I think I’m going to go with the chocolate brown duvet with the green sheets…more classic and soothing feel.

Now I’m trying to decide which bed to get.  I was originally going to get a bed from Ikea, but after thinking for awhile, I have decided against it. I love Ikea, but I want to make my bedroom be very comfortable and relaxing, so I’m going to splurge on some nice sheets/new down comforter/mattress/pillows/etc. So having all these nice things on an Ikea bed seems a little off.

So I have narrowed down my bed search (I think…still somewhat looking). Which looks like it would go better with the chocolate/green color scheme? Which one looks more classic?

I decided this weekend that my apartment is dull. I never put anything up/take time to decorate. It’s not that I don’t like wall art/pictures/etc, it’s just that I don’t know what looks good. But I figured it’s time to start making my apartment look more like a home. So I have some random questions about which you prefer.

1) Plastic shower curtain or fabric curtain?

2) Couch with matching chair or couch with an accent chair?

3) Big piece of wall art above the couch or smaller pieces of art or a shelf with pictures/candles/decorative items?

4) Wall art above the fireplace or a mirror?

5) Wall art above the bed or shelves with decorative items/etc?

And then which bed ensemble do you like? I currently have brown sheets and a blue duvet cover…ready for a change. I thought I wanted a duvet cover with a design, and I found two “beachy” type designs that I liked. Then I turned the corner and saw a really nice chocolate duvet cover that has a bit of texture with a nice green sheet/quilt ensemble. I’m trying to get a bit more “grown up” in the sense that I’m going to start buying things that I can use in the future…so no more outrageous colors, etc. I’m torn between the first picture and the chocolate/green ensemble. I think the chocolate/green will be a nice classic look, but I don’t know. Sheesh, I need a decorator.

So Gigi was in desperate need of a haircut, and more importantly, her nails trimmed. I decided to try a new place after reading good reviews…Bark ‘n Bubbles. They asked me what kind of cut I wanted, and I told them just to cut it around the face and ears and maybe cut it so that it wouldn’t get so tangly.

Well, I came back to get Gigi and I swear to goodness that I didn’t even recognize her!! I laughed all the way back home. I’m not sure what I think just yet, but she sure does look different. Who knew she had eyes and ears!!! And you can finally see how skinny she is. She’s no longer a ball of hair.

Before:

Gigi after:

Haha…I still can’t stop laughing when I see her. I’m sure she’s glad to have all that hair gone, if only for awhile, but she almost looks naked. Poor baby!!

I have a wedding to go to this weekend. One thing I hate about weddings is deciding what to wear. I’m always so worried that I will show up in the same dress as another guest. How embarrassing would that be? So I’m now trying to decide what dress to wear. I got this super cute dress on sale for $20 at New York and Company yesterday.

I really wanted to buy the wedges that matched the blue color (on sale for $10!!), but they didn’t have my size. Today I tried Highland Mall and Lakeline Mall (Barton Creek Mall was yesterday), and my size is nowhere to be found. They are out of the blue color online, too so that sucks. The one thing I don’t like about the dress is that it is kind of flowy, so I don’t want anyone thinking I’m preggers. You can’t tell from this picture – I’m sure they have some of the material clipped in the back. But it does have pockets – I love pockets!

But anywho…I really want to wear this dress but am so afraid that another guest will have it on. So now I’m thinking of sticking to my black halter dress from Old Navy that I bought a couple of months ago. It is a nice linen material, so nothing fancy. It looks like this, but solid black:

I figured I could find some wedges to wear with it, so as to keep it casual. I dunno what to do. Which dress do y’all recommend?

On Saturday morning I was at Old Navy, wasting time before meeting up for a movie. It was $1 flip flop day, and you would think that flip flops were gold or something. People were scavengers. Sheesh. Some lady came up to me, speaking Spanish. I hate when people do that. Just because my skin is brown, I have dark brown hair, and I have a ghetto booty, does not mean I speak Spanish. I understood what she was saying though. She was way over the 5 flip flop limit so she wanted me to stand in line with her money and get some for her. I did. But then I wanted my own flip flops, so I just went to another line. I don’t understand why the lady just didn’t do that. Oh well. But seriously, people need to stop coming up to me, asking me questions in espanol.

I guess I should brush up on my espanol in preparation for the wedding in October. I bought my plane ticket and hotel room on orbitz yesterday. Total cost of flight and hotel = $952. Ouch. This is going to be an expensive wedding. The hotel isn’t all-inclusive, so that doesn’t include food, drinks, or activities – and a bunch of us for sure want to go on a canopy tour/zip line. So I’ll be gone from October 23rd-October 27th.

Last week I went to the dermatologist for help with my face. I keep getting this painful bumps (the make up artist called them cysts rather than pimples) on my chin. They pop up every couple of weeks, last for a week, and then leave marks on my face. I also wanted help in reducing the red spots left on my face. And I also noticed that my face has been getting dark patches, particularly along my upper lip – YUCK! So…the doctor said the dark patches was something call melasma (a combination of hormones and the sun). She said that if I kept taking the pill then it wouldn’t really fade. She ended up prescribing me three medicines – a morning cream, a night cream, and an oral pill. She warned me that the morning cream would dry up my face so to use a moisturizer. Holy sheesh, my face is peeling like crap! She asked if I got pimples on my chest and/or back, and I told her not usually, but if so it was usually after sweating but that I would use my body wash and they would go away. Well, ever since taking her prescribed medicines, my back has been breaking out…but not the small bumps that I get after sweating. These are huge red welps on my back. They are painful! We’ll have to see how these medicines work. I have a follow-up appointment in August. Meanwhile, I took myself off the pill. I have no love life, and there’s really no reason for me to keep taking it – plus it was doing weird things to my body/hormones. This will give the prescribed medicine a chance to work without any interference. I’m sure y’all didn’t care for this info.

Last night I had to play a softball game in the crazy storm that came in. For as long as I have ever played softball (which dates back to my t-ball days), we stopped playing at the first sight of lightning. However, our ump last night didn’t seem to care. It was pouring cats and dogs, lightning filling the sky, and there I was holding a metal bat. Ridiculous. Needless to say, I was pissed at 10:00 when the game finally ended. I was drenched in rain water, covered in mud, and freezing cold. I better not get sick!

Okay, I have sufficiently bored you.

Alrighty, I’m going to watch Atonement, and then later (maybe tomorrow) I’ll try to post reviews of movies I have watched lately.

Toodles!