Fa La La La Laaa!

I can feel it in the air and I saw it Saturday while shopping. Christmas is here and so are the cruel shoppers that slam their buggy into yours while you are just browsing down the aisle. While running errands and shopping at Sam's Saturday I kept repeating nice things aloud to Graysen for fear of blowing it and screaming at a lady who wouldn't let me by after I poliety asked her 3 times! Seriously? All I wanted to do was play on the touch screen computer, with all the others 20 kids that were crowded around fighting and yelling, " I'm next!" "NO, Mom said I could touch itttttt!!!". Needless to say I needed 2 Advils and didn't get to touch the screen...

I did pick out a few things I needed or really more so just wanted and made sure to write them down so my Santa Clause could remember exactly what I wanted at Pier 1.

This would be a fantastic holiday prize from Ruby and Roja!

(Even though they did just update my blog header a few months ago, listen, a girl's got to change it up. I mean would you want to wear the same pair of shoes everyday?That's what I thought...)

Head over there and enter for your chance to win...it's a BIG giveaway!

It's official people...

My finger is crooked.

As some of you dedicated readers(dedicated meaning about...hmmm... 3 people) know back in September I got a hairline fracture from kickboxing in my right hand. The Dr. said it was healing nicely and would look "normal" in a few weeks...NOT is what I wanted to scream at him last week after a checkup! He did release me and say it was fine for me to start the kickboxing again which I am immediately regretting today!

Not because of the trainer, anyone who puts up with my complaints and whining during a workout can handle anything. So, I started back yesterday, I woke up this morning and thought I had the flu, I seriously couldn't move out of bed.
Then I remembered I got a flu shot about 2 weeks ago so that couldn't be it. I crawled out of bed and could barely raise my hands to wash my hair in the shower. I made it out of the shower and was fixing a bowl of cereal when I noticed it

THE MIDDLE FINGER!

It is so crooked I can't even try to straighten it without the help of pulling on it with my left hand.

If beauty is only skin deep then why are we all concerned with our appearance?.I constantly say I will get started on a NEW workout plan and eat healthier but after just eating a piece of left over Halloween candy I now feel like I should hop on the treadmill! I have got to change my diet and exercise plan, it's not going to be my resolution for next year, I am going to do it NOW!

I guess the good news is this crooked finger can still open a candy bar if it HAS to!

Viva La Vida

I am still coming down from a "concert high" after Wednesday nights performance by Coldplay at the Philips Arena. Philips is a very nice and clean place, I would go to any event there again and pay $10 bucks for a delicious Cinnamon pretzel and Sprite!

G and I decided we didn't care much for the screaming opening act, they were a band we had never heard of and actually couldn't understand much they were saying...so we opted for a self photo shot!



During the middle of the show these amazing butterflies dropped from the ceiling...







and most of them stuck, to EVERYTHING including me!

I took a few pictures of the band but my camera isn't the best, we did have great floor seats though. I already got Oscar so now I just have to work on getting the camera that I have wanted too!

On this day...

November 4, 2008 I would like to say that I was a first time voter, yes it has been hard to admit but I faced my fear today. I actually felt like I was showing up for an alcoholics anonymous meeting as I walked into the community center with a book in hand. I was fully prepared to read a chapter or two but when I opened the door there were only about FOUR people in the room.

I thought I was definitely in the wrong place and looked like a freshman on the first day of high school...not really but I did feel pretty lost until a helpful volunteer guided me in the correct direction. I was a little surprised when they handed me a folder and pen and I had to fill in the bubble of my choice, at that point I really did feel like I was in high school and I got the sweaty palms but it all passed after I got the first pen mark on my ballot.

I was thinking about wearing my Halloween costume to vote BUT,Joe,you know my plumber had to be at work early this morning and was unable to make it to the polls with me.







(I'm starting to scare myself the more I look at this pictures, the resemblance is almost too much!)

We actually did see Russia from our house on Halloween night, I think it had to do with my Goodwill outfit. All kidding aside...I am very thankful and feel blessed for the freedom that I have in oUr Simply beAutiful country.

Happy "Owl"oween!!!

Welcome Oscar!

The newest addition arrived yesterday at the Ballard house! Oscar the Yorkie, he's 11 weeks old!



He is very calm and all he wants to do is lay in my lap and sleep which is perfectly fine with me. I love to cuddle with him and that's all I did the first 4 hours we had him.



He's just like a little kid(well not reallyyy, but you know what I mean?), I didn't want to let him sleep in our bed and start a habit I didn't want to later break so he slept in his doggy bed and did great through the night! We didn't have to get up at all during the night and he went straight out this morning and was very eager to come inside once his little paws hit the cold sidewalk.



It didn't take too much convincing to G that we had to have him. He kept saying as we were walking into the breeder's house, "We're just going to look, we have plenty of time to find one." HAH! Well, that soon changed as this tiny puppy came running over to his feet with one floppy ear, it adds so much character, don't you think?

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We are now second guessing our decision to buy TN football season tickets, not really because we love going to the games but not so much when they are losing! I might be second guessing the ticket purchase more than G because everytime I sit through a losing game I think about how much money I could have made off of selling my ticket for shoes, lots and lots of shoes! They have had a rough season but we've had fun going and tailgating with friends.





(This past weekend we went to the TN-AL game...no comment at this time about the horrible game.)

The band decided to come and play right beside us which would of have been fine minus the fact that I was starting to get an ear ache, the kid beside me was practically sitting in my lap chatting my ear off about his amazing cell phone and fast texting abilities and all I could smell was greasy onion rings that the people in front of us were eating.



Since I don't work full time, I'm home today, with an even worse ear ache and sinus junk! We had painters come in this morning and do some touch up work on a few rooms. They are coming back next week to do more work. It's just so hard to pick out a color that you know will be on your walls everyday and you don't want to regret the color. I hope it's not just me being too indecisive. It's okay to have 5 paint swatch's hanging on your kitchen walls, right????