Insta-ness

This has been a pretty wild month and I thought that I would send out a little shout to my favorite app of all time... Instagram! I love it totally. I'm constantly snapping pictures with my doggie and kittans. Here's a grid of just a few of my favorites:

I know it's a little crazy that I included a picture of a boy up there at the top but he's really nice and I like him. So we'll see. But my birthday celebration was a total blast... I ended up having a better time at that then at my 21st birthday party! Pretty fabulous. Pouka has been working on her bloggy skills while I've been teaching and working on some major house projects!


Here's a picture from my birthday of my awesome-somewhat-inappropriate-tiara...

This is how we spend late nights at our house... painting nails and napping...

More pup pictures!

Hope everyone is having a happy Wednesday so far! Feel free to follow me on the ole instagram action (user name @missmcds) Yay!

My Favorite Day

Happy Birthday to Me!

It's sort of weird to think that I am now 23 years old. I know for some people that's not a big deal but it seems a strange age to me. I feel pretty good about it though, I own my house, have a cute dog, great career, fun friends. Life is good!

To celebrate another year in life on the blog I decided to share with you 23 things about me you may not know, unless you're my mom, then she knows everything.

1. I loathe styrofoam. I don't wanna touch it. I don't wanna eat off of it. I hate it.
2. I have to have my nails painted, it's like my thing. I am also a total nail polish snob. I love Essie and OPI polish.
3. I have worn the same size pants since I was 17... I guess that's cool.
4. I haven't gotten my hair cut since August, as I am afraid of scissors.
5. I have 14 pillows just in my bedroom. :) heh.
6. My middle name is Lynn.
7. There is a tattoo on the top of my foot of the Celtic tree of life. It's a more pagan version. That crap hurt real bad.
8. I love taking long showers in the mornings. It's my vice, I need a solid 20 to 30 minutes. I wish I was one of those awesome people that just hops out of bed in the morning, goes on a jog with the dog, and goes to work and leads a healthly successful career. No. Not me. Never will be.
9. I like to play beach volleyball, even though I suck at it horribly.
10. I would love to run in a Color Run kind of thing... so I need to get into better shape.
11. Favorite wine: Moscato right now
12. Favorite movie at the moment is "He's Just Not That Into You." I watch it a lot.
13. I am an Aries....
14. My best friend's name is Christie and we have been best buds since we were 11, her birthday is also today! Happy Birthday friend!
15. I wear a belt every day. I just have to. It's a thing.
16. My ideal outfit is a white V-neck tee that fits well, a pair of dark indigo skinny jeans, a camel toned belt, flippy floppies, and a braid. It's sort of like my summer uniform.
17. I own 6 swim suits. Only 1 has ever been in the water.
18. I don't know how to swim very well, like at all.
19. My doggy's full name is Sebastian Lee Harold
20. My eldest cat's full name is Pouka Lynn
21. I typically don't like other redheads... especially if their name is Megan. Meaghan. Mayghan, Meagan, or Magan.
22. I have this idea in my brain that I will marry a guy that looks like Prince Eric. Therefore it should have to happen.
23. One of my biggest goals in life is to eventually publish a novel.

Well, I think those are relatively random. Hope that satisfied a bit of curiosity out there. Also if you follow me on Instagram, you will likely see some birthday #craycray-ness on there today. 

Ye have been warned.

Insta-Monday

Today is a really exciting day for me! I've been waiting for this day for at least 5 years.

It's the first day of school! Allow me to clarify it is my first day of school as a student teacher. Yay! Success is mine! Well almost! I am nervous but mostly really excited. It's definitely been a rough change over in terms of schedule. I work Monday through Thursday 12pm to 11pm and had three day weekends. Now I'm switched over to teaching 7am to 3pm, working one night a week 4pm-11pm and then weekends 9am to 8pm. Phew. I've been losing track of myself lately!

Anyways if you've been following me on Instagram (@missmcds) then you have seen that I've been setting up my desk and classroom. Here's a few of my faves from last week:

I get my own desk and laptop! That may not seem that exciting but it's way more than I expected! I totally love it. I'm sure it's not going to look that organized again the rest of the semester. #studentteaching

And that is definitely the Little Mermaid on my pencil holder. Yup. My dog's name is Sebastian, noticing a theme?

My roommate, Erin, and I decided to spend our last weekend of summer having a great time. Biking is pretty big in CO so we biked around Colorado Wine Country (Palisade, Colorado) and went on a fun wine tour. The next day we biked around downtown Grand Junction and had fun hitting up the little shops. I look like a weirdo in the next picture but it was a lot of fun!

And Sebastian got a haircut! Look how handsome he is! #puppylove

He was quite fluffy before his haircut. The groomer said that he needs to be leash trained better, so that's something we're going to work on. He's only 4 months old and 6 and a half pounds. He's not much for taking on long leash walks yet. He will walk well with me but not anyone else, hopefully we can work on that also.If anyone has any tips! Let me know!

Yay! Love the Instagram! If you have one leave me your username in a comment/email and I will definitely follow you!

Are You a Follower?

With all of the technical social media craziness that has been going recently I thought I would do an update on all the places you can find This Messy Business out in the social media realm.

I haven't done an update on at least a year, so it's about time!

Of course if you are a reader, but not yet a follower you can always follow the blog through Google Friend Connect in the side bar and you can also enter in your email if you prefer that method too. That way you'll never miss anything!

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I also am an avid Pinterest lover so you can catch up with me via that method also, click {here} to find me and get to pinning! I pin all sorts of things from fashion to recipes (though I admit I have never actually made any of them. lol)

My newest love is Instagram! It's been so much fun to post pictures of my new puppy, the kittens, and all the other shenanigans that I seem to be up to. My username on Instagram is: missmcds 

Feel free to find me and I will follow you back!

But wait! There's more!

I've also been known to Twitter a little bit. I'm still getting used to the idea of Twitter but you can always follow me on there too, if you so desire. My username for some Twitter action is: @meaghanstunning

And of course there's always the ole Facebook! You can find the blog on there by clicking {here} I'm trying to keep that as updated as possible. 

Geesh that seems like a lot of social networking! The things that smartphones have done to society right? Just kidding. But feel free to leave me a comment with your info or just follow and I will follow you back! 

I look forward to seeing you out in the social media world!