Posted by Angie on Dec 26, 2007 in
Pay attention to me...me me me... 
Today I spent my birthday with the people I love the most! No, not my kids and husband, but Debbi, Sherri, Laura, and Valerie. They were there to share in my special day! I left the family at home to play the Wii and headed out for a day of girlie fun. I had such a wonderful time, I am still on a high!
We all met for lunch at La Madeline and then headed over to Sam Moon for some shopping! I bought a new purse and wallet. The purse is black and white Zebra print with red accents and rhinestones. (I bet you are visualizing a rocker chick with tight leather pants and a tube top with feathered hair, but my friends assured me if anyone could pull off the white trash look, I could! I hope they didn’t steer me wrong! LOL) I also got a red wallet to coordinate! Laura bought me a necklace and earring set and I bought another necklace and earring set (like I need more, but what the heck! It’s my birthday!)
Then we set out for the shoe mart down the way and browsed at their thousands of shoes that my poor feet can’t wear, but we had fun looking at them none the less. Then a quick jaunt over to this other clothing store for a New Year’s Eve top for Sherri. We had fun looking at all the strange and wonderful tops and Red Hat Society couture while Sherri modeled some for us. The sales girl there was shadowing us the whole time and we felt like another gal had joined the birthday celebration! It was kind of creepy! LOL
We were thirsty and ready for some dessert, so we headed over to the corner bakery and I had a Hot Chai and a raspberry square. It was yum-o and I filled my new purse and wallet while we chatted. Then! (I’m exhausted just typing this!) we made one more pit stop at Old Navy to see if they carried plus sizes, which they did NOT and then headed home. I’m sure our husbands were wondering when we were coming back because we had been gone for about 7 hours! It was girl fun at it’s best! Thanks girls for sharing in my day! And thanks Val for the book and Debbi for the earrings! I love you all!
I think 35 is going to be the best year yet, I can feel it!
Posted by Angie on Dec 25, 2007 in
Pay attention to me...me me me... [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4a9pCFDa4U[/youtube]
This Christmas was a little different. I’m sure my Sister is tired of hearing how much we miss her (like anyone would get tired of hearing that!) and my Dad. All in all, this turned out to be a special Christmas after all.
The link above is a video clip of what the kids opened last. Gramma Rain pulled out all the stops and although she couldn’t be here either
(PG&E sucks) we were able to capture this memory for her and our kids for years to come. I was able to take video of this because I got to open my new Birthday Present early in time for Christmas. I got an RCA Small Wonder Video camera, the same one I got my Mom for her Birthday. It was so cool, I had to have my own!
Between the screaming, fainting, and tears of joy, we had an awesome Christmas and one for the record books. Long gone are the pink bikes with streamers and Rescue Heroes. Now we are at the age of MP3 players and cell phones. The girls are excited to own new GoPhones, and Dan and happy to be able to tune everyone out with his new jams. Michael Jon thinks Santa should have brought him something other than a basketball, but was totally delighted with the Ninja set in his stocking, so being 5 isn’t so bad after all. Santa was good this year and so were our kids. They can be stubborn at times, argumentative, and antagonistic to each other, but they are sweet, loving, kind, and obedient children.
Posted by Angie on Dec 5, 2007 in
Pay attention to me...me me me... I went shopping for a warm sweater since its getting cold here. I found lots of cute things at Ross. Did they fit right and look fabulous on me? No they did not. While I wandered around aimlessly trying to convince myself not to jump off a bridge because I have a big butt, I spied these.
This lovely little number. Sitting there all by it’s lonesome. For 14.99. That retail for 69.00. I am the Queen of Bargains too! Who knew a little ‘ol pair of shoes could take someone from the brink to such joy?
They are without a doubt my favorite shoes so far. I can’t wait to wear them tomorrow with jeans and a black sweater. I’m back baby!!
Yeah!!
Ok, like OMG. I just looked these shoes up on Zappos.com and well..they aren’t just flats. The buckle swings up to be Mary Janes!! Do you know how cool that is? It two, two, two shoes in one! Woot!! 
I am so happy. I think I am going to cry.
Posted by Angie on Dec 3, 2007 in
Pay attention to me...me me me... It’s amazing how good it feels when the world works with you and not against you. Most of you know we purchased a LOT of furniture from IKEA in Sept. of ‘05. Within months, the cushions on the sofa and chair were misshapen and uncomfortable and when I informed IKEA of the situation that Dec., they dismissed me and I never heard from them again. Until yesterday!
I got a call from the Sofas Manager and Curtis was very helpful. He said he would replace all of them because of the 10 year warranty and I should bring them down and exchange them. Mind you, I lost the receipt over a year ago, I figured I didn’t need it anymore anyway since they weren’t going to do anything about it. He said I didn’t need the receipt because he wanted me to be happy with my purchases!
I was expecting a fight when I got there today and the ones who didn’t know of the situation balked and complained that Curtis needed to stop telling people things that he wasn’t authorized to do. I kept my mouth shut and said lots of thank yous along the way. It worked to my advantage not to get too worked up, because I think getting riled would have caused more drama than nessessary and I would have looked like someone trying to take advantage of the situation, which I wasn’t. I just wanted a sofa that worked like they claimed it would; one that would stand up to years of abuse and a 220lb man sitting on it 50,000 times!
I got my wish. I now have all new cushions, both seat and back on the couch and two new cushions on my matching chair. I couldn’t be more thrilled. Best part is, they have been redesigned since I last bought mine. These “new” and “improved” ones have a layer of down/goose feathers and not only look more plump, but are firmer when you sit down. I expect these to last quiet a while and if they don’t, oh I’ll be back….you can guarantee it!!
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