clothing madness

after reading keetha's blog this morning about laundry, i got the great idea to do my own laundry post. (i wish i knew how to link to other blogs so i could put one to keetha's, but i don't... but she's one of my followers, so check her out; even though most of the people reading this probably found me through her anyway LOL)


that being said, it's about to get really messy here in bloggypants world!!!!


i always hear people talking about how much laundry they have. but i just can't imagine how it can compete with the amount of laundry that i have! so that being said, i can't believe i'm posting these... it's OUT OF CONTROL how disgusting my bedroom is. i literally have to walk over things to get anywhere in there and i almost always want to punch something because it's so chaotic. it's not that i don't do my laundry, because i do. infact, a good portion of the stuff you'll see in the next few pictures... CLEAN! the problem however, as you''ll see later, i have NO room to put any of it.


all that said, below are some before and after pictures.

exhibit A. the side of my bed. this is the side of the bed that i use to get in and out of my bed every single day. CRAZY. although i do see a little bit of carpet poking through by the closet... NICE!! :)

exhibit B. it amazes me that i haven't broken any bones trying to make my way through this room every day.

exhibit C. entering my room you have to brace yourself for the hike you're about to have trying to get through everything.

i got in my bed and got out of it just to see how fantastic it felt to touch carpet first thing!

i can actually walk to my dresser without tripping!

and finally, i can walk in to my room without cringing! oh and i can walk over and turn off the fan that is on the other side of my bed, without twisting my ankle or stepping on the upward facing heel of one of my high heels. that's NOT fun at 6 in the morning. just take my word for it!

and the next three pictures is of my living room now! LOL!!!! that's my pile of clothing that i have to wash!!!

tell me how i'm going to get all of THAT, in to the closet and dresser below!!!!

really, how can i fit anything else in there and still know what things are? this is crammed tight. the bottom is all tank tops or sleevless shirts... but mainly tank tops and it's completely color coordinated. the top used to be that way too, but there is just too much to deal with that kind of organization. the problem though, there are at least 30 tank tops in that pile of clothing above to be washed and hung up in this closet as well! the stuff on top is shoved in there like sardines. i can barely push things from side to side to see what something is.

these are just SOME of my hoodies/sweatshirts. i actually have a whole other closet in the other bedroom that looks just like this one only it's completely filled with MORE hoodies and all of my dresses. then there's maybe 15 or so that are in the pile that need to be washed!

so maybe you noticed the dresser in the other pictures and were thinking "just put stuff in there, haley". well i can't do that either. as you can see it's packed tight. the drawers on the right side are hard to open and close because they are so full.

yes, i realize i have WAY too much clothing. i don't think people ever really believe me when i say i literally could wear a different outfit every single day of the year. probably for closer to 2 years! BUT, in my defense, had i posted this blog a year ago, the pile would have been almost doubled. a little over a year ago, i gave NINE trashbags filled with clothes to goodwill. and not just normal kitchen size bags either. they were big black hefty bags!!!! i also sold quite a bit of clothes last year in a garage sale.

so needless to say, i don't need to go shopping any time soon. i just need to get bigger closets so i can actually hang up the clean stuff!!!!

oh, and one last thing...if you actually managed to make it and read this entire post.... please don't judge me! LOL!!!!!

google

something that made me really happy today.....

someone found my blog by googling "crappy boss". this made me seriously LOL!!! glad to know that people in marlton, new jersey have crappy bosses too! HA!

i know it's not much of a blog post but i don't care. it was just too funny to me so i had to post about it!

early morning realization....

i seem to be failing miserably as a blogger. i started out pretty strong and then after a week i realized, i REALLY have nothing to talk about. lol! but i think today i might have a couple of things to ramble about!

random rambling #1- today marks my 6th week of dieting and running/working out. i'm trying to lose 23lbs. overall and after 6 weeks, i've ONLY lost 4. what the heck? i was so darn frustrated saturday when i weighed myself that i didn't even attempt to diet the rest of the weekend. why bother if i'm averaging barely half a pound a week? i'm sure today though when i weigh myself (monday's are my official weigh in day) i will have gained back some of the 4 lbs. then i will be even more aggravated than i am now. i just don't get it. i'm NOT the diet pill kind of girl. i took them once and had a horrible reaction and won't ever take them again... so diet and exercise is my only option and those two things aren't working. i might as well just give up.

random rambling #2- last week we got the bad news here at work that the company was cutting all if it's shops to 32 hours a week. that means almost 100 dollars less a week is what i'll be seeing on my paycheck. now i realize i'm not the only person with bills, but this cut means that basically i won't be doing anything that requires money. i have a bad habit of stopping at walmart a few times a week on my way home from work and buying groceries even though i probably don't need them, or buying itunes gift cards so i can put music on my ipod. this will have to stop! and i'm NOT looking forward to it. i also am trying to save for my annual nashville trip with my good friend angie, in june! i was planning on saving 50 a week until then, so now it's going to be even harder. darn this economy for ruining my life!!! LOL!!!!!

