Things I learned in church…Part one

So Sunday I went to church…for the first time in a few months.  I grew up in a Southern Baptist church with my family.  Where I was expected to be in church every Wednesday night and every Sunday morning unless I was dying or dead.

Even if I spent the night at a friends house my  mom and dad would either make sure I went to my friends church or they would pick me up and take me to our church.

A few favorite things about church as a kid: (in no particular order)

1. Donuts…. which probably led to my love for the deep fried pastry.  My dad would take us to get donuts at the exact same donut shop every Sunday.  It was called “Donuts” and it was on main street.  The sweet Asian woman that owned the place was so nice and ALWAYS gave me and my sister six free chocolate donut holes with sprinkles.  DELICIOUS!  I always ordered a chocolate cake with sprinkles or chocolate twist…depending on my mood.  And washed it down with a chocolate milk. (see a theme here…chocolate, chocolate, chocolate)

2. Sunday School: Especially as a “youth group” member I loved Sunday school.  I loved the smaller setting and being in class with my friends and also staring and flirting with all the cute boys.

3. After church lunch – we always went to eat after church with loads of people.  My parents friends all had kids the same age so we would inevitably take over any restaurant we patronized.  Most Sundays was Luby’s.  I heart Luby’s.  The Luanne platter of fried fish (gross to most I know), mashed potatoes and corn make my heart happy.  aaaanddd…. don’t forget the red jello.  I know you probably think I’m 85.

4. The morals and values:  I still recall several times a day the morals and values I learned growing up in church.  I dance, I drink, and sometimes I smoke (*GASP*) but those aren’t the things I remember.  I remember the ten commandments and how to implement them into your daily life.  I remember as young child being taught how to pray.  I remember being told by my mom “Don’t use your Christianity as fire insurance”.  I remember to lead by example, but it’s ok to follow too (as long as you are following the right person).

Church was always a special place to me.  I loved going.  High School was harder because I would stay out later and it continually was harder to get up for church on Sunday  morning, but when I got there I knew it was exactly where I was supposed to be.

I’m not uber-religious. I don’t deny I’m a Christian and I believe Christ died on the cross for me.  But I don’t force my beliefs on ANYONE…. I try to lead by example (but as we know…we are all sinners and this is harder said than done), if someone asks I’ll share.  I pray a lot.  I sign my emails with God Bless sometimes or praying diligently.  I find myself asking for forgiveness A LOT during the day and thanking the Lord even more at night for all the blessings in my life.  I also talk to BFF constantly throughout the day and ask her to give God a fist bump for me as a thanks.  I tell her I miss her everyday.

I guess my religion is why death doesn’t affect me in ways in affects other people.  Not that it isn’t a world of hurt and sad and lonely…but I know that I will see my Dad and my BFF and my Nanny again.

I know this is a serious post…but stick with me… part two is underway Depending on work today (b/c let’s be honest I’m not real motivated) it may be up later…or I might save it for tomorrow…who knows

I hope you have a FANTASTIC Tuesday…fyi…my Tuesday is WAY  better than my Monday

Random Fun

Some random fun for a Monday

PS – britboy fb’d me today – he’s coming in town on Thursday!!!!

Your hair: Blonde with inch long hooker roots (add that to the to do list: call hair lady and make appt)

Your mother: Amazing

Your father: Gone too Soon

Your favorite food: Only one??? Steak/baked potato, pizza, a real huge deli sandwich

Your dream last night: none that I know of

Your favorite drink: Red Bull and Vodka (42 Below -passion fruit)

Your dream goal: to be a stay-at-home-mom-blogger

What room are you in: my office

Your hobby: shopping, working out and escaping to play with nieces/nephew

Your fear: being alone for the rest of my life

Where do you see yourself in 6 years: 34 – hopefully with kids

Where were you last night: home

Something you aren’t: tardy

Muffins: Blueberry

Wish list item: new laptop

Where did you grow up: The Great State of Texas

Last thing you did: Left a VM for a colleague

What are you wearing: black slacks and super cute argyle sweater

Your TV: is hanging on the wall at home

Your pets: the BEST

Friends: irreplaceable

Your life: evolving

Your mood: over it

Missing someone: BFF

Vehicle: needs to be inspected..but first I have to figure out what’s wrong with it..the check engine light is on..fml

Something you aren’t wearing: Socks you thought I was going to say something else

Your favorite store: Nordstroms  – the mecca of all great shopping

Your favorite color: PINK!

When was the last time you laughed: about two seconds ago…

Last time you cried: last week probably

Your best friend: lots of them

One place you go over and over: kitchen (I know I know)

Facebooking: Who doesn’t!!!

Favorite place to eat: a nice steak house

Someone has a case of the Mondays….

