Tales of the Weekend

{please ignore the cheese smile}

Last night i went out with the Shark to dinner and a movie. A LATE dinner and movie.

Ok let me tell you the tales of my heart attack!

So I am driving over there, belting out a sick tune {the newest Carrie Underwood} when I hang a u-turn to park the correct way out side his house when my {automatic}car stalls! Just stops! My steering wheel locked up, I am rolling forward towards these small children who are NOT paying attention. So I SLAM as hard as I can (WITH BOTH FEET) on my brake and flip it into reverse. Then, somehow still having any momentum at all I start to back into someones yard! This is when I put my emergency break on and sit. Sit in freaked out "WHAT THE HELL just happened" silence.

 I tried to restart the car and got NOTHIN! Twice!! I am literally two houses down from his.

 I call him. No answer.

I call him again. No answer.

 I text him

I call trusty bff Underwood to help me think what my next step is. Finally we decide

One: I need to calm the f down.

Two: the car isn't going anywhere..anymore.

Three: go get the shark and see if he can help.

UGH.

I clicked my way down the block to his house where he had just come outside and sees I am frazzled. He climbs in and starts it with no problem and pulls it into his driveway. He mixes me a slammin cranberry vodka and then we continue on with our night as planned.

 But Lordy!

Last Saturday this little guy and I {along with momma Underwood of course} went to party City to pick out birthday toys, treats, and themes. he picked a Pink cake and Dora. LOL We died. Then he settled on Toy Story and we bought it all and left the store before he changed him mind again. He is adorable.

{kind of a dark shot sorry}

yet another attempt at the "Bump" and to have better hair when I go out into public Saturday night...

yeah it ended up in a pony because it is hotter then blazes out here and my sista and I went to a bar/club that is inside/outside. yucko. sweaty-o

{also my butt looked GIANT in about three of the four pre shots!}

Sunday was my last day house/puppy sitting. So I spent the day cleaning up, and baking Welcome Home cupcakes in an attempt to decorate them like sunflowers.. mmmm not so sure how they turned out.. oh Well. They loved them and thats all that matters right :)

When we went out on Saturday night I decided to branch away from the normal beer I am usually seen slugging and try a Chocolate Martini. It was good! Strong but good!

 Then a bunch of dudes put their grubby little hands on it and I lost interest in the drink.

Yesterday I attempted some healthy blueberry and {my fav} blackberry bars.

Although they are very tasty, and I cut the sugar in it by about a fourth, they came out more of a crumble mess..and less like a bar... what can ya do right?

 I am sure I'll be trying this again.. after I eat the entire cake pan that it :) mmmmm cake.

All in all Ladies. I baked, cleaned, freaked and boogied down these last few days.. and each one of those days my hair has been done, make up on, and nails painted {no chips}

I'm feeling like a real big kid!

Update 1 of 2

OK

YES. I look like a crazy person because no I am not getting married, but let me explain.....

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Ok I cant really explain past I really really wanted to try one on.. so there.

 But this picture remains as one of my favorite of myself and my beautiful friend (who is in fact getting married)

In fact!

Her Bridal Shower was this past weekend and her twin sis (Underwood of course) and I put on a the event at their parents giant house.

The party was interesting to say the least girls. Social etiquette is a rare thing I tell ya!

 I wont go into all the details and missteps, but I will say this much:

The Maid of Honor and Myself started out VERY pleased with ourselves and the party!

The cake I decorated for the day was an attempt to copy the inspiration I got from blog I am Baker

Beautiful Bride to be!

Her Grandma won the TP Dress competition :)

The girls

(Bride to be top right, Maid of Honor in purple on bottom right and myself far right (being a lady in my new dress) otherwise known as the "Tripod")

The party was to be from 11-1pm on Saturday.

we had games, food (TONS in fact) decorations, prizes, music, drinks, and anything else we could think of!

But the party just... kept... going?

It was odd really. No one wanted to go lol.

