Amen and Amen.

A little soul yelling from my lovely friend over at Come Sit By Me.

Us girls are tired of getting pushed around. Read here. Trust me.

I miss you SKP!

Life Lessons

One day last week or the week before I was having a bad day. You know, one of those days you feel so sorry for your perfect life and can't seem to get past all the extremely silly things you're so "depressed" by. Yes, rough life. In my fumbling around online to find God's life lessons (oh, the irony...), I did come across something that is worth sharing. I think the girl called them the "10 Dating Mantras" or something of that sort but I just think they are good things for any female to remind themselves every now and then.

1. I can't control behavior. I can only control my reaction to it.
2. I am a human being worthy of love.
3. Everyone is responsible for guarding their own heart.
4. Big picture, big picture.
5. I am lucky to be alive.
6. Life never ceases to surprise me.
7. It is okay to be sad.
8. I am taking it one day at a time.
9. This too shall pass.
10. Everything will work out in the end.
11. Serenity now.

Interesting - that's 11. Oh well.

When I read over these, it seems like most should pertain to breakups. But anyone of these things standing alone could mean a totally different thing when not relating to "dating." Job, family, yard work, etc. I'm almost certain whatever it was I was upset about had nothing to do with dating. Regardless of what it was, I felt the need to take note of these in the even I needed a little encouragement. Take them however you'd like but I can only hope they might be helpful to another person.

Don't Be That Coworker

Don't be that coworker that the ENTIRE FLOOR can hear when you speak. In a meeting, on the phone, wherever. Just tone it down. We all effin know you're here and you think your job is uber important and all power for the Tennessee Valley would come to a screeching halt with ensuing chaos beyond imagination following if you fail to perform your job. Clearly, your mother did not teach you about inside voices.

Almost Friday... Almost Friday.

Musically Declined

I've never really been a hard core music person. I have my favorites and I like most things. Lately, I've had these moments where my taste changes so quick. For instance, when I was still living in Memphis and attending my old gym (tear...), my friend/instructor had this particular song on her CD she played that irritated me soooo bad. It was by this newer chick artist that everyone was raving about. I, being the non music buff that I am, could have cared less about this chick but the song reallllly irritated me. I recall being in Dickson one weekend and telling the bro's girlfriend about how much the song bothered me. Then, out of the frickin' blue, I was obsessed with it. Like, bought it on iTunes and rocked out in my car to it. What song? You might ask. Bad Romance - Lady Gaga. Rah-rah-rahahah. It was just so dang catchy.

I'm since over this obsession though I do think Gaga has some good tunes. Of course they aren't classics and we won't be lining up to see her in concert years from now like Tom Petty and Reba.

Another confession. There is this other extremely ridiculous female signer (ridiculous in a bad way not a cool way) who is supposedly from Nashville. I am ashamed if this is the case HOWEVER I do like one of her jingles as well. This one followed the same pattern. Hated it to jamming out on RB's boat like a fool. (I was jamming out, not him!) The name of this hit single? Your Love is My Drug - Ke$ha*****. This song has yet to make it to the iPod but I'm thinking about fixing that for my drive North this weekend.

Yes. I totally give you permission to make fun of me.

***** This was so funny to me I gave it 5 asterisk's! I just Wikipedia-d this broad and this is what the first line says.... "Kesha Rose Sebert, better known by her first name Kesha, is an American pop singer, rapper and songwriter." RAPPER!?!?!! Oh snap. I'm looking into this and posting a follow up. I hope that "huh-huh-huh. I like your beard," is not considered rapping.

Flying by...

Oh how I love the weekends. And oh how they drain my energy. This weekend, I got sunburnt for the first time all summer. That is a record if there ever was one! Evidently the one weekend I spent not on the lake was enough to zap my tan and allow me to get quite the farmers' tan on the lake this weekend. I evidently waited about 5 minutes too long to apply the SPF 30 which I am generally a pretty good latherer!

I am officially looking forward to fall. It is by far my favorite season. I love the feel of it in the air and I can't wait to have little fires on my back porch WITHOUT mosquitoes!!! I'm also ready to make the many trips East to spend quality time with 100K (or possibly 80K this season) of my closest friends. Though the orange faithful might not have as much to cheer for this season, it's still a great feeling hanging out with family and close friends while enjoying beverages and a good game of cornhole. That, of course, is before the game. After the game, depending on the company one keeps, is usually a whole different story. Hopefully, this season there won't be a need to punch steel doors or throw burning couches into dumpsters. Or rob anyone with pellet guns for that matter.

Go Vols!

