Water for Elephants

Rachel, Michelle and myself had a little girls night last week and went to see the film Water for Elephants. Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon really did a good job on this movie. I love Rob, (I am, of course, a bonafide Twilight geek) but I normally feel indifferent about Reese. I had remembered seeing a few trailers for the movie but went in to the theater not really knowing the storyline nor had I read the book it is based on. I think that is the best way to see this film, because Michelle had read the book and got a little annoyed by the differences. She said she still really liked it, but it's always hard for the movie live up to the books. I think I'll read the book now after seeing the film.

Anyways the cinematography is great and the plot is new and different, and well put together. Plus Rob looks amazing and there are a lot of animals and Reese's hair and wardrobe had me wishing the 1930's circus look would come in style (and that I had her body!).

Mini Mountain Vacay

Rich and I were able to get away for a little mini break just before I start my summer classes on Monday. We left Saturday and got back Tuesday afternoon. It was a well needed break, the kind you didn't realize you needed til you got there. We got to do it very cost efficiently also, my dad and his wife were actually supposed to go to Gatlinburg last year but they had some unexpected issues and they couldn't make it. They had the amount they paid put on a voucher to be put towards a cabin but they only had one year to use it and they weren't going to be able to go so they let Rich and I go in their place! We even had enough left over to pay for two Aquarium tickets!

If you ever go to Gatlinburg you have to eat at Dick's Last Resort. It's good food and the atmosphere is great, all the servers and people who work there are basically 'dicks' to the guest. They just cut up with you, it's very sarcastic. Like as soon as we walked in, the host grabbed the picture I was holding (a $12 4x6 picture of me kissing Rich on the cheek on the Sky Lift) and let us know how 'annoying' we were! Then the servers feel you out during your dinner, seeing what they can tease you about then they make paper hats for you. We told them we had recently gotten married and we were from Kentucky so Rich's paper hat said "I married my cousin" and mine read "I married my brother". It was a totally different vibe and was a great way to spend our last night in the mountains!

And when we got back to our home sweet home I had a package awaiting me!!!

I ordered some feather hair extensions and they finally got here! They are so cool! Rich forgot to bring me home some needle nose pliers so hopefully I'll get them put in tomorrow and I'll post pictures! I got the idea from my amazing sister-in-law, Amanda. Her and her husband Robbie (Rich's brother) are stationed out in Las Vegas (Robbie is in the Air Force) and we get to face time on Rich's iPhone 4 about once a week and she told me about them! They look great on her!



Couponing

For my first 'real' post I want to talk about couponing. Why has it gotten so big lately?! I hear about couponing everywhere I turn. I know the Extreme Couponing show on TLC has really made me want to start clipping newspapers but there are some new ways I'm finding out about.

First of all I've been a fan of the website Ruelala.com for awhile.
You have to create a log in but everyday they have 10-15 boutiques and other sales that are very discounted. Sales last for 2 days or until they sell out of the item. The cool thing about ruelala is it's not just clothes, boutiques might be selling sunglasses, bedding, home decor, watches, jewelry or even cruises and vacation packages. I don't recommend impulse shopping, which is your only choice on this site, but sometimes you find some really great deals.

Of course there are some good apps on my iPhone but I haven't tried any of those, any suggestions?

Retailmenot.com is another good website. It's just a way to search for coupon codes, for online shopping and printable coupons. I normally spend my Sunday's at work looking up coupons and printing them out from this site. The only bad thing is that sometimes the coupons don't work but they do have a rating system. beside each coupon it tells how well the coupon has worked for users.

The newest thing I've figured out (besides that real couponers subscribe to the newspaper) is that Kroger grocery store now offers digital coupons. If you have a Kroger card you can log in online and add up to 150 coupons to your card. Then when you swipe your card at checkout any coupons that apply to your purchase automatically are taken off your total!

Well thats all for now. Have a great day!

dot the i

So, I named my blog 'dot the i' because I recently got married and my new last name is Tittle, the definition of which means the dot on top of the I. I'm 23 and live in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It's a great town. Large enough to have some restaurant options and a few attractions (Beech Bend Park, The Corvette Museum, various underground caves etc...), but small enough to feel safe and to regularly run in to people you know.

I just recently got married on September 25th of 2010. My husband, Rich, is amazing. He's hilarious, smart hard working and an genuine person. We've only know each other for 2 years this month but we were smitten from the beginning and we knew we had something special from the get-go. We are very happy and harmonious together. I just transferred back to Western Kentucky University. I'm getting my degree in Spanish, and I'll probably teach. I work part-time for an optometrist, I've been there for two and a half years and love it there. I've also recently started selling items on eBay for All American Pawn (where my husband works). I had never bought or sold on eBay before and it's been really exciting getting in to it all. It's also a nice little second paycheck!

Other than that I've been working out (3 months in a row now woo hoo!) with a friend of mine (Michelle) and I haven't seen the results that I want yet, so I plan to blog on that. I've been very consistant with working out but the problem is that I eat bad. But Rich is such an amazing cook it's very hard to diet. I also plan to blog about household tips, and clothing and movies (netflix basically). Rich is more in to movies, I prefer television series (I'm super obsessed with The Office right now).

Well I've got to get my day going. I'll be playing around with this more later.

Post Number 1

Hello Everyone!

Well I don't know a lot about blogging but it just seems like such a great creative outlet. Although that's the reason I've never started one before because I'm a student, I work, and I'm a newly wed, so I get really in the mood to be creative and I start a new project (most recently quilting) then soon after I get bored with whatever I started and abandon it. I don't want to do that with a blog, but even abandoning is better than never starting. It's also itimidating to pick a blog subject. So I'll start broad, this will be a blog about my day to day. I hope to post about fashion, crafts and diy projects, maybe some movies, some "housewife" posts, maybe some health and nutrition posts, then maybe I'll get it narrowed down to more specific things. So I probably won't be telling anyone about this until I get a few more posts going.

So anyways I hope you enjoy!