the things us ladies do: part dos

Ok last week i was writing about little things here and there that us ladies do and my reccomendations. It just so happened that later that afternoon we had a pedicure party at a place called Bora Bora nail spa in the bunker hill shopping center off i-10.
i thought Isle Pedi spa was the shiznit when i went before but this place takes the cake!!!! At isle pedi spa i believe my crazy coco nut and milk massage thingy was about $78. Dont get my wrong it was wonderful but Bora Bora was better for this reason...
You get there and they had us all in chairs ( not the big booth like Isle) and the chairs were massage chairs with remotes. i was in heaven. i could pay just to go sit in that chair. i played with all the buttons, they had a heated wrap around my neck. She must have massaged my feet and my legs 5 times. at one point she got hot stones and massaged them up and down, then made me lean forward and oiled my neck and shoulders and rubbed them down. My legs and feet never looked better. Not to mention wine and cookies UM HELLO!
I looked at the menu and it was only $32 and you could add a few things like a parafin wax for your legs and the total was $45. we got a lot more at Bora Bora for less than half at Isle. I will definitely go back!!!!

coupons
I get express and victoria secret coupons all the time.... i guess cus the know i will spend my money there :/, but my aunt sent me a ton last week and i had some that were $30 off your purchase of $75 or more or $15 off your purchase. I went in there and found something for $20 went up there to use my coupon, apparently the item was on sale, so he just hands it back to to me and tells me to have a good day! So i got it for FREE!!! went back and did the same thing the next day! gotta make use of free crap!

annoyance list

Do you ever have days where its like anything and everything annoys you.... i had one recently which inspired this list of things that just drive me NUTS!!!

1)people who would rather talk about something than do it. example: the person who is always saying they hate their job, or that they are fat, or that their relationship sucks.... QUIT TALKING ABOUT AND FREAKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!!!!

2)one uppers- you know... the guy in the office who always did something that was better than what you were talking about... somehow your talk about the pizza you had last night turns into his amazing trip to Italy...

3)deliberately bad english.... i joke with several friends and family members by talking ghetto, but when people deliberately say things off and claim thats they way they talk i call BULL DOOKIE! Example: when Usher started being referred to as ursher.... ummmm ok?

4)when girls who are obviously larger than life think they can dress like a size zero and have all their stuff exposed to the world.... ok none of us want to see that and the person who lied to you that you look good needs to be slapped...TWICE

5)people who are in love with being in love. omg that drives me nuts. one month they are so in love with this person and their facebook and everything they talk about is "omg i love blah blah" " i miss blah blah" and a month later its some other person.... really? is this 6th grade? thats not love my friend....

6)guys in girl jeans.... maybe if thats your idea of birth control but really i mean isnt that uncomfortable???

7) excessive body hair.... yes guys you can do something about. nair it, wax it, shave it, lazer remove it.... SOMETHING thats absolutely sick! there isnt one girl out there who finds gorilla arms and back and chest remotely hot...

8)when people are so obviously blocking your view of something and are so inconsiderate to do NOTHING about it.... MOVE!

9)the butt short skirt ot shorts with ugg boots? if your feet and calves are so cold you need to wear uggs put some flippin pants on!

10)when girls curl their hair and get all dolled up at the gym.... then their whole workout their hair nor their face shows any indication of work.... you're not working hard enough sweetie!

11)really janky cars with rims, spinners, whatever.... if you are gonna go drop 2k on your 1988 caddie, why not put it as a downpayment on a semi new car thats worth more than the rims on it....

12) super clingy relationships.... let your woman/dude breathe they were an individual before you were a couple, and they still are... let them be that way

13)chewing tobacco....one word GROSS

14)stoners--- do something with your life, are you that ignorant that all you do is smoke all day and you only make money so you can smoke more the next day. maybe if you got your mouth off the pipe for a minute you might find a new hobby or new appreciation for life oh and you may find you dont smell like crap all the time!

15) when guys expect girls to chase after them... sorry babe... not gonna happen... heard of chivalry. i dont want to tell my children one day that i chased you until you gave in... not me sorry

16)people who are so in debt cus they cant get control of their spending or need for the biggest/greatest/name brand thing. if you're in hard core debt then dont go buy that tv, boat, vacation whatever. get yout crap taken care of.... you're not helping the economy and the deficit

17)american idol....go away already

18) sluttiness...does sleeping with someone new every weekend really make you feel better about yourself? i mean it may be fun in the moment, but is it really worth it...makes me want to puke in my mouth... blah

19) soapboxes.... meaning people get up on their high horse and dont let you say what you want to say or are so opinionated they dont even respect what you have to say or what you think or your rationale

20) really really large butted people who wear underwear several sizes too small so that the back of their pants gives the appearance of 4 butt cheeks instead of 2 ( i had a facebook status about this the other day it bothers me so much)

21) lazy people ( especially women) you dont work all day cus your husband makes a bunch of money, you dont have kids, you have someone to clean your house, so what do you do all day? NOTHING but spend money and sleep. shoot clean the house, workout... something. i mean i could totally pull off the hot housewife gig, but i'll be damned if i dont clean my house myself, have dinner on the table, take care of myself, and find some sort of productive hobby or part time gig to keep me occupied and feel i contributed to society.... ugh

22) club rats--- you know.... the guy or girl who every monday have pictures of them at a different club both nights of the weekend. unless you work there, or you're like 18 or 19 get a new hobby seriously....

23) people who have never left their hometown or state---- hello? you know there is a whole big world out there of some kick ass stuff. go see it, experience it, breathe new air, see god's creation and people.... learn something outside of your comfort zone!

24) people with no backbone--- dont enable people to treat you like dirt

25) cheaters--- karma will come get you and its gonna suck. why hurt someone you care about cus you have commitment issues. if you're unhappy get out of it, and if you're just selfish dont subject others to your issues... jerk!

i could go on but i'll save it for another day! :)

The things us ladies do: reviews

Us females do a lot to take care of ourselves or for our men.
I personally take care of myself cus it makes me happy and makes me feel good, but whatever your reason here are my reviews on a few things, i've broken them down by category....

Hands and Feet:
If you like to get your feet done and you want the best pampering ever i reccomend Isle Pedispa off Kirby. Omg its amazing. Its not like most spas that have a place for your hands and feet, this place is just for your feet. Its not cheap so go there for a real treat or a great gift. You sit in a little booth just for you with your own tv, a heated neck wrap, wine and then select from their menu what you want. I of course went for the whole shebang ( i wasnt paying :) ) I got rubbed, salt rubbed into my legs, milk poured down and massaged into my legs, my legs and feet scrubbed, massaged, soaked in wax and hot tub and so much more. Omg i was in heaven

we had a pediparty and they let us bring food and everything in there and accomodated quite a bit of us. The service was great and if i could afford it i would go ALL THE TIME!!!!

I'm going to another pediparty today at another spa, i'll review it later....

In between trips i always give myself weekly pedicures as i find it SUPER relaxing. the best feet prodcuts i have found that the Tru Blue products at bath and body works are awesome. They leave my feet so soft, my cuticles all nice and if you get the hand line, the clear nailpolish/strengthener makes my nails look so shiny and gorgeous. makes me feel good and saves me money from the nail place.

waxing
ok so i have had two wax experiences in my life and well the first was pretty traumatic. before our all girls boat trip i went in for a brazilian and well it was awkward and it hurt and i swore i would never go back!!!! any girl who has had one done can probably tell you a really funny story about their first time. my mom cracked up when i told her.

well then i decided to go to costa rica so i changed my mind, however, i had a lady who was less awkward and i think better and it didnt hurt AS BAD. it probably helped that the second time i took advil before and had a class of champagne so it was tolerable. as always i laughed through the whole thing to make it more enjoyable and less awkward....

i went to European Wax Center in Riveroaks. they have several locations and if its your first time some treatments are free ( eyebrows, underarms or bikini) my first time since i upgraded to brazilian i just paid the difference. I think it was like 13. If you are an avid waxer they even have memberships that make your treatments really affordable.
The place is really nice and i will definitely go back. its perfect if you are gonna be on vacation in a bathining suit and you dont want to have to worry about that sort of thing.

