Cleaning Out

It’s Friday for me today…. I’m off tomorrow, yes!

I’m meeting this lady for lunch in Ocean Springs, so excited to catch up!!

I had lunch with some other fabulous girlfriends, Amy and Alison on Monday at Mary Mahoney’s, we had such a good time! I LOVE lunch with girlfriends……….I always leave feeling fabulous because they remind me how lucky I am.

Wednesday was Heidi’s birthday so……we took the liberty of decorating her cubicle as tacky/fabulous as we could. This was the view from my desk all day…… uuuggghhh all those skanky brightly colored cheap balloons

There was a “Princess” balloon that I wanted for my desk SO BAD but everyone was quick to tell me it wasn’t my day…………FINE.

These are some of the sweet ladies from my office:

We enjoyed dinner at Ruth’s Chris after our 5 o’clock meeting. I had the three course special thing and OH MY GOD, just an FYI do not wear a pencil skirt (with SPANX underneath) when you are going to a dinner of any type. Although, it did probably keep me from eating as much as I normally would? So….maybe it was a good idea?

 

Anyway…I was cleaning my condo last night and for some reason when I’m “cleaning,” I always decide that I’m going to clean out a drawer or two---but I actually always end up looking at old pictures…….So last night I came across a cd titled
“Stone High School Graduation , May 19, 2006”

 

OOOHHHHH YEAH!

I stuck the disc in my laptop and this is what I found:

My BEST friends, who are still my BEST FRIENDS minus Jerr and Tone

Ahhhh........these make me laugh and they also reaffirm that I have always thought myself and my friends were fabulous.  Like....what other girls did you see having a photo shoot out on the football field?
If I could go back in time I would tell 18 year old me:
1. DO NOT go to Pearl River to play soccer, you're going to hate it.
2. Don't get those random piercings just because you feel like being cool--you'll take them out within a few months and to be quite honest they make you look like a skank.
3. Live it up while you're hanging out at Mahogany--those man chasing nights with your girlfriends won't last long!
4. Shots are never a good idea--ever
5. You're going to think you're dating "The One" your senior year of college--you're so wrong but you'll be a better person because of it, so... go for it!
6. You're going to have SO much fun in college, don't ever miss a party--because that's the stuff you remember, not the classes
7. You think you'll be a grown up by the time you graduate college but you'll be more terrified than ever!
8. You're going to get a fabulous job offer the morning of college graduation--so don't stress about it!
9. Tailgate just a few hours longer--it's not the same when you aren't a college student!
10. You don't have to have a new outfit from Forever 21 EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. you and the girls decide to go out.

I need to find a picture of all 6 of us from graduation--I'm sure I have 100's of them somewhere......
but....................... here are a couple of my old favorties:

Told You.

We're best friends............

FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER AND EVER.

CINDERELLA

Last night was the Jr. Auxiliary Charity Ball at the Beau.  
You know I made an entire day of getting ready.......I worked out, spray tanned, had my nails refilled and then took 4 ish hours to get ready.  I considered hiring a driver to pick me up and take me to Brad's house--because I thought I was too fabulous to drive......but......I sucked it up and drove the 5 miles to the river house.


Jay met us there and we shopped at the silent auction and sipped some champagne............

After a few hours of being fabulous we picked up our auction items (Jay bought a trip to Vegas, jealous) and headed to COAST to dance, duh.

You can't have cocktails on the dance floor so--------- when RUDE BOY came on (of course I requested it)  Brad was kind enough to stand on the edge of the dance floor--(on the carpet) and hold my drink so I could break it down in my formal.


We also stopped at McDonalds on the way home?  Why?  I'm not sure......I do know that I ordered a grilled chicken sandwich and an oreo McFlurry and they were out of both! What tha?  So.....I settled on a double cheeseburger (mayo and cheese only) with fries, a coke AND a cinnamon roll, which I thought you could only get for breakfast but apparently I was wrong?  Can you picture me eating that?  In that fabulous dress pictured above.  Yeah me either.

