The Meade Feed.The Life of Whitney Meade

I am impossibly excited about New Year’s Eve. Let me tell you about New Year’s of the past in the Meade household.

New Year’s Eve 2007 – The world finds out that Whitney has a crush on Kris. Yet Whitney proceeds to attend a super awkward New Years’ Eve party with another guy. (Held at she and Kris’s future premarital counselor’s house.) (Wow, I didn’t think about that until just now…awkwwward.) Kris DJ’s a party at Aroma Underground.

Kris is behind the booth on the left. New Year's Eve 2007

New Year’s Eve 2008 – Kris and Whitney are engaged (WOW that was fast! That’s right. GOT ‘EM.) and travel to Charleston with friends. Someone forgets their ID, so the group hangs back at a coffee shop while Taiter, Kris, and Whitney circuit downtown Charleston.

Charleston, New Year's Eve 2008

New Year’s Eve 2009 – Um… I can’t remember. OH YES. Whitney and Kris visit friends in Charlotte.

New Years’ Eve 2010 – We have SPECIAL plans for tomorrow night that I will tell you about Friday. I am so excited! I am broke from Christmas (and from the plans haha) so I can’t buy a new outfit, but if I could, I’d want something sweet and sparkly Friday, we’re going to my parents’ place to eat the traditional New Year’s Meal…

Collard greens for MONEY!

Black Eyed Peas for GOOD LUCK!

And we have chicken and rice for “Never going hungry.” But some people eat ham.

Pop that bubbly… Happy New Year!

Here’s the rundown: came home from the in-laws early, woke up with a fever yesterday morning, hit up the urgent care for some meds and a diagnosis.  Sinusitis & bronchitis.  Awesome.  Bed rest for 3 days.  Then the antibiotics made me puke.  Even more awesome.

Nimbus Meade woke up with a swollen jowl this morning, and the vet encouraged us to give him Benadryl.  So it’s a sick day at the Meade household.

What else to do besides look at the internets for vintage clothes? Click on the pics for the Etsy listing.

(PS, I watched my first episode of The Rachel Zoe Project last night.  It was bananas.  I might just die.)

I want this for New Years' with a smart belt and great shoes.

Buttercup Yellow Coat

This faux alligator handbag would be perfect for work.

Oh. My. Gosh. I could eat it with a spoon.

Merry Christmas!  Well, here we are.  Christmas night.  I bet you’re as tired and full as I am.  We arrived in Moncks Corner yesterday after my complete meltdown after work because “It’s not fair that I am sick on Christmas, all I want is one day to relax, why can’t I catch a break” etc, etc.

Yes, those are direct quotes that you may have been able to decipher in between my deep sobs while I sat on the floor of my closet.  My sweet husband held me through it and didn’t laugh once.  He proceeded to dry up my tears, feed me more DayQuil, and load me up in the car.  I am still sick today and have been pounding the meds and EmergenC all day, but LO AND BEHOLD, it is Christmas and it’s hard not to get in the holiday spirit at the Meade’s.

The oyster roast last night was worth every bit of hype Kris and I spun last week, and you’ll be happy to know that Nimbus Meade is passed the funk out beside me right now.  He has had a BIG two days.

Get to the presents already…

So we can write for weeks before about all of the presents that we’d love to receive in our “gift giving guides” in this bloggity land, but once Christmas comes, we feel a little self-absorbed when we talk about what we actually got.  I know you want to know, just like I want to know what you got, so here we go.  The highlights of Whitney’s Christmas!

1.  My husband purchased a day at the spa for his sweetheart.  Pedi/mani, facial, and a massage.  I will use it very soon!  I haven’t had a pedicure since…well, a long time ago, and I would like some pampering.

2.  My mom got me an awesome black bomber jacket, I feel very a la Kristen Stewart wearing it.

3.  My in-laws purchased us a GARMIN (HOLLA!) and got me a new pair of polarized tortise-shell Wayfarers!  I’ve never had polarized Wayfarers, so this is a plush deal.

4. My little brother got me an ADORABLE apron from Anthropologie.  This is my second cutsey apron, and I am thinking about bringing aprons back.

5.  My sister-in-law gave me a pink and white monogrammed towel wrap.  I haven’t had a towel wrap since my teal ZTA beauty in college, so I literally squealed.  BTW, I’m still not used to seeing my new monogram yet.  I was like “WCM?”  Oh…yeah!

6.  The Smashbox Wish for the Perfect Palette.  With 64 eyeshadows.  8 glosses.  2 blushes.  Bronzer.  Highlight powder.  Eyeliners, all the brushes you could want, and more.  I’m like…holy makeup heaven.  I couldn’t wait to get into it.

So there are a few highlights!  I didn’t mention my new Spanx tights (YES!), our new house flagpole and flag (pineapple!), or Kris’s new iPod Touch and professional headphones (the best gift for a radio station DJ).  I hope that you get a GREAT nights’ sleep and enjoy the rest of your vacation.

Merry Christmas!

So here’s the deal.  Our disposal has been broken for about…eh, 3 weeks.  We could not get a plumber to our house to save our lives.  What is the deal with that?  They charge you SO much money to start with, but who wouldn’t want our business?  Anyway, after firing our first plumber for not showing up, we called this awesome plumber – Rick’s Plumbing, just in case you live in Flotown and are needing a plumber – to rescue us.

“Rescue you from what?,” you may ask.

Well.  He rescued me from emptying EVERY SINGLE FOOD ITEM left on a plate, coffee grinds, crumbs…anything really, into the toilet for the last 3 weeks.  I couldn’t even rinse my plates in the sink.  It was terrible.

“What was the culprit?”  You know, another obvious question.

I am addicted to bobby pins, and yes, somehow, two of them got into the disposal and the disposal was turned on.

MY FAULT, I admit it.

And when Rick left our house after fixing our disposal, this is what he wrote on our ticket to synopsize his visit:

“Removed bobby pins.”

Awesome, Whitney.  Awesome.