take a load off, Annie

That song has nothing to do with anything, except that for the one minute of the Grammy's I actually watched, that was on, and I loveeee me somma dat song. Our Sunday TV/DVR schedule is too packed, so we couldn't watch the Grammy's. Well, I guess we could, but that would have involved moving into the bedroom to watch that TV. HA. Not moving from this couch on a Sunday. And in case you were wondering, DUH of course you are, we watch The Walking Dead and Revenge on Sunday nights. Hellooooo best TV shows ever.

This weekend we kicked off MG 2013 with a bang. And by with a bang I mean at a bar on the parade route that was filled with 18 year olds and $10 doubles. Ain't nobody got cash for dat! Nonsense. 

The goal of MG is to catch the good beads. As in, the ones that someone spent $10 on - for one bead. Clearly, I didn't do a good job of that AT ALL, but it was because no one threw any where we were! Tuesday I will make up for this. And I texted the above photo to Helene on Friday, because I had to share that TERRIBLE bead. It was a choker on Andre' - stop being so cheap, float riders! Throw us the good stuff!

And then I danced. This is a rarity - I am awkward, I don't bar dance. Clearly you can see why - I mean, what am I doing with my mouth? I need lessons. (looking at you here again, Helene.)

I avenged the crappy beads with some awesome stunna shades. 

Sometimes I like to pretend like I'm still in college. Taco Bell just never feels as good the next morning, such a shame. 

It wasn't all craziness, though. On Saturday night I made, what I think to be, the best meal I have EVER made. Honey Butter Pork Tenderloin with brown sugar glazed carrots and some homemade garlic knots. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. And then last night I made chicken tortilla soup - thanks to the lovely Alexa for suggesting it! A is coming down with a sickness of some sort, so it was perfectly comforting. 

Also, today may be the only Monday that I will ever be OK with. Only because tonight we are going to watch A's mom ride in the Queen's parade and tomorrow is Mardis Gras. And I get to head out to a tent at 7AM and drink bottomless mimosas for free. I am determined to not let the 90% chance of rain ruin the fun. More beads for me! 

Linking up with Sami and Leeann:

another one bites the dust

The weekends just seem to go by faster when you are older. I am not OK with this, and something needs to be done about it. I vote that we make it mandatory for work to end at noon on Friday and we start the work week on Tuesday. I really think this would make everyone a much happier person. Unless you are one of those crazy lucky OMG I HATE YOU person that loves your job.

Anywaysss, I got a little bored with my layout so I went a little crazy with photoshop on Friday. I really like how it all turned out, so I think this one will stay for longer than 2 months. And The Bow Blog Designs doesn't really exist, it just sounded so much more fun and professional. Hey, maybe one day it WILL exist! Probably the day I figure out how to make the domain I purchased work. I no speako your languageo computero!

I also made a new header for my sister-in-law's blog, The Domestic Dog Mom. Go on and check her out while you're at it, she just started the blogging adventure and already has two really yummy recipes posted! And cute puppies, everyone loves cute puppies. 

Now onto a weekend update of sorts. On Friday night A and I met up with my sister and her husband and little Reid man at a new restaurant in the Heights, Cottonwood. It was perfect for the warm weather Houston is having and for Reid to run around and be wild. It had only been three weeks since we'd seen him, but good gosh, in those three weeks he changed so much! I hate that I can't see him every day but am so thankful I am able to see him as often as I am. He knows exactly who I am now and says KiKi like a champ. He tries to say Andre' but it comes out as "de", it's still adorable. 

Then we went to Beaver's to meet some friends for drinks. I was a bad blogger and didn't take any pictures. BUT I did learn about these insane bars in Houston, referred to as "bathhouses." It pretty much blew my mind (and still does!) that it's allowed for a place to exist that, when you walk in, hands you a towel and a comdom and lets you have at it. Glory holes everywhere. And then A told me that crazier things were out there than that, so I'm choosing to remain naive about it and pretend that it's all rainbows and butterflies in the world. 

Saturday morning we played a bit with Bowden and Reid and then A dropped me off at Brickhouse Bridal where my best friend FOUND THE DRESS! It was actually the first dress she tried on. It is beyond perfect and I am so honored to stand by her side in seven months! 

Saturday night we went to Blackfinn in Midtown for dinner with my three best friends from high school. The drinks were really good but we waited over an hour for our food, so I don't think I would go back. And I'm still wondering why there was part of a Christmas tree in my drink.

Annnnd I finally told people I know in real life (besides A and my sister-in-law) about this little ol' blog! I was talking about it but refused to tell them what it was called, but I'm easily convinced so I gave in. I really don't know why I am so embarrassed when it comes to that, but oh well, they know about it now! 