Tanning
i am all about wanting my skin to look amazing when i'm old. no wrinkles here and if you ever met my grandmother or saw pictures of her, knew her etc you would have noticed her radiant nearly wrinkle free skin at 80 years old. She was a walking ad for cold cream and took care of her skin every single day. she bestowed that to my mother and my mom has carried it on to me. In additiont to my skin and face regime i have to make sure i take care of my pale skin from the sun. I dont tan and if i do its like everyone elses pale and certain parts of my body just freckle. I dont want to be that old lady covered in freckles.... so if i need to be tan for something i do spray tan. I already wrote a blog about my first experience but i have since had another one and well the girls at throwing copper are AWESOME. my tan lasts, its even, no streaks, i dont feel retarded being butt naked and sprayed, they have great followups with their customers... I LOVE IT. read my blog about it and check out some of my vacation and halloween pictures to see how it turned out....
why damage my skin when i can be brown without it!

good and bad stuff... wink wink
I recently was at a girls night event at the Rice hotel and passed a booth for Booty parlor. Its kind of like those "pleasure party" things. they asked me if i wanted to have one and i was like " why the heck not!!!"
My girlfriend let me host it at her house and well we had a blast. I think some people are hesitant about those kind of parties cus they dont know what to expect. it was my first and i didnt know what to expect but its one of those situations where you can make it as innocent or as bad as you want it to be. We had an absolute blast!!! I made sangria and food ( both were a hit, esp the sangria.... its been requested again...) and we made new friends and just laughed and laughed.
Everyone bought something and like i said it was as innocent or as naughty as you made it. if you just wanted some bubble bath and lipgloss than you did, some of the girls opted for the kinkier things but no one judged anyone and like i said we just laughed and laughed and LAUGHED and had a blast. in fact we are having another one. If you want to have a party i can pass along the name of the girl who hosted ours.... fun times

i bought their body butter and omg it smells amazing and leaves your skin soft for days!!!

I got more but i will have to get back to ya.....

Seriously Mr.?!?!?!?!?!

So today on the Rod Ryan show on my way to work, they were talking about this man from Michigan who is in the news for his crazy amount of donations to the sperm bank. I about changed the channel cus i thought "seriously who cares", i figured it was some dude who had issues ( which clearly he does) but probably some college guy looking for cash or something.....

Well apparently 14 years ago this man and his wife felt that they were so blessed with their children that they felt bad for the women and couples out there who had problems conceiving, so they decided they should donate this man's goods for other couples to enjoy and have babies with.

He donated twice a week for 14 years and made just short of 15,000 donations.

I'm sorry but are you trying to be like David or Solomon in the Bible with all those kids, that was a different time and story, thats just sick and unnecessary.....

The man didnt do it for money as each donation was 20 bucks and in that time made about 29,000 over the 14 years. he calculates he has fathered about 450 children.

ummmmm does anyone else find that a bit creepy and sick?

i know there are a lof of women out there stuck on having their own baby, but what about all those kids in orphanages????? I dunno it rubs me the wrong way when i think about how selfish people get and then they want to play God and play doctor. Maybe i will think differently if i get to the point in my life where i want a baby and i cant have one or something, but why create life in a test tube when their are plenty of lives that need families.

my baby cousin is adopted and my aunt and uncle tried for years to have a child. My cousin was a child to a family who had too many kids and just couldnt afford another one. She's been such a joy to not only my aunt and uncle but the whole family. She's my heart. I cant imagine if my aunt and uncle had tried to have someone elses child just cus my aunt "had to have the baby" instead of adopting Rachel.

I mean come on Mr... a few donations i could understand, but do you really think there is a need for you to donate 2x a week? I would think even 2x a year would be steep....

Sick!

SAVE MONEY HONEY!!!!!!

Like I've said before, i'm always down for a bargain or a way to save money so i thought i would share my latest finds. coupons, energy bills, airline miles and cashback

COUPONS

I use to be a big time coupon cutter and i go through phases where i do and do no clip coupons but its such a hassle sometimes cus i hold on to them and then i forget and they expire blah blah. i always seem to do a good job of remembering my Victoria Secret and Express Coupons though (go figure). I was looking online at Randalls website today and I came across something AWESOME. On there website they have three alternate sites where you can select coupons and they are saved directly to your remarkable card. I dont really like shopping at randalls and while on the coupon sites i found you can add your Kroger card which made me super happy cus thats where i shop.

Check them out:

http://www.randalls.com/IFL/Grocery/Coupon-Savings

http://shortcuts.com/

http://www.pgesaver.com/Sites/PG_eSAVER/Page/HomePage

You can print out your grocery list and see what you have coupons for. I think one will even text it to you. Bad A if you ask me!!! No having to carry around coupons. and IT SAVES PAPER!

ENERGY BILL

I live in an older apartment so the insulation SUCKS to say the least so in the hot summer and when it gets cold my energy bill is sky high.

Well i got an email from my houston tidbits ( god i love that site) and they talked about Bounce Energy and the promotion they were doing for a $50 Nordstrom gift card, and some other goodies for switching. I went to their website and their rate was almost 6 cent per kwh cheaper than what i was paying. I did some research, called the company and looked at their other promotions. They had promotions for everyone. I signed up for one that offers free companion flights for a year. I just checked their website and they did away with that one but have one where you can get one free companion ticket for a domestic flight and then several promotions where you can get gift cards. they have rewards programs where you earn free stuff and money off your bill for paying ontime and paying online. My energy bill was so cheap this month. i was SO HAPPY!!! CHECK IT OUT http://www.bounceenergy.com/customer/rewards-promotions.php

ONLINE SHOPPING AND AIRMILES

Anything that gets me two for one i am all about.... If you are a member of a frequent flyer program make use of all their give aways as possible. I subscribe to e-miles.com and a few others that i earn anywhere from 5 to 25 miles just for clicking on a few buttons that takes a whole 10 seconds. Sometimes if you buy whatever they are showing you, you get more...

If you have Continental they have partners that they work with where if you buy through their site you earn miles per dollar. I just bought a crap ton of stuff on snapfish.com for christmas gifts and right now they are offering 20 miles per dollar. I'll let you do the math.

They have a ton of retailers on there. My credit card is offering double cashback on all online purchases so i got cashback and i earned miles. My credit card company even offers more cashback if you go through their website and shop there. I figured i would go for miles this time, better deal! Just about any and everystore you can imagine is on continental and on discover. make use of it if you're gonna shop on those sites anyways.

CASHBACK FOR SHOPPING

I recently purchased a super cool bad ass camera thats waterproof, freeze proof, shock proof etc... I bought it for my vacation and best investment ( i am gonna blog on it later) but i found the best deal through http://www.bing.com I was telling my friend James about it and he let me in on a great thing. Bing lets you set up an account with them ( i ts free) and when you search to purchase something in the corner of your search for each store there is an icon that lets you know if its elligible for cash back. When i got home from vacay i checked it out and shoot i could have gotten anoter $20 on my camera that i had already saved close to $100 bucks on! i signed up for an account and you can have them mail you the money or you can have them add it to your paypal. GENIOUS!

hair did

So if i blogged what i am really thinking or wanting to blog right now i would probably regret it and/or get myself in trouble so zippin up my mouth! in any case thought i would write about a stupid dilemna of mine that makes no difference what so ever on my life, yours or anyone elses... lol

So i have been wanting to change my hairdo for quite some time.... i really wanted a short do and well anyone who knows me from highschool remembers when i chopped all my hair off above my ears. i think it had maybe a shelf life of 5 days where it looked cute and then the curliness of my hair just didnt work out.

I've asked a million opinions on if they thought a short a line bob would look weird with curly hair. i googles a bajillion photos. Couldnt find one that was right.... found a few curly ones and well they looked totally busted to put it nicely....

