she's nothin' but country...

Now, I love me some Lil Wayne, Bone Thugs & Harmony, old school B.I.G. and lots of other amazing rap music - but I also adore my country music too, after all, I am from the South.

One of my favorite country artists is Jason Aldean.

I swear, every song he sings is about Edgecombe County and my life. I love it.

I love all the music he's released ranging from his beautiful duet with Kelly Clarkson, "Don't You Wanna Stay" to his early songs like "Hicktown" and "Johnny Cash". The song he sang on the Academy of Country Music Awards the other night, "Dirt Road Anthem" is one of my favorites. I've heard it before, sung/rapped by Colt Ford & Bradley Gilbert, but it sounds even better coming from Jason.

Here are a few lyrics that make me think the song-writers/Jason probably visited my little town once upon a time (how else could they hit the nail on the head so easily?).

Yeah I'm chillin' on a dirt road
Laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones
Smoke rollin' out the window
An ice cold beer sittin' in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
It's got me reminiscing on them good times
I'm turnin' off a real life drive and that's right
I'm hittin' easy streat on mud tires

...And all this small town he said, she said
Ain't it funny how rumors spread?
Like I know somethin' y'all don't know,
man that talk is gettin' old
you better mind your business man,
watch your mouth
Before I have to knock that loud mouth out
I'm tired of talkin' man y'all ain't listenin'
Them ol' dirt roads, is what y'all missin'

I sit back and think about them good old days
They way we were raise in our southern ways
And we like cornbread and biscuits
And if it's broke 'round here we fix it
I can take y'all where you need to go
Down to my hood back in them woods
We do it different 'round here that's right
But we sure do it good and we do it all night
So if you really want to know how it feels
To get off the road with trucks and four wheels
Jump on in and man tell your friends
We'll raise some hell where the black top ends

back to work

I dropped my sweet little guy off at Mrs. Vickie's this morning and returned to my office (which is currently a hostile place, more about that later). Prayers needed!

On the plus side, I will be posting more regularly!

Happy Monday!

Fashionable Friday: Oh so thrifty.

First and foremost I would like to say a big thank you to New York & Company for always carrying their pants (even their pretty colored ones) in tall's and for their amazing coupons.

Second and secondmost I want to apologize for the pictures in this post, they're horrible quality.

Because of NY & Co's amazing Buy One Get One 50% Off sale and a beautiful $50 off every $100 you spend coupon I got in an email I got $351.44 for (drumroll please).....$169.16!!

Granted I had to make two trips so I could use the $50 off $100 twice (you could only use it once at a time), but still that is pretty fan-freakin'-tastic if I do say so myself.

During my first trip, I purchased four pairs of pants, a dress and a top for $114.99.

I got...

All four of these pants

Blue and black patterned flutter dress

Striped shirt with shoulder details

Then on my second trip I bought one pair of jeans, a scarf, two tops and two pairs of earrings for $54.17.

So I figured, hey if I cam saving this much moolah I deserve to make a small medium-sized trip to Belks too!

Since they had an awesome clearance rack that featured items already marked down 50% then an additional 40% AND their "New Directions" sale, I got $400 worth of clothes for $120
And thanks to all the gift cards I had from Christmas I was able to get....

I am actually excited about going back to work so I can wear new clothes! But not so excited about leaving my sweet baby - even though he will be in more than capable hands with our preacher's wife.