I need more ice....

Hello blog world. I'm coming to you live from my bed with a massive ice pack on my back/right hip.



About 10 months ago I went to pick up some dumbbells and my lower back went out. I had to have my boyfriend at the time carry me down the stairs I was in so much pain. So the other day I noticed it was a little sore, but I didn't think anything of it. Yesterday I finally went back out on my tri-bike. (The bike I got for my triathlon and then after riding it for a week I COMPLETELY busted) I didn't fall, got in a good work out and felt great!

Then as the day went on it still bothered me. I was out with my friends celebrating one of them passing the TX Bar Exam and it was like BAM!!! The pain was back. I felt like I couldn't breath! I had boots on and when I got home it took me a good 15 minutes to get those boots off it hurt so much.

I felt a little better when I woke up today but totally overworked it by going to my college homecoming game. UGH!!! It hurts so bad. The minute I was getting back into a fitness regime and now my back hurts. Hopefully it is just temporary and will go away soon.

What happened to Superman??

Thank you so much for all your funny comments on my last post! I'm glad I'm not totally out in left field for being insulted! So today was filled with more shopping and I finally finished decorating my apartment. I was looking for two key pieces and they have been purchased and are being delivered tomorrow!! And they were a steal!!!!

So with all of our power shopping we needed to get a little bite to eat and relax. So we went to Houston's for some Smoked Salmon and Spinach Dip. We decided to sit on the patio because the weather in Dallas has been great!!



So there we are, sitting on the patio and I'm facing the rest of the patio and the parking lot. I see this car pull up in the handicap spot and these two elderly men get out of the car. I really don't think much about it. One of the guys with a walker gets out of the car and has his back to me. I see him start to fall down. Very slowly and hit the pavement hard.

I immediately stand up say "Oh my God!" and I RUN across the patio, jump over the concrete ledge and land in the hedges and run to this man who I was convinced was having a heart attack. I come to the guy and the sweetest old man says in his adorable old man voice, "It appears I took a tumble!".

I finally take a breath and look back to my mom and the ENTIRE restaurant standing and looking at me. Then it takes a good two minutes for two men to come outside to help me lift this guy up. It's like "Where did the gentlemen go1?!" This guy fell and I was the only person to come to his rescue. I'm just so relieved that he was okay!!!



After that, I needed a glass of wine and a huge chip full of spinach dip!!!! Whew!!! Too much excitement for one day!!

Dear Rude Sales Lady

So yesterday I was power shopping with my Mom during this magical Partner's Card week. (I've gotten some AMAZING stuff and can not WAIT to share!!)

We were at this very nice ladies boutique and were looking at their stuff and I found this FABULOUS grey and beaded Alice + Olivia t-shirt. They had sizes XS, M and a L. And because I've gotten some shirts from A + O before, they run a little big, so I didn't think twice about grabbing the Medium. My usual sales ladies wasn't working that day. So this other sales woman came up to me and literally screamed throughout the store and started walking toward me.

"YOU NEED THE LARGE!! Yeah, across the chest, you totally need the large!"

I said "We'll I'll try on the medium and we'll see how it goes". (She's now standing in front of me) Then she states (while pointing at my boobs) "You see, those need a LARGE". At this point, I'm completely annoyed and I look at my mom. "We'll, I guess I need a freaking large mom. But you know what, I'll try on the medium".

The woman then takes the shirt out of my hands, lays it across my chest and proceeds to stretch the shirt across my chest and TOTALLY is over exaggerating how much this thing will stretch on my body. I'm COMPLETELY pissed, so I just walk away with the shirt. The woman then FOLLOWS ME across the store, still talking about this F&^*ING shirt! I turn around and say, "I'm fine!".

I think she got the hint.



Now I'll admit that I'm a little sensitive about the size of my chest. BUT!!! I also think that there is a way to suggest that a customer might need a larger size without coming off like a huge bitch:

1) You could simply offer to start that customer a fitting room then say something like "You know, this shirt has been running really small, I'll go ahead and put the large in there, just in case"

2) You could just offer a fitting room and just put the large in the room without saying anything.

3) OR you could just freaking not say anything and if the customer thinks the shirt is too small, offer to go get another size for them.

It just PISSED ME OFF!!! (Again, I'm a little sensitive to the subject, but I think she handled it poorly. And you can bet your ass I found a friendly, non abrasive sales woman who was wonderful and very helpful!!)

And for those of you who were wondering, the Medium fit fabulous and was not too tight at all. SO THERE!!


(My new shirt)

Partners Card Week!!!

I'm SOOOOO excited for this week!!! It's Partners Card Week here in Dallas.


Partners Card is a discount card that your purchase and all the proceeds go to a charity. Here they benefit The Family Place. It's amazing, the purchase of one card provides an infant diapers for three weeks and one night of shelter for a woman and her child. So if one card can do that, I can't imagine the benefits of most of Dallas purchasing cards!!

So not only does this help a charity, it also gives you 20% off at participating stores! There are about 750 stores! I've been waiting for this week to go shopping. I'm thrilled that my mother is coming town to shop our faces off!! So expect a lot of fashion pics!! And hopefully I can find a chair for my living room because even chains like Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel and William Sonoma Home are participating. Can't wait!!

A Halloween Recap

This past weekend was Halloween and I've been looking forward to hosting the annual party! I use to in college all the time and when I moved to LA I never had time to throw a real party. SO this year, I went all out!!

