Quote madness...

Well, just one today. I love this quote.

"I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

- Marjorie Peay Hinckley

Oh, REAL SIMPLE...

My guilty pleasure: REAL SIMPLE magazine has been the answer to many of my solutions. For me, it's a challenge finding a good/interesting magazine these days. I'm always having to jumble around magazines that are soley obsessed with such things as high fashion, drenched with freaky models that wear dead birds over half their face. Sex, with 205 different positions to try! Testings/charts/percentages/polls on who actually uses a condom or who knows exactly how their period is supposed to look/smell like? Who does that, seriously?!? Which celebrity is dating who or how 'we' are so insanely obsessed about thier lives because apparently the readers have no lives of their own. Oooh, and my favorite....outfits under $500! Pssh, spare me the exercise of my fingers by flipping your lame magazine. I may be a bit bitter towards a lot of magazines out there and really, there's one that I won't mention that needs a new Art Director, but as a down exists, there is a definite UP! After opening up my can of worms and finally going back to my main point, Real Simple magazine has got to be one of my #1 picks, so far. Who knows what can happen later on because the environment, society, or it's internal networks can always change something, or God forbid...everything about this magazine. So far, so good...no, great! I'm a big visual person apparently, but I just wanted to give you guys a glimpse of what Real Simple has to offer. No, no one's paying me to post this...not that this is a good PR blog anyway, but I just really enjoy this magazine and it just makes sense for me to share! Enjoy.

Back in the day, in my junior year in highschool...I dreamed so dearly of becoming an editor one day of an amazing magazine. One that I could be proud of, better yet....one that my too complicated to impress mother would be proud of. One that I could even plaster a whole banner on the side of my car to advertise and not cringe everytime someone sees me in it. I'd be proud of this magazine. Sure damn would lol. I have many dreams and sure enough you'll soon be able to see what I mean as you read on with my blogs.

Homeworker status, woot woot!

Ooooh, so pretty!

YAY! Wait, let's make that a double yay!

Of course I will explain with a big smile on my face, that the reason for my burst of excitement is purely because in the next few weeks or so, I will have my bed as my coworker and my closet as an accessory to my new office. I will be working from home! Yes, I am fist pumping and all!

Blue, not!

When I just think about working from home, it makes me so giddy inside. I can already imagine being able to stay in my jammies all day long and not having to drive to and from work. The area where I live has a personality of horrid traffic. I swear since I've been living there for 3 months and counting, there have been over 5 accidents. No, not any mere fender bender where 8 out of 10 times, two victims stomp out of their cars and yell verses of harassment at each other. I'm talking broken windshields, busted tires & rims, and glass shattered everywhere. Not mentioning cars looking like an elephant had assaulted them by jumping up and down on them with extreme fury. Ooh, nasty accidents. Thankfully I haven't seen any ambulances or firetrucks there.

The homeworker program had been offered for almost a year now and I always had a fear of cabin fever, so I just kept my happy self in my comfy lived in cubicle. With the new year and all, I just thought..."What the heck? Why not give it a shot...if 6 months drag by and you don't like it? Go back to the office!" I'm also singing in my head...."money, money, money, monnnneey.....moooooneey!" It's also a plus because in this case, my sister, who should love me even more so dearly, can drive my car to work and have air conditioning once it gets to the hot Alabama weather. She currently drives her boyfriend's car, which he's a drifter/car buff...so it's a very suave '89 Toyota Corolla. I believe the air conditioning works though, but I'm sure she'd rather drive my car and save his suave Toyota some mileage.

A couple nights ago, I rearranged my room and now I have this BIG, EMPTY, SAD spot in the corner of my room just begging and pleading me to hurry up and buy a desk to accompany it! Since I'm still not sure yet if working from home will be permanent or not, the first places I thought of was Goodwill or Salvation Army for a desk. Well, unfortunately it turned out quite sour, this desk hunt for cheap. My sister and I went searching for that one snag of a deal and there were none, NONE! It was a blasphemous part of the two stores that I relied so heavily on. Mind you, I was just looking for a plain, simple, under $25 desk, but all they had were HUGE, BULKY, $150+ desks. Call me cheap, but no thank you Goodwill and Salvation Army.

