WOOHOO for Bee!!! She is engaged to a wonderful (so I hear) man named Jeremy, whom I have never met. For those of you who don't know Bee (Bridget), she is one of my best friends, and my co-star in the video I made posted in M is for Many Things.
I haven't been posting, I've been working. All I do now is work, work, work, work and work. And you know what? I'm ok with it. I even enjoy it. If I'm not at Bella Vita or working on something for there, you can find me at Penn Square Mall in Banana Republic. Yep, I'm working retail for the first time in my life--and I LOVE it! Love the discount, being around people, neurotically folding. All in all, I end up paying Banana to let me hang out there.
That's my excuse. I haven't been blogging, I've been working. But, my blog needs some love and I'm going to be a lot better. Only problem is my working life is now pretty busy and uneventful. Hmm. I need to make some changes to that...
Love Lauren
Bradley is my only true friend who has come out to Oklahoma to visit. Yes, I'm pointing fingers at you -- Allie, Ashley (all five), Bridget, Courtney, Jacob, Jen, Jenn, Jenna, Micah, Michon, Rachel, Stanley, etc... (don't hate me if I forgot your name I did this really quickly). You should all be feelin really guilty right about now, but it's ok, there is still time to book your visits!
Anyways, Brad came last Thursday and stayed till early Tuesday morning. We had a blast!
We went to: The Cowboy Musuem, the OKC Memorial, Earl's BBQ, the Museum of Art, the Botanical Gardens, Pops, Toby Keith's Bar & Grill, and a super dorky cartoon place.
Below are the pictures we took.
Me in a school room
When I picked him up at the train station
JK those weren't for real, well, they were real pictures, but they were at "Prosperity Junction", a replica of a turn-of-the-century cattle town.
Below is me and my adorable little Alli at the Botanical Gardens. I LOVE waterfalls! (Disclaimer - I have no idea what she is wearing- I did not dress her, or approve her outfit for leaving the house. However, I do not have much of a case seeing as I look sloppy as well.)
This is at Pops on Route 66. It's a cool gas station/restaurant/convenience store with any bottle of pop you would possibly be searching for.
It's Cherry coke. For real.
That is all for now.
Love Lauren
or atleast worst week so far this year.
I know, it's been forever since I blogged. That's because there has been a lot going on but a lot of it has been up in the air and then I was CRAZY busy! I have a new job - yay! - I now work at Bella Vita Medspa (bellavitaokc.com) doing marketing/advertising.
So about two weeks ago I accepted this job, so I was working three jobs during that week. Then I had to set up an exhibit and be there the whole time at the Home & Garden show last Friday-Sunday, it actually turned out being really good and a lot of fun!
Anyways back to this being the worst week ever, I have worked 10 hour days for like the past two weeks straight (including weekends), I got in an accident pulling out of my neighborhood and got a ticket. I forgot I was scheduled to work at Banana Republic today and they called me while I was with my dad getting parts for my car, gross and smelly. On my way to work already late, I was pulled over and got a ticket and a warning that I have to get and Oklahoma Drivers License within 30 days. When I got home from work tonight, my mom looked at the phone bill and I have $114 in extra charges for media. I have NEVER used anything on my phone except text, calling, and bubble breaker. Turns out the kids over Christmas used it to watch TV or get on the Internet or something. Unfortunately, their call center was closed so I was not able to get it resolved.
Anyways, rough/expensive week. Hopefully (fingers crossed) next week is better!
Marc came to visit me in October and here are a few pics I took of him. They didn't turn out too well because he was in constant motion and I'm not a very good photographer. Luckily he's the cutest so they are still good!
cool tree in our front yard
and a post of pictures wouldn't be complete without a picture of my favorite little girl
(not to be confused with ketchup)
Recently I found a list of topics to blog about that I had made in October. Some of these are still relevant, some are not. I had a hard time blogging about them, because for some reason I was obsessed with not repeating the letters in the title of my posts (I wanted to have "_ is for ____" for every letter in the alphabet before I started to repeat letters). Breaking that OCD habit has made blogging so much easier. The list made in October is as follows:
P is for Problems
-I was excited for the proposition of playing cards with my mom and her friends on a Saturday night
-I've been in Oklahoma so long that I know the neighbors
-Finding a job is hard
-Lawn service sucks
-My wakeboard bindings are broken
-The water is too cold
-My computer keeps breaking
-I made homemade bread
-I miss my friends
-No one sends me packages anymore
No worries people, now as of 12/15/08:
-I have my own friends to hang out with
-Luckily two is plural so when I say "friends" I'm not lying
-There have been no more neighborhood parties
-I have a job, or two
-The grass is dead so I no longer have to mow it!
-Maybe father will get a new wakeboard for next year
-It's December and I've accepted that it's too cold outside and I will not be in the water again till May
-After a new hardrive, hours on the phone, and sending it in three times to be fixed, my computer is finally working. Kind of.
-The homemade bread was a one time deal
-I'll leave it up to YOU to solve the last two!!! :)
Love Lauren
PS - My brother sent me this funny email and I decided it was blogworthy ...got to love failblog!
http://failblog.org/2008/12/02/homework-fail/
make sure you read the line at the bottom - of what it was SUPPOSED to be.
PPS - It's OK if you didn't get it. Mere didn't get it the first time. She probably still doesn't get it. "Girls next door to what?" I love her innocence.
