Wishful Wed.......... Character's Role in a Book

This week is a hard one so I had to start early, then changed my mind, then just added to my post..... I love to read and have many many many favorite books. This question has created a little chaos in my little brain. It's hard to sum up in one character who'd I'd like to b, or ummmmm who I am like. So I chose two......... First I think I would want to be........... drumroll please.................


Nico Reilly from the book (and TV show) Lipstick Jungle.


Who wouldn't want to be her. She's classy, independent, confident, sexy, strong, successful, a great dresser, and OMG just thinking of those handbags makes me ready to SHOP! And like me, she has a great circle of girl friends helping her manuver through life. It still is my favorite TV show ever - I re-watch old episodes online and I loved the book.

The other character I would want to be, who is really not a character she's a real person.....

LeAnn Tuhoy from The Blind Side (movie and book).

She's got amazing heart, a love for her family and she's just an amazing person of character. Two of the best compliments I have ever received were from Chosen Child (age 13), who told me while walking out of the theatre from seeing the movie "Wow... it's almost scarey that you're just like her" and from a very dear friend (age 60) who while describing Ms. Tuhoy during an interview on television, said "you know you are just like her, big hearts and brass balls, and you wear both with style". Compliments that will stay with me for ever. I have seen the movie 15 times....... at least, and I just finished the book which was so different, but just as good. How can you not love her!


Now tell me who you'd want to be or go visit Kelsey at The Seattle Smiths at http://kelseyandgabriel.blogspot.com/2010/02/wish-wed-topic.html and join in the fun!

Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow

I am ready for sunshine. I am ready to drive to work, without cussing, sliding, slipping, falling, getting stuck and ruining another pair of trousers, not to mention my oh so beautiful shoes!
UNLESS, I can stay home, with a nice cup of joe and just look outside in all the splendor, all wrapped up in my blankets with my laptop and a good book and all my little babies.

It's gorgeaus and living on a wooded 4 acres, it's breathtaking.

We have laptops, and I am dedicated enough to put in my time while at home, so why can't we stay there and work? My Ellie Belly agrees (with her snow-stach) that her momma should stay home.

I know it's not 36 inches at once, but seriously, we had 18, then 8, now 4 and more coming later this week. I want the sun before I go bananas, and that's my thought for the day!

Wishful Wed......... OMG That Gown

I am a little late with my Wishful Wed post, but who could pass up an opportunity to blog about GOWNS! Beautiful, fashionable, amazing gowns. If you were going to the Golden Globes what would you wear? It's a hard decision for me, so I'll narrow it down to my final selections.

I would definately consider Glenn Close's gown, traditional, tasteful, classy, now I just need my arms to look as good as hers. Funnily, my other consideration looks similar and was worn by my favorite actress wore, Reese Witherspoon! If I were going to go a little sassy or frisky, I think I'd go along the lines of George Clooney's girlfriend, I love her look too!
Now, if I just had somewhere to wear them!

New Year, New Life.............. New Hair?

Today is D day. I started my diet. UGH. Actually, I started it this weekend, making sure I ate everything I knew I would miss on a no-carb, low cal, no sugar diet. Ugh! It stinks, luckily though, I am not hungry, just thirsty. Hopefully, if I can lose some weight and get my bloodsugar under control I will no longer have to take Metformin. I have PCOS, and having it, I have all the lovely symptoms that go with it. I take 6 pills a day, which is tiresome and I think possibly having additional side effects.
Recently (like when I started taking all this medication) I noticed one day that my hair was shorter on one side. Significantly shorter in the back, like someone cut of 2 inches on one side of my head. I immediately went to my hairdresser and had it evened out. She told me how harsh the meds were on my hair, advised that I should start using premium products to offset some of the chemicals in my body and to make sure I am taking a multi-vitamin. So I am using Pureology and have cut way back on product....... But it's not helping, I went again and my hair was shorter on the left side by 1.5 inches. Obviously the measures I have taken are not working.

Do any of you have any ideas what might be happening? It's always the left side and it's always 1.5 to 2 inches shorter. IT IS DRIVING ME INSANE.

On a good note, I took my sweet chosen child to see "The Blind Side". We both walked out of the movie in awe. I loved it! We get in the car and Chosen Child looks at me and says "Wow, it's scary how much you and her are alike". I said who? Chosen Child says "Sandra Bullock in that movie, she was just like you". I had to laugh because we both know she means "bossy"! However, it's a grand compliment and one that helps me know at least I am doing something right to raise this child!

Happy Monday!

Gulity Pleasures

I have several of them....... Designer Purses, high heeled shoes, dark rich coffee, online shopping, vodka tonics (with two limes please) but two of my all time favorites are trashy TV shoes and good books. I indulged in two of them tonight........ (and guess what they were free!)

To kick of my evening of debauchery, I first tuned into Bravo, while whipping up some baked rigatoni and tossing a salad (see sticking to those resolutions). I stood in my kitchen watching TV (yes Mr. Fix It got me a kitchen flat screen two years ago for Christmas to hang a-la-wall), well, not watching really but lapping up, "The Real Housewives of Orange County". Seriously, a 45 minute dinner turned into a 3 hour marathon event. Where I kept adding tomato paste, Italian Seasoning and pasta so I could keep cooking so I could keep watching. Dinner was FINALLY ready at 8:30pm. Ouch. Guilty - yes, pleasure - oh yeah esp. with those lovely glasses of wine.