Fortunately with having curly hair i can totally hit up TGI Haircutters on Wednesday for 11 dollar haircuts... nothing to my hair... just trim it, add some layers, trim my bangs and shoot you dont even have to blow it dry or style it. This comes in super handy but change is good from time to time. Since i REFUSE to color my hair cutting it was only the next option.

well i just got it cut like 3 weeks ago and yesterday on msn i came across this article http://lifestyle.msn.com/your-look/makeup-skin-care-hair/staticslideshowallure.aspx?cp-documentid=22496730&gt1=32002

Basically the first slide says "corkscrews and short hair do not mix"

Well MSN where were you 3 months ago when i wanted to go CHOP CHOP. AYE.

Anyways, some of them are pretty funny.... THATS ALL FOLKS

Holiday Shopping... good find!!!

So Christmas is almost here and EEEEKKKK that means we gotta start shopping... Ah geez

Usually i have mine done by now for the most part and sadly enough there is only one gift i have gotten so far and that was a gift i had made for my mother.... ( she already knows what it is too)

I have a catalog i do alot of my shopping from and inside of it i have a list of who gets what from each page... have i ordered from it... no

Well again on my 2 and a half hour flight i was reading Cosmo and when i wasnt learning about this confession and this sex tip ( which if you pay attention they are all the same they just rotate them... and for the most part if you have to read cosmo to know what you are doing well... i'm very sorry for you...) or about this makeup or clothing designer... i came across a really neat find.

Online there are several websites that help you compile lists for yourself as well as other people so it could be your wish list, your baby registry, wedding registry, list ideas for grandma's 80th bday... WHATEVER...

well this particular website even helps you compare prices and you can buy it right off the website through the link to where it is sold....

If you want to check it out go to http://www.wishpot.com/

They've got everything from DVDs, electronics, and super cute fashion/accessories....

I found myself going "ok this would be good for mom... ooohhh these five outfits would look great in my closet.... oh aunt shelagh would like this.... oh check out that handbag!" ( hahah story of my life)

I think its genious... i am an avid list maker, an avid person on organization and shoot from now on when mom or dad says " what do you want for christmas/bday/kwanza/st patties day (haha)?" i can say " check out my list suckas!"

Although i dont think my dad would like hot pink bra and panties i have on my wish list right now... oops

Anyways, hope you guys enjoy and happy shopping/wishing

Vanity.... dilemna solved

Vanity... its a issue that everyone deals with
Some people are more vain than others and some people's appearance and how others perceive them is more important to them than what it may be to someone else.....

Lately i have had a few conversations with friends about my own vanity. I'm at a point in my life where i am really happy with who i am, inwardly, outwardly, spiritually, etc.... however there is always that struggle for something more.

I've joked with a few friends and said "what should my next big selfish purchase be? A bike (motorcycle), a boat, or new boobs?"
Like i said they are all selfish purchases, but for the majority of things we buy ourselves they are selfish... right?

I'd talked to my mom and even a few friends ( guy friends included) about the fact that i had seriously been considering a boob job. I knew my dad would not be happy and that bothered me but the part that bothered me the most was that i would be doing it for pure vanity.....

My chest used to be really big. it was commented on ALL the time and yeah there were times it was annoying when guys would stare at your chest instead of your face but as a woman there is so much pressure to be this curvy, vivacious vixen in a way and after loosing a ton of weight and two cup sizes it felt weird not having these giant things on my chest. Like i said, it felt different and while i am happy with myself i wondered what i would be like to feel transformed but have the girls back again......

sometimes it sucks being a girl because with things like our chest size and a society so focused on appearance its easy for others to compare because they are out there to the world. Now guys we know that you all compare yourselves based on size ( which is so silly) but think about it, if you suddenly shrunk no one but who you show would know cus its concealed to the world. Unfortunately us girls cant conceal things like that as easily.... granted a good bra can help but its not the same.....

So i struggled with the idea of getting it done or not. should i do it just because i miss them and take the risk that they could get messed up when i was already happy and then regret being so superficial.... it was tough.

I knew that on my small frame they would look good but i have heard so many stories of complications and bad healing and even celebrities have gotten jacked up that was/is it really worth it??? did i really want people looking at me and thinking " wow she's fake...."

I've always prided myself in not pretending to me someone i'm not so what would that mean if i pumped my chest full of silicone? i would feel like a hypocrite...

So on my way home from Atlanta i was reading the December issue of Cosmo... i know i know
Well i never thought i would say i learned something or walked away with something thoughtful from Cosmo....but i did. I've tried to find the article online but i cant. Anyways, i read an article entitled "Why I got rid of my fake boobs"

This girl had implants done and all of a sudden was noticed and started modeling and acting and when she never got any part that didnt involve her boobs and where she wasnt speaking she realized that no one noticed her for her but for what was under her chest. She had them removed and had complications and now her chest is messed up..... she is upset because she was happy before. I felt like i was reading what COULD be my life and when i finished the article i said a quick prayer..... Message received Lord.

So for now my vanity dilemna involving my chest is solved.... my other selfish purchases will have to wait and probably never happen.... lol

My trip to Atlanta

So this weekend was my first experience in Atlanta and like always i gotta write about what i did, why i did it and what i learned this weekend...

WHY I WENT....

My cousin ashlyn's birthday was last week and i had originally told her that i couldnt go and to surprise her, her boyfriend flew me out and we schemed to surprise her. He picked me up from the airport and we went to her favorite little spot in Grant Park and waited. The waited downstairs and I sat upstairs in the bar until he came up and told me what table they were sitting at. I walked over and the look on her face was priceless as i sat down. She was like "omg are you serious"

I had her led to beleive that Scott's big surprise was a cake and i joked with her that a midget stripper was gonna pop out. To be funny we bought her a mini little cake and i put a little mermaid candle on it since she is half naked... closest thing i could get....

What we did.....

After dinner at Tin Lizzy's we caught a cab across town to Buckhead and went to a bar called Moondogs. It was a really cool place. In fact before i even say anymore... Atlanta is a really cool place. I only saw grant park and buckhead and it was totally somewhere i could get used too.

So moondogs had lots of rooms, the bartender has his dog behind the bar with him and well ladies if you are in ATL and looking to meet lots of guys, any type of guy.... well you can go there cus every kind of guy was well represented there.

We had a blast... i danced, i mingled, i flirted, i drank... as always i had fun.

My friend Audrey that i havent seen in years came out and had a great time catching up with her and laughing at old memories.

Saturday ash has homework so after eating at Bluebird cafe she did homework at dakota blue while i explored grant park and walked around. I wish my camera had had more battery so i could have taken more photos. it was so nice!

We had dinner at this super cool, super chill hole in the wall called solstice. it was totally my kind of place. dark, trendy, loungy but super casual. you could wear anything in there and we totally had dinner and wine on a big fluffy sofa and coffee table. their menu was unique and their own. I loved it. Audrey and her friend Will met up with us there and while they ate i got ready and met back up with them. From there the three of us went back to Tin Lizzy's to watch the rest of the football game and have drinks. After that we went back to Buckhead and watched the Manny Pacquiao fight at Cheyenne Grill. Pac man whooped on on Cotto. It was awesome. I love boxing.

After that we relocated to another really cool, multiroom irish pub that had dancing and a firepit and all kinds of cool stuff. I think we were all pretty tired and called it a night early.

The next day we went out to Loganville so i could see Ash's mom and sisters and we had a really fun time. her youngest sister is just precious. She liked to play on my blackberry and wrote some random comments all over facebook which cracked me up.

I flew back shortly after that and was happy to be reunited with my puppy...

If you want to check out some of the places we went here you go

http://www.tinlizzyscantina.com/grantpark/

http://riasbluebird.com/

http://www.solsticecafeatlanta.com/index.html

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&source=hp&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=moondogs+atlanta&fb=1&gl=us&hq=moondogs&hnear=atlanta&cid=14203861455767364869

http://www.cheyennegrille.com/cg/

What I learned....