i suppose that's all for now. i may have a second blog later today?!?!? it's monday, and it's very very slow in the office, so maybe i'll come up with something else to talk about. hopefully it will be more interesting than this was!!! :)

haley needs....

it's monday morning and i'm bored, bored, bored. monday's are the slowest day here in the office. so don't be surprised if i post more than one blog on monday's. maybe even more than two blogs! :) okay i found this on my friend angie's blog. i don't know how to put a link to her blog in a post... keri i suppose you'll need to teach me that too lol... but you can find angie in my followers list!

what you do is go to google and type in "haley needs" (except you'll wanna use your OWN name LOL!) . type it in quotations too. then come back to your blog and list the first ten things it says. below are what it says i need.

1.haley needs to grow up. HA! that's so funny. somedays i completely agree with that statement.

2. haley needs a sister. i have ALWAYS wanted a sister. i have one older brother, who's great, but it was a little awkward sharing clothes with him growing up. LOL! :)

3. haley needs to get noticed. it's true. i need to get noticed by a talent agent who thinks i would be perfect for the next jennifer aniston and/or george clooney movie.

4. haley needs a storyline marky. okay, not sure who marky is, but get me a storyline STAT! funny that 3 was getting noticed and 4 is my storyline.

5. haley needs a new pair of nx c. i'm at a complete loss here. no idea what nx c is. i'm certain i don't need a new pair though!

6. haley needs to rent his house for two months. who's house? what?

7. haley needs a fact checker. i already have one, snopes.com. i use it alot to check emails and what not.

8. haley needs funds to amputate leg so she can survive. WHAT? this is brand new information to me! everyone, quick, send me money!!!!!!!!!!!

9. haley needs to beat that skank's arse. OOOOOOKAY! someone better watch out. i'm pretty scrappy and i clearly need to beat someone down!

10. haley needs a family that is willing to allow her to maintain contact with her siblings since she will not be placed with them. at 26 can i still be put in a foster home?

girls night out!

i hope you all had a wonderful valentine's day! mine was awesome! my friend keri and went to her grandpa's church in marion for a dinner/theater show. it was so much fun and her grandpa was so funny.

john was great! he refused to break character!!!

the food was FANTASTIC, and that was probably the best salad i've ever had.... EVER. no joke. it was so good. i wanted another but they ran out of ranch dressing... DARN!

afterwards, we headed to indy to watch keri's sister, korie, and her band, the jester kings. they were so good. it was the first time i had seen korie with her band (keri too) so it was really exciting!

korie is AWESOME!! i can't wait to go to more of their shows! everyone should go see them... i know she would love it too!

we took lots of pictures, but as i was uploading them i realized we don't have any of us with korie, or any of korie's wonderful boyfriend, chris. we suck!

i loved these palm trees. the restaurant/bar we were at was in geist (a fancy shmancy suburb of indy). before we left bluffton, keri wrote down the directions that she got from google. google knows everything so surely these directions would be precise. NOT SO MUCH! i think we drove around in the wrong direction for a good 30-40 minutes! good thing my friend jema is from indy and knew just how to get us there! we could see these palm trees from the road so we knew we had finally found the place!

i leaned up against the sink in the bathroom THREE different times. and each time i came out of the bathroom with a new spot like that on my leg. why in the world did it take me that many times to remember not to lean on the sink? actually, i didn't go back in there after this last incident, so odds are GOOD that there would have been a fourth sink incident!

we didn't get back to bluffton until about 3:30 in the morning, maybe a little later! but we had such a great time, and i hope we can do it again!

thanks keetha for my valentine's candy! i can't wait to eat it. infact i think i should probably eat a twix right now. (angie you did NOT just read that). since i'm dieting i should probably be good and wait til my "cheat" day though!!!!

who can it be now?

it looks like your's truly has a secret admirer!!!!!

i received these beautiful roses today at work!

as you can see the card isn't signed! so i have no clue who they are from! so who is going to take credit for them? did YOU send me these flowers????

i also got this GIANT teddy bear from my friend john, the same john that gave me a dozen roses yesterday! it's co-workers like him (and NOT my boss) that make this a great place to work! he also bought me a bag of doritos that i promptly took to my car so i didn't eat them. i LOVE doritos and could have probably eaten the whole bag before lunch! i'm dieting though so they won't be eaten until sunday (my cheat day lol!)!!!!

