This Past Week In A Nutshell!

Gosh isn't summer suppose to be like relaxing??? I feel like since the kids, and by kids I mean my parents kids, have been home for summer break, the house has just been bustling with activity and I personally have just been going and going and going.  It has been a stressful couple of weeks at work as well with inventories and such.  I cannot seem to catch a break either with my health since this heat started in May... And on top of that on Friday (June 20th) I also had a tooth pulled, which I am so grateful for because I was in so much pain, but still now I am in pain until it heals. Double edged sword I guess..  

Last Tuesday (June 17th) I had the pleasure of going to my friend Whitney's house warming party that her and her boyfriend, were hosting.  They have a beautiful house and I am so happy for them.  This is just the beginning of big things for them.. Although, I thought more people were going to be there/more dressed up so color me surprised when I walked in and people were in like either work clothes or shorts and t-shirts... and I was in a maxi dress and had gotten myself all cute in a dress and done my hair and make up lol.. But it was really nice to see my friend and meet her boyfriends family and friends.  

 

Then I was surprised at work on Thursday.. When I walked out after a short shift at 2pm, I saw not only my Mom in the car, but my sister Nicole, and Heidi as well.  My other sister Alyx was at camp, or else she would have been with us too.  But this whole thing was a spur of the moment, spontaneous girls day, my sister Nicole's idea.  We went to a nail salon and Heidi got her nails painted professionally for the first time and she was so excited.  And even though I had just gotten my toes down like a week before, I was excited to change the color up again so I got another pedicure, and so did my Mom.  My sister got a mani/pedi.. including acrylic nails, which I think is dumb in my opinion because she works at a water park and is going to Warp Tour in a few days and I am betting some serious money that she breaks at least one nail, and that makes the fake nails a waste of money!!  

It was such a fun afternoon hang out with the ladies though!  I had a great time just relaxing with the ladies of my family! 

 

 

 

My parents also had a temporary foster baby for a few days and she is the cutest thing! Only two months old too! Although I don't understand where they thought the name "Joshyanna" was a good name.  So we have all come up with nicknames for her, because you know how this family LOVES giving out nicknames lol.. We have been calling her Joshy, Jossy, & Lil J.  Heidi has especially been such a great help with her.. Holding her, and feeding her, and playing with her.  Remind me of how I use to help take care of Nicole when she was a baby!  (And now she is 17 years old and has her first job.. holy crap!) 

 

Like I said earlier, I also had to have a tooth pulled on Friday.  I know what you are thinking and I am probably on the same page with whatever you are thinking, which is most likely OUCH!! I really wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get the tooth pulled that day, but I knew I was in so much pain and was just hoping for antibiotics and pain pills (which I got anyways) and that I was going to have to see an oral surgeon, but nope got it done right there in the office.  Highly recommend this dentist.  it is called Summerlin Dental, and they are in the offices located inside of Tivoli Village up in Summerlin (for all my Vegas peeps, who need a Dentist) 

Summerlin Dental Website  (I saw doctor Sanchez, and she was amazing, and the staff are super friendly) Plus there are flat screens in the rooms, so I got to watch/listen to my Law & Order: SVU marathon that was playing on the USA Network while I waited and had my tooth pulled.. Amazing distraction I must say!

Before I called my tooth pulled... 

After I got my tooth pulled- a tad bit more pale and puffy. lol. 

The pain meds are helping with the pain, but the antibiotic is giving me some side effects, but it is hard because I cannot take Penicillin because I am allergic so the med I am on (Clindimyacin) (sp?) is kind of my only option, and I have been on it before so I don't understand why it has been making me sick and tired.. I cannot wait til it is Friday and I am through taking them. 

Friday also happened to be National Flip Flop Day at our local Smoothie Place called Tropical Smoothie Cafe, so my Mom and I and Heidi stopped by and got our free Jetty Punches! I had told Heidi about it before I knew I was getting a tooth pulled, so I didn't wanna disappoint her and not go.  And it worked out anyway because a cold smoothie was perfect for just getting a tooth pulled, I just had to use a spoon to eat it haha! 

