Two of my co-workers are what I like to call 'abandoning' me at work and moving on to other ventures.  I like to joke about my state of abandonment and so they tried to make it up to me by going straight to my heart...or my stomach I should say.

They surprised me with an ice cream cake one day last week at work.  The cake was 'artfully' decorated by the master pastry chef at Dairy Queen with the word "Abandonment" followed by what was supposed to be "<3 JR & KJ" but ended up stating that "Abandonment loves JR & KJ".  Quite humorous but also quite delicious.  And yes, we have submitted it to Cake Wrecks.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Steve Jobs

True life - It's a S'mores keyboard.

Funky blog too - Sweet & Nerdy

Here we go Steelers! Big game today. If you aren't familiar with the crazy obnoxiousness that is the Steeler Nation (yes, we have a Wikipedia page) there is a new version to this song created every year for the playoffs - I think I still have a version from when I was like 8 on a cassette tape! :-)

Gotta love my black and gold!

Its Girl Scout Cookie season! I am obviously going to buy several boxes, but I also came across some recipes for homemade Girl Scout Cookies so you can have the sweet treats year round.  The best part - the recipes are for my two favorite flavors: Samoas and Thin Mints!

Make some scrumptious Samoas here.

And tempting Thin Mints here.

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here are some favorite quotes from the man himself:

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." 

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." 

While lusting after some of the gorgeous gifts in the Real Simple November "Gift Guide" I game a cross these cute velvet bangles:

My budget couldn't afford the ones in the mag so I decided to get crafty and try to re-create them:

I found some plastic bangles at Claire's (major tween moment), got some velvet ribbon at Michael's, used some buttons I had on hand and some earrings I found at Goodwill, broke out the glue gun and voila:

Left: burlap ribbon, vintage buttons

Middle: Black velvet ribbon, Goodwill earrings

Right: Brown velvet ribbon, collection of buttons I had on hand

Thank you to whoever made this blog. If you work in the field you know this is sad but oh so true! Have a good laugh...

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