Confessional Friday

I sooo need this Friday more than like most every other Friday. So link up with the lovely Leslie and let it out!

I confess...

1. I have helped Starbuck's stock sore this week thanks to my lack of sleep and feeling crappy.
2. I am way excited to get my first spray tan ever today for the pageant I am co-emceeing tomorrow. I am also excited to get my make up done!
3. It has been three days since I have washed my hair. I know normally my blonde, fine hair would be a greasy mess, but I have managed to dry shampoo and hot roller it into perfection!
4. sometimes I think that clients are unrealistic when it comes to litigation. I mean I get how they think they are right, but seriously? not everyone can be right!
5. my husband annoys me to death in the mornings. It's 6am... I am awake, but I do not want to talk or giggle, or be messed with. I want quietly get ready for work kiss you and the pup and get to work.
6. I bite, pick, peel my nails and it looks so bad! I am pondering fake nails again just so I do not look like a 12 year old in front of court and clients.
7. I left my Scensty on last night in my office by mistake.
8. I would rather eat a sandwich for dinner most nights then come home and spend an hour cooking something. Lazy I know, but I;ve been up since 5!
9. I turn 30 in like 2 weeks and I am still a lil scared of the sound (on another note I went to a reception to meet my law school mentee and everyone mistook me for a student)

And in other news..... I am now taking sponors! If you want to sponsor this little blog of mine you can!

I've got 3 types with differenr features, though I will still accept swaps. Click on the FAQ page above!

It's Ok Thursday

  It' Ok.....   To paint your office purple to skip a day a kickboxing because you feel like crap to sign yourself and your best friend up for bootcamp because there was a Groupon to indugle in a chai latte when your throat hurts to not wash your hair everyday (that's why the topknot is so in) to miss your hubs when he's away and then can't wait for him to leave again when he returns (luv you hun) that I am going to watch way too much TV tonight (ya Grey's & Glee) that I spent a wee bit much at Kohl's Tuesday because I went back Wednesday and they honor my coupon!! that my idea of fall is putting cute decor in my home that I could care less about the referee debacle that I just read 2 iBooks in 4 days that I am baby crazy that Saturday night I will eat some yummy pancakes from Ol South post pageant (& a cupcake)  

Fall Decor

I was so psyched up for this week of fall blogging by the SITS Girls, but alas it is very un-fall like here in the Lone Star State (to the tune of 93 degrees). However, I am bound and determined for it to be fall in my house.

After seeing so many other posts about fall decor and clothes I decided I could force fall into my house. I headed out to Kohl's and snatched up some goodies.

I snatched up this table runner for our glass dining room table



Added this lovely basket to our coffee table and put the woven balls I already had inside it.

For our dining room centerpiece I picked up this cute candleholder than can double for Halloween and Fall



Happy Texas Summer Fall to all!

The Facts of Life

Yeah not the TV show, though I did love me some Trudy... I mean the actual facts. If you read yesterday's post you saw my positive Monday mantra... well this is quickly faded as the day wore on. My optimism turned glass empty in about zero to 60. I realized the people in general are negative (myself included).

They will find an opportunity to put you down or make that off-color remark that really gets under your skin and burns. So I tried to put the smile on and float through the glorious day, but man its hard when so much negative energy buzzes around you. The fact is life sucks sometimes. I know I know I should not put it so bluntly, but come on y'all, its true.

My day which began with a skinny mocha and smile quickly went to hair in a messy ugly topknot, two huge zits and my crying profusely on the way home. In fact, the more I drove the angrier I grew. The tears turned in yelling, teeth gritting anger. By the time I got home I was so angry I could barely think. I even yelled at my poor baby girl for jumping on me and scratching my leg, when all she wanted was some mommy love.

As I walked Chloe I tried to calm down and think about what got me all worked up. I realized it wasn't one thing, it was all the little things that culminated in the traffic hell in which I live. It was the fuss over my office, the lull in work, that hubs was travelling again, that I was tired, the next door neighbor's barking dog, the work stress, the volcano I call my face these days, turning 30, the construction which had a lane change and made me miss my exit and trek 5 miles down the highway turn around and sit in more traffic to re-exit.... ya see... this is life.

