A Friday Afternoon Spent With Us

Ahhh TGIF!! To say the least, Friday has become our favorite day of the week! As college students we have the luxury of enjoying a three day weekend (every weekend) due to our absence of friday classes! We’ve enjoyed this tease for the past three semesters and enjoy our little “treat yourself days.” We use this extra day to recover from an arduous week of school, especially around this finals season. We typically spend fridays running errands, getting our nails done, trying new brunch spots, and occasionally throw in a long austin hike (where we will undoubtedly get lost and end up on SOCO).

Today we opted for some morning coffee and studies, then set out for the afternoon. We headed to our favorite Austin nail salon and both went with a variation of sparkling red. Rach typically gets a refill with shellac on top, and kenn (who used to be an avid shellac follower) has switched to the NextGen SNS dip. We both have very different nail beds and nail strengths and have found that these two styles work best for us. Rach has more of a smaller nail bed, therefore the powder and shellac cover provides her with the strength and “square square” style she prefers. Kenn on the other hand jokes that she needs to drop out of school and become a nail model; therefore, she uses the SNS to highlight her naturally long nail beds and further strengthen the natural nail. In the fall we both typically stay in the neutral to dark grey/toupe range but this week we felt the christmas spirit and mixed it up!!

Upon getting our nails done we made a quick trip to Target...stay tuned to see our weekly finds!! Our nail salon is right across from target, our second guilty pleasure, and we love stopping by for just an item...or ten! Upon our trip to Target we continued the “treat yourself” attitude and enjoyed some frozen yogurt from our favorite brand Menchies!! We stand by menchies in our recent stint of becoming froyo connoisseurs (you know you are an avid froyo getter when the employees recognize you and you have a rewards card. ) and enjoyed this sweet treat of their new holiday flavors!! Froyo is the perfect snack to offset our sweet tooth and you can make it as ~guilty~ or non guilty as you would prefer!! We tried to stay “good” this time as we’re gearing up to try some new holiday recipes this evening to share with you!! Our favorite flavors are typically wedding cake, cookies and cream, any variation of their chocolate flavors, and right now Golden Oreo. For toppings, both of us stick to mini dark chocolate kisses and carob chips. If you are trying to stay pretty guilt free, this is the way to go as the calories and sugar from the other toppings can add up quick! We love going to menchies as it mixes up the nightly Halo snack routine, so if we go to Menchies one day we try to stay away from Halo for that night to keep the amount of sugar/sweets we have for the day minimal.

P.S. it snowed here in Austin today… so naturally we go get a frozen treat! Stay warm and we hope y’all get some much needed R&R this weekend!

Cheers, Kenn and Rach