Pink Room, part 2

Ok, the pressure is on! I finally got my check in the mail from the NC Lottery and I'm closing on my mansion this week. I must make a decision on my color schemes, as I'm meeting with the decorator on Monday! *Sigh* A girl can daydream can't she? So yeah, still surfing for pink rooms. Found this one, not quite as crazy about it, but it's fun?

Pink Room

One of my goals in life is to have a pink dining room. (Clearly I am a very ambitious person.) I think they're so fun, yet classy at the same time...and I'm pretty sure those two elements aid in digestion. I guess I need to add a mini goal of finding a man who'll let me have a pink dining room. I love B with all my heart...but his tastes differ a bit from mine. (Think brown leather couches, ginormous TVs, and framed prints he won from the Ducks Unlimited auction.) Just thinking about my sweet burly man in a pink dining room evokes images of bulls and china shops...but one goal at a time, back to my pink room. Earlier I was taking a wee de-stress break from the PILE of work on my desk by searching for some pink inspiration and I found the room pictured above. LOVE LOVE LOVE the pink and green and the crystal chandelier! What do we think?

School Pizza!

Even though today is Monday and those are generally sucky days for me, I'm very happy. I had school pizza for lunch! I decided to try this little hole-in-the-wall diner close to where I work. I had ordered a chicken salad sandwich and a sweet tea to go, when something at the bottom of the menu caught my eye. One of the items on the kids menu was school pizza. I asked the waitress about it and she said, "You know, the rectangular shaped pizza slices the cafeteria used to serve on Fridays in elementary school." NO SH!T!!! It was $0.99 ($.99!!!!!) and came with my choice of fries or tater tots! I went with tater tots, and left the chicken salad on my order too as backup. (Let's keep this between us, B thinks I'm on a diet...) It was delicious, I enjoyed it way too much. My mom always packed my lunch so I rarely got to enjoy the wonders of caf food. In a way, my lunch today was like re-living a little piece of 3rd grade...:-) The chicken salad sammy was good too. (I'm a hoss...) Also, incase any of you were wondering if I survived the cowgirl party, I did. We had a blast...and somehow I ended up being the only one in the picture with a cowboy hat on...if you look closely you will see that my earrings are tiny leather cowboy hats too, compliments of my mother (the queen of costume/theme jewelry). Saturday found us back on the lake, so here's a pic of B and me with our Bubba Kegs.

Sunday we planned on spending by the pool, but there ended up being thunderstorms. Instead we watched movies on TBS and then went out for sushi. I talked B into going to Walmart with me afterward and stocked up on some new colored pens and markers for my office. Maybe that's what got me so excited about re-living elementary school...Overall it was fun weekend. Hope everyone's Monday is going swell!

P.S. Try as I might, I couldn't find a pic of school pizza online that looked even close to as yummy as mine was.

Dessert

"I'm a big believer in dessert. And let me tell you, if there were more dessert believers like me, this whole country would be a much nicer place. Certainly better than the nation of jittery, testy insomniacs we've become thanks to those damned Starbucks on every corner.
I swear this national caffeine addiction is what's making everyone so angry these day. Have you noticed? We're angry about the war, about debt, about politics, work, Global Warming, gas prices, the economy, our neighbors. But mostly, it seems to me, people are angry about not being more successful. They're so busy getting ahead and not falling behind that they've forgotten the simple, inexpensive pleasures. Like eating fresh blueberry pie with vanilla ice cream outside on the picnic bench after a day of swimming and picking berries. Or gathering with friends in front of the fire on a snowy evening with hot buttery bread pudding and baked apples while outside a winter wind howls...That's what dessert means to me – a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world."

This is an excerpt from Sweet Love, by my new favorite author Sarah Strohmeyer, and I couldn't agree more...

Cowgirl Up!

Tonight my friend is celebrating her birthday...at a karaoke bar...with a country theme.
(Wow, I had to google how to spell "karaoke"...that's a toughie!)
The email said:

C's 25th Birthday Party: Friday, July 11th 8pm
"Cowgirl Up" Theme!
Wear your best Western wear!

Umm...anyone have cowgirl boots I can borrow? I've got a bad feeling that I'm in for some drunken renditions of Gretchen Wilson's Redneck Woman and Shania Twain...Wish me luck...

Bleeding Love

Seriously, is anyone else sick of this song? Don't get me wrong, I think Leona Lewis is great, she's just so overplayed! And Lil Wayne's Lollipop...THREE of my preset radio stations were playing this song simultaneously on my way to work this morning. (Again, don't get me wrong, I've secretly loved Lil Wayne since before he was cool.) I woke up a touch cranky this morning (could have been the dog that was sitting on my chest...or the dog poop I found on the living room carpet) and felt the need to rant...Soooo, where do I come? Back to blog world! Sorry I've been so MIA lately! Work has been slam busy since I was out two days the week before last in PA and two days this past week for the 4th. Speaking of the 4th, I hope everyone had a fantastic one! We spent the weekend on lake: drank too much, got too much sun, general merriment and all that. I bought a baybay lifevest for Rambo and we took him on the boat with us. Of course Dixie came too.
My grandmother broke her hip two weeks ago, actually on the day we were headed back from PA, and has been in the hospital ever since. I snuck Rambo in to see her yesterday in a backpack. She loved it! That's pretty much all you've missed in my blog-absence. Nothing too exciting...oh, but I did paint my toenails purple (with sparkles!) last nightand finish the sweetest book, The Cinderella Pact by Sarah Strohmeyer. I have to confess, I totally judge books by their covers (and this last one had a shoe...with sparkles!) Any recommendations for another good summer book to start?

Carolina Girls, best in the world...

We finally made it back...it took us 10 hours to get home and we're dog tired. But we had a blast! I'm super busy playing catch-up at work, but I'll post pics soon. One cool thing that happened:
We were at a bar in Delaware and my sister and I had gone to the bathroom. The line was super long so we had to wait a bit. We were almost to the stalls when a girl who'd been in front of us in line came out of her stall and said to my sister and me, "You two are the nicest girls in this whole place!" I smiled at her and said, "It's because we're from North Carolina!" :-)