I learned A LOT... however part of that out of respect for other people i will keep to myself....however

1) Atlanta is not what i expected... it totally reminded me alot of houston and dallas

2) new yorker guys are very forward... i need to add a funny section to this... basically i flirted with this guy and he said some weird stuff about how he wanted to continue to hang out with me but he didnt know where he would end up sleeping and when i kept saying " um why wouldn tyou go home i am not that kind of girl..." he proceeded with " ok look i am attracted to you enough to say this... you wanna have a slumber party with me or not" i said " nope and have a good night!"

3) its pretty obvious when you arent from around somewhere. i noticed that the trend for Georgia girls was leggings, boots and long tops. my black vintage cocktail dress at mooondogs was a clear indicator i wasnt from around there

4) i eat a crap ton. and if i dont i get cranky and i feel like i might die and then later in the day my head hurts so bad i nearly pass out

5) relationships are hard and sometimes the hardest part is realizing when to call it a loss and move on. life is too short to be unhappy or to fight

6) no matter how many years its been... its always great to catch up with family. younger cousins are so wonderful and make me smile for days afterwards with their sweet nature

7) no matter where you go or who you are with remaining true to yourself is always the best thing. i am always my loud crazy honest self and i'm glad i dont pretend to be someone i am not

8) good friends are good friends no matter how few times you have seen them or not. bonds are bonds and memories are memories...

ehhh maybe more later.....

Dreams

So for most of us we dream at night. I know a few people who cannot recall their dreams but omg i have some of the craziest dreams out of anyone i have ever known. Its probably because i am so incredibly random and have the biggest imagination ever.

Sometimes i wish there was a way to record my dreams because some of the spaces/rooms/buildings that are in my dreams are so incredibly interesting and detailed that i would love to go back and actually design and build them.

So last night i had this dream... and i cant remember all of it but i remember some of it and holy crap i woke up laughing my butt off....

I dreamed i was somewhere with a friend and we were staying with family or something for the weekend and we were celebrating something. My dad was there but it was my dad like 10 years ago. I think we were at someone in our family's wedding... i dunno who's i just remember my dad had a suit on and we were at these fancy round tables with all the linen and china and we were under a tent with fancy lights and music playing.

My stepmom in my dream wasnt my stepmom but some girl who is actually my friend on facebook that i havent seen in years. i probably dreamed it was her cus i noticed her cute profile picture yesterday before i went to bed. Anyways she was my stepmom in the dream but she was older and different hairstyle. I remember in the dream looking at a yearbook that was supposed to be the two of them but the pictures werent.

The funny part of the dream was my dad was completely and utterly drunk. He was a blast!!! Thats funny because my father does not drink... AT ALL. he used to have a glass of wine from time to time or one or two beers when he would visit his brother and they would be at the deer camp or something but since my dad became a deacon and he said he would not drink anything he has kept his word.

Anyways, in the dream he has his bow tie off and the top few buttons of his shirt unbuttoned and we were just laughing hysterically. My friends were like "omg your dad is so funny!!!" which in reality they say that anyways but it was funny. then my dad was pulling out his camera from his pocket and was like "smile!!!!!!!!!!!!" and pulling a what i usually do and taking pictures of ourselves. then he leaned back in his seat and kicked his feet up on the table. omg it was so funny. I woke up like "who was that?!?!?!?!"


hahah. a few weeks ago i dreamed i wore a silk dress to work and i walked around the office with the silk part folded and stuck up to the top of my back. Unfortunately in my dream i decided it was a good day to not wear underwear and i walked around the entire office with my dress up in the back and my bare booty busted out in front of everyone. I even went to far as to going to my coworkers desk and leaning over. after that i realized and i was like, "Alicia why didn't you tell my dress was up and that the whole office could see not only my butt but the fact that i went commando today?"

her response " oh i thought you wanted it like that?" what the heck?

i wonder what makes me think these crazy dreams. i've always had crazy dreams though. my dad thinks i'm insane because i will email him, " dad last night in my dream you were really nervous about all these college kids at your office and you were smacking gum at a super fast nervous rate and it was weird cus well... you dont chew gum... ever!"

i wish i kept a dream journal or they were recorded because sometimes i wake up and i know what i just dreamed was super strange but i cant recall all of it or it fades super fast.

anyone else dream crazy stuff? raul didnt you dream about being on paris hiltons my new bff or something??? haha

Going green in your sex life......

Ok i know what you are thinking... what the heck emily right?

Trust me i am with you... However i need a laugh... a big one. So i figured instead of blogging on something serious or something thats bugging me i would make myself as well as everyone else as well.....

So getting ready for work this morning Rod Ryan was talking about "Going green" and they asked the other DJ if she was still doing "green" things around her house and she went on and on about her "green" steam cleaner she got over the weekend.

Well Rod was like "ok guys well lets talk about going green in your sex life"
The other djs were like WHAT????

omg i about spit out my toothpaste i was laughing so hard. I'm not going to go into details but apparently there are new toys that do not use plastic, new preventatives that are organic and vegan. I'm like omg are we getting crazy with the whole green thing......

It was funny cus one of the guys on the show was like " yeah and if you have those new green light bulbs and you turn them off while doing it you're saving even more energy!!!"

hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! Rod Ryan has podcasts and I'm sure it will be up later if you want to listen and laugh http://www.thebuzz.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=rodryan.xml

Then apparently they read a statistic that 40% of pregnancies are unplanned... HOLY CRAP! So Rod was like, " so ultimately if you wanna be green in your sex life... be careful and prevent unwanted babies. because other people on this planet are more carbon footprints"

i finished brushing my teeth laughing and my face covered in toothpaste. Hope if made you guys laugh!

Selfishness

I dont really get how our society became so selfish. Why do some people not care if they hurt their friends, family members, loved ones, etc?

i guess i shouldnt let people's behavior surprise me but it does. I would NEVER in my life deliberately hurt someone and it seems lately that i see more and more of people around me who have no consideration for how others might feel.

then those people want to ask, "oh is something wrong?"
ARE YOU SERIOUS??????

I dunno maybe if people stopped caring so much about themselves all the damn time they might stop and smell the roses and see that other people have feelings, have hearts, and that they deserve to be respected... Just a thought.

Yes we should love ourselves but damn everyone these days seems to be taking that to the next step. what happened to "LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF" ??????

guess a lot of people were never taught that......

Kids say the funniest stuff

Kids are so funny, lets face it. My friend at work and i were having lunch today and talking about our weekends and she was telling me how while visiting her sick grandma she got to see lots of her cousins and her cousin's children.

Gosh she was cracking me up with stories of her 3 year old cousin who seems to think she runs the planet.... haha
She asked her dad for lemonade and his response was, " no its too late for something sweet you can have water or milk"
the little girl responds, " no no i said i want lemonade"
and the dad repeats himself and she says, " no no i said i want lemonade daddy" (as if he didnt hear her) and he says his answer again and she responds " daddy thats not your decision"

hahaha little diva. well then apparently she was at the park and the little girl isnt potty trained and told her mom that she needed to go but kept playing. the play ground had a little airplane as part of the play ground and the little girl goes and plays and comes back and is like " mommy i peed in the airplane!" hahaha
the mom was like " omg you are in so much trouble get down here"
and she responds " no i'm not"

apparently there was another little cousin who decided to go play in the airplane and was like, "hey mom there is water in here"

needless to say the littke girl escaped dry and the little boy was covered in "water" SICK!!!

then apparently at the store the little girl was sittin gin the basket and wanted out and when her mom told her no she said " mom i am not a child!"
hahaha

i dunno little kids CRACK ME UP. i watch home videos of myself and the stories my parents tell me i am like man i was a riot!

my favorite... at 4 and a half i'm with my mom and brother and my mom couldnt get the door to our rental house open. if any of you know my parents you know they dont utter a bad word EVER! so my mom is fumbling the keys and getting flustered and i put my hands on my hips, stomp my foot ( something i did alot as a child apparently) and yelled DAMNIT!!!!
my mom looked at me with that look she still gives me ( i still say a lot of things that shock her... big surprise... somethings never change haha) and she says " Emily ( full name) where did you learn that word?" ( cus it obviously wasnt from her...) and i said " well momma vikki says it all the time on one life to live"

omg adorable if i say so myself. its like that little girl on youtube who goes on and on about the monster who's ass she is gonna kick and she has no idea what she is saying. lol

funny kids. haha

BLESSINGS IN DIGUISE- thanks!

