Friday, October 31, 2008
Trip Down Memory Lane
We are trying to pack as much as we can before Donnie leaves next week and I came across this picture which I had to share....it is a bit fuzzy since I had to take a picture of it with the digital camera. This is Jenny and I right before our 9th grade football/volleyball banquet I think. Don't we look stylin? We even got our hair done for the event. I think I went with Jason Phillips - who got kicked off the football team by the way and Jenny went with Mike ? maybe. Anyway I thought ya'll would get a kick out of this.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
A New Adventure Awaits!
We got our orders so we are officially moving to Alabama! Our report date is in February as of right now but we are trying to push it back to May so Tyler can finish school. Either way this will be my last winter in the wet Northwest! I have to say I am excited to get back down south and so are the kids. Donnie has mixed feelings....career wise it is a great thing to leave but he truly loves his unit and will definately miss it. But he will be home and not deployed for the next 3 years so I don't think he can argue with that.
The upcoming move got me looking around my house and even though we just moved here 2 years ago we have tons of crap and I am not quite sure why. When we left TN I thought we got rid of stuff but apparently we have re-collected it. We are going to move ourselves since we have a 24 ft. trailer so I will be a good-willing and yard sale having fool so I can lighten our load. As of right now we are planning on making 2 trips - one hopefully in December since Tyler is out of school and then when we actually move. Should be pretty crazy with 2 trailers, 2 kids and 2 dogs all along for the ride. It will be like the Griswold's going cross country I am sure.
By the way the formal was fun....we got some pictures taken there and then my friend has some pics of the dress. Since I seem to have a camera curse on me, I only have a few pics on my camera because my batteries went dead.
The upcoming move got me looking around my house and even though we just moved here 2 years ago we have tons of crap and I am not quite sure why. When we left TN I thought we got rid of stuff but apparently we have re-collected it. We are going to move ourselves since we have a 24 ft. trailer so I will be a good-willing and yard sale having fool so I can lighten our load. As of right now we are planning on making 2 trips - one hopefully in December since Tyler is out of school and then when we actually move. Should be pretty crazy with 2 trailers, 2 kids and 2 dogs all along for the ride. It will be like the Griswold's going cross country I am sure.
By the way the formal was fun....we got some pictures taken there and then my friend has some pics of the dress. Since I seem to have a camera curse on me, I only have a few pics on my camera because my batteries went dead.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
The BRA
Tonight is the big night - the formal. Of course I should be getting ready now but I figured this was worth mentioning to set the stage in the event I have a wardrobe malfunction tonight. So if you remember from my last post, the dress is backless and pretty low cut so the saleslady gave me these sticky things to keep my boobs in place. Well luckily I decided to try everything on last weekend and came to realize the sticky things are probably for people with smaller boobs than I have or maybe I still had some lotion on or something - whatever the reason it did not work at all. So I reached for the duct tape (can you tell I was desperate?) That would have worked except you could see the tape thru my dress. Next stop - PANIC MODE! So I get online and look at Victoria Secret and Fredericks for some kind of apparatus that will work for my dress. Mind you this is 5 days before the formal and time is of the essense. I found some more sticky things on Fredericks that looked a bit more substantial but still made me nervous. Victoria Secret has this nifty bra called the 100 way bra and it apparently can do whatever including backless - SOLD! So the bra is $58 and then to express ship it to me was almost $30. So there I am at the checkout about to spend $100 on a bra that may not even work for me. Luckily I decided to check EBAY before I bought it and low and behold they had the same bra, brand new for $36. I did spend $20 extra to ship it to me but I still made out cheaper than the price of the bra on VS.
So I get the bra and it is pretty cool - about 50 different slits to put the straps wherever you need them and the strap between the cups is clear - exactly what I needed. So I attach the backless converter to the bra and put on the dress.....I think we have found a winner. Of course the backless strap wraps around your stomach and attaches in the back so I will be squeezed to death all night, but at least my boobs will stay in place. A small price to pay for the sake of fashion! I will post pics when I get them if they came out good :-) !
So I get the bra and it is pretty cool - about 50 different slits to put the straps wherever you need them and the strap between the cups is clear - exactly what I needed. So I attach the backless converter to the bra and put on the dress.....I think we have found a winner. Of course the backless strap wraps around your stomach and attaches in the back so I will be squeezed to death all night, but at least my boobs will stay in place. A small price to pay for the sake of fashion! I will post pics when I get them if they came out good :-) !