Though I was a bit down because of no success for a desk, we did come upon another store that I'm sure my sister and I will both become regulars at. It was a moderate sized accessory store with almost everything under $10! I'm not much into jewelry, but it was jackpot for my sister. They carried so many different nick knacks and scarves. Gosh, I love scarves. I'll have to remember to take a picture next time I go so I can show y'all(whoever you are that reads these things I write, ha ha). I have not started yet because we're waiting on our IT guys to give us the ok, but trust me...I will definitely follow up!

Oooooo....Ahhhh....

Lookie at what I found as I googled for pictures! This bed is neato and I want one.

The perfect fairytale home.

Wow, fantasies really do exist! I have always dreamed about a cozy little cottage where I would live, raise & love my family, and grow old with someone special, happily ever after. Look at this magical home I came across. This excites me knowing that it's possible! Check out the site linked to "cottage" to learn more about this beautiful home. I hope one day we can build something as beautiful and cozy as this home.

My new celeb-hunk crush. White Collar stud.

Hello to the handsome, Mr. Matt Bomer(32). Seeing this fine lad on White Collar made me literally drool. I don't know if it's the oceanic blue eyes, the dark brown hair, his perfect 5 o'clock shadow, or his chiseled jaw line. One thing I know is...he is a very appreciated asset to my bored eyes. I'm tired of girly looking boys like Zac Efron or Chace Crawford. Thank you to whoever you are for giving this beautiful creature a chance to win over all women across the US of A!

(Fedoras get me every time.)

So, admit it...you're drooling too.

Thank you GLAMOUR!

Woo hoo! I just have to share this with you guys! So, I receive beauty tip emails from Glamour every now and then. Some of them are just GENIUS and the genius spill this week has got to be Salt Spray! It's the solution, the magic, the answer to your beach hair dreams. I have yet to try it myself, but from reading...I can't wait to make my own potion. To get the directions and details, go here!

Let me know how it goes for you! And hopefully soon, I'll be able to post another blog about how it turns out for myself. Crossed fingers!

Hair frenzies!

So, I've been a bit obsessed with BED HEAD/BEACH hair! And...I would just like to throw up with my fingertips really quickly and spew the dream hair images as posted below! I feel giddy. (:

(All hail miss Reese!)

(Everyone think's she's a bitch, but you know what? I like her AND her attitude! Because she doesn't take ANYone's shit. Haha.)

(OMGeeeeeez, how jealous I am of Kate Hudson's hair, skin glow, eyes..etc. I have just a little crush on her.)

I LOVE braiding in hair. Yes, I can be much of a bohemian hippie indeed AND I'm proud!

Hippies RULE! (:

Some folks in life, such as indicated above(ahem, Lindsay La Lohan)...like to change hair colors as chameleons do for techniques to succeed over their prey. I noticed that basically all of the pictures I just posted were all BLONDE. Now, don't get me wrong here...I love blondes! They are super duper fun! But, I am a brunette...so, let's turn this up a notch now shall we! Lot's of people go from brunette to blonde, from blonde to brunette. Let's just all agree, it's fair game and we all just want BEAUTIFUL and HEALTHY hair, yeah? (:

Now, with these postings of blondes, brunettes....bed heads, beach heads. I really want to make my hair a masterpiece, if anything! My aunt Jane has magic entwined within her fingertips and I do highly intend to be one of her examples for fine work! I really want to brighten up for Summer 2010. Let's say, picture below? Brunette with some blonde fun? I like that idea, yesiree.

And of course as follows, some examples! Yay yay. (:

(I know this pretty lady is not famous, but who isn't up for some ethereal hair, right?)

Ok, so Megan Fox obviously has no highlights as she chews her thumb fingernail...but this picture is just to prove a point that brunettes rock my socks!