Cleaning out closet

After last nights wardrobe dilemma I've decided I'm going to clean out my closet this coming week. I'm going to give away or sell anything that I haven't worn in a year(have to start somewhere). If you want something I've got let me know b/c I'm going to consolidate to fit all my clothes, shoes, and bags in my one closet. When I remodeled in 2006 I had my back den, which was an newer addition to my house, cut up into two rooms. One side is now my laundry room and the other is my dressing room. It's right off my bedroom so I can get ready there. I have plenty of space for clothes in this room but I still have clothes/jackets in two other closets. Here's a pic of one side of my closet that I had done when I remodeled. It's got a whole lot more crap on it now since I moved purses to this side and added quite a few shoes. The other side of my dressing room has a closet for clothes and it's jam packed. I know ladies my custom made shelves are every girl's dream. :-)

Happy YaYa

So last night I walked in a charity event for YaYa. Check out their website http://www.yayainc.com/. My friend Michael, who designed one of the shirts I modeled asked me to walk and I said sure. Of course I didn't know what I was walking into. It was pretty cool eventhough I was nervous and needed a couple of drinks to do the walk. I got to meet Michael's man Keith who is really cute. There was lots of pretentious asses there but it was cool. I ended up wearing my Loeffler Randall booties with a pencil skirt and my black beret. Let me tell you guys something. Charity events always bring out the big bucks and you could clearly tell who had money especially old family money. Anyway I ended up walking the runway with some Hollywood actor named Bryan(big queen), some local singer and Sean Yseult, former bassist with White Zombie. Sean was by far the coolest of all the other celebreties who walked. Wish I had a better outfit on but I panicked and picked the wrong thing. Still looked cute enough to get some VP from Shell to check me out. Could be b/c most of the women and some men were Botoxed the hell up. Having no facial expressions isn't cute. Anyway it was fun but wish I had more of my friends there for moral support. Here's a pic of my boots that I bought at Michael's store Shoefty. Took my camera but didn't get any pics.

Outlet Mall

So Crissy and I hit up the Outlet Mall in San Marcos. I was totally floored by how many upscale shops they have there. Jimmy Choo, Armani, Max Azaria(they also have the lower line BCBG) and a bunch others. I ended up getting these bowls from Williams & Sonoma outlet that I've had wanted for awhile. My friend Mark just told me that they'd pulled them from the stores because they started making them in China and people got pissed off. So I'm kind of mad that I wasn't up on that when I bought them. Oh well. I also bought some Capholon pots and pans b/c I cook all the time. ;-). Ok, I plan on cooking more often. Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel had amazing stuff. I'm going to head back after the Holidays to finish decorating my house. If you're interested in making that road trip let me know. I even bought two pairs of AG Jeans that normally cost between 125.00-150.00 for less than 49.00 bucks each. There the Angel style which fits me like a charm since it hugs my butt. Here's the link to the mall if you want to see if they have your store. http://www.tangeroutlet.com/sanmarcos

Back from Texas

So I went to Texas for the Thanksgiving holiday. Ended up getting to Houston close to 9:00pm on Wednesday b/c my tire had a nail in it and I-10 was closed. Spent Thanksgiving day at my brother's Juan's friend house. They were no nice. He and his girlfriend were totally cool and welcomed me into their house. We spent the whole day there. We even played pictionary and dominos and I totally was great at both. I even won a round by having my two team members figure out "Britney Spears". That one was a really hard one til I figured who can't forget her shaving her head. Anyway left to Austin early Friday morning to go to Crissy and my massage appointment. Austin was rainy and cold the whole time I was there. We did manage to get some shopping done on Saturday and Sunday before I left. Lil Roman was a trooper on Saturday but he stayed home with his dad on Sunday. Miss him already.

