Sorry if this offends you...

I apologize if you fall into any of these ahead of time.  I am sure there are plenty of things i say, do, wear or like that drive plenty of other people bonkers but a guy wearing white glasses today made me think of several trends i wish would just go away...

1) white or clear framed glasses.....  they just look silly and its always bald metro guys who wear them.  i do not understand...

2) the obsession with the royal wedding... ENOUGH  already!!! do you know how much of their tax payers money they are spending to pay for all that and how their economy is suffering ( like ours...) its just stupid!  It has taken over pressing news here recently.

3) Guys in girl jeans.... GROSS

4) hello kitty obsession.... i think hello kitty is cute and i do not think there is anything wrong with a grown woman having something hello kitty.  I do however think its retarded to cover your finger nails, wear all pink makeup and hello kitty jewelry all the time when you are over the age of 16.  If you have ever seen the show Married to Rock, one of the rock star's wives, was obsessed.  She wore hello kitty everything, her nails had hello kitty on it and she even decked out the bands bus in hello kitty everything.  I believe she dropped several thousand dollars on hello kitty crap... retarded...and obnoxious

5) grown women in daisy dukes.... i think no matter how nice your legs are, there comes a time when you just dont wear bootie shorts anymore.  You look like an 18 year old girl.  Plus lets face it, 9 times out of 10 the person wearing the short shorts, shouldnt be wearing shorts at all.  A 30 year old woman should not have her stuff hanging out while grocery shopping with her kids.... just sayin....

6) Ed Hardy and Affliction... when i was dating I had a requirement that any guy who wanted to go out with me could not wear any of this.  People of my generation probably understand.  There is a certain stereotype of men who wears these things and I did not want anything to do with that.  Now i joke that these are indicators of who the tool bags are.  So in away, its done us a favor, but its still tacky and just gross....

7) Reality TV stars being STARS.... i am guilty of helping this phenomena.... I hate shows like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom, but i watch them and anytime i see Teen Mom on a gossip magazine i read it right there or buy it.  Its pathetic i hate it, but why should a fat girl who teases her hair, speaks inproperly, wears revealing clothing, and drinks all night and just wants to hook up with guys make over 6 figures when i work my butt off everyday for the actual good of other people.  Its frustrating or maybe i am jealous that i cant get rich doing jack crap.

8) American Idol--- ENOUGH IS ENOUGH>>>>


Ok so since i just complained about a whole lot of things i wish would go away... some things I love and dont think i could ever get tired of.....


1) Vintage looking clothes and jewelry... lately i have really been into owl inspired things :

2) feathered headbands- i wear these ALL THE TIME.  SO PRETTY

3) ipads and apple products- cant wait to get my ipad in a few weeks



4) artist with talent and emotion behind their music... lately my favorite has been adele.  Arcade Fire is another band I have been enjoying lately.  If only all musicians wrote their own music that had some reason and emotion behind it...

5) Flats that dont hurt my feet- i love a good pair of heels, but by the time i get to my office my feet are covered in blisters and hurt so bad i want to cry.  those blisters take forever to heal and sometimes even scar my feet.  A cute pair of flats that can go dressy or casual is my favorite lifesaver.  Makes going on trips easy cus you can pack less shoes!!!!

Ok enough of my Rambles:  Have a good weekend!

Easter Cake balls headache

At Christmas a friend brought cake balls into my office....

I thought they were delicious....

During holidays I get a hankering to be Betty Crocker and I always get in over my head.  I decided to make cake balls.  Little did I know how time consuming and difficult they were to make!!!!
Wednesday night I made 2 cakes.  One was white with funfetti and the other was just a white cake.  If you have never had a cake ball or made them, once the cake is done, you have to break it into tiny crumbs and mix it with icing until its like playdough.  I used butter cream icing and pink vanilla icing.  I split my cakes in 2 so basically each cake had a batch with the two icings.  I let them sit over night in the fridge....
Thursday, I removed the playdough from the fridge and rolled them out and set them in the fridge.  I had gone to the store that day and bought all kinds of stuff to decorate and put them in.....
After an hour or so, I took a few out and put them into the first batch of vanilla coating.  The first 3 came out perfect!  i was so happy.  An online blog suggested keeping the coating in a bowl over a bowl of warm water on the stove so that the coating constantly stayed hot..... well after 3, my coating was scoreched and was basically like sand!