All in All Fabulous night, Fabulous friends, FAB FAB FAB.

Did any of you watch THE REAL HOUSEWIVES BEVERLY HILLS premiere last Thursday? If you didn't you missed out.  

Okay so Taylor (far left) is gorgeous with her fish lips and Adrienne (far right) is fabulous, her family owns The Palms in Vegas.........Kim who's sitting down in the blue next to Adrienne sucks but I like her Loubouton's in this picture--will have to purchase those for myself.


Also if you are feeling like you're hungry but you don't want to eat--you should watch this show, it'll encourage you to stay hungry.  They're all skinny and it's fabulous.


DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES tonight, whoop whoop!!!  What am I going to eat in front of the TV this Sunday night?  Last week was sushi and ice cream.  I'm thinking cheese pizza?  Newks?  Ice cream? McDonalds?  Kidding about that last one.


Cheers!

What's up Weekend?

Let’s hear it for Friday!

I am so exhausted today like seriously……

 I went to dinner with my grandparents at Manhattan last night and it was so sweet, my sister came down too…..

We had a sweet little table in the glass room that overlooks Washington Avenue and it was my FAVORITE time of day—just before dark, cool outside, people jogging by and walking their dogs. So cute. Anyway for dessert I had bananas foster cheesecake, yeah…..amazing twice.

(Whatever "amazing twice" means)


Somehow ended up at The Office after dinner, imagine that- always in need of an Apple Martini.

So…..here I am today, on “casual Friday”—decided by me, wearing the worst possible outfit a 22-year old could possibly wear. Jeans, solid color fitted shirt, solid color sweater, flats, minimal jewelry, minimal make-up. Anytime you have on “minimal” make-up that means you look awful.


I HATE minimal—I like TOO MUCH make-up, too much hair spray, too much teasing, too much, too much, too much. Bigger is better, Go big or go home, yada, yada….


Today I was in the mood for a big greasy cheeseburger or cheesecake or macaroni and cheese….so the office decided on Chili’s Party Platters. How gross, right? Wrong. Now I’m not a fan of cheap, chain restaurants but….. those little mini baby burgers were the coup de grace of my “diet.”
------------------------------------Not really because I’m not on a diet.


I also ate a BIG ole piece of cheesecake, like huge—everyone else cut theirs in half and I’m proud of them for doing that but…not me. I wanted the whole thing, so I ate the whole thing. And I don’t feel bad about it.

Sometimes at work when it’s not a crazy day and there are just a few of us in the office we’ll have “round table lunch,” I don’t know why I decided to call it that, the conference table is clearly rectangle but it caught on… so now when we think it’s a good day to be social we’ll have a “round table lunch.”
Round table lunch = Girls only

At RTL today we were all talking about cooking and I said I hadn’t cooked a meal in my condo yet (I moved in in July) and everyone was in disbelief. Like “OMG do you eat out every single meal? What do you do when you’re hungry? We’ve got to teach you how to cook!”


Here are my thoughts on those questions/ideas—


1. I know how to cook—and I’m a good cook, I don’t need your pointers/recipes


2. I don’t feel like cooking


3. I’m single, I can get a guy to take me out to dinner


4. I’m single, I can go out with my girlfriends


5. I’m single, I go to multiple events in one week and they always have food


6. I’m too tired to cook


7. I don’t feel like cleaning it up


8. I don’t feel like going grocery shopping


9. I don’t feel like having left overs in my clean refrigerator


10. No, I didn’t know that I didn’t own pots until my sister, who was house sitting at the time, called to ask where they were.


So there you go, 10 GOOD reasons I don’t cook.


After expressing my thoughts on having never cooked in my condo the Spanish lady in our office says:
“You need to get married and pop out a kid.”


I’M SORRY, WHAT?