A Little Sprucin' Up

During this downtime at the new job, I have been thinking a lot about the house and projects that need to be completed. I believe I am going to attempt a couple of these projects tonight. I have stumbled upon a couple of really good blogs lately and one in particular has inspired one of my projects for this evening. Life in the Fun Lane is one of the better DIY blogs I have found, especially when it comes to anything white or having to do with distressing furniture. I plan on making one of these tonight:

These are called ghost lamps and her blog entry can be found here. Assuming it turns out as planned, I will be putting the lamp in my bedroom hanging off my oddly sloped ceiling where I plan to move my gigantic chair after I purchase a replacement. It is a bit premature to make this tonight but I'm in the decorating/creating mood and these just look like fun! Plus my good pal Tara is willing to assist. :)

I've also been tossing around the idea of painting. One of the main reasons I settled so quickly on this house was due to my not having to paint anything because I loved the colors. The colors are fine but I've since learned that I find myself saying "they painted; they did; they whatever" and I don't like it. It's my house now and I want to make it mine! Plus some of the colors are dark and make rooms look smaller than they really are. This whole idea will likely pass but I'll be picking up some paint samples tonight no doubt.

I still have one wall in the living room that needs a little character. I decided today to make a photo wall. I plan to do this in my room also but these things take funds and I'm close to fresh out of those! I'm really liking the idea of this type of arrangement: Image found here

I like that it's more compact and the images pop. If I stumble upon lots of perfect frames, I would love to put one like this in my den with old pictures of my grandparents and parents growing up:

Image found here

My next task will be filling the frames for the one in the living room. Either my camera sucks at taking quality pictures or Walgreens sucks at developing them. Probably a combination of both. Regardless I'm not really one to take pictures of landscapes or things that would make something like this more attractive. I'll have to work on that I suppose. Or maybe someone will just lend/give/not-know-I-stole pictures. Gotta love Facebook! ;-)

I will attempt to remember to take pictures of the house this weekend and share. It's still very much a work in progress but nevertheless, something to be proud of! Happy Friday!

It's a Twi-hard Life

Tonight, I will be viewing that new movie you might have heard about called Eclipse. I've read the books. The movies are okay. That's my opinion. Like most movies, the books are far better. I took the pleasure of getting my dear friend LShep addicted to the series. I gave her the first book (Twilight) for her birthday almost 2 years ago. Her birthday fell just about a week or so before the release of the first movie. I needed a fellow Memphian to go see the film with and she seemed like a good candidate. Holy smokes. This pharmacy student became a Twihard (or whatever the heck they call them) in like 2 days. She finished all 4 books in literally a week or less, and possibly reread the first one before going to see the film. I am surprised she didn't make us t-shirts to wear to the movie!

When New Moon hit the big screen, my excitement had subsided. New Moon is the worst book. BORING! Did that mean LShep wasn't revved up for the flick? No sirree! She reread the whole series for the 3rd time? Maybe 2nd but still. And the movie was as expected. Boring.

Eclipse should be better. I've heard good things.

Upon completing the Twilight Saga, LShep has read damn near every series based on vampires available. She even watched/watches that Vampire Diaries show. Obsessed :)

Off subject but I think I have recently lost that gene in my body that creates excitement. You know that feeling you had when you were younger before Santa Claus came or before you left on vacation for Disney World? So excited you can't sleep. Well, that feeling has vacated my body. Maybe this is all part of growing up. Whatever it is, it's stupid. I want to be so excited about something I can't sleep! I could do work with a time machine.

Huh?

Maybe I'm the only person in the world who feels this way but the word "texted" drives me bananas. Maybe it is proper terminology, maybe not. To me it is somewhat like beer. Beers might be correct when used in a plural form but it sounds ridiculous. Again, this is all just my opinion but when the word "texted" comes out of mouths, I cringe. I will text people in past, present and future tenses, occasionally adding the ever popular "-ing" when necessary. Happy Tuesday!!

Additional information - as I was about to post this blog entry, I hit the handy dandy spell checker and to my suprise, the only word mispelled on the screen???? TEXTED!! Slam bam thank ya ma'am! :)

Beat That...

I have recently established I have zero summer blouses. Everything I own is dark and gloomy. While bored at work, I shopped around on one of the only websites I can actually access, Banana Republic. Before I got this job, I wasn't sure what line of work I would be getting into or what the dress code would be. Here at TVA, we're business casual. Some folk rock jeans and Hawaiian shirts. I'm guessing they are IT of some sort. Us business services people know business casual. My point is when I moved and began making purchases for my house, I put EVERYTHING on my Banana Republic card (and paid it off of course) so I would receive LUXE rewards (large amounts of gift cards to spend in any Gap, Ltd. store) in case I needed to spruce up my wardrobe for some fancy job. Clearly this was not the case. Today I purchased 2 shirts.

This one:

And another one. I obviously got the very last one of the other shirt because it is no longer even listed on the website and I seriously placed my order 20 minutes ago. The original total for this order was somewhere around $90. I weasled myself out of shipping and an extra 25% off this sale item listed above. I ended up paying a whopping $1.35. Success.

Every now and then, you just gotta get right with the shopping gods. Happy almost Friday!