I'm Sawee!

Get it?

It's an olive branch!! I am sorry that well over two months have gone by and I haven't said a peep.

In all honesty, I am not even sure where I left off and I am too lazy to open a new window and see. So........for those of you not in know:

The first week of April, I got a job offer......in FLORIDA!!! WOOO to the friggin HOOOO!! Right?!?! After much discussion with the hubs, he decided we should go for it! So I went to work the next day and gave my notice!!! It was so extremely liberating!

I packed all my crap into boxes and mailed them home. Brian and decided to move me down first because it was kind of sudden and we weren't really prepared. So two weeks later, off I went...to live with my parents :(

Brian got me all settled in with my folks, and he went back to Michigan to get the house ready for sale.

Fast forward to now.

Brian is STILL in Michigan, which kills me. I miss him terribly!! And the living with my parents thing is getting old.

But tomorrow, he is giving his notice!! We hope he will be here by July 1st!! And then we will sooooo officially be Floridians!

In the meantime, I have laid out every weekend and done some fantastic shopping that I hope to tell you all about!

I do NOT love my job, and am actively seeking a way to be happier in the work place (I might have something exciting to say about that in a few months). But really, everything is happier in Florida, so that's okay!

I can't WAIT to go shopping for our new house and to do all that comes with that exciting process.

Oh and FYI, Brian and I split custody of the dogs: I got Roo and Daisy and he's got Bay and Gordon.

So, sorry this was a really quick run down, but I want to really try to get back in the swing!! I promise I am going to try!!!!!! Miss you all!

Quote of the Day

This isn't exactly a quote of the day, but more like a fact of the day. It is still coming from my daily calendar and since this is the favorite city of my friend BBW, I thought I would throw this gem of information in there.

This is coming from the Top 10 Shopping Havens from travel.discovery.com:

In the French Quarter of New Orleans is Royal Street, an old street steeped in history. Mules still draw carriages past carefully preserved French and Spanish style buildings from the 1700s through the eight continuous blocks on antique stores. La Rue Royale is one of he premier destinations for antique hunters from around the world. It got its start in 1816 with the opening of Francois Seignoret's furniture and wine store. By the turn of the twentieth century, New Orleans was the fifth largest city in the United States. Wealthy people from all over the wold traded with local shop owners and left behind artifacts of a bygone era that, in many cases, can't be found anywhere else, such as antique weapons, Civil War items, and rare, foreign and American coins.

Stores that have stayed in the same family for generations can offer everything from a $45,000 Edwardian diamond necklace and Rolex watches from the 1920s to nineteenth-century furniture and an $80,000.00 centerpiece once owned by Charles Dickens.

I would just LOVE to see these pieces of history!! Especially the Edwardian diamond necklace...but on second thought, it might just depress me. :)

Happy Sunday to everyone!

Quote of the Day

Today we are deviating from my precious daily calendar and turning to none other than Posh Spice for our dose daily fashion wisdom.

"Obviously, working out is important. Well, I don't. I have joined a gym, but I can't bring myself to start. What do you wear on the running machine? I can't bring myself to wear flat shoes."

-- Victoria Beckham

What a coincidence! That is the same reason I don't work out ;)

Quote of the Day

Since I am still slacking in the personal news department and the only thing new I have bought is some hanky panky's (which I will spare you pictures of), I bring you the quote of my day, which since I am still behind is actually the quote of January 4th :)

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."

-- Bo Derek

Quote of the Day

"I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive."

-- Carrie Fisher

Shopping Quote of the Day

Hi everyone! I have been in a funk lately. Well, not really. I am just so busy that something HAS to fall by the wayside, and Choos it is! I have a lot of "life updates," but until these mini updates actually come to a solid conclusion as opposed to me just yapping, I will keep them to myself.

So on to the fashion....

In my Christmas stocking, my mom gave me "The Shopoholic's Daily Calendar." I haven't opened it until now and it is great! I can't believe I am 2 months behind, but we are going to try to post the good ones on here.

So without further ado:

"I should explain. For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, incstead of wheat-maize-barley-fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes-makeup-shoes-handbags (I don't bother with the fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming in a field. You can't keep buying the same thing -- you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise, you get bored and stop enjoying yourself."

