Get Carried Away

Four years have vanished and two kids have appeared since I started to "Get Carried Away."
At first it was a hobby, a digital scrapbook since I have no patience for Cricuts or borders or anything that makes real scrapbooks look cute.
Then I met some women who blogged about THINGS or topics or products and I kinda started to care.  Okay, I renamed my blog and bought a URL.  That inspiration led me to OC Family, where I've happily contributed for over a year here and most recently here.
And now, it's official. 
Bath and Body Works has created a scent based off my blog.

And it smells AH-MAY-ZING if I do say so myself.
So maybe the super awesome people at B&BW didn't exactly contact me or ask my opinion or pay me any royalties, but I'm just going to assume that their entire market research team reads this blog over lunch and finds me so witty and rad that they named their newest creation after my little creation.
No so far fetched or vain, right?
At any rate, I bought a slew of it (cause let's face it- don't all the best scents go away?) and I want to share some with you.

Leave a comment below before next Sunday October 2 at 11:59pm and you could win a "Carried Away" goody basket with spray, lotion, body wash and perfume valued at over $50!  I will pick one winner at random.

And if you're looking for a great blog name, try the reverse method and name your blog after one of their over 100 fragrances.  I'm thinking about finding a way to use "Blue Elixir."

Despite the fact that it sounds like this was totally sponsored by Bath & Body Works, it wasn't.  This is all me.  I thought about contacting them to sponsor after I wrote this post, but as my mom told me, "Why would they buy the cow when you're giving the milk away for free?"  Inspirational, I know.

A few weeks ago, I posted about starting a new weight loss journey.

To my shock and surprise, the scale didn't automatically start responding with resounding success just because I posted on my blog that I wanted to lose weight.  So, you mean, in addition to blogging I have to actually DO something about it?  UGH!

Well, now I've gone and done it.  I've refocused my OC Family blog to Losin' It With Carrie.  Great.  Now I have to actually do something besides just talk about it.

Here's where I started: a GOAL.  Not with a specific number and not with a race I want to run (though both of those things are included in the plan) but with a measure of accomplishment that can only be felt to be fully realized.

Losin' It Goal: To be my healthiest physically and mentally for my 30^th birthday.

The glow from the keyboard is the only thing lighting the keys enough so I can type. 

It's almost 1am. 

I snuck downstairs by the light of my cell phone to get the computer and bring it back to our room because our router is broken and the only cable to physically plug into the laptop is in the corner of our bedroom. 

I'm tapping each key one at a time, ever so gently as to not wake the two men sleeping (one is Ryguy- did I throw you off with that one? :) 

I'm sitting on the floor, the laptop is resting on top of a basket of unfolded but clean laundry, and to get the mouse to move I have to roll it on top of my thigh.

This is the glamarous life.

Good enough excuse for not posting?  Or at least posting with no pictures?

Promise to get back to it. 

After I put away this laundry.