Ow, My Back!

Saturday morning I woke up ready to be productive. I decided I was going to get up early and go to the gym before work. On my last strength exercise of the day, squats, I felt a horrible pain shot up the right side of my back.

Having never had back trouble, I thought I just needed to stretch. No, that hurts worse. Maybe walk it off? No, worse. By the time I made it to my car in the parking lot, I was in tears.

Fast forward to this morning. I'm still in pain, laid up on the couch. This sucks!!

It's actually sunny outside today {which has been unusual around here the past month or so}, and I want to be outside walking the dog. I would also love to be at the gym today, since we're going out of town in a week and a half. I would even love to be able to clean my kitchen and bathrooms or rake leaves. Or anything besides being useless and in pain on the couch.

Have any of you ever pulled a muscle in your back? How long did it take to get back to normal?

Now Tell Me, Who Do You Love?

I need some new blogs to follow. A good bit of the ones I was previously following seem to not be posting as much as they were back in May, when I was on here before, or not all.

So, I was wondering who y'all follow. Whose blogs make you giddy when you click on your dashboard and see that they've made a new post? Who makes you laugh and smile? Who makes your day better because of their blog? Whose blogs make you want to blog more yourself?

I tend to like blogs written by funny girls, girls who love shopping, girls who love their doggies, southern girls, and married girls and mommies who still have a life apart from their spouse and/or children. But they don't have to be limited to those categories.

Pleeeease let me know, and soon, because I love the blogs I currently follow, but I need variety in my life. And with winter quickly setting in, I know I'm going to be having a lot more couch time and getting bored pretty quickly.

You Tube's' Tuesday

I couldn't pick between my three favorite shows from when I was kid, so here are all of their intros.






I unfortunately couldn't find a Fraggle Rock one with the old man talking to his dog at the beginning.

Top 10 Errors Found in Doctors Reports

10. Healthy appearing, decrepit 69 year old male, mentally alert but forgetful.

9. Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.

8. The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1983.

7. Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.

6. Discharge status: Alive but without permission.

5. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.

4. Patient was seen in consultation by Dr. (Blank), who felt we should sit on the abdomen and I agree.

3. The patient lives at home with his mother, father, and pet turtle, who is presently enrolled in day care three times a week.

2. The patient refused an autopsy.

1. On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it had completely disappeared.

And people wonder why I only go to annual appointment and stay as far away from health care, as I can, the rest of the year!

Polyvore Obsession

So here is what else I've been up to the last week or so. My husband is very concerned about this one. He walked into the living room in the middle of the night a few days ago and asked "Are you still up making outfits? You have a problem.".

Panic Concert Outfit by CarrieBeth featuring Old Navy

Fall Brunch Without Breaking the Bank by CarrieBeth featuring Old Navy

Anthropologie-type look for less by CarrieBeth featuring Salvatore Ferragamo scarves

So until my intervention, I'm making as many new sets {or outfits as my husband says} as I can.

Check out polyvore.com and make some of your own. Let me know if you have any on there, so I can check them out.

Bitter Sweet...More Bitter Really Sweet

So we decided that we wanted some "treats" tonight. I went to Baskin Robbins, and I got this:

It's an Oreo Sundae!

I really enjoyed it, and then Greg informed me that it had 1,400 calories. So much for going to the gym today.....or pretty much the whole week. Oh well, I'll just be on a celery and water diet, yummy.

I've Been Gone Soooo Long!

Wow, my first post since May. Do I even remember how to do this!?!

I have something shameful to admit. { dun, dun, dun} I joined Facebook. I know, I know....after all the crap I talked about it for-ev-er. And it is every bit as addicting as everyone said it is. I'm a junkie.

So between obsessively stalking people on FB and having a busy summer socializing I haven't been blogging. Now that the summer is officially over {at least it must be it must be because I'm currently sitting on my couch under a cozy blanket with my Uggs on instead of on a patio Sunday brunching on a patio sipping my third or fourth manmosa. That's a mimosa with a shot of vodka.} I'm ready to get back to it. That sentence must be some kind of record for length and lack of proper punctuation!

I can't wait to catch up on the folk's blogs that I follow. I noticed that a few of my favs have also slacked off or shut down their pages all together {tear}.

My other new activity keeping me from my chores is Polyvore.com! If you haven't gotten on this site you must right now. You basically get to pretend you're Rachel Zoe and put together any outfit you want, even the ones you could never afford or fit into. It's like dress up for grown ups. Love it!!

Oh and I got a new puppy!

He is a rescue, that should make Kimbree smile, from Oxford Humane Society. His name is Houser, after the late Michael Houser { Widespread Panic's guitarist}, and he is amazing. He is a mix of god knows what. I think he looks kind of like a black golden retriever. He is the sweetest little boy ever. It warms my heart to have another little boy pup after we lost our Charlie back in January. I'm sure he will be the star of my blog after I plaster it with pictures of him.

I owe huge apology to Sarah, from on the Rhoads of life, because I never sent her the flower pot that she won in my drawing. Sorry Sarah! I will find some way to make it up to you, I swear. I know I suck the most :( .

So anyways....can't wait to start yapping on here again. I'm sure I'll be posting a ton of stuff the next few weeks, changing some things on my page, and updating my songs on here.