Weekend Plans!

In case you don't know I'll be in Austin this Thursday night until Monday night. I'll be hanging with Crissy, Eric and Lil Roman or RoRo as I like to call him. I'm going to hang out with my old posse from my college days and tear it up. Ok, I'll probably end up asleep by 11:00am because Roro gets up way to early for my taste. Crissy, Lucy and I are meeting up with some of my college friends for a UT Hispanic Alumni function on Friday night. I've been invited to the football game by Ociel but I'm not sure if I'll be going. Anyway, it's Eric's bday so I'm sure we will have a good time. I really want to go to Barton Springs for some swimming and relaxing. I'm kind of worried about the hurricane but I'm going to make plans to be ready to evacuate to Houston/Austin next week if I have to. God willing it goes to Florida or somewhere else.

Updates

Ok, I made a mistake in describing the halter dress on J.Crew. It's a tank dress. I'm not sure why I said halter. Thanks Lisa for the comment. Made me realize I'd made a mistake. Here's a picture of it. I'm also in love with their jewelry this season. I want the acorn necklace. My birthday is coming up.

Speaking of birthdays, this Saturday a friend of mine had a party for his son and Randy and I went by. He had gotten this package deal that included a waterslide, moonwalk, DJ(who was playing bounce music mixed with the latest hits) and a trailor setup with snowcones, nachos, hot dogs, red beans and rice, and fried chicken. It was so cool. I would love to do that for my birthday. The waterslide looked like so much fun but you know grown folk would break a bone or two.

Weekly Updates

I know I haven't written or been writing on my blog lately but I've been completely overwhelmed by my life. First of all this damn fridge is finally out of my house and another one ordered but God knows when it will be delivered. I must have taken two entire days of my time waiting for it to be delivered, fixed and picked up. I had to lie and tell Home Depot that I was going to get fired if they didn't pick up the unit this morning b/c I'd taken too much time off. Second the house move in isn't going as smooth as I'd liked it to go. I didn't realize I had so much crap. I should have done better at throwing crap out and packing but oh well I'll have to tackle one step at a time. I'm also missing pieces from my cabinets which I haven't had time to pick up but will this wknd. Am really looking forward to my weekend in Austin this wknd. I get to see some of my old college buddies and of course Crissy, Roman, Eric and maybe even Lucy. I'm hoping we can go to Barton Springs one day. No interest in my old house. Not worried yet just concerned. I'm going to have to bury that patron saint in my yard.

Since I'm not allowed to spend any money (I'm not allowing myself) I've been doing a lot of internet window shopping. I like to put stuff in the carts and total it up and close the webpage. Makes me feel like I'm shopping but not. Ok, I have to confess I went to Baton Rouge to have breakfast with my friend Beth and do a lil shopping at Perkins Rowe this outdoor kind of mall. We hit up Anthropologie and I ended up buying a really cute white shirt with green dots. It's absolutely cute and it was on sale for $39.95. It's very well made with cute green piping. I'd forgotten how cute their stuff is. They have a couple of things I'm interested in but a. it's too damn hot right now to buy anything made of wood and b. they don't make dresses in petite which sucks because I can't alter some of them I looked at. We also went by the J.Crew store and I looked over the cords and the colors they are available in. You'll be seeing the purple and maybe the green in my wardrobe this winter. I've also got my eye on that gray halter dress. It also comes in black but I'm going to stay away from the black and whites this winter.

Last night

So two vendors came to town to visit and try to get me to sell their stuff. I'll leave them unnamed. What's the best way for me to sell your stuff? Take me to dinner at a nice place. JK. We ended up eating at Ralph's on the Park. It's one of the Brennan family restaurants. It was sooo yummy. We had the ravioli and barbeque appetizer and I had the redfish. It was really good. This is why I can't leave New Orleans. I'm in love with the food. We ended up heading over to Pal's for drinks and we had lot's of vodka tonics. I was home by 12:30am but I'm so tired today. I woke up at like 6:30am with the sun and couldn't go back to sleep. I guess I might also be a lil hungover. :)

Fridge problems

So I ordered a counter depth fridge at Home Depot and got it delivered on the 6th of this month at my new house. Lo and behold it isn't working. Stopped working on Sunday. Had the repair man out yesterday and he fixed it but it's not working again. I'm kind of pissed b/c it's not only costing me time it's also costing me money with the groceries I'm going to have to throw away. It's a Maytag french door fridge with the freezer at the bottom. I had to pay like $500.00 more to get it counterdepth so it wouldn't jut out from the cabinets. Not a happy camper! I think I got a lemon.

House on the market

So my other house is finally on the market. Haven't had any real interest. The real estate agent had an open house of realtors on Wednesday but the weather was bad so not a lot of foot traffic. Keep me in your prayers. I need and want to see this house ASAP.

Red Dress Run

So Bryan and I decided to do this event on Saturday called the Red Dress Run. Basically you put on a red dress and run from one bar to the other in the quarter. It was lots of fun. We had lots to drink and met some cool people. They were offering beer at the bars but I'm not a beer drinker so I ended up having Gray Goose and tonic all day. We got there at 1:00pm and didn't get home til almost 7:00pm. It's absolutely hilarious to see grown men in red dresses. Some men didn't even bother to make sure their dresses fit they just left the zippers open. I ended up getting a shift dress from American Apparel. I was in there getting my dress and they didn't have a large only an extra large (yes, their stuff runs small). Well I was going to take the extra large and this random guy at the counter was buying the same version of it but a large but really wanted an extra large. We ended up swapping. He was obviously going to the Red Dress Run too. I ended up rocking a total 80s look with a wide leather belt and big hoop earrings. I looked cute. Bryan rocked his dress too. So here's some pictures of the event. It was sooo hot and humid. It is August in New Orleans

Weekly Update

Ok, I know I haven't posted but I've been extremely busy. Last weekend I moved to my new house. I hired two guys, rented a truck and got Bryan to help me move. It took all day and it was dreadful. Of course I picked the one hottest month of the year to move. Anyway I'm moved in. I have to really thank Bryan because he has been an extremely good friend and helping me get situated in my new home. I had the other house cleaned and it's currently listed on the market. Don't know if there has been any interest but we shall see. Wish me luck kids. I got my appliances delivered this week and I'm ready to get cooking in the kitchen as soon as I buy some food for my fridge. I had dinner with my friend Patrick at Lola's, a cute little Spanish restaurant, last night and drinks at Pal's. It was nice. Anyway this weekend I'm doing the Red Dress Run in New Orleans. I hope there isn't too much running. I think we'll be running/walking from one bar to the other. How very New Orleans, right? Other than that, I'll probably spend the rest of the weekend unpacking and trying to get my house in order.