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Gotta Have My Crocs! (For fall!)

I love Crocs, so so much.  You know that if you’ve read this blog for awhile.  So when the nice folks at Crocs ask me if I wanna review some I am always like “Hecks yes I do!”  And one thing I love about them, is they keep giving me reasons to love them more!  Here’s my most recent reason:

The Wrapped Wedge (cue angels singing in background)!

I got this sassy purple and brown to review, but if you like tamer colors, they have them.  (I bought myself a purple shirt JUST to go with these, I love the color so much!) Girls, you will LOVE this shoe!  A little heel, a gorgeous suede-nubuck fabric, and that same Crocs comfort you expect.  Also – the insides of this shoe are fabric, so they breathe!  Perfect for fall and winter!  I love this shoe, it is SO cute and comfy.  I also have the flat version, the Wrapped Mary Jane and I have not taken them off since the weather started to get fall-ish. I lurve them!

The awesome peeps at Crocs also sent me the new Marnie flat to review.  These are just the thing to wear with skinny jeans or a skirt…or anything else!  I got these in black and wore them with my denim skirt to our girls’ night at Chinattis the other night.  They are the perfect little black flat and again, super comfortable.

Now you know it would be unlike me to tell you to go getcha some shoes without a coupon code!! Here are two you can try: FABULOUS10 for an extra 10% off and fallship for free shipping (you won’t see the shipping come off until the end.)

Enjoy some comfy fashion this fall with these new styles!  Thanks, Crocs for letting me try them out!

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Girls’ Night at Chi-nnatis!

Last week, Jenny and I were invited to a blogger night at Chi-nnatis Pizza – authentic Chicago-style pizza in Cincinnati. Brilliant!

It was sooooooooo good… I wish I had some right now.

We had a fantastic time trying out all their food and hanging out with our bloggy friends… but really, the pictures (and the tweets), say it all.

Check it out! (For maximum yumminess, click on the triangle “play” button below, and then hover over the word “more” and choose “full screen.”)

Girls’ Night at Chi-nnatis! on Prezi

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It’s September… do you know where your ovaries are?

Well hopefully you know where they are… but do you know how they are?

I haven’t talked about ovaries for a while (remember that time I skyped with Kelly Ripa?), but since September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, it’s high time I did.

In addition to it being September, this post is also timely because I just had my yearly blood test and ovary ultrasound… and since Dr. Oz got a colonoscopy on his show and Bob & Tom do their prostate exams on the air, I figured I might as well document my check up with a vlog!

Just kidding! I would not subject you to that. But I did have those tests run last week, and everything checked out just fine. Woohoo!

So, back to the subject at hand – Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. If you’ve hung around this blog for a while, you’ve heard this all before, but here’s a refresher…

Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers in the United States and is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women. It’s often called the “silent killer” because the symptoms are often vague and by the time it’s diagnosed, it’s often in an advanced stage. There is no effective screening test for ovarian cancer, but there are tests that can detect it when patients are at high risk or have early symptoms. The most effective way women can protect themselves against ovarian cancer is to learn the signs and symptoms – the OCRF website is a wealth of information, and I encourage you all to go there and learn more, but here are the basics:

Signs & Symptoms
• Bloating
• Pelvic and/or abdominal pain
• Difficulty eating or feeling full quickly
• Urinary symptoms (urgency or frequency)

Risk Factors
• Increasing age, with highest occurrence in women over 50
• Family or personal history of ovarian, breast, endometrial, or colon cancer
• Uninterrupted ovulation (having no pregnancies, infertility, low parity)
• Presence of gene mutations, especially BRCA 1 or BRCA 2

Prevention & Risk Reduction
• Use of oral contraceptives for more than five years can reduce your risk by approximately 50%
• Multiple pregnancies, having first full-term pregnancy before the age of 25
• Breastfeeding

Since the first time I posted about ovarian cancer, I’ve been floored by the amount of awareness I’ve seen spread through blogs and social media. The Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation and their partners (like Electrolux, L’Oreal, and Seventh Generation) have been doing an amazing job of getting the word out about this terrible disease.

There’s even an app for that – Previvors is a free iPhone app that has a simple 7 question quiz to help you determine your level of risk.

But like I’ve said before… it is so, so important that we all know our bodies and listen to them. Familiarize yourselves with the signs & symptoms above, and check out the picture below that simplifies it.

Let’s BEAT ovarian cancer.
–The End.

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