If grace is an ocean, we're all sinking.

What's up going in and out of spurts with blogging?

 Life was getting a little crazy there but seems to be taking a nice, pleasant little break. I've been reading like a fiend lately! After I finish one book I'm really on another one. Not that I'm complaining. I just completed The Help and I have to say that was a fantastic book! Now I'm onto The Lovely Bones. I got a list from this site I receive daily emails from, Dailycandy.com. It's 100 books you must read and needless to say it's now been my main mission to complete this list. It's been a nice break to read some secular books although I will probably through in a couple of Christian ones to balance it out. Needless to say my Beth Moore study has not been going so well. I really need to get back into it. Helps me to stay grounded and thankful for everything He has allowed for me. Something I'm struggling with is patience. I pretty much have zero patience with a lot of things (Can we say road rage?) but then I think about all the patience He has for me and I am humbled like no other. I feel like he just waits on me when I'm doing my own thing and He's so patient with me and His grace allows me to come back with open arms.

So for Christmas I received a Crock pot, among other things. I can't wait to crack that bad boy open and make some delicious potato soup or yummy pulled pork or mac n cheese! Can't wait....expect some pictures there.

That's all I have for now. So much to unload right now but not enough time and it may then be too long.

step 1.

So the first step to addiction is admitting you have a problem.


My name is Colleen and I'm addicted to pinterest.


It's only been one day and it's so bad already, hopefully it won't be this bad all the time.


Anywho, check out my board, and follow me so I can follow you too! Yay friends!

Spinal Tap and Mexican

So overall the weekend was great! Still haven't cooked very much besides ravioli or a pizza but on Saturday Karl and I were in Batavia and we got to go to the new MEXICAN restaurant they opened up there! I have to say I was devastated when Margarita's closed. Now I know, it's a little crazy I don't even live in Batavia but we're out there often enough that I would go there basically everytime we were there. So you can understand why I was SO excited a new mexican food place opened up.

I have to say the place was delicious! The chips could have been a little bit better, tasted a little bit too crunchy but not exactly on the stale side of things. Salsa was delish. I ordered the chicken chimichanga's, of course, they were delicious. The guac was yum, everything was really flavorful, I didn't feel like I wanted to douse it in hot sauce because the flavor was there. I posted it here if you want to see what it looked like. Overall, they get an A+ from me!

Sunday night we had the Maciag movie viewing extravaganza!! Love my techy/AV nerdy boyfriend. He borrowed the projector from work and we were going to watch Spinal Tap on the garage door but due to weather set backs we just watched it inside.
Well, here:

Not a great shot but you get the idea. Wanted a double feature with Spinal Tap/The Big Lebowski but it got too late for that :( Next time.

Welp, I tried out some new recipes a few months back and never posted so here is one of them! All you need to know about this one is PESTO! If you want to make it yourself go here.

f-o-o-d food food!!

Doesn't everything taste better with a little bit of fresh basil??? Yum yum! 

passion & encouragment

You know you're doing the right thing in life when you get super excited about it. I'm so excited about promoting to District Manager this month. It had to happen this month, it couldn't have happened any other month. I had worked so hard the past two months for this and I finally saw it come to life.

This experience has been so much more rewarding that a month at my last job. The feeling that my hard work was rewarded and I received recognition for it. And then you're encouraged even more for the next month and the upcoming months. Instead of getting the complete opposite of this at my last job, always on to bigger and better things and well you're not doing this.

I love Arbonne. I love the opportunity. I love God.

i'm back

My goodness has life been crazy the past few months. I can't believe how much I missed blogging and how long it's been since I last really blogged. I'm making a commitment to myself to keep up on this because even if I'm the only one who reads this I so need it for myself. It's just nice to look back at your life and what you were feeling, thinking, eating on a specific day.

Well, I started Arbonne as a Plan B to my current job and then my current job took a dive for the worse. When they say about 80-90% of people say they quit they're job because of their boss, that is true. And that's all I'm going to say about that! With that, I do have a new Plan A and I'm very excited about exploring the world of Microsoft and Ingram Micro. It's going to be a great, great opportunity for me and I can't wait to start! While doing this my Arbonne business is just BOOMING! My goodness do I just love that stuff. Trying not to idolize it so much and praise the One who has brought me to this stuff but honestly, it's so great I dream about it!!

I've finally taken back my desk space (from myself and by then I mean I'm not allowing myself to put piles and piles of crap and mail on my desk) and created a nice, pleasant and cozy workspace for myself. Today is close day for the month of August and I'm this {..} close to making District Manager this month I can taste it! I've worked so hard for it this month and I'm seeing the benefits pay off in a big, big way.

I haven't really been cooking at all this summer because one it's just been so insanely hot. Secondly because of the lack of time for it. It's been a crazy busy summer with me starting Arbonne and all but emotionally it's been a lot too. Plus I do a lot of my cooking at Karl's and he has no a/c in the house except for a unit in the upstairs living room. Plus his oven was broken for an entire month!! Needless to say we've ate out a lot but it's been mostly deliciously wonderful! There's a new place in Hamburg called O'Brien's Smokehouse that has the most deliciously juicy burger you've ever laid your eyes on. Then there's The Blue Monk which is kind of my current new obsession. It's a little joint down in the city they have thousands of different beers and their duck frites are out of this world. Then Lloyd's taco truck...how can I even explain that truck. While I created this blog as a main outlet to post photos and descriptions for my cooking extravaganza's I've joined a site to post my eating out experiences. Check it out here!

Blog Giveaway

Check it out folks. This is a great friend who is an incredible photographer. I for serious sweat his photography and him and his wife know it :)

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