So this weekend was Halloween and my best friend Dooley came into town to visit me. She needed an Emily fix in her life hehehe

We had a blast and met up with some friends in Sugarland for some martinis Friday and Saturday we shopped, went running in the park, got ready for halloween, visited some old friends and then celebrated with some new friends and had a yummy brunch the next day.

So I learned alot this weekend about myself and how life works in funny ways. I'm not gonna be very specific as I dont think the whole world needs to know my business ( learned that blogging lesson years ago...) but as generic as possibly can and then maybe someone else can relate it to something they are going through.

Sometimes we lose people we love through odd circumstances. Friends, family members, exes, coworkers, whomever and it hurts when you have a bond with someone and for whatever reason that bond becomes broken. There was a time when i used to avoid doing particular things in fear i could run into some of these broken bonds, however in the last few months i've found this love for myself that i dont care if i see these people. In fact i would love to and hope we can be civil or exchange a smile or something. I learned this weekend that while i'm strong enough for that and that i can put past bonds behind me, that people's behavior still surprises me. People you've known as far back as you can remember can surprise you in the biggest ways. Despite that surprise... I'm ok. In fact I'm fine with it and I can say my life has never been happier... Sometimes we have to loose something to gain something and that is a HUGE blessing.......

In fact Halloween night i am having a blast and my purse was stolen. I'm super mad i lost my new camera in there with my pictures from the entire weekend, that night in my costume, my friends, my dog, my airbrush tan photos. i feel like my privacy has been super invaded. my friends were surprised at my behavior as i was so angry since i never get angry lol i was saying all kinds of profane things and just mad. I mean who wouldnt be ya know? However, its ok. I cant replace those memories which sucks, but I still had my friends, my health, my life... its ok.

Now it was a big hassle to call and cancel my cards, call my office and tell them my phone was stolen blah blah. I didnt know how i was gonna pay for stuff when i had to wait for my new cards to come in. I figured i was going to have to write checks with my passport. Well i was looking for my account info and i found two credit cards that i keep just to have a good credit score but i never use them. SCORE. there was a reason i kept them tucked away. Then i had been looking for my SS card for awhile and i found it last week and you HAVE to have it for a new license.

OMG little blessings and things you dont think about and dont appreciate until it happens. we dont see how God works in little ways along the way until we need them right them and you're like " hahaha God I got it. thanks!" SO anyways, i realized any and every little thing we do can be a huge blessing and that the people who come and go in life are blessings too even before during and after that bond is gone. The bonds that last are just that more special. I have great people in my life that lift me up everyday, make me smile, make me think and make me do my favorite thing... LAUGH. HAHA even if its at myself. Thanks to those awesome friends i have :)

Getting Old

So while I know i am young and all this jazz as my parents and people older than me say... HOLY CRAP WHERE DID TIME GO?

Last night my best friend and i were eating dinner with my dad and stepmom and i made some comment like, "omg i am gonna be 25 here soon" and my dad and sm said " you're young wait til you get to 35 then the years really fly by!" what the hell?? time already does fly by. shoot yesterday i was 4 and i was Jem from Jem and the rockers for Halloween. Today I'm 24 and gonna be in some tiny costume i probably fit into when i was 4 as well. aye ya ya.

so last night it was about 11 and my friends and i are finishing up some martinis and i could have sworn it was like 2 am. i was like holy crap i am tired. then we looked at the time and WOWSERS it was early. i'm usually bouncing off the walls at that time during the week ( usually cus i just worked out a few hours before). SO my best friend and i came home and talked, tried on our costumes blah blah about 1 went to sleep and when did i wake up. 8 am!! i tried real hard to go back to bed but i cant. corporate life has kept me from sleeping in. granted its a beautiful day so i am ok with enjoying the sun come in my windows but goodness... i used to be "sleeping beauty"
So another conversation with the parentals came up last night and that was dressing up for Halloween and Michelle said that one of her friends has said " oh i'm too old to dress up" what kind of hogwash is that? i think i will dress up forever. obviously as i get older and have children the tiny costumes will switch to probably funny iconic costumes, but shoot dressing us for Halloween is like something i look forward too every year.

It makes me miss college actually. in college there would always be like 5 Halloween parties stretched between the weekend before and the weekend after halloween and i never liked wearing the same thing to a party so i would be 4-5 different things.... what a blast.

so my dad wants michelle and i to try and help the church carnival today, which we might, however costumes not included cus well its church and you should be covered up at church i believe, but.... they are working the cookie booth to help little kids decorate cookies. now typically i would be like oh heck ya i am gonna eat a load of cookies. when they told me they had 500 cookies i about puked. Stuff like that, that gave me so much joy as a kid and even a year or so ago make me sick... too sweet i cant handle it anymore. my response was " cant i just work the bouncy house and jump around in there and smack around some kids who are mean to the tiny kids. you know regulate?" my dad said, " well thats the singles dept to do that" and i said," well dad i'm single hello!" and he said, " well the director of that dept is old enough to be my mother so what does that tell you about the singles dept" haha OLD LADIES NEED LOVE TOO DAD.. and i'm right there behind her shoot.

lol i hope this plan to go on a trip when i turn 25 works out... right morgan? :)

Throwing Copper Airbrush Tan

So i got painted... completely painted.....

I subscribe to something called Houston Tidbits. Almost every day they email me about some cool new place to eat/shop/checkout/ etc. now some of the stuff is kinda of your typical thing a rich housewife would do or buy so i just kind of laugh. however they have cool parties and give out all kinds of free stuff. For instance my $75 leather flipflops i got for free for going to one of their cocktail parties... not bad

Tidbits has several cities they have info on (houston/austin/san antonio/ new orleans). you can check them out at http://gotidbits.com/

Well one day i got an email that this airbrush tan salon was having a party and if you went you would get a 50% off coupon. I'd been researching airbrush tan cus I wanted to get it done before my upcoming trip to Central America so i didnt look so completely white, so when i got this i was like heck ya! Well i couldnt make their party but they had a little note that if you couldnt make it to their party that if you mentioned the ad you got 20% off.

The place is a small little boutique that 2 best friends run. Its in a salon in Chealsea's Market. Their company is called Throwing Copper and its inside the Blue Mambo Salon. I read all about them on their website, their pricing, their solution, their reviews, preperation blah blah and i booked my appointment.

I decided i would do my trail run halloween weekend so my costume looked better and so i could know how it will look.

My appointment was at 8 last night and i was nervous cus it was raining and i knew after i got airbrushed i wouldnt be able to get wet. Fortunately the rain stopped in time for me to get there and to get home. although the girl who airbrushed me drove my car under the porch for me so i wouldnt have to run under the dripping tree... NOW THATS SERVICE HAHA

So i got there and we talked about why i wanted the tan etc and i figured she would do the lightest color on me. Negative. I was super anxious and paranoid and afraid i would look like am umpa lumpa and have to call in sick to work today. she told me it would really look as if i had just really gotten a good tan.

so i took her word for it and disrobed. I'm super modest and never really let anyone see me undressed. i mean my girlfriends or my mom or my aunt have seen me like down to my skivies when changing but i have never been comfortable baring it all unless its my doctor or something like that. Gosh my first waxing expereince i about died i felt so uncomfortable. I just did it and figured shoot she's probably seen it all no worries. i just tried not to think about it.

