mini-vacaaayyy :D

oh my goodness! what a great trip it's been already! :) i adore my family and love spending time with them! the weather has been great and i've been able to spend lots of time in the pool!! ..even if my skin is apparently immune to the sun! wtf?! my face has gotten a little red but nothing else! i suppose i'm gonna have to amp it up and spend all day outside! ::sigh:: what a drag! ;) anyway, it's been great seeing my mom's side of the family! it's always great times with them! and there's always plenty of amazing food to be had! ha! luckily, i still have a whole week left! yeee!!

what a crap few weekends it's been for football! ugh!! my dawgs just aren't getting things done like they should be! i do have to say though.. i definitely bleed red and black, but i'm not one of those people that has their entire weekend ruined from one loss.. it is what it is! i guess since i love all football in general, there's plenty of other games i can watch.. which brings me to fantasy football! ugh!! this is the first year i've played, and i like that it keeps me interested and up on my pro football, but i like to win.. and i'm not winning!!! i have such a great fantasy team but it's always somethin' every week! last week, the team i played had peyton manning, and he got 61 freakin' points! this week the team i'm playing has pittsburgh defense, and they had 28 points! the defense! that's nuts! anyway.. aaron rodgers did decent for me this week with 45 points.. the ravens defense blew, my running backs did well and arian foster got me another 17 points, so it's not all bad.. but i'm still losing 125 to 118 at the moment =/ ..oh well! again, it is what it is! haha! i need to get some more solid receivers and maybe i'll be alright.. and i guess it doesn't help that i've played the two best teams so far.. whatev!!

i guess that's it for an update.. nothing too special, i'm sorry!! i would however, like to wish the lovely heather stephens a happy 22nd birthday today! yay!!! :D love yous!!! i hope everyone has a fan-freakin'-tastic week!!

eastbound and down ...except not really.

well, i'm painting my nails so i suppose it's time for another blog update :) again, i keep putting off blogging because i always feel like i have nothing interesting to say.. so here goes some randomosity for the week :D

i have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off for the past few days getting ready for a ten day visit to see mi madre in the volunteer state! i can't tell you how excited i've been for the past month or two to take this trip! i miss her, my aunts, my sister and niece so much and i'm uber jealous of the time they get to spend together in the tennessee hills! especially during this time of year! which glides me right into my next subject.. the weather! ohhh how i'm loving it! it's getting to be that time of the year when you can drive around with the windows down and take in the crisp air and warm sunshine without having a heat stroke! i guess i more so prefer cooler temperatures, but i can settle with this transition period... and again with my fantastic transitions! i guess the weather change has sent me into 'cold mode' :( which sucks! i've been so pumped for this trip and now all of a sudden, for the first time this year, i get a cold! it hasn't really gone full force yet, i've just been having that feeling of yucky in the back of my throat when you know you're about to get the sniffles and sick voice.. which i love by the way! (sick voice, that is) ..anyway! i've been trying to drink hella OJ to get my vitamin C up.. but mi padre got orange juice "with juicy bits of orange" from the grocery store! YUCK! ugh.. i hate pulp! i even tried to strain it through a paper towel so i could have some 'pulp-less' OJ, but it was a no go =/ i guess we'll see how my attempts work out in the next few days..

anyway! it's time to paint the nails on my right hand, so i need to get back into full concentration mode ;) haha! y'all wish me and bailey jane a safe trip and pray she doesn't hate me for shoving her in her crate for four hours in the back seat!

and this week i'm wearing revlon's "plum seduction".. love it!

playa del platinum..

i love hall and oates, and i adore this song.. so i just wanted to share it with y'all, because i literally cannot help but dance every time i hear it!


anyway, i wish i had something to write about, but i don't feel like putting too much effort into this, on account of i'm hella tired.. so i'll just jot a few things down that are on my mind :)

i recorded "(500) days of summer" the other day on dvr and watched it last night.. it was pretty cute, not what i expected.. it's a good movie to watch when you've just been dumped =/ haha! and joseph gordon-levitt reminds me so much of the late and lovely heath ledger in that movie! ::sniff sniff::

recently i made the move from blonde to dark brown... and i absolutely hate it :( which is super unfortunate considering there's pretty much nothing that i can do about it..

this past saturday, college football came back to me... i had been waiting a very long 8 months for it's return, but it came back with some fantastic games and gorgeous weather.. i was very surprised/relieved/impressed with my dawgs' performance and am looking forward to the year and getting $30 from brannen when they are ranked higher than georgia tech at the end of the season :)

lastly, the current 'flavor of the week' is "playa del platinum" by essie, which i love love! it's safe to say essie makes my favorite polishes! great brand! :)

barefoot in barcelona...

