Happy birthday to me!

Yes thats right, today is the day I arrived on this planet. I am celebrating the 5th anniversary of my 29th birthday! I cant believe it. So much has changed. Karin is getting married in less than a month, Kayla turned 18, I bought a car that I love more and more everyday. Im still not the slim trim hottie I want to be but oh well! I did manage to get my annual S'Mores Kit from Recchiuti Confections. If youve never had the intense pleasure of indulging in it, I am SOOOOO SORRRRY! CHeck out their web site and you will know why I hop on the Vallejo Ferry every year to fetch this treat!www.recchiuticonfections.com 

Alterations or a custome made dress?

Well, this is the dress I will be wearing when I stand up for my very best friend at her wedding in one month and one day. Pretty aint it? As you can see, it needs to be altered. So this past Tuesday I went for the very first time to have it pinned and tucked and cinched in all the right places. I am happy to report that none of it is being let out! The skirt, is being taken in a good 4 inches (about 2 inches on each side). The bad news is, it is going to cost me $160!!!! The dress was purchased for $200 by my best friends parents. Generous to say the least! I was not expecting that but what a nice surprise! I have never had anything altered before in my life. Now, they do have todo a lot of tucking on the top. You can see that is big around the bottom, and at the neckline. What you cant see is how much the back gapes open at the top and that the skirt is a good 2 sizes to big. They told me they would not be able to trade the skirt because it was "a custome piece". Okay, I understand not returning it after alterations have been done, but they are the ones who measured me and ordered it. It is not my fault they ordered it so big. Makes a big girl feel great when they have to take it in, but on the flip side makes ya feel like a flippin whale when you see the size they order. So I am committed to this dress that is now pushing $400! It is going to look amazing and I do love it but I have never owned a piece of clothing so expensive! Makes me nervous! 

Easter Sunday

Sorry, no pics today :) My easter was nice. I, of course, went to church first thing in the morning. Well 9am so not really first thing, but early enough. Let me rant here a bit (shocking I know) Just because the church service is held in a school gym does not give you and your bratty, snot nosed kids free range to run across the gym in their cloppy shoes screamimg! It is church after all! And OOOOH does it echo! I gave the parents several nasty looks and even a couple shushes, nothing! They thought it was cute. I could barely hear anything, and my father was the one preaching. SOOOOO ANNOYING!!!!! The kids not my Dad (love u pops!) Anyway, after church we got to see waht the Easter Bunny left us. He left me a $25 Starbucks gift card! Thank East Bunny! BOK! BOK! Then it was off to Aunt Janettes for dinner with the Hamilton clan and a few Simmons' ta boot. My cousin and his girlfriend brought their little beagle Daisy. She is soooo cute! I WANT A PUPPY! (Love you Rajah!) All in all not a bad day, and not even a snarky remark to me from my sister. Yeah I just about fell over too! Of course, I made an effort to say away from her. I hope the rest of you had a great Easter as well! TTFN!

Its still yesterday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR KAAAAA-RRRRIIIIN! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOOOOOUUUU! Hey, it is still yesterday until I go to bed, then wake up 7-8 hours later! I hope you had a fantabulous birthday! I cant wait to hear about it. This is one of the few pictures we took where we have normal faces! I watched Extreme Home Makeover tonight when I got home from work (it was TIVOd from Sunday). Guess who hosted it instead of Ti Pennington? Your favorite person, well amphibion, Kermit! It was cool! Happy Birthday K! I love you! 

All grown up?

So her uncle acould not figure out what to get her for her 18th birthday. We kept telling him, money is her favorite thing. He thought it was too impersonal (I know weird that my brother said that) so I told him to try and find one of those balloon gift places and viola! Can you tell she loves it? 

My First Pearls :o)

Well, I thought since I was going 50's era with the rehearsal dress, I figured that I would go whole hog and get some pearls to go with it. Its blurry but its a set of pink cultured pearls (necklace, bracelette, & stud earrings). The shade of pink is a perfect match for the dress. Im excited! 

Happy Lil Post

Okay so yesterdays post was a little..........you know icky. So today I thought Id choose something that makes me smile a lot, that of course is ANYTHING Disney. Im sure Disney will hunt me down for using one of their images, but oh well. I love this part of Dumbo because he is soooooo carefree. Nothin better than a bubble bath right? When I was in Vegas last month I got to take a bath with bubbles up to my neck and water that covered EVERYTHING! It was SOOOO coool! I had it so hot that when I got out I was all red, like my old college roommate Melissa. I dont ever recall having a bath that felt that good! When I am finally able to get my own place, it will DEFINATELY have a tub large enough for meto do the Dumbo Dunk in! 

