At the Movies - Robin Hood

We went to see Letters to Juliet, but we missed it, so we saw Robin Hood instead.  I had no idea what to exect.  Apparently, I have been living under a cinematic rock, because I didn't even know this movie existed.  And if I had heard of it, I would not have been very enthusiastic to see it.

But how can you not like Robin Hood?  He steals from the ritch and gives to the poor.  And there are all those merry men.  I still remember the Robin Hood cartoon I used to watch every Saturday morning while my parents were still in bed.

This movie is the beginning of the story.  Who is Robin Hood?  What's his beef with the rich?  And where did all those merry men come from?

I enjoyed this one.  I like period movies, and this one fit the bill.  Good costumes, good story.  My sister thought it dragged a bit at the beginning.  But that's kind of the pitfall of the period piece - the back story takes time to tell.  And since I thought it was a good story, I didn't find the beginning slow.  And I actually enjoyed Russell Crowe in the Robin Hood role.  He did a great job.  Good enough for me to leave the theater with a bit of a crush.

Some of the war scenes were a little 'I'll get you with my plastic sword', and the lines were laced with just a smidge of cheese.  But overall, I rate Robin Hood as a decent date movie - because just like my broter in law, I don't think your date is likely to agree to Sex in the City 2.

The Playful Pooch

I did it.  I started a second blog.  A dog blog of course. So for updates on the antics of Kitty and Millie, and for other useful (or at least somewhat useful) doggie content, chek out The Playful Pooch.  And please add yourself to our pack of friends!

I added the dog food info from this blog - because that's what I get asked about the most. 

One of the things I want to do on The Playful Pooch is to feature YOUR dogs, so I may be contacting you for pictures and stories.  Also, if you would like to feature your dog on The Playful Pooch, email me at theplayfulpooch at gmail.

Also please email, comment or chat any feedback and requests. 

HAPPY WEEKEND!!

B-B-B-B Baby Bump!

I know I said I wouldn't be blogging today, but don't be super impressed, I'm still weekend'ing, this is just an automatically scheduled post!  I'll keep today short and sweet with a picture of my 14 +1 day baby bump being the feature.  So here you have it.  In the words of Beyonce ...

"I don't think you're ready, for this belly, I don't think you're ready for this belly, I don't think you ready for this, cause my BODY'S so bumpalicious babyyyyyy" ...

Happy holiday weekend loves!!!

Lipstick Jungle - Candace Bushnell

 

I have wanted to read something by Candace Bushnell for ages.  This was the  first one of her books I grabbed off the bookshelf.  And boy am I glad I did.

Lipstick Jungle is about three strong and powerful New York women.  Nico is a magazine executive who is in the process for lining herself up to be CEO.  Victory is fashion designer at the helm of a globally successful design house.  And Wendy is the president of a top movie production company.  Lipstick Jungle takes you inside the personal and professional lives of these three self-made moguls as they navigate through some of the most pivotal and life changing events of their entire careers. 

I read Lipstick Jungle in two days.  I could not put it down.  I lost sleep, but it was worth it.  This fast-paced novel was much fun to read.  These women came alive on the pages, and watching them persevere with strength and grace was not just entertaining, but also empowering. 

Hands down one of the better books I've read in a while.  Read this one.

Note: As naturalnchicmakeup pointed out there was also a show.  The show stunk.  I think I watched one episode.  So bad I erased it from my memory.  But I'm glad I forgot about that show or I would not have picked up the book.  The book was better.  For sure.

Thoughtless Thursday!

HELLO!  I'm back!  I think yesterday may be the first time in the history of my blog that I didn't blog (except for exceptions, i.e. being in Mexico, sick, weekends, etc.) and it was kinda nice!  I'll admit, I had a minor panic attack at the thought of missing a day of blogging but #1 - I felt like a freight truck hit me I was so tired didn't feel so hot yesterday and #2 - I really wasn't feeling all that witty and interesting either.  SO, along with the reassurance from my Soulmatey that it would, in fact, be okay to skip a day, I made the decision to take a blog holiday.  And one day was enough.  I feel refreshed, rested and READY to blog it up chickadees.  So LOOK OUT ladies.  Although I have to admit, I have a 4 day weekend coming up and y'all know what happens to me on the weekends.  I go MIA.  So there may be another blog holiday coming my way.  But this one just happens to be coincidental.  I'm not a weekend/holiday blogger.  No idea why, I'm just not.  I think it's because I'm on a computer all week at work and the last thing I want to do on the weekend is turn the computer on.  That's what my iPhone's for (smile).  So, on to today's ...

About exactly one year ago yesterday we were celebrating our darling friends, Bobby and Tara's wedding in the wine country in California.  It was SUCH a fun wedding and I'm reminiscing about the deliciousness of all the wine I consumed the fun times we had with our friends so I figured, why not make a Thoughtless Thursday out of my current nostalgia.  So here you have it friends, Thoughtless Thursday - It's Wine O'Clock Somewhere ...

