A Deer a Doe

So Tuesday afternoon I was casually just doing my thing in Remley's Point.  I was actually going to take some pics for work.  I was at a stop sign and all of a sudden I saw something move in my peeripheral vision.  Two deer.  They were just chillin in a yard.  All of a sudden they ran in front of me.   Then a whole pack of them stampeded across the rode.  I was mesmerized.  They were literally just standing on the back of this vacant lot.  I decided to get out.  Now several thoughts were crossing my mind:
1-Grab your camera
2-There is an awesome pink BB gun sitting on your back seat, fully loaded and ready to roll
3-How cool would it be to ride one.....
4-Is anybody else seeing this??

So after much contemplation...I decided it probably was not ideal to try and pepper one with a pink BB gun.  Especially in public.  I would kinda stand out there...Also, I am probably not stealth enough to mount one of those suckers...So I went with option #1 and grabbed my camera.  I snuck out of the car and literally crawled through some shrubs to get a good view of the deer.

Croc Not

I'm sorry, but this post has been a long time coming.  I know I am probably about to offend a good many of the general population that just so happens to read my non sense ramblings.  But I just have to get this off of my chest.  CROCS.  I do not understand how people love them so much.  When did wearing rubber clogs become cool.  I truly do not understand the attraction.  Now-I do understand kids wearing them.  They are easy and no hassle.  That's fine.  I even know a lady who wears them all the time.  And she is super cool.  She is the only exception to my anti crocs rule bc they are cute on her.  It's the men that I don't understand.  They love them.  I just don't get it.  Please keep in mind that this is solely my opinion.  I took the liberty of Googleing "Crocs."  It just so happens that Urban Dictionary had some definitions pop up:

1-quite possibly the ugliest but most comfortable shoes ever. everyone wears them from babies to old farts and rich kids to poorish kids. they are very heinous looking. (this was my personal favorite)


2-the most ridiculous markup since bottled water.
bottled water puts a fraction of a penny worth of water in a 2 cent bottle and sell it for a buck. crocs, on the other hand mold a few cents of plastic with no water inside into something kinda resembling a shoe, then sell the damn thing for $30.

3-Hidious but revolutionary shoes made of Croslite polyurethane—an antimicrobial resin that (contrary to anecdotal evidence) resists odor. The clasic clog is made several colors with and without holes and with and without straps. More and more styles(even boots) are about to hit the market. Ugly is comfortable.


I am sorry, I just hate Crocs. There. I said it.  If I could erase any fashion trends, I would wipeout Crocs and Rompers.  I tried not to let the Crocs get to me, but yesterday I was in Dick's Sporting Goods and eavesropped on a horrific scene/dialogue.  I was casually browsing around the guns and bullets section (typical).  When I saw what looked to be a 60ish yr old man and a 40ish yr old man.  I think they were related.
60ish yr old:  (he was wearing camo crocs) Do you like your new crocs?
40ish yr old (he was wearing some new style as seen above) Yes. I do.  I have about 5 pair of Crocs.  But these are nice ones. I can wear them to church, or weddings and stuff.  They look really nice. They look nicer than my regular dress shoes.
*Here is where I was about to spontaneously combust.  Weddings?!?!?  What the heck.  If I see crocs at my wedding.  It's over.  Crocs have gone too far. 
60ish yr old: Do you think they have some here?  I could get a few pairs.  I have a gift card. 
40ish yr old:  I bet they do.  Now they have ones with corduroy.  Those are really nice.  I have worn them to work a few times.

I had to walk away.  I was about to inform them that Crocs were in fact not cool.  Especially to wear to a wedding.  I take that back.  If you are Joe Dirt, then fine.  You can wear them to a wedding.  Who would have thought that men would love wearing plastic/rubbery clogs??  I'm sorry, but look:

 






So there you have it.  I am sorry if I have offended you, but I have to speak the truth.  Or at least, my opinion.  I know you didn't ask for it, but your reading it.  On my blog.  Free game.
Not rockin Crocs,
SRS