Happy 18th Birthday Kayla!

I cannot believe it! My little Kayla is 18 years old. It seems like just yesterday she was swimming naked in a kiddie pool in the front yard. She is so desperate to get out of her mothers house, she actually asked me if I would share an apartment with her. I didnt really know if I should take it as a compliment or not, so I did :). I guess Im cooler than I thought in their eyes, maybe. I told her thank you but no. I can't switch from Aunt to roommate. I wouldnt be able to resist trying to protect her from potential mistakes. Shes an adult now. She needs to make mistakes in order to grow into the woman that Ive always known she can be. Happy Birthday Sparkey!

In other words.................have I mentioned that I cant stand my sister. One of her more adoring attributes is her inability to see me without criticizing me. I haveant seen her or talked to her in over a month. Today she comes over to my parents house to partake in Kayla's birthday dinner and makes some side-mouthed comment about me and how I always hold a grudge. Well sister dear, the only people I hold a grudge agaist are the ones who are a CONSTANT and PERSISTANT thorn in my side. When someone who is supposed to love you unconditionaly holds you responsible for distroying "the best thing that ever happened to me", and also pressures you to date one of your friends who then dumps me because I wont fuck him, yeah, Im gonna hold a grudge. When the person puts her own children's last on her list of priorities even below her friends, yes Im going to hold a grudge! When a person calls me and my mother fat pigs, fat slobs, bitches, IN FRONT OF MY NIECES and doesnt defend either of us...............You bet your fucking ass Im gonna hold a grudge!

I really need to move. I dont know where, and I dont know how, but I NEED to leave. I think Im stuck. SHIT! I desperately want to move down south somewhere. At least there there is one person who wants me around, she knows who she is. I can loose myself in the mass of people. In time I guess. Knowing my luck though, as soon as I can swing the move, that one person will move up north to raise her family like shes always wanted. SHIT! Just once, Id like something to go the way I want it to.

Kayla is turning 18 in 3 days! OMG!!!!! I was in Old Navy getting her a bathing suit and 2 matching pairs of thongs (flip flops for you young-uns) and I stumbled across an ivory knit bolero/bolaero (neither spelling looks right to me so you pick your favorite) for $14! I buy it praying it will look good with my sparkly green tank top I got for one of the wedding events. I love the way it looks with the tank and my jeans or I can pair it with my khaki chinos (LOVE Avenue pants!) Do you like it closed or open? It has a little hook-n-eye closure. I like it open. The bottom 2 pics are hopefully a little more detailed shots of the tank top that I will be wearing to the Wine Train on the Friday b-4 the big event. I layed it on an ivory comforter to give you a better idea of the color and so hopefully you can see the silver detailing better as well.


 

Picasa2 dropped one!

This was dropped by Picasa2, it was suppoes to be with the previous post so you can vote on it too! Im wearing the denim bolaero and jeans. 

Decisions, Decisions.......Wedding clothes shopping #2

This tank top is from Torrid. Its a really pretty green sparkly top and I love it! I plan to wear this to the breakfast gift thing on Monday. Here is my dilema, what do I wear it with? Jeans and my denim bolaero? Alone with jeans? A denim skirt and my denim bolaero? Do I look for an Ivory or white crop sweater/jacket thing and matching chino type pants? HELP! 

Success........mostly

Alright, so shopping for wedding event clothes wasnt toooo bad. There are a few companies (TORRID! Lane Bryant) who actually realize that us fat chicks like good looking trendy clothes too. Picture #1 is the dress Im wearing to the rehearsal & rehearsal dinner. Its from Torrid, black with small white polka dots and pink satin accents, its a sort of 50's-ish style. Pciture #2 is the same dress with my black knit bolaero, I put both pics up for you to vote on. I like #2 for obvious reasons. I plan to get a string of pink pearls and hope to find some black strappy heals with pink accesnts. Picture #3 is for the Wine Train on Friday. Its a purple tank top from Lane Bryant. It has virticle silver metalic accents and Im wearing my black velvet bolaero with it. I plan to wear either black gouchos or a black skirt of some kind.

