When It Rains

It pours... and wow has it poured buckets as of late. See, in my head, I am Holly Homemaker, Ms. Perfect and Martha Stewart all rolled into one (minus the insider trading part). Oh, did I mention, I am also super lawyer, best friend and devout too? Well, somewhere in there, the universe decided to rain on my parade.

So, let's go back.... I had been craving a nice roast for dinner for a couple weeks. It happened after lunch with my brother and nephew a couple weeks back at Cotton Patch Café. I love their post roast and decided I needed to give it a whirl again. So, I got all the stuff during my Sunday shopping and put it all in the crock pot Tuesday morning and set about my day. I could just smell it on my way home last night. And then I stepped into the house to the aroma of... stale dog and air. I rushed to my crock pot only to see it had turned off. I had no idea how long it cooked or didn't cook. There goes dinner! I set it on high for 2 hours hoping it would cook. I did my HIIT workout, which I was so excited to share with you all today and then decided to do some laundry.

I put in the towels and sat down to watch a little SVU until the roast was ready and le guy arrived. That's when it happened. I heard this strange sound coming from my washing machine. Darn thing must have gotten unbalanced. Nope, no sir. It was leaking and by leaking I mean gushing gallons of water onto my floor. I turned it off and set to mopping up the water with the one towel I  had since yeah I was washing towels... Meanwhile le guy arrives and we survey the damage. We turn it back on so we can see where the water is coming from and then it gushes again. But this time, can't get it off. Water is just  hoover damming it way all over my laundry room and into my kitchen. Finally le guy pulls the plug. water.... water... water.... we set to mopping up water and ringing out towels for the next 30 minutes or so. When we finally got it mopped up, the roast.... still not done.

I was done. I lost it. I mean all out 2 year old tears of a temper tantrum. Between work, holidays, the house trying to kill me and dinner imploding I had enough! Now I was pouring.

So, my Christmas list, well it now consists of one plumber, one roofer, one drywall hanger and oh did I mention the cracks in my wall?

I turned the roast to low and let it cook a couple more hours. It appears done this morning and I guess I'll have roast for lunch and dinner. What I won't be doing, is shopping any.time.soon.

Here's to the grown up world... and to the roast!

When Work Attacks {Again}

Have you ever had one of those weeks, ya know where you're so stressed you are eating Tums like tic tacs, want to pull your hair out and contemplate jumping out of your office window? Yeah ya know one of those weeks? Well this is shaping up nicely as one of those weeks.

I admit I may be a tad at fault, I tend not to say no and convince myself I can do it all (well I can duh!). I love the people I work ( I cannot repeat this enough, I seriously have the best colleagues) but man oh man sometimes I just wanna thumb them. I mean, inevitably when they go out of town, the world attacks and I have no clue what to tell clients that call. Secretaries give you cold calls for clients that have hearings oh tomorrow (as in today, at 9:30am); and your loving work brother comes in your office to talk about nothing at all and you just want to tell him to go work (and he wonders why you are uptight and high strung...).

So in the midst of writing witness bios, answering discovery, prepping for a hearing and hand-holding a contractor, I got news floors installed in my humble abode. As much as I loved my original 1920's 2-inch plank floors, they were dangerous. I had no subfloor, cracked boards, a gaping crack in the bedroom and some water/rot damage in places. So at 830 yesterday 6 men arrived in my home and got to work. (Super sweet guys and a great company if you need floors in the DFW area I highly recommend Final Touch Flooring & they may or may not have hit on me... eh oh well). So here is the floor in pics:

yup, that was holding up the floor

 

Needless to say, I was in total need of my workout last night, as well as a relaxing evening that involved cake and Suits! I mean who can go wrong with chocolate cake and Suits (mmmm Harvey Spector....) But I digress.

So say a small good luck prayer for as I do this hearing on the fly today, deal with some clients and discovery and try to put my house back together.

Monday Musings

My weekend was a whirlwind. My mom came in to help me finish unpacking and clean out my old apartment and well, just hang out.

Saturday, post workout, she came in and we headed out in search of the perfect rug and curtain and well anything else I saw that I just "had to have." Who knew rug shopping could be such a beating!

I looked, and looked and looked some more. People, seriously... I know its a rug, but its The Rug. The Rug that will be in my living room and it needs to be perfect.

So here it is:

I promise to post more picture soon, but this was just suck a feat...

In other weekend news, I am sure those of you in the DFW are have heard of the passing of Kidd Kraddick. For those of you elsewhere, he was a legend in radio here and all over. I listened to him every morning since I was in grade school, carpooling. It is such a huge loss for not only radio, but for the thousands of kids he helps with his non-profit Kidd's Kids. Each November he took terminally ill children to Disneyland for a week. All-expenses paid for the child and their family to have a once in a lifetime vacation where there were no worries, just fun. This man was amazing and will be missed. My mornings will never be the same. So in his words:

Keep Looking Up, Cause that's where it all is.

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Feels Like Home

Ready for the game on the field

Feels like home, finally! I have been on the road for what seems like an eternity! I travelled down to south Texas to do an inspection, then back home. Well home was short lived as my husband, and former Fighting Texas Aggie Baseball player, had to go to the first SEC game. So I was woken up at 6am by the Aggie Fight Song and we hopped in the car to head to College Station.

A trip to Aggieland with my husband it not normal. Let me tell you, travelling with Matt A is something else! We started with a tour of the new baseball stadium! WOW! What place. They have everything. Then we hopped over to see the new basketball facility. Then to top it off we did the traditional (for our family anyway) hang out in the field pre-game! Despite the Aggie loss, we had a great trip, but now I just am glad to be home for a while! Here's out trip in pics! Happy Monday y'all.

New baseball stadium

They all have Mac in their lockers

Aggie wife at Gameday

Chloe says, if I sit in the suitcase she can't leave!

And for those of you who have never been to Aggieland, here is a little piece!