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... Is this thing still on? Oh yeah hey there blog world that I like to disappear from like all the time.

We are packing right now getting ready to move out of our rental home of three years and back into an apartment because its simpler and easier. And it will have a dishwasher. You don't know how much you miss an appliance until your husband is bitching daily about washing dishes ;) It is an accumulation of three years worth of crap okay not all crap but still it's a lot of stuff.

Life has been good a new job I have been here at company y for about hmmm 3 months now and it's good stuff I work with good people. It's a challenge knowledge wise but it really what I had been missing since leaving company x.

We are dealing with the progression of my grandpas Alzheimer's preparing our self with what's to come. He doesn't eat much anymore and his memory is to the point where my mom and dad don't think it's best for me to go alone anymore since it will upset me. I just keep my mind on the memories where he knew us and he was healthy.

I have to get back to this madness of packing. Hopefully with the ap on my phone ill be blogging more often xo..

can my brother read my mind?

or just my blog...

I really think its the second. today my brother called family and had us all over for a non thanksgiving thanksgiving meal, mexican food woot woot.
We laughed we ate we laughed we ate some more. and now I am in a semi food coma. My favorite past time as of the last few months has been sitting with my nephew who is a kindergardener as he tells me how much he loves school. I asked him baby what are you going to be when you grow up and he told me "I am going to be a scientist" i asked him what kind of scientist and his response "The kind that does science stuff." I can handle that. We sat outside and told secrets "pshphsyshshshsh." It was awesome and it was completely what I needed to make up for this past week.

This morning was different though I went with my hubby and his airsoft team to go cheer them on as they played a friendly game of attack and defend in La Vernia. Nothing like seeing some boys and our very own Julie with their guns getting all ready for a battle! It was really cool to finally see what this was all about and why they are so excited for it!

I am almost completely heeled up to go back to training again. Thank god I already miss running and its just only been 1 week of no running. My goal for these next two weeks is to steady my pace to hold at 10 mins. Weak sauce I know but I am a chubby girl with asthma so 10 mins is the current baby step I am going to be aiming for. And HA i got a package in the mail the other day and it was a running shoe which I apparently left in the guest bedroom of the Hubs aunts house. I own too many shoes when I dont notice I am missing a single sneaker.

Post Thanksgiving Real Talk

For Starters, I am not following any sort of mantra format on this blog anymore. I miss just plain ole blogging , if I wanna do an outfit of the day I will a beauty thing I will if I upset I will vent, if I am happy I will rejoice. I am going old school style back into the time where cam girls ruled and live journal was the place to blog ;). You will see my nails alot and simply because I like my nails painting pretty colors and showing them off.


Thanksgiving in my least favorite time of the year. I feel like my family has given up on making it special anymore. I love my family dont misunderstand that. But ever since my grandma passed away ( which was the day after thanksgiving one year) everyone has just given up. Gone are the days of bringing out the good china and a nice table clothe and everyone being there by 330 to eat dinner we ate together and we prayed together.   I know that we have to share family with in laws and this year my older brother was with his and every other year/holiday I am with my inlaws. But this year has been the worst year so far. We ate off paper plates and we didnt even wait for everyone to get to the table before we started eating.  Some of my family were even late because they were with colleages prior. I know that this time of year is not a picnic for anyone especially my mom. I just wish that everyone rather than groan that I am making a big deal out of the importance of the holiday to be happy, would stop and remember that my grandma would not be having it with the way things are lately

Why not have it at your house then and you can quit yer bitchen.... I have tried this. I was told my house is too small there was nothing to do for the kids and that I was being pretentious and making abig deal out of a holiday. I just dont know what do anymore... I just know that thanksgiving makes me really sad now.

a haul and self annoyance

I survived the adventure of my parents anniversary party and it was awesome. I am really really glad I hired a photographer to come out even if wasnt anything extraordinarily fancy, it was my family being goofy and being together.

I went to walgreens today and got some summer polishes, for base colors and nail art.

wet n wild megalast:on a trip, i need a refresh-mint//
wet n wild wild shine:french white creme//
sinful colors:pink, savage, irish green, neon melon

So I threw a base of the french white down and then painted my nails with the pink and the neon melon. it lasted 10 minutes my nails were so awesomely bright it hurt my eyes so bad. So i omited the white base and just used the neon melon and while its still really bright its without hurting my eyes.

I am pissed with myself I used to love blogging and all of a sudden I am making this a chore for me. I freak out if I dont have a post done, or a picture taken and thats not what this is for this is for me to be goofy and girly with others on. I am not a professional blogger I dont want to be one. I am a 27 year old married woman who likes nail polish and cooking way to much and copes with OCD.

on another note I am hungry as hell

Oh hey I am back

I had a fun filled weekend which means I did not take a picture of outfit 9 yikes but just invision it here with this... well i couldnt find a picture of it and its already in the wash..
On to the fun part...