One of the best movies ever if you ask me…especially if you work in “cubicle world” like me.  I am fortunate and have an office…a real one…with a door and a window and I strategically have my computer set up to where no one can see what I am working on besides me…… *insert evil laugh here*

I hate Mondays…let’s be honest I hate Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  Fridays aren’t so bad and Saturdays are GREAT…sunday’s are ok but it just means work starts the next so they are, in all reality,blah.

I currently hate my job .  I love WHAT I do … I just hate my job.  I feel like I’m continually set up to fail at whatever menial task is assigned to me.  I feel like my customers are continually ticked off about something our company did (or didn’t do)… I am basically the fan that all the shit hits.

I love working with people but my company seems to think people aren’t really important.  That they know better than our customers do what’s best for them.  I work in an industry where flexibility is key (no I’m not a stripper)… if you take away flexibility the customers are going to run to the competition…. they will pay more to get what they want.  Price isn’t always a determining factor.

I literally hated falling asleep last night….b/c….that meant when I woke up I had to get dressed and drive, in nasty ass weather, to a place that recently I can’t stand.

A lot of my frustration as well has come from feeling like I have no potential to go anywhere in this company.  There is no room for growth and it is very frustrating.  I am the type of person who is always looking for the next challenge and it seems that opportunities are given to “hometown” (meaning my colleagues that live where we are headquartered) employees.

It’s frustrating to feel like you are stagnant; especially for someone like me who is constantly looking at climbing the corporate ladder.

In all honesty though…I really want to stay home one day and raise babies….

The weekend was fun – Friday I went to concert…Saturday I stayed in my pj’s all day long…I also never decided it was important to put on a bra. AWESOME

Sunday I went to church, ran some errands and watched the most uneventful superbowl EVER complete with not even remotely funny commercials….. I was highly disappointed.

Up this week:

Two concerts, karaoke night and a movie…. sounds good

Also coming…. a post about marriage, religion and the what I learned at church on Sunday.

Donut Friday’s

I love donuts… I used to get donuts almost everyday at my very first job out of college.  I love them…especially when they are still warm and gooey!  I laid off the donuts when I decided I wanted to be “healthy”(I put it in quotes b/c I’m not super freaky about eating right…I still have a hamburger, pizza and beer…more on the beer later) anywho….

Today is a donut kind of Friday….

More specifically b/c I am hungover…. I normally try and work from home on Fridays but today I needed to come to the office to get all my shit handled that I’ve been putting off…you know the filing, the random email that has been sitting in my inbox for two weeks, blah blah blah…nothing pressing but if I don’t get it done it’s going to pile up and stress me out.

I went out last night with Branch (new in the list of who the F is she talking about), GM (also new) and Roomie.  We had so much fun … we went and saw an 80’s cover band that I love (they are soooo good) and I may (or may not) have had one too many blue moons and one too many dos xx.

I woke up at 5am with heartburn, an official sign I’m getting old…beer gives me heartburn, and a headache…not to mention I had to pee like CrAzY….

Took some Tylenol…drank some water and went back to sleep; hoping my 5am wake up was going to be the extent of my hangover…not soo much.

I’m exhausted….craving a Dr. Pepper (but I was running late so I had to settle for the Diet Coke in my fridge), and still have a headache….ugh…

In other news…

I baked on Wednesday night…. made some delicious Oreo truffles … I should post the recipe…. and homemade chocolate chip cookies, my secret recipe.

I took both to PT yesterday for the staff.  They are always so sweet to me and I wanted to take them something…what better than food!!!!

It also sparked (finally) a conversation between me and the cutie-pa-tootie PT.  He’s not my PT but he’s yum none-the-less.

I always say hi to him….but we had like a real conversation yesterday.  I kinda got all giddy and smiley…it was weird…I never act like that.

I hate the way he does his hair though….it’s all slicked back and kind of “Fonzy”…. you know Happy Days.  Oh well…. he’s fun to look at!

So this weekend I don’t have much planned…. hopefully it will be relaxing.  I think I need to nap, a lot……

Oreo Truffle Recipe:

- one package Oreo Cookies (not double stuff…just normal regular Oreos)

- one block cream cheese (room temp)

- 2 boxes semi-sweet baking chocolate (I use Baker’s brand)

-1 box white baking chocolate (I use Baker’s)

Put Oreos through food processor to crumble.  You want a fine crumble almost like dirt.

In a stand mixer (or bowl and hand mixer) cream together the Oreos and cream cheese until gooey. (do you like my professional terminology..gooey)  Once creamed together, roll into 1 inch balls.  I use a cookie scoop to make them round; but you can roll with your hands.

Freeze the Oreo balls for 1 hour.

After they have been frozen; melt the semi sweet baking chocolate on a double broiler (don’t use the microwave..the stove is better).  Dip each ball into the bakers chocolate and set on wax paper lined cookie sheet.

