florence's

Let me tell you a story.

Once upon a time, there were two beautiful little girls who were sisters. Once or twice a year they would travel up to the magical town of Ashton, Idaho.

It was a family tradition to go to Florence's Candy shop.

This candy shop was very special. Everything glittered, all of the chocolates were hand dipped, and when you walked in you could instantly smell chocolate.

They even had a magical waterfall and a real talking tree!

On one of these family trips, the elder one- Hailey- got a whole bag full of Dutch Mints. Lauren, being the less experienced one, got a bag full of less desirable licorice beans.

Unhappy with her selection, she begged Hailey to share her beautiful mints. Hailey would not and ate the whoooooole bag all by herself. This made Lauren very, very sad. However, the mints had some magic hidden inside them.

That night, Hailey had a big bubble form inside her mouth. Their father, King Guy, called it an "abscess tooth." Hailey wailed in pain. And Lauren? Well, she didn't feel all that bad. They had to take Hailey to the royal dentists to fix her tooth but because of the magic inside the mints she had to promise that she would always share from that day forward or else the bubble would grow back. She promised that she would and from then on she has been an excellent sharer. And they lived happily ever after.

The End.

tipping bucket

I need exactly 30 seconds of your time.

Right now, Pepsi is doing their Pepsi Refresh Challenge where they are giving away $1.3 million in grants to organizations who submit their ideas of how to change the world and people vote on their favorites.

I have been helping an organization called the Tipping Bucket in their endeavor for votes for a $250K grant. That's some serious cash and I truly believe this organization can do some serious good with it. Their projects range from clean water to bikes to libraries. These people mean business when it comes to helping the world. You can check them out here.

So where do you come in? They need your votes!

All you have to do is text "104182" to 73774 (PEPSI) every day or as often as you can remember to do it. The hardest part will be figuring out how to switch from letters to numbers in your message. 

Do it- right now. 

How long did that take?

Spread the love.

NaNo WriMo

National Novel Writing Month

November first kicks off the nerdiest challenge of the year and I of course could not miss out on it. You can get the full details here but the gist of it is to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. That ends up being about 200 + pages. It starts today and I only have a small inkling of a plot but I am more than ready for a new challenge.

So if you need me, I'll be at Barnes and Noble, attempting to look scholarly in my fake glasses, musing on the coffee fumes, and typing my guts out. I dare you to try it out too.

halloweek

I love holidays and think they should be celebrated the whole week (at least) leading up to them.
So...
I hope you all had a great halloweek! I couldn't let this go by without a few pictures of my goings-on:

Day Farms pumpkin patch with our Ky bird.

(don't even try to pretend your pumpkin is better than mine- and yes, I did free hand that)

Nathan's- inspired by Lord of the Rings.

-It was quite an epic year for pumpkin carving at the Johnson house.-

Pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes served with a smile.

Kylie Potter

I hope yours was as great as mine! xo

the way

Right now I work with all males. Five to be exact. Most of the time I really love it except when I have conversations with them like the one I had last week that went a little something like this:


Me: (after fixing my pants/shirt/undershirt for the millionth time)Alec, don't    you hate those days where nothing fits quite right?


Alec: Long pause.... uuhh...


Me: um, do you ever have days like that?


Alec: (in his polite voice) Uuuh No. No, I don't.


Stupid boys.

targeted

if target is my mecca, i made my hajj tonight for the first time since Ghana. and let me tell you- it did not disappoint. i could only handle about fifteen minutes in there but oh baby. it was bliss. 

everything was so nice and clean and new. i couldn't help myself- i had to touch e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. everything.

i was smiling from ear to ear the whole time then had an intense harry potter conversation with the kid ringing up my purchases at the check stand and in true target fashion i spent more than i should have and walked away with a lot more than i went in for.

success.

mya

I'm a godmother!

I finally got to meet my sweet little goddaughter- Mya Elizabeth Glenn.

She was born to my best friends Liz and Duncan Glenn last Wednesday.

I am completely smitten by this little bug and I know we are going to be the best of friends.

Welcome to the pocket pack, Mya!

I can't wait for my fairy wings and wand to come!