These are a few of my favorite things!

[In no particular order]

• Getting to work after being gone and having no new voicemails!
  
  
• Deciding I’m finally going to make that recipe I have been wanting to try and realizing I have ALL the ingredients.
  
  
• Getting amazing parking, somewhere really busy and crowded.
  
  
• When a plane takes off from the runway and the feeling of excitement and adventure and new experiences.
  
  
• The first bite of Pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving!!
  
  
• Holding a brand new baby in my arms for the first time.
  
  
• When I get in the car, turn on the radio and one of my favorite songs begins just as I start to drive.
  
  
• Getting to the register and finding out something is 30% off and I didn't know it!
  
  
• Getting unexpected mail.
  
  
• Having a long laugh with an old friend without even having to vocalize what's so funny.
  
  
• Coming home after a long day at work to a waiting glass of wine and a hug that goes on for days.
  
  
• Making that final car payment/ credit card payment/ etc.
  
  
• The feeling I have in the pit of my stomach on Christmas Eve.
  
  
• Knowing that the man beside me is the one I was supposed to find and spend the rest of my life with.
  
  
• Enjoying spontaneous happy hour on the first warm Friday afternoon on the patio of my favorite bar with my girlfriends.
  
  
• Collapsing on the couch Friday night and watching hours of trashy TV and not feeling an ounce of guilt b/c I know I earned it.
  
  
• Putting on an old pair of pants and all of a sudden they're loose.
  
  
• Knowing the best is yet to come.
  

Add your own favorites below :)

Happy Wednesday!

Happy Birthday, Charlie!

Today is my sweet boy's 1st birthday!!! Can you all believe he's 1 already? I sure can't! Charlie has brought us so much happiness over this last year, and I am absolutely head over heels in love with my 14 pound precious little child furbaby. He is the world's sweetest doggie and I am so proud to be his Mama!

And in true birthday fashion, Charlie had a birthday celebration filled with cake, candles, presies and friends! He's gotta celebrate in style. Afterall, he only turns 1 once ;)

Here are some pictures from our weekend birthday celebrations!




















birthday boy all worn out from his extravaganza.


Happy birthday, Char! Your Mommy loves you :-)

Gaga to the extreme!

I have a confession-

I have been slaving at work watching Lady Gaga’s new video “Bad Romance” five times in a row now and I have no intention of stopping. Honestly this video is AHHHHHMAZING. Gaga to the extreme! I am dying ... in the Rachel Zoe way, of course!

Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is how you do a music video! And I smell lots of VMA noms next year!

Oh, and happy Wednesday! :)

Cooking Shows Are Not My Style

Cooking shows are so overrated. Anyone else with me? This weekend I actually fell asleep watching one. Food channels really bore the crap out of me.

*I need to be entertained*. Yelling BAM! at your salt doesn't do it for me. Cussing out your chefs-in-training doesn't humor me at all. And describing your ingredients as textures like they're wallpaper or something doesn't make me hungry.

I mean, if you possess the skills to cook/bake/some-other-cooking-adjective-here then I'm sure these shows are super helpful with their fancy, gourmet recipes chock-full of ingredients I've never heard of, let alone own. But for the more... novice chef like myself, watching these chefs chop/dice/some-other-cutting-adjective-here is totally a bore.

You can't smell the food, they don't even cook in real-time (ingredients into the pot to simmer and WHAM! they pull out an already simmered sauce to fit the 30 minutes time slot) and worst of all, you can't taste any of it. WHAT'S THE POINT?

I know, I know. Who am I to criticize world-renowned chefs when, no, I can't cook but my apron is fabulous... BUT i CAN do something they can't! I can start a mean kitchen fire, make a terrific mess, explode various meals with such force they leave holes in the ceiling and grind up a fork in the garbage disposal like it's my job. That my friends is *talent*.

And while my meals might not always ever turn out, there is at least some action! and drama! and often, comedy! happening in MY kitchen.

Anyone want to come over for Thankgiving dinner? I won't even charge you admission to see my cooking in action. :)

Yes, I am a Twi-hard :)

14 DAYS, 9 HOURS and 2 MINUTES until NEW MOON.

EFF. YEAH.

:: swooooooooooooon ::

Not that I'm counting or anything.

(I totally am. TWO weeks!)

Who is excited?

(me!!!)

*jazzhands*

Lusting Waiting impatiently patiently,

A squealing 12 year old Rpatz biggest fan and someone who is totally going to the midnight premiere!

Squeeeeeee.

One Heck of A Halloween!

Hello lovelies! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! I sure did!

Halloween is by far one of my favorite holidays! The simple act of dressing up and getting my make-up done is reason enough to love it! ;) Not to mention that our party was a MAJOR success. So, let's go straight to the pictures, shall we?

[party host and hostess]

[Miss Universe 2009 Contestants]

[with my baby boy]

[funfetti cookies were the bomb dot com!]

[with my PRETTY BESTIE <3]

[Miss Ireland, Miss Greece, Miss USA, Miss Brazil]

[with my hubs!]

[love her!]


[our cute little hippie neighbor baby]

[making sure I didn't contract the swine]

[best costume of the night, hands down]

[all 8 of the Miss Universe contestants!]


[pumpkin carving battle 2K9]

[my drawing of Charlie's face :)]

[charlie thought mama did a good job :)]

[of course hubs' pumpkin HAD to be sports related]

It's da weekend!

adorable costume = ✔

party at our house = ✔

all of our friends = ✔

jello shots = ✔

fully charged camera = ✔

lots of glitter = ✔

a guaranteed good time = ✔


I can NOT wait for tomorrow and promise to be back with plenty of pictures :)

Until then, happy Halloween my lovelies! Hope you all have a spooktacular weekend!

Sometimes I want to Scream.

Hey everyone!

Thank you for all of your well wishes. I am finally feeling no longer dying better! Just in time for Halloween. Whoo hoo. And as much as I hated my immune system, I at least have to give it props on the timing. I would have been depressed having to miss Halloween. And like my hubs says, you know I am better when I have my sassiness back :) And boy, is it back. Today especially.

Columbus drivers honestly make me crazy. And not just any crazy. I am talking about the wanting-to-rip-my-hair-out crazy. So crazy, that not even a Britney song can save me at that point.

I am not kidding when I say that I always manage to get stuck behind the 90 year old people who shouldn’t be on the road driving 20 miles an hour. Or next to the semi-truck drivers who have death wishes and I’m convinced want to kill me. Or the dude in the clunker that is just cruising, taking his damn time bumping music so loud that you can’t even enjoy it. Then there are also those people who forget that their car came equipped with a turn signal.

And then comes my favorite: if there is any form of precipitation everyone LOSES THEIR COMMON SENSE and completely forgets how to drive (if they even knew how in the first place).

I am SO not looking forward to the next 5 months of my life on the road. AT ALL.

But what i AM looking forward to is the WEEKEND! I will post more on that later this week, including our plans and costumes ;)

HAPPY WEDNESDAY EVERYONE!