happy fall break

Well, it's be a wonderful last 5 days! Mommacita came to OKC late Wednesday night and stayed until Saturday. We had so much fun together - I can't remember the last time we laughed as much as we did - it was pretty great! There is nothing like "momma time." And I was desperately in need of it.

This has nothing to do with my "weekend" post but just thought I would share the torture of learning the Asia map for my world civ class...


On Saturday night, M and I decided to go to RePUBlic for dinner. It was mighty tasty. I am getting better - although I forgot to take a pic of the food, I did remember to take a pic of the menu! LOL


After a great morning at church yesterday we went to Iron Starr Urban BBQ for lunch. Check it out - pics of the food! Have you ever noticed that food doesn't photograph well - at all!!


Yummy banana pudding - but it doesn't even hold a candle to Momma's


Before I went in for an afternoon meeting at JCrew, we went to a pumpkin patch. Carving pumpkins is a big deal for the fam at home and we decided to embrace this wonderful Fall Break and create a masterpiece (the outcome has yet to be determined)


There is something so fall-ish about the perfect orange pumpkin!


Of course M decided to pick the biggest one there - he's got pretty high standards for the "perfect pumpkin" - my squatty round choices weren't quite right, lol.


It's Gigantic!


Finished off the night with pizza from Hideaway and "Here and Now" (Ellen DeGeneres' standup DVD) - if you've never seen it, it's a MUST! I've seen it 3 times, and I still die laughing!


Happy Fall Break! xoxo, E

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After a very interesting Tuesday evening (and I use the term "interesting" loosely),
only 6 hours of sleep (I usually need 8 - minimum),
waking up with incredibly puffy eyes and an overwhelming feeling of insecurity,
realizing I only have a banana in my apartment for breakfast,
plugging in my Chi hair straightener and finding it is completely dead (come onnnnn!!!!),
and wanting Mommacita to be here NOW (rather than being patient for 10pm)...

All I want to do is climb back in bed and skip all my classes,
pretend the world doesn't exist for just a few hours,
complain about anything and everything,
lash out at those I love (just being honest here folks),
and - clearly - be someone other than who I strive to be (aka - positive, pleasant, and kind).

BUT when I logged onto Twitter this morning, I saw something that gave me hope that I can rise above these feelings - even though it's going to be very, VERY difficult


"I will not let the way I feel today define the way I act"


Chin chin to having the strength to rise above! xoxo, E

Love Love Everywhere...

24 roses for 24 years of marriage -

Well done Papas!!


Also, got the invite for Kimmy and Erick's wedding!

Don't worry, my RSVP card is already filled out, and I'm dying to hand it to Kim when I go to work in 20 minutes... but I will put it in the mail so it's not a waste of a stamp =)

What a weekend... It's already Monday?

I had quite the weekend. It seems like Friday was so long ago.
My Fridays are usually pretty boring - one class and the rest of the day is free.
I decided to go to the mall and just walk around - and I did it successfully without spending any money!!
I fell in love with these shoes... and they'd both be under $200! Gosh, at times, I love Dillards.

I had to actually try on the coat I fell in love with last week - especially since it is now 30% off!


I got a call Saturday morning that the roomie locked her keys in her car while at 7/11. It was Elizabeth to the rescue - with the help of OCU PD!



Doesn't she look just thrilled?? hehe


Pulled out a giant clothes hanger looking thing


SUCCESS!!!!! Note to Kell: have dad bring the spare key when he comes this weekend! lol


I worked at the Regatta Saturday evening. The new Devon Boathouse is really pretty. OCU's rowing and canoe/kayak teams did a really great job! And the weather was perfect!



The night ended with a pretty awesome firework show


Momma sent me pics last night of the new window treatments for the kitchen!




Dont' you just love them?! I'm not going to recognize my house when I go home for Thanksgiving, lol.

M and I took an impromptu trip to Pops! after Church/lunch yesterday.

He was making fun of me on the drive because I called one of the dams at the river "that big dirt looking thing" and I FREAKED OUT when I saw longhorns in a pasture. I have never seen them in real life. It was pretty cool :)

Anyway, Pops! was fun




I got a Cheerwine (totally reminds me of home) and he got a Round Barn root beer... then we drove to see the historic round barn - did you know it's one of the only (or maybe THE only) round barns still in existence? hahaha - he's got all this useless knowledge and it's so funny to see his excitement of passing it along.



