Heaven got a little bit brighter today!

My heart breaks over the fact that we lost a truly beautiful and inspiring legend today. Miss Lilly Pulitzer Rousseau passed away this morning at the age of 81. She is truly going to be missed. I unfortunately did not have the opportunity to grow up with Lilly and only learned about her fabulousness a couple years back. I'm so honored to have learned all about her. The irony in today is that I was actually out shopping for some new Lilly when I read the news of her passing. She must've been sending a message already! Heaven truly is a brighter place today!

RIP Lilly Pulitzer Rousseau

1931-2013

 

A Lilly Lover,

Heather

April Goals

So April is upon us....

Did you get tricked today with April Fools? I've always disliked this day as I usually get tricked pretty good. I'm a sucker I guess. Well now that April is upon us I have a couple goals for the month that I thought I'd share with y'all.

1. Register for classes for Grad School
      -so excited to start at Florida Atlantic University in August but nervous too

2. Continue to log my food in myfitnesspal app

3. Participate in Heather's Cross Train or Remain the Same Challenge
       -I plan to do cross-training 2x per week. I'm thinking DVD's or bike riding

4. Get back to running
       -I haven't been running much as I've been really sick. My body feels the need to run

5. Keep the house clean
       -I did a deep cleaning today and I'm hoping my roommates will help me keep it clean.


These are my April goals. Are you setting goals this month? What are they?

Have a great April!
~Heather

Miscellaneous Monday

Hey Y'all!

So I am currently working on my recap blog from my Disney Princess Half Marathon but having picture issues. Hopefully that will be up soon! But I have a few randoms for this fabulous Monday.

I hope everyone had a great St. Patrick's Day! Now I know most people and festivites occured on Saturday the 16th but I had to work. In fact I had to work all by myself. 70 students plus a guided tour and daily programs...needless to say the day went by fast but it was super busy. After work I ended up staying the night at a friend's house for girls night cause the next morning we were getting up early to head to Savannah!

My OOTD...Green Shorts & Chambray

I was super excited to see Savannah for St. Patrick's Day! We headed straight to Forsyth Park to see the green fountain! Only to be dissapointed :( They took the dye out that morning. Now why on earth they would take it out on the actual St. Patrick's Day beats me but it's still pretty.

I just love this fountain!

Spring Flowers!

 

 

We then headed down to River Street and had a drink from Wet Willie's. We decided to walk up to City Market because there wasn't much going on down on River Street. I'm so glad we went up there. There was a live band playing and so many people dancing and just having fun. We ended up being there from 2-6:30pm. We found our green beer, mulitple times, and just danced the afternoon away! It was the best and something I really needed after all the stress I've had lately.

 

You must have green beer on St. Patrick's Day

 

Buddy pose!

 

Uncle Bubba's for Dinner

 

 

St. Patrick's Day was one of the best day's I had in a long time! A much needed break from work.

 

I finished off my weekend with finding some delicious new snacks and painting my nails with new Essie polish.

 

These are like little cookies. 100 calories for three in a package. So good

 

Essie Play Date!

 

 

I hope everyone had a good St. Patrick's Day & Monday!

 

Love,

Heather

 



 

 



 

 

 

Blog hiatus

Hi Friends,

I realize I've been on quite the blog hiatus lately. Well I've decided it's time to start making it back to my blog. This is just a quick update blog to let y'all know I'll be back. I've got a couple blogs in the works but I want to finish them before posting. Hopefully there will be a new one up by this weekend recapping my amazing journey to The Disney Princess Half Marathon!

Stay tuned....
Heather

Getting ahold of the Classroom

Hi Friends,

So this post is for all the teachers out there. As part of my job I am teaching sea turtle programs classroom style. Today I had the hardest time getting the students to listen to me. I tried all my tricks in the bag and couldn't get them to pay attention. So my question for you teachers out there is....what are some of your tricks and tips for classroom management?

I want to be the best educator that I can and on days like today I feel like I failed. I would love to say that the rest of the day got better but all I could do was process what happened with the group this morning.

So friends, do you have any tips, tricks, websites, blogs, book, etc. that might help me out? I'm willing to look anywhere :)

Source: Uploaded by user via Heather on Pinterest

(I'm asking for help because I want to be all that I can be!)

Love,
Heather

Working things up

Hi Friends,

So as I've been promising here is my update on the move. Things have been pretty crazy since I moved so I haven't had time or energy really after work.

Well when I first got here, I couldn't even move into my house for 4 days because people hadn't moved out. So therefore I was living in Limbo buying things and storing them in my car until I could move in. Once I finally did move in, the whole house was disgusting. I had to do some intense cleaning. Here's an example of the bathroom...

eww...

umm how could someone shower in here?

the shower curtain was moldy! so gross!

 

And here is what the bathroom looks like after I got my hands on it...

So Much Better Now!

 

When I moved in there were dishes and trash all over the kitchen. It was quite horrible. Since I didn't get to move in until I started working, my nights were busy cleaning and organizing. I am somewhat satisfied with the house now. I had been sick for three weeks. The house was trying to kill me with a whole bunch of dust and mold. I ended up getting a sinus infection :(. It's all cured now for the most part.



 So like I said I jumped right into work. Now my position here is only a year temporary but I am loving the job so far. Now the politics surrounding the job and all the other crap outside of it, I'm not loving. There's definitely a lot of crap floating around which makes it weird. I've been doing pretty good at just staying positive. Yesterday though I had a break down.

 

I moved back here hoping to have all these exciting things happen. Not one has happened. Have you ever worked something so much up in your head and then when it happens you feel let down? Well that's how I've been feeling. I miss all the people I used to work with. I like some of the people now but it's not the same and they are all a good 5+ years younger than me. They are still stuck in that partying stage and I am not. I mean I am almost 28 but I feel like I am going on 40 around them. So the social aspect of being here hasn't gone as well as I'd like it too.

 

But on the other side the job part is going well. I love it. I'm starting to work on a project that I'm hoping I will be able to take to grad school. I officially know what I want to do for a career which feels fantastic. Now if I can just get there. That's always the question isn't it? Well at least I am on the right track.

 

With the Holidays here I am having a real time being away from family. I think that's what lead to my mental breakdown the other day. But I am trying to make the best of it and just go with the flow. Spending Holidays away from the family is one of the hardest things I've ever done. How do y'all do it if you are away from family? I'm just decorating like crazy. I'm hoping to do a post about all my decor next week (the roomies won't let me decorate until after Thanksgiving).

 

I've had some fun adventures along the way. I will try and blog about a couple of those soon. I just wanted to let everyone know what was going on. Super busy loving work, hating the politics, my house is trying to kill me, missing holidays at home, but staying positive! I'll leave you with one of the positives to living on an island...

Going to the beach! :)

 

 

Until next time,

Heather

 



NYC at Christmas

Hi Friends,

Long time no talk, I know. I promise to have an update on the move coming soon. Things have just been crazy busy and I've been battling a sickness for three weeks = lack of energy. Before I bring you the update on the move, I need some help.

I get the opportunity of a lifetime. It's been on my bucket list for as long as I remember. I get to go to NYC during Christmas time. I'm actually going the weekend of Thanksgiving. I will really only be there for about a day and a half meeting my mom but I'm so excited.

I need y'alls help. What are your top things to see in NYC at Christmas time? I am starting to form a list of my top priority things to see and would love your help.

Thanks Loves,
Heather

And I promise an update by next week :)