Five Random Things on Thursday

I love reading people's About Me pages or their random posts with little "about me's" in them. It gives us a chance to see they are a real person and gives us that moment where we can say 'oh my goodness Me Too!'

So on this wonderful Thursday I want to share 5 Random Things about Me. I hope you enjoy and have a few 'me too' moments!!

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1. Sea Salt Chocolate Covered Caramels are my guilty pleasure. Seriously the best of everything! Salty:Sweet:Chocolate:Caramel -- mmm my mouth is watering as I type!

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2. I must have a box of tissues in my car along with a garbage. I know this one is really random but it seems I always need to blow my nose when we are driving somewhere. I am sure once we have kids this will also come in really handy for more than just blowing their nose {aka. kids are messy {see also >>} that is why we don't have them right now}

3. I hardly ever wear perfume or scented lotions. I have a very sensitive stomach and almost always get nauseous when I smell a strong perfume or cologne. {and that is why my husband has an all natural cow scent going on and not the latest scent from Giorgio-Armani}

4. I won't use my bath towel more than once. I don't care how clean I may be when I get out of the shower, the next day I'll use a new one instead of risking wiping my face where I wiped my butt the day before!!

5. I set 8 alarms. 6:31, 6:46, 6:50, 7:03, 7:11, 7:15, 7:25, 7:42 : This is not a joke I LOVE my sleep and apparently love to press my snooze button. I usually wake up around the 7:03 alarm but have the other ones for backup. I used to have 3 alarm clocks placed all around my bedroom growing up in hopes I'd get up to turn them off and then stay up - No such luck my mom almost always woke me up and turned them off because I'd sleep right through them. 

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There you have it: 5 Random things about me. Now I am off to play with my new Instax camera!!

What a wonderful Number

Over the weekend I reached 200 followers on Bloglovin'. Yep I know that doesn't sound like much to a lot of you but I was thrilled. 

Thrilled for all of you. For the strangers who have become friends. For the people who are interested in what I put on this blog. 

As a thank you I have some treats for two lucky readers!

:: Free Bottles of Wine Sponsorship Ad ::

:: A Thirty-One Thermal Tote ::

a Rafflecopter giveaway

A Florken Love Story

Happy Friday wonderful readers! I am super excited for this work week to be over and it was a short week {why do they always seem the longest}. This weekend I will be attending a friend’s bachelorette party and can’t wait to party with some old high school friends {I better start hydrating now}!!
I have a wonderful treat for you today. A dear friend is taking over the blog to talk about love and I love Love so please give Kate {and Adam} a warm welcome!!

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Thrilled to be posting today! I'm Kate and I blog over at the "florkens" with my husband, Adam. (Yes, he blogs with me!) We share a WHOLE lot over there... like how I didn't really enjoy our wedding, or our secret tattoos, or how I recently dropped my iPhone in the toilet. On Thursdays, I share my wardrobe makeover with the world and on Fridays we typically turn on the webcam, cross our fingers, and act like idiots for a bit with our Vlog! But, we do have limits, I assure you. Check out the 5 things I'll never blog about.

Still -- we've never taken time on the blog to really explain how we met... which is something we're asked quite often. So, I thought the readers of Mrs. Laura Beth may like to hear the tale and learn a bit more about how we ended up being the "Florkens."

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You know how in movies, couples meet in the cutest ways? They always are standing in line at a coffee shop, or they reach for the last Everything Bagel at the same time... It's always cheesy but you think to yourself... "Yeaahh!" 

Well, Adam and I didn't meet like that. Not even close. We met on Match.com. Now this is not an endorsement of Match in particular (although I obviously thumbs-up the whole online dating thing) but this it is a real breakdown of how everyday people meet, learn about each other, and fall in love.

Adam "winked" at me on Match.com. It's kind of like "poking" on Facebook -- completely pointless but somehow it sends a message. I decided that instead of winking back, I'd just message him. I did. It went ok. I can't say that I remember much about those messages. Honestly, I was messaging several guys on the site. When keeping the conversations in my head straight, I would use like monikers for each dude. Adam's was, "The Ginger." 

 

We agreed to finally exchange numbers. We talked on the phone briefly. Mainly it was a text thing. After about a week, I decided he wasn't a weird and I asked, "So, when are you taking me out?"

