I'm obsessed

with viggle. 

I feel like I'm late getting into this, but it's an iphone/ipad app that gives you points for watching TV. You just check in to whatever show you're watching and you get a point for every minute you watch TV. Once you get a certain number of points you can get awesome gift cards. I've almost got enough points for a sephora gift card and I've only had the app for a week! 

You can get bonus points for checking in to some shows, too. Last week I got 1,500 points for checking into Ellen! You have to stay checked in for at least ten minutes to get the bonus points, though. But once you do that you'll get the bonus points plus points for the minutes you're checked in. So, if you checked in to Ellen that day for the 1,500 points and stayed checked in for ten minutes, you would get 1,510 points! I love that show so I stayed checked in the whole time and got 1,560 points :) 

At night there are several shows that offer bonus points. You just click on "What's On" and it shows you what shows have bonus points, so you can just check in to those for ten minutes and move on to the next one!

I LOVE this app! Any other apps I should know about for making money?

It's me again!

Man, I'm a terrible blogger. I swear I'm gonna get better.

Since it's been about three months since my last blog, here's a little update on life:
I graduated! Now I'm on the job hunt...it's early in the process, so I'm still feeling pretty optimistic at this point.

Lee is taking FOUR classes this summer on top of his work so he can graduate in August instead of December. He'll finish his first class at the end of this month, he'll have a class on campus Monday-Thursday in June, another class Monday-Thursday in July, and an online class from June-July. The class he's taking right now isn't too bad, so hopefully the other classes won't be too bad either.

I'll be working at the pool again this summer, so that will give us a little extra money until I [hopefully] start teaching in the fall. That'll also mean that I have time to get pretty much everything done around the house to relieve some of Lee's stress when he gets home from class every night.

I got my wisdom teeth out Monday, and I look kinda like this guy:

My jaws are so swollen! Lee can't stop laughing at me...I do look pretty funny. I haven't been in too much pain though, mainly just uncomfortable. If I move around a lot I start to hurt a little, so I've pretty much just been resting all week.

I have lots of craft projects I want to try over the summer, and lots of books I want to read, so I'll probably be posting about all that soon.

Presidents Day Weekend

We've had a busy and fun Presidents Day weekend!

Friday night our cousin Lauren and her husband John came to town to stay with us and go see Wicked! I've wanted to see Wicked for years (we had tickets a few years ago when we lived in Memphis but we ended up moving that weekend instead) so I was extremely excited when I found out it was coming to Birmingham! It was so good!!

Saturday morning we got up and rode with Lauren and John down to the beach for Lee's (and Lauren's) grandfather's 80th birthday party. The party wasn't until Sunday so we just got to hang out with everybody Saturday night. It was a lot of fun :) 

Sunday we had the birthday party at a camp on the lake. Here's a picture I stole from my sister-in-law's facebook:

(I've decided that our next house is gonna have to be on the lake. Lauren and John live on the lake so Sunday morning I got up and enjoyed the view while I worked on a little bit of homework. The view made even homework more enjoyable.)

We got home around 8:30 last night, then today I went to Anniston to pick up our puppies from Lee's mom. She had had them since Wednesday so I was so happy to see them!

Ellie was quick to get back to her normal napping spot--in the closet under Lee's shirts!

I love spending time with our families :)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!  We don't really have any plans tonight, too much homework! :( Lee is gonna cook steak so I'm excited about that. It's been SO LONG since I've had a good steak!

10 pound challenge update

This is the 4th week of the 10-pound challenge and I've lost four pounds, so I feel like I'm on track :)


I haven't done as well with my exercise as I had hoped, but I'm hoping now that I'm in more of a routine with school and everything I'll be able to work it in more.  And I am on my feet all day every day, so that probably helps a little.


I'm planning to step up my diet a little this week and really start counting my calories. The past few weeks I've just been trying to eat more fruit and watch my portions, but this week I'm going to start keeping track of what I'm eating.


I'm happy with the rate I'm losing weight, and hopefully I'll be able to keep it up for the next few weeks!

Little Update

Life has gotten kind of crazy again! I'm going to do a quick update today of everything that's been going on.

• School has been taking up most of my time lately. I'm still loving my cooperating teacher and 5th graders I'm with for my internship. I was nervous about 5th grade but I adore these kids, and my cooperating teacher is amazing. She's so helpful and fun to work with. I'm in my 10 consecutive days of full-time teaching right now, and it was overwhelming at first but I feel like I'm getting in the swing of it now. My last day in this class will be March 2, then I'll move to a 2nd grade class at the same school.

• I'm doing pretty well on the ten-pound challenge. I know I haven't updated like I said I would, but I'll update about it tomorrow :) 

• Last weekend we went to Lee's grandmother's house. She lives in the country so we decided to take the gun and shoot. Lee loves that thing!

me shooting

Lee coaching his mom

Lee shooting

That's pretty much all that's been going on with us lately. I haven't had time to read as much as I'd like :( I FINALLY got Mindy Kaling's book on epub from the library and didn't even have time to finish it before they took it away from me :(  Sad. I was liking it, just didn't have time to read for fun.

Book Club Friday 1.27.12

Happy Friday!  I'm linking up again this week with Book Club Friday.

This week I'm reviewing Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan.

Here's the summary from Goodreads:
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens—both named Will Grayson—are about to cross paths. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical.

Hilarious, poignant, and deeply insightful, John Green and David Levithan’s collaborative novel is brimming with a double helping of the heart and humor that have won both them both legions of faithful fans.

Lauren reviewed this book on her blog and she loved it, so I decided to check it out.  [Lauren introduced me and Lee to The Hunger Games, so yeah, I trust her judgment!]

I loved this book!  It was really easy to read [I started reading it on Friday and finished it on Sunday] and I thought it had such a good message about all relationships: romantic, friendship, family, pretty much everything.  It's funny and a little sad at times, and I felt like part of me could identify with all the main characters.

I'll definitely be looking for more books by these authors.