Fortunately, I had decided to buy a bag of pink coating at Michael's earlier that day.  it worked great, however, my cakeballs were not coming out pretty and smooth like the ones you buy.  Mine looked like little roses, they had texture and werent smooth whatso ever!

several hours later of dipping and freezing and being frustrated, i was out of coating and still had probably 100 cake balls that needed to be dipped!  *SIGH*

I spent an hour cleaning my kitchen and then passed out.

The next day i had to go back to the store and get more coating.  I opted for one chocolate and 2 vanilla in case it scorched again.

The chocolate was definitely smoother and my cake balls came out so much better, but after about half way, the chocolate got real hard.  i had it on low heat on the stove so it wouldnt over heat but too late.  it said not to thin it with anything but vegetable shortening.  well all i had was oil so i decided to try and it worked!  As long as my dipping stuff was warm it was thin and smooth.

When those were done i moved on to the vanilla and things were finally moving faster.  I saved a few extra cake balls for the end and threw in some yellow gel coloring and made a few yellow cake balls.

So i bought 6 small boxes to package them in and decided to make them all have the same components.  I decided to make white bunnies first.  This was the first bunny i made.  I had lots of sprinkles from a cookie kit i did as well, and was able to use them for the eyes and noses.  i used fondent to make bunny tails and ears...

  This little guy was too tall to fit in the box so i just made the balls a bunny.  I went and made white bunnies, brown and white bunnies, chicks, white flowers, yellow flowers and little pink and yellow easter baskets.  Then there were random additional cake balls. 

This was the final product

 All packaged up:

They were a big hit.  even though they werent perfectly round and smooth, everyone loved the decorations.  As frustrating as they were, decorating them was a ton of fun and everyone's reactions was well worth it.  I already started planning making more for next week for mother's day.  i'm thinking flowers out of a watering can....

oh and my easter baskets..... they loved them

Spring Time shenanigans

Well its almost Easter... my favorite holiday and i am super pumped!  In addition to it being Easter this weekend its also one of my best friend's weddings and I am maid of honor.  :) 
We've had a lot of fun with all the parties and planning since last year.  I meant to post pictures of all the party stuff we've done because i secertly wish i could be a party planner.  I love all the little details! Unfortunately i do not have very good photos of them.   For her shower we had a cute little candy bar with diamond rings on the tags (tiffany's rings of course). Her lingerie shower we had a cute clothes line with some paper bras and panties and some cute favors with tags that have lingerie on it.  Thanks to Ana (another bridesmaid) we had the cutest most delicious cupcakes at both parties....

With Easter coming up I cant help but want to cook and make cutsie little things.  I made huge easter baskets for my boyfriends niece and nephew last night.  I only put a few eggs with candy but they got a ton of toys.  For his nephew the basket is green with his name in green and cute little image.  Inside the basket he has a cute brown stuffed lamb, easter coloring book, water guns, a cool bouncy light up caterpillar in yellow, a lego set, dinosaur stickers , a cute brown journal with a giraffe on it.  For his niece its a big purple and pink basket with a white lamb, coloring book, a little girl barbie (barbie's baby sister) with bunny ears on ( it looks like his niece), nail polish and pedicure set, a pink journal with a monkey on it, dora the explorer stickers, and a pink version of the caterpillar in the other one.  I'll have to post pictures later.....

So the rest of the week i am planning on cooking some goodies for our families.  If you havent had a cake ball.  GO GET ONE NOW!  i am making different kind of cake balls.  I am a little nervous because I have never made them before so hopefully they come out well.  In addition I am decorating some easter cookies for everyone.  I'm gonna be busy but its going to be worth it.

I'll post about my cake ball experience later. 

For now.  Happy Easter

Make money while you stuff your face!

Well I havent blogged in awhile.  1) I do not really have the time to 2) when I have the time I dont want to or cannot think of anything I care to share.