We went and watched a football game! We finially got an arena team that they promote games for, so instead of viva fiesta we viva football-d instead. Even more awesome is my older brother let us take Maz. It was his first big sporting event aside from nieces games.

He sat the majority of the game in Mine or Jakes lap and he surely did eat a huge bag of popcorn all by himself. As well as a sprite a lemonade half of jakes water...... Oh and he loved him some cheerleader watching.  I was honestly a little nervous he is four and I wasnt too sure how well he was going to be able to stand sitting there for 2.5 hours. Pft what do I know he loved it.

So now hopefully we will get to steal him for the next game now that we know he likes it and now that he knows what color he is supposed to root for! 

best line of the night : Why are we the chickens Leslie?

our mascot is an eagle who honestly looks like a blue chicken

day 7

my day seven has no photo, because it was completely shot to hell last night when i was on my way to meet Jake for dessert at a local restaurant. I got out of my car and all of a sudden I was slammed into my car and someone was fighting me for my purse. I did the only thing I could think and I screamed ala horror movie style. I am very lucky that it got a security guards attention, since no one in the parking lot appeared to feel the need to inquire why someone was screaming.

I had an awesome post planned for last night but dkjfhd thats what i think of that.

I am back in the game today though no worries.

sometimes its not about sacrafice.

I still stand by that in this recession there are few things I will not give up and one will be nail polish. Its my selfish thing.  It doesnt feel like a job when I sit down and do my nails. I dont have to think about a single thing. This past vacation has been awesome I have been sitting down when ever the mood strikes me and have been working on little designs here and there. Its such a breather as work with company x and then our lil business really pick up at the end of the school year.

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Date night was last night and it was hilarious as we stayed in ate tacos and played little big planet for three hours yelling at each other blowing each other up and laughing non stop. It has been something we havent done in ages and ages, it was like we werent the married couple who is typically in a fun rut but more like boyfriend and girlfriend being super goofy.

STOP THE PRESSES... so while we are on vacation we have been eating our way across town in new resturants that we have never been to. Uh hello heaven, sexy,party in my mouth food. I swear we were on our way to five guys when I looked over read the sign Urban Taco Mondern Mexican Taqueria and told jake "omg what if they are ruining mexican food" and jake wanted to see for himself. I ate my words. Okay so for one its super pretty and I hate eating at places that are not like kept clean or people dont take pride in to make it look semi decent. The menu was a little intimidating for a second, I had to break out the spainish that I use uh pretty often to read it.  I had a quesadilla "De Bistek- arrachera steak, roasted red onions, roasted tomatoes, spinach, pico de gallo, queso fresco & crema" omgsbj! I am not a food blogger so I dont know the appropriate words to describe this other than go go go go go get some.

a lil about my weekend

I am kinda addicted to the discovery channel. I watch it excessively here at home and if I could I'd watch it at the fulltime job. Its like super soothing.
This weekend was my birthday, yes I got a whole weekend.
I went and kinda sorta spoiled my self with some essie polish, and shoes oh yeah and two pretty awesome michael kors bags that I stashed in layway at TJ MAXX. Which let me tell you I was in the dark about the fantabulous fact that TJ MAXX had layway. My lovely 'Dia organized a dinner for my birthday on saturday, and honestly when it comes down to your birthday you really see who you are friends with, and I now know where I stand with alot of people. and its okay because I dont want that kind of toxicity in my life. Then Sunday was spent with Boo during the day assisting her on a photoshoot, until I came home to uh YES YES YES YES breaking dawn and popcorn. Hubs rocks. and my special christmas gift ( i explain this later in this post) Gabriel Iglesias "im not fat... I'm fluffy" .

So lets get back to TJ MAXX right fast. Uh can we say I will have my bedroom and my guest bathroom and my office redone with lushness because I can pay half and half!!!!!  I dont know why I didnt think about doing this with even burlington already. Like seriously?? I always joke that just about the time we get settled into this house our lease will be up and this will be the time my landlord wants to sell our house and we will have to move. Yes I know we wouldnt have this issue if we bought our own house, we are on the long road to credit recovery because this is not a buyers market this is  banks market.  we have to get this shoe storage issue undercontrol with a wide mid-height bookshelf. OUr closet is litered with shoes and it would nice not to have them in on my desk and on my file cabinet.
For our bedroom, and looking to do deep emerald greens or navy blues. I saw this amazing side chair at an antique store that is tempting me. its actually got a emerald and navy paisley pattern on it. I would be so perfect to be in the corner of my bedroom. well at least with the vision I have. I just need to first see what I can find for bedding and curtains before I can commit to purchasing it.
I have a long long week ahead of me 20 hours of voluntary overtime. I need to keep my self busy while hubs is outta town on business. Yes I will have yet another solo holiday as this time he will be gone for Valentines day aka our christmas. :'( Since his bday is christmas we typically do  big gift giving on valentines day and wonk wonk not this year he will be leaving on a jet plane that morning.

evolution

as I have grown and aged, I have gone through many many friends and not because people or myself are bd friends but because both parties are finding their way and grooves through life. Over the last year I have been very very fortunate to have bond with three amazing women. During some of the toughest times of last year they have been right there for me, without an ounce of hesitation, and they have provided some of the best laughs ever.