The fact is that once you graduate college and go into the world life catches up with you. Sure we have those moments of fun and carefree, but life these days is just stressful. If we are not worrying about deadlines or work product, we stress about finances and the economy. We avoid outings with friends because the cost of gas is such that driving into town becomes costly. We commute in congestion and traffic and just want to veg instead of cooking nutritious meals and exercising. Life has become so complex that its not fun anymore.

My husband put some things in perspective this morning though.... breathe. Take a deep breath and remember that at the end of the hellacious stressful awful no good terrible very bad day you are blessed. When all is said and done remember what you want out of life. Sure we would love to achieve success at work, make lots of money, have nice things, but no one will remember that awesome brief you wrote, how much you had in your bank account or the killer LV bag you toted. They will remember the smile you gave them, the compliment you paid and the embrace when thigs were rough.

So, don't let the facts of life dictate your life. Traffic may suck, your boss may suck, your job may suck (not that mine do, except the traffic things) but whatever it is that gets you down, leave it there. Focus on how you want to be remembered.

Weekend Update!

Well I'd say TGIM, but we all know that is not true... but hey its another week, another chance to live, love & be happy! So here's to the weekend. This weekend was PURPLE-FILLED!

Saturday was an early workout before the TCU game! We BTHOUVA!

 

I got to see the new stadium,

Hang out with my awesome brother

 Watch my good friend Skyler and current feature twirler perform with fire (and I helped her which ended up with me having singed arm hair and two small burns, oh what I do for those I love)

worked a lil Sunday, but in my newly painted office! I've got a gorgeous purple accent wall and then rest is a subtle grey/white. (some people think its too bright, I say its my office!)

and my lil purple accent between the windows... Ok, so what do you think? The rest of the walls are pretty much white, do you like?

 

Well, that sums up my weekend! This week is going to be trial prep and pageant prep. Saturday I'll get my new titleholder and begin a year of wonderful pageant love! Hvae a fab week lovelies!

Sunday Social

1. What is something you have wanted to do but are afraid of? Opening my own firm.


2. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Still practicing law, hopefully close to making partner. Have 2 kiddos hopefully.

3. What are you looking forward to before the end of 2012? Turning 30, TCU beating a couple Big 12 teams and Halloween and Thanksgiving ( I love me some turkey day!)

4. What are your hopes for your blog? To build my following and enjoy it. When it quits being fun, I'm out!

5. Do you always see yourself living in your current town/city? if you are my husband, yes, he says we won't move, just build up... But I would love to move back to Ft Worth but for now our lil suburb works.


6. What is your morning routine?

Mon/Thur

4:55am - alarm goes off, jump out of bed head to gym

5-6:45am - workout, shower, get ready

6:45 - 7:30 - drive to work

7:30-5:30/6/6:30 - work (how long I stay depends on what I have to do)

drive home

T/Wed/Fr

No workout, so up at 6am out the door by 6:45am! repeat the rest

Weekends... workout between 9 am 10am and then I do a little competative sleeping! aka nap till I can't nap no mo!

I Believe

I decided to join in Erin's fun and tell you all what I believe (plus a Friday rant).

I believe....

• that the day does not start until I've had my coffee
• that my marriage works because we both have our separate interests (and he travels a lot)
• that it's perfectly fine to cereal for every meal
• in paying good money for shoes
• in Benefit Flawless foundation
• that there is still a glass ceiling in many professions (mine included)
• that sometimes you do have to look out for yourself in order to achieve survive
• that our education system is failing the next generation
• that children should learn to write before they learn to type (just something about that hand to paper that I think is necessary)
• that sometimes its ok to use your looks to get ahead, i.e. don't be ashamed that you good and take care of yourself, just be ready to back it up with the brain
• that coincidences are God's way of taking control
• that nude pumps go with everything outfit
• in the power of positive thinking & prayer
• in dessert over alcohol
• in creating your own destiny
• in making your own family
• in role models, best friends and fur babies

*Now for my rant: I believe that its ok to be slightly upset jealous of the new guy, when I got ousted from a case that I was working on and rather enjoying because he came. I know its silly to feel slighted, and this is life, but still kinda sucked. I also know that its not his fault and he's a great guy, just feeling well ya know left out. No biggies onward, ever upward (famous words from our former law school Dean).