HOWEVER, I have recently discovered something so exciting I could wet my pants I'm so excited!  Ok maybe that is an exaggeration but I'm super pumped.  Those close to me know i sign up for all kinds of stuff for free stuff.  I get points for miles, points and money for clicking paid emails, money for using certain website coupons... While its not much money, it slowly adds up and is some nice fun money to go shopping or store away some day.

I was in the elevator of my office and there was an ad for a daily resturant deal.  So I went back to my desk and looked it up to see at the bottom a link for a rewards program.  I clicked on it and immediately got excited.  I found a website called IDine.  They are part of a reward network.  How it works, is there is a long list of restaurants ( you search by city or zipcode or name) and find tons of restaurants that participate.  You register up to 5 debit or credit cards and anytime you eat at one of those restaurants it sends you a 20 second survey, you fill it out and you get 5% back from your TOTAL  bill.  I was excited because several places I dine at were on there.  Well then i got even MORE EXCITED!   i noticed that the 3 healthy premade food places we buy all of our groceries was on there!!!  Real Meals 365, Myfitfoods, and Trumeals in addition to all the other places i sometimes go to.  Since we no longer frequent the grocery store, these places get a nice little bit from me every month so why not get 5% back!  IT GETS BETTER!  Once you've spent $250 total on the program they bump you up to 10% back and $750 you get 15% back.  They keep your earnings until it reaches $20 bucks and at the end of the month send you American Express Cards in the increments of $20. 

So basically replacing my groceries at Realmeals 365 in 2 weeks has put me in the 10% category.  Real meals offers an option where if you spend $500 prepaid they give you 10% off everything.  So if i went in to real meals (lets assume at this point i am a 15% receiver) and i decide to buy the $500 prepaid.  That month i would get $75 back from IDine and then everytime i went in i would get 10% off or basically $50 worth of food.  So thats $125!!!!

Anyways, I suggest checking it out, even if you only earn a few bucks on a month doing it it cant hurt.  or if you like to travel, you can do the other dining reward program which gives you miles for dollars.  i tried registering for both but it caught me and you cant have the same card in 2 programs.  DARN!

Anyways, check it out. http://www.idine.com/

A day of Love

Once a year we celebrate Love.  Typically its between couples, but to me Valentine's Day is so much more than that.  While I am very excited that my boyfriend and I are celebrating a special Valentine's this year, I'm actually going to blog about something other than mushy ooyy gooey romantic love.  While i could blog about my honey bunny all day i'll spare you my cheesiness.  Love you michael!

Instead, i wanted to blog today about other love in our lives and how it impacts us.    With my grandmother's birthday being a few days after Valentine's Day i wanted to  dedicate this to her!

My grandparents on their wedding day

I was super bless to come from a family that had a lot of love in it.  When i say a lot i mean  ALOT!  My parents and grandparents were very loving, nurturing and affectionate people.  Every year on Valentine's Day both my parents would get me a little gift and a card and my grandmother (whom we called Meemom) would always send me a little goodie from her and my Pop. 

My Meemom and Pop were really the only grandparents I had, and let me tell you, they loved my brother and I more than 2 sets of grandparents could have loved us and for that we were truly blessed.  When my family moved from Alabama to Houston when I was in kindergarden, we soon found ourselves over 12 hours from my grandparents, which was very hard.  To make up for the lost time, my brother and I would go to Mississippi every summer for 2 weeks and stay with them.  Oh how i wish i could still do that.  Every night Meemom would take out all her bubble baths and let me pick the one i wanted to use that night.  She's tuck me in and lay in bed with me talking until i would fall asleep,  every night she'd say, " whats on menu for breakfast?"  Whatever I'd say she would have it ready for me when i'd wake up the next morning.  We'd spend the days in the sun room of her house sewing or watching soap operas.  We'd bake and she would teach me how to cook.  She'd arrange for my brother and I to swim at her neighbor's pool or to play with kids from her church.  She'd take me to the mall and we'd ride the merry go round over and over and she'd just smile and laugh!!  She'd play with my hair and dress me up to go visit her family members and friends.  She'd introduce my brother and I to the mayor of her town where he made us "honorary citizens".  She always made us feel so special and showered us with love and affection. 