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Dress!
Amazingly enough it hasn't been that long since I last blogged....so to speak. As you may know from my last entry outside of being soccer mom, law student, wife, cleaning lady and dog walker, I was on the hunt for the "dress". My friend Rachel and I took off in search of the perfect dress on Sunday and what a fiasco that turned out to be. We started at Ross and Marshalls because all of our other friends got their dresses there for around $30 so we went out on a limb thinking the stars might align, but not so much. So off to Kohl's next. They don't carry formal dresses but the sales lady told us about a store going out of business at the mall in Olympia so off to the capital city we went. We stopped a JC Penny's first because they DID have homecoming dresses a few weeks ago but hardly anything left by the time we got there. We did try on about 3 dresses each without luck. Frankly I did not even pay much attention to the sizes so luckily we shared a dressing room so when we got stuck in them help was close by. I did find one dress that was OK - size medium but still a few issues with the boobage, however it could be workable so I carefully hid the dress behind some others and off we went to the going out of business sale.....
OK so we get to this raggedy store with tons of formal dresses filled with high school girls size sub zero. All the dresses were pretty well picked over but we managed to find some sizes larger than a 1/2 and off to the dressing room we went. Again a few were OK but not the dress and we got stuck in some as well. The one I liked best was still $80 on sale and I could not return it if I found another one. We were getting pretty nervous at this point. We stopped in Charlotte Russo and asked the lady if they knew of any where that sold dresses and they advised us to go to a store downtown called Daria's. Off we went again. We get there and walk in and it is wall to wall dresses that were packed so tightly you could barely move. My first thoughts were "crap a boutique.....$$$$" but we stayed anyway.
So here is where it gets good.....we start to pick out some dresses. The dresses look like they run a bit small so I decided to grab larges as did my friend. After we have a handful of dresses on our arms, the sales lady gets to Rachel first and asks what function we are going to etc and then takes her dresses and says "oh honey lets get some in your size". I managed to grab one dress away from her cuz it looked cute and frankly I was thinking the lady is on crack because she started grabbing 2XL and 3XL and my friend is no where near that size. So after that humiliation was over she stated she was going to put our dresses into the room. I asked if we could have the same room and then she hit us with it...."sweetie - we have a community dressing room so you will have to change in front of everyone!" Now this took me back a bit as I felt like I had entered the twilight zone: first you think we need to wear a size 2X (I should have informed her that we just ran a marathon a few months ago) and now you want us to strip down infront of the entire store. At this point I was thinking that the bar sounded pretty good right about now. But being troopers and in a time crunch for a dress we let her lead us into the community room - a room about the size of a decent sized square bathroom with mirrors everywhere!!! And it was full of more sub zero girls going to homecoming who looked like they had eating disorders.
I was really not feeling this experience but needed a dress so being the diplomat that I am, I apologized to the girls for the sight they were about to see and preceeded to strip down. The sales lady asked us what kind of dress we were looking for so I replied to her that it did not matter - just don't make us look like a house! She seemed to like us for some odd reason and even offered to give us a military discount - Yes the first good news all day! I put on the dress that I snatched from her prior to entering the room and kinda liked it except that it was backless and deep cut - a plus for my husband but a con for my boobs. Still it was the favorite up to that point. Then I tried on a black dress with a jeweled halter top neckline and I was in love - until she said it was $258! I started stripping down right there - boobs hanging out and everything. She was like "honey it looked so good on you" - yeah it did until you mentioned the price. I told her to take all her stuff out and bring me something under $150 (okay so I am cheap - I spend $ on purses, not dresses that I will only wear once). So there I was - no clothes except for the thong I decided I needed to wear, maginified in the plethera of mirrors in the dressing room. When she got to the dress that I took from her earlier that I tried on she said that it was on sale for $94! SOLD!!! I was like we will make this work and sent her to get me something to hold up my boobs since I have to go braless (a first for me by the way). She came back with some sticky things that will hopefully work and a $86 black dress that fit Rachel like a glove. Exhausted by our ordeal we paid the lady and headed home to drink.