Like imagine it in a little spanish/latino accent--Everyone burst into laughter….then I told her she was completely inappropriate and I would be doing no such thing any time soon. And when I do have kids—they’ll eat Marble Slab for dinner too.

I feel a nap coming on....and probably dinner out....Cheers to making it through another work week people. Natalie is coming down tomorrow and I'm so excited to see her---annnnnd Anna is joining us!

These ladies and I will be wining and dining come this time tomorrow.

CHEERS TO THE WEEKEND!

LOVE!

Interesting Conversations

Interesting series of events today……



Well I wouldn’t say series but several funny things have happened and I haven’t even made it to dinner with my grandparents tonight—which I’m SURE is going to be funny as well. For starters I almost left for work this morning wearing fur. I mean it has cooled off to like 70…..that’s “cool” weather right? It was just a little sleeveless shrug not a full on coat or anything but….after thinking about it……. how ridiculous would I look…in my office, wearing fur—in south Mississippi. Pretty stupid. Like don’t think I won’t wear it out this weekend at night if it’s below 71 degrees.
Whatever, so yeah… I changed my clothes and went to work—not wearing a fur shrug.
I was meeting this precious couple (I met them at the Talent Show last week) at Chimney’s for lunch so…. I decided to stop in Frosting and get them some cupcakes on my way. ….I walk in (with my shades on) Conversation as follows:


“Hey I need a dozen mini cupcakes, assorted please."
 Frosting Girl: “Okay, did you dye your hair?”
“Um……….no?”
 FG: “Didn’t you have blonde hair? At Perk”
 “Oh…yeah. Did you go to Perk with me?”

            

---Now I realized after leaving that sounded extremely rude/arrogant/whatever you want to call it but seriously, I am VERY good at remembering people. Since jumping into the corporate world/moving to a new city I’m not so good with names because I meet SO many new people but I always remember a face. And, for real, I have never seen this girl in my entire life….My hair is a different color AND I had my sunglasses on…and this chick still recognized me? I must have early stages of dementia.

I leave Frosting baffled and dying to open the box of cupcakes….and remembered I left stuff at the cleaners, a long time ago….like real long time ago so I swing in there, walk in, tell her my name, pay, grab my clothes—by this point there was a small line behind me and as I turn to walk out, I’m almost to the door and the tattooed lady behind the counter says “Hey—what size jeans you wear?” Like she yelled it so I turned around…everyone in the place is staring at this point—and say “3”


Now lets be honest with one another—I don’t wear a 3 okay, we all know that but really? Why would you yell at someone and ask what size they wear?


--Because “We got 10 pairs uh Levi’s on this rack, 10 bucks a piece”
1. I don’t wear Levi’s
2. I don’t want jeans someone else has worn
Oh oh and another random thing today (also dealing with jeans)---I get to work and I’m wearing some 7’s, they’re dressy jeans so I can wear them with heels you know whatever… well the I.T. guy walks by and says….”I like those jeans” and for one BRIEF second I thought oh my god the I.T. guy knows what 7’s are---I am so impressed. And then. He says. “They’re like retro, hippie jeans”

Retro? Hippie? Sweetie…I got these at SAKS, in New Orleans and there is nothing hippie or retro about them. But. Thanks, Thank You for thinking my jeans were cute.

Sunday Update

Game Day in Oxford....

....I decided I like the color blue, it photographs well--

We went to the game then shopped on the square, went to dinner and out for drinks.....

.......after dinner Faye laughed at me for putting on so much lip gloss.  FAB-U-LOUS

Then....we danced

And after a quick trip to Taco Bell we called it a night and went home. 

*Yes, the $1 flatbread sandwich/taco thing they came up with is amazing 

Some other good things that have/are happening:

1. Toni made us a funfetti cake with sprinkle icing and it's amazing

2, I am getting better at working my Sex and the City phone

3. We're having sushi for dinner 

4.  I have two dinner dates lined up, in two different cities, the night I get back to town.... meaning I will:

    A. Cancel one

    B. Schedule one at 5 and one at 8

    C. Cancel both and get a spray tan

Knowing myself (and I do, well) I will opt for the spray tan.