Unicorn on the loose

Christmas Adam Randomness

I went to my first NBA game.  I have to say that I did enjoy it.  And Dwight Howard is a monster.  With very huge muscles that I stared at the entire game.  That's just a side note.  I went with Granny, Mercury and Becca.  Riding the MARTA was probably my favorite part, besides the kiss cam on the Jumbotron at the game.  No explanation needed.  But seriously, Dight Howard is ripped.  So last week Eliza and I started our new Christmas tradition of lunch and shopping.  We weren't exactly what you would call successful on the shopping front, but we nailed the lunch part.  I successfully downed my first bloody mary.  Big step for man kind here.  Have you been to Sermet's?  If not, then you should go. Its very good.  Take a look at the painting of the half naked person in the bathroom and let me or Eliza know if it's a boy or girl.  Also, if you were at Taco Boy on Tuesday night and saw a girl who looks somewhat like me, wearing a sombrero and singing Feliz Navidad-it was not me...Logan and Doug are in town.  The 843 just got a whole lot better:)

Hope you enjoy Christmas Adam,
SRS

More fun than a Barrel of Monkeys

So Friday night was our St. Andrews Worship Team Christmas Party.  I must say that I was pleasantly surprised.  It was at Vicki's house (the girl who shreds on the violin @ church) and it was hilarious.  I really wasn't sure what to expect and was even a bit nervous.  These people know how to have fun.  There was so much food.  Seriously.  I forgot to mention that everyone had to make a gift. Now at first this was terrifying because we had to each make a present for the gift exchange.  Now I am not miss art and crafts over here.  I am much better at buying really cool presents.  I had no idea what to do.  At the end of the week, we got an email saying that baked goods were acceptable.   Thank God.  So I decided to make square pretzels with rollos on top.  I mean, who doesn't love rollos?  I have to say that they looked really really good.  So I bundled them up in very stylish tin foil.  However, during transport they may or may not have fallen off of the front seat.  Which means that they all stuck to the tin foil.  I decided to keep this to myself and stick my present under the tree.  So it came time for the gifts.  We drew numbers and when it was your turn, Kristy would go grab a "random" present from the tree and give it to you. These people are quite creative.  I started to feel pretty self conscious about my lil rollos.  After some cool presents it was my turn.  I was lucky number 8.  I received an envelope.  Upon opening it-I immediately burst into laughter.  Here is what it said:

I received a 3 minute hand massage from Becky Kerr.  I'm sorry.  I am still laughing.  So I then threatened her with the thought of her getting my present....Well it just so happened that Becky was #9.  And guess what.  She received a crumpled up lil box of pretzels and rollos....HAHAH.  Kristy had no idea.  You probably do not find this funny, but I promise it was really funny at the time.  I was also informed that I am a rapper named Nelly.  I'm okay with that.  So that pretty much sums it up for my Friday night.

Tomorrow I am going to Atlanta.  To go to an NBA game.  With really funny people.  I'm sure there will be some good stories to tell.
See you then.

For Narnia

I think I could totally rock Narnia.  Yes, I know that Narnia is not real, but it would be totally cool.  I saw Voyage of the Dawn Treader today.  In 3-D.  Loved it.  It was so so good.  I think I could listed to Liam Neeson/Aslan's voice all day long.  Go see it.

The magic number

5.5

Twig Tree Beauty

I seriously think the above tree is beautiful.  I would like to tell you that I 100% made it.  But, that would be lying and that's wrong.  At least in this case.  I did have 100% good intentions with this tree.  Shawn made it.  I went over and helped cut twigs, picked off leaves and helped add some conversation.  She seriously did an awesome tree.  I love it and I want to leave it up year round.  I have taken so many pics of it-its sad.  I am sitting in my favorite spot in the girl palace.  Listening to good music and sippin some hot chocolate.  Watching this really cool spinning nativity mom brought me from Germany.  Thinking away.  Today was a pretty good day.  Had coffee with a friend.  Then I had a funny lunch.  Becky and Susalee voyaged over to West Ashley and we hit up the S&S Cafeteria.  I appreciate people who will dine at the caf.  For real.  Plus we threw off the age curve big time.  Then I went and looked at some property and headed to the grocery store.  I love going to the grocery store.  So I have been thinking a lot lately.  I want to go on an adventure.  Just throwing it out there.  I think 2011 is going to rock.  Just saying.  Sorry-I can't help it-here are some more pics of the tree:

I know you want one of these trees.  Too bad.... Is it totally bad if I really like the new Girl Talk cd?  No? Okay, great.  Do you want to know what I was thinking about?  Well I won't tell you all, but just a tid bit.  I feel like I always think about things that I want to do, but I never actually do them.  Not sure what I'm talking about?  Maybe this will help:
1-Go on an adventure. Somewhere like Africa or Jackson Hole.  Different worlds I know.  But an adventure in the same
2-Do something great.  For somebody else.  Still brainstorming.
3-I keep having these dreams where I am standing up under water. (don't judge people) Just standing there. Looking up at the sky. (Totally normal right?)  I consulted some dream wizards...Basically there may be some big event  + Some Holy Spirit.  I think I know exactly what it is.  But I am not divulging.  Saving it for later.
These are just a few of the things entertaining my thoughts today.  Got to go iron some clothes.  Bet you never thought you'd hear me say that....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEIDI!!