Tuesday before Thanksgiving

Well I'm sitting at my desk trying to pretend I'm busy but in all reality I have nothing to do since it's dead. Most of my clients took the week off. I should have taken the week off too. I don't know why I'm even pretending since it doesn't even matter that I'm here. Anyway, I'm going to go pick up some gumbo for whomever offers me a place for Thanksgiving. I was supposed to go to my brother's house but he's having dinner at a friends so I might end up driving to Austin tomorrow and meeting Crissy and her family. She's going to Dallas though. The dilemma of it all. Anyway, I'll come up with something soon. Have to get that oil change before I leave since I didn't get that done. I'll post stuff later from Austin.

Friday Afternoon

Well, I'm sitting here at my desk trying to finish work but I'm unmovitated and a tad bit hungover. I went to my friend's Beth house for dinner to meet her new beau. He's really nice and she's so happy. Of course the food was delicious. Michael, Beth's BFF, and I ended up going to Robert's for a drink. If you don't know about Robert's it's my new fav bar. You can get a Grey Goose tonic, Absolute with Grapefruit and a Newcastle for $11.00. That's pretty cheap considering the drinks are freakin strong and it's close to my house. It's not a fancy place or a total hole in the way. It's just an average New Orleans neighborhood bar. You can get totally loaded for about 20.00. Anyway, Robin met up with me later in the evening after she got off work. Looks like she might not be leaving quite yet. We shall see.

My wknd seems to be filling up with things to do. I'll be judging a beauty pageant for the local Nicaraguan club. Shouldn't be too difficult since it's only two girls. Went to the mall to return a SAINTs jersey I bought Bryan and I couldn't get my money back b/c it been more than 45 days so I picked up a cute SAINTS jacket. I'll post a pic of me wearing it later. Other than that nothing really going on right now. Can't wait to get home after my workout session to eat my leftovers and veg b/c Saturdays filling up.

TO DO LIST(saturday)
1. Take car in for oil change to Nissan to get ready for roadtrip to Austin.
2. Pick up alterations
3. Pick up shoes and get others fixed
4. Make copy of keys to leave with someone just in case I die and my cats start to eat me.
5. Update my MAC OS to Tiger
6. Wash Car- It's filthy
7. Buy coffeemaker for office-ONe of those Senseo single serving ones. Have 20% off coupon
8. Go to Target and check their GO designer and Hollywould stuff. Spend money on something.
9. Go to Shoefty and check out shoes- Michael says he has some cool stuff.
10. Take spare change to change.

Favorite Websites

Every morning I have a daily ritual. I come in and start my pc which takes forever. I'm supposed to get a new one but I haven't bitched enough to get it. *Note to self, bitch about PC again* Than I cruise to the internex(I know it's internet but I like to say it that way). So I've made a quick list of my favorite websites. Some of them are gossip sites. Check it out.
1. http://jezebel.com/ One of my favorites b/c it has a little bit of everything.

2. http://www.nola.com/ This one is New Orleans local news. Don't read the blogs on them b/c people are nasty and vicious and racist of course.

3. http://www.wonkette.com/ I adore this site b/c it gives me all kinds of political gossip specifically when right wing Republicans get caught in sex scandels. Usually it's gay ones which makes for some good laughs.

4. http://www.gawker.com/ This site is a sister site to wonkette and jezebel so it kind of has the same stuff as the other two sites.

5. http://www.dlisted.com/ This one is gossip one and it's vicious. He's a gay guy and he likes to be super catty to all the celebrities and sometimes he knows about Latino stars like Charyten.

6. http://www.perezhilton.com/ I know I shouldn't like this one but it's a prett good gossip website.

7. http://www.sephora.com/ I love it b/c I can always find some cosmetic I didn't know I needed. :)

8. http://www.saksfifthavenue.com/ I love to look at their shoe section. The Louboutins are my favorites.

9. http://www.ebay.com/ I don't go on as much as I like but it's a classic.

10. http://babyedwards.com/ Checking out Roman's pics always brightens my day. He's such a cutie.

