Little Fall Photo Shoot

Did a little photo shoot with my tripod for Lookbook after i went out to lunch with my mother.

nothing spectacular, but i thought i would share :)

Night out with the Red Bow Heels

Went out the other night with my husband to eat and grab a coffee. It was a pretty random outing, considering we were in our casual clothes and on our computers at home until 7pm when we decided to go out :p 

Since it was a night outing and we don't do that often I decided to wear my somewhat new red bow heels and mini skirt... I love how the heels look, but hate how they fit. I have a hard time putting them on, they seem to fit good at first but they're a little big.

Now, I am a huge fan of pumps, but have a hard time wearing them, with my diabetes and joint problems, wearing heels can be painful right from the start, not to mention I have weak ankles... doesn't really help much. I have such a hard time understanding how women can go out clubbing in stilettos or pumps, least of all walking everywhere like celebs do. I have to keep reminding myself that they don't have feet problems like I do, but I still wonder how different is it really, ya know?

my dreams of being a supermodel were never very realistic anyways :p lol. But it would still be nice to not be in pain going shopping at the mall... standing in line at a theme park, or just wearing some heels out to dinner with my husband.

Another down side of pain is it wears thin on your patience and nerves, so not all our outings are fun, littered with rainbows and unicorns :p but we had a good dinner at Red Lobster.  My favorite thing, the highlight of every visit, is the $7 bowl of Heck-yes-lobster-bisque!!!

The shoes are from Charlotte Russe, so they're not great quality, but they are what I can afford. I think it's safe to say I wont be wearing them much.

Its a Orange Spice Autumn

Over the last few months my husband and I had been stressing about getting a new car, not sure if we should or if we should fix the one we had or what, since the car we had been using had broken down several times with expensive fixing costs over the past year. The main issue was at the time michael didnt have a job, and to find a job we would have to put more money into our car, but we didnt want to do that because it's a piece of sh*t, but we couldn't get a new car... well because michael didnt have a job, so no money. Then last month michael started a wonderful job, and we started getting money, but... we needed to pay people off and save up, and all that fun stuff so we still didnt know what to do.

last week we decided to go looking at cars, we figured if were going to look into something new, then its going to be a vehicle that we both wanted, otherwise we might as well go used. I hadn't been hearing anything from the Lord on the matter so I wasn't sold, but it seemed like Michael had been hearing leasing for the last couple weeks, (I was skeptical because I didn't know what was all involved in leasing) so we decided to head to the Mini Cooper dealer in Ontario to talk to someone about our options.

Sufficient to say, we got a Mini :) we talked to one of the dealers, and we got approved for a lease, we prayed about it, and we both felt good about the decision... which it was a hard decision to make because we wanted this vehicle so bad that we didn't want that to cloud our judgment or block our God receptors...lol *giggles* God receptor... anyways but it was an all-day process that led us to believe that this was in God's plan and he would take care of us financially as long as we trust in him.

So we ended up turning in our piece of crap car in for $1000 which helped for the down payment, and left the lot in our new Mini! Which I gotta say, is amazing! Less gas, smooth ride, brand new everything, I mean it was newer then new, it's a 2013 model... and IT'S NOT EVEN 2013! Crazy right! 3 Year lease with cheap monthly payments and when the lease is up we're hoping to buy it.

To me it seemed like renting it, but apparently to the dealership is ours... they see it more as ownership so I guess I can say the car is ours!

it's fantastic having something this new, my mother and step-father are leasing a truck, but other then that my family never had new vehicles, not saying we always had junkers but they were always used, same with Michael, so this kinda blows our minds. The only thing I don't like is we only have a certain amount of miles we can use per year, so we need to look into moving soon, because A.) The car won't work well up here in the mountains for winter... I don't even know if we can put chains on it, and B.) we don't have the miles for Michael to drive to work and back every day, so now are next focus is moving out and down the mountain. Which is exciting and very scary :p

But for now we are doing ok. I will hopfully be bringing more pictures to come, I haven't had the time so far since michael has been gone at work during the daylight hours. But I will try and get some up soon to show you all the features, and get y'all jealous :p

Until next time! Happy Autumn!

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Old car (far crappier then it looks) inside was ripped apart in a bunch of places and stains, no radio or any way to play music, always breaking down, and no AC, and btw it was like this when we got the car, couldn't afford much and it seemed to run fine at the time, wasn't long before it started breaking down all the time though -

New car! -

Btw the color is called Orange Spice.

At Least We Got a Taste of Fall

There are some things I really miss about Michigan, the lakes, especially lake Michigan. the Victorian/historic houses, the antique shops everywhere, I mean sure there are a few around here is not like there are no antiques in California, but back home there all over the place, and the apple cider mills (Uncle Johns Cider Mill in St. Johns and The Country Mill in Charlotte MI, where I'm from) those are the 2 most prominent ones for me because they were near by, but there are more.

