Table top project!

I know I already posted that I was glad to have finished the table my mom and I had been working on. I purchased the table base and my mom and I constructed and tiled the table top. I'm pleased with the results and here are the pictures to prove it!

Hey Everybody! I'm not up to much.. but i'm excited about finishing my table.. My great mom came over today to help me grout the tile... well she ended up doing it all herself really. But I did have to go to Lowes two times to get more grout.. appearantly we weren't estimating correctly. I'm amazed.. I ended up spending more money on grout than tile. It looks really pretty though.. I wish I could put pics up but I'm on Doug's laptop and I have no clue. I can't think of much else to blog about but we did win our soccer game last Friday. I'm excited about that! I was worried I did something to my knee but I think its gonna be ok, I'm thanking God for that! I'm having lots of fun with soccer! I did almost kick this guy in the face... he was cussin me out right after he almost busted me in the face... he was mad cuz he was trying to get the ref to call a handball but my hands went up to my face just by reflex.. Anyways.. sometimes i like to be "gramatically correct" and spell correctly.. but as you can see i don't give a shinanigan tonight. i"m tired and i need to go to bed.

Big news... i made an apple pie tonight! I'm so excited cuz its beatiful and tasted great! Martha would be impressed except i didn't put little cutout leaves or a beautiful fluted edge.. i did something on the edge and it was special but a different kind of special ; )... I hope people don't think I'm bragging... I'm actually just proud to not be lazy for a change.. i mean I'm lazy a lot I feel like... and i made the crust from scratch and cut up the apples and spiced it up blablabla...
Lately we've been eating hotdogs.. I mean.. we got a big package of hot dogs from SAM'S!! I'm sad to say we got them about two weeks ago.. and they are gone..well maybe all but about 2 but i really think they are all gone. Ok I'm done! don't be jealous of my apple pie!

Soccer

Well, we had our first co-ed outdoor soccer game tonight. I'm tired because I'm way out of shape. What's new. I've been on an indoor team since last Feb. but they decided they wanted to go outdoor. Well.. I didn't care too much so I'm up for it. We actually tied so thats not bad. If anybody ever wants to come our games are on Friday nights! We are a pro team for sure! haha.. not! We all try our best though.. i think... I have to do something that gets me moving off my butt. I love soccer and its hard work so I get a much needed workout, but it only takes care of one day a week. I'm hoping I'll run even more next week. Anyways, not much else is going on on my side of town. I don't feel much like blogging tonight I guess. I have to go to work tomorrow and usually its a drag but I get to see some good friends and do their hair. I'm ready for a weekend...

Table top project

Well here's the thing. We moved into a house back last November. Everything has been great and we love our little house. I found bar stools I loved from Sam's of all places and totally go with my stuff and are my style. Well, I've been needing a table for our breakfast nook. We have built in benches in the nook and needed the "perfect" table to go right in the middle.. Well of course I'm set on a certain table although its weird cuz I really don't know it until I see it. Does that make sense? I definitely wanted pedestal but wanted to maximize the table top experience; ) Anyways.. all that to say that once again the furniture world didn't have exactly what I wanted in my budget... So... My mom and I decided, with the help of my wonderful talented mom, we'd make what I wanted. I won't go into detail.. which is sad because all this is actually not detailed for me. We bought a table base and constructed a table top. I'm putting tavertine all over the table top with a design layed out in little white marble tiles that look like sugar cubes. The tavertine is broken up and put all around my marble design that I layed out. Sounds easy but after I put the marble design down.. now its a huge puzzle. The puzzle is getting to me... but I've discovered that I don't like working on puzzles all by myself.. its like a game.. who wants to play a game all by themselves( I'm not a solitaire person)... so boring. I keep going over to the puzzle and walking away cuz its overwhelming. Its already looking awesome though but I want to be done with it. You will all be jealous but I'm telling you.. to do this stupid table again... I'd charge for all my expertise, experience and love! ha ha.. and dang its hard work... when I get it all layed out how we want... then you have to seal it with a quality sealer. You have to let that be for like 72 hours and then... you get to stick it down piece by piece... then let that sit for a couple days. then we can grout it... I'm crazy cuz I haven't even got it all layed out yet! But hey, once again in life... I'll just take my sweet time. Sorry for the random blog... I hope you all learned something either about table tops or just about me... Either is beneficial in life I'm sure!

I feel lazy

I feel lazy! I'm having one of those days... I have them often(oh, 6 days a week). I probably don't eat enough veggies. I love them but its hard to incorporate much into a simple meal when you're feeling... well.... lazy. There are always the times when you feel like a salad or a veggie/hamburger, both which require lettuce and tomato for me or at least lettuce... and then you realize you don't even have lettuce .. you have frozen peas and frozen brussel sprouts. I don't like either on a salad or burger. You may think I'm weird that I don't like them on my salads and burgers but i just don't.. ha ha.. Well, maybe tomorrow will be a better day. Coffee may help...

