Saturday, February 19, 2011

Happy Birthday Drake

My little chunky monkey baby is getting all grown up!! (I love this picture!)
Happy Birthday 13th Drake, you are now a teenager and I am sure you will be giving me lots of gray hairs in the years to come!!!

Did not do much, went to Old Navy and got him some new duds, then went to lunch at Roadhouse, then stopped at Coldstone for Birthday Ice Cream.......
Of course now he has abandoned us and went to a buddies house for the night. Pretty typical!! Hopefully it was a good Birthday, love ya buddy!

Obsession

I honestly don't know how or where or why it started, but I have a problem. Some days it is a more serious problem than others, some times I just can't help myself. They are sooo pretty and some times they are shiny and some times they are soft to the touch. Some are spiky and high, some are chunky, some are sling back, some are just basic, everyday. I just walk up and down and look and touch and drool and I WANT THEM ALL!!!!

Ok, I have a shoe fetish, obsession, illness, sickness, whatever you make call it. and at this point in time, NO, I don't need or want an intervention or need counseling!!

Earlier this week I found myself on Jury Duty. Well, I had some time to kill so I found myself at Kohl's and ended up walking out with 2 new pairs:

Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
Luckily for Mark, unluckily for me, the 3rd pair they did not have in my size (but they do have them online, hehehehehe)
Exhibit 3

The other intersting tidbit, side effect or whatever you want to call it. As I am now buying shoes (I think I have previous mentioned I have bought more in the last year than in the previous 10 years combined) the heels keep getting higher and higher.

Exhibit 4 (previously posted a pic of these lovely ones)
Not sure how that fits in the obsession, but as some who are near and dear to me and know my goal, the last 2 pair are 4 1/2 inch heels, that is only 1 1/2 inches away from the 6 inch __________ heels I am aiming for LOL.
Exhibit 5
SOOOOO, anytime, anyone wants to go with to feed the addiction, just call or text or whatever and tell me the time and the place, I will be there. Although it is getting harder and harder to hide the damn shoes boxes LOL j/k!!!! (he buys fishing/hunting stuff I buy wonderful, fabulous, sexy, pretty, shiny shoes. There are worse things to be addicted to, right?!!!!)

These are soo darn cute!!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Girls Weekend In Arizona....

I want to start by thanking my Aunt Sherri for her hospitality and it was nice to see everyone and spend time with each and everyone that was down there!!
It kinda started as a comment in passing in a conversation. When Sherri mentioned she was going down for a month I mentioned, I wanted to go because I had not been in forever. Next thing I know I am getting a text from Angela, she found reasonably cheap tickets and BAM we were going to Arizona.....

We left Oregon on a cold, foggy morning out of Eugene, arrived in Yuma in the sunshine. Had no problems witn our flights, everything went rather smooth (Damn some of those planes are small!). Waiting at the airport to be picked up and saw 2 fighter jets fly over, it was awesome, the boys would have loved it. Oh Yeah, this WAS a girl's weekend, so the hubby and chiclets were home, alone, without me :D
Had visitors from when we got there until time for bed, but it was really nice to sit back, relax, chat and drink.
We did manage to go to the flea market, got our walks in most mornings, took a nap one afternoon, went to Mexico, played cards, went to the casino and went shopping. I do have to say, walking the park in the morning was very peaceful. We also decided to go to the gym one night, at 10:15 PM, yes, I said PM!!! We got our exercise in and THEN (I was with a couple of Parkers hehehe) we still needed to go to WalMart so after leaving the gym all hot and sweaty we head to WalMart. I can honestly say I have never been to that store at that time of night, we left at 1:00...in the morning......that is sleeping time!! :D

Mom came and joined us on Friday, stayed Friday night and then headed back on Sat. While she was there, we went to Mexico for the day. What a good time we had. We walked around for a bit and looked at all the stuff for sale. Stopped and had shrimp tacos from a street type vendor, they were very tasty. Finally caught up with the rest of the gang at Paraiso. We spent the afternoon chillin and relaxing, (see the dead soldiers on the table!). Mom and Sherri had a manicure. It must have been good to end up with a $200.00 tab (Thank You Again, Raymond, Jerry and Gale!!) But finally it was time to head back across the border.


We did stop at the casino and spent a couple of hours, I think I basically broke even.

Sadly, we did only have about an hour and 1/2 by the pool on Saturday afternoon (I think we both took a nap again). We had planned on sitting by the pool on Sunday, but it was overcast and windy, so we went and had fish tacos at a street stand and went shopping.

Monday I had to leave to go home (my family was missing me) and I came home alone, Angela did't leave until Wednesday, brat!! Had a little trouble getting my suitcase closed and had to leave a bottle of booze in Arizona (it was the cream tequila too damn it!) and had to have Sherri and Angela wait at the curb when I checked in, in case I had to take something out of my suitcase. Fortunately it weighed 48 lbs, wheewwww just made it!

Had good flights home, everything was on time, no problems. Had such a wonderful time and can't wait to go back. Next yeat though it will be a full week and I am going to practice my card games so I can stay out of the asshole chair :D I am sure I am forgetting something, but it was a good trip.

Thanks again everyone, it was awesome!!!!

It's Coming, It's Coming....

Now all I have to do is wait for the Big Brown Truck (UPS - I feel like I spend 1/2 my time waiting for the big brown truck)to show up.
I have so, so, soooooooo been wanting/coveting/desiring/dreaming/drooling/needing (?) an iPhone, but never wanted to change from Verizon to AT&T. Imagine my happiness when Verizon announced they were going to get iPhones (AND it was, luckily, right around the time my contract renews, YIPPEE for me!!). Well being the procrastinator that I am, I did not get online and do the preorder thing, so I had to wait, like everyone, until they were available to the general public. Well, I did finally order one, FINALLY!!! And it looks like it has shipped (YIPPEE for me AGAIN!!). I know this is totally not necessary and I know not everyone is going to understand my fascination, desire, want (and it is truly, 100/1,000,000% a want!!) but I just had to have one. (Don’t remind that I already have a cell phone and an ipod and a netbook!!! I know this!) I did really need a new phone, my current one only works on speaker, I just probably didn’t need an iPhone. BUT it has been ordered, it has been shipped and soon it will be delivered and I will be a very happy camper!! I’m worth it, Trust Me!!!!


P.S. Watch for my next update, which will be soon, hopefully, I will psot pics from our Girl’s Weekend in Arizona!!!