Meemom with me and my brother the day I was born

I think as kids we love that and we appreciate it, but not til we're older that we understand that love and really appreciate or crave it even.

Meemom and I 2004

My grandfather passed away exactly a week after my high school graduation and exactly one month after my 18th birthday.  That was really tough on the whole family and even my grandparents circle of friends.  Pop was such a caring and generous man and anyone who ever met him knew that right away.  My grandfather's funeral was on my grandparents 54th wedding anniversary which to me was in a way super sweet.  My grandparents were so in love up until the day he died and even up until the day my grandmother died 6 years and one month later.  Little old men at her nursing home would hit on her and she's always come back with, " you could never come close to the man i was married too"

Meemom and my mom on her wedding day to my dad

I think we all wish and pray to fall in love to someone that lasts until we die and whats sad is that happens few and far between now.  When I think of love, happiness, and til death to us part, they are who come to mind to me.  i read an article from the Washington post today about a couple who are celebrating their 80th Valentine's Day together.  I just find that remarkable and beautiful. 

My grandmother won a trip once to the Bahamas through her job and unfortunately my grandfather was not able to go.  When she returned he said he missed her so much she better never go on a trip away without him again.  That was the first time in 30 something years of marriage they had been apart. 

I wish and pray everyone could have a love in their life like that.  A timeless everlasting love that  is all those things that we have been taught love is from 1 Corinthians.  I carry my grandparents love with me everyday.  I have a picture of their 50th wedding anniversary on my desk at work, a picture of them on their honeymoon on my desk at my apartment, and everyday i wear a gorgeous ring that my grandfather had designed for my grandmother.  every time i look at it i think of her.    Her wedding dress and shoes are in my closet, and i often find myself pinning one of her pins on my sweater before work.  it never fails that i can find something in all that i do that reminds me of her.  I started recording the old TV show "Amen" on my DVR and watch it almost every night and i still remember watching that with her when i was 5 and 6 years old and i can still remember all the parts that made her crack up.  Every time i go to a mall i think of her, especially if there is a merry go round. I could on all day about what makes me think of her and my grandfather, but my real point is in how we love each other. 

My grandparents at their 50th anniversary party

We have but one life, so we should love much and love deeply whether its our spouse, children, grandparents, best friends, aunts and uncles, cousins.... etc...  While being kind  to others is great, loving someone truly, deeply and unconditionally is the greatest gift.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day!  Tell someone you love them.

My brother and my grandparents.... our family full of love

my mom and my grandmother

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays everyone!
Its hard to believe 2010 is coming to an end already!  I feel like it was just Christmas not that long ago.  Its funny how Christmas still gets me all excited as if i was 5 again.  Something about Christmas, the meaning, the family time and all the food makes me really happy, giddy and anxious!

I'm extremely excited about this Christmas.  Its going to be a hectic one but I'm ready.  Its my first Christmas with my boyfriend in our new place.  We got all new decorations and our place just makes me smile whenever i see the tree all lit up!  I've come home a few times to see my boyfriend has been sneaky and gone out and bought and wrapped a ton of presents before i have gotten home which is always a nice surprise!  

our tree looks better when its lit up!  There are even more presents that need to be added under there thanks to a recent amazon order lol

Aside from this being our new place and giving each other gifts..... I'm excited cus this is my mom's first Christmas living back in Texas!!!  My uncle is coming to visit as well which is always nice.  Growing up we always made the long drive to mississippi and I always had fun cus my Grandparents were awesome, but being in a car that long and then having to drive around the state to see other relatives, visit and get back in the car was just a pain.  I'm excited to have BOTH my parents back in Houston!  In college i would spend Christmas eve with my dad and hop on a plane at the crack of dawn on Christmas.   It will be nice to wake up on Christmas in my own bed!  I'm also excited to spend the holidays with my boyfriends family!  I am really lucky to have a new extension of my family that is so sweet and loving and welcoming to me.  It will be fun to see the little kids get excited about their toys.  We dont have any little ones within my immediate family so I look forward to the nerf gun war and barbie time i will have with my boyfriends neice and nephew!