Where I work is also starting to sell t-shirts, and we get to actually wear them through the summer as part of our uniform.. Here is a pic of me taking a #selfie in one! 

#talknerdytome 

Last, but not least by any means, one of my fellow co-worker moved back to Idaho this past weekend, so she stopped by my store to stay goodbye to me & my other co-worker Stephen.. Miss you already Jamie!! 

  

 

Like I said, kind of a busy week.. and coupled that with working a lot and this heat.. I am constantly overheated and exhausted.. Cannot wait for this summer to be over...

And on a side-note, I heard that Alaska had a huge Earthquake yesterday (June 23rd), and I just wanted to say that my thought and prayers are with those effected, especially since I had just made a joke about moving there because of how hot is is here and needing to move to color temperatures and used Alaska as an example.. I am also praying that the large Earthquake does not cause a Tsunami to arise, because it could hit any part of the Pacific/West Coast and I have family and friends up and down the California Coast.

What have my readers been up to lately?

Comment below!

Peace & Love

Molly

Finish This #9

Welcome to week 24, but my week 9 of the blogging community link up "Finish This" co-hosted by four awesome ladies!!! If you are new around here, let me quickly explain to you how this works... Each week they (the co-hosts) provide the prompts and we literally finish the sentence with our responses. If you are not new around here, than I am glad to welcome you back again as well. I am excited you have liked what you have read once again and have come back for more!

Three 31 //  The Java Mama //  The Arizona Russums // Coastlined

Without any further interruption here are my responses to this weeks prompts!

I could spend all day... This is soo easy, either sleeping, or watching the million shows I have saved on my dvr on a regular basis.  I do not know what I would do without my cable tv or dvr.. How sad is that. I really try not to think of a time before dvr... Honestly I would probably still be recording stuff on VHS.. lol.. I use to do that a lot as a kid.  My tv shows are like an escape, so its how I usually spend my days off, catching up on my recorded shows!

My primary and most essential goal in life... Is to be a Mom.  I mean I want to go back to school and be a Cosmetologist, but I know I was meant to be a Mom.  I love kids, and I am good with them, and I have such baby fever its ridiculous.  I know that when the time is right for me I will have kids, and when that happens I know I will feel so fulfilled and happy.  Someone to love unconditionally and take care of.  I know it's going to be hard, but living at home and helping my parents out with all their kids/foster kids, I am getting a lot of practice in.   So in order to reach this goal I am going to get myself healthy, and get finances in order.  I don't care if I have a man or not at this point, I will try and have a baby myself if I have to and the timing is right.  And if the man comes along, then great.  But to me I don't see it as a major roadblock because there are obviously ways to have a baby without an actual man.  I cannot wait to be a Mom someday.  

You might be surprised to learn...  I was actually four weeks premature when I was born.  I was always a planned C-Section baby because my Mom had an ovary removed because of a tumor when she was in her early 20's, so she was always high risk and what not.  But for some reason, that I don't think I have ever heard, and in writing this it just occurred to me that I never asked why, I came 4 weeks early, still by C-Section.  Due to being premature, my lungs were under-developed and I had to be put in an incubator for a day or two, and I am assuming put on steroids to help build my lungs up.  Turns out I bounce back quickly and I have been a survivor since birth because I was ready to go home before my Mom was, because she was still recovering from the C-Section and that timing took longer back in the 80's.. 

My favorite place in the world is... The city that I was born and spent the first 14 years of my life in.  It is the place I will forever call home, no matter where I live..  Northridge, California.  My best friend(s) and 2nd family live there, and I also have actual relatives that still live in SoCal.  Whenever I visit it just feels right, and I never want to leave.  My endgame is to live there and grow old there. Raise my kids there.  To outsiders it is nothing special.  It is just a suburb of Los Angeles.  But to me, like I said, it will always be Home.  I just feel at peace when I am there, plus I know where everything is!!  