Happy Veteran's Day

In celebration of Veteran's Day, I thought I'd post a pic from yesterday's SAINTS game. They did an armed forces kind of thing. Here it is. Happy Veteran's Day to all the vets I know and don't know. I appreciate all your hard work! Have a great day! I took the picture from the other side of the Superdome and had to turn it around on my computer. That's why it looks weird.

Robin's Party

Well considering that it was so last minute I got a couple of Robin's friends over to the R Bar for a little get together. I made cupcakes with real Buttercream frosting. I tried to be all Martha Stewart and decorate them using one of those pastry bags and stuff and it didn't go to well so I broke out the ole knife and decorated. I took pictures too. Lots of ex-coworkers of Robin's showed up even Noe, our personal trainer, and Randy Roman, our hairdresser, showed up. Mel, an old friend of mine, who used to work with Robin years and years ago showed up. It was nice to catch up with him since I hadn't seen him since before Katrina. She didn't invite her current co-workers b/c she said they'd be sad. Anyway, we had lots of fun. Didn't take pics of everyone that was there, sorry. I might have had too much fun but we sobered up at a new restaurant/bar that opened on Frenchmen. I think it's called 13. Thanks to George or whomever paid for me. :) Glad I didn't get to lit b/c I had a Saints game the next morning and I had to meet the people I went with at 10:30am.

Friday Lunch

So Cliff, my boss, and I headed over to Ralph's on the Park for lunch. It was my belated bday lunch and we were researching whether we could have our Christmas office party. It's owned by one of the Brennan family members. If you don't know who the Brennans are than you probably aren't a foodie and you don't live in New Orleans. Anyway, they are like the royal family of eating in New Orleans. Brennan's, Commander's Palace(Emeril got his start there), Mr. B's and many others. All of their resturants are pretty phenomenal. Check out the menu. http://www.ralphsonthepark.com/menu_display.php?id=14 I had the gulf fish and it was drum. Delicious!!!! We also split the egg roll appetizer which were yummy. Of course being a buisness lunch I had two glasses of the Estancia Pinot Grigio. Cliff had the beef tenderloin and it was good too. We were going to have our party there but they are booked solid. Too bad it would have been nice b/c it's very swank and it's across from City Park which will have Xmas lights up. So I'm looking to book our party at another Brennan restaurant. Check it out. I'll let you know if we have any success. http://www.bourbonhouse.com/about/owners.htm

Robin's leaving

I'm so bummed. Robin who's become my best friend in New Orleans is leaving. She's going to school for a year in Los Angeles. I'm happy for her but I will really really miss her. She's the third best friend I've lost to other cities. My friend Jill moved back to Montana and Nicky moved to NYC. I see Nicky pretty often but I haven't seen Jill in years. I might go visit her and get some skiing done. :) Anyway, I'm trying to put together a get together for her this Saturday at the R Bar. She leaves on the 17th and works everyday except Saturday. If you are reading this Robin I love you and will really miss you. I'll be visiting you often. You know me I love to travel!

It's over!

So last night was Bryan's bday so I drove in to Baton Rouge to have dinner with his parents and us. I didn't feel 100% so I wasn't up to being my friendly self. Sorry about that Bryan's parents. They don't read the blog but putting it out there makes me feel better. He ended up inviting a friend and his girlfriend. It would have been nice to have dinner with just his parents since we've only been around them when they are tailgating and that means drinking heavily. We've been dating on and off for almost two years and this was the first time we'd been to dinner with his parents. I think that is a sign of where our relationship is and would be going.