Aunt T's BDay is in 48 hours....start the countdown

Hey Rach....it's OK!

My dear friend Rachel had such a cute post today...... click the link below to read her

 Hey it's OK ....

  She is so charming and creative. 

http://racheldillard.blogspot.com/2010/09/hey-its-ok.html

The following are my favorite's from her post....and the rest.....they're my Hey it's OK's!
...to secretly wish your ex still has a thing for you
...to already be counting down to Christmas as if Santa was actually real--
...to wish you had champagne while you're drinking your OJ with breakfast
...to already have all 4 of your future children's names picked out but no husband, and even worse, no prospects

Hey, it's OK...

.....to turn down a date because "you already have plans" (a scheduled spray tan)

.....to eat 3 doughnuts for breakfast and sneak into the break room for another-- maybe they just  don't fill you up

.....to go to the gym just to see that hot guy

.....to buy completely ridiculous, expensive stuff just because you want it

.....to eat out twice in one day (another reason to go to the gym, possibly)

.....to have a crush on someone one day and be totally grossed out by them the next

.....to straighten up your house because the exterminators are coming, always like to make a good impression....

.....to eat 3- 90 calorie bars for dinner

.....to call your Dad and brag about yourself--Daddy's appreciate it

.....to feel you are completely undeserving of everything you have been given

 It's a new day and my joy is renewed

--you said it Rach, God is good!

NEWS in the land of the single ladies

Well first off it's 10:15PM and I am already in bed on a Thursday night listening to Sinatra.....need I remind you I'm 22!  I should be out flirting with cute boys and wearing a sassy dress--instead I left the office, had my nails refilled/painted, worked out, shopped at Target and spray tanned.  When I got home I had to pack for the adventure I will be on the next few days.   Tell you about that in a minute.


Current happenings in my life:
1.  I got a new phone today.  My Blackberry was being bad this morning so I decided it was time to upgrade....  I got this touch screen new high tech gadget Cell South has come out with--pink cover as well.  I thought I would be cute and Sex and the City with a touch screen, too bad I can't work it.   Needless to say if you need me, call me.  It takes me 10 minutes to reply "yes" and "no."  I am also sad no more bbm, I loved sending that face that was doing the "talk to the hand," motion.    Favorite.

2.  I still like peanut butter.  Since my announcement a few days ago (that I now like peanut butter)  I have been eating it on EVERYTHING.  So weird I was disgusted by it last week and I'm obsessed now, mmm! Bring on the peanut  butter!


3.  My nails are a dark grayish pewtery color--and I'm pumped!  With fall we welcome dark nail polish--so sassy!  If your nails are coral, time for a polish change doll.

4.  I had lunch at Mary Mahoney's today with one of my FAB Rolex wearing (gay) guy friends.....when we were walking out, our conversation went something like this: 
Friend:  "I can't be bringing you to lunch--everybody's gonna think you're my wife." 
Me: "Uuhhhh I know....don't bring sand to the beach"
Friend: "Or a sandwich to the buffet...."


I guess in this instance I was the sand and the sandwich......?


5.  I am ALL PACKED AND READY TO GO!  I will be gone the next 5 days on a grand road trip!  
Oxford all weekend for the Ole Miss/Vandy game and......then........... Birmingham......for
KINGS OF LEON Monday (yesssss)  I'm so excited.  I've been listening to them on repeat.  Nonstop.  And being the mature adult I am I have even gone so far as to arrange for a house sitter, or should I say condo sitter?  So. Adult-ish of me. 

6. Florence and the Machine- Dog Days are Over is the bomb.


7. Aunt Tammy's birthday is Tuesday, she'll be 35  29! I love you!