Legally Blonde's Proceedings

Lola & I are hanging out under the A/C today! Don't forget to enter to win my giveaway if you haven't already. Today is the last chance to enter. Winner will be announced tomorrow!

I'm no fun this week.  I recognize it.  I also recognize that based on comments (or lack thereof :-) ), that nobody wants to listen to me gripe about a bad day, or in my case, a bad week.  But folks, that's all I've got this week, so hang in there with me and maybe things will change! So you heard how my Wednesday went.  How was Thursday and Friday?  Let me tell you... Thursday, as I mentioned I went to lunch with my grandparents.  My grandmother has been sick and called her doctor that morning to report her medicine was making her sicker.  He insisted that she come in, so she asked me to take her after lunch.  We left my granddad at home with Lola and headed down to Baylor Hospital.  All things went pretty smoothly until we were leaving Dallas.   I got pulled over and until the cop approached, I had no idea why.  Turns out the access road at that spot in Dallas has a 30 mph speed limit!  30 mph!?!  I was going 43...

Some days it really doesn't pay to get out of bed.  Yesterday was the text book definition of one of those days.  To start, my alarm went off (as it was suppose to), and thanks to the 4 hours of sleep I had gotten the night before, woke me from a much needed full night of sleep.  I hit snooze 3 times before grudgingly getting up.  While laying in bed during my 27 minutes of the snooze button repeats, I was listening to Good Morning America where I heard them say that US Weekly is reporting that Cape Cod Chris is going to be the next Bachelor. NOOOOO!  Say it ain't so Cape Cod Chris!  You're too good for that hot mess of reality tv! After mourning the loss of Cape Cod Chris' soul, I got ready and went to court.  I got to court, only to realize that yesterday when I looked at my calendar, I looked at next week's Wednesday instead of today.  Yeah, that's right.  I didn't have any court scheduled (which yes, means I could ...

About 3 months ago, I almost amputated my pinkie finger.  I did a real bang up job of it and manage to severe the tendons and nerves.  If you weren't privy to all that gory mess, you can go back and review the photos HERE .   I have been told by some friends that I have totally given them a complex when it comes to chopping things up in the kitchen.  Yeah, I totally get it. Of course I have since purchased this little gadget to remove avocado pits and slice them and I highly recommend it... I purchased mine at Williams-Sonoma and you can also get it on Amazon.  It's made by Amco.  It's far safer than using a knife (no matter how safe you think your method is and believe me everyone thinks I'm the big dummy, but their way, all be it the same method I was using, is way safer!)  It's also far cheaper in the long run. But back to my hand....  I went to the Physical Therapist and Doctor on Monday and I got released!  No mor...

This little pup doesn't always make my life easy.  This for example was on Sunday night when I was trying to change the sheets... but one look at this face... and I turn to mush... she melts my heart... and makes me really happy every day! Hope you have a happy day! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't forget to register for my blogiversary giveaway! Click HERE

A little background is needed here for this story:  I realized earlier this year that I didn't have any health insurance.  I thought I did, but I didn't (LONG story).  I will be able to buy into and join the college's group policy as of January 2011 (or so I've been told), so I got with my insurance agent who hooked me up with a new policy that took effect on March 1st.  Then of course May 9th, rolls around, I almost cut off my finger and need surgery. Well my new insurance has paid squat, nothing, zilch, nada.  In fact, I've seen that they've been ordering up my records for my ER visit to, I suspect, avoid paying anything at all.  Which is comical because they haven't paid a dime anyway...nothing for ER, ER doc, hand surgeon, surgery center, anesthesia, 12 weeks of physical therapy, etc. Today I got a letter for my insurance saying that as of February 1, 2011, they are dropping me.  I can only assume because I was so crazy as to mak...

One week from today will mark 2 years since I started this whole blogging thing.  I'm very excited about this blogiverary because an opportunity has come up for me to do a giveaway for you guys!  My sponsor has many websites that sell just about everything... lately I've been looking at the site for luggage  because I'm feeling the need for a new carry on bag for my upcoming trip to NOLA.  But more about the giveaway!  Here's a picture of a couple of samples... I will be giving you a set of Tervis tumblers!  If you don't know about Tervis tumblers, they are great because they keep your beverage super cold and they don't sweat all over your table!  As you can see, I'm feeling the collegiate tumblers in honor of the upcoming football season, but if you are the winner, I will give you a couple of choices: (1) You can choose from over a hundred different tumbler themes to fit your personality or lifestyle:  Texas themes, Initial...