The group was a small group of girls the bride to be chose personally to keep it just her closest friends

But ladies it was time to GO!

Shit man. I started to clean up after awhile as a clue.. it was now WELL past one and it isnt that the girls were even having a blast.. everyone just kinda sat there and looked to Underwood and I for.. what? I dont know lol. We brought the day to a close SEVERAL times offering the party favors in their pretty boxes and did all our "thank you for comings", and still no one left.

 THEN! Hope! Their Grandmother decided to be the first. Surely the other girls would feel ok leaving now that someone has "started it" you know sometimes that helps..?

But no.

(bomb Oreo balls Underwood hand crafted I'll get the recipe!)

Ladies please don't do this to party throwers lol.

The family wanted their house back for the love of sam! I was late for another meeting which I thought I safely scheduled two and a half hours after the party should have ended...

 So then Underwood and I became Oh So Annoyed and put at a loss..

How in the hell do you kick people out? Nicely of course?

Underwood announced that when he son arrived she and the bride to be needed to leave to get him fit for his tux for the big day.

Well, he arrived and still they sat.

oi.

Baby of the Family~ Knows when to leave

"Now, Ms. Ruth was a lady.. and ladies always know when to leave" - Fried Green Tomatoes

Tuesday Truth Day

Truthfully, I have pretty much dropped the ball with the whole losing weight and staying fit thing. I am not going to lie to you...mostly because I am under "T T D" oath lol..

 I really really really.. don't mind the extraness that is me at the moment.

 I am aware however, that I am to be wearing and photographed in two strapless dresses this summer, and need to tone these giant arms of mine. That being said another order of whoopass has been ordered so that I may call upon any strength and willpower I have to muster up the dedication to work out and eat less.. much less..much much less in fact.

{OH! Here is my first cake from the Cake Decorating class I take on Monday nights.. be kind it is my first one! lol}

So...
Goodbye late night Cheese Nips
So long "just a taste" tests when I bake
Check ya later pasta straight out of the pot I made ya in

Ugh again FOCUS! My on going motivation ladies.. motivation and possibly obsession

(Have you seen her leg muscles people!)

Today I was on the 'ol Yahoo extravaganza that is their crazy "news" scroll.. and came across something actually worth while!

Here are a few of the pics I got from this site, an album of animals caught on camera

(thought we could all use a little lighter post following the one I posted the other day eh?)

(maybe my favorite of all the pictures.. how freaking cute is this guy! (or gal?) Am I right..)

Also awesome

(I feel an obnoxious erg to speak to this large cat in my version of an Australian accent "ELLO LOVE!)

HAHA! Cute little monkey face!! Marcell? Is that you?

and last but certainly not least

random I know, but why not? its a freaking fantastic movie!

Baby of the Family~ Can't handle her own Jelly

The Project

thank you

My "Project" has been this: Find the Bucket List I made a few years ago.

Wee back story: My dear bestie and I worked together a few years back and would have some of the most hilarious, interesting, and wonderful emails to each other that read more like comedy scrips or pen pal letters between long distance friends...

In one email forgetting now whose idea it was hers or mine, I excepted the challenge to create my Bucket List. Re Reading this I realize I am perhaps a little strange with almost unreasonable goals in life..

I have have changed some in my mental list, but kept this one the exact same as when I wrote it...
 Somethings have been removed in my minds list, and something have been added..
   I'd LOVE love love to have people either put their list in their post, or email me with their lists too! I may feature some of them :) Either top three or as you can see however many you want to list is fine by me !!!

(The ones that have Stars **** next to them are ones I can check off as done!!)

Learn a foreign language fluently

Visit New Zealand and Australia (live out my secret love for Mary Kate and Ashley movies)

Live in New York, London, England and Ireland with Mary Grace of course

Live in Venice, Italy as a muse to an artist

Have a movie made from a chapter of my life, or families.