1) My costume: So I originally was going to go as Dorothy Gail from Wizard of Oz and because of the lack of non-Sexy costumes out there, I was going to make mine. Well it turns out that I have forgotten how to cut out a sewing pattern because I totally messed it up on Wednesday night. So I spent all day Thursday running around trying to find a non-Sexy Dorothy. I ended up at this great vintage store that was renting costumes and found this very cute 1920's Flapper dress. Usually vintage stuff never fits so I was shocked when I put it on and loved it!! I added a feathered hat and gloves and my costume officially changed! (And I'll admit, it sexier than Dorothy would have been!)


(Crappy iPhone pic, ...yes my room is messy)


(Better picture with myself and Patrick who was Indiana Jones)

2) Decor: I have always loved decorating for parties. I love the little attention to detail and making a holiday like Halloween more about glamour rather that gore. So I was thrilled to find basically everything glitter for the party.


(Glitter Chandeliers from Grandin Road with spider webs and hologram portraits)


(Glitter skulls from Halloween USA and a Glitter "Happy Halloween" sign from World Market)

My main focus for the decor were the two food areas I set up. The Punch/Chip and Dip area in my kitchen and then the main food table. For the first area I found these amazing black feather trees on sale at Hobby Lobby along with the purple and green buckets for chips. I also found this small mister for the punch bowl.


(The punch bowl/chip & dip area)

For table cloths for both tables I found these purple and black plastic ones at Target that bats on them. I then found some black/red skull and spider lace at Hancock Fabrics to add some layers. I also was going to try having everything on individual little plates and make everything mini. I found these cool mini plastic serving plates online.

This is the main food and candy table.


3) Food: This was a big deal!! Trying to figure out things that everyone would like while trying to make it somewhat easy on myself. I ended up with these items on the menu

-Honey BBQ Brains (Basically frozen meatballs that I put in a crock pot with 3 bottles of BBQ Sauce and a bottle of Honey. Talk about set it and forget it!!)

-Mini Pumpkin Pies (I took pumpkin pies from Kroger and found a 2inch pumpkin cookie cut out and cut out small shapes from the pie. Add some Cool Whip and it looks very chic!!)


-Poppy Cheddar Crackers with Chipotle Cheddar Spread (I found the cracker recipe off Gourmet.com and made them on Friday. I then got some cheddar spread from Central Market and piped it onto the dishes)


-Cake Ball Pops: This was the main desert besides the candy on the main table. I made three different ones Vanilla Oreo Crumble, Devils Food Cake and Red Velvet. These were such a hit and were so yummy!


-I also made individual menu cards for each item. I found this Martha Stewart punch at Michaels on sale and I love the crow and headstone pattern it made!!


4) The guest! I have to say that my friends go all out when it comes to their costumes. Here are some pictures of my favorites!


(This was by far my favorite! Mariachi band!!)


(Beyonce and her "Single Ladies" performed the dance for us. So fun!!)


(Not at the table Carlos)


(Danny and Sandy from Grease)


(Mad Hatter and Amiela Earhart)


(The Dumb and Dumber boys! Borrowed this pic from their GF's)

It was an amazing party!!! Can't wait until next year!!!!!

Oh Zoro...

Hello Blog World!

So I had an amazing Halloween weekend filled with parties and my own Ghostly Bash! I'm going to do a full recap whenever I decide to get out of bed. I'm exhausted but I had such an amazing time.

Well this blog post is not dedicated to this fabulous weekend I had. This post is dedicated to someone who found my blog and although his name is Larry, he signed this little blog comment as "Zoro".

I received a comment on a blog posted titled "It Was A Scam" which I wrote back in March. (To recap, my ex boyfriend and I had a dog named Yankee and while I was on the road with ShowStoppers, Mike was approached at the dog park about Yankee being the next big dog star. He went to the agency and it turned out to be a scam where you paid this company thousands of dollars to get trained to possibly qualify to be able to a client of theirs. In other words he told Mike to go to this agency under false pretences and therefore IT WAS A SCAM!!")

This post has been one of my most popular ones because I get random comments here and there of people who had a similar experience or were approached in the same fashion and were doing research and my post was one of many negative comments about this agency. On this fabulous Halloween evening I received his comment from Larry... I mean Zoro.

Larry said...

I checked Hollywoodpaws and they are located at Los Angeles Center Studio and have a list of Movies and TV credits longer than my arm. The best about this company is that their mission statemnet is to use dogs from a domestic home and not from a caged animal company.Traiing is required for all dogs and owners.The trainers all have dergre's in animal behavior. Maybe dogs from Arkansaw just bark but in Hollywood they act. Just a question did you take dance classes or were you born with talent and no brains? Zoro

October 31, 2009 6:56 PM

So Zoro...or is it Larry?? Seriously??? We're all laughing at ya buddy. And thank you so much for clarifying the difference between Arkansas dogs and Hollywood dogs, I mean for a minute there I was so confused. And maybe spell check could be an option?? Maybe you could find a dance class that could help you with that.



Good Lord....Such a good laugh for the weekend.

Busy Halloween Prepping!

Hello Bloggers!!

I hope everyone has some amazing Halloween plans! I'm so busy preppy for my big Halloween Bash tomorrow. So I probably won't be blogging this weekend! Here are some things I've worked on for my party so far!


Mini Pumpkin Pies


Poppy Cheddar Cracker with Chipotle Cheddar Spread


Red Velvet Cake Pops!

I'm so excited for the party!! If you follow my tweets you saw that my attempt at making my Dorothy costume FAILED!!!! As in Epic Fail. I guess I totally forgot how to cut out a pattern?? So I spent all day yesterday finding a backup costume. It's not all that exciting but the actual costume is AMAZING! So I'll wait till I have some pictures! Hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!