Legally Blonde's Proceedings

I had lunch with Maddie and Gracie yesterday. I took the girls to lunch at The Purple Cow to celebrate Gracie's 9th birthday. Maddie had a loose tooth, and that got us talking about the Tooth Fairy. Gracie started telling me about all the teeth she has lost and one in particular. Apparently, she lost a tooth while they were visiting New York City. She told me that the Tooth Fairy left her $10 when she lost the tooth in NYC which is more than she has received when she lost other teeth. She said "I guess that is just what the Tooth Fairy leaves in NYC. You know things are more expensive there." Guess the Tooth Fairy factors in cost of living adjustments! Priceless!

ELATED, DELIGHTED, OVERJOYED, JUBILANT, ECSTATIC, EUPHORIC, BLISSFUL... This describes my current mood! Texas Tech has beaten #1Texas 39-33 If you didn't watch the game, then you missed one helluva good game! I don't think there is any feeling as good as beating Texas!!!!! Of course, I'm not delusional enough to think that we will be ranked #1 this week (even though Texas got to jump from #5 to #1 when they beat Oklahoma who was #1). Tech doesn't get all the love like Texas does, so I know that will never happen. We still have a tough row to hoe, Oklahoma State will be in Lubbock next Saturday, and then we still have Oklahoma coming up too. But I say, WRECK 'EM TECH!!!!!!!

My friend Suzanna sent me some pics of her little Trick-or-Treaters. Little Kate is enjoying her 1st Halloween with her cute & ginormous Halloween bow on her head. Below, Bennett is an adorable turtle.

I imagine the pictures of my little friends will just keep trickling in, and they are so cute I have to post them. Here is my friends Chris and Rachel's little cowboy, Weston. He just turned one.

So Happy Halloween from Lola & Me! Lola hates her witch hat, so she was moving around too fast to get clearly captured on film (and my battery died before I was able to shoot any better pictures)! This afternoon, Jennifer and I took Little Josh down to the square in McKinney for "Scare at the Square" to celebrate his first Halloween. Scare at the Square is one of the festivals that we have here in downtown McKinney that make me feel like I live in the fictional town of Stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls. All the merchants and restaurants give out candy and there is a train for the kids, etc. Below are some photos from our beautiful square on this fall day. The Old Courthouse anchors our square and is the hub for Halloween events. Below is Jennifer's little guy, Joshua. He was a spider, and was cute cute cute! Below is Lisa's little boy, Tommy and his little (half) brother Matt. Tommy was some character for the Star Wars Clone movie (that I'm unfamiliar with) a...

I went to the mall last night for a Junior League event at Pottery Barn. It was a 45 minute class on "How to Decorate your table for Thanksgiving". By going to this class, I am able to skip a 2 + hour general meeting. Talk about a no-brainer. I found the class pretty useless, and not just because I don't host Thanksgiving, but because I thought I could have done a better job decorating the table than the PB employee (she used some horrible dried sunflowers and a real mish-mash of plates). I'm sure you are wondering how this picture of the acorn fits into the story. Well, I arrived a little early and decided to run through Williams Sonoma. I found this little acorn potholder marked down to $5.99 (from $12). I have a lone pumpkin potholder and thought I could use this little acorn to go along with it for fall. I have included its picture because I think that it is just about the cutest thing I've seen in a while!

No, you didn't sleep for several days and miss Halloween! I was trying to be all Halloweeny with my blog background, but it was just driving me nuts! The way you could see jack-o-lanterns through my pictures... annoying! So this is why I have changed back to pink two days before Halloween.

My Red Raiders finally got their act together this weekend and had a big win against Kansas. Everyone was playing well and I was finally HAPPY with the way the played. They even started that walk on kicker that I blogged about several weeks ago. He hit every single extra point kick (and there were a lot). This coming Saturday is a big game. Tech vs. #1 Longhorns in Lubbock. ESPN has chosen Lubbock as their Game Day location and it will be on ABC at 7:00 for national coverage. The only other "big news" around here worth blogging about is a new computer monitor. Nothing was wrong with the old one except it was GINORMOUS! We got one of the skinny monitors and now have a ton more space for other junk.

I went to answer the phone today beside my chair in the living room and right beside the chair, sitting on one of the curtains, was the lizard. Of course, what was a bright green lizard the other day, was now a brown lizard because he was blending right into the curtain. Learning my lesson the other day with a too large trapping tool (trash can), I got a smaller lizard catcher (cup). It didn't quite work like clockwork, but the lizard eventually made its way to the kitchen and I was able to get him out the door. No more lizard living in my house (at least that I know of)!

I ran by TJ Maxx after class and wondered by the shoes. I saw a nice pair of brown suede dress shoes with a brass chain across the toe. They looked pretty nice, so I pulled them down. They were a size 10...so far so good. Then I saw that they were Coach, so I held my breath as I flipped them over to see the price... $24.99!!!!!!!!! Talk about the mis-marks of all time! Whoever was pricing those shoes totally put the wrong darn tag on there because they said "regular price $50" and you know those suckers were well over $175. What a steal they were AND I didn't have to do anything illegal (but I felt like I was committing a crime as I check out)! It was really my lucky day because they had my favorite Sara Beth jam that I have been out of forever and had been to cheap to order and have shipped from NYC.