SOOOO, thanks to whomever sent me the wonderful flowers and thanks again to john for being a great friend!

what's the cure for a crappy day?

a dozen roses, that's what!

so today i was having a very bad day. my boss is horrible. and i know that alot of people can say the same thing about their boss, but none are as bad as mine (hey, it's my blog, i can have my own pity party if i want to lol!). well, long story short, my boss said some pretty horrible things about me (for the millionth time) to someone at our corporate office that i speak to and work with on a regular basis. i cried most of the morning, but didn't let anyone see or know what was going on.

WELL, i come back from lunch and i'm still in a low down, dirty, rotten mood. thursday's are our busiest day and my co-worker didn't come in today so there was lots of work to do and i was just not motivated to do any of it. so there i am, sitting, staring at the computer knowing i should be doing the invoice that's sitting in front of me, when my friend and co-worker, john, walks in and sets a dozen roses down for me! i could have cried. i gave him a hug and told him "that just made my day, and i was having a pretty gosh darn bad one!!" he didn't even KNOW i was having a bad day. he just picked the perfect day to give me a valentine's present!

i know i said long story short, and then proceded to pretty much ramble, but i just thought it was so sweet i wanted to tell all about it!

THANKS JOHN FOR MY BEAUTIFUL ROSES!

blogging for dummies

or just blogging for dummy. singular. me. there is so much that i can't figure out how to do in the blogging world. for example, how the heck does one put pictures in their blog posts? it's all so confusing. keri, you will definitely have to give me a blogging tutorial someday soon.

i also don't know how to make a list of my blogging buddies. or bloggypants friends as i like to call them! lol okay i just made that up. but it's probably going to stick around for awhile! and see, now i want to know how to make that list so i can call you my bloggypants friends.

i still don't feel like i have anything to talk about. but as my obsession with blogging grows, so does my obsession with non-stop thinking about what i can blog about. i can't keep posting about how i have nothing to blog about. that won't keep my readers tuning in!

my friend angie just emailed me and told me how to put pictures on here. so i'm going to give it a shot. bare with me!

WOOHOO! it worked! thanks angiepants! and yeah this picture seems completely and totally appropriate as my first blog picture ever!!!!

okay i'm going to post this now and probably post again this afternoon. i might go picture crazy for awhile so deal with it... okay? thanks! :)

numero dos

well it's day two in haley's blog world. i promise i won't title every single post as "numero whatever number i'm on." lol! or maybe i will. now i don't know!! :)

so, i have TWO followers already! how fantastic is that? the problem is now, i have to come up with stuff to talk about. and therein lies the problem with my blog. i REALLY don't feel like i have a whole heck of a lot of stuff to talk about. i truly lead one of the most boring lives of any of my friends. i've wanted to have a blog for a while now, but i just don't have anything to talk about. no one wants to hear me babble on every day about my weight!

as i'm typing this i just found out i now have THREE followers. geez, i really am going to have to come up with stuff to talk about now... gotta keep my followers happy you know?!?!

okay, i'm obsessed with perez hilton. if you don't who he is, he's the queen of the blog world. (yes keetha, i said he's the queen. you're a close runner up though) he talks about all the celebrity gossip and when i'm at work, i check him out all day long. i was just reading on there that there are 15 businesses that are expected to go out of business this year. one of them is my favorite pizza place in the entire world.... sbarro's. i have to admit that i will be completely devestated if that happens. i don't think i'll even be able to go to the mall for a while without having a melt down. i'm not gonna lie, i sometimes go to the mall JUST to get sbarro's pizza. one time i even drove all the way to the mall (at least a 30 minute drive), got sbarros and turned around and came right back home and ate it. it'll be a sad sad day if or when that place closes.

here is the link if you want to read what other ones are expected to go out of business.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-Companies-That-Might-Not-usnews-14279875.html

post numero uno

so, here it is, my very first ever blog spot blog. who's excited? probably no one since no one will ever know this is here, i'm sure. but that's okay. i'm at work, i'm bored. this should pass the time!

i guess my first ever blog spot blog will be about my current obsession. MY WEIGHT. grrrr.... it's consuming my life. i currently weigh the most i've ever weighed so i'm in full workout/diet mode. i'm running anywhere from 1.5 to 2 miles 6 days a week and i go the gym and work out at the classes there 3 days a week. NOTHING is working. and i mean nothing. it's so frustrating to do all this for the past 4 weeks and step on the scale and see that in 4 weeks i've only lost 2lbs. i'm trying to lose 23 lbs total so to see only 2 after this long is incredibly discouraging. i can't be the only one out there that is having this problem. right? anyone else? anyone have any suggestions for me?

sorry, this was a pretty boring blog for it being my first one.