Current events

I don't know what to tell you except that life around the McAfee's isn't that exciting lately.  We've both been busy with 'things', but nothing ya'll wanna read about blog worthy.  But I noticed I haven't blogged for like a week...& since ya'll miss me enjoy my posts so much - you're gonna get mundane happenings.  

You are welcome.

B-rad's been busy working.  YES, he's always working on something.  He spent this past weekend putting a new rear end in one of the Mustangs (yes, I said one of...).  He's also been working long hours at his day job, plus staying over a couple of hours a night to work on a project for his Aunt & Uncle's house.  

My car is an extension of me.  I like to 'girly' it up & put my own personal touches on it.  Don't ask me why - I just DO.  I have my purple hyacinth sticker on the back, but I also had a tacky purple plastic thingie hanging from the rear view mirror.  I can't remember how long I've had it, but its been a while.  Shauna's daughter, Ally, made me a purple & blue beaded circle to hang on my mirror & it just didn't go with my purple tacky thing.  So I got creative.  Butterflies girlfriend, Rhonda, makes jewelry & for Christmas had given me a necklace.  It was long with purple & blue beads & a little medallion with my initials on it.  I really liked it but I was still selling Premier & didn't wear anything BUT Premier.  Fast forward 6 months & I'm done with Premier (more on that in a sec) but I have a metal allergy....

SO, I re-vamped it into something to hang on my mirror AND it goes perfect with the purple & blue beads Ally made me.  Voila!

 If you're wondering if I still have my cell phone case obsession, I do.  This is my latest gem.  I got it at Best Buy...

I still splurge on myself & get my nails done.  Sometimes it's nerve racking trying to think of how & what color I want them painted.  (First world problems, right?!)  I kept seeing all these girls with their ring fingers painted a different color.  I would ask them ALL what it meant but no one could tell me.  And since I'm a hip, cool, youngster intrigued by 'fads' - I decided to give it a try.  I LOVE having my nails painted black, so I did black with silver glitter on my ring finger.

(And if you're wondering - YES I would jump off a bridge if the rest of you did...)

AND-since you can't help but see my blingy wedding ring that I love more than my hubby I've been wearing it for about 3 weeks & haven't had any break outs.  I got a quote from a jeweler to have it re-set in platinum.  It was going to cost over $4,000.  GULP.  And that's using all my diamonds.  Yea - I'm not about to pay that kind of money so I decided to take my chances.  

Shauna & I went Saturday afternoon to have lunch, pedis & a little shopping.  She went with pink w/ glitter & I did purple w/ glitter.  (I know you're shocked.)  

 So I'm officially no longer a Premier jewelry lady.  I am sad & happy all at the same time.  I'm relieved to not be doing the boring 'work' parts of it, but I miss being the fun jewelry lady getting all the attention.  When I think about the last 4 years, I am SUPER proud of myself for the things I accomplished.   Ya'll know I have no problem bragging on myself, but I was good at it (even other people told me so, so there.) I enjoyed it & had a lot of fun.  I was thinking the other day about when I trained the girls in our group on how to do jewelry buncos.  I let all them be my 'guests' & they played bunco & I showed them how I did my shows.  It was a great boost to my ego honor that they looked up to me, valued my talents & wanted to learn from me.  

Over the 4 years, I had 132 hostesses invite me into their homes & did a total of 156 jewelry shows.  The numbers don't match because I had a few repeat hostesses!  I sold $83,497 in jewelry & what's even more fun is that Premier allowed me to give away $37,883 FREE.   No wonder I was tired...

Even though I have the stupid metal allergy, I did keep several a few of my favorite pieces.  Trust me - it was hard narrowing it down!  I worked Saturday night on moving everything from a table in my office to a hanging organizer thingie Shauna & I got at Bed Bath & Beyond. Like I said...a FEW pieces...