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World’s Most Beautiful Dress

I bought this dress for $30 at Urban Outfitters on Sunday and I am totally in love!  I wish I could wear it every day.  I can’t get a great shot of it with my camera phone, but you can kind of tell how special it is.  Along with my strap up cognac Steve Madden boots, my bright green trench that Rachie gave me several years ago, and my burnt orange P-Coat from J Crew, it is now one of the pieces I cannot live without!  I am so scared of spilling coffee on it today; I can barely take a sip without fear!    

The dress (With a Target cardigan).

I'm wearing these wonderful T-Strap heals that I got at The Rack in AZ years ago with it today. 

Beautiful Girls

Just for fun, I made a list of women on the big and small screen that I find very attractive.  Here goes (in no particular order):

1) Christina Hendricks – My favorite!!!  I love red heads, real or fake.  Plus, she just exudes confidence.  Not to mention that body!  I want to be her.  I will be her-or at least her Mad Men Character Joan- for Halloween next year. 

2) Lily Cole- Another redhead (what a shock!).  She looks like an angel, even when she is posing for Play Boy.  She doesn’t look like anyone else in the world. 

3) Marion Cotillard- Always elegant, and just so dang French.  I want to be her too.  Or at least have her hair. 

4) Audrey Hepburn- Love love love her style.  Nothing can compare. 

5) Audrey Tautou- Another elegant French girl.  I will see anything she ever does. 

6) Scarlett Johansson- I liked her more when she was a little more curvy, but still, what a beauty.  I love how she is always changing her hair.  She has an interesting and brave sense of style for Hollywood.

7) Mila Kunis- What a face!  So cute. 

8) Alexis Bledel- Also very cute.  Terrible actress, but I can’t help but love her.

9) Kirsten Dunst- (see synopsis above). 

10) Eliza Dushku- More sexy than beautiful, but you can’t help but love a bad-ass girl who actually looks like she could kick butt with the boys.

11) Emma Stone- Wonderful.  Not so great with the blond hair (who would have guessed I would like her better as a redhead?), but still quite beautiful and unique.

12) Kat Dennings- Curvy and cute.  I hope to see her in more films, just as she is.  I hope that Hollywood doesn’t shame her into losing her body and becoming another bobble head. 

13) Natalie Portman – can’t deny, the girl has a perfect face. 

14) Ginnifer Goodwin- more cute than beautiful in my opinion, but I feel like I can relate to her, so she is always easy to rout for in any role.

15)  Forgot Zooey Deschanel!  Such cute style.  

I’ll add more as I think of them, but these are my favorites!   

Feeling blah, and needing some motivation!

I have been in such a funk lately, and feeling like I need a break from my life.  While I need a vacation desperately, I mainly just need to get out of my own way and actually DO the things that I have been putting off and I would feel so much better!  My husband and I discussed it this weekend, and he has been feeling the same way.  I am just so so good at finding “better” things to do, like watching TV shows with my husband, or staring at the computer or literally doing almost nothing at all (actually very important sometimes, but not as often as I do it!).  All procrastinating does is add MORE unneeded stress.  Stress= getting sicker and missing more work, which = more stress.  Sooo….It’s time for a new goals list! 

I NEED TO:

1)      get projects done at work that have been staring at me FOREVER (why am I screaming?)!  It is daunting, but doable: my main goal for the week is to accomplish one big thing per day, and get some of this clutter off of my desk and out of my head! 

2)      clean my room.  And vacuum my whole house.  And donate clothes. Basically, just spruce things up at home and get the clutter out.

3)      stop eating so much sugar and cookies!  I am happy with my body, but really, that type of eating is just mindless and unhealthy.  I am going to try to go a week without added sugar.  Fruit is okay.  I’m not a masochist.   

4)      continue my goal to get in shape, and keep adding in more exercise.  My goal has been to exercise for one hour at least three times a week.  I haven’t made that goal in a while, although I never go a full week without at least doing ZUMBA once.  I’d like to make it to my 3X’s a week goal more often!

5)      try Hot Yoga at least once this week.  My pass that I bought is about to expire! 

6)      FINNALLY (there I go again; yelling my key board off), go get a massage.  I’ve had two gift cards for over a year just sitting there!  That is just stupid.

7)      spend more time with the people I love and try not to be self centered, no matter what is going on in my life. 

8)      finish reading the Harry Potter series before my sister starts to hate me! Plus, I am really enjoying those books anyway, when I make the time to read.  :)

*And just for fun, I’m going to wear a dress every day this week.  I’ve had some of my dresses for years, but I have only worn them each once or twice!  What the heck am I saving them for anyway?  Today I am wearing a cute wrap dress with tall brown boots.  :)

My motivation to get these things done is to feel good and have nothing to worry about when I do get to go on vacation this summer (I have a few planned for once), or when my brother and sister are here visiting.  Time to get out of my own way and just do it! 

In a friendship, if is it worth the risk to confront problems and hope the love and trust survives? I say "yes"

Paper crafts are my favorite. Measuring, slicing, gluing and shaping. The intense focus it takes to turn what I can see in my mind into something physical is intoxicating is like meditation. I think other people get this same feeling from exercise. Blegh. I like making things that are impractical, purely pleasurable folly.

Oh Portland fall. I love you

looking forward to August

A good book and a fancy crepe? I take myself on the best dates... We will go there best friend!

bestests!

This is US! It is a drawing rather than a photo to deter stalkers

la la la photo

Cutest Christmas present from the sweetest sweetheart

happy soup!

I made the best soup. I don't like eating fresh vegetables and I cannot live off of cheese, garlic, and popcorn like I would like, so I have figured out an acceptable way of getting this stuff into me. I threw some "better than bullion" into into half a pot of water and then a few handfuls of red potatoes, celery, carrots, onions, a can of chopped tomatoes, leeks, garlic, and fresh ground pepper. It stewed for a while and turned into the one thing I can be proud of this weekend. Thank god. ♥

"No Weigh May"

I have decided not to weigh myself even once in the month of May as a way to help myself get over my obsession with the scale.  Some days I think I look great, and then I step on the scale and think, "Oh man!  I how did I gain a pound?  I must actually be huge!"  Other days I think I look huge and jump on the scale only to find I have lost a few!  What the heck???  My weight goes up and down daily, and I am sick of having my mood determined by the number I see, and obviously seeing it doesn't help me change my body one way or the other, and it never helps me make better choices from day to day.

I normally weigh myself every single morning, and this is going to be a challenge for me, but I think it will also be good for me in a lot of ways. Actually it will feel like torture not to know for sure what I weigh at any given moment, which is the best reason of all to go without my little ritual.  Wish me luck!