30 days of thanks; the little stuff.

i love the idea of "30 days of thanks." what i don't love is everyone clogging up my mini-feed everyday. so at the beginning of the month, i started this post and have been updating it every few days since. and since i've been missing in action all month, let this serve as a "what i've been up to," post as well. i hope your month has been wonderful!

thursday, november 1st : thankful for new friends to stay out until 2:30am with on a school night.

friday, november 2nd : thankful for fridays, even when you have to work on saturday.

saturday, november 3rd : thankful for lunch with just me and my dad.

sunday, november 4th : thankful for day drinking with best friends on a sunday.

 

{selwyn pub}

monday, november 5th : thankful for a day off. and thankful katie played hookie to hang with me all day.

tuesday, november 6th :

thankful for the right to vote and to live in this beautiful country.

thankful for a great relationship with party reflections and that they delivered me 10 extra chairs, 3 hours before my event because i forgot to do it beforehand.

wednesday, november 7th: thankful to have a best friend that will go see weird movies with me when no one else will.

thursday, november 8th: thankful for hendrick lexus for always taking such good care of my car.

friday, november 9th: thankful for kristin & slumber parties & wine.

saturday, november 10th: thankful for the university of south carolina. thankful for my bonus from 2nd quarter that was the exact amount i needed to buy season tickets. thankful for a season of tailgating with my best friends.

sunday, november 11th: thankful for all those who fight for our country and keep us safe and free.

monday, november 12th: thankful for having a week day off & thankful for my brother in law, derrick.

tuesday, november 13th: thankful for my wonderful mom and the southern christmas show.

wednesday, november 14th: thankful for cheap mexican food.

thursday, november 15th: thankful for unexpected dinners with my family. and the garlic and goat cheese appetizer at dressler's. and selwyn pub. always thankful for selwyn pub.

 

{pumpkin cheesecake from dressler's}

friday, november 16th: thankful for should be awkward situations not actually being so awkward.

saturday, november 17th: thankful for late night dance parties at andrew blair's.

sunday, november 18th: thankful for the most awesome tailgate ever for the panther's game.

{roomies at the tailgate}

monday, november 19th: thankful to work at an event venue that will let me borrow whatever i need to throw a house party.

tuesday, november 20th: thankful for friendsgivng (someday, this will have it's own post) and all our friends who came over to celebrate.  it was an amazing night!

 

{we did it!}

wednesday, november 21st: thankful for the wine bar at whole foods and sleepovers at my mom's house.

 

{wine loft}

thursday, november 22nd: thankful for my wonderful family who always opens our house to everyone who doesn't have anywhere to go for the holidays. thankful for my stepmom who might as well be betty crocker.

friday, november 23rd: thankful for mini-vacations at my parent's house.

 

{post thanksgiving tree picking}

saturday, november 24th: thankful that the gamecocks beat clemson, again.

sunday, november 25th: thankful for homeland. holy moly.

monday, november 26th: thankful for dinner at villa antonio's with my parents & court.

tuesday, november 27th: thankful that my best friend lives across the hall and brought me medicine to my bedside this morning.

wednesday, november 28th: thankful for showtime on demand.

thursday, november 29th: thankful for sushi.

friday, november 30th: thankful for eric church concert in cola with my best friends.

monday funday.

after working all day on sunday, i got to pick another day to take off this week. monday was really the only day i didn't have any big events so that's what i went with. since veteran's day was on a sunday this year, the banks & courts observed it on monday, so some of my friends were off too.

first stop of the day was polished. i've been desperately needing wanting a pedicure for a few weeks, so i was really thankful for the time to do so. i am proud of myself for skipping the free wine... since it was only 10:30am. i got this great color on my toes that i am REALLY loving...

 

{essie headmistress}

 

next up was lunch at pisces with my momma, sister & derrick. we all ordered the exact same meal and derrick & i had a bobcat roll as an app. YUM

 

 

" bobcat - crab tempura, avocado roll topped with crab salad & tobiko, with eel & aori sauce"

 

after lunch, i took derrick on his first trip to sleepy poet. i've blogged about this place before (here), but i feel like you can't understand how awesome it is until you actually go. we spent about an hour there and i scored two awesome purchases for a total of $31.

 

 

 

when talking to derrick earlier that morning, i agreed that if he went with me to sleepy poet, that i would go see skyfall with him and alex. so that's where we headed next. i wasn't too excited about it but it was AWESOME. the pictures below... need i say more?

 

 

 

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after running into jcrew to buy derrick some new pants, i dropped him off for a few hours before trivia. the last stop of the day was jackalope jacks where derrick, alex, kelly & i had beer & dinner &  got our butts beat in trivia. monday was an awesome start to my week!

a slumber party & a football game.

after having some alternative plans fall through for the weekend, i was glad to have sweet cola to "fall back on." i texted kristin earlier in the week & asked if she would be home on friday. you see, i've been in cola a lot this fall, but she has her own games to go to and so we've missed each other every weekend! i was thrilled when she said yes and a sleepover was planned.

after dropping rachel off at nicole's and getting very lost, i finally found myself at kristin's adorable apartment. it is amazingly decorated with all sorts of awesome vintage pieces from her grandma, books, and candles. we drank red wine and talked all night, the best kind of evening with a friend you don't get to see much. in case y'all didn't already know, i really love that girl. i can't imagine life without her in it.

saturday i woke up and headed to nicole's to leave for the game. i have to work this upcoming weekend, making this past weekend my last game of the season. it always blows my mind how quickly football comes and goes, but this year it went even quicker. this was the first year we had our own tailgate spot, and it has been amazingly fun. we had a great time on saturday and stayed at the tailgate way past the sun going down and the lights getting turned off at the stadium. it was a perfect saturday to end another great fall cheering on my alma mater.

i love you, university of south carolina. forever to thee.

happys.

so somehow it's a week into november and i have no idea where the time is going. october is one of the busiest months of the year for me at work and i feel like i blinked and missed it!

a few things that have been making me smile over the past few weeks...

1. my first birchbox! i'm a little bit late to the party on this one, but it took awhile for me to get the invite. in october, i got an email from birchbox asking if i wanted to opt for the special edition "goop" box. i can't turn down anything potentially awesome/weird, so of course i said yes. the goop pick ended up being a normal size essie bottle of an awesome dark grey color called "power clutch."

2.  i got a new tv for my room! prior to this baby, i'd had the same one since my freshman year of college. needless to say, it was time for an upgrade. i got a 32'' vizio "smart tv." until saturday, i had no idea what smart tv was but i now know that it means I CAN WATCH NETFLIX FROM MY TV. how amazing is that? it syncs up to my account and i can just watch whatever right on my tv!

{wee!}

{netflix button}

3. we finally got our bar stocked! 5 bottles of liquor and $100 later, we're ready to entertain all kinds of guests!

4. the perks of being a wallflower, the movie. it's always fun when a book you've read turns into a movie. it's even more awesome when it's one of your all time favorite books and they actually do an awesome job with the movie. every character was casted perfectly, it was really well done. can't wait till it comes out on dvd!

5. my new winter coat! living in the carolinas, there are only a few days out of the year that you actually NEED a winter coat. but i realized a few weeks ago that i need one, a grown up one. so i set out on a search and found this one at loft. today everything was 40% off, so i went after work and picked it up. can't wait to wear it!