{Sweet Alli and me at the rehearsal dinner our first night there.  Cheers!}

{The night before they became Mr. & Mrs.!}

{Me and my Mister at the rehearsal dinner.}

{Touring the winery on the tram.}

{Another one on the tram.}

{After the winery tour, and a few tastings, under some of the gorgeous flowers that covered the place.}

{Beautiful winery scenery.}

{Where the magic happens.  The wine making, that is.}

{Wedding day.  Boys doin' their thang.  My Mister (back right) lookin' all handsome n' stuff.}

{Waiting for the bride to make her entrance.  I was snapping pictures in the meantime.  He's just so cute!}

{The soon to be Whites!  Let's talk about the flower arrangements over the alter, shall we?}

{Here's a picture before the wedding.  Breath-taking.}

{They're MAWWIED!}

{Time for pics with my Mister.}

{And then some pics with the queen of the dance floor, Mrs. Jesse Hughes.}

{Of COURSE my Mister is the one chosen to walk TWO girls down the isle.  Ha.}

{Dinner time.  Yum.  Um, check out the wedding favors over my Mister's shoulder to the left.  That's right, bottles of wine from the winery the wedding was at.  Ah-mazing.  Definately beat the little tin cans of jelly beans at my wedding.  Sorry friends and family, you got jipped.}

{Let's hear it for those Baylor Phi Gamma Deltas!}

{Two wine drinking ladies a year ago, now baby carrying ladies a year later.}

{Cutting the gorgeous cake.}

{Time to hit the dance floor.  And also make horrid "giggling at AC" faces apparently ...}

{Me and the Mister cuttin' a rug.}

{Yes.  That is my Mister on the left.  Bustin' a move with the mother of the groom.}

{On our way back to the airport, we stopped for a few touristy pictures ...}

So there you have it.  That's what we were doing a year ago almost to the day.  Havin' ourselves a good time.  Now grab my button, play your own Thoughtless Thursday and come back here and link up!  Can't wait to see what random pictures you choose!  Happy Thoughtless Thursday loves!!!

Oh and P dittle S - let's throw a little shout out to my Mister for bringing me home one of THESE dewishious yumsters from here yesterday after I bribed him and begged/whined for one had been craving one for awhile ...

Shout out baby daddy.  I love you.

Dear Weekend, Where Are You When I Need You?

Dear Perrier,

Thank you for making pink grapefruit sparkling water.  It's the most delicious sparkling beverage I've ever tried.  Thank you for not polluting your products with caffeine, aspertame, and/or high fructose corn syrup.  Don't discontinue the pink grapefruit flavor, ever.  I mean it.  EVER.  I. Love. It.

Dear Google,

Why is it that everyday I have trouble logging into something?  Two days ago it was gmail, yesterday it was blogger, and now it's gmail again.  Is it too much to ask that all my computer portals work simultaneously?  Yes, that may make me a dork...don't judge.  Fix it already.

Dear Bryce at H204K9,

Thank you for sending me a replacement water bottle because it sucks that mine was stolen.  It saves me so much time trying to track one down in town.  Not only do your products rock, but you are the sweetest.  Doggie kisses from Millie and Kitty.

Dear Cassi,

Why did you elude me once again?  Sure, I'm happy with the color I got today.  But I would have liked to have found you instead.   You mock me with your online swatches.  You taunt me with that perfect coral color and subtle shimmer.  And then you play hard to get.  Are you enjoying being such a tease?

Dear Sara,

You are so sweet and I value our back and forth comments greatly.  I love your blog and this post format.  Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? XOXO

Dear Strange Lonely Man at the coffee shop,

No, I didn't want to talk to you.  Not even a little bit.  I had my headphones on.  I didn't want to be disturbed.  Sure, there was nothing playing.  But you didn't know that.  Headphones mean 'leave me alone please'.  Period.

Dear my future other half,

Hurry up, already.  I'm tired of waiting.  I don't want to be single anymore.  And I am sick of dealing with all of your cheaper immitation stand-ins.  Sometimes even us independent girls need a reliable and permanently available shoulder to lean on.

Dear Letters to Juliet,

This weekend. You and me.  For sure.  I won't take no for an answer.

Another Fun Factoid From "Arrested Development"

When I was looking up my new fave show I also took a look at the IMDB page. This is the Hollywood database that breaks down all the characters and episodes etc.

Well, they have a spot where they put factual errors that take place in the show. This is what it said for Arrested Development:

Factual errors: A relationship between first cousins, as played out in the "taboo" relationship between George-Michael and Maeby, is not, in fact, incestuous. First cousin is the closest rank of blood relationships that is not incestuous. A relationship with anyone in the direct line (one's parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, etc.) is incestuous. In the collateral line, only the first and second degree (one's siblings and one's parents' siblings, IE, one's aunts and uncles) are incestuous. Their offspring (which would be one's nieces, nephews and first cousins) constitute the first degree of blood relation that is not incestuous, along with every degree of removal after them.

OK... What I want to know is HOW does this person know this? Maybe the person his/herself is having a cousin-to-cousin relationship? Because really, even if it isn't technically "incest" it's still creepy as hell! Funny on the show... but creepy in real life. Down with flipper babies!

