treat afterwards?\u00a0 Blueberry crumble and coffee from the village grind, YUM!<\/p>\n

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Of course this weekend also included our cook-up.. \u00a0 Meals for the week:\u00a0 Seasoned Tilapia with veggies and Risotto ( all I did was throw all this in the crock pot), Zucchini Pizza Casserole (got this idea from pinterest) and Herb Spinach Chicken burgers (PaleOMG).\u00a0 Super Easy recipes!\u00a0\u00a0 Pinterst and PaleOMG are my saving grace, I take no credit at all.\u00a0 Will have a special recipe palooza post this week, stay tuned!<\/p>\n

Monday in honor of MLK, I had the day off work.\u00a0 Thank you Dr. King, you rock.\u00a0 So I got a double workout in and then my good friend Jess came over to “help me get excited about wedding stuff”, what a pal.\u00a0 So in return for her help, I made some yummy food \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Paleo Muffins (Courtesy of CinderellaPaleo Catering), fruit salad and bacon wrapped eggs (Pinterest)!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Tuesday, friends! I hope you all had a great weekend. So, I have a confession to share.\u00a0 Friday night after work I decided to wait for it…wait for it….go the the MALL.\u00a0 I know what you are thinking.\u00a0 Shame on you, Jill.\u00a0 Have you learned nothing in your year of no shopping?\u00a0 Aside from a few random purchases a few weeks ago from some gift cards I saved up, this was my first real shopping experience in over a\u00a0 year.\u00a0 I would be lying if I told you I was not excited.\u00a0 I also made a pact to myself this year to NOT BUY CRAP.\u00a0 An 8 dollar shirt from TJmaxx might sound like a good idea until it falls apart a week later and there goes 8 dollars down the drain.\u00a0 So I walked my butt straight into the Banana Republic (outlet, duh) and bought 3 new nice dresses for work. \u00a0 Dresses are the easiest thing ever.\u00a0 You don’t have to think about them, you just throw em on and BAM, people think you are so put together.\u00a0 Joke is on them.\u00a0 Well, sometimes. So as I was driving home all excited about my\u00a0 3 new quality items, the good feeling started wearing off and the guilt set in.\u00a0 I should not have bought those.\u00a0 I did not need them. But I deserve it! But do you really? You have a wedding to save for!\u00a0 What is wrong with you!?\u00a0 You know how it goes.\u00a0 Truth is buying yourself a few nice things really can lighten your mood, make you feel good to go into work, make you feel confident.\u00a0 It is when we start playing with the territory of doing this too often. \u00a0 So instead of returning them, I went home and started purging yet more clothes to make up for it.\u00a0 Keep in mind people, not only did I not buy ANY clothes last year but I also got rid of a TON. Ten garbage bags worth to be exact.\u00a0 Yet, my closet still looked like this: Confession:\u00a0 This is only one of my closets.\u00a0 Pathetic. Also, this is the amount of hangers I got rid of over the year: So I got home and to make myself feel better about my new purchases, decided I would get rid of another bag full of clothes.\u00a0 And that is what I did.\u00a0 Man does it feel good to get rid of stuff, so cleansing!\u00a0 I feel better.\u00a0 Get rid of your stuff people!\u00a0 It’s better than therapy! Saturday morning, my pup and I met the run group for a nice 10 miler along the river.\u00a0 Was great weather for it! And of course what good is a long run if you can’t have a breakfast treat afterwards?\u00a0 Blueberry crumble and coffee from the village grind, YUM! \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Of course this weekend also included our cook-up.. \u00a0 Meals for the week:\u00a0 Seasoned Tilapia with veggies and Risotto ( all I did was throw all this in the crock pot), Zucchini Pizza Casserole (got this idea from pinterest) and Herb Spinach Chicken burgers (PaleOMG).\u00a0 Super Easy recipes!\u00a0\u00a0 Pinterst and PaleOMG are my saving grace, I take no credit at all.\u00a0 Will have a special recipe palooza post this week, stay tuned! Monday in honor of MLK, I had the day off work.\u00a0 Thank you Dr. King, you rock.\u00a0 So I got a double workout in and then my good friend Jess came over to “help me get excited about wedding stuff”, what a pal.\u00a0 So in return for her help, I made some yummy food \ud83d\ude42 Paleo Muffins (Courtesy of CinderellaPaleo Catering), fruit salad and bacon wrapped eggs (Pinterest)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}