Refrigerate until hard.

Once the chocolate has hardened; melt the white chocolate on double broiler.  Drizzle white chocolate over the balls in a zig zag pattern. (see picture below) refrigerate until firm.

*Sing the Hills Theme Song Here*

Feel the rain on your skin…no one else can feel it for you…only you can let it in..

You know you know this song…..

Soooo two weeks ago, MLK Day to be exact, my bestie CAB and I had lunch together…she gets soo many f’ing holidays b/c she works in the school system, sooo not fair

Anyway…we met for lunch.  Over delicious salads we talked about superiorex and CAB’s hubby.  CAB was going through a bit of a rough patch with her hubs and couldn’t really shake it.  She wasn’t ready to have the sit down covo yet but knew it was inevitable.  So we decided what the hey…let’s get out of town, clear our heads for a girls weekend and nothing like avoiding your problems!!!

I’m fortunate, my mom works for an airline so I called her up, got two free tickets and we started checking schedules.  Our first inclination was VEGAS!!! but all the flights were booked home on Sunday so we would have been stuck.  It did cross our minds that we could win enough money and buy a ticket home, but really….. we thought again and realized…no one comes home from Vegas up.

We scouted out, New Orleans…b/c we love it… and not going to lie I would love to have contacted BurbonStreetBoy…oooo he is yummy.  CAB is convinced he’s gay…. he’s 38 and never been married and his longest relationship was a year and a half.  I guess I can see where she is coming from….anyway… we couldn’t get home from NOLA either..

Next thought…Nashville….never been there (either of us) so what they hey…. but let’s keep looking it’s an option…

Los Angeles…. I LOVE LA!! More specifically the coast of southern California but I love LA too.  CAB had never been and the flights looked good…so we decided…the city of Angels it was!

I left on Tuesday of that week for San José, CA for work…came home Thursday night at midnight and left again at 7:30am on Friday for LA.  It was a whirlwind of a week!

We arrived in LA and promptly checked into our hotel at Hollywood and Highland … the greatest part of this trip… I booked a swank hotel for $75 a night on priceline…. DUDE NAME YOUR OWN PRICE ROCKS! sing it.. Priceline Negotiator

Anywho – we checked in…freshened up and headed to Ketchup for lunch.  Now I’ve been honest about my addiction to reality TV… I LOVE IT.  I can’t get enough.  I imagine the feeling I get when Big Brother, Biggest Loser, Survivor, etc comes on is the same feeling heroin addicts get when they shoot up…mine just doesn’t come with fucked up teeth and track marks.

I digress….

Ketchup is owned by The Dolce Group…. The Dolce Group consists of two former Big Brother winners (Mike Boogie and Dr. Will) and Ashton Kutcher and I’m sure some other big name investors.

OMG – this place had THE BEST turkey burger I’ve ever eaten in my life.  I’m not normally a big fan of Turkey Burgers … I’ll have one every now and then when I’m feeling it.  CAB ordered the Turkey Burger and it was to die for!!!  I ordered a chicken sandwich that delicious as well…but the Turkey burger blew it out of the water.

The best part – the KETCHUPS!! We had an appetizer of three different types of french fries, normal potato fries, sweet potato fries and stringy Cajun fries.  They were served with their five different homemade ketchup’s…soo good!  Maple syrup, Cajun, ranch, barbecue and we can’t remember the 5th…probably because of the two drinks we had that were also scrumptious! I had the honeymooner which was strawberries (fresh), champagne, vodka and something else…it was delicious and refreshing and perfect for a summer drink by the pool (too bad it was cold and rainy when we were there).

Friday night we went to Le Duex (you may have seen it on the hills)…I dubbed it Le Douche.  Seriously, never before have I seen so many douche bags in one place.  I was taller than 85% of the men in the club (use the term men loosely).  So CAB and I proceeded to get wasted with the hottie bartender…now he was yumo and not douchey at all.  He was tall and delicious!

Saturday consisted of me throwing up three times…once I had to have the cabbie pull over on the way to The Grove (the outdoor mall/farmers market) b/c his driving sent me into a dizzied convulsive state.  The other two times were at the hotel room before we left.  I was not good company.

We walked around the Grove and Farmers Market … I had three bites of pizza, bought some new sunglasses and we headed back for a much needed nappie!

After our nap we got up and went to Hollywood and Highland…another shopping mall right on Hollywood Blvd.  We walked the Hollywood walk of fame (I got a cheeseburger to make me feel better), walked down sunset and saw Mark Long (an oldie but goodie Real World/Road Rules Challenger).

Saturday night we had dinner at Beso (Eva Longoria’s restaurant) and met some super cool couple.  Who took us to Kiss Lounge (above Beso) and then to some local bars.

We had a great time!  Sunday we headed home to deal with all we left behind…. you see how well that worked out for me.