So after all that drama and embarrassment we did find the dress - add a pair of spanx and some heels and we should be good to go .... hopefully :)
OK so we get to this raggedy store with tons of formal dresses filled with high school girls size sub zero. All the dresses were pretty well picked over but we managed to find some sizes larger than a 1/2 and off to the dressing room we went. Again a few were OK but not the dress and we got stuck in some as well. The one I liked best was still $80 on sale and I could not return it if I found another one. We were getting pretty nervous at this point. We stopped in Charlotte Russo and asked the lady if they knew of any where that sold dresses and they advised us to go to a store downtown called Daria's. Off we went again. We get there and walk in and it is wall to wall dresses that were packed so tightly you could barely move. My first thoughts were "crap a boutique.....$$$$" but we stayed anyway.
So here is where it gets good.....we start to pick out some dresses. The dresses look like they run a bit small so I decided to grab larges as did my friend. After we have a handful of dresses on our arms, the sales lady gets to Rachel first and asks what function we are going to etc and then takes her dresses and says "oh honey lets get some in your size". I managed to grab one dress away from her cuz it looked cute and frankly I was thinking the lady is on crack because she started grabbing 2XL and 3XL and my friend is no where near that size. So after that humiliation was over she stated she was going to put our dresses into the room. I asked if we could have the same room and then she hit us with it...."sweetie - we have a community dressing room so you will have to change in front of everyone!" Now this took me back a bit as I felt like I had entered the twilight zone: first you think we need to wear a size 2X (I should have informed her that we just ran a marathon a few months ago) and now you want us to strip down infront of the entire store. At this point I was thinking that the bar sounded pretty good right about now. But being troopers and in a time crunch for a dress we let her lead us into the community room - a room about the size of a decent sized square bathroom with mirrors everywhere!!! And it was full of more sub zero girls going to homecoming who looked like they had eating disorders.
I was really not feeling this experience but needed a dress so being the diplomat that I am, I apologized to the girls for the sight they were about to see and preceeded to strip down. The sales lady asked us what kind of dress we were looking for so I replied to her that it did not matter - just don't make us look like a house! She seemed to like us for some odd reason and even offered to give us a military discount - Yes the first good news all day! I put on the dress that I snatched from her prior to entering the room and kinda liked it except that it was backless and deep cut - a plus for my husband but a con for my boobs. Still it was the favorite up to that point. Then I tried on a black dress with a jeweled halter top neckline and I was in love - until she said it was $258! I started stripping down right there - boobs hanging out and everything. She was like "honey it looked so good on you" - yeah it did until you mentioned the price. I told her to take all her stuff out and bring me something under $150 (okay so I am cheap - I spend $ on purses, not dresses that I will only wear once). So there I was - no clothes except for the thong I decided I needed to wear, maginified in the plethera of mirrors in the dressing room. When she got to the dress that I took from her earlier that I tried on she said that it was on sale for $94! SOLD!!! I was like we will make this work and sent her to get me something to hold up my boobs since I have to go braless (a first for me by the way). She came back with some sticky things that will hopefully work and a $86 black dress that fit Rachel like a glove. Exhausted by our ordeal we paid the lady and headed home to drink.
So after all that drama and embarrassment we did find the dress - add a pair of spanx and some heels and we should be good to go .... hopefully :)
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Been Awhile!
Oh my has it been a while since I have blogged....it is amazing how fast time flies when your life changes. So I guess in my last post Tyler had just started school and Vanna finally had a place for preschool. Oh yeah and I had not started law school yet! So in the past month my life has been completely turned upside down with this law school thing. It has ultimately consumed every free minute (not like there are that many free minutes when you have kids) of my day. In addition to that we have soccer 5 nights a week, Tyler has lots of homework and oh yeah....he has decided to play the flute, which I must say is alot harder than it looks - Jenny you totally rocked the flute when we were little by the way! I would also like to point out that our parents really put up with alot for those of us that thought we had musical talents.....Mallie, Katie, Holly and Jenny. I cringe when Tyler practices his flute so I can only imagine how horrible we all sounded when we started orchestra at good old Duff Elementary! Anyway my boring life that I used to blog about so frequently has turned into a tornado and I dont know if I am coming or going.
