Free things are my favorite.

In case you haven't picked up a fact of my life, I live to shop (and eat and sleep but that's not the point of emphasis). I love it so much. Thank goodness for my bank account, I've perfected the art of window shopping and trying things on and buying them later when they're on super sale. No shopping day is as hallowed as the starting day of the Nordstrom anniversary sale, aka Black Friday for the wealthy. It's tradition for all the women in my family in the area to gather at an unearthly hour and make our trek to the best Nordstrom in the area and wait for those "golden gates" to open at 8 am. This year, my sister and niece where not able to attend in person and mi madre was driving up to Utah but wouldn't be anywhere near me so I had to go on my own. Normally this isn't a big deal given that the nearest Nordstrom was in Orem, a mere 10 minute drive. Since that one shutdown, I had to drive to the next closest one in Murray adding another 30 minutes to my drive. I debated whether or not to go when my inbox received an email from Nordstrom. It told me that if I printed out the email I would get a mystery gift card with anywhere from $10 to $200 to spend as I'd like. I'm a girl who loves free stuff and decided that if nothing else good came of the sale, I would have $10 to put towards my purchases of the day. Imagine my surprise as I cashed in that glorious email and received this:

Saleslady: "Congrats, you get a $100 gift card!"
Me: "Wait, what?!"
Saleslady: "You have $100 to spend as you please, happy shopping!"


Umm, greatest day of shopping ever! I love when shopping involves me not spending a cent out of my pocket. Who knew Nordstrom would love me so much!

It doesn't seem like much for $100 but I'm a happy little camper. Oh so needed shoes for exercising, rockstar smelling body washes, cutest pink nail polish ever and much needed blush and some samples. Lessons to learn: read yo emails kids. Sometimes there are gems in the 5 billion messages you receive from stores.

Purple Turtle.

I love that my nails look like their naked but they're actually light sparkly purple. I feel J. Biebs would totally approve of my nails. Also I bought out Victoria's Secret yet again and talked to some ridiculously attractive men at Hollister. I really really really want Magelby's cake and breadstick. I totally need to see Tangled and it's going to be in the dollar theater. Weekend date with myself? Yes please.

And it was Love, Love, Love.

Despite being severely single, I love love. Valentine or not, I love this day. Since most of my loves aren't in Utah, I decided to have a "me" day. I went shopping and ate with me and had the best time delivering treats to people. The highlights would have to be finding a pair of jeans I'm pretty sure the fashion Gods made for my body (easier said than done), having my nephews talk my ears of by reliving our Christmas break in Wyoming, trying sushi for the first time, and taking one of my guy friends to get flowers between his dates. I love this day and I love y'all!