-- Confessions of a Shopoholic

Hey, Hey, Hockeytown!

For Valentine's Day this year I wanted to give my husband something really special. While no moving plans are final or even realistic right now, I thought about IF there was anything about Michigan that we would miss and suddenly....

I realized that quite possible the one and only thing we would ever miss about living here is our beloved Red Wings. So why not experience them as much as we can and the best that we can until we are fortunate enough to move?

For those of you who know me, when I think of something, I need immediate results. So within 20 minutes of hatching the plan I had picked out the most perfect (and painfully expensive) pair of tickets on center ice 7th row! I had my doubts but as soon as we settled in our seats, I knew that it was well worth the money!

Since the game was the Sunday before Valentine's day and since my husband isn't what one would deem "easy going" (read: hates surprises that require travel plans), I gave him his present one week early. I think every night one of us would say, "I'm so excited for Sunday." It was so great to have something to look forward to. The Joe is a 2 hour drive, but I wish we did it so much more often! Here we are decked out in red ready to go (Ash, see how I am looking elderly around the eyes and those smile lines?!)!!

One of the reasons we were so excited was to see our favorite player, Cat Soup. What? Don't recognize that name? Well that is because it is really spelled Datsyuk. For whatever reason I had him pegged as my "fav" even though 13 has never been my favorite number. After making such an informed and important decision, I asked my husband what what his name was to which he replied, "Datsyuk," as I was walking out of the room. "Cat soup? What a ridiculous name!" I replied. Needless to say it was a "you had to be there" sort of thing, but we were rolling on the ground and ever since that time, Pavel has fondly been referred to as Cat Soup in our household. Here he is in action:

Doing some pregame lunges, very important....

Okay, enough of those. Time to play hockey.....

Rounding the rink telling the Ducks to "get the puck otta here."

We seriously could not have been more thrilled. Here is Zeterburg looking quite wolverine like.

And the bench....

The best moment of the game was when Downey got into a fight with a member of the Ducks, Parros. I have seen many a hockey fights and they are always just a random punch out of nowhere and then they go at it. Fine. But I have never seen two men literally put their dukes up and circle each other for what seemed like the longest time like this! See if you can see this extremely tall man's stache!

Some of the funnier comments I heard amongst the crowd were:

"Come on, Downey. Punch his mustache off."

and, my personal fav:

"Why is Downey fighting a 1970s porn star?"

By this point, we were having such a good time I had to snap one last pic of the happy couple.

Sadly the Wings didn't pull out a W, but that is okay. We had a great time and they still need to lose something like 12 more games to lose hold of first place.

As for the actual Valentine's Day, I ordered this heart-shaped pizza from Papa J's and picked up this cake along with some wine and heineken. Mmmm.

I hope you all had a nice day with your someone special too!

Happy Valeninte's Day to My Honey Bun!

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Happy Valentine's Day! A Litte Early.

Bless my husband's heart, he doesn't have a romantic bone in his lovable body!! Typically, we don't do gifts for Valentine's Day, but this year we did things a bit differently. I got him the best tickets we have ever had to go to Detroit Red Wings game this past weekend and he got me this fabulous laptop.

I really love it! I do, it is a tiny step in the romantic direction from the eliptical machine he got me last Valentine's Day. My husband is a very practical person. At first I wasn't super excited about a laptop, but it is soooo pretty and shiny and yet fashionable! The color is called champagne and you know that I love me the bubbly!

So I am now happily blogging from my couch watching American Idol! Who knew life could be so great. I thought for sure I was an unwaivering PC fan!! Also this bad girl makes shopping online so much more convenient :)

So it is with optimism that I say I shall be blogging more often and hope to change the looks of my blog soon. Stay tuned.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day filled with love and canoodling with your special someone!

Got My New Shoes On!

1. I got my new shoes today!!
2. They are NOT too high.
3. The hardware on the shoe is more than I anticipated, but I think I still like them.
4. The price on them went down because NM is having a 50% off sale!! Hello price adjustment!
5. For your entertainment, please listen to the song in this post, because that is what I am singing as I am dancing around my office in my new shoes despite the fact that it is the dead of winter and we got 16" of snow last night.