I hate the heat!  I may have mentioned this a time or fifty.  This forecast makes me want to give up all will to live... Why, oh why, do I live in Texas?!?!  I wanted to stay in the air conditioned house all day with the ceiling fan over me and the stand fan also blowing on me while drinking ice water. That being said, for some reason, I decided to do a little gardening today.  I have had some bad luck with the flowers that I planted in my front yard this summer.  Bad luck is putting it mildly...They look like crap.  While most all of them look like crap, I decided to pull up the crappiest of the crap and replace them.  I hope to Miraclegrow the others and bring them a little more life.  My flower bed is so hard to describe to the people at the nursery that they finally suggested I experiment with a light meter.  Before doing that, I think I'm going to try and photograph my front bed every 30 minutes tomorrow and then...

Since I've been busy/tired/lazy/internet-less for a good portion of the week, I'm finally getting around to blogging about my week.  On Wednesday, my friend Suzanna came over with my little friend Kate.  It was Kate's 2nd Birthday!  We did a little shopping.  I got some necklaces for my new outfits and this pair of shoes... Love these shoes! Kate was adorable in DSW.  Before Suz or I knew it, she had her shoes off and was trying on pairs of the adult shoes.  She loves shoes so much!  She was promised a trip to Stride Rite later in the day and a new pair of crocs,which she got and are just the cutest things I've ever seen... Before Suz came over from Fort Worth, she stopped by a magical place.  She called the day before and said she had heard of a new cupcake/cookie/other goodie place called J.Rae's.  I had also heard of J.Rae's and gave her my order.  Let me just say... Heaven... I'm in heaven, And my heart beats so that I can hard...

I'm back in business, but too busy/tired to post a real blog post right now.  I do have stuff to blog about, so stay tuned!  I'm so happy to have internet again, I can hardly stand it.  It required a trip to Plano to exchange out my modem with Time Warner Cable.  I think we are fully back up and running, but it was questionable for a while and I had to get on the phone with those darn TWC technicians again.  They are sending someone tomorrow to check something.  Who knows. I'm so computer illiterate.  At one point in my conversation with TWC I asked "how come it isn't working now and it was 3 minutes ago!" to which Mr. Technical Guy started to reply with "I told you a minute ago..." when I promptly cut him off and said "LOOK!  I DON'T SPEAK GEEK!  YOU MIGHT AS WELL BE SPEAKING TO ME IN CHINESE AS TO TELL ME TECHNICAL TERMS ABOUT THIS COMPUTER STUFF!" It's been a frustrating day.  I think I'm so tired from that nonsense plus ...

My $&@?! Internet is down. Has been all $&@;)!&$ day! I hate time Warner cable. They make me understand homicidal tendencies. I have stuff to blog about too! If it's not better tomorrow I may have to go to Starbucks or panera with the laptop!

At this point, I should be banned from entering Nordstrom.  I went back tonight, took advantage of the Anniversary sale again, and got loads of cute stuff.  More swingy long sweaters... More tops (more work oriented this time), and a couple of cute outfits that go with leggings (LEGGINGS!!!  Am I nuts?).

Today was a day for us girls to hit the mall.  I have been planning for awhile to take Maddie and Gracie to see "Ramona and Beezus".  I read all of the books back in the day, and I gave the girls all the books two Christmases ago.  Maddie was tied up in a Girl Scouts activity until 11:30, so it was just Gracie and me for bit.  We had lunch in the food court... Then I taught Gracie how to smuggle cookies into the movie.  We met up with Maddie and their Mom before the movie started.  It was really, really cute.  Since I read the books a hundred years ago I don't know how true the movie was to the book, but it was good.  I will say that I didn't picture the Quimby parents being quite this pretty... and Uncle Hobart... yeah, I know I didn't picture him looking like this... not that I'm complaining of anything! After the movie, I parted ways with the girls and planned to "just run into Nordstrom".  They are having their Anniversary s...