Its still weird to me not having my grandparents to celebrate Christmas with.  My Grandma's house was always decorated with her little villages and the stockings she made for my brother and i when we were babies, lots of food and 2 trees.  We'd go to the candlelight service every christmas eve and when we got home it was presents time!  My grandmother and i were both eager and ready to open presents when we got home.  we didnt waste any time.

I'm glad i have those memories and i take them with me every holiday and i look forward to all the new memories and traditions to come.

Anyways.... hope everyone has a great holiday with lots of love, joy, happiness and reflection on why we celebrate Christmas!

in the meantime i am going to enjoy all my favorite Christmas things like:

1) christmas cookies (particularly sugar with icing )

2) lots of other christmas snacks

3) christmas lights

4) ice skating ( we did the outdoor at discover green last week :))

5) christmas trees

6) Christmas themes like reindeer, snowmen, polar bears, penguins, etc

7) nativity scenes- i have the same one from an avon catalog my mom bought me when i was 8

8) Christmas cards!

9) wrapping presents

10) holiday movies

11) time with my family

12) hoiday parties

13) ginger bread houses

14) wishing it would snow on christmas

15) presents

16) oh and celebrating my doggies bday on the 21st.  happy bday skuttle!

End of year goal assessment

With the end of the year quickly approaching i thought i'd take a look at my goals for the beginning of the year to see how i did.  My life had some drastic changes towards the middle of the year that i had to reassess my reasons for some of my goals and what was REALLY  important.

So lets take a look....


1) Travel to at least one new domestic city and one new international city.


Well i got this done!  In February i went with a friend to New Orleans for  the first time and then during the summer with my boyfriend.  In May and June I went to Ft, Lauderdale, Miami, Key West, Nassau, and Cococay.  I also had a chance in August to go to a few small towns in Texas I had never been to!

2)Be more organized

I tell you what... Moving will get you organized if you let it.  I took the new stage in my life and moving to start a clean slate and only take the things i REALLY  needed.  its nice not having all that extra this and that.

3)Achieve my fitness goal of 15-20% Body fat

Well.... this is a big FAIL, which is ok.  I had to reassess what was important to me and why i was doing the things i was doing.  Do i want to be healthy? YES!  Do i want to be fit? YES! However, with the change in my life with a new person in it, moving, studying for a license exam and a million other things, the gym was not my number one priority.  At this point i still make an effort to take care of myself but do i need to be bikini model fit to be happy?  NO!  I think i got to a point where fitness and dieting were becoming a little overboard for me.  I loved the way i looked, i was happy with myself, but now that i'm at a different place.  I'd rather enjoy my time after work with my boyfriend in our new apartment and creating memories with him then spending 2-3 hours at the gym every night.  We like to run or go for walks together or workout at our apartment, but the vanity and obsession with being super duper skinny is not practical or worth it.  Being healthy and happy is more important.



4) Have no credit card debt

Well this is almost doneski.  we bought all new things for our place and with the help of selling our old things we just about paid for it all but had just a little bit that will be paid off by the end of the year.



5)Continue to grow my savings

Done :)



6) Visit friends i don't see often.

Well i got to go to Dallas in May for the Warrior Dash and I got to see Toneisha, Braden, Brandon and Kristin up there and Morgan came up as well.  Good times!  I would like to make a trip to San Antonio and possibly Florida next year!



7) Complete the warrior dash

Well the week before my 25th birthday Morgan and I completed the Dash.  Whoo hoo.  i think my boyfriend and i are going to do it together with some friends here in Houston in March of next year. 



8) try something/place totally new each month
If you read my blog you know that this has been done



9) Use coupons more often
I have been using coupons each week and have been on the mailing list of several coupon sites and deal sites which have been very helpful


10) Increase my mental recipes
Each week we try something new so this has been great.  It helps that my boyfriend cooks alot so its not all up to me


11) Not hold onto stuff i don't use
Well back to my organization comment.  I sold everything and started new so you can say that if anything was done this definitely was!


