The Stables

Home for the holidays and taking full advantage...got to spend a little one on one time with the parentals tonight when they took me out to dessert. Two years ago, at Christmastime, the whole family drove up to Guthrie (a small town about 20 minutes north of my parents' house) to look at lights and we ate some delicious pie at this place called The Stables Cafe.

I've dreamt about it ever since and tonight, I got to go back. Had some chocolate cream pie that was to die for and got to catch up with my mom and dad and fill them in on my life to date. Also, we attempted to make butter by shaking a little container of half & half for about 30 minutes. It did not work. But it entertained us for 30 minutes.

I had the cream pie, mom had the pumpkin, and dad had the original apple and cinnamon pie. They also have the coolest decor...it looks like an old time antique shop threw up in there, and of course this time of year, it's filled with garland, little white lights, and mistletoe. I die.

Countdown

Busy counting down to one of the best holidays and a trip to see my favorite guy (well second favorite, dad always comes in first).

New Years Eve: a fresh start, new beginning and clean slate. New resolutions, new challenges and new things to look forward to. Can't wait to see what 2012 has in store for me. Although I'm not looking forward to the fact that I will no longer be able to say "oh yeah, i just graduated last year..." but will have to say "i graduated 2 YEARS AGO" or "i graduated the year before last." Geez I'm getting old.

Good night y'all!

Kisses & Disses

I've come to the conclusion that I'm a terrible blogger. But I'm going to take a page out of one of my fav blog's book and give out kisses and disses for the things I'm loving (and hating) lately:

kisses:

1) CHRISTMAS!!!


2) new purchases, thanks to a gift card to the mall. Too bad it was in my pocket for less than 2 hours before it was spent. Sorry my receiving it just so happened to coincide with J Crew's 30% off EVERYTHING sale. Don't blame me, take it up with headquarters. I'll be wearing that sparkly number for NYE :) (tip: picked that one up at Gap on super sale - they had a ton, go check it out!)



3) a sweet card from a sweet boy



4) sparkly nails



5) only thing better than sparkly nails: gold flecked nails (please Santa, bring me some "Meteor Shower"!)

6) puppies, my favorite



disses:

1) colds, yuck. I've been drugged up for the last 3 days and yet the amount of snot filling my head hasn't decreased at all. sorry, that's gross, but if I have to suffer through it, so do y'all.

2) the real world not having a month-long Christmas break. major diss.

3) Christmas scrooges

very blessed this holiday season to have a wonderful family who put up with my antics most of the time and support me all of the time, friends who have become like family, an incredible job, and my health (except for the cold). i'm thankful for every single person in my life and consider myself very lucky to have the life i do. i love you all!

happy holidays my friends, i'll be back soon!

Shoes. Oh My Gah, Shoes.

We're supposedly getting an Anthropologie in February - I'll believe it when I see it - but as much I love their stuff, I really am only able to afford to browse the sale section in that store. Next on the list for what I'd like to see in Oklahoma City is Urban Outfitters, then Zara. I first discovered Zara when I was in Orlando. The closest one to us is in Dallas....roadtrip anyone?

Soooo shout-out to UO & Zara: Get here quick. OKC is the place to be.

Loving all these shoes...

Meet me in Dallas.

Sistas 4 Life

One of the more exciting things that has happened to me in the last few months (okay, this is going to show just how dull my life is) was my little sister going through rush and joining a house - which just so happens to be my house too.

See this is something that should have been blogged about like 3 months ago, however she was just officially initiated last weekend, so it's still kind of relevant?

Anyways, I'm so excited for her. She's learning all about our sisterhood and our secrets, but most importantly, she's already experienced the presence of Debbie, aka Becky, the ghost that haunts the Alpha Phi house, more specifically the room that two of my bffs used to live in. I feel like she only shows her presence to very special people, so this is a good sign.

I look a mess, but I'm so proud of her. You're initiated sista!

Pretty family for Red Dress Gala 2011 - don't they all look so festive?


Me and my dashing dad at RDG circa 2009.

Nikki was just a little freshie in high school here and baby Livi (the best part about this picture) was like 6. Her biggest aspiration at that time was to be an OU cheerleader. she's so ambitious.

One of the best and sweatiest moments of my life - totally TMI, but I had sweat stains the size of Texas as we (impatiently) waited in 110 degree weather for Nikki to show up at the house.

I haven't always been the best example for my sisters - in high school, I was an absolute pill - so I'm even more proud that she chose to follow this path and will get to experience all the wonderful things that I did. I love you little sis, you da best!

AOE. RAPMF.

Class & Sass

Wow. So my first week of consistent postings went really really well. Number of posts last week: 0 (Coincidentally, only one less than the number of touchdowns OU scored in the entire first half of their heartbreaking, national championship-ending loss to Texas Tech last night...but I can't get started on that because I'll just have to break the tissues out again. Just kidding. Kind of. Okay, not really.)

Well I can only go up from here. I need to learn to set the bar low so I can consistently beat the expectations. Is that a bad attitude to have? Oh well.

Right now I'm super obsessed with J Crew's fall collection. I'm also obsessed with the fact that their in-store sale items have been 30% off the past week. And even more obsessed with the fact that I can still use my student ID to get an extra 15% off of that. To the cashier lady who interrogated me last week about my student status: Yes, I am an advertising senior - or I was two years ago - and your clothes are too expensive for me to not get some kind of a break. I've come up with an elaborate story about my schooling so I can be more prepared next time. Although I think my problem is that I'm too specific - maybe when they ask me what my major is they only want a one word answer and not a synopsis of my entire fake/made-up-on-the-spot schedule. If you can't tell, I'm a terrible liar.

But the point is, I seem to be even more in love with J Crew than usual these days.










(A) I want to model for J Crew one day. At 5'7" I think my chances are really good. Don't you think?
(B) When I win the lottery someday, I will buy every item in the store.
(C) I would love to work for their corporate office and design their catalogs - how freaking awesome would that be?
(D) I want to be this girl when I grow up: Libby Wadle

I'll be back again 3 times this week...hopefully.

Consistency

My goal from now to the end of the year is to blog more consistently...I have a habit of blogging once every couple of weeks and making it a long loooooonggggg post. That's never intentional, I just tend to ramble. A lot. So I don't blame any of you if you start reading my blog and never make it to the end of the post.

So from here on out, I'm going to make it my goal to blog at least 3 times a week. I don't know how I'm going to find material to do that - part of the reason I don't post consistently is because I hardly think you'd find what I ate for breakfast interesting or riveting reading material. But I'll try. I'm 2-for-0 on my New Year's resolutions this year - this baby being one of them and my half-marathon back in May being the other. I'm supposed to be running another half-marathon the weekend before Thanksgiving and haven't exactly kept up with that, but that's beside the point (RAMBLING, AGAIN). The point is, I've done well with following through so far this year, so this should be good.

Fact: I've always loved Saturdays in the fall, but I have a new appreciation for when OU plays away games because it allows me to lounge around all day watching football. Perfection.

OSU is currently sucking it up against Texas. And by sucking it up, I mean they're only beating them by 11 going in to halftime.

Also, I love this book/blog/blog about a book: Gridiron Belles

Happy Saturday!