Pink Room, Part 3

On a brighter note (the Children of the Corn dream and Facebook anger have all but faded), I found some more lovely pink rooms. Nothing like some pink decorating inspiration to cheer me up!

Facebook Woes and Children of the Corn

Top 3 Reasons Facebook Sometimes Makes Me Want to Stick My Head in the Oven:
1) Newsfeed shows me all the sweet little comments husbands and wives post on each other's pages. (e.g. "Thanks for the fabulous weekend, babe. Love you!") Barf.
2) Status updates that show me when my ex's go from being listed as "single" to "in a relationship."
3) Uploaded photo albums that show classmates who are YOUNGER than I am at their fabulous wedding, or albums people upload of their fabulous vacations. Really people, don't you have to work for a living?!?! Who has the time to get married at the Biltmore Estate or spend a month in Australia?

Ok, I'm done grumping. I just started my day a little cranky because I had one of those weird, after-you-hit-snooze dreams. In my dream I was pregnant and in labor! But for some reason I was in a car with my dad driving through a corn field. We couldn't get to the hospital because the car had broken down and I just knew I was going to have a baby in the corn. I've never actually seen Children of the Corn, but I imagine my corn baby would have been a lot like them. It was creepy, very very creepy. So creepy that I took two birth control pills this morning instead of just one.

TGIF!

FINALLY it's Friday! Stayed out a bit too late last night, had a wee headache this morning, and barely made it through our 5 hour sales meeting. But that's in the past now and I'm ready to spend the rest of the afternoon wasting time on internet. Plans for the weekend include celebrating my friend's lil brother's 21st birthday tonight (Heaven help us!) and heading to Lake Norman to see Sunny Ledford play tomorrow night (yeah, so, we might be groupies...) Aside from a work-related cookout tomorrow afternoon, the weekend should be fun and crazy. I have high hopes. Other excitement for the day: I received my second-ever tag from the fabulous Candace over at Just Random... Here goes:

A. Attached or Single? Attached, B and I have been dating for 9 months (holy crap! a whole gestation period, ewww)
B. Best Friend? Hershey, Em, EL, and A (luckily they all live in different cities so no one's toes get stepped on!)
C. Cake or pie? Why make a girl choose just one? I'll have vanilla cake with Rainbow Chip icing AND the key lime and/or peanut butter pie, please.
D. Day of choice? Friday, there's just so much potential in a Friday...
E. Essential item? CHAPSTICK
F. Favorite color? Tiffany blue
G. Gummy bears or worms? Bears, I just love looking at their little smushed facial expressions...
H. Home town? H-town, NC
I. Favorite indulgence? Purse shopping and manicures
J. January or July? Seriously, who likes January? It offers nothing but cold dreariness and resolutions you're not going to keep...
K. Kids? Dixie--black lab, age 7 and Rambo--Min Pin, age 2
L. Life isn’t complete without? Laughter
M. Marriage date? whoa now...let's not rush things
N. Number of brothers and sisters? Just my beautiful lil sister H, she's 22
O. Oranges or Apples? Apples (with caramel dip!)
P. Phobias? Fish, needles, and mold (I just don't trust it...)
Q. Quotes? "Could be worse..." My mom always tells me this when I'm complaining about something
R. Reasons to smile? It's Friday!
S. Season of choice? Fall, it's beautiful here in Western NC
T. Tag 5 people: Muffy Martini, Buford Betty, Magnolia Belle's Musings, Southern Prep, and The Bona Fide Preppy Bride.
U. Unknown fact about me? I still sleep with a blankie
V. Vegetable? Sweet Potatoes
W. Worst habit? Procrastinating and wasting money on eBay, or procrastinating by wasting money on eBay, they're not mutually exclusive...
X. X-ray or Ultrasound? I was thinking what a stupid question this was, then I realized I couldn't think of a better one that started with the letter X...I'll say ultrasound, one might be fun?
Y. Your favorite food? Crapanese, or really anything that I can put Shrimp Sauce on...I also love macaroni salad and watermelon with salt.
Z. Zodiac sign? Gemini
(Another) Z. Which zoo animal is your favorite? The penguins, because they are inside in the air conditioning! Have any of you been to the Asheboro Zoo in August? HOTTT!

Suprise!

You know what a great surprise it is to find a $20 bill in the pocket of a coat you've not worn since last winter? Well, imagine that feeling times 15! This morning I was rummaging through my trunk (which I view as transitory closeting for all the stuff I can't stash at B's or my parents) looking for a measuring tape (of all things!) and I uncovered this little beauty!!! I'd bought her 2 or 3 weeks ago at the Coach outlet and must have been so distracted by my other purchases that I forgot about her! I almost teared up when I uncovered her crumpled white bag this morning. I don't know if pictures can do this jewelry case justice: try to imagine the smooth metallic gold leather, the bronze leather piping, the soft suede interior, and the satin legacy stripe lining.
I just love little accessory stuff like this! You may notice on the price tag the Factory Store price was $129...but she had been marked down to $49.99...but wait, then there was an additional 20% off that!!! I love outlet shopping. I may have mentioned before that the company I work for has 5 showroom/stores sprinkled across NC. About once or twice a month I visit each of these to check on the salesmen and/or meet with customers. Unfortunately for my bank account, on my way to our showroom in the lovely mountains of Boone, NC, I have to drive right by Shoppes on the Parkway in Blowing Rock. This outlet center boasts not only a Coach Factory Store, but Banana Republic Factory Store, a Gap, and the only J. Crew Outlet in NC! I like to think of these work trips as "scheduled shopping time"...and I've got an appointment coming up next Friday! In other news, I saw on the Coach website this morning that you can design your own tote, then submit it for a chance to win a Coach shopping spree, etc. Fun! Ok, back to work...

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.