Jason Bateman has "Arrested" My Heart

Recently my sister and her husband lent me the DVDs of the sitcom "Arrested Development." At first I didn't think I would like it, but that shit is damn funny. Weirdly funny, yet funny.

I also realized something else: I have a crush on Jason Bateman. Like I would totally make out with him. Maybe a little grinding on the couch too. Keep things interesting.

I was wondering how old he was, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. Well, he was born in 1969. Yep, kinda old. Not older than me enough for it to be sickening, but just enough that people would gossip when they saw a couple our ages together.

Then I realized something else. It's 2010 now, but Arrested Development came out in 2003. I don't have a crush on modern-day Jason, I have a crush on 7-years-ago Jason! So instead of him being 41, he's really 34 there.

So let's look up what he looks like nowadays:

Hmmm pretty good, a few more wrinkles but it adds character, right? Let's see another:

Red hair? Ew!
Let's try a picture of Jason a few years ago, circa "Juno":

Nope, not hot. Hitting on pregnant teenagers is just too creepy.

Let's look up 2003:

Totally a dateable age! Meow! What I need is a time machine!

Maybe not!

Tout Sweet - Karen Wheeler

This book is about the successful Karen Wheeler, who has a great job in fashion, a chic life, a posh flat in London, and a hot boyfriend.  But when the hot boyfriend dumps her, Karen sets out to search for a simpler life in France.  She buys a cottage in a remote French village, and befriends a group of eccentric and outspoken friends.  She learns how to be more self sufficient and enjoy the simpler things in life, while she navigates throug a dating minefield.

This book sounded good so I piced it up.  And though I enjoyed the story line and the characters, I found Tout Sweet quite slow.  This is a great book to take with you while you're traveling, and will be reading bits at a time.  But it is certainly a book I had no problem putting down.  So overall I would pass on this one.

Furthermore, the story was very reminicent of Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. Lead character goes to a new country, buys a house in desperate need of repair, makes some friends and learns to be self sufficient.  Unfortunately Tout Sweet was the cheaper immitation of Tuscan Sun.  So if you haven't read either book, then by all means get Under the Tuscan Sun, which was a much better book.  And no, having seen the movie does not count!

Unmotivated Blogger Day ...

Morning glories, I wish I felt more sunshiney today but truth is I'm. sweepy.  Which makes no sense because I slept better last night than I did the previous two before that.  Mainly due to this recent genius purchase ...

{No, not the pregnant woman in the blue pie-yamas.  The fabulous Boppy Pregnancy Pillow she's so soundly sleeping on, justlikeIdidlastnight.}

But still, after that lovely night o' sleep, I currently feel like this ...

Which is WHY I am absofrigginlutely THRILLED that I have a 4 day week this week!  So today's TECHNICALLY my Wednesday, tomorrow's my Thursday and the day after's my Friday!  It makes the week so much easier when you look at it that way ...

So, in preparation for my 4 day weekend, I am planning on spending a lot of time here ...

 

{My parent's pool with my big love of a labrador residing in it.}

Which means I need to go buy myself one of THESE sexy beasts ...

{Um, it's called a swim "dress".  Pretty sure I can guarantee that my Mister will never want to make another baby with me after he sees me in the swim "dress".  Hot.  H-O-T.}

So there's where my head's at today kids. 

Um, sidenote, did anyone see The Bachelorette last night?

  For the love of Pete ALI, PUT YOUR SKIRT DOWN!  Stop (and I repeat, STOP) prissing around whilst holding your skirt.  I don't know why that drove me so nuts, oh but it did.  To be fair, I wasn't a fan of that dress anyways.  It did NOTHING for her cute figure.  Actually it did do something, it made it look notsocute.  But I do think she's darling.  So I'm EXCITED to see what this season brings.  Anyone have favorites?  I like glasses boy (jumped out of the roof of the limo), and momma's boy (the poor guy who's mom died).  Now let's talk train wrecks.  Um, Shooter?  SHOOTER?  I think you may have gotten that nickname from SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT.  Hello genius, you don't tell a girl, THAT YOU'VE JUST MET, that you got a nickname in college because you ... "ya know, maybe, ya know, got excited a little early if you, ya know, know what I mean?"  EWWWWWW.  Yeah Shooter, just what every girl wants to hear.  From now on tell girls you got the nickname from shooting yourself in the foot and end it there.  And P dittle S for all you Bachelor/Bachelorette fans out there, if you want to LAUGH your PATOOTIE off head over to the I Hate Green Beans blog.  Believe me.  You'll thank me. 

Okay, that's really it for today.  I'm going to try to refrain from recreating the kitty picture in my office today.  I hope you all have terrific Tuesdays!!!

PARTNER

WOW like so, yesterday, on Victoria Day, like i so totally became a youtube partner! just thought i'd share that.

i haven't used my blog in to long so i just thought posting this randomly hehe.

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red velvet is my favorite cake.  I've been craving it for a couple of days now.  Unfortunately, the last time (which was also the first time) I made a red velvet cake, it didn't turn out all that great.  So I'm a little scared to try again.  I did find a recipe by Paula Dean.  She's never disappointed me, so I may give it a try.  Do you have any other tried and true recipes for red velvet?  Have you tried Paula Dean's version?