Amusing MJ

Corralling Your Cords

March 12, 2014 By amusingmjblog Leave a Comment

I am out travelling for work this week, which happens quite a bit (you should ask my husband how much he loves that since my crazy lovable yet totally neurotic dog has separation anxiety issues). But it occurred to me that I have a pretty great way of keeping my work bag organized. I started it a few months ago as a part of my attempt to organize everything in my house before I turn 30. And for the most part it has done a good job of keeping my computer bag from turning into a rats nest of cords.

I bought a fairly inexpensive organizer thing called a Grid It from Amazon. Mine is about the size of a sheet of paper and fits nicely in my computer bag. But it has several elastic straps with grippy things (scientific description) to hold all your cords in place. Since I regularly travel with a mouse (seriously who can use touchpads!?), several chargers and an external hard drive, this keeps all of those neatly in place and ready to use.

I recently spruced up my iPhone and iPad chargers with a bit of washi tape since mine have a habit of disappearing around certain members of my family. But its a great system and it slides right down into my bag making it easy to keep the cords without any of the clutter.

Its been nice so far to always have my chargers and headphones right where I want them to be! The only bad thing about it is that my computer charger doesn’t fit very well on this size, which is how it got left in Waco last week. Oops!

But I am definitely making progress on my 30 Before 30 organizing spree… more to come this week!

Filed Under: 30 Before 30, Organizing

Rehearsal Dinner

March 11, 2014 By amusingmjblog 2 Comments

Okay this is the last one of the wedding weekend recaps from last weekend! Being the grooms side of the family, we were in charge of the rehearsal dinner. And because it is Texas, we decided fabulous Tex Mex needed to be on the menu. In Waco, good Tex Mex means Ninfa’s. So we rented out their back room for the evening and it was the perfect place to host the rehearsal dinner!

We decided to keep with the theme and have an all out fiesta! I whipped up an invite in photoshop, with lots of fun colors and had it printed at Mpix (they are by far my favorite online printing location– they do a great job, super fast and not outrageously expensive) Want to see?

I always have Mpix round the corners when they are printed because I think it looks a bit more professional!

Anyway, for decoration we decided black table cloths with Mexican blankets (Sarapis) in the middle would be a perfect compliment to an array of colorful flowers. And just to add a bit more personal touch, we added some 4×4 pictures printed and then mounted onto black poster board.

My mom is a master flower arranger, so she always likes to buy flowers from a wholesale market and do the arranging herself. She did them for my rehearsal dinner as well (check that out here). Mom and I did all the arranging in glass jars from World Market like these in multiple colors. We used the medium and small sizes for flowers and picked up the little tea light holders from there as well, but i’m not sure they are selling those anymore.

Each table had one large and one small flower arrangement, as well as several tea lights and a few pictures.

The flowers were GORGEOUS and really brought a lot of color into the room!

For entertainment I made a slideshow of pictures from their childhood and courtship, and then there were several toasts. My husband is very lucky that I didn’t get a picture of his toast, since my mother somehow convinced him to don a sombrero and sing a song she had written Becky and Arturo to the tune of De Colores. I’d link to a version of the song, but I just now got it out of my head and can’t bear the thought of putting it back in there!

It was a wonderful night that really captured Becky and Arthur’s fun personalities. It is very clearly evident that they have fabulous friends and family who love them dearly. It was awesome to be able to be a part of that!!!

Speaking of fun, I found myself realizing that attending your twin’s wedding is almost as fun as your own… they are almost all the same people from your wedding, but with none of the responsibility for events! I got to catch up with lots of great friends and family, including some neighbors of ours from when I was in high school that I don’t get to see often enough! Reagan is one of my favorites and it is such a treat to see her all grown up…

I started babysitting her when she was born… which makes me feel old! But enough about me… this weekend was all about two of my favorite people:

And that was the evening! I’m so happy for them… and jealous that they are still enjoying their beach vacation!

Thanks for hanging in there for all the wedding posts… I’ll be posting more projects this week I promise!

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Bridal Luncheon

March 7, 2014 By amusingmjblog 5 Comments

Y’all this is one of those things that I get to take absolutely no credit for, but it was so amazing I just had to show y’all!!

If you’ve been around this blog for the last little while you know that my brother married a fantastic person last weekend and to kick of the wedding festivities, her aunt and a family friend hosted a Bridal Luncheon at Baylor for Becky, her Bridesmaids and the families. It was GORGEOUS and exactly what a bridal luncheon should be!

It was hosted in a room in the Baylor Student Union that had beautiful architecture and let in tons of natural light!

Each table had an array of pink, purple and white flowers (which were the colors for the wedding!).

Each person had a personalized cookie, a box of chocolates and a personalized keyring! And like all good ladies luncheons we ate pasta salad, chicken salad and fruit… delicious.

They even had a matching set of toiletry kits for the bride and groom (the grooms is hiding behind the brides… his was beige not pink!) with their new initials.

It was a wonderful way to start the weekend and Becky had the chance to speak a little bit about her friends and family and how much they have impacted her life. I tell you… there wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd! I count myself as crazy lucky to have her as a friend, and was blessed to be included in her group of friends this weekend! Friends are one of the best blessings in this world and she has been truly blessed!! Here she is with a few of her lovely bridesmaids!