Hai guise.

I hate summer.  It makes me lazy and unmotivated and useless.

At least that's the excuse that I'm going with as to why I couldn't be bothered to blog.

For real though, I hate the heat and the mugginess.  So for the entire month of August, I barely left my AC.

I don't do sweat.  Or giant foofy poodle hair.  Which is what happens to my head when the slightest amount of humidity shows up.

Anyway, I woke up this morning and felt all renewed and ready to blog and shit.  This just backs up my previous hypothesis.

Moving on.

Know what I love?  Recycle day.  Recycle day is awesome.

Why is it awesome?

Because books!  Just sitting on the sidewalk!  Waiting for meee!

Yes indeedy.  That is two giant bags of books!

Real books.  With pages and covers and the lovely book smell..

Thanks to money and space reasons, I had to switch over to an eReader.  But these are free!  Lovely free REAL books!

All in all, the count came out to 52 books, not counting the assorted magazines.

Among those 52 were the awesome..

The weird..

And the really fucking disturbing..

Seriously.  Who actually buys Philippa Gregory?

Serial killers and puppy kickers, that's who.

So, my plan is to sort out all the interesting looking books and then take the rest to the library across the street.

Then yesterday, after being inspired by the Century 21 bags that the books came in, I walked down to Century 21 to get myself some new sheets.

And walked out with 3 bags of things I didn't need but were way too pretty to pass up.

My favorite purchase, which had absolutely nothing to do with the binge-sesh I indulged in of Downton Abbey season 3 the day before, is my new little tea set!

I know, I know.. a bit of an odd purchase for a 29 year old 23 year old, modern day woman, but I couldn't help myself!

I plan to keep adding to it, which is why they're all different.  So in the end I'll end up with a full mismatched tea service.  The front 4 came as a set called Rose Chintz that I got for $19.97.  The teapot was a separate piece that I bought out of a set for $6.99.  And the two matching next to the teapot came together with that little blue and orange box which has 20 assorted teas.  That was purchased for $12.97.

First tea in my new set.  I feel so fancy!

I've also found other uses for my tea set.. Like breakfast! 

Supah fancy!

Those two photo frames were also new purchases ($5.97 and $6.97) along with some candles, which I used to decorate my "mantle".

Which is really my TV stand because I live in Brooklyn and am not a billionaire that can afford a fireplace with a real mantle on the Upper East Side and it's not fair and NO, I'M NOT JEALOUS AT ALL.

Anyway. 

Newly decorated with Century 21 awesomeness.

All the candles, besides the lit ones, are also new.

So, that's what I've been doing the past couple of days.  Helping clean the streets and doing my part for consumerism.  

What have y'all been up to since we last chatted?  

I missed you guise!
XOXO

How did we get here already?

Seriously.. It's March 3.  How is that possible?  I still feel like I'm shaking the bubbles out of my head from the New Year's Eve party.. At least with the start of March comes thoughts of Spring..


And Spring is starting to poke it's sunny head in between the buildings here in NYC.  Of course, while it make look beautiful and sunny outside it is still very much balls-in-your-throat freezing.  30 degrees without the windchill.


Brr.


Another thing that comes to mind is... SPRING CLEANING!  


There are some bloggers out there whose hearts start pitter-pattering all happy-like at the mention of spring cleaning, whereas my heart starts beating in fear.


Time for a little confession:




I may be teeny tiny bit.. messy. :/




Phew.  That felt good to get off my chest.  Still, I get terrified about having to deep clean.  Tho since I've moved from a house in the suburbs to an apartment in the city, the space that I have to clean has definitely shrunk.  Which thankfully makes my job easier.


One thing I do love with the spring cleaning is the spring shopping!  


I woke up early the other morning and discovered that I had an insatiable desire for a new bedding set.  I woke up the Mr. Man and he graciously (read: was forced) agreed to help me pick out something.


We got dressed and headed off to the Bed Bath & Beyond building.  Now, I love me some BB&B but damn.  They can be expensive to the family on a budget.  Thankfully our BB&B also has a TJ Maxx and a newly opened Marshalls.


After some browsing in all 3 stores we settled on this set:

The pic is hard to really make out but its a darker brown border, inner champagne border with a silvery blue center.


The set came with 1 comforter, 1 bedskirt, 2 Regular Shams, 2 Euro Shams and 2 decorative pillows.  All for $59.99.  Not too lousy.  Especially when I pair it with some new $29.99 300 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets, also from Marshalls.


Here is a closer look at the pillows:

I threw on the dark brown and white leaf pillow and the bear to break up the matchy-ness of the set.


After getting that all taken care of I knew that I had to do something else to bring in the start of Spring.  I pulled out my baking utensils and slaved away in a hot kitchen for hours defrosted a Trader Joe's Wild Blueberry Tart in the oven.  Took 10 mins and came out delish looking.

Not bad for $5.99.


And here is where I leave you with a pretty little Springtime quote.


Buttercups and daisies, 
Oh, the pretty flowers; 
Coming ere the Springtime,
To tell of sunny hours.
--Mary Howitt