Well she sprays me all over and has me lift arms and legs in different ways to make sure its even, does my face, rubs down my fingernails and toe nails and pats me down with a powder in places that might get sticky ( knees, elbows, under arms etc). when she was done i stood in front of the mirror and was really suprised. i really liked it. i had a line from my thong that i could see the contrast and while it was definitely a huge contrast i wasnt orange or looking ridiculous.

Since i had 20% off i opted for a package to save me some money for my next time.

i got home and wouldnt let the dog come near my and i just sat on the floor and watched tv and kept getting up to look at it in the mirror. it was so weird. not used to seeing myself with a tan!!

i washed it off at about 130 this morning cus i had to let it soak in. looks great! i got to work today and the intern was like "wow you look tan"

i was like yeah i got painted and he was like " it looks really good"

if it didnt cost so much i would do it all the time. so if you want a good place to get airbrushed and avoid skin cancer check out http://www.throwingcopperhouston.com/

I'll try and post photos later...

Save the drama for yo mama

AYE! Why do some people thrive on making a big deal about EVERYTHING!!!!

I swear its like some people cant function or be happy unless they are freaking out on somebody or on something.

This week I noticed a mutual friend of a friend and I had listed as her status on facebook "just realized how much I can't stand hearing other people's opinions or advice when my heart and mind have already made their decision :/"

I sent it to our mutual friend saying man don't you hate when your friends come to you for advice and then complain to you about it because you tell them what they don't want to hear?

My friend got really upset. Apparently the two of them had a big talk about the situation and the comment " don't ask for my advice if you don't like what i have to say" came up so this status was like a big slap in the face.

Well little miss drama queen blew it out of proportion and wanted to know who said it why and then went and started to delete all their mutual friends on facebook ( me included haha)

Gosh its so retarded and fifth grade. I got an email from my friend apologizing for her doing this and i was like "dude i don't care i only accepted her request as a friend to be nice. i cant stand annoying dramatic people like that... i have no tolerance for that crap...

not the first time this girl has gotten all bajiggity about something retarded. even my friend said, " its like she has nothing better to do with her life than to start crap to give her something to do"

gosh i should blog about the time she got all crunk cus some guy she was totally infatuated with but wanted nothing to do with her flirted with me. i didn't even want the guy, i just talked to him cus we were at our friends bday party and i was being polite and she got all crazy on both of them... thats a whole other long story but who cares...

ugh. i think people like that thrive on drama cus then somehow they are receiving attention they wouldnt otherwise

Then whats with people who always want your advice when they did already make up their mind? don't ask for it if you don't want to hear the truth. its like you only want affirmation that you are doing the right thing and when you know you aren't you get pissed cus people tell you what you don't want to hear.

ok so that's my rant for the day. save the drama for you mama people. no one wants to hear it. life's too short to stress about crap you cant change....

Playdoh and body parts

So everyone and their grandma has played with playdoh at some parts in their life, shoot probably everyone has probably eaten playdoh out of curiousity sometime in their life...

My friend and i were talking the other day about how when we loose weight, we wish we could redistribute it where you want it so this was my thought.

How cool would it be if our skin, muscles, fat were like playdoh and what you didnt want you could just pinch off, roll it around, reshape it and stick it where you wanted in areas that needed some reinforment/enhancement...???

i think that would be amazing. granted i guess the terminology for this now is called plastic surgery but its too bad it just cant be our own tissue. And shoot if you feel you have too much in one area but dont want to stick it anywhere else you can put it back in the jar for another day or you can share your playdoh with someone else.

I think when i get to heaven i'm gonna ask God that and he's probably going to tell me something like this " Emily i did it so people like you would wonder and ask me this question and think about it, if your body was made of removable tissue what protection would you have from the elements, what sort of physics would playdoh provide that skin/muscle/fat etc do"

and i'll probably respond" well god you have a point but since you are capable of anything you could have made playdoh capabale of those things"

and then he'll probably say " always gotta come back with something huh. While this is true child i think that would be taking the easy road and the quick fix and if you had playdoh bodies like gumby you'd probably be thinking oh when i get to heaven i am gonna ask God why our bodies werent more rigid instead of mushy and moldy"

and then i'll probably say touche!

however, its a cool thought.

where the heck did dunk a roos go?

So if you are a child of the 80's or even the late 90's i'm sure you remember the oh so delicious Dunk a roo's. Graham cracker cookies with icing. I drool just thinking about them. While its probably been 10+ years since i had them. i can remember many elementary lunches getting every last bit of the freakin icing out of the tiny little cup.

My coworker who sits next to me and I were talking about the next happy hour our part of the office has to do and we suggested doing something to revisit our childhood. We made a list of things like pb and j sandwiches, fruit roll ups, little debbie snack cakes, gushers, capri suns, lunchables and several other iconic items from our childhood lunches. I of course mentioed Dunk-a-Roo's and the subject of WHERE THE HELL DID THEY GO? Came up.

I did a search and according to wikipedia they are a betty crocker product and still available in some Canadian and American stores. They mentioned Costco so i looked up the website and no dunk a roos at costco. i even searched Betty Crocker's website and didnt find it. The wiki article was from 2006 so a lot could have happened since then.

I went so far as to look on EBAY! when i found the image above there is some online grocery store that apparently has them. however, no telling how old the site is and it required authorization to be on the site and to purchase so i couldnt even play around.

Anybody seen some dunk a roo's????

I guess if i got desperate i could get icing and teddy grahams. the ironic part of the whole situation is if i had them i would probably eat one cookie and feel sick. I cant even eat junk food anymore without wanting to throw up. my body isnt used to it. So if we follow through with our happy hour idea it will be fun but I may not enjoy it as much as i think i will. The fun part is the planning part of it.

now they have these nabisco cookie sticks with icing which i bet are not the same. ugh!

Love Actually...Austin

So I spent the weekend up in Austin this weekend visiting a friend and we did alot, so many funny things happened ( as always) and I learned and realized a few things ( as always)

Instead of making this several different blogs I decided to keep them in one but just subtitle them. Read a part, or all I don't care, but who knows you might find it insightful and I guarantee a bit amusing.....

Austin: Why I went.....
One of my best friends has lived back and forth between Austin and San Antonio for years. I havent seen her since i moved back to Houston and well this weekend was very important to her. In addition to being the weekend before her 23rd birthday, it was the weekend of a charity run of someone very important to her :

You see my dear friend Morgan was somewhat interested/seeing this guy named Justin over the summer. Like we have all experienced, they had a great connection and somehow along the lines something just messed it up and it didnt work, however, she never stopped thinking about him.

Well a couple of months after they had last spoken, Justin was in a horrible accident. You see after leaving with some friends one night, he thought he would take a shortcut home and ended up falling into a creek 20 feet and knocking himself unconscious. His friends found him the next day laying there. He has been in and out of a coma ever since.

Morgan was in Hawaii the day it happened. One of his coworkers went to her work several times to tell her but of course she was gone for awhile. She found out shortly after she returned and it all made sense as to why the whole time she was in Hawaii she couldnt stop thinking about him.

Well Justin was a big time runner in Austin. He participated in many marathons and worked at the Runtex store in Austin. This weekend they had a big run for him and his family to help raise money for his treatment. To read more about his story and his progress go here

Morgan really wanted to participate and I told her if she really wanted to go i would come up and run the event with her...