Women of Faith

Well I made it out to the infamous Woman of Faith Conference. I feel I've checked another event off my list of things to do in my life. I loved the speakers a whole lot but there was way too much advertisements. The whole thing was way too long! Saturday was from 9-5 or more. The speakers told lots of funny story's that made us laugh but not so much to make us think. I did hear a lot about God's Grace and that's good though. I'm glad I went with the friends but not sure how I feel about going to stuff like that again. We headed home and we all thought Sushi sounded good so we went for sushi. First we met Trey to get Cooper though! Yay for getting Cooper!!... I felt like I hadn't seen him in a while so I was so happy to get to hang out with the girls and have some Cooper time! If you don't know Cooper he's just about the cutest baby boy ever! He's such a good baby too we think. Wanissa has some serious powers I know. He just smiles, plays a little, talks a bit and he'll sit over in his seat while we hung out and ate. Wanissa got some big kisses while we were at the table too.. he looked like he'd missed her a lot.
When I got home after sushi, I hung out with Doug some and then I was compelled to look up synchronized swimming on the Internet. I'd seen swimming, diving, gymnastics, track, soccer, and other Olympic events but no synchronized swimming! I love stuff like that so spent a little while on the computer that night looking at some of the routines. I have a bad habit of staying up too late. I'm definitely a night owl and sometimes I think its because I don't want to go to bed. I'll wake up in the middle of the night with my arm asleep or a pain in the neck.. and I'm not talking about Doug. I hate mattresses because you pick one out you think is good but then you get home and its horrible, but you paid so much for it.
Today's blog was random but I thought that's what blogs were for!

My first official blog

I apologize in advance for any awkwardness. I'm not sure how long I will be a blogger, but I've decided to give it a try at the request of my many fans.
I'm a celebrity hairstylist... you may know Lila. She's my dog. Everybody knows her, loves her and thinks she's beautiful, and of course I put her hair up in a little bow so that people know she's a cute girl. Although I have had the occasional "Is he this or is he that?.. He's so cute!" I'm like people, are you serious??... She has a bow!(pink might I add with the occasional bling) I feel bad for their children. I do actually do people's hair for a living. I did in fact cut Shawn Bradly's dad's hair once or twice. Shawn did come into the shop one time to pick up his daughter who was getting highlights from another stylist. He's is indeed very tall but I'm not so sure it helped his game so much. I told him I knew who he was and he didn't know who I was of course but who really cares. Anyways, I have many clients whom I love and cherish, who are celebrities to me!.. I guess you can tell I'm a bit bitter about not becoming a "Celebrity Hairstylist". Well it didn't work out for me yet. I'm still waiting on the big ones... Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Aniston, oh you know people like that. Brittany is not allowed though. Celebrities would probably literally not have the time for me cuz I'm so dang slow sometimes.
Anyways, I've started using the word livid in my advanced vocab that I have. Recently there was a certain situation that only my close friends know about. I was livid about this situation! Oh I'm sure you are wondering what it was but it would be gossip to blog about. I'll just say I don't want to be judgmental in my life anymore and I really don't want to be around it either. It amazes me the little specks we see in other peoples eyes when we have a life sized Lincoln Log in our own eye. I have my issues and struggles and I don't need to point out other people's... and especially talk about it to multiple people who aren't even involved.
There was a time in my life where I conformed to the people around me and did what they did and thought what they thought. Those people were like family and were my spiritual leaders at the time. I took to heart all they said and the way they lived. They were my family and when you are around people long enough you begin to think like them. Its true and we all know it. I was there for 13 years of my short life. Life was strict and legalistic. Legalism is a system of "living by the law" in order to make spiritual progress and earn God's blessing. There was a list of "do's and don'ts". Don't play soccer on Sundays. Don't go to the movies. Don't go shopping on Sundays not even Walmart if you can help it. Don't work on Sundays. Don't wear this or that. And some things were just "understood". Oh I could go on forever about the different aspects of my old church. I'm blogging all this for 2 reasons. One: I guess to share about parts of my life that have made me who I am. Two: And to confess that I have been judgemental towards people and my friends in the past and I'm currently trying to see people for who they are and not what they do or say.
Bottom line is, I'm slowly working at listening to God and not people. I have a wonderful new church I've been going to for the past 2 plus years with lots of good friends and fellowship. Spiritual abuse is a real thing and takes time and God to get over. He's still working on me. So I apologize for my issues in advance.
I'll try not to be so serious in the future. But I can't make any promises. Although I live for the next laugh and random humor in life, Bipolar does run in my family.. so sometimes the symptoms pop up. And some of you may know me.... I don't have much of a filter at times... I will talk about the weirdest, most random, very personal things in life and sometimes I can be wildly inappropriate. If you can't handle the heat, stay the heck out of my kitchen, because I'm HOT!.