Mommacita will be here Wednesday night through Saturday! SO EXCITED TO SEE HER!!!

xoxo, E

p.s. happy 24th anniversary to Mommacita and Papas today!!

My week...

I am a proud JCrew employee... my bank account is an ashamed and all-too-frequent casualty of this...

At work on Sunday, we were doing the morning routine before opening the store and I found this lovely crack in one of the fitting room mirrors... don't worry, I was instructed to fix it with packing tape... If this whole "finding a job" business doesn't work out, I think I've got a good future at The Glass Doctor ("call the glass doctor, we'll fix your panes.")


Kimmy and I had a lunch date at the mall and I fell IN LOVE with this BCBG coat at Dillards.



After sending a pic to Mommacita... then the price... and then a text about all the cute dresses in Dillards, she responded like so:



Side note... I wonder if the parentals would be more willing to buy me one of these coats from the Crew since my discount would make them SIGNIFICANTLY less expensive than the above BCBG number... hmmm... let's see what kind of comment they leave on this post! LOL



I must admit, Momma does indulge my habit... I got the BEST surprise in the mail this week! Check out my new Henri Bendel weekender bag!
I'm ready to go somewhere... anywhere!!! I love this bag!!


(as you can tell, I couldn't even wait to get home to open the box!)

I'm SUCH a cool kid... it's a fact.
Ate my lunch in the library's media room on Tuesday watching a video for my World Civ class (although, I'm thrilled b/c our Monday class sessions are cancelled to give us time to watch the movies to discuss on Wednesdays! Holla for an extra hour and a half of sleep on Sunday nights!)

ANYWAY, the media room - is tiny first of all - and it has every kind of media player ever.
Observe...
2 tape players... and one is ANCIENT looking


A turntable...


And I don't have ANY idea what this is but had to take a pic anyway! LOL


Probably the BEST part of my week was applying for Graduation!



Check it out!



Funny: "How well do you think your undergraduate experience at OCU prepared you for your career?" ... I'm sorry, why is "not applicable" an option? I'm pretty sure it applies to all grads.



Not so funny: Having to check "no" to the question "Have you accepted a job offer prior to graduation?"
You better believe I'll march back in there and change that should that status change! And I'm praying it does!

I just needed my advisor's signature to be done!
And praise the Lord... she signed it!!


That's about all for now - Happy Weekend!!
xoxo, E

A post of substance to come...

I promise a post of substance soon, but I just found these lovely little pieces from Stella & Dot

Necklace and Rings

I love to combine silver and gold jewelry and these do it for me!!

xoxo, E

Upper Crust, Check!

Well, I started this post with the intention of talking about M's and my dinner date to Upper Crust (one of the restaurants on my list of places to try) and then I realized that I haven't shared the last few restaurants that I've tried! Shame.

I talked about Red Rock Canyon grill (went there with M and Papas) in a post, but ever so briefly... and of course, because of the nature of the evening, I totally forgot to take pictures of the food! Shame, twice.

M and I had lunch at Cafe 501 last week. I had a salad and M had a chicken caesar wrap. Again, forgot to take pics. I want to go back though so I promise to take pics... especially of the inside of the restaurant, such a cool atmosphere!

Okay, back to the purpose of this post.

It was absolutely delish! And the company wasn't bad either =) M got back from DC early Sunday morning and we had dinner together that evening to celebrate his return and one month of being more than "just friends." Naturally, I was enamored by our conversation and totally forgot to take pictures of the food, but I stole a couple from the internet. LOL.
We started with the


(photo: The Food Dude)

Next, we split both the

and the

It was absolutely OUTSTANDING!!! Much better than BJ's pazooki (if you've ever had it)

On their menu, UC promises:

And boy do they deliver. Everytime I blinked my drink was getting refilled. Everyone was so kind and thanked us as we left. And our waiter Matt was phenomenal. Although, M did say, "Don't you just love it when the waiter flirts with you and acts like I'm not even here?" I almost died laughing.

While still in the restaurant, I tweeted about our experience... and it go re-tweeted!


I can't wait to go back! xoxo, E

Wanna get away?

Thanks to my pal Dan for sending me the link to this YouTube video... along with the suggestion that Papas needs to get the flight attendants on his plane to do this from now on... LOL.
Enjoy!
xoxo, E