Happy B-day to me..

So the clock has not even struck midnight on January 31st and I have already started. wooppseee oh well you are only 25 once, or in my case 4 times, hehehe.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Birthday month is coming!!

So T-minus 6 days until my birthday and 3 days until the month of my birthday! For those who do not know it is also Mayra's over at life is BANANAS birth month too! Go Aquarious'!! So in honor of my birthday I figured I would show you all what is on my wish list year. So here we go...

First off my favorite shoe artist Mark Schwartz, I really want this one. Image is from Mark Schwartz's fantastic website, and you can check him out here.

A new pair of red soles. Maybe something like these. Oh humenah humenah

A new handbag, somewhere around here

Oh and this awesome bowl, since we have a backyard now.

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And last but not least, I REALLY want one of these. I mean come on look at that face!

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Alright so that is just part of the wish list, man I wish I didn't want so much! Also on a great note, found out yesterday I get a bonus and raise this year! Woooohhooo, 3 years with nadda! About time.

Also in amazing news so very happy for Mrs. KLaw, go check out her amazing news.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Firefighting

So this was me yesterday.  I was fighting fires all morning (of course not in the literal sense) but yesterday morning was quite a morning at work. I then got home and took care of two more boxes and got them up off the kitchen floor and two loads of laundry done so that we can almost see our bedroom floor.

It is starting to look a little more like home and less of a storage facility, although the garage, well we have a longggg way to go with that. Currently wandering around on amazon, etsy and so forth for little decorating ideas. We found a bed frame and one bedside table (I do not want to match them) at Room & Board. If you like the simplistic, clean lines, no frill this place is awesome! M spent last night under the house doing some minor fixing to our HVAC since the seller gave us the money in our closing costs instead of fixing it, whatever M likes those projects.

Oh we also set a date! June 3, 2011, I will become a Mrs. and M and I will be throwing probably our biggest party we will ever have (not a large wedding, 100 peeps, but a great big party for us!).

I am also feeling a bit of beautiful KLaw's pain, although mine came in the form of Conjunctivitis, thats right all, I found myself at the doctor Monday night getting eye drops because of PINK eye. Pink pretty right? In your eye not so much, I blame the work stress.

Alright I am out, back to the thing they call work. Miss you all!

Oh yeah T-minus 7 days until I celebrate the 4th anniversary of my 25th B-day! Yea!!!

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Fist pumping

Got my bubbles and Little Debbie Nutty Bars. Ready to watch the season finale, tear.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Still settling in

So the internet is up and working, as far as everything being put away it is FAARRRRR from there. The garage is still full of boxes, or garbage cans have not arrived so well it is also full of the beer bottles from Saturday night. Yea, we were those people, Saturday we move Saturday night our house was full of people drinking beer. So much fun.

So we technically moved in Saturday and we are still sorting through boxes and every morning our closet is pretty much the garage. It sucks, nothing can be worse for my anxiety than boxes everywhere and things not having a home.  There is still stuff at the old place and on top of it all I am working like crazy right now and lets just say that at this point of the night and just getting home I MUCH rather be here on blogger than actually doing something. Oh and M and I set a date this past week, June 3, 2011 I will become his wife.  Yep it is a long time away but right now, we kind of have a lot going on.

Ok ok enough of that I should probably get moving along, I swear pictures to come, now if I could just find the cord for my camera... Miss all you lovelies!

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Making V-Day fun

Yea! Thanks ladies for putting this together! Now I am not one for enjoying Valentines Day, never have, which makes M sad because he loves it. So here is to the fabulous ladies for putting something together that will help make it fun. It is also my first time doing this sort of thing with the blogger world so yea!

Here is the scoop:

easy rules:

1. Please send an email to bisforbrownbreathebelieve@gmail.com with the subject line, SWAP, by Thurs, January 21st. Include your name, email, mailing address and 3 of your favorite things.

2. Packages will need to be sent out by Thurs, February 4th (give or take a day or 2), so you and your partner both have something special to open just in time for V day.

3. If you would like to, please spread the word on your blogs. Copy and paste the button and link back to this post.

4. This swap is open to all single and taken bloggers, lurkers and non-bloggers.


"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Yiiippppppeeee!

So I have been a little MIA, well the reason is this key over there -> Well ladies and gents that key is to my new house! Yes finally we have a home, so excited and this week has been crazy trying to prep to move, furniture buying and everything. This weekend is moving weekend! I am so excited, now to add the white picket fence and dog.  Well probably not the white picket fence but definitely going to be checking on the dog!