 

Why?

Okay, WHY do cats and dogs drink out of the toilet? You give them clean water in a clean bowl on the floor that is a tad bit easier to reach not to mention safer (no threat of fallin in it if its on the floor). YET..............my child chooses to S-T-R-E-T-C-H into the toilet and drink out of it. Its funny to watch him cause his back feel slip on the tile all the time and hes constantly readjusting them while drinking. Im going shopping for wedding clothes tomorrow..................wish me luck! 

LOOK WHAT I GOT IN THE MAIL!!!!

Look look how perrrrrty it is! My BESTEST friend in the entire world is getting MARRIED!!! Okay, I know it looks like Im surprised, but I knew all along! Yes that is right, my best friend is marrying her Prince Charming (minus the horse thing....I think). I love the invites! I had to play with the exposure on my digital camera so you would be able to see that it has words on it. ****sniff***sniff***sniff***sniff I cant believe it is just over 2 months away. I should prolly go shoppin soon! 

More Vegas!

I thought I would share a couple more Vegas moments with you. The first picture are the desserts we got from Paris on our last night. We had a girls night in and played Sex in the City Trivia ( I lost.....I know HUGE shock, i suck at all games that have nothing to do with Disney) drank Schmirnoff Apple Vodka with cranberry juice YUM, and ate those delectable desserts! Picture #2 is the menue at The Tequila Bar where we spent our first evening drinking, eating chips & salsa and listening to the lounge singer who was actually good! Picture #3 is from the top of the Eifle Tower. If you havent been up there, you need to. It costs $9 to go up and they take your picture before you go up the ellilater to the top ( the picture, of course, will cost you extra but its nice to have one of the entire group). Once up there, you can see the fountains of Bellagio the way they were meant to be seen! There is no time limit for you either so if you cant see one show, wait for the the next and get a good viewing spot. They have holes cut out of the wire fencing so you can take good pictures, like the one I got!

 

A soothing moment on the way home

So I was on my home from a rough day work today, with me is my youngest niece Ris. Apparently her and my sister got into a knock out drag out physical altercation and my sister in her mature way, dropped Marissa off at my parents house because she " just couldnt deal with her". Ris is telling me her side of the story and while Im trying to be sympathetic to her, my mind is completely not there. I feel guilty, but what can I do. Im listening to her but really wishing I was able to transport myself somewhere far far away. Another friend of mine interviewed for a teaching job in the Clark County School district in Nevada (Vegas area). She offered me the opportunity to be her roommate if she was hired. Not the most desireable place to live, but it would be a definate change. I NEED a change of scenery. Im so sick of seeing the same stuff. As Im thinking this, I look out my mindow and see a beautiful rainbow. Im so captivated by it I grab my cell phone and snap 2 pics of it. I like this one the best. Makes me dream. I like it. 

A shopping trip

Well, I did it. I bought a car. AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Its a 2003 Hyundai Sonata in charcoal gray. Automatic, air, cd player the whole nine yards. It doesnt have leather seats though. I hate those things, two hours out in the sun and your ass is toasted!! And in the winter, forget it! Leather seats in the winter are just, just, just WRONG! Its like sitting on an ice block! Anyway, its not my dream car, but its nice. It rates pretty well with JD power and Edmunds, so Im satisfied. My mom took the picture. Her first time with a digital camera. Not bad Mom! 

Almost a Doodle

I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOO close to getting a Goldendoodle dog for FREE! If your not sure what that is, it is a dog that is a cross of a Golden Retreiver and a Standard Poodle. They are a new breed recognized by the AKC. They have wavy to curly hair that is soft and they dont shed! They remind me of a smaller version of Max the dog of The Little Mermaid. Look them up, they are TOOO CUTE! The web site is www.goldendoodles.com

Blind mother update......again

Well it has been settled as far as I know. My sister & nieces went to court on the 9th to face down the blind psycho mother & her daughter. The mother of course denied that her stupid daughter ever threatened or contacted either of my nieces, and my sister had proof that she had. The result was a mutual 3 year restraining order. Hopefully, this will be the end, but I know better. My sister can never leave well enough alone.

I (meaning we) FIGURED IT OUT!

Much thanks to Karin for talking me through getting my kitty onto the page. I finally figured out how to get it right where I want it. Waddya think K?