What we did....
I got up to Austin Saturday afternoon and we immediately went and ate at my favorite place... Wahoo's Fish Taco. Now if you ever go to Austin I say GO! I was so surprised Morgan had never been. Its a total surfer/skater place and I LOVE IT. The vibe is totally what i'm into, laid back, fun, humorous even and of course in addition to the food being awesome... there are always good looking boys there... you know the ones my mom hates that i like. punky, likes to wear vans/chucks, has his own style, might have a mohawk,/shaggy/colored hair, might have a piercing/tattoo, and lives for adreneline. Yeah... those
So we had lunch at wahoos and had a really funny encounter which i'll put in the "funny stuff" section of this blog. Afterwards we walked all over Austin. We walked to Runtex and ran into one of Justin's coworkers who told Morgan about his condition and how he would take her to visit him if she wanted. The whole conversation was hard for her I could tell, but i think seeing him will make her feel better about the ordeal.
Afterwards we walked really far down south on congress and shopped in different stores and went in this costume store that was the most claustraphobic thing i had ever been in. Morgan laughed at me cus I said, " this may be my design background and my education speaking, but this place is SOO not up to code or handicap accessible!!!"
We lingered around there for a bit and a few other stores and walked back into town and went to the Belmont and enjoyed some martinis and appetizers. My first experience with St Germaine Liquor and it was nice. I forgot the name of the martini i had, but that was in it and it was delish!!
After that we went home to be lazy and to determine if we wanted to meet up with some other friends for a night out. We did the whole girl thing and gave ourselves pedicures and watched a movie. We watched Love Actually which is by far one of the cutest movies ever... I'll digress about that later..

We opted to stay in and just girl talked and passed out. We woke up early and made our way to runtex for the run. It was really awesome to see that many people out there for Justin. His family seemed really sweet. We did the run and this little boy that was probably 5 ran ahead of me the whole time. he would not let me pass. it was INSANE. i was like omg we have a future Olympian right here! Shoot!
After the run we headed to Austin Java and had some breakfast on the patio and then just walked all throughout downtown to the capitol and back. it was such a beautiful day we decided to enjoy it. after that we just chilled at the apartment before i headed home.

Funny stuff...
OH MY. it started as soon as i got there. we went to wahoo's and as we are ordering the two boys behind the counter already try to kind of flirt with us and the only thing Morgan and I know how to do is laugh. So we sit down and order and one of them comes over with my tacos and is like " oh man where's your chips and guacamole?" I was like " i dunno you havent brought them" so then he is like " well do you still want them?" " umm yes please"
So he stands there and just stares with this glazed look on his face. Omg this kid was either so drunk or high i dunno but morgan and i just laughed so hard.

So he comes back later and is like " so how did you like it?" and morgan says " this is a fine establishment i plan to be back"
and somehow i thought i heard her ask if there was a shower in the back and i said that and the guy is like " yeah dude we got a shower?"
so i joked and said that morgan was moving in. so he stands there and says a few weird things and morgan just laughes at him and then she says " do you ever blink?" and he just stands there and looks at us and is like " uhh yeah" and he keeps staring at us. omg we laughed so hard. so he walks off and when we left he waved and yelled something. it was funny.

So then as we are walking through Austin we pass where she works and there is a group of like 20 guys out front posing for this picture. Coincedently morgan was wearing the same thing they were. A white shirt and jeans. So we walk by and you hear these boys "damn" " hey girl hey" and god knows what else and so one waves at us and i waved back just being stupid. Well morgan yells " hey nice outfit" and they started laughing and all 20 boys run over to us and are like " hey we are pledges for this fraternity and we are doing a scavenger hunt and all we need now is a picture of 2 girls making out"
so we laughed and we were like no, can we fake kiss or something and morgan is like " guys i work right here no way!!!" so one guy tells her " you kiss her cheek and i'll kiss you..." i was like "oh snap that sounds like a proposition" Unfortunately for those young college freshmen boys we kept walking... hahaha

several other funny things happened, but those were the most funny

Love Actually...

This movie was so super cute. Guys too would love it. its really really funny. It touches on relationships around us whether its friendships, family members, co-workers, romance etc. All of the characters are interconnected somehow and you watch them go through trails and celebrations that happen in relationships.

What was interesting is how realistic the characters acted. they did things you do when you are hurt or angry or anxious and it didnt look contrived like a lot of hollywood movies do.

I could relate to just about each relationship in the movie ( except two or three but if i say it ruins parts of the movie)

The movie put a lot of perspective to me how some relationships in my life have played out, started, ended etc and it kinda makes you smile when you think back on them, no matter how they ended up...

one of my particular favorites was the little boy's crush...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6BrI8Jx3w&feature=related

I'm a firm believer in everyone is brought into our lives for a reason, even if that is to teach or something or for us to hurt. Because with hurt there is always healing and a lesson learned and usually a new strength formed from it...

Go watch this movie except dont watch it with little kids or your parents cus well there are some funny and awkward nudie scenes that could be uncomfortable. haha

What I learned/realized this weekend...
I learned too much probably.... haha

1) i learned its great to have friends to share good and hard times with. My weekend with Morgan was so relaxed and carefree and yet we had some great talks about life, love, family, future etc. We've both had some losses over the years. Morgan lost her mom a year ago and what a wonderful person she was. I was blessed with knowing her throughout Morgan and I's friendship and saw their special relationship. I learned how special it is to see someone else;s relationship over the years as well as be there for them within your own relationship

2) love...romantic or not is a powerful thing. even infactuation is a powerful thing. we cant control it. the people we love we hold such high places in our hearts and have such an effect over the choices and decisions we make. Justin obviously had lots of people who loved and cared about him. its amazing to me to see support like he had. its like when you wonder to youself " when i die who will care? who will come to my funeral? how will i be remembered?"

Justin hopefully will get to see one day as he recovers just who does love him, how much and how he will be remembered. Now its sad that sometimes it takes tragedy to see or experience that. its quite remarkable.

3) there are so many people we meet in our lives that effect us or touch us in some way. i wish i could have the courage to tell several people in my life just what an impact they made. shoot i wish i had the courage to tell someone recently just how special and beautiful they made me feel and just how badly i needed that at the moment.

or others how they made me realize other strengths and weeaknesses of mine or not to take life too seriously or for granted...

4) i could probably go on about other little things i learned but lastly as morgan and i were driving down the highway with the windows down, sun in our face and screaming the words to "Dont stop.. believin.... hold on to that feelin...." That life is great!

Cheap Guys and date excuses

Ok so nothing in the recent has inspired this.... just a conversation with a coworker of mine sparked my desire to want to write this. One day I will write a book on the crazy dates I have had. the sad part is... i really have enough material for a best seller. The pediatrist obessesed with me is enough for a lifetime movie shoot!

Anyways so the girl i sit next to at work and i are always being silly and saying dumb excuses we would just love to give a guy for why we cant see them that night...

Like:
"Sorry i have to wash my hair"
"I have to relace my shoes"

and if you really wanted to get rid of them "I have to wax my back" BAHAHAHAHA

I had this guy in college who tried to take me out almost everyday. Mind you I had 3 jobs, a hectic school schedule and still tried to maintain some sort of social life ( i basically didnt sleep) and he said to me one day, " Gosh when are you not going to be so busy?"

I desperately wanted to respond, " um for you i will probably be busy the rest of my life...sorry!"
So our silly excuses (trust me we have lots more) brought up a conversation about how some boys/men have NO CLUE... either that or they are just retarded and/or cheap.....

I'm not gonna get specific cus you never know who might read this and while I am a blunt and honest person i dont want to hurt anyone's feelings.

So pet peeve of mine... guy invites you to dinner and a movie. Cool, fun times.... However, you get to dinner and its a sandwich place, think subway, wich wich etc... That sort of thing is fine with me. I love a good sandwich and i'm not high maintenance. However, dont invite me somewhere cheap and then you be cheap in the end. I am not the girl who orders food and then steps to the side and just waits for you to order and to pay. I can pay for my own stuff so after i order i am gonna take out my card to at least offer. To me, a polite gentlemen who invited me on a date would kindly say, " oh dont worry about it em i got it. i invited you"
Sadly enough this was not the case with a few guys i have encountered. Not even on a $3 whatachicken sandwich.
now if money was tight i understand, thats cool, however, when you know that money is not tight for that person.... you end up looking like a cheap jackass with no chivalry whatso ever.

It even extends beyond cheap food.... i wish i could be heartless and just tell specific incidences that would probably make most of you laugh and some of you cry cus you're THAT GUY!!!!

