Life is a Honey Badger

I don't like to do this, but I am going to write an emotional, love life post.

Bear with me....here we go!

So lately, I have just been living me life. Somewhat enjoying my days (I mean work isn't always fun!). I had a plan....get married in a year os so, have a kid in a few years, get tenured, get my masters, and have a few more kids.  Everything was going to plan.  But really the only thing you can plan on is that life doesn't give a shit about your plans. Life is a honey badger because a honey badger don't give a shit! (If you have no clue what I am talking about, youtube honey badger don't care!)

I got a bomb dropped on me last week which is why I have been MIA for a bit! It has made me rethink everything in my life.  I have experienced all of the stages of grief in about two days which was a work out in itself! And God bless my best friend, Meagan, for making me come out of my hole that I lived in for two days, and she might have gotten me drunk in the process ;-]  I have seen a different side to my parents, and I am so grateful that I have! They have been 100% completely supportive over the last week (I like to refer to it as the week from hell!) 

I have always been a full on believer in everything happening for a reason.  There is a hidden reason that this bomb was dropped on me.  It sucks right now, but someone told me that you will understand life backwards, but you have to live it forwards.  So one day, hopefully soon, I will understand why this has happened to me. In the meantime, my car radio is mocking me! The day after the bomb came, I am getting in my car to drive to work and the song "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter came on the radio. I thought to myself, "Yes, this is not the best day!"  I made it all through work and as I am leaving, the song "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey comes on the radio.  I swear this is either the world mocking me, or God letting me know that he is thinking of me.  I am hoping for the latter!

The whole point of this soppy message is no matter how well you plan, life is going to throw you curve balls.  The real trick is how you handle them!

Thanks for reading!
A

I'll Just Restart the Dryer.....

How true is picture? This is me every morning when I finally decide what I want to wear and it is wrinkled!

I swear my dryer hates me with how much I make it run! I am super bad about not folding my laundry as soon as it comes out of the dryer! My mother is awesome at this method.  She even has the dryer running in between folds.  I, however, call my method the "pull it out of the dryer and put it in a basket and spend hours folding on the weekend" or probably what my mother calls the "lazy method". 

It comes to no surprise to most of my family that I am a lazy person. I can be brilliant when I want to be, but I am content with being lazy at times. (Like one time when me and my boyfriend's sister watched all of season 1 of Bates Motel in one day......it. was. awesome!) However, my brilliance has paid off when it comes to folding my t-shirts!

I got my inspiration (or Pin-spiration!) from a blog called xoJane. When Bryan and I moved into our new home last year, I became the ruler of the clothes! I took on my own form of folding t-shirts! It makes total sense.  It was one of those "why didn't I think of that first" moments! Why wouldn't you fold your shirts so you can see all of them at once?  So here we go!

Materials

a bunch of unfolded t-shirts

a drawer

time

patience 

Step 1: Line up the seams at the top of the shirt, and fold the shirt in half long ways.

Step 2: Fold over the sleeves.

Step 3: This step is optional. I like for my shirts to be skinnier length wise, so I fold them in half again long ways! I have seen this step skipped before! Totally up to you!

Step 4: Fold the shirt in half short ways now

Step 5: Fold it one more time short ways!

Step 6: Put them in your drawer, and admire the crap out of them! Pat yourself on the back for being so clever!

***: For long sleeve t-shirts, I fold them the same way, but I fold the sleeves a little differently.  Check out the picture below.

Some side notes:

• The number of columns you get will vary on the shirt size. Bryan's shirts are bigger than mine, so he only has 4 columns while I have 5.  (This forced him to get rid of some shirts! *insert evil laugh*)
• This takes PRACTICE! It took me a while to get the fold down. However, I can whip out t-shirts in no time now that I have it figured out!
• You could also use this as "spring cleaning" method.  If you keep putting your newly clean shirts in the back, all of the shirts that you do not use will get shoved for to the front.  After some time, toss those shirts! You obviously didn't want to wear them!

Thanks for reading, and enjoy your completely fabulous and organized t-shirt drawer!

~A