"when you lack respect for yourself, you will cling to every morsel of respect you can get from other people - and you'll feel threatened and unmoored(which blogspot does not think is a word?) if they don't cooperate. but when you have an internal reservoir of dignity and self-acceptance, you won't be begging others to fill it."
-dr. phil :)

i took this quote from an article i just read in oprah magazine. (quick side note - why did oprah decide that she should be the model for every single cover of her own magazine. does she ever get sick of doing photo shoots every month for that crap?) ..anyway, it really 'ding ding'ed in my head when i read it and made me think of the people i talk to who get really upset when other random people have bad manners, make rude remarks, shun them, etc etc.. the example in the article is something about what your typical response is when a grocery store clerk is rude to you.. some people let incidents like that rain out their entire day.. and some will just think "man, they must be having a crappy day" and get on with life... i'd like to think that more often than not, i'm in the second group of people.

anyway, i guess that's all about that :) i have just painted my nails "barefoot in barcelona" by OPI, and i'm waiting for them to dry... again, blog ensues!

and no, i didn't just take a picture of my nails, that's a google image! haha :D

i guess something i'd like to say, or get off my chest, is that 'getting things off my chest' is exactly my original intended purpose of this blog. whether those are things i find annoying or troubling throughout my day, something i've heard and want to voice my opinion about or a picture of a fabulous pair of shoes i'd like to share, it is in no way to 'talk crap' or bust anyone 'anonymously' via the internet. i'm not the kind of person who wants to try to start drama in those ways, i'm pretty straight forward, and blogging to confront someone (who may or may not even check this blog) is much too cowardly for my taste. i just don't think that far into my writing. my intentions aren't to hurt anyone at all. i write for my own selfish reasons, to do just that - "get if off my chest", which was my understanding of a 'blog' in the first place. and my understanding of most personal writing, for that matter... writing is therapeutic. i've been told to do it and even have friends who have been assigned to do it for college courses. it's a way to get emotions out of your head and away from your mind. some poeple have diaries, some people have blogs, and some people write in world renown newspapers. i've tried the diary thing and it was a complete fail! my hand always felt like it was going to fall off after like.. three sentences! haha!! i was under the impression that blogs are the diary of the new electronic interweb age! lol! :D i'm not ever really held accountable for much, and my therapist has reccommended 'journaling' to me, so i figured blogging and giving her the link may motivate me to spit some stuff out into written[typed] word. ha :) anyway, i want to say that i do understand that things i write can very well be taken the wrong way and offend others. and for that, i am truly sorry. a fault of mine, is mistaking the reactions of others. i tend to view things my way, and think about how i would react. however, not everyone is as stone cold as i am, and though i wish sometimes i could shed some of my tough skin and loan it to my friends, i can't. and i've learned that i can't just disregard their feelings because they may not be as strong or hard as mine. anyway, i just wanted to explain where i'm coming from, how i view the 'blogging world' (which i really don't think is a lone opinion on the subject) and what my true intentions have been.

blahhhh! and again, so much for not having any idea what to write about! i should really just start sitting down and starting a blog with no intention of writing anything at all... i mean, i really do put off blogging because i'll think "meh.. i have nothing to write about today", and here i am spilling my guts writing a novel again! anyway, i hear some thunder in the distance! i think it's sleepy storm time!! :D

i'll leave you with some fantastic music :)

...a tagged blogger :)

okay, so.. not so much that i was actually 'tagged', but i felt like doing this and maybe some of my friends would pick it up and have something to write about, too :) so my tag is "10 things you can't live without" ..10 items, people, places, whatever! that are important to you, make up your daily life or that you just have to have! with explanations! and i know, i know, material possessions aren't everything, and you can't live without your family, your friends, your car, the roof over your head, food and water, etc etc... be at least a little creative :)

10 things you can't live without....

