Weekend Highlights

It’s October, everyone!!!!

Why so excited? Well, aside from all the birthdays  & events I have lined up this month, it means it is HALLOWEEN! As long as I can remember, Halloween has been my favorite holiday. I think it was the whole be someone else aspect that really made it so appealing. I also have always loved playing dress up, so it’s right up my alley. I generally start looking for costume ideas around August and have made a decision by September. This year, I picked my costume relatively early and am so excited to see it come together.

But what I was just as excited for this year was decorating a house! In our old apartment, I was definitely limited in what I could do decor-wise and usually just settled for a hanging door sign. Well, limited decorations no longer! The second the calendar fell on October 1st, I began shopping and decorating. By the time Sunday rolled around, our house was in full blown ghoul mode. Unfortunately, it seems like we are the only house in the neighborhood that has gone spooky – I’m really hoping that will change as the month continues because I’d hate to live in an area where people don’t celebrate such a fun holiday.

What do you guys think of Halloween? How do you decorate?

Bush is Back!

Unless you just stumbled on this blog by chance or live on the planet Mars, you know that I traveled to Los Angeles to see Bush’s first show together in 8 years at the Epicenter Festival. I won a pair of tickets on Twitter and the rest is history. What you may not know, however, is that I was able to watch the entire set from on the stage!

Left to right: Melificent, Christine & Stephanie

The story is one you hear of in fairy tales, most definitely not in real, day-to-day life and I still can’t believe how all the pieces fell perfectly into place. But they did. And it all began with one of my many silly fangirl dreams. I was at Bush’s first show with my Twitter buddy, Christine, and Gavin decided to have us watch it from the stage! There were a lot of other ridiculous dream-like details such as having to run backstage and change into “stage outfits,” but I left those out when I decided to post about the dream on Twitter and address it to Gavin himself. I went about my business as usual, when I randomly checked Twitter during a work meeting. I was almost knocked off my chair when I saw that Gavin had replied to my tweet with a simple, “duly noted.” Shortly after, he announced a contest and the grand prize was watching their set at Epicenter from…wait for it…ONSTAGE.

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Musings

Yes, everyone, I am back!

I can’t lie and say that I am happy to be back though – I had such a great time in Southern California, I really wish my time there didn’t go so quickly. I always have a hard time when I need to come home from California trips, I can definitely see myself living there pretty happily. Unfortunately, it is not in the cards so I am satisfied to have plenty of friends (and family) allowing frequent visits to be easy and enjoyable.

The first thing that made this particular trip enjoyable was my sudden and random attainment of a pair of Muse tickets. Those of you that know me well, know that I have been aching to see them live for ages. Sure, I saw them open for U2 in Tampa last year, but it only served as a tease. Unfortunately, the band never makes its way near Florida – not that that has stopped me in the past from trying to secure tickets in other cities such as Boston or New York. However, the tickets always sold out immediately, leaving me to think that it was just not in the cards for me to see Muse headlining their own show.
So you can imagine my surprise when a friend from The Knot voiced via Twitter that she could no longer go to a Muse show in Anaheim the day I arrived in Los Angeles. In fact, she just so happened to tweet about it the same day that I found out they would be playing a show while I was there (they were actually playing several). I channeled my inner John Locke and took it to be destiny. They were meant to be mine!

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Terribull’s Last Day

Hello Meli Dolls,

Today is my last day as Meli’s guest blogger… it’s been a treat to get to post  to her fantastic site and be a part of her blog.  Hopefully I will be lucky enough to get to guest blog for Meli again in the future when she goes on another adventure.

On to the good stuff…

So, how many of you watched Dexter? The premier was AMAZING… I am full of questions and already counting the moments until I get to see more… What road do you think that Dexter’s Dark Passenger will take?

Tonight is Glee… my other favorite, it’s the Britney Spears episode featuring six of her hit songs, I cant wait to see Heather Morris shine as a more than a supporting character in this one.

Well loves, off to get the day started…  I’m my own shameless promotion, my blog is still a work in progress, but I hope to keep in touch with you all there (eventually).

xoxo Terribull

Weekend Wrap-Up

Hello Meli Lovers!

This weekend has been full of naps and Jersey Shore episodes (a favorite guilty pleasure.)