It is flipping freezing!!

Rat Palace..

Just kidding.  I would never call it a rat palace.  However, there used to be a few lil rodents calling the garage home.  Well not anymore my friends.  Not anymore.  I think we may actually be rat free.  So Thursday night Betsy and I set Victor (the handy rat trap).   We anxiously awaited through the night.  I woke up early and ran downstairs to the garage.  The green light was flashing.  Which meant we scored one.  I was doing totally fine.  Until I saw the tail.  Now I am a pretty tough person, but I just don't do rodents.  But clearly I was the only member of the Palace that would be willing to dispose of our lil friend.  So Betsy escorted me to the trash can and she managed to take a few pics.  I decided to set the trap again before I went to work.  Here is where I should add that I always thought rats only came out at night.  WRONG.  I came back to the garage 3 hours later.  Guess what?  The green light was a flashing.  So I made another disposal and set it a 3rd time.  Wahla.  Another one.  I can proudly say that I am now a rodent expert and we have gone 24 hours without another rodent.  I think we may have a clean slate here at the Girl Palace.

On another note.  I am retiring from red wine.  We have decided to go our separate ways.  For now.

I am also 70% done with my Christmas shopping.

This is Victor the rat trap

This is gross.  But I think its needed just to give a good visual.  Sorry.

Operation=Disposal/Gag

Christmas, caroling, flashing and rodents

Tonight was a good night.  It was our annual Huddle Christmas Party @ the Girl Palace.  So usually we all wear horrific Xmas sweaters.  This year we were supposed to wear our Christmas tree skirts (from your real tree).  Well basically all of the "older" women wore them while we younger gals sported the tacky sweaters.  The night was going pretty well.  Food was good.  Convos were good.  Then we decided to all pile into the bed of Eliza's truck and go caroling.  To Steve Wood's house.  So all was good.  We sang/mumbled a few songs.  Started talking.  Keep in mind there are like 15 people standing in his front yard.  Then Cheryl Hughes (mom of 3.  somewhere in the 40's range) decides to show off her lovely tree skirt outfit to the preacher man.  Well, just as she lifts her arms up-her skirt falls right around her ankles on the ground.  All that is left are fish net stockings and a slip. Thank God.  I have not laughed that hard in so long. She dropped her skirt in front of Steve.  And Jacqui.  No lie--HILARIOUS.  So after a good little laughing spurt, we decided to move our show over to the Long house.  Where we serenaded the Long family.  After our beautiful performance we headed back to the GP.  All in all, it was a good night.

On a side note, Betsy and I have decided to do a lil experiment.  I mentioned before that there are some rodents making a home up in the ceiling in the garage.  Well we have decided we are going after them. Tonight we set a trap in the garage (after testing it for ourselves..) and are anxiously awaiting the morning light to see if we have any success.  I will keep you updated on our progress....

Tomorrow is our office Christmas card picture...sure to have some good stories on that front...

Peace.

Betty gets a gun

(Please ignore the above HORRIBLE hair cut) Big news.  Betty is probably getting a concealed weapons permit.  And she is not going it alone.  Her weaponry class will include several super cool people from church.  A lil but of Steve Wood, Sherri Grady, Jacqui Wood, Rosemary Jr and some other folks.  Those are just a few.  Not going to lie-pretty pumped.  I love guns.  Not in a weird way..in a really cool way.  Needless to say, I am pretty pumped.  I'm sure I will have some good stories to tell.

Other news:

Only at the Girl Palace you can get locked out of your own room late at night.  No comment.

I re-organized the kitchen cabinets today.  Which means I unloaded every solitary thing out of every cabinet.  It was well worth it.

I bought a Magic Bullet. And I love it.

Thanks to Biz, I am now working on comprising a list of goals for 2011.  I think '11 could be a stellar year.  I will keep you posted.

Betty and Babies...