Here's the deal, I kind of think of TV characters on the shows I watch as real people. I think we've probably already established this in the "OH MY GOSH I SAW NATE ARCHIBALD IN COURT TODAY!" post, but it's totally true.  My friend Billy gets super annoyed when he hears "us girls" talk about the characters of our shows like the really exist, but then he also says that Jane Austen novels are like Harlequins, so what in the heck does he know!  But I digress... Here's another example:  Last week I was so happy to see these photos of Jennifer Garner, her kid's and Victor Garber walking in NYC.  Seriously, in my mind, it was Sydney Bristow, she and Michael Vaughn's kids, and Jack Bristow taking a walk!  (The show I'm referencing is "Alias," in case you missed out on all that awesomeness)  But now to the real issue that I'm wanting to blog about. I was catching up on my DVR build-up last night and one of the shows I was watch...

I had to leave my house early this morning (at least by my standards) because I had to be in Dallas for a Jury Trial.  We got to the give-you-cooties Dallas court house at about 8:50.  We waited until almost 11:00 with nothing happening.  Finally we just reset the thing and left.  I no longer have any questions about why it takes things so long to actually make it to trial in Dallas county.  Since it was about lunch time, I talked Jennifer into making our way over to Houston's for lunch.  Only we got there to find that Houston's is no longer Houston's but is instead Hillstone.  We went ahead and went it and it turns out that they just changed the name of the Park Cities Houston's to Hillstone.  They have the same menu with a few exceptions, and since I don't care about those exceptions, the name change is really of no consequence to me.  After a yummy lunch, the adventure really started. I need to back up here a bit and give you some back...

Nothing too exciting to report around here, just a couple of random items...some involving reality tv, so if you're disgusted with me posting about it, please note that I'm equally disgusted with my watching it.  It's an addiction and I don't think I've hit rock bottom yet, so I'm not planning to get help any time soon. (1) The Bachelorette:  I'm going to jump on the bandwagon of all those out there in blogville that think Chris is WAY TOO GOOD for Ali.  I hope she picks Roberto.  Don't get me wrong, there's nothin' wrong with Roberto, but I just think Chris deserves better.  I know he will be heartbroken, but he doesn't need all the tv/celebrity stuff in his seemingly normal life.  (2) RHNJ:  I so wish they'd kick Danielle off.  Did you see today in the news that she has now turned on her  thug friend Danny and called the police on him.  Ugh!  Hate her! (3) Real World:  Okay, so this is one that I stopped watching y...

Yesterday, when I got home from Nocona, I quickly unloaded my car and plopped down on my couch to fulfill my weekly One Tree Hill addiction.  I watched season one last summer, and am trying to plug through season 2 and then some this summer.  Unfortunately, I discovered that my DVD player had quit me!  What's a girl to do?  Does a crack addict rush out to buy a new pipe when she discovers her's is broken?  Does an alcoholic run out to the liquor store when they discover their bottle is empty?  Well, an addict of teenage drama shows who discovers her DVD player is broken, must headed out to Sam's Club to get a new DVD player! My old DVD was purchased in May 2001.  Please ignore the 5 years worth of dust on top.  This is my good for nothin' DVD player that quit me at this crucial juncture in my addiction... Now check out my new $34 one from Sam's!  Look how small it is compared to the old dinosaur from 2001! Electronic Evolu...

As I've mentioned already, this weekend I went to Nocona for my Meme's second 80th Birthday party.  A few of us family members took her out on her actual 80th Birthday, but on Saturday, we had a party with the rest of her kids present as well as friends.  Here are some pics (while viewing, please keep in mind that the church hall that was our venue, was less than pretty)... Papa and Meme My Amy, My Uncles' Wives, Nancy & Gina, Mom and Me ( left to right) I made Mom and Dad pose for a pic because they were both coordinating in purple... Dad said it was twerp week.  Did y'all have twerp week back in High School or was that just a Nocona thing?  If you didn't, one day in twerp week was dress alike day. This was pre-party at the house... Dad & Milly watching T.V. After the party, it was pool time! My cousins, Maddie and Gracie were staying with my other grandma and they came over to swim. These girls crack me up because they are such fancy c...