I'm sure a lot of people don't understand the huge attraction especially if your from California, an apple farm out here Isn't really the same thing, but back home, we went every fall. Not only are there apples and pumpkins, but fresh doughnuts and cider.

Man, they're the best doughnuts you have ever had, it doesn't matter if you have had fresh doughnuts before because there not just any fresh doughnuts.

Most places out here in Cali or places like crispy cream, sure make them fresh and they're good, but at a Cider mill, they're not big chains, or mass distributed, there the places home recipe...its a huge appeal and big deal going to a cider mill back home.

Well out here not far from were we live is Oak Glen, a little apple farming town, that we (me and my husband Michael) decided to try out last Saturday, sadly, no doughnuts, only apply pies and stuff (not a huge fan of apple stuff other then doughnuts and cider) but we did have a good time. Cute place with a lot to see, some Great cider, which we forgot to pick some up for home :( 

but still it was a nice day out, we took some good pictures and ended up getting a couple pumpkins.

Oh and before we went, since we have to go down the mountain to get there we met up with our new married friends Gladys and James for lunch at red lobster. Of course I got my favorite Lobster bisque, and after we got a nice group shot together, pictured below.

altogether it was a nice time out, and even though it was disappointing that there was no doughnuts and we forgot cider, we were still very happy to have gotten the chance to get out on a date day together and get some pumpkins.

Back in the Game

FINALLY In the mood to write something up. I missed last months MMH and I just figured I would skip one since I'm so late, so I'll try better to remember this months. 

With Michael's new job, we were able to get my WoW account back up and running so I've been kinda stuck on that, especially since Mists of Pandaria came out, been extra busy with that... at least on the computer :p...gosh I need to get out more.

Anyways you may not understand I thing I'm about to say, but hey WoW is apart of my life so I'm going to take a little time to talk about.

I'm not a great player or anything, Michael helps me out on a lot of the technical stuff for raiding and such, but I really only raid for the achievements, I do enjoy it sometimes, its just high stress and you usually have to deal with a lot of elitist jerks (people who expect you to play perfectly otherwise you're a shit player... so basically a bunch a guys with sticks up there asses :p ) but sometimes what you get out of it is worth it. Other then that I love to PVP (Player Vs. Player), Alterac Valley is my favorite battleground, and maybe its because its one of the ones that the Alliance are best at.

With MoP coming out I haven't been able to try the new BG's yet, too busy leveling, gearing, and doing other stuff that needs to be done, lets just say a lot of stuff got changed around with the new expansion and now you have to do a bunch of repeatable quests called "dailies" daily to get rep so that you can do more dailies to get good gear for raiding and other things, also a couple of professions are a bit more involved, like cooking. Now you have your own farm, and you grow crops too for cooking.

One thing that's nice for me is the dungeons aren't as hard as they made them in Cata (the last expansion) i think hard fights and mechanics should mostly be left for raids, so I'm glad a lot of the heroics are a bit easier.

2 weeks ago I reached 90, I was the first in the guild to do some, and I'm pretty sure I'm the first in the guild to be geared enough to do LFR (looking for raid) so I feel pretty accomplished, so other then dailies this week I've been working on Pet Battling, which is kinda weird, everyone talks about how its so much like pokemon, and I don't really care for it, its tiring, but there are a lot of achievements so its something I need to do.

MoP wise... I love the expansion, everyone for months talked about how stupid it was going to be, how stupid playing panda's was... but really, there pretty kick-ass, the graphics are pleasing to the eye, the area's are beautiful, the dailies, and dungeons are fun. I thought cata was fun, but at the same time very scattered, I feel like this storyline is pulled together and tied in, without being everywhere. I did like what they did with cata, but the areas where all in different places, so you had to take portals everywhere and sometimes it took forever to get from one place to another, and the heroics and raids were effing difficult :\ which was cool for awhile....but I still haven't gotten 50% of the achievements I need. also the areas got tiring to quest in quick, you never really wanted to finish an area.

so I like the changes they made.

Even though I haven't written much lately... to tell you the truth I don't have much more to say, been a bit cooped up here for the last few weeks, haven't really done anything else... other then deal with health issue's. I was supposed to go out yesterday with my mother to spend some time together but the night before i got sick, really bad sore throat all night, so were hoping to do something tomorrow.

Its gotten really cold over here, one week I'm wearing shorts and a casual short sleeved shirt, then then next it just dropped and my fingers are freezing off and I'm playing wow snuggled in a blanket with my fuzzy socks and my asymmetrical or a Hoodie (which BTW I never wear socks unless I'm cold or I'm wearing tennis shoes which i never wear) so i hope it lets up a little, I don't wanna be feeling this weather for another month :p

Oh before I go, please pray we can get out car licensed and insured soon so me and Michael can do things, that a new car would come our way, and that the financial blessings would keep pouring in.

Thank You Lord for all that you have given us!

Well that's all I got for today, hopefully I'll be writing soon of some fun outings I've had this month :)

until then, God bless!