After my torrid dinner affair with my TV, I decided a nice leisurely bath was in order. So I popped in the tub about 8:45 (I ate fast, changing THAT should have been a resolution) where I started a new book. WHY MY THIRD HUSBAND IS GOING TO BE A DOG. It's a hilarious read so far and a book every woman should read. It's for happy housewives, feisty fire-eating working women, or just every day extraordinary ordinary woman, and it's about them too. I have only gotten into the first few chapters but I can tell you I was hooked at the preface.

Pondering on these two guilty pleasures of mine, I thought about blogging and how even if I don't post daily, I love reading your blogs daily. It's a peak into some extraordinary, yet ordinary women's lives. Some of you, us or them perhaps may have a little "Orange County" (lol Orange Juice) in us but it's a great thing, blogging - that is. It allows each of us a little daily "guilty pleasure" of peaking into one another's lives.

Now....... go getcha some!

Happy New Year!

It's a time of New Beginnings! I love the new year and the opportunity it gives us (i.e. excuse) to start fresh. I always put a lot of preparation into my resolutions, because I really try to reach them (goal oriented person that I am and all) and I am going to share them with you. This way I will be held accountable, which makes it all that easier to obtain.

1. Live Little. We're at a place in our lives where we've gotten a little comfortable and indulgent. Spoiled some would say. It bothers me to even type that about myself, but we're back at that accountable thing. The smallest things used to excite me, now I catch myself, Chosen Child and Mr. Fix It taking those "small things" for granted. Not that we're not going to go out to eat occasionally, or stop going on vacations, we're just going to make some changes, be a little more grateful. Living Little is my new motto for 2010. Remind me that when I write about a $400 pair of shoes that I "have to have". It's about what I need - not what I want.

2. Live Healthier (errrrrr that's a nice way of saying lose 30 pounds). This ties directly into Living Little. What family NEEDS to eat out at a nice resturant 3 to 4 times per week? I am a good cook, I enjoy cooking, I go to the grocery store regularly, I just don't feel like cooking when I get home from work so the food goes to waste - see this cycle? It stops today.

3. Increase my Assets. If I can accomplish goals 1 and 2 this should NOT be a problem. Not buying every cute handbag I come across or going into a couture coma while eating a 3 course meal each night will help me accomplish this. I have always been pretty responsible with money. I pay off my cards monthly, pay my bills on time and have very little debt, so I rather than spending my extra money on "stuff" I need to be investing it and I'd like to invest it in additional rental property. Mr. Fix It is with me on this one, but doesn't put my stock in my ability to be able to A. not shop, or B. cook on weeknights regularly (since I don't leave the office until late).

Which leads me to #4. I love my career. It's exciting and fun and stressful. I rarely leave the office before 6pm each night. For goals 1, 2, and 3 to work #4 has to be to work more productively rather than working so much. I always feel behind, like I am simply catching up, and overwhelmed. A big part of this is that my friend who went out on maternity leave, decided not to return and stay home full time. While I am super excited for her, handling the double work is hard. My job is very rewarding, there is very little I don't like about it, however, I need to be more time efficent and I got a "thrifty" little planner to help make it happen!

#5 is to begin giveaway's on my lovely blog. I have never done one but always wanted to, somehow it's just always gotten away from me, time, energy and always missing is the "know how" I know it doesn't seem that hard but are there rules, requirements etc. I need to do a little research to figure out how?

Do you make New Year's resolutions? Do you stick to them? Are you going to help me stick to mine?

Happy New Year!

Mr. Fix It's Version of Holiday Decorating!

I love the holidays, starting with Halloween all through New Years, aside from my birthday, which falls the day after Christmas. It's a time of family, friends, fun, fellowship (and eggnog with amaretto) and it's so darn festive! We have a feast on Thanksgiving with a houseful of family and friends (and some friendly competitions). I love taking the time to decorate our house, put up our tree, wrap gifts, sing songs (and drinking a lot of eggnog with amaretto). However, my husband doesn't get all wrapped up in the trimmings of the holiday season. If I left it up to him this is what you would get:

Yes, we'd have "Ditto" stamped across our house. What I can I say - to know him is to love him! I knew he married me for more than my looks and outstanding personality! :)

Love Is a Verb.......

Loving, is a verb. It is an act. It is not enough to say you love someone, and then forget about them, or turst a relationship will stay strong simply because you share a house or children or a life. Love requires acts of love. It requires thinking of your spouse, doing things for them to make them happy. It requires acting in loving ways, even when you are tired, or bogged down with work, or so stressed you are waking up everynight with a jaw sore from grinding your teeth. Loving, is a verb.

Too Much Woman....

I am too much woman for you....
I have more money....
I picked a specialty that makes you nervous.....
I bought your way into the practice.
I am strong and I am comfortable with being strong and I LIKE that I am strong,
and if that is too much woman for you,
if that's gonna make your junk feel tiny; I'm not gonna make myself smaller.
I'm not gonna put myself in a box so that you can feel like a big man.
I am a big woman, and either you get used to it, or you get out!