Life as of Lately!

The semester is finally over, and I have two graduate classes under my belt. With only 12 classes in my program, that means I’m 1/6 done with graduate school. Though it may be a stretch, I'm that much closer to finishing my master’s degree, and being done with school forever! Commencement has also come and gone (as of yesterday at 6PM,) so things are finally slowing down, just in time for Christmas! 

Let me fill you in on some super fun things that have happened these past few months!

In September, I went to Charleston to celebrate my 23^rd birthday with four girlfriends, and it was fabulous! Read part one and part two of my trip here!

In October, I celebrated my second Homecoming at Appalachian with some great friends, and got my GGG-Littes! Yes, that makes me really old!

                     

For Halloween this year, I used the amazing red dress that I found at JCPenney to be a sassy devil for my friend Marcia's Halloween Party! My eye makeup looked bold and fierce, thanks to my friend Frances at work!

For our office Halloween festivities, a group of us dressed up as the “Spice” Girls! I was a yellow mustard seed! We even choreographed a dance to "Spice up Your Life," and did it in front of the entire office! We won the contest for best group costume too!

  

I was even able to attend a few football games this season. My favorite was the Black Saturday game against Georgia Southern with my Dad! He loves football, and thanks to a little help from a grad school friend, we were able to get really good seats and passes into the field house for the day! We tailgated, watched the game and had so much fun!

In November, I attended Pig Dinner with Andrew and got to wear the cutest little black dress! I bought it a while back, but was saving it for the perfect occasion. The fraternity alumni function was it!

A few weeks later, I jetted off to New York City for four days with my friends Danielle and Alex. Talk about the trip of a lifetime! We packed so many fun things into the short time that we were there, and I am already planning my next trip back!

 

 

During the Thanksgiving holiday, I got together with family, ate way too much and shopped my little heart out. I even scored some fab Black (Thursday) Friday deals!

 It was also during Thanksgiving break that my family celebrated both my Mom and Dad’s birthdays with good food, presents, Dewey’s cake squares and Gigi’s Cupcakes!

  

This month, though busy with final exams and such, I made time to decorate the apartment for the holidays. A silver glitter monogram was the perfect touch to my white tree with pink and purple ornaments!

There you go! Consider yourself completely updated on my life…or at least for the most part!

There are so many things coming up in the next few weeks, and I can’t wait to tell you about all of them! 

Until then, I'll be shopping... 

and drinking drinks like these from time to time!

 

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Moving Day & My Thanksgiving Dish!

Y'all, today is the day!

I can't believe that moving day is finally here! While I'm busy driving, unpacking, and bursting with excitement, I thought I would share with you the dish that I made for Thanksgiving this year. It's super simple and tasty!

Every year, my family signs up to bring delicious dishes to our annual Thanksgiving Day lunch. For one reason or another, I have only contributed to the food selection once. Don't get me wrong the rice crispy treats that I made that year were good, they just fell apart in your hands. Boo. When I was younger, my parents bringing a dish or two was enough, but as an adult, I thought it was my time to participate!

I am not a cook in any way, shape or form. It's not that I don't have potential, I've just never really practiced. I knew I wanted something that was simple to make and difficult to mess up!

What dish fit all of these specifications?

Oreo Cake Balls!

You'll have to excuse the looks of my first batch, as they are not pretty at all, but they did taste good!

Ingredients:
1 Package of Oreos
1 Package of cream cheese (I'm trying a tub of cream cheese next time)
1 Package of vanilla melting chocolate (bars that you microwave)

Directions:
Put the entire package of Oreos into a bowl

Mash up all of the Oreos - I used a Pampered Chef potato masher, but if you have a food processor, that will work even better

Once crushed to a fine powder, mix the cream cheese in a mixer

Once the cream cheese is soft, add in all the Oreos and continue to mix

Once well mixed, form into balls and place on a cookie sheet that will fit into your freezer

While the chocolate balls are in the freezer, melt your chocolate

Take the balls out of the freezer when the chocolate is melted. Then you can either drizzle the white chocolate over them or dip them. I found it easier to drizzle and let the excess drip over onto the sides.

When finished, keep refrigerated until ready to serve!

Ta-Da!

I'm planning on trying another batch for Christmas and honing my technique a little bit. Hooray for my first cooking success!

Did you cook this Thanksgiving?

As always, Have a Sweet Day!

Black Friday Deals!

It's a tradition in my family that we go shopping every Black Friday. That used to entail getting up super early on Friday morning, but since the sales keep getting earlier, we have to continue to adjust our shopping schedules. 

This year, after consulting my right-hand shoppers (my Aunt Robin & cousin Jessica), we decided the only place that we really needed to go to was Target. I had my eye set on a 32" Apex TV that was on sale for $147.00. The TV would look perfect in the living room of my new apartment!

We got to Target about 8:30pm for their grand opening at 9. I bet there were 500 people already in front of us, but this didn't deter our spirit. We were all so excited, and knew that we were on a mission.  My Aunt was to locate a cart, I was to run and find the TV, Jessica had to help me move the box out of the way and my cousin Patrick had to the guard the box once it was secured, so another crazy Black Friday shopper could steal it. We had this plan down to a science!