Be On E! True Hollywood Story about either Mary or Bobby

Have a great and secret love affair, that only my grandchildren will know about when they uncover my box of love letters in my attic

Surf. Well

Swim with dolphins, and sea turtles

Find the dang end of a rainbow already

Spend a year on a ranch in Montana and ride horses and feed chickens in the morning and swim in ponds in the afternoon (sort of a Sarah Plain and tall deal)

Attend a premier with Mary as the star and head lines read "Who cares about Mary Kate and Ashley when you have Mary Grace and Bridgette" then go HA! to them and point...

Make a cheesy sister movie with Mary much like MK and Ash and Hilary and Hailey Duff (Because... why not?)

Market and help Bobby when he is on tour and be at Alicia's beck and call for massages and keeping an eye on the boys

Massage someone famous that can't live without their regular appointments with me

Play the digery do, spoons, and harmonica modestly well
To be in a Guess ad campaign

To become a great Photographer and camp for two years around the world taking pictures for LifeTime magazine, and National Geographic

Go on a pilgrimage with my family thru jungles in South America, camp with my mom where she lives in Africa, and tour the temples around the world.

Be in a music video...accidentally
Stay at the camp site of the Donnar Party

Hike many Mountains/hold my own in rock climbing

Plant trees

Get Married to someone so totally perfect for me that I don't even mind being married to them, and they want to travel with me...

Get married to this man in a French garden of an old author friend of mine (wink wink)

Find my favorite place and perhaps have a child or two or nine, and live modestly of my riches...

Dance at everyone of my brothers' and sisters weddings, and rock it out
Go to Egypt with my children in the summer, and picnic at the pyramids- (this was the inspiration behind the picture last week!)

Give a massage that would mellow Woody Allen

Be asked to be apart of the UN and respectfully decline

Comfort Barbara Walters while she cries...
Suggest Oprah read my friends book, and have it become one of the most read pieces of literature to date (eat that Shakespeare!)

Be "Crazy Aunt B" to all my friends children and families children, have them visit me wherever I am, during their breaks and come back with wild stories and secrets to keep from mom and dad. :) ****

Sit Madonna down and speak with her openly and create a "mirror" conversation that leads to many of her own self discoveries
Build my own home traveling somewhere with Peter and live in it :)

Retire writing fortunes in the cookies sold at an upscale restaurant a friend owns on the cost, and taking photographs

Own my own dance studios where all my beautiful nieces will go (I'm sure I'll have a niece at some point right?)

Attend my mothers award night as she is recognized for one or all of the amazing things she has done, and is sure to continue to do.

Go to Mass Peter gives (if he chooses) ***-kinda

Find the secret garden and then never tell a soul where it is. My secret now

Have an Irish folk song about me that lasts thru the times people only sing during really happy times, like a wedding... or happy hour

Take an oil painting class

Spend a short time in a small town in Europe as a food critic for a local paper, living in a rented room at a vineyard of some kind, eating drinking wine and smoking at my typewriter in the shade... while a sheep dog runs around and leaves rustle above me. I am slightly annoyed by the dog but ultimately my only friend as I am very hard on the local chefs and make few friends...

Learn to spell perfectly

Never drink soda again

Go to a fantastically small town in the south make a splash and then leave! never to be seen or heard from again :) (kinda Too Wang Foo Love Julie Newmare-ish)
Never be 43. ***- so far so good!

Be able to fix a car
Drive stick
Own a good amount of fabulous shoes I might only wear once, but leave in my will to my daughters and granddaughters that have always admired them.
Having lived in Ireland pick up and maintain an accent

After the Italian artist passes away tragically, one work of art I am in is hung in galleries all over the world and then as a souvenir post card that is given to me in a used book by a stranger, not realizing its me... (ooo goose bumps huh full circle moment.. that one will be cool)

Become an effortlessly wonderful baker **** I think so :)

Harvest Pineapples in Hawaii

Swim in a handful of beautiful waterfalls

Be able to recognize a flower by the scent

Create the perfect evil laugh, or cackle if you will

Dance barefoot at a Jack Johnson concert

High five Bono

Sit at Elton Johns piano, wearing his sunglasses, in the dark. (I don't know why)

Master essential oils, and aromatherapy

Be a regular at the Strawberry Festival, and Rose Festival

Find a four leaf clover

Figure out Stone Hedge and chuckle because the answer is right there staring at you in the face... **** yep believe it

Commit a crime in Amsterdam, get away with it, and only tell those friends willing to take it to the grave.. no killings or anything ...but you know..