12) Learn how to use a sewing machine

havent even touched this one yet....


13)Become more involved with philantrophy

I did help in a feeding the homeless event with my stepmother and i donated my prom dresses to an organization that helps under privledges girls!


14) get my interior design license
Well i studied a ton and still waiting on my results.... cross your fingers!


15) begin to study for my personal training certification
This still intrigues me but I have so much on my plate that this isnt a priority anymore.

I think that 11/15 (assuming i passed the NCIDQ) isnt bad.  Its 12/15 if you assume i pay the Credit Card off by the end of the year.  I'm happy with that!  :)

Throw Back Halloween

Happy Belated Halloween!  I hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend.  The weather was gorgeous... how could you not!
This was the first year in my life i didnt get dressed up for halloween.  I was a little bummed as i LOVE  costumes.  Originally we were supposed to go to NOLA but there was some miscommunication with some friends and it didnt happen this year.  Thats ok because i had a GREAT  weekend!
We did not plan this AT ALL but it just so happened we had a "throw back" halloween weekend.  Since i did a lot of firsts this weekend consider this my October Reviews.....
It started with a nice dinner and Shrek the Musical at the Hobby Center, which that isnt throwback but it was fun.  Getting dolled up for that was i guess my Halloween!  I hadn tbeen to the Hobby Center in years and i loved it.  The show was precious.  I just love Shrek!
The next day though we ate at a little diner nearby (very 1950's in there), took a long walk and then  I made a cute cookie graveyard equipped with tombstones without names on it.  lol  afterwards we kept the 1950's thing goin and we drove way out and went to the Showboat Drive in Theater. For $5 a person you get to watch 2 movies.  Since my boyfriend has a Honda Element we folded the front seats flat to the backseats and made a big bed, brought a ton of snacks, got some pillows and blankets and watched the double feature.  SOOOO many people were there.  Most left after the first show though.  it was neat though.  people were in beds of trucks, had lawn chairs..... and not to mention the weather was PERFECT  for it.  I could do that every weekend.  you can talk and not worry about pissing off the people around you.  it was like movie meets camping.  I loved it!
On Halloween after some yummy breakfast tacos from a place nearby that i had wanted to check out, i had my first experience at the River Oaks Theater.  The last movie of the "Girl with the Dragon tatoo" series was released in America this weekend.  Its called " the girl who kicked the hornets nest"  It was good.  Definitely my least favorite of the trilogy, but it was good.  just not the action and suspense like the others.  I really enjoyed the 1950's old fashioned theater though.  especially because it was clean and there were not any kids!!!!
Well that was the highlights of the weekend and the new places i checked out.  i wont bore you with the tv shows we watched and tales of running errands.  LOL

Things that make me smile....

I'm blessed to have the world's greatest boyfriend who makes me smile and sometimes laugh so hard i cry.  we just have too much fun together.  Anyways, my sweetheart inspired todays blog.  While he makes me smile, a text message he sent me today inspired me to post some other images of things that make me smile.  he sent me this picture of this dog today.. the dogs name is calvin.... so cute

is that not adorable?  i think his name should be tigger, but calvin works even though it should be hobbes!
anyways, these made me smile today so i thought i'd share....

and then my own little man.....  i could have a whole website with the million on pics i have of him!!!

my current loathe list!!!! argh

I am in a mood.... and i feel bad for anyone in my way.  I am sure any girl can relate to having one of these days where we can just flip a switch from Snow White to Cruela Deville in 2 seconds.  Thats me today.  hi!
I'm sure if it wasnt for the fact that I have PMS and the pimples to prove it right now i'd still be in a mood... Here's why (some of these you may not get):

1) 3 weeks ago, my phone went swimming in my handbag because i put a waterbottle in my bag to free up my hand so i could carry a big stainless steel garbage can to the cash register for my new place.  SO.. I finally replaced it this weekend.  I dont need another phone since my company pays for one but i like a little seperation between business and pleasure.  so i wanted to just get a prepaid phone since i really do not use it.  well sprint doesnt allow you to take your number over to prepaid.  OK FINE... anyways so i get a new phone.  its cute, i like it.  I get home and started putting numbers in it and showing michael my new toy and well while it works.... anyone who calls me shows up as  "no id" and my voicemail is shut off.....  I finally got an answer today and apparently the dude who "helped" me turned off  ALL my services when he changed my phone.  thats been a week long headache!