I think my tweet on Friday night describes it all: 

"I CAME. I SHOPPED. I CONQUERED!!!"

I don't think I have ever had SO much fun! Not only did we score the TV that I wanted (there were only 4 left when I got there), I also scooped up a new DVD player for $20 and The Hunger Games movie for $10. Throw in a bottle of wine and I'm ready for my next movie night!

We met up with a few other family friends that night and decided to share one cart between the 6 of us! This was just enough room for the new Xbox, 24" TV, six foot Christmas Tree, game controllers and flannel pajamas that we were also buying.

Since Thanksgiving is about being thankful and spending time with your family, I am so glad I was able to spend my Thanksgiving night with these wonderful people! It is a memory that I will treasure and never forget!

Did you have this much fun Black Friday shopping?

As always, Have a Sweet Day!

Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!

Happy Thanksgiving from Paisley & Me!

Have a wonderful holiday spending time with the ones you love!

As always, Have a Sweet Day!

Thanksgiving & Black Friday Savings!

I have finally recovered from everything that I ate yesterday for lunch and am able to sit at my computer and blog about it:) I hope you all had a wonderful time with your families and took time yesterday to remember all of your sweet blessings!

Here are a few photos from yesterday at the Miller festivities:

Getting ready to eat!

 Mama & I

 Yummy!

 Desserts! (I had a little sample of each)

 Kickball after lunch! (My brother, Andrew)

 The outfield!

We had such a great time doing what we do best, eating and playing around!

Now to business: $hopping!

I contemplated getting out in the crowds last night with the rest of the Black Friday shoppers, but with no must-have items on my list, my Mom and I decided to go early this morning. I got up around 6AM and was so excited to see on Twitter that Vineyard Vines had their outerwear 30% off until noon. There was an item that I had on my Christmas list, but had waited to purchase hoping that they would have a pre-Christmas sale. Just before 7AM, I called and was able to purchase the item over the phone. What a great morning surprise! This isn't the first time I've called the South Park Vineyard Vines store and their customer service is amazing! Mama & I left our house around 7:30AM headed for the outlets in Mebane, NC.  I picked up a few things that I'm so excited about, but I won't actually get to use until after Christmas, so I'll keep those a surprise until then! 

I will tell you how much I saved though!

Vineyard Vines: $39

Tommy Hilfiger: $21

Michael's Crafts: $9

For a grand total of: $69 (YAY!)

To our surprise, the outlets weren't even crowded! We got everywhere we wanted and had time to stop by Edward McKay's on the way home. I picked up this little treasure for $8.00! 

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CLOSE FRIENDS OF MINE: Don't worry I'm not planning to get married now or anytime soon, I just want to learn how to plan weddings!

I read the first chapter on the way home...pretty good so far!

Hope you all had a wonderful day of stress-free relaxation and shopping!

On the road again...

I can hardly believe that Thanksgiving is now just two days away! That means there's only two days keeping me from being at home, relaxing on the couch watching all the shows I've had my parents record on DVR (a modern luxury that I don't have at my college apartment), eating until I'm sick, and then sleeping it off.

(I seriously think Randy & I could be BFF)

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My other addiction...

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Today I wanted to post about traveling. I can always remember hearing on the news about certain holidays being "The most popular travel day of the year," but that always sounded funny to me because I really don't travel on holidays! I know, weird right?! All of my family, with the exception of one couple, live in North Carolina. We're not just all in the same state, but all within a 30-mile radius of each other.

I love to learn about families and what they do on holidays! So, tell me about yours! 

Will you be traveling this week? Are you going somewhere tropical as a group or just to another family members home? 

In just a couple hours I will be making the trek from Boone to near Winston-Salem, but that's about as interesting as it gets!

So while I spend my Thanksgiving at my cousin, Amanda's house, not too far from home...Where will you be?

What I'm loving Wednesday!

Today I'm linking up with Jamie at This Kind of Love for What I love Wednesday!

-I'm loving my amazing new resume! If I was an employer, I would definitely want to hire me! haha.

-I'm loving that I get my college class ring tonight! I've worked long and hard for that thing, so I think I deserve it!

-I'm loving that I'm going to have dinner out somewhere nice tonight, since my parents will be up.

-I'm loving that in 8 days, I will be home for the Miller Family Thanksgiving Lunch! Not only do we have some amazing cooks in my family, but some comedians as well:)

The younger "young at heart" always sit at their own table to eat!

We have so much fun!

Thanksgiving 2009

We do the same thing at Christmas, except it's for dinner!
We have about 50 people in the Miller family! As you can see, we've almost outgrown this room!

Christmas 2010

-I'm loving that Black Friday is only 9 days away! WooHoo! My 

Aunt, Robin and I go shopping every year looking for those killer deals! Two years ago, I even ventured out to Toys "R" Us at midnight the night before! 

-I'm loving that I get to leave work & have lunch soon! 

Today, I'm thinking....

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Yep, pure deliciousness!

BTW, have you tried their Oreo milkshake??

A-MAZ-ING!

Have a great day!

Go out and find something to love!