More details to come once the moving actually starts and we are actually at the house longer than a half hour.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

WOW!

Seriously this kid is awesome!

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Tooodddooollloooo 2009.

Peace out, no looking back.

Christmas was fantastic, my parents had a very full house this year. M's brother was up this year since he now lives in southern California and was not going to fly back to NY.  Of course the sisters, M and the sister's fiance and her dog. Poor Layla (the dog) still has bars in her leg from her surgery. All she wants to do is play and she cannot. Hopefully next Christmas will involve me having a house and a puppy.

New Years was spent at a friends house. M and I have never had a great new years 3 years ago there was a skydiving accident and he lost a good friend (Tommy D - R.I.P). Last year we were apart because we were supposed to be in NY together but I never made it out to NY the day after Christmas due to the passing of my Pa. This year we were actually together and had a great time.  I never got a picture with M but here are two great ones of me with the IronMan couple who M and I will be standing next to at their wedding in July.

Thats me and the to be groom mugging the camera, and also me and the soon to be bride. Seriously they are going to have the tallest kids ever! I mean I am a little short but I believe at 5'4" I am an "average" height. Ok well yes they are tall and I am short, oh well. I cannot wait for their wedding as these two have become such great friends to M and I.

Well here is to 2010! A year that is going to be very busy with many things to come.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Pure awesomeness

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Boiled over

I am feeling a little boiled over, not mad but overwhelmed.  I have been sick (including leaving work early today) more times this year than all the years combined since the day I left college. I honestly believe it could be my body telling me to slow down and try to stop stressing. This year I have had a plate full, not necessarily bad just too much.

Work (thank goodness I still have a job) but with layoffs my work load doubled, literally. We laid someone off and I now do both our jobs.

House Hunting, for some reason I decided now was the time to try to find my own piece of something.

CPA, seriously will I ever pass you?!?

Wedding, not that I am not excited and love M, but really, is now the time to try to plan this thing?

Sorry for the lack of me around here and no beautiful shoes around these parts, just trying to get through the rest of the year, no more crazy stuff added to my plate please?

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Happy Merry Christmas

So I have the best boy ever! I just had to share my Christmas present with you all because it is so fantastic and I cannot wait until we have a house and can frame it and put it up. If any of you follow Mark Schwartz blog, High Heeled Art you might of seen the picture below posted up on Christmas. Well it is sold because it is mine!

One Glass, One Shoe

My wonderful M had this made for me.  It has the shoe, champagne and purple. Such a fantastic surprise. Hope everyone's Christmas' treated you well.  There is one more on there that I want to add because I think it will be a perfect fit with this one. So stay away until I can convince M into buying the other one!

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

My new haircut

So with all the Jersey Shore talk and what not I am not sure who has  seen this video but it is the greatest youtube ever!

My New Haircut

I am only inserting the link since there is some language content (well actually lots) but put the headphones on and take a look. After I have had a few glasses of bubbles I believe that I have a new haircut, "Not now chief, I'm in the F%^$&* zone!" I tend to disclose that to a lot of people.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

All I want for Christmas

1. What I really really really want:

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I really would love to be in a house and not in a tiny apartment sitting on a blow up mattress to watch tv. Seriously I just want a house to fall from the sky and into my lap, well probably not in my lap as that might cause some problems.

2. I still dream about these boots daily.

3. Craving this skirt from Free People for New Years:

 via Free People

4. Lastly the one thing that sits high on my list that would make #1 a lot easier. A big fat raise.  Well hopefully I will see something come around.  Long story but I DO deserve one. via google image

If I do not have a chance to get on here again have a great Christmas to those who celebrate. Those that do not, Happy Holidays.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

A whole lot of nothing

That was my weekend. So I told you guys last week that I was high on the anxiety/depressive side and decided I was going to take a weekend to myself. I went out to my parents and did not much. My mom and I headed to Barnes and Noble for some books for the little cousins, so much fun, brings back so many memories of books when we were little and my new favorite is Fancy Nancy (pic via). As we were poking around the kids section there was a father and his two year old girl there. She was pulling the toys (stuffed characters, etc.) and then putting them back very nicely. At one point she had to walk past me and in her polite little voice said "Excuse me", she was so great! Her Dad said they come there every Saturday morning for a little while. So cute, he was the big tough guy, tatto'd up, shaved head, and on and on. Someone it seemed I would not want to mess with but his little girl was the world.

