Friday 7 Quick Takes (vol 142)

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This week on Totes Awesome Channel, we’re talking about our bad habits.

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I was late to work so I sneaked a quick vlog in.

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I’m giving away a gorgeous cookbook that might inspire you to buy all the pretty mugs. Head over to the food blog to throw your name in the hat. It ends Sunday at midnight.

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Tonight’s Friday activity is seeing Dave Chappelle and Flight of the Conchords at their Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival. Am excited and also curious about Flight of the Conchords. I’m walking in with little to no knowledge about them.

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Tomorrow I’m heading to a hilarious themed 30th birthday party, “Time Machine to 1983, 1993, and 2003”. My old high school classmate is serving chicken nuggets which were invented in 1983, showing Bill Clinton’s Inaugural Speech from 1993, and hosting a Scavenger Hunt for Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003). She also has strict technology rules quoted below.

Rules: NO smartphones or other “technologies” that did not exist in the year 2003 or earlier (there will be a box at the door). NO evidence of the Time Machine To 1983/1993/2003 may be posted on Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Tumblr, etc., but you CAN write about it on your LiveJournal!! THESE RULES ARE VITAL TO THE INTEGRITY OF MY THEMED BIRTHDAY PARTY SO PLEASE FOLLOW THEM.

But don’t worry. I cleared it with her that I may blog about it!

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My friend just bought her first home in Miami. It was also her 30th birthday and I was sitting on some miles. And even though I was hoping to save the miles for Alan and me, it was taking Alan and me so long to decide on a trip that I decided to stop sitting on them and spend half of them to see my friend. I don’t have PTO so it will literally be a day and a half in Miami but I get to be there for her in yet another life milestone. She’s turning 30, just got married, and now bam a home! This will be my third time in Florida so alas it doesn’t fulfill my goal of seeing my last of two new states for 2013. I’m trying to not let my goals run my life.

Miami in 3 weeks!

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Currently Reading: Man’s Search for Meaning

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This week’s moments of bliss: ♥ burgers, fries, and milkshakes with Suzanna ♥ spending some miles ♥ catch up phone dates ♥ crafting Christmas presents ♥ cooking one of my favorite meals ♥ Blue Jasmine ♥ reading ♥ chocolate ice cream and chocolate croissants ♥ a few touching VEDA vlogs about insecurities ♥ a great informal class bout communcation ♥ actual letters in the actual mail

Question: What is your favorite themed party ever attended?