I know that smoke detectors are suppose to save your life, but do you think they know their value therefore they do evil things to you just because they know that you can't get rid of them? I have about 10 of the darn things here at the house and every darn one of them starts to loose their battery power in the middle of the night! NEVER the daytime. Of course last night was no different. 2:55 a.m., the one right outside my bedroom started to chirp every 30 seconds to 1 minute. I think they are evil!

So my parents were nice enough to come down today for my birthday and take me to dinner. We went to Uncle Julio's and it was very yummy. My grandmother made me an Italian Cream Cake that is super fabulous too! But to back up to all the drama, I was driving us to dinner (in my Dad's big truck) and while stopped at the stop sign to get onto the frontage road up at Eldorado and 75 we were rear-ended (or ass holed as my Dad so eloquently put it!). It did some damage to the bumper and fender of Dad's truck. The old folks that hit us were in a Civic and it did some damage to the front of their car. Luckily nobody was hurt. Maddie and Gracie called to sing me Happy Birthday and bless their little hearts...they are under the impression that I'm 28 (Gracie) and 25 (Maddie)! I'll have to throw a little something extra in their Halloween cards! Of course, my Mom told me the same story that she always tells... how she went to the hospital in the early morning hours of October 2...

Okay, bear in mind that I'm crap with the scanner when viewing these images (which is why there are huge white spaces around the photos). The mere fact that you can view them should get me much more than a pat on the back! It was my 6th birthday party...I remember it like it was yesterday, not the 26 years ago that it actually was. My theme was Halloween that year. Here is me with my grandma opening up a present from my great-grandparents. As you can see in photo 1 here, I'm very perplexed by these brown hands that I have unwrapped! Then in Photo 2 (below), I have figured out that it is an ET costume that my great-grandmother made for me and I'm excited! Then in Photo 3 (below), I am standing with my cat Benji and modeling the full ET costume. Notice that super big pumpkin that my Great-granddad brought me that year!

The flush handle broke on one of the toilets today, so after a trip to Lowes, I replaced it. I had no real idea what I was doing, but managed to figure it out...so now I'm adding plumbing to my list of things I have tackled around the house. The lizard is still loose in the house, at least as far as I know. I haven't seen any evidence of a lizard murder laying around, so I assume Lola hasn't found him either!

I noticed a lizard was stuck between my fan blinds and the semi-circle window in the living room this afternoon. I went outside to look in and verify that yes, there was a big green lizard stuck there. I had to get out two different ladders, a trash can, a little broom and a dust pan to get the guy loose from behind the shades. Problem was, he fell into the trough at the top of the miniblinds. I finally got him out of there and he fell onto the floor. He was running back and forth and I finally lost him. I have no idea where he as gone, so at this point, I guess I'm going to have to call him a new Halloween decoration! P.S. Lola the great white hunter who usually loves to kill lizards couldn't be bothered to get out from underneath the dining room table to help me...guess she was still acting a diva from her photo shoot!

Lola went for her photo shoot today. We won't get the proofs back until Thursday, so I don't know whether she will be America's Next Top Doggy Model or not. The photographer said that she was the best dog that she had ever shot, but then she has only done three. She didn't really quite live up to my expectations, but then I haven't seen the photos yet. She didn't like the background or the way that it was pullout out to cover the floor (she wanted no part of walking on it). We took her outside for some shots and she peed and pooped (I told her that I didn't think supermodels did that kind of thing in the middle of the photo shoot!). I was very nervous for my friend Abby who will be at the photographer on Saturday with her kids and dog... I was worried that Lola would act up and the photographer would outlaw dogs from her studio! Abby- I think she will still let you bring Bailey (at least I hope!).

Lisa took me to dinner tonight at a new Italian restaurant in Allen called "Brio". It was very good. Their bellinis were fantastic. I had lobster risotto and she had the chicken & butternut squash risotto. Both were really good. They came by with the dessert tray. Like many restaurants now, they have the small desserts that will give you a bite of sweet but not large proportions. Theirs were served in little espresso cups. I convinced Lisa that we could share one little caramel creme brulee. Just a little background...Lisa hates to share (and will full well own up to it and is completely unashamed by it, that is why I know she won't mind me writing about it). She has improved greatly over the years. She will now let me sample a bite of what she ordered (she used to not allow this, as she put it "I think that I've ordered the best thing on the menu, so I don't need to have a bite of yours or want to share mine.") But tonight, neither of us w...

Today is the closing day of the State Fair of Texas, so I made my yearly trip down to Dallas to see Big Tex. Jennifer and little Joshua came with me. We were only there 2 hours, but that is plenty of time to do the stuff I wanted to do. Of course, we visited the Dallas Children's Medical Center Petting Zoo (my favorite part). We also looked at all the new cars (I picked out several I would like to have!). But most important, we ate some fair food including (of course) a Fletcher's Corny Dog. They were great as always!

Lots of turnovers today, and I'm not talking the fruity pastry kind... fumbles, blocked kicks, and interceptions, oh my! Despite the poor showing, the Red Raiders still managed to beat A&M down in College Station today 42-25 and go 7-0 for the season. Hopefully the play will improve because the next month is TOUGH... Kansas, Texas, OSU, and OU.

I just realized that 3 months from Today, Lisa and I will be in Nawlins. My mouth starts to water just thinking about it!