La Vie en Curlsz Part One

No neighbors thank you for letting me check on your dog's this weekend, thus giving me a key to your house... While you were out, I could have rummaged through your stuff but then I'd feel guilty every time I looked at you - I did however snag your new People Magazine that came in the mail today, because I myself would never willingly subscribe to that magazine.

I love my new neighbors, but he's a home builder and his apparent hobby is anything that has to do with an electrical saw.

My hobbies are reading, photography and gardening - all very quiet activities. So either I'm taking up the tuba to drown him out or I'm coming up with a new hobby for him. Puzzle making?

In the spirit of entrepreneurship and supporting friends I bring you Crystal McReynolds and her latest venture!

Honestly I know alot of women that do these crafty companies and most of them make me shudder, puff paint and stick on jewels - blech! But I looked at her website and instantly fell in love!!!

Pins & Pillows Custom Bedding

And yes Crystal if you start using your bedazzler and puff paint I'm yanking this off my blog ;-)

I LOVE grapefruit and all grapefruit products - I just recently admitted this to myself when I was washing with Neutrogena's Grapefruit Body Wash and it smelled so amazing and sweet I had the overwhelming urge to lick my arm...

So taking stock I realize my obsession extends to...








Grapefruit soda, sweet/sour chews, body wash and him! (sorry couldn't resist he's standing in front of grapefruit!!

Usually I love birthday coupons, who wouldn't!!! Because it usually means free stuff from the stores and restaurants you love, right? Well apparently the recession is hitting everyone hard because this is how the coupons have been rolling in.

• Aubuelo's - $5 off your meal - last year it was a free meal
• Origins - $10 off a purchase of $25 or more - no problem I will eventually use that.
• Black White - $10 off your purchase - I had no need to go buy anything and basically did because I had a coupon - sucker!
• DSW - $10 off purchase of $30 or more - but at least they let you combine coupons there!
• Border's Books - 25% off, followed by a looonngg list of what I can't use it on!
  
• This is the best one - From the A&M "Century Club" (Alum) they will actually sponsor HALF of my contribution to the club - oh really A&M, you'll sponsor half a contribution to YOUR club (since apparently being a graduate alone doesn't get me the key) - oh but wait Malita, before you get pissy, we'll send you some magazines and a car sticker for that - even though we know you'll never read the magazines and you hate car stickers!

Basically, if I give my friends money for my birthday, they'll give me a discount! Remember those kids on the playground that wouldn't be your friend till you gave them something - yeah, something like that....

Yeah, I know two blogs in one day - in fact in one hour - I need to unplug... But just this minute I found my new music obsession and wanted to share...

What is going on? Watching the Rep National Convention within the first few minutes I heard "drill baby drill and drill now" - saw a fat old white lady chanting "drill baby drill" - and saw a guy dressed as Abraham Lincoln - i thought the democrats were the flamboyant ones ??? Republicans are giving them a run for their money.

But back to this slogan "Drill Baby Drill" - do they not hear themselves, are we in a 70's porn?

YAY!! Kerra's website is now in effect (affect?).... For the best waxer in Austin - call her up! PS $5 to the person that goes and can name her celebrity double - it's spooky!!!

She has an aeshetician in house as well - I'm sure she's great!

This is why I love Austin - every year at Labor Day it's city wide free yoga day. Just about every year I go to some of the really cool studios and it's just fun... So if your a local and want to expand your horizons a bit or just take advantage of something free. Here ya go...

You may have gotten this in your inbox once upon a time - it's so cute... reminds me of when I was teaching 4 year olds Sunday school and the verse was "children obey your parents" we later played a fishing game - pastor's kid went home saying the verse I taught them was "children obey your fish" - there was no changing his mind!

ACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister.
After a while he asked: 'Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?'

MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, 'If you don't remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six.'

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom good night. 'I love you so much that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window.'

BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her.
Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: 'How does it know it's me?'

SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups.. 'Please don't give me this juice again,' she said, 'It makes my teeth cough.'

DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: 'How much do I cost?'

MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: 'Why is he whispering in her mouth?'

CLINTON (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried. When his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, 'I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in?'

JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: 'The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt.' Concerned, James asked:
'What happened to the flea?'

TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a while and then asked, 'Why doesn't your skin fit your face?'

The Sermon I think this Mom will never forget.... this particular Sunday sermon...'Dear Lord,' the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face.. 'Without you, we are but dust...' He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, 'Mom, what is butt dust?'

On this sweet ride I'm flyin...

Well maybe not flying persay but when you hit the curb in your brand new bike and you fly over the handlebars only escaping with a lovely scrape... well maybe I can fly, just need to work on my landing... Good thing I packed a first aid kit on the bike... as many bike injuries as I've had, I had a feeling I'd need one...

I'm a Craig's List junkie - have been for many many years now - not only can you find great crap but great stories - I mean hello let us not forget this is where I found the Erotic Handyman!

Well now I'm bike shopping - amazing how much these people think their bikes are worth but anyway - today I ran across a company selling messenger bags - this was their tag line...

Bag retails for $99 plus shipping. It is in perfect condition. Brown with bright reflective striping. Size large. You can fit a 30 pack of beer in this.