Sunday we met up with the whole family (Minus my little sister, apparently her boyfriend is much cooler than we all are. HA.) for my birthday lunch. We went to Grimaldi's in The Woodlands and YOU GUYSSS, my mouth is still watering. Their pizza is amazing, and I am really picky about pizza! (A has in fact referred to me as a pizza snob. Not my fault Lafayette doesn't have any good pizza!)

Little man was so tuckered out from all of the fun. He's just so precious when he sleeps. And I'm going to need him to give me his eyelashes! 

That's about all that went on in my neck of the woods. Now hurry up next weekend! I'm ready for ya!

Go link up so I can read about your fun weekend :)

friday randoms

Do your happy dance - it's Friday! It's the second to last Friday of the year for me. I'm off to NYC next week for another Holiday Party for work, so a Friday today and a three day work week next week makes for an awesome time. Then I'm off until 2013! I need this break like coffee needs sugar. BAD.

 

Randoms from this week

1: Found some new milk straws - cookies and cream | 2: Found this nice note in a FedEx package! There are some really nice people out there | 3: Meal planning

 

 

 

I also disovered how to land back in fantasy land regarding our future house. I found this website where you put in the amount of rooms, bathrooms and garage bays you want as well as the style of home you want. Then it brings up plans for houses. They sell the full plans that you can then give to a contractor (either editable or uneditable) and badabing badaboom, you have yourself your dream house. That bottom right one? Yep, that's my dream house. Anyone want to go in on lottery tickets with me?

 

Tonight we are heading to a new local brewery with some friends. Free tours with complimentary beer! Can't beat that. Beer isn't my favorite so I'll probably let A drink my share. Unless they have a cider beer, yumms. Then we're going to try Acadian Village again for the Christmas lights! It's cold here today so it will really feel like Christmas this time.

 

Have a great weekend!





rewind

Recently a few things have been making me wish I could press the reqind button and go back to 2009. AKA - I MISS COLLEGE SO MUCH.

I realize that I hated finals during college, but if one more person posts about being so stressed about finals, I'll go insane. I would give ANYTHING to only have finals to worry about right now. Sure, it's a week of hell, but at the end of it you get OVER a month of free time. Yea, you have to go back to school in January, but COME ON. It's not hard people. You get up around 10, go to class, home around 1 and then watch TV and "study" a bit. Then a nap followed by going out even though you probably shouldn't. And really, in all honesty, I would rather spend three nights in the library studying for econ than five days working in an office.

Maybe if I LOVED my job I wouldn't feel this way, but that's not going to happen any time soon so I'll continue to feel this way until then...if that ever happens.

ANYWAYS - enough of my jealousy. Let's re-cap this weekend, shall we?

A and I (and Bowden) headed up north for the weekend. And by north I mean Bossier City. (In Louisiana anything above I-10 is considered north and pretty much Texas.) My best friend from college lives there and my best friend from high school just so happened to be in town, so I was SO excited to see them both. We were pretty low-key Friday night.

This is at Oyster Bar, my favorite place to eat there. And no, not because of the oysters. I mean, they're probably good and all but I hate them. I love this place because of the queso! BEST blanco queso I've EVER had. Then from there we went to The Vintage, the cutest wine bar where the wine is on tap! Loved it. I had a glass of Moscato d'Asti and drank it really fast so my tummy hurt. We decided it was time to go when I rested my head on the table for a bit :)

Saturday we went to Target to check out the Neimen's line. It was TERRIBLE. I liked one of the Tracey Reese shirts...but if I'm going to spend $80 on a shirt...ok yea, I would never spend $80 on ONE shirt. Puuhhlease.

We did find this, though. Sorry Al :)

I'm pretty sure that was like $60 or something reeeediculous.

Then we watched STUPID alabama beat georgia. I should probably boycot FB now, all these dumb LSU fans are all of a sudden going to be alabama fans now. This is why I do NOT approve of the whole stupid cheer for your conference thing. You should NEVER under any circumstances cheer for your rival - duh. People are just silly.

We finished up the game at Nickey's - yet another Mexican place. A probably never wants to eat Mexican again after this weekend. Then we went to the Warehouse to see A's old roommate's Bubba's band play. (whew!). Mostly I just drank and cried about the $9.50 drinks. What are we, rich?! Drinks aren't even that much in Houston!

As soon as we could we hightailed it outta there to The Cub, home of free drinks for cute girls. No complaints from me. Plennnnty of complaints on Sunday morning, though. I cannot tell you the last time I stayed out until 2...why we thought that would be a good idea Saturday night I have no clue. I don't remember anything so I probably made a fool of myself, as usual.

Tomorrow I'm off to Chicago for a "holiday party" for work. Excited to go but not excited to have two days of work waiting for me when I get back!

Go link up your weekend fun with Sami, Dana and Leeann!

things are looking up

Someone got herself a makeover today! I'm in love with it and keep looking at it every 5 minutes to remind myself of how pretty it is now. Hope you like it to!