Other than my Barnes and Noble trip I pretty much was a huge lazy butt. I slept until noon on Sunday and then was back in bed by ten (which is early for me). Such a refreshing weekend and was the pick me up I needed. Hope everyon's weekend was fantastic and holiday shopping was finished or near completed. Ahhh cannot wait until Thursday for food and family.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

I cannot stop

Shopping that is. I seriously have issues when it comes to buying gifts for people.  Just finished of the last piece for the sister and brother/sister-in-law while on my conference call.  While looking for a personalized "tavern" sign for my brother I came across this:

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I found it on Etsy at SportsFanCraftsman. Now I think wow I finished M shopping a long long time ago but something like this for him? I do not know.  I have spent way over budget already (remember the whole saving money trying to pay for a wedding and buy a house thing?) But this just seems too perfect and his birthday is not until September, well I saved it to my favories for the time being but who knows it might just end up purchased and hidden away for when we actually have a house, only if it does not end up in my living (yes I said MY).

So You all read the other day was just plain blah. I think my anxiety is starting to get the best of me, there is a ton going on right now and it is starting to catch up and make my head a big mush pot. So this weekend I decided that I would skip out on my friends white trash party and take some time for me (M will be at the dropzone alllll weekend). So I am going to catch up on stuff for my sisters bridal shower/bachelorette, sleep and spend some time with Mama. Hopefully after that things will start to sort themselves out in my head.

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In better news M surprised me last night by making a pit stop at WalMart and picking up The Hangover. Seriously my favorite comedy of all time! I love this movie and put me to bed last night on a better note. If you want a good laugh this will definitely provide it for you.  Anyone else out there?  Alright this is long enough till next time...

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

......

That is pretty much what today feels like to me. I do not want to work, shop (I know right), all I want to do is curl up in bed and watch movies.

I might have some good news on the horizon but do not want to get to hopeful about it but at this point thats kind of the only thing keeping me positive today. I for sure have grumpy pants on today.

I did find the most gorgeous wedding shoes over at Leigh Miller Photography.

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Now if I could find them in purple.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

To and fro

Last night was kinda the start to my weekend, not really because I still have to work all week but last night we had our work Christmas party.  Nothing crazy but the bankers and traders and PE guys all loved on me! Well not on me but in me, no wait that didn't sound right either. Whatever they bought me drinks once the Company decided that we had enough, bwahahahahahaha, yeah right!

So last night was fun, this morning not so much. Tonight I am meeting the girls out for some Mojitos and fantastic crab cakes! Tomorrow is our department party at our CFO's house, and Saturday we wrap up with my friends annual holiday party in the city. This week I am a very busy lady.

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On another note I came across this post on Hostess with the Mostest today and thought it is a great thing to pass along. This family whose 5-year old little girl is fighting for her life against brain cancer are trying to bring happiness to all the children who are fighting for their lives. If you have a moment check out the website: PrayforKate.com.  They are collecting toys (must be new due to their immune systems) or gift cards to stores to buy toys.

If this one doesn't hit you here are some other sites that I feel strongly about supporting:
Coats for Kids
Princess Project
Make A Wish

Yes they do all relate to children, they are the innocent, the ones who will love endlessly and smile constantly and give us all a breath of fresh air when the world seems to be against us. They cannot help their situation but you can.

Hmm I just reread that and sounds a bit infomercialish. Oh well I truly mean it.

Happy Holidays.
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

Hercules Hercules Hercules

Ok so people are getting creative with the table number thing at weddings and well my brother put different pictures of my nephew dressed up in a tux. So very cute!

Giving a hi-five.

Mister Herc posing in his tux.

Another pose.

Seriously how cute is he. I have not been actually able to meet him but apparently these poses did not surprise my Mom whatsoever because he believes that he is a star. My brother named him Hercules. He has always wanted an English Bulldog with the name Herc.

Well I just thought I would show the pictures because Bananas post the other day reminded me of the studly boy.

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

mmmmmmmmmm

Ed Westwick makes me drool, and definitely on my list. Well tonight on a GG commercial we heard his accent, seriously if I was a guy I would have, yeah lets not go there. But yummy. (source)

"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." - Coco Chanel