My E, Dia, and Boo are priceless pieces of my life. I wouldn't trade them for the world.

I am sensitive.

and I mean that in all seriousness I put a huge front up alot of times about things not bothering me but to be honest it does ( except cattyness that only annoys me and I tend to show that). I was talking to my Nads who insist I need to utilize my friends when things are down for me emotionally. I hate doing that. When I go low, I go LOW, and little things bother me. really bad. I am in total refusal to be this overly emo blogger and I can not be co dependent on my friends to pull me out. Name nmes oh how I wish I could name names HOWEVER my parents and inlaws occassionally read this and I perfer not to offend.


boo

Lessons in Fried Chicken



I love cooking and everything about cooking. It makes me happy and I have said many times away from doing makeup it is my favorite thing in the world.

But this southern girl has a confession to make. I cant fry chicken. Hubs has been attempting to teach me for about oh five years now and I have only made it once successfully. So Saturday night I gather up everything I need to cook some delcious  fried chicken. From afar Hubs told me I looked like I meant business. He tells me that the food smells soooo good and I am think yes omg I have finially got this down. Chicken comes out of the pot ( we stove top fry) on to the paper towl and to just make sure I open each peice up. The outsides were gorgeous and the insides were raw as can be past the first lil bit of chicken meat. I was so damn confused. I have come to this revalation though maybe I am not meant to fry chicken maybe I am ment to just buy my boxes of bill millers and popeyes. I mean if I stopped buying from them then I wouldnt be stimulating the economy. Someone could loose their job due to the drop in revenue. This would be bigger than we know. ;)

Or I can just let hubs do it his always taste bomb.

I paint my nails in the most messy fashion ever so its a good thing I dont do reviews. I love the girls who do them though because let me tell you I dont buy polish without seeing a review first. I really like this lil combo here its china glaze trendsetter with cleopatra over it. I thought cleopatra was going to e a wee bit more glitter heavy but eh what can you do. Aside from add more glitter.  So I am sucking it up and buying a wall mounted rack to give my collection, Hubs would say hoarding, tomatoe tamale same thing, some order and get it out of the much priceless dresser drawers that I need for space for you know other crap that needs to be put away. I am pretty sure in our closet there is my work space I just need to begin excavating the room to find the desk and chair and desk top.





What a fantastic breathe of fresh air 2012 has been so far. Seriously! I raise my coffee mug in the air and say bring it on world because I am going to own this no matter what.  I launch my business's website in a few months after much blood sweat and tears designing the graphics for it and typing and retyping information on it. I am lucking out and not having to do any of the technical coding on it. Thank god for weebly.

I am on pins and needles for income tax now. Bring it on this is the first year we do not have to buy any furniture for the house which is such a huge expense typically but whoop whoop we are going to give ourselves 1000 yes 1000 each to go shopping so we have no excuse for wearing clothing that does not fit.  I am so excited hence the immediate reason for a shopping ban I should not need to get clothes after that.

xo's

Oh Happy day... Oh happy day

Today is a doll up day for myself I cant wait to get myself going and get my makeup on and share my face of the day. Luckily its a casual week for us at company X so I can go a smidge out there with my look today. I havent really done a face of the day here yet, or even seriously dolled myself up in a very long time and I think its time. I know its totally against the grain of what everyone preaches and many will say I am only spinning this ling because I am a MUA, but I am a firm believer in the power of makeup/hair/clothing has one your mood. If you are feeling frumpy you will dress frump and when you go against it you will turn yourself around. Its all part of the faking it until you make it. When I am down and out I will prance around my house in 4 inch purple suede J.Lo heels because it makes me feel like hot stuff and you know what after an it does work.

AHHHHH. Hubs comes home tonight hip hip horray! I have been cleaning house for five days before and after work and jebus I feel like I have barely scratched the surface and I dont want him to come home to a messy house because that can be just so discombobulating.

Is anyone breathing a sigh of relief that it is income tax season already? I know we are. We have a big trip to Disney we are planning and we are dying to get it booked already and then do soem serious bill paying and shopping. The life of a grown up when you no longer look forward to christmas but income tax instead.