I wish I had known sooner... That my now ex-husband was a cheating scum-bag.  He gave off the illusion of a nice guy, but he was anything but in the end.  I felt like our whole relationship/marriage was a lie at this point, so I am glad that we are no longer together and I am not part of the sinkhole that is his life.  I am now moving on to bigger and better things, including blogging.. But I still wish I would have known sooner, so it could have saved me the trouble of getting married to the wrong person and having to go through the feelings and emotions of being cheated on and going through a divorce.  

Thanks again for stopping by the blog, & continue to come back each week for another round of Finish This! as well as any other posts I publish to the blog!! But I digress...

Now it is your turn!! Post your Finish This on your own blog and link it up with all of us!! If you do not have a blog to post to, just comment below with your responses! I am always curious as to what my readers responses would be to same prompts!

Here are Week 25's prompts as well!

I have a quarter to use a pay phone, I call ….
I found $25 in my pocket, I buy …I have 25 minutes to watch anything on TV, I turn on …A meal I can prepare, from start to finish. in 25 minutes or less is …At the age of 25, I wish I had known …If I drove 25 miles (direction) from my house, I’d be in ..

Peace & Love

Molly

Finish This #7!!

Welcome back to another exciting weekly edition of "Finish This".  I cannot believe this is already week seven for me!  If you are still new around here  Finish This is a blog Link-up I joined that is co-hosted by four fabulous ladies.  Each week they provide the prompts and we literally finish the sentence with our responses.  If you are not new around here, than I am glad to welcome you back as well.  I am excited you have liked what you have read so far and keep coming back for me. 

Three 31 // the Arizona Russums // the Java Mama // Coastlined

So I guess I lied.  About what you ask?? Well... last week I had said I would not be sooo tardy with this post, but life got in the way...again, like it always seems to do.  Reasons being some work stress, but mostly because I got struck by a super bad case of the stomach flu, that I am still battling right now, in fact I have barely ate anything in days besides strawberry popsicles and 7up.  Im still very weak and still trying to re-regulate my body with all my medications and get back into trying to eat.  I have had no appetite for days.. So between this horrible Las Vegas Heat and the stomach flu, I am kind of miserable.  To top it off my computer is on the fritz.  Cooling fans, not working and what not so part of this post was written on my phone.  I thank the lord I have a tech savvy brother who is currently trying to fix my laptop. Fingers crossed..   

          So now that I am done rambling, here is what you actually came here to read about..

                               My Finish This Responses!

I conquer fear … I wish I could say by tackling it head on. But usually that is not the case.  Even though I know running away from fear is counter-productive and eventually you have to face what you are afraid of so why not sooner, rather than later. I honestly try not to venture out of my comfort zone, mostly because of all my anxieties, but when I do I find that having a buddy always helps especially when it is actually something actually scary. Like I am super afraid of heights and you could pay me to get on an airplane, but give me some good sedatives or even better have my best friend by my side and maybe just maybe.. But no promises.. I am not good at conquering my fears if you couldnt tell. 

I follow my heart … when I believe it is the right thing to do.  If I see a person in need I know in my heart it is the right thing to do to help them.  For example, one of my brothers friends got kicked out of his house about four years ago, and of course I was not going to let him go homeless, so I moved into my apartment with my husband and I got him a job at my work and got him a new cell phone plan through our work.  For awhile my, now ex-husband and I were paying for his food and what not as well.  His family was actually kind of sort of family friends, so I knew him before, but we were not like friends or anything. All these years that I have been helping him out, my parents have been very against it, because they felt I was being taken advantage of.  Which at times I was, but I have put boundaries on stuff, and our relationship is different now anyways.  Now we are friends and I pretty much see him as a brother.  He has been there through everything that happened with my ex-husband too, so he has seen me and my best and worst.  So when I needed help with paying some of my bills and what not after the split, he and my brother were both there to help.  Following my heart, in helping a soul in need, in the end, helped me as well!