I have a confession.  It's been a little boring up in here with out Betty Bridesmaid.  So I am bringing her back.  Betty made a little visit to the baby factory yesterday.  Otherwise known as the hospital. Normally I do not set foot in these awful places, but I will do almost anything for the babies...Plus there seems to always be a party in the room.  And who doesn't love some good socializing while holding precious babies..You can just call me the baby whisperer....However, the birthing stories I have been hearing have completely freaked me out and may have cured me from ever expanding the human race...Moving on.  I think Hannah and Matt's baby has been one of the most anticipated arrivals ever.  Apparently Hannah's water broke at church...communion will do it to ya....pretty cool.  Henry is the sweetest little baby.  He kinda looks like a small burrito all nice and bundled up.  Let me just call it now- this kid is going to be cool.  And will probably be sporting a nice full beard on his 2 yr old bday.  It's in the genes people...Alright, I have to do a little more online shopping...

Peace, Love and Babies,
-Betty

Chrimus @ the Girl Palace

Christmas has hit the Girl Place like a ton of bricks.  And honestly, I am so so glad.  I went into a depression last night after the SEC championship and the holiday decor has yanked me out of it.  Not only did we decorate, but we cleaned out the garage.  Over the last year, the garage has collected many different peoples belongings, so we decided to have a purging of the the other people's things...(so if you are reading this and you had stuff in our garage...there is a large pile of "jane doeish" items ready to be picked up or they are going on the street...) My Christmas shopping is in full swing.  Hands down this is my favorite time of year.  I love holiday shopping. I purchased a "Magic Bullet" today.  For myself.  That's how it works.  Buy several presents for others.  Then one for me.  It's a pretty good system if you ask me.  I think Christmas 2010 is going to be a good one.  Just a little hunch.   Here are a few more pictures of the Girl Palace Christmasified...

I love Christmas ornaments and nutcrackers.  The above ornaments have all been given to me by cool people.  And I love them.  I am watching Prince Caspian right now. Is it wrong that I have a major crush on Peter?  Hope not, because I do.  So I have been thinking about a lot of things lately.  (Which is usually not good)  They are actually mindless things, so you can stop reading if you have better things to do.
-We have some unwanted animal visitors in the garage...
-I want to go to Africa
-I am bad at crafts
-I am scared of Africa
-I love my Wallabees in an unhealthy way.  And my guitar.
-My mom is in Germany.  By herself.  She's pretty cool.
-Hannah had her baby and he is bound to be awesome.
-I'm scared to go in the garage to do laundry bc of the unwanted visitors..
-I would like to live on a farm.  So any single farmers out there...holler at sister...(sorry, I don't normally write stuff like this, but I'm putting that one out there...)

This pretty much sums up my day.....Hope you had a good weekend.  Love you long time.

Glamour Shot

So I know this wrong, but I could not see this and not take a picture of it.  There I was, just going about my job, I turned the corner and this was looking me in the eye.  I burst out laughing.  Then I had to trick the home owners (so I could get a picture) and get them into a different room.  Come to find out there were a lot more portraits where this came from.  Sadly, I couldn't lure the people away....But I have to say that this one is my favorite one.  Who doesn't want a jacket like that?  (Biz how do you feel about a jacket like this instead of a satin dressing gown??)

Betty the fashionista is out.

Peace

I am going here.  One day.  Maybe soon.  Maybe in forever.  But bottom line- I am going here.

Fun Facts of the Day

Today was a very random slash interesting day.  I learned several things.  From other people.  Here is a little handful of facts that I discovered:

-Because my car/tank gets 12 miler per gallon, I am single handedly funding terrorist groups.  (This is most likely true. I have a good source)

-We are in desperate need of a train system here.  Without trains we are headed from 1st world country to 3rd world country (From the same good source)

-People in India do not in fact say Namaste while doing Yoga. (From the same good source. He is actually quite knowledgeable in these topics)

-You can buy an AK47 in Saudi Arabia for $50 (The source once again)

-If you are not sure what to get Biz for Christmas, I know what she wants. This is a direct quote. "You know those snuggly bathrobes?  I do not want one. I want a satin dressing gown."  I am holding off on the sarcastic comments that came a floating in my mind....I mean, what 26 year old doesn't want a satin dressing gown??  J/k Biz.  I love you:)

-Netflix is very addicting.

-Pregnant people are everywhere.

-Amazon.com is a blackhole for me.  Once there...I am down for the count.

-I got to meet the long lost Crouch Brother.  Hilarious.  For real.

So today I was pondering several things.  Some big, some little.  Some important, some not.  But I think 2011 is going to be an interesting year on several accounts.  Just saying.  I have some things/plans a brewin....

Hope all is well.

Peace.

PS-I have some awesome Xmas music going down over here...will share next time.