My weekend update is terrible today - I did a very bad job at taking pictures this past week, but here goes nothing. Next week I'll use my real camera!

When we got to Houston on Monday night my sister pawned off her dessert she needed to make on me. Considering I had to direct her through the grocery store to find the apples, it was probably a good thing. I made these mini apple pies...and they were SO good. And probably the easiest thing ever. I got a little crafty with it, as you can see. (And these are pre-baked ones.)

They were so good that I made them again on Thursday. YUM!

Work made Tuesday and Wednesday pass by pretty quickly. I got off at noon on Wednesday and headed over to my sister's house to play with my nephew. He went down the slide by himself for the first time.

pretty excited about the slide!

On Thursday the family came over around 10 and we had a relaxing morning playing with Reid and eating WAY too many dips. I didn't eat any turkey due to the disgusting amount of dips I ate. But man, TJ's knows how to make a dip or two. Insert drooling here.

We realized while we were playing that Boo (that's my sister's nickname, long story) dressed Reid in the WRONG bib. Bowden tried to bite it off, but missed and got his hand. Orange and blue are NEVER allowed to be worn together!!

Then we jetted off to the airport. There was no one there, of course, but we didn't account for the fact that there were ZERO parking spots left. In the entire airport. We BEGGED the parking spot guy to let us in and THANK GOD they had one teeeeny spot left. We barely made it, but we did!

Friday bright and early we left Little Rock and headed to Fay-town for the football game.

so jealous of all those people in the sun.

we had seats right next to where my tigers came out of. was fun!



Don't let the picture fool you - I WAS DYING. It was the coldest I've ever been. I took my boots off when we got back to the car to warm my feet. When we got to the restaurant 20 minutes later they were so swollen that my boots wouldn't fit. DEAD. At least LSU won!

We got back Saturday to a houseful of pissed off people thanks to the nasty Florida gaytors. I'd rather go to a shitty bowl game and beat UF than go to a good one (holla Orange bowl!) and lose to UF. HATE HATE HATE IT.

bowden was pissed too, can't you see that scowl?

go link up!



weekend update

I did a whole lot of nothing this weekend, so this is going to be the most random post ever...but at least I took pictures!

(if you follow me on intsagram, most of these will be a repeat. sorry!)

Started off Saturday morning with a little cleaning and decorating! I would do a house tour, but it's a complete wreck. Seriously, we haven't finished unpacking. We moved right before the wedding, so things got delayed and then with our lease up in January, I'm not going to unpack just to re-pack! So I'll do a bedroom tour sometime soon, it's the only finished room.

ANYWAYS - here's what I hung up this weekend. I got a great deal on the canvases from living social. (PS - if you buy full price canvases you are just dumb. there is ALWAYS a deal for them!) I found the you're the... one at (where else) Marshalls and the other was an etsy find. Love how it came together!

Then we did a little tailgating for the UL game. The weather was perfect during the day, but by the time the game started it was soooo cold. We were joking around before the game that if they went to a bowl game in DC we would go. By halftime I veto'd that. If I couldn't sit through a game in 50 degree weather I would DIE in a game in late December at Fed Ex field. SO COLD! Back to regular programming - they won the game but BARELY and just at the end. To pass the time spent while losing, we had a dance party. What, you don't do this at football games?

Blaise looks super awesome in my bow sunglasses, don't you think?

After the win, A wanted to go out and celebrate. It's not my team, so I wasn't in the oh my gosh WE WON mindset, so I opted to stay home and snuggle with Bowden, a good book and lifetime movies.

It may be that I am getting old, but this was SO MUCH BETTER than going to a smokey bar and standing up for three hours. MUCH BETTER.

Sunday we were lazy bums and watched football all day. The only productive things I did were making Bowden another shirt and painting my nails. I am so boring.

Love this color - Beyond Cozy by Essie. Reminds me of the Platinum Jack Rogers...silver in some light and gold in others. Perfect holiday color!

 

Now, this has nothing to do with my weekend, and most of you will tune out here, but I had to share because of how mad this makes me.

 

FSU is a one-loss team. YES, it was to a shitty school that wasn't even ranked, but it was by one measly little point and it was an away game. So why in the WORLD are we ranked number 10 behind THREE two loss teams?! I just know that even if we were undefeated, we'd still be there. (I should be happy because my alma mater is doing pretty well, geaux tigers, but my heart belongs to FSU so I can't be happy.)

 

I am choosing to believe in this poll currently. It's much prettier.

 

That's all I've got today. A and I (and Bowden) are off to Houston after I get off work today for Thanksgiving. Perks of working from home, I can just work there tomorrow and Wednesday.

 

Adios muchachos!

 

PS - linking up today!

 

 

 





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