So boys... if you invite a girl out, no matter how cheap or how expensive. If you expect to go Dutch just say something. I'd like to think Chivalry is not dead however cheapo's like you are making it hard to believe in that dream.

I know a good deal when I see one!!!!

Anyone who knows me well knows I love a bargain... I hate paying full price for ANYTHING....


I love thrift stores. Ross and Marshalls make me happy. Craigslist is AWESOME and Sale signs at designer stores are the only way I will buy something from them etc...



Anyways, I started using this thing called Groupon. I have emailed it to just about everyone in my contact list if there is something good goin on. Each Day Groupon sends you an amazing deal. It could be $15 for $35 worth of food at a restaurant, or $50 for $100 worth of spa treatments at a spa. they have services like oil changes, sailing lessons, theater tickets.... its Great!!!!!



I recommend everyone join!!!



you can by going here: http://www.groupon.com/r/uu215352

Secondly, if you love to shop but hate digging through racks or going to a billion stores or spending all your cash. Try this website... Shop it to me

http://www.shopittome.com/?refID=salemail

It lets you choose the brands/stores and size and you can select how often they email you about sales... whether its daily, weekly etc...

The Man downstairs... hooker or not?

Sometimes I feel that the guy below me could have his own TV show or his own blog about whatever shenanigans he gets into. Now I hate to make assumptions about someone but he makes it soooooooooooooooooo hard not too....

Anyways, my downstairs neighbor is a nice looking gay man, mid thirties I would assume, very friendly, flambouyant, always smiling and actually downright hilarious.... He has the funniest way of describing things its ridiculous.

Well he is supposidly an interior designer who works on his own and if you saw through his windows or was ever in his apt you would see his apt is like a replica of Versailles. Gold leafed everything and he's got crazy chandaliers and huge antiques. he's wallpapers and painted and gold leafed EVERYTHING. so for you guys who have been in my apartment... imagine it with red black and gold with lots of bling..... Super Guady

Anyways, the weird thing about him his is amount and timing of guests. My next door neighbor and I are always like what is going on down there. Now a few times I have heard a few things and had to turn my music up cus I am just like bleh don't want to hear that. This guy has over tons and tons of men.... at the weirdest of hours. Sometimes they are alone and sometimes they come in 2's and 3's. Sometimes I come home to find them sitting on our front porch waiting for him to come home. They dont have a car nearby and alot of times they have a backpack and are just chillin... waiting.

There was a particular incidence where he had these 2 guys in a white truck stay for several days and the weird thing about it was they would both go in the apartment and at night one of them would sleep in the truck. they kept coming in and out of the house for the guy in the truck to get a computer. So bizzare....

So i 've seen probably 20 different guys in and out of there in the year and a half i have lived there... maybe more and it makes me wonder if this guy is like a gay escort.....( which is funny cus i had a similar suspicion of my former neighbor in san antonio.... I have a facebook note about that... I'll post it at the end of this)

So yesterday I come home and I am headed out to Yoga and I went to take my puppy outside before I left. Well as i come down the stairs i hear the doorbell to his apartment go off as I open the door to the front of our house. Well there stands the dude who had been waiting on our porch the day before with a backpack and my neighbor says, " ohhh heeyyy!! I wasnt expecting you today... my client is here"

So they walk.... wait let me back up........

When i came home yesterday I opened the front door to the house and the whole building reaked of cheap mens cologne. I thought i was gonna vomit. It date rape has a smell that was it and I was like "dear god if my dog is dead from this smell when i get upstairs I know who I am going after....."

I digress... So they walk back inside and I'm just enjoying the outside with my dog when all of a sudden backpack boy comes running outside. 5 seconds later my neighbor comes out of the house yelling, " JD!! JD!! JD!!! Come back!!!" and then looks at me and is like, "Where did he go?!?!"

I was like, " he just ran down the street"

So my neighbor kind of frolics across the street yelling his name and then I guess realizes its not worth it and goes back inside. I left for Yoga about 10 minutes later so if there was a climatic ending to the story.... I missed it. Darn

Anyways, Hookers do exsit believe it or not... They kind of seem like a urban myth to me but THEY DO EXIST ALL AROUND US........

if you want proof... read my story from this January about my real encounter with a hooker

(copied from my facebook)
Hookers upstairs, next door... ahh hookers everywhere

Last night the craziest, funniest and most unlikely comversation was overheard last night, which i'll get too, but a little background story makes it even funnier.

In college i lived in a really nice apartment complex in San Antonio. During my four years there i lived in the same apartment and had various neighbors come and go. At one point my neighbor upstairs had me convinced she was a hooker. She was in her mid 30's. Decent looking ( she wore way to much make up and looked like she had been used over and over and over again), nice body, fake boobs, and a really n ice car. When she moved in she had a nice Acura, and quickly was driving a brand new Infiniti G35.

ANYWAYS... i noticed that she was always home during work hours and at night she made a ridiculous amount of noise. i would hear her stumble up and down the stairs at various times at night and in the morning because she was wasted. i watched her fall out of her car a few times she was so drunk. a few times she stumbled down the stairs early in the morning dressed like she was going somewhere to work but her glazed eyes said maybe she just had the munchies.

I started to think she was a hooker because every time she came home or was with someone it was a different guy. She was always home during the day so i figured hell this woman does not look like the brightest crayon in the box... i guess she has to work with what shes got. On top of that pretty regularly at the same time at night i would hear her having sex. it didn't help that i had a loft bed so my ear was pretty close to the ceiling. anyways, i did not just hear her get it on, it was the same thing EVERYTIME, like it was rehearsed or something.

A few times she made so much noise with her techno music or surround sound at 5:00am, 6:30am that i would have to go up there and ask her to turn it down and some random man would answer the door and say he is sorry all awhile she is running around in the background drunk as a skunk.

i came home from work one day to see an old man with hardly any teeth go to her door with flowers. i waited at my door to see if the old man would come down or go inside. he came down immediately, so at least her standards weren't that low.

One day she moved away to Austin. I really hope she wasnt a hooker... or a slut... maybe she is just a social drunk... lol right

SOOOOOO last night my boyfriend and i were watching a movie in my living room and he got up to go rinse off his dinner plate in the kitchen. he was gone awhile and i noticed he was pretty quiet that my curiousity was wondering what the heck he was doing. Right about the time i was gonna call his name he came in the living room and said,

Chris: babe did you hear that?

Emily: heat what?

Chris: seriously you did not hear that?

Emily: no i dont know what you are talking about

Chris: there is a hooker at the back door next door

Emily: no way!

So we both run into the kitchen and sit at my back door and listen to this girl talk on her cellphone to her friend Shelia ( i think... it was some s name). Well she is complaining how at "Vivan's house" these girls didnt like her and they spread rumors about her. But she is concerned about diseases and refuses to ride bare back like they do ( omq!!!!!!). This is just part of what we heard.

"well they are just jealous of me. once i get more reviews on that site i can charge more. i really feel like i am getting jipped here. I get paid $300 for that. Steve Allen ( I cant remember the names she said i am just making them up) has no problem seeing me for 300. bob white has no problem, hank thomas loves to see me for 300.... yeah well if i left him do this for that price now then he is always gonna want that price. I do the sensual massage ( yeah we know what that means) for $180 and the lollipop for $200 ( k i threw up in my mouth here). " She babbles a bit and then says, "well a put my ad out today on craigslist... i'm so desperate for money i have other ads for me to vaccuum houses. One guy wants to pay me $600 to film a ( i forgot what dirty word she used) video and i am thinking about doing it. I won't do that GFE sh*t ( whats that mean?) I keep getting asked but hell no............"

Omg she went on and on and on in more detail about what she did at "vivians house" and how these girls dont like her and how she has clients that love her and how much she charges. we turned the movie off... it was more entertaining listening to her. How she didnt hear me almost lose it laughing is beyond me. I'm just glad the sleasly guy next door is moving out!!!!!

Just funny how I went from thinking a hooker lived upstairs to one hanging out with the guy next door. THEY"RE everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!