Fabulous 40
-
My Ramblings On My Broadway visit to Hadestown
I did that thing I have been waiting to do for years! I saw a Tony Award-Winning show ON BROADWAY!!!! Ok, to be fair I would have settled on any show on Broadway but this makes it all the better. So let’s talk about my entire Broadway-night-with-the-ladies experience, starting with picking a show. Let me start by saying that for my 40th birthday, my present to myself was to go to NYC and see some Broadway shows with some of my closest friends. But What Should We See? Initially, I thought this would be easy peasy. Pick a show, get tickets. Sadly, not so much since my BFF, Pam, and…
-
8 Amazing Cities to Visit for Your Birthday
When was the last time you went on a trip to celebrate your birthday? Where did you go? I try to as often as possible but that’s not always how it goes down. Most the time on the week of my birthday, I take vacation which works out perfectly since it is the end of June. But since it is #yearof40, I am doing it up! My thoughts are go hard or go home. I am certainly sticking with my theme for the year….intentional living! I will tell you more aboit those trips later. How do you decide where to go? This part of the process can be the most…
-
Party Planning Basics
During the planning of my birthday party to try to figure out the best way to have a rockin’ 40th, I realize how very daunting and time consuming and fun it can be all at the same time. Coming from a big family, parties are in my blood. We went to them or had them almost every weekend for a fair amount of my life. And I would not change that for the world. It has provided me with a lifetime of memories and some knowledge about what I like and do not like regarding parties and overall planning strategies that I am excited to share. Here is the formula…
-
I turned the big 4-0!
This week was my super fab 40th birthday and it was awesome! I really try to take the time to feel special on my day! And here is how I did it.. First Things First I wake up early so that I could get myself all dolled up for the special occasion. I am not normally much for putting time into how I look. Mostly I look like a hot mess. But as of late, I have made more of an effort for a few reasons. I have found procucts that I like When I take that little extra time to look good, I feel good so too, imagine that.…
-
Let The Celebrating Begin
This is go time! Birthday week has commenced. In just 4 days I will be the Big 4-0 and I am going to celebrate all week long! When I was younger I had the absolute best birthdays! My mom always made them special. And having a summer birthday made it even better. Up until about my 30th birthday, I would celebrate all week anyway that I could – sleepovers, parties, Indians games, dinner show, night at the bar with friends and family. As I have grown older honoring the day of my birth has become a little lack luster. Although I normally take vacation the week of my birthday, try…
-
Year of Forty!l
Does this sound like your current situation? During the week you head into work after getting the kids off to school, put in your 8-12 hours, fight the traffic to get home at a decent time for dinner, spend the little bit of time you have left catching up on your DVR that has accumulated a sufficient amount of shows that you will NEVER be able to watch, check out your social media accounts just before falling asleep, and then wake up and do it all over again. Now comes the weekend. WOHOO! Except, you realize that you have at least 4 loads of laundry to do, the house looks…
-
Celebrating Your Fabulous 40!
All right so now that we have chosen our Theme for the YEAR of 40, let’s move on to how the heck are we going to celebrate it?! If you do not have a theme for the year, check out this post. First I think we should acknowledge that there are different schools of thought about making the plunge into 40’s. This is important because it will help determine the best way to spend your birthday so lets talk about these mindsets of celebrating. Everyone fits into one of these categories: **There is the “We don’t talk about it” person. I don’t want to be 40, don’t want to think…
-
“Theming In” Your New Birth Year
New Years eve isn’t the only time you can “Ring in the New Year”! Why not do it for your birthday? And I am not talking about how you celebrate your birthday. Although, not going to lie, champagne, party spinners, gold, black and silver decorations and the swankiest food sounds pretty fabulous! But I digress. I am referring to how you APPROACH this #yearofforty for its duration. (Or any birth year for that matter). Just before New Year’s we make resolutions and set goals for the year. Why not just apply that concept to your celebration of another year of life. But snazz it up a bit. I mean this…
-
Welcome World!
Today I am officially starting my Mid Life Crisis, I mean blog! LOL This is exciting, scary and hysterical all at once! HYSTERICAL because my whole academic career (although a long time gone), I made it a point not to write. I got out of the most intense writing class in high school, took classes in college based on the amount of writing needed , decided NOT to go to graduate school because the thought of having to write a dissertation gave me immediate heart palpitations. SCARY because, well HELLO, putting myself out there for the whole world to see and judge. I have spent almost my whole life living…