2) i have more pimples on my face at 25 years old than i did all through highschool added up.  whats up with that.  I probably take better care of my face now than EVER  and now i want to get pimples.  and not just pimples, but one on the dimple right between your upper lip and the middle of your nose, one in the middle of my chin and a huge one on my cheek and one huge right next to the corner of my mouth.  UGH.  being a girl sucks sometimes....

3) all you other design friends of mine can probably relate.... but SKETCHUP.  omg.  my file is huge and the littlest thing it just sits there and thinks and processes the fact that its about to blow my computer up....  its taking years to move things i swear.  argh

on the flip side..... there are a few things that are keeping me smiling at the moment
1) my boo.... he puts up with me and is such a doll.  you know what they say, behind every good man is a good woman.... well it might be the flip side for us.  he's the best!!  oh how i love him.
2) we're going to see Shrek the musical next week and the dynamo game this weekend! whoo hoo
3) my new apt.... its so cute.  i just love it
4) call me a big chic for this one, but my new handbag.  thank you chirp machine.  Check it out.  http://www.chirpchic.com/.  designer vending machines at the grocery store with ridiculously affordable prices. 
5) my family and friends.  i love you guys....


 NOW IF MY PHONE AND SKETCHUP WOULD JUST COOPERATE I MIGHT NOT HAVE PIMPLES AND THEN I MIGHT NOT WANT TO GO OFFICE SPACE ON MY COMPUTER!!!!!  :)

the cliffnotes version

Well... i TECHNICALLY could have a lot to write about since my life has been a million miles a minute and i could easily have a handful of blogs documenting ALL  of those things but why not sum it up for a change instead of the typical Emily rambling on and on......

MOVING- i moved from midtown to the heights area and boy do i LOVE  the heights!  such a cute area.  i feel much safer and we love our apartment.... so does the dog!  it just took forever to get out of one apartment into the other and rid of the place.  i guess thats what happens when you find a good deal you do what you gotta do!   i had my walk through of my old place yesterday.  bittersweet, but boy am i happy!  my new place has the biggest most modern kitchen, a washer and dryer ( boy did i take that for granted in college), a walk in closet (took that for granted too!) and a massive bathroom ( yep it too).  vintage apartment life was fun and it was cute but man is the new place 1000x better!

CRAIGSLIST-  i have a love hate with craigslist.  I love that i made $2000 selling my stuff to buy all new stuff, but i hate the hassle of reposting things over and over.  i did it for over a month.  had numerous garage sales where 20 ppl tell me they are coming and don't show.  People try and haggle to basically GIVE  your stuff away.  ugh such a pain in my butt.  finally last thursday a single mom of 3 came by with her boys and went through all i had and gave me $50 for what was left.  Had i sold the things she took at the garage sales like people had requested those items. it would have been HUNDREDS  of dollars!  she took everything basically, but it was just going to be donated the next day so better than nothing and we helped her out.

NCIDQ- i took my interior design license exams a few weeks back.  hardest thing i've ever taken.  i have to wait 14 weeks before i know!  argh!!!!!!!!

FURNITURE SHOPPING- we have done some massive furniture shopping for our new place.  it has been hard and time consuming finding things i like.  then when we do,we have the biggest issue with customer service, delivery people.  ugh its been a hassle.   our bedroom set was to be delivered last night and well long story but it didnt.  i was a fan of highfashion home store before.... not so much anymore.

MY MOM MOVED BACK- yep thats right she moved back to a cute new house on the other side of town so now we get to do girl stuff a lot.  sadly enough, her dog died right before she moved :(  the whole family has been pretty torn up about it.  i cannot even imagine if something happened to my puppy.  oh how we fall in love with our pets!

well i got more going on but thats the big things.  i'm really just losing my desire and the time to blog.... anybody else have that problem????