Well they are advertising to people in South San Marcos - home of "Texas State"* known by many as a party school.

A 30 pack of beer??? That's some bag! And now you have to get home with this giant bag of beer strapped to your back - let's picture the accident that could cause - man found laying in a pool of beer, story at 10.

*For non Texas readers, Texas State formally Southwest Texas State, it's a bit tongue and cheek that they were trying to shed the party school image thus changing their name , it is now a party school with a better name.

There are a few things that are more honored than life in the south.... Iced Tea, the word y'all, the phrase fixin to and clinging to the Civil War....

This from my favorite blogger in the world who if we ever met would be my best friend for life (well she and Casey and I that is, because we would easily entertain each other for hours on end without even trying)....

A Conversation with Her Dad
(Read her blog)

Daddy: “It’s been great having you home this weekend.”
Lincee: “Thanks Daddy! I’ve had fun.”

Daddy: “When are you coming back?”
Lincee: “I don’t know. I’m not sure of my work schedule this fall.”

Daddy: “You should come back for Hallsville Western Days.”

Lincee allows herself to reminisce for a few minutes remembering past Western Days. She recalls the energy restored in the small town as its citizens gear up for the rival football game, reuniting with old friends at the street dance downtown, the parade that consists of old cars, the volunteer fire truck and about a million tiny twirlers from the local dance school.

Daddy: “There’s going to be a Civil War re-enactment in our front yard.”
Lincee: stunned silence

Note to reader: We live on 15 acres.

Daddy: “I’m serious. The North is going to be over there and the South is going to be down there. They are going to battle right here in front of the house.”
Lincee: “Naturally.”

Daddy: “We had to move the chili cook-off to the west side of the property.”
Lincee: “Well that makes sense.”

Daddy: “There’s going to be an old-fashioned dance in the driveway and your Mother is hosting a tea in the house. She wants to dress up like Scarlet O’Hara.”
Lincee: “And she should.”

I’m going to go ahead and let you guess where I will be on October 3. Western Days can not come fast enough!

To clarify, Breaking Dawn is the fourth and sadly the final installment to the Twilight Series. I and half of the female nation are highly addicted.

Would I recommend? Absolutely - Stephenie Meyer is a master author in my opinion, she knows how to suck her readers in and leave us shamelessly begging for more. I have also recommended The Host - which is her first adult novel.

The Twilight Series is categorized as young adult...but as Meyer says "categories should never keep you from reading a good book." And I agree.

However, it is about vampires - but just like The Host which is about alien invasion...it is really more about the relationships between the characters. The vampire idea is really more of a prop, a setting. But if you can't get passed that then I guess I don't recommend.

And applause to those that saw this title and actually sang the song... And a standing ovation to those that pictured Job and his magic trick excuse me his illusions while this song played in the background... Now on to the business at hand.

I am going to be a major looser this week - first of all Breaking Dawn hits the shelves midnight Friday - and guess who is accompanying Elissa and Nory to Borders for the midnight book release - dork one, dork two and dork three...

But we've promised each other if it's lame and a bunch of suburban mom's and their teenagers we'll hit the bar instead. Stay tuned, I'm sure we'll end up people watching for at least an hour - I'm already making predictions on what we will see... $5 we have those that come in full Bella/Edward costume!

SO 4 days till I will be cloistered in my room until I finish!

(yes two posts in one day - get crazy)

Who can keep up with the kids these days ;-)

I have recently had to either risk embarrassment and just come out and ask someone or consult my trusty UrbanDictionary.com for these crazy abbreviations for IM and text..which I then adopt and use and abuse - admit tingly....

Apparently...

ROFL is not a horrible spelling for ralphing as in throwing up...
LMAO is not a misspelled version of lame o....
420 is not an area code
and most recently DILF has nothing to to with dying in laughter forever

P.s when talking to someone else - unless you are genuinely kidding it is NOT I repeat NOT ok to speak in text - OMG or LOL are not verbal replacements for the actual words and actions - I refuse to take you seriously and will make fun of you to your face, just know you brought it on yourself and deserve it... Also if you are typing and can't bring yourself to type "you" and instead type "u" take a good look and the mirror and repeat these words "I am officially amongst the laziest people on the earth, pretty soon I will find myself Ebaying for a respirator so I won't have to breath on my own."

Anyway - TTYL...

Remember that song?

So driving to Central Market today I spy a guy - ooo great name for a game - anyway... I spy a guy, can't be more than 25, in a Toyota 4Runner (all things cool so far) jamming out to Cindi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (incidentally what we were jamming out to - on the radio) ...smoking... wait for it, no not a cigarette, not even a left handed cigarette (joint for you conservative cats ;-> ) smoking a PIPE!!!

A pipe - is that cool with the 20 somethings now???

It made us laugh - and then we quite literally went hmmm...

My skin is burning...My face is melting...My big hair is standing on end...Therefore I deserve this treat!! Plus it only has 2grams of fat - score!!!

Surely God was smiling on the creators of Haagen Dazs when they created this treat. Throw a biscotti wafer underneath and mmm mmm good!!

So far I love coffee (of course), dulce de leche, and raspberry vanilla swirl...warning though I forgot how much the coffee treats keep me up - I was up till almost 4am as a result - ooops!