Go Para sailing

Let Mary convince me to jump out of a plane
Fly a kite successfully

Find the "Full House" house in San Fran and sigh..****

Swim a channel... which one? I don't know tbd

When I'm old spray an un expecting kid in the face with the hose when I'm watering my yard.


Sooooo what is on your list!?



bucket.

Soooo Sorry I was MIA today from my blogs and all of yours! We have been super duper busy and there just simply hasn't been any time.

 BUT I will give a clue as to what I have been working on, and tweaking (in a normal.. healthy.. none crack head sort of way) on for my next post!


"bucket" isn't referring to this adorable little ones' best insult...
 (yes my adorable nephew doesn't have a mean bone in his body so it isn't so much as an insult as it is rather the silliest thing he can think to call you to then make him BUST into giggles.. a "bucket")

No this is referring to something else.. something more like....

weheartit.com

this!

Ponder away!

(Underwood don't give it away!!)

Weekend Update

Cheers!

Last week was a nut house. Here here to the start of a new week, and a better day eh?

I kicked off my weekend Friday with a glass of wine and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies I brilliantly added peanut butter to.

..while being attacked by the house kitten Agnes. She is a terror and won't let you forget it. You can't take more than two steps in this house with out looking down to see this:

Saturday I slept. and slept. and slept. it was awesome!

I needed sleep like no other.

it rained, the wind howled, and mamba and I watched Rent the Broadway taping then took it over to my sister house where we updated our online dating pages laughing out loud for a good hour while doing so. Then ate the yummie cookies and watched rent into the late hours of the night.

Then I slept some more.

Sunday I woke up not feeling so hot, but pulled myself up and managed to clean, vacuum, dust and wipe down my room, bathroom and kitchen.

I also made it out to the Chandler Public Library to check out a few books that I have seen from other bloggers. One was checked out (Pink LouLous Something Borrowed) and decided to pull up Audrey Onassis post recommending My Fair Lazy.

I walked a little ways with new books in hand (also checked out Steve Martins new novel)

and decided to pick a spot in the trees amongst the fountains and downtown hustle and bustle and read a few chapters.

It has been more than a few years since I have actually been out of my car and walking around the downtown area. It is really nice!

It felt like I was walking onto a movie set of the perfect day in the park.

Kids playing and running. The leader of the pack with a fist full of birthday balloons.

Birds(keeping their distance in the trees) chirping. Mostly sunny but every few minutes a large cloud passed in front of the sun and cast a temporary shadow on everything and the wind became cool and brisk.

I couldn't hold still and read. I walked along the shops and looked into the windows for a bridal boutiques and bakery shops...

When i got home I watched a not so great movie that won many awards called Dark Dancer...or Dancer in the dark... or something. Not great. Sad movie about a woman going blind who gets her money stolen. eck. not a cool movie. I turned it off not caring enough to see how it ended and began my

Cake Decorating Adventure!

I chose a marble cake in two 8' rounds

Filled and iced with classic chocolate frosting (butter cream is more ideal by the way for fondant)

covered with fondant, and tye died fondant heart cut outs and "dots" lol. My dots are sad, oddly shaped and very pointy! lol. BUT I will have you know I did a BOMB rose on a plate for practice! I then filled the plate because I was so excited I could do one well.

But there wasn't any room on the cake to start adding roses lol thats just too much frosting!

I hope all of you are starting your week off right with a slice of cake, and too much frosting.. or something equally satisfying!