I feed my soul by … watching over and playing with my soon be baby brother.  He is 9 months old, and once he is 10 months my parents can adopt him. Our faces light up when we see each other and he has a non jaded or cynical look at the world which is so hard to find in this crazy place. Just being in his prescence and watching him and smile and laugh and now learning to crawl and stand up and what not, I cannot help but just smile.. He is the light of my life right now, and it really fills my heart and soul with joy just hanging out with the little guy.  I think I was made to be a Mom, and that is why just being around the kids just feeds my soul.  It warms my heart! I just love kids!

I used to worry about ____ but then I … I use to worry about being alone, but then I realized, I will never actually be alone.  I have family and friends who love and care about me, and they would never actually leave me truly alone.  I know I always have someone I can call or text, and someone I can cry to, and people I can laugh with.  I think because I had lost a lot of family members at a young age and each of those deaths hit me pretty hard.  And then last year when me and my husband split, it was like grieving another loss, it gave me this complex that I was just meant to be alone, or that I was not worthy of having people around me on a consistent basis, or people that loved or cared about me in general.  I know that is not true.  Very skewed thinking for sure.  

Sunday, June 8th was National Best Friends Day as Well! Jennifer is my BFFL.. we have known each other for 21 years and still going strong. she is like a sister to me and constant in my life.. I am forever grateful for everything she has ever done for me and said to me that has helped me in so many ways. 

Thanks for stopping by once again  and come back again next week for another round of Finish This!! 

But now its your turn!! Post your Finish This on your own blog and link it up with all of us!! But dont fret, if you dont have a blog to post on just comment below with your responses.. 

Finish This Link Up!

These prompts are very intetesting, so I cannot wait to read other peoples responses!

Here are next weeks prompts! (June 11)
 The best compliment I ever received …
Wearing red lipstick makes me feel …
The best investment I’ve made …
My best childhood memory …

Peace & Love

Molly

Nicole's Birthday Weekend!

This weekend my sister, Nicole, turned 17.  Just typing that, I am still thinking to myself, wow. She is 17 already.  Holy Moly!  Time sure does fly by.  I have found myself looking at her over the past couple days, and she just looks older to me.  She is really growing up.  Next year she is going to be 18, a real life grown up. It is just so crazy to me.  It just seems like yesterday she was a little baby, and I now she has her first job, and has all these plans and goals for her future.  She is really turning into an amazing young woman.  I am so proud to be her big sister.  So Happy Birthday Nicole!  I hope you had a great Birthday Weekend!!

#nicoleturns17

My sister and I are 9 years apart, and yet we are constantly bridging that age gap like it doesn't even exist or matter.  I am so thankful for her support and love as my not only my sister, but friend.  I love her sense of humor, and that she is consistently cracking me up.  I love how we have Sister Dates, and inside jokes, and that she has really become my partner in crime, in every great way possible! I love you so much Nicole!  I would not trade you for the world, and my life wouldn't be the same or complete without in it as my sister. <333

I am so grateful for my work for working with me on my schedule for the weekend, so I was able to spend the whole weekend celebrating with my sister, and our family.  Thank you so much guys; I really am fortunate enough to work with such amazing people, whom I not only can call my co-workers, but friends as well.  

Saturday:  Day Two of Nicole's Birthday Weekend!  