Friday night was super relaxed, I cooked a yummy Chicken meal for friends and just hung out at home.  Saturday I made pancakes and watched The Rivalry (now I understand) with the Booo and spent most of they day being lazy. Saturday night was “party” night, headed out to South Tampa for some bar-crawling at Cheap and the Kennedy. I had a lot of fun dancing and spending time with awesome people.

I sort of gave up drinking… I still had 1 beer while out last night, but I am going to try a cleanse so to speak to see if nodrinky drinks allow me to see better results in my fitness goals

As for today… its a lazy Sunday… I slept in and may end up at the pool, I reeeeeeally need to clean the apartment and prepare for Dexter! I am so excited for Season 5 of my Dexter Morgan love affair.

XOXO Terribull

Happy Friday

Hi Meli Loves!

Happy Friday to all of you… the hair cut last night was a success (as it always is).  The fabulous Alisha gave me a cleaned up version of my ‘do.  I am very happy with the result, here is a shaky camera phone photo so you all may see…

Pretty “Stroup-erific” I think, I love it.

It’s a pretty quiet Friday so far. My shoes hurt my feet and its not even 8:30am and I am already thinking about sleeping in tomorrow…

I am excited for the weekend, maybe some board game family fun night time tonight with silly party time to be had Saturday night (censored pictures to follow of course!)

So Meli fans, what are your weekend plans?

xoxo, Terribull

Rock-cation!

Tomorrow I head out to LA with my buddy, Bonnie, to see one of our favorite 90’s bands, Bush, play their first show together since 2002. I can hardly contain my excitement as I am not only seeing Rossdale and company, but also staying with old friends and meeting new ones: namely members of the Bush Army (I made the cute badges above for all of us to wear to the show)! It’s going to be a great few days, but that leaves the blog all by its lonesome until my return.

Thankfully, I was able to secure my first ever guest blogger and she is all sorts of wonderful! The lovely Terri will be posting on the blog starting tomorrow through Tuesday and I have complete and total faith that she will do an amazing job! In the meantime, make sure you check out her blogs: Terribull and Tampa Bay Style Online.

While I’m gone, I hope all of you behave as I plan not to. ;)
If you want to keep track of my west coast shenanigans, feel free to follow me on Twitter as I’m sure I will be as active as always, documenting the madness!

Happy Hump-day Meli Fans!

While Meli is away, I will (hopefully) be able to fill her blogging shoes and entertain you all. My name is Terri and I am in the process of getting my own blog up and running, if you are interested check out Terribull.com.

Wednesday is Hump Day, so in keeping with the theme of hottness, let me shine a little spot light on the lovely Kevin McHale from Glee:

What’s not to love about Kevin?  A former member of the boy band NLT, McHale plays McKinley High’s Artie, the smooth singing handi-capable sweetheart on Glee (one of my favorite shows). While his character Artie is wheelchair bound, Kevin is actually a pretty fantastic dancer off the set, the episode “Dream On” shows off McHale’s skills in a dream sequence.

If you missed the premier of Glee last night, check out the full episodes here and fall in love!

Enjoy! xoxo

Dexter’s Next Victim Is…

Congratulations to Will!!! You won a Season 5 Dexter poster!!!

Thanks to everyone else that entered – you will have another chance to win a poster later today. Thanks to my friends at Showtime, I have an extra copy! If you are interested, make sure to keep track of me on Twitter. I will be giving away my 2nd poster sometime this afternoon – look out for my Dexter trivia question. The first tweep to answer correctly will win!

Until then, you can quench your Dexter thirst by visiting the official site where you can find images and clips from the new season, which premieres this Sunday, September 26th at 9pm on Showtime!

Weekend Highlights

Saturday afternoon the hubs and I met up with our friends and headed to South Beach with our bicycles in tow to attend the 2nd annual Beer Snob Bicycle Pub Crawl. The event was hosted by the Miami Bike Scene and we couldn’t have had a better time! The weather held up beautifully and although we did not make it in time for the first two bars, we were able to hustle and get there early for the last two, which really paid off. We visited The Filling Station in Downtown as well as an old favorite, the Democratic Republic of Beer. Although the Filling Station had a limited menu, we really enjoyed what they provided, especially the pulled pork sandwich and their amazing selection of beer (Blue Point Toasted Lager was the definitive winner). Unfortunately, it seems like it is closed on weekends which really is a shame because I could have seen the hubs and I doing many a date night there. The DRB seemed to have also upped their game as their food was a lot better this time around, especially their calamari.

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