The Favorites on Friday

Woo-hoo! It's Friday and it's May.

May is the most wild and crazy month at work for me because it's our fiscal year end and the pressure is on! It's been a busy week already but I'm looking forward to the weekend with derby party / photography class plans with miss Brooke. Snapchat friends: expect something old, something new, something awkward and something inappropriate. (that's how that saying goes, right?)

What better way to end the week than recapping a bunch of things that made me smile, think, laugh and love the universe?

Favorite App Update

Since we've already mentioned snapchat today (and in my confessions), we need to talk about the new update from yesterday. 

At first I thought "oh shit, I might actually have to talk to my friends without allowing time to think of something witty."

Then - when I texted Kayla (a real text, yes) to tell her that the app was updated, we both realized it was pretty much the coolest. It's like a skype call without planning out the call part (because I hate actual phone calls)

Favorite Reads

So inspiring when Women Empower other Women
You know I loved this one (and thanks for showing Caitlin some love)
P-R-O-U-D (and a little pissed) with this post. Such a strong lady!

Favorite Tweet

Lauren knows my love for Costco so she sent me this article that points out the best way for single people to navigate the store. 

"Anyone at Costco Monday-Thursday is basically announcing that not only do they love a good deal on AAA batteries; they’re also single and ready to mingle"

Favorite Commercial

I might be a little late to the party seeing that this was from (wayyyyyy) back in 2013 - but forgive me please, I was busy in September.

This ad showed up before a YouTube and for the first time in ALL of history I didn't click "skip ad".

Favorite New Blogger

So I have to give the award to mom on this one. 

She jumped into blogging fearlessly on Monday (with GIFS, you guys!) and hasn't let up on the momentum. She introduced herself and now she's ready to start hitting you with all of her wisdom and wit. 

Thank you for all of you who welcomed her so warmly - although I DID complain that she got more comments on her first post than any post I wrote for my first 2.5 years of blogging. 

That's all I have - go enjoy the sun if you have it, friends!

Who else is linking up with Amanda's Friday Favorites?

Humpday Confessions - Snapchat

I had an awesome time last week posting about my Instagram confessions - so why don't we play a similar game and talk about my love for Snapchat?

If you're not up on Snapchat don't worry, there's still things for you and yours here in this confession (and maybe I can convert you and you'll add me??)

+ Once I accidentally added someone on snapchat because I assumed his instagram name was the same. I sent something creepy like "look who's stalking who, now!".

THEN the super creepy part was that this person confirmed they didn't have snapchat and later I got a message (that I took a screenshot of!) of a creepy guy I assumed to be high on drugs with a "Who dis be?"

+ I over-snap, not sorry.

+ Snapchat is the app where I take 99.9% of my photos from because I believe it has better lighting. This is also a reason why I over-snap because most of my photos are begging to be sent!

+ My "Best Friend" position is ironically taken by someone I don't snap anymore. And they won't. go. away. No, thank goodness this isn't the same guy I've been sober from (for 47 DAYS now), but it's someone who I purposefully don't send anything to first because I don't want him to get the wrong idea that I'm too clingy (see here)

+ Poor Kayla has had a couple of my accidental not-for-her snaps and she's quite the trooper. Thankfully nothing racy.

+ Yes, taking my phone into the restroom means I'm sending a potty snap to Brooke, Melissa and Kailyn (who else wants in?!?)

+ I won't look at snaps until I'm somewhat presentable in the morning so that I can reply back immediately. 

+ The above question is null and void if I have a sweaty selfie to share with my closest ladies.

+ When I share something to "my story" it means I don't want to scroll through my whole friends list. Please don't be offended that you didn't get the original copy.

+ I love snapchat videos.

+ I hate receiving snapchat videos at work when I can't watch them.

+ There NEEDS to be a group chat function so I can see who I'm supposed to reply-all to when I have a witty comeback or it's part of a conversation.

+ Just like instagram, I have more blog friends than real life friends in my snap-list. It's normal.

+ My blogger snap friends have a special folder in Bloglovin' and I'll read your blogs first!

So now that we've got that out of the way - if you snapchat and you want to play along, comment below and we can take our usernames offline! :)

Linking up with the always funny, always awesome Kathy