I Ate A Shark

Yup, you heard me correctly I ate a shark, as in one of those gummy ones in shades of blue. Yup I ate it at like 745 am. Shark for breakfast! Not like sharknado... more like gummy bear, but bigger and way tastier...

So, its Wednesday and I have not much to tell other than my house is still a mess... but...I have:

• a doggie door (thank you E)
• TV (thank you E for wheeling and dealing with the man)
• floors will cost me $5400 to replace (grrr)
• A/C tuned up
• bathed dog who ran like a man woman through the mud
• fixed electrical
• lights in the backyard (Thank you neighbors for giving me a ladder and anything else I have asked to borrow)
•  a storm door that does not shut (so please Mr. workman shut the front door when you come in), which leads me to the phrase I have used more than once this weekend and made me sound like my mother "I'm not paying to air condition the outside!"

Things I need to do/buy"

• mow the lawn/learn to mow/hire someone?
• spray for bugs
• get bookcase from my Aunt's
• paint dining room chairs
• buy another big basket for blankets, etc...
• get rest of my crap from apartment
• acquire a sugar daddy? maybe?

Happy Wednesday y'all and Happy Birthday to my girl Jessika over at Stand Still Look Pretty! and Erin @ Living in Yellow!!.

Just Another Manic Tuesday

Yes, I was in mid-post yesterday and BAM, work! Yeah, I know I know, work in the middle of blogging? How dare it! So, here is the post from yesterday. ( And seriously, the heavens are against me blogging. Just as I typed this sentence, I had to run home because E locked himself out of my house....)

So, without further ado......Of course it would rain on moving day. I woke up Sunday, took the pups outside and BAM, its raining. Great! Oh well, because I had movers coming and my apartment was pack and I was moving. Hello, what great movers! They were quick, super sweet, wrapped a bunch of my stuff for free, and oh did I mention did not sweat all over my stuff? (ya know that grosses you out too).

But, I digress... After a very late Friday night (to the tune of getting home at 4am....) I was up early Saturday for a little 3 mile jog (without losing my stomach, thank you very much), breakfast with my girl CT, and then heading to the Aquarium in Grapevine for a little fun with two of the cutest munchkins in the world..... My mom showed up around noon, we headed to the house to meet the painter and then headed to Ikea! Yes, on a Saturday I took my mom to Ikea.... Dangerous, but such a good trip. Well, er if you think getting out of there with only spending $919 was good... hey, I needed a lot of stuff.

Post Ikea trip, we headed back to my apartment to load up more clothes and other odds and ends and pack. I packed and packed and then just decided it was a night. So with two carloads of stuff, we made one more trip back to the house... We arrived and then someome (whose initial is an E and seems to have a hard time with keys) lost my keys. As in we could not find them and had no way to get into the house. Did I mention it was like 90+ degrees? We looked in every box, and nook and cranny of my car and my mom's. No keys. So Mom and I headed back to the apt. I searched the apt to no avail. Finally I found my keys. Underneath E's car. As in I had to crawl on my hands and knees to find them, in a nasty parking garage. When we finally unloaded the car and such I just wanted to die. And this was only Saturday night.

But then, Sunday, moving day... rain. Like I said before it went pretty quickly and then I spent the day unpacking, arranging and building things (well I didn't build). I did manage a few small projects.

I finally recovered the dining room chairs.

And I painted this cabinet for my dining room.

And... the girls love the ottoman.

Confessional Friday

Linking up with the ever lovely Leslie for this week's Confessional Friday Most Embarrassing Moment Edition.

So....I admit it was hard narrowing down my most embarrassing moment since I: 1) get embarrassed really, really easily and 2) I have experienced so many moment where I wished I could just die, right there.