10. 311 - my happy music :) if i'm stressed, anxious, worried about a test, anything.. i always put in my mix of my favorite 311 songs and take a deep breath and chill... love it!

9. the internet - well, duh! then i couldn't blog, facebook, or youtube!! i'd be lost and have to look up phone numbers and locate places with an actual phone book! i wouldn't be able to get madd discounts online shopping! i wouldn't be able to stream the georgia football game when it's not on tv! i could go on and on! :D

8. digital video recorder - what in the hell did i ever do without DVR?! holy crap! i mean really! i don't even have anything else to say! it's perfect!

7. special k fruit and yogurt cereal - honestly, i could live on cereal, i pretty much do! it's easy to make and it's freakin' delicious! i have to grab at least two boxes of special k cereal at the grocery store every week.. it pretty much makes up two of my meals every day.. and i don't often eat more than two meals, so yeah.... i'll just go ahead and add skim milk to this one. i can't eat cereal without my skim milk. all other milk tastes like straight thick butter and fat! no bueno!

6. bath and body works lavender vanilla pillow mist - mmmm! i don't care if this stuff helps me sleep or not, it smells soooo yummy! :) i'm currently out, and obviously on the verge of death, so if you have any extra change lying around...... hahaa, kidding!! :D

5. sports - georgia football. sec football in general. duke basketball. march madness. peyton manning. nfl football. what else can i say? what would i look forward to during the fall?! how could i live without that insane excitement every week waiting for saturday! what would i do if i couldn't make a march madness bracket that beat my dad, his friends and my boyfriend(if there is one, ha) every year! what if i had no idea that tony reali, brady quinn, mark sanchez, chris 'the birdman' anderson, or jayson werth existed?! it'd be awful! hehe :)

4. bottled water - if you know me, if you ever see me, you've seen how much bottled water means to me! ha! i never leave the house without a bottle of water. it's almost a nervous habit kind of thing.. i don't know, i just really like cold water! it makes me feel better! haha!

3. my cell phone - yeah, my cell phone. i never leave home without it. i never turn it off. and i hardly ever leave it in some other room of the house. if i've used that lie on you, i'm sorry!! and some people may know, it's even in the bathroom with me while i shower.. i have been known to pick up a call with my head hanging out of the shower curtain :) it's my alarm clock, my calendar, my note bad, my calculator ..it's like my lifeline! what if something were to happen and i needed to get in touch with someone! yes, it's almost always with me! haha

2. faith - i can't begin to explain how much having faith and hope has dramatically helped my situation. any situation. enough said!

1. bailey jane - my dog. she is my heart. i adore her and can't imagine a day that she doesn't wake me up wanting to go run around outside for way too long before she pees.... she's my little sweetheart and provides much entertainment when i'm in need :)


so there we go ...now, i tag you! :)


this blog was brought to you by: nick hexum's amazing voice and adorable dance moves!

.... :)

i just like this song.. :D

..a ninja time killer

random things are on my mind. and i just so happen to be waiting for my nails to dry before i hop into bed. blog ensues...


i painted my nails 're-fresh mint' by china glaze... which means they are mint green :) except only my left hand is right now, because i don't feel like painting my right hand before i go to bed....

polo black is the best effing cologne ever. and it forces me to visit boys just so i can smell like polo black when i get home :)

redbox is my new bff.

i really enjoy real people. who know when and how to speak their mind.

anderson silva got beat for 23 minutes tonight... he got lucky and chael tapped with two minutes left in round 5 ..dangit!

only 28 days until college football season. the absolute best time of year. i can't explain how excited i am to be happy all week waiting for every saturday!

'you've seen the butcher' by the deftones is hot hot hot.

you can't bullshit a bullshitter, and i'm the champ.

if it is hot outside, and ice cold inside your car, and your windshield fogs up... how do you 'unfog' it? with cold or hot air? i just end up turning on my windshield wipers.. =/

tall southern gentlemen are my weakness :) too bad i don't know any.... ha!

before i die, i want to see bob seger and 311 live. and probably a few more... but those are at the top of the list :)

i forgot i wanted to skydive... i really need to get on that!!


fin.

**this is a reminder to myself to blog about things i've been thinking about wanting to do in the next few years :)