Anywho it was a glorious trip…. we had so much fun and some much needed bonding time for the bff and me.

Go on a girls weekend…I reccommend it!!!!!

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Check her out and register to win the fun set of bowls!!!!!!!!

This is appropriate….

Thanks MonMons I stole this from her blog….

Times they are a changin’

Ok… well my inital post that I was working on categorized my amazing trip to LA with my bestie CAB, but since then too much has happened on the superiorex front that I have to update you.

This really all started on Friday……

Friday he went out, for what I was told as a “guys night”, well you know…guys night was b.s. b/c SHE was there.

Yesterday, Sunday, pictures showed up on FB of HIM kissing HER (on her five-head…it’s sooo much bigger thana forehead).

Needless to say … he’s a big fat liar and not worth devoting anymore of my blogging to.  Pretty much not worth shit if you ask me.

He’s been ping ponging back and forth and I’m over it…. soooo over it.

I’m done fighting for something that he clearly isn’t ready for and something that constantly makes me cry.

I should be a priority to someone….I deserve respect and love (unconditionally) and I DO NOT deserve someone who would (and is still) gallivanting around town with a WHORE! (really..he’s a whore too)

I’m done….. maybe I should have you guys pimp me out…..

That would mean I have to post a picture though and I don’t know if I’m ready to give up my anonymity…

Pretty much that is that….. I told him last night I was done….. I’m so tired of being treated this way.

On to bigger and better things…………….

new post coming soon…

I have so much to update you guys on…not so much on the boy front (however we did have a spectacular dinner last week) but CAB and I decided randomly last week to go to L.A. this past weekend….SOOO Fun!!!!

I spent all of last week traveling for work so I haven’t been able to update … but I’m working on it and it will be up shortly!!!!!!

hang tight…I’ll be back….

Being mature is all relative…

So I’m trying to be mature about a few situations right now….

HE and Me (grammatically speaking should be HE and I … by like rhyming so HE and ME it is) have had two big blow ups over the last week… regarding HER (go figure…will she EVER go AWAY!!!)

The first was last Saturday – he regretted to tell me that when he went out on Friday SHE was there…. so irritating.  I know we have mutual friends (lots of them…but seriously go hang out with your other friends) SHE is everywhere… I swear she talks to JJ (new in who the F is she talking about) and then comes along because SHE knows JJ and HIM are good friends and typically hang out at least once on the weekends.

Instead of telling me ahead of time or immediately when HE found out SHE was going to be there he completely left it out until I specifically asked “Was SHE there?”… ugh…

So this happened AGAIN on Tuesday – he stopped by another mutual friends bday and SHE was there (they aren’t even that good friends – birthday girl and HER that is) but I’m convinced SHE went b/c SHE knew HE would be there.

Thursday night we had a “COME TO JESUS MEETING” if you will…

So last night he calls me and says he is going out with JJ and he wanted to let me know that JJ and HER were hanging out (go figure) and that SHE was more than likely going to be there….

I was very appreciative of the fact that he told me AHEAD OF TIME this time…rather than after the fact…b/c I felt like when it was after the fact he was hiding it….

We texted the whole time he was out so that made me feel better…and he told me before that if ANYTHING felt uncomfortable he would leave.  SHE has a tendency to pull him away for conversation…he said if that happened he would leave immediately.

I’m trying to be mature b/c I did tell him in one of our arguments that if he would just tell me beforehand it would be ok.  I wouldn’t feel like he was hiding anything…but I still can’t help but be irritated that SHE is ALWAYS around.

As many trust issues as I have with him; I normally get a good gut feeling regarding him telling the truth…I have an excellent bullshit radar.  and I really feel like he’s telling me the truth about all three instances she’s been around.  Maybe I am being naïve ……

Anyways – I’m trying to be mature – he can’t control what she does – all he can control is what he does and how he reacts to situations.  Since we aren’t “together”, and even if we were, I can’t tell him what to do…and I want to build the trust so I feel like these situations are actually helping…is this ass backwards????????

We have plans tonight’s for KK’s bday….JJ will be there and he is really my meter.  Since he is such good friends with HER if he falls off the face of the earth than I know something shady is going on.  That’s what happened when WE were together…once things started getting shady between HIM and HER JJ was outtie!!

Tomorrow we have plans to watch the Cowboy game together too…just us I think…which will be very nice.

Last Thursday he took me to a work event, which was  HUGE step b/c remember HER and HIM work together.  So I thought that was positive.

Anyways – really just venting today…I’m not mad and don’t think I should be…like I said I told him “just tell me beforehand” but sometimes you just need to vent.

I had a great workout today at the gym….excellent 900 calories in an hour..BOOYA!! so I’m feeling exceptionally skinny for the bday outting tonight…