But today I am taking you back to law school. Yes, those days of constant fear you will be called on to recite and have not read the case.... Where Professors scare you to death and so on and so forth. So 2L year, Wills & Trusts with my fave professor, Prof. Beyer. I am sitting in the front row (Thanks K for that seat choice and then not quite showing up on time a lot). So there I am just gchatting away while I am supposed to be taking notes, and paying attention. When all of a sudden, Jessie A. sends me the cutest little kitty picture followed by another hilarious one. See, I had been having a helacious week (month year, it was law school everything was awful). So there I sit, I receive my picture and proceed to literally LOL. Yes, I laughed out loud whilst Prof. Beyer stood two feet from me.

He stopped, looked over and politely asked "Ms. Taylor, is there something funny?" I blushed about the most amazing shade of red, pits began to drip with sweat and I think I peed my pants, just a little. "Umm no." Him "Are you looking at something that you shouldn't?" Oh Sh!t, oh Sh&t... I was totally caught but so had to wiggle my way out of this one, while everyone could clearly see that I had kittens on my screen. "Umm, no sir, just funny thing I wrote in my notes." Please leave me alone I thought.... "Ok."

I had escaped by the skin of my teeth... Jessie immediately sends apology message. I have never been so embarrassed in my life. I was called out in front of the entire class of about 100 people.... I died. I wanted to crawl in a hole and pull it in after me. It was like 5 year old me just sitting there, ashamed, except I was 27.

For those law school grads you totally understand me, and well everyone should. Its professional embarrassment. I could also tell you seeing you boss at 6am while walking your dogs in your rather small pj shorts is just as embarrassing, but what makes it worse is him mentioning it to you, at work, in your office....

See, told you my life is chalk full of fun! TGIF loves, have a superb weekend, If you need me or are in the DFW area, come help me move! xoxo

WILW

Yeah, its been a while since I shared what I am loving right now and I have so much to be thankful for so here goes....

1. HOMEOWNER - Yup, I own my own lil piece of Texas, all 1263 square feet of it.

2. Friends - I am so blessed to have amazing friends who love and support me... no matter what. Night or day they are there to listen, provide advice, the perfect verse, or just a hug.

3. Two songs - Girl on Fire and Listen... Don't know why, but these songs just make me feel powerful and no matter my mood I put them on and remember why I am here, why I am doing this and that I can make it through even the roughest seasons of life.  Thank you K, K, F, CC, C ( I see a theme here) & E for always being there for me.

4. Christ - My savior. A good friend told me it is in the darkest hour that He shows his beauty we just often miss it because we are so encompassed in grief and pain. This really stuck with me. If I stop and look around I can see Him working in magical ways. I may feel low, out of sorts and lost, but I am not alone. He is with me--showing me that when he closes a door, He opens a window to something new and just as amazing. Today I am loving the Lord.

Closing Time

Yup, its that time... Closing day... as in on my house. You know that house I bought way back like 2 months ago... Yup, well today I will write the biggest check of my life and buy that house. Scary, yes. Terrified, yes. Excited, well I'm sure that will come tomorrow. But today, I will be donning those big girl panties and growing up. Hey, who said you had to grow up before 30?

So, today I will put the past aside, close a chapter of my life and turn the page to a new one. I resolve to be confidant in the choices and decisions I have made and not let regret sneak into my new home. So, Ill be the girl with the giant wedgy today with those big girl pants stuffed under her business attire.

Sometimes

 

Sometimes I have no desire to get out of bed. Sometimes I just want to sleep all day. Sometimes I get mad at the puppies for wanting to play when all I want to do is sleep. Sometimes I cry for no reason. Sometimes I get angry at people for no reason. Sometimes I sit in my office and look back at the clock and an hour has passed. Sometimes I regret. Sometimes I feel lost and lonely. Sometimes I wonder what if. Sometimes I want to run and hide. Sometimes I doubt. Sometimes I engage in self-sabotage. Sometimes I lose my faith. Sometimes I engage in self-loathing. Sometimes I want to take it all back.

Fabulous Fourth Photo Dump

I know I owe you all a vacation post, but truth is, I have not had time, been totally stressed and well at this point who cares, right? So instead I give you my 4th of July week photo dump!

This one can sleep

again with the sleeping