Now he always tells me that's when he knew he liked me -- he saw that I was assertive, bold, and would ask for what I wanted. We decided to meet up on a Sunday afternoon at a local mexican restaurant. I almost backed out on the date because I was having "one of those days" where I just felt terrible about myself. You know how those go -- I felt fat, ugly, and could have sworn I didn't own a single cute outfit. I called my mom to tell her that I wasn't going. She said, "Kate -- you never know when you'll meet Mr. Right. This could be him." I snorted laughter and said something to the effect of, "I doubt it. But I guess I shouldn't pass on a free margarita."

I beat Adam to the restaurant. I waited for him in this little lobby thing. I kept staring at the drivers of cars as they pulled into the parking lot. I knew that when I saw "red" that he was there. I texted him, just to let him know that I was there. He said it was just a couple minutes away. When he arrived, I remember kind of being amazed watching him walk across the parking lot. This Ginger was WAAAAYY hotter than his pictures. I later found out that he was using pictures from high school and his first year in college so they were all very outdated. 

We grabbed a table. We ordered. I asked for a "regular" margarita and they practically brought me a sombrero full. It was embarrassingly large. We talked. He learned that I was in law school. I learned that he was getting his PhD. He picked up the check. We didn't want to part, so we met up at a local Starbucks for coffee and tea.

We sat outside and talked more. At this point, our first date was nearly four hours long. It was amazing. He was amazing. I was in shock. 

I went home that night relunctantly. I wanted to stay longer... get to know this man more. I just felt drawn to him. We had the second date scheduled within a day. 

So here's the deal. We didn't reach for the same bagel, but we were both out there reaching for something...we had put ourselves "out there" reaching for each other. It's not a "cute" meeting. But it is a meeting that I wouldn't change for the world!

Hope you stop by the blog and say "hi"! We'd love to meet you!

Boy Behind The Blog

Welcome to another installment of The Boy Behind The Blog. I hope you enjoy learning some new things about my hubby! 

1. What was your favorite movie of 2013?

We're The Millers {he is a sucker for any movie with Jennifer}

2. What is your all time favorite movie quote?

Anything from Dumb & Dumber 

"Nice set of Hooters you got there"

3. What is your favorite type of movie?

Toss up between Comedy and Action

4. What is your New Year's Resolution?

I don't have one. Never have had one and probably never will.

5. Finish the sentence: This year I will…

Become a Millionaire {well I am all for that I guess}

I am not the only blogger in North Dakota!!

Wow … What a fantastic weekend!! 

This was a weekend of Firsts

. First time at the lake in 2014

. First Blate

. First time drinking at a bar on a frozen lake

I headed down after work on Friday, with my parents, to enjoy the weekend on Spirit Lake! It was a wonderful relaxing weekend mostly spent helping my sister get her little business up and running … stay tuned for info on that!

Weekend Highlight = Meeting a fellow North Dakota Blogger. If you aren't familiar with blogging lingo this is like a date for bloggers so in-turn we call them Blates. 

I happened to be paired with Samantha from Life Style Love for our Cara Box swap this month so we just knew we Had to meet up. Her parents live in lake country {in MN} only about 20 min from my parent's place so this seemed like the perfect place for a Blate! Yes we are North Dakota bloggers who met up in Minnesota, don't worry in the summer I think we are both honorary Minnesotans!!

Samantha and I met up at local bar and instantly hit it off. We talked. and talked. and talked. Seriously after eating and two glasses of wine we hardly realized it had been 3 hours and I think we could have sat there for another 3! We had so much in common and I didn't feel awkward once. 

So I am just going to come out and say it :: I have a friend I met online. Yep she is real, likes wine as much as me, and didn't try to kidnap me; I even introduced her to my parents and sister!! I am so excited to have had this opportunity, but our night didn't end there. 

We wanted a little more to blog about {of course} so why not go on an ice adventure! For the past few years, once the ice is thick enough on Lake Lida the Hillbillies Ice Hole Bar is back in business.

That is right, there is a bar located just off an ice road :: equipped with electricity; an ATM; a TV; ice fishing holes; and {of course} a stocked bar!! This place was packed and definitely a sight to see, just crazy to me all this inside an icehouse on 2 feet of ice!! 

My Dad, Sam and I having a shot of Fireball at The Ice Hole

I am sure Samantha and I will meet up over many more glasses of wine and I can NOT wait for it!!

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and have an even better week!!