Saturday (May 31st) was day one of two of my sisters birthday weekend.  Day one being her actual birthday. I got off of work at 3p.m. and after work my Mom, Sister and I headed down to Voodoo Tattoo where the amazing Brandon Henry (he usually works at The Piercing Shop but he was there while the normal piercing guy was out of town) pierced my sisters belly button.  Yup, that is what she wanted for her birthday.  Actually, she has been nagging everyone about it for a year, and we finally got it done!  She was so excited.  My Mom was just there to pay, as soon as he started, she walked out of the room.  I was there to be the moral support.  I was holding her hand and taking pictures the whole time.  At first though, she was like "I got this", but right before he was going to put the needle in she got nervous and needed that support.  I wish I would have gotten a picture of her face at the very moment she got pierced, it was priceless.  She went from fine to bright red and mouth open as wide as it could go in a matter of seconds.  

When we got home the kids had did a little birthday party decorating at the house, and dinner was ready to eat.  On the menu for the night was whatever Nicole wanted, which included some of her fave foods:  Ribs, watermelon, pickles, and her all time fave potato salad.  The only sad part of the whole day was that my Brother J.J could not be there, as he had to work, but he bought her a Google Chromecast... So now all three of us LaFon kids have one haha!

After dinner it was time for cards & presents!!! She got a aloofa on a stick, an Ed hardy bag, a candle, among-st other things.. and of course the aforementioned belly button piercing.

And of course I couldn't forget to take selfies with the fam bam (mostly with Puppy Bite) before the party was over. 

Nicole left a little bit after the presents were opened to hang out with her co-workers/friends who wanted to take her out for her birthday.  They went to Pole Position, which is an indoor go carting warehouse.  She said she had a lot of fun, and they ended up going to Inn-N-Out and Fremont street afterwards.  We didn't do cake because, while Nicole likes to make cakes, she doesn't like to eat them.  Crazy right?  

That brings us to Sunday.  Day 2 of Nicole's Birthday Weekend!

It also happened to be the first day of June!

Since Nicole went out with her friends Saturday Night, we had made tentative plans to go see Neighbors at the Red Rock Hotel and Casino on Sunday.  We just did not know what time, and money was potentially an issue, but we ended up making it work anyway.  We ended up going at 4:50 which of course made it not a matinee, so it was super expensive, but it was worth it to have a Birthday Sister Date with Nicole! 

I took a few selfies before we left for the movie.  I thought I looked pretty cute!  Meanwhile Nicole had hijacked my cat Zoey and was taking instagram selfies with her as well.

We got to the theater, got our tickets, got concessions (popcorn, pretzel, nachos, icee, and cherry coke), then went and saw the movie, which was freaking hilarious!  I seriously almost peed my pants through out the whole movie and I was actually crying from laughing so hard at a few points.  If you have not seen the movie yet, I highly suggest it!  When we got inside the theater the previews had already started thankfully.  I hate having to go through like twenty minutes worth of previews just to get to the movie I came to watch.  Although this time most of the previews were not half bad.  Saw a few that I will probably go back to see  when they are released in the theaters like 22 Jump Street and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Here is the trailer for Neighbors just to give you a little taste of what we saw! 

Sorry, was in the movie theatere so I took my flash off so the pics are hard to see.. But its pix of our food and a couple of sister selfies!

So when we got in the car our Mom informed us that our neighbor was going out of town and was going to bring us over brownies.. and we were like brownie, what a beautiful word lol...

and here is where Nicole decided to get creative with her "birthday cake" because she doesn't like cake.  She put a candle in one of the trays of brownies lol. and while my Dad was talking outside to neighbor my Mom and I sung Nicole Happy Birthday! it was pretty hilarious!  And the brownies were delicious.  They were just moist and melted in your mouth.  We had two trays of them and they are already all gone lol... So that says something..

I also got a few cute pics of Turtle Man playing with his train set. He is obsessed with it right now!

What a weekend it was.  Once again I feel like I need a day off from my day off! lol! I feel like I have been going, and, going, and going since Turtles birthday a week ago and have not stopped since.  I think I need a vacation lol. 

How was everyone else's weekend? Did any of you guys do anything fun??

Talk to me in the comment section below! Xx

Peace & Love

Molly