how to charm me

these posts, along with future "how to annoy me" posts, are not an original blogging concept. I stole the idea from the one and only Heather Armstrong over at dooce.com, who used to do these posts waaay back in the day before she became rich and famous.

so, how to charm me:

share your food with me.
BUT, don't be all, "my meal is so much better than yours," which is what Andy says pretty much every time we eat out. Now I wait to order until I know what Andy's ordering in case I want to last minute order the same thing so that he doesn't lord his food over me.

a pig with a nose ring

"Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman who shows no discretion."
Proverbs 11:22


This verse cracks me up. Basically, God is saying, "your beauty is completely worthless and pointless if you have bad judgement." Really, what's the point of an earring on a pig's snout? There isn't one. Even if the earring is expensive and beautiful, there's no denying that the thing that's wearing it is a pig. So, even if a girl is absolutely gorgeous, her lack of discretion will be obvious to others.


The comparison makes me think of women on The Bachelorette. Most of the girls have perfect hair, perfect skin and a perfect body (at least by our culture's standard). Some of these women have great personalities. Others, not so much. Many of them will do anything to get ahead in "the game." They flaunt their bodies, steal the Bachelor away whenever possible and say mean things about the other girls. Their willingness to do whatever it takes to land their man overshadows their beauty in the eyes of the audience, and usually in the eyes of the Bachelor too (except for Jake and Vienna... what a train wreck).


While I know Andy is attracted to me physically, I also know he is more happy having a wife who is faithful and who considers him (and/or consults him) before making decisions. 


It's so much more valuable to have virtue than to have beauty.

kickin' it old school- 90's hits

THERE ARE 30 SONGS TOTAL.
click on "pop-out player" to view the whole playlist. I can't get the formatting to work the way I want it to... also, I wasn't always able to get the version of the song I wanted. For example, "Lightning Crashes" clearly didn't have the audio about 9-11 when it was released.

These are songs from the nineties that I remember hearing on the radio growing up. They do not necessarily represent my favorite song by an artist or my current music tastes, but

I will say that I loved all of these songs as a little girl and they are still fun to sing along to! They are not in any specific order, either.

Did any of you sing "kissing the night away"  when you heard "I Get Knocked Down?" 

:)

  

"beer me," Casey said. so we did.

disclaimer: we love our dog so much it's stupid.

if the bottle had cracked, we would have taken it away.

wish list

This weekend the following things on my to-do list need to be accomplished for sanity's sake:

- complete short and long promo for video editing project + design menu
- laundry
- clean upstairs bathroom
- vacuum basement
- clean master bedroom
- eat my vegetables (yes, this is on my to-do list)
- continue p90x

my wish list, however, reads:

- paint toenails
- get haircut
- clean out + organize master closet
- sit and read at Barnes and Noble
- bake banana nut muffins
- watch a movie

I'm sooo close to being done with my video editing project. I should have been done with it at least a month ago and the longer it takes the more frustrated I am at myself for not tackling it sooner. My plan is to knock out the rest of my work as soon as possible and then I will be back to working one job and I'll have LOTS more time to dedicate to housework and to me-time. Ahhh.