As I mentioned in my last post, I went to Half Price Books the other day. Super fun!
They price the books at half of the manufacturers price so a paperback is like five dollars. They also had quite a nice selection, which I was rather suprised. I had envisioned a warehouse with piles of old books all around but I was wrong.
Worth checking it out!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
ReStyle
In my effort to spend my money purposefully this year, I went to an adult consignment shop. I don't usually like going to those because they are can be pretty skanky, but I thought it would be good to know where one is and if it is worth going to. It totally was.
Yesterday my mom and I went down to Des Moines to run some errands, she needed to buy text books and go to the Des Moines Sams Club, and I needed to go to the uniform shop to get some more scrubs. I decided when you work full time, it is really needed to more than one pair of pants that are for work. I was doing laundry WAY too much.
We also went to Half Price books which was right next door to the uniform shop.
Anyway.
The consignment shop was called ReStyle, and it was in a cute business park that has some sort of castle reference in the name. If you look on google maps is is 1.8 miles from Merle Hay Mall to give you a reference point.
Everything there was clean, well organised and very neat. I used to work at Duckworth Wearing on mainstreet here in Ames, so I am pretty particular about neatness and the like.
I bought a cute sweatshirt from Gap, an undershirt that was C9 from target, but they are not cheap there, and a green leather purse. All together I spent $11!! I was super excited about my new find!
My friend Lisa had gone there the other day and told me she liked it, and she wasn't wrong.
They don't have a website but HERE is the like for the address and phone number.
Another good consignment shop is Plato's Closet by Jordan Creek.
Happy bargain hunting!
Yesterday my mom and I went down to Des Moines to run some errands, she needed to buy text books and go to the Des Moines Sams Club, and I needed to go to the uniform shop to get some more scrubs. I decided when you work full time, it is really needed to more than one pair of pants that are for work. I was doing laundry WAY too much.
We also went to Half Price books which was right next door to the uniform shop.
Anyway.
The consignment shop was called ReStyle, and it was in a cute business park that has some sort of castle reference in the name. If you look on google maps is is 1.8 miles from Merle Hay Mall to give you a reference point.
Everything there was clean, well organised and very neat. I used to work at Duckworth Wearing on mainstreet here in Ames, so I am pretty particular about neatness and the like.
I bought a cute sweatshirt from Gap, an undershirt that was C9 from target, but they are not cheap there, and a green leather purse. All together I spent $11!! I was super excited about my new find!
My friend Lisa had gone there the other day and told me she liked it, and she wasn't wrong.
They don't have a website but HERE is the like for the address and phone number.
Another good consignment shop is Plato's Closet by Jordan Creek.
Happy bargain hunting!
Monday, January 5, 2009
I LOVE THE DENTIST!!!
I may be the only person that thinks this, but I love going to the dentist. I am a teeth person so it makes me happy to go and they super clean your teeth, and tell you that you are brushing well. I was told that have to floss for about the thousandth time at my last checkup, and in the month since then I have flossed about three times. But I am trying.
Anyway
I had to go back today to have a cavity fixed. I don't care... because it is sitting in a chair for a while and they are making your smile that much better.
They prepped my mouth with some cherry tasting stuff and I thought, great, start the drilling! The my dentist said; "ok, I want you to wiggle your toes and breath through your nose." I thought thats weird, and then she put a HUGE needle into my mouth and gave me a bunch of shots. I didn't even care. Progress on the needle front.
That was the coolest feeling having almost exactly half of your face numbed.
Thats really all I wanted to say, and I really like my dentist.
Have a nice day!
Anyway
I had to go back today to have a cavity fixed. I don't care... because it is sitting in a chair for a while and they are making your smile that much better.
They prepped my mouth with some cherry tasting stuff and I thought, great, start the drilling! The my dentist said; "ok, I want you to wiggle your toes and breath through your nose." I thought thats weird, and then she put a HUGE needle into my mouth and gave me a bunch of shots. I didn't even care. Progress on the needle front.
That was the coolest feeling having almost exactly half of your face numbed.
Thats really all I wanted to say, and I really like my dentist.
Have a nice day!
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Christmas 2008
These were the presents on the Sunday morning before Christmas. My family did not want to wait until Christmas to open presents, so we had our gift exchange the sunday before. They were all going to Texas Christmas night so they wanted to get gifts out of the way before then.
It was rather sad that my mom didn't even put up a tree.
These were some p.j.'s that Esther got, I was rather jealous, I wanted some just like that!
I spent Christmas Eve and Day at my grandmas with my cousins and brother, and aunt and uncle. We played twister... Bailey had to have help stretching.
One of Justus' presents... it was pretty cool, we played with it later.
Aunt Teresa and me.
The night my roommates broke my bed.
'Twas before Christmas, not sure of how many nights, the roommates and I were being quite nice. We had presents for each other before we all went away.
We were goofing around, taking pictures for fun, when all of the sudden, we heard a gun.
Just kidding I just needed to rhyme. Now to get this finished in time.
With a crash and a snap, the bed went tumbling down. Everyone had to get away so that Kaci would stay. We took a picture and laughed all around, but I was a bit sad for my bed breaking down.
This is what happens when you put four people on an antique bed, it just does not hold up the it would if it were a sled.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year everyone! I rang in the new year at work, and even that I almost forgot to note when the years changed over. Excitingly enough, we had to log out at 12:00am and log back in a minute later to get a higher shift differential. That is what second and third shift as an incentive I guess for working those. Its an extra three dollars an hour so I don't complain. I did also get time and a half too because it was a holiday.
Did anyone have a resolution this year?
I did actually. I usually don't, simply because I don't care that much. This year though my friend called me and said that she didn't want to buy anything new this year. She was going to do the whole consignment thing, and eBay and garage sales. I was super excited for her, and then thought, well, why don't I do that too? So she and I are going to be spending purposefully this year. We will do our best to buy second hand because that is always at least half the price. If we have to buy something new it will be something that we REALLY need, and not just a want.
I am super excited to get started! We both went shopping the other day and kind of got splurge shopping out of our system.
I know I am behind on posting pictures, but I will get to those tomorrow!
Did anyone have a resolution this year?
I did actually. I usually don't, simply because I don't care that much. This year though my friend called me and said that she didn't want to buy anything new this year. She was going to do the whole consignment thing, and eBay and garage sales. I was super excited for her, and then thought, well, why don't I do that too? So she and I are going to be spending purposefully this year. We will do our best to buy second hand because that is always at least half the price. If we have to buy something new it will be something that we REALLY need, and not just a want.
I am super excited to get started! We both went shopping the other day and kind of got splurge shopping out of our system.
I know I am behind on posting pictures, but I will get to those tomorrow!
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