Our typical day begins with getting the boy off to school at 7:30am and on Tuesdays/Thurs I take Vanna to school. Then off to the gym because I am running another marathon next year and figure if I want to do better I should train more, not to mention I have recruited some new blood for the next race. After picking Vanna up from school, we run any errands that are needed and head home for lunch. After lunch she kindly plays in her room and I hit the books til about 4pm when Tyler gets home. We eat a quick dinner and then off to soccer until after 6pm. Then we come home and help with homework, flute, reading etc - get the kids a bath and ready for the next day and hopefully they are in bed between 8:30-9pm. At that point I have a choice - more studying or do the dishes, laundry etc. Most of the time bed wins out I must say. I realize I am whining a bit and I am sure this is an adjustment period and will get better - my fingers are crossed :). I just honestly did not expect this much drama. Law school is hard, really hard. I knew it would be challenging but holy crap it is crazy. I have joined the student bar association and we have a support group and everyone feels the same way, there are even some paralegals in the class who are completely overwhelmed and they deal with the stuff everyday. I am sure it will all work out. I have volunteered to write for the university paper - about what I am not sure but it might be cool....I can probably fit that in somewhere....haha. OK I will stop whining!
I am sure I have pictures somewhere but for the life of me I don't even remember what I have done with my camera. Donnie is home until Katies BDay so we have him here for a bit longer. He is on leave for 2 weeks which I really enjoy but I have to say has messed up my schedule a bit. We have a military formal coming up in a few weeks so hopefully I will have some picts to share - that is if I can find a darn dress. My friend and I are going dress shopping this weekend. I was at the mall last week and found some really nice dresses in the junior department for homecoming. I tried on several and I could not get them to fit in the boobs!! Now I am average boobage - and those puppies were squished like you would not believe. It led me to believe that in this appearence crazed world where a size 6 is fat these days, that apparently teenagers do not have boobs which is why none of the dresses have boobie room. So the search continues.
So I will try to do better to keep this updated. I enjoyed catching up on everyone else's life - especially the stroller skating....and yes those skates looked like the skates we used at the rink across from kroger when we were in elementary school! If it makes you feel any better I took the kids skating about a month ago here and they have the same skates....uber dorky!
Our typical day begins with getting the boy off to school at 7:30am and on Tuesdays/Thurs I take Vanna to school. Then off to the gym because I am running another marathon next year and figure if I want to do better I should train more, not to mention I have recruited some new blood for the next race. After picking Vanna up from school, we run any errands that are needed and head home for lunch. After lunch she kindly plays in her room and I hit the books til about 4pm when Tyler gets home. We eat a quick dinner and then off to soccer until after 6pm. Then we come home and help with homework, flute, reading etc - get the kids a bath and ready for the next day and hopefully they are in bed between 8:30-9pm. At that point I have a choice - more studying or do the dishes, laundry etc. Most of the time bed wins out I must say. I realize I am whining a bit and I am sure this is an adjustment period and will get better - my fingers are crossed :). I just honestly did not expect this much drama. Law school is hard, really hard. I knew it would be challenging but holy crap it is crazy. I have joined the student bar association and we have a support group and everyone feels the same way, there are even some paralegals in the class who are completely overwhelmed and they deal with the stuff everyday. I am sure it will all work out. I have volunteered to write for the university paper - about what I am not sure but it might be cool....I can probably fit that in somewhere....haha. OK I will stop whining!
I am sure I have pictures somewhere but for the life of me I don't even remember what I have done with my camera. Donnie is home until Katies BDay so we have him here for a bit longer. He is on leave for 2 weeks which I really enjoy but I have to say has messed up my schedule a bit. We have a military formal coming up in a few weeks so hopefully I will have some picts to share - that is if I can find a darn dress. My friend and I are going dress shopping this weekend. I was at the mall last week and found some really nice dresses in the junior department for homecoming. I tried on several and I could not get them to fit in the boobs!! Now I am average boobage - and those puppies were squished like you would not believe. It led me to believe that in this appearence crazed world where a size 6 is fat these days, that apparently teenagers do not have boobs which is why none of the dresses have boobie room. So the search continues.
So I will try to do better to keep this updated. I enjoyed catching up on everyone else's life - especially the stroller skating....and yes those skates looked like the skates we used at the rink across from kroger when we were in elementary school! If it makes you feel any better I took the kids skating about a month ago here and they have the same skates....uber dorky!
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