Friday Favorites

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I wrote this post ahead of time because I am on vacation (yes). I may not be doing much other than relaxing, taking walks and enjoying some amazing food, but I am so thankful to have this vacation with my family.

Onto Friday Favorites.

ONE. So last Friday was my anniversary (thank you for all the happy wishes to us) and I said that we were not doing anything other than a spa day together in early to late September. But I forgot to mention that on my birthday, the original place we were supposed to go to dinner at had a flood or something that happened that morning. They told us to come back at a later date for a discount and a free bottle of wine. So we did that for our anniversary. We went to one of our favorite Italian spots and enjoyed ourselves. Plus it was the first time having any wine or alcohol since several days prior to my surgery. My MIL watched the girls and it was nice to celebrate us. We still plan to do the spa day together. Probably at the end of September, so my nose can heal a lot more.

TWO. So my work trip has been booked. We are going to England, Scotland and Ireland. I am pretty excited about this, even though I have been to all of them for work before. But Scotland was one of my favorite places I have ever traveled to (as said in my post on Wednesday's 10 Favorite Places To Travel To) and I get to go again. That means more scotch, more countryside and more adventures. Any Edinburgh, Scotland recommendations?

THREE. So Lindsay's amazing organizing skills inspired me to start organizing and purging more. One of the biggest things I need to purge is old documents. I am guilty of keeping old bank statements, mortgage statements and things that should have been shredded a long time ago. Problem is...I didn't have a shredder. But that changed. I went on Amazon looking for an at-home shredder and this is the one we bought. It isn't expensive, can shred 8 pages at a time, can go non-stop for 5 minutes, and cuts paper into micro-cuts. So I have been shredding everything.

Aurora Micro-Cut Shredder

FOUR. How many of you have seen EuroTrip? It is a movie that came out in 2004 about a guy about to graduate high school and he gets cheated on, so he heads to Europe with his friends to find his long time pen pal. My co-worker introduced this movie to me around 2006 and it is quite funny. I watch it anytime it is on tv or on OnDemand. Anyways, there is a catchy song called "Scotty Doesn't Know" in it and I often sing that song as well. I love when it comes on Pandora. It is very crude and awful, but so dang catchy.

Anyways, in the movie, Matt Damon is the lead singer (for the movie, not the actual song). He makes an appearance when the band plays the song and it is quite funny every time I see it. Well anyways, an article was released recently about the history of the song, movie and how Matt Damon came to play that part. It is pretty good. You should check it out if you have ever seen the movie or heard the song.

I am linking up with April, A Little Bit of Everything, Meet @ the Barre and Cup of Tea.

Have a great weekend!