Well, this morning I broke up with Bryan. I know all of you think it's for the better. I guess you've seen me happy and sad but mostly sad. I know my decision is the right one because it just hasn't been very good the last couple of months but it still hurts like hell. We broke up in August for a while and I took him back b/c he said we'd go to therapy. Never happened. I guess it wasn't meant to be b/c if someone loves you enough they move the moon for you. They treat you like a queen. They make every effort to make you happy. Am I right? I fell in love with a guy that wrote me love letters, sent me cute texts, wrote me love emails and called to talk to me constantly. I don't get that anymore. I know that he might really love me but he doesn't know how to appreciate the best damn thing that ever happened to him. I was his biggest cheerleader no matter what was going on in his life. How could someone not be happy with me? I'm beautiful, smart, sexy, funny, warm, nice and successful. I know I sound full of myself but I need the peptalk right now. I've seen the dating pool in New Orleans and it isn't pretty.
I'm going to focus on myself for the next couple of months so if anyone of you want to take a trip let me know so we can plan one. I could really use a Carribean getaway right now.

SAINTS WIN

Here's me and Bryan doing what we do best. Drinking. Actually we were celebrating the Saints win and our bday wknd. Had lots of fun at the game and afterwards. Wore a gold INC shirt that I bought for one of my sisters who never wore it. Never thought I'd wear it either but it's Saints colors ya know. We were supposed to go eat at Jacquemos after the game but they were closed. The fish came from a drink that I got at Lucy's. Were at Vic's Kangaroo Bar in the picture. We look really happy together but I guess you can never tell what's going on inside someone's head. That's for a later post.

Pic of the day

Hey everyone I haven't bored you with my pics of my trip to Argentina so I'll be posting random pics of me on the trip. I took over 500 pictures b/c I bought a 2Gig card. Yes, I know I shouldn't have taken that many.

Here's me in Uruguay. We took a ferry(fast one) from Buenos Aires over to Colonia de Sacramento(an UNESCO world site). Of course it rained and I didn't bring an umbrella so I got wet. Thank God I was wearing that Missoni shirt. Just thought I'd mention it in case you were thinkign about buying one. It's stylish and totally functional. Got mine at SAKS at a killer price. 40% off already reduced price. Who says I'm not a great shopper. It's made of wool and kept me relatively warm and dry.

The tourist area was small enough for us to walk. It's a little touristy(Americanized) and they use a different exchange than Argentina which didn't make for good deals. Anyway I picked up a handmade wool sweaterjacket for next to nothing from a shop on the square. The woman sits in her store and knits all kinds of things all day to sell. They produce alot of wool so wool is super cheap there. It's one of my best purchases on that trip. The people of Uruguay were much friendlier than people from Buenos Aires I felt. Anyway hope you enjoy my random pic post.

Bday wknd

Since Bryan was out of town for my birthday we are celebrating his and mine this wknd. No big plans other than relaxing. We do have the Saints game on Sunday though. :)

BTW, didn't see those shoes. Guess I'm going to have to buy them. :)

Thanks to everyone that called, emailed or met up with me for my bday. THANK YOU! It was a great birthday and can't wait to celebrate with you guys. Besos y Abrazos! Even my mom called me on my bday. As some of you know, she told me for years my bday was on the 31st. It was easier for her to remember since she's got seven kids ya know.

Happy Halloween!

So this year Beth and I went down to Frenchmen(Mark dropped us off but left since he couldn't find a parking place) and it was packed. Can't believe how many people were down there. Saw lots and lots of cool costumes and took a picture of a couple of them. Ran into my hairdresser who went as Jody Watley(80's singer) and I was looking at him for like 5 minutes before he recognized me. He's like a size 2 so the outfit was awesome. Bitch is working it. My favorite was Tippi Heardon from the movie, The Birds. I also liked the Kool-Aid guy. Hope you guys enjoy the pics. I went as a guerrilla/rebel leader. I had to carry around my friend Robin's horse til she got off work and met up with us so it was hard to work it but I managed. She was a cowgirl and Beth was a dead Anna Nicole. I was a bit loaded by the time Robin and Beth took pics. We ended up going to Molly's b/c it was the only place that wasn't unbelievably packed. Hope you guys like.