How I Met The New Guy-or Why Mom's Always Right....

OK ladies...one of you asked me who The New Guy is and how he came to be. I'll try to tell this story in a coherent manner.

When my Mom was young-about 16 or 17-she kept New Guy in the church nursery at our church (then First Baptist in our town - kind of funny, we went to 2nd Baptist for about 13 years and switched back to 1st Baptist in about 2003 - w/ the exception of my Mom, who is now another demonination then the rest of my family {and yes, that bugs me a little bit}). So, my whole family knows New Guys family from church originally. His family also switched churches and goes to another Baptist Church in a bigger town close by, so we don't go to the same church anymore.

Add to that, my whole life his Dad has been my dentist.

SO, about a year and a half ago I go in to get some fillings and the New Guy is now working in his Dad's office (which would be temporary as he moved to another state after this). He did some work on my teeth and I thought we were flirting :-). Of course, I told my Mom about the flirting and told her how ADORABLE I thought he was.

About six months after that my Mom and I were having lunch w/ her friend. She said "Tell us again what you said about your dentist" so I said how I think he's so cute and seems like he has a good personality too. Well, my Mom was making me say that because (unknown to me) her friend is New Guys cousin. We all had a laugh about me thinking he's cute and finished lunch.

I didn't really think much more about him. As you who read my blog know, I've dated a few other pple this year, and they've come and gone...

SO this year in about October when I was dating Older Guy (who my Mom was NOT a fan of), New Guy (I also call him Dentist) is back from another state and working in his Dad's practice again. My Mom and her friend get to talking and decide to set me and him up on a date now that he's back in SC.

I was still seeing Older Guy and I was NOT game for a MOM setup. I don't like setups anyways (people that don't even know me try to set me up. W/out me even indicating that I would be interested in a set up!). As all of you recall, Older Guy turned out to be way too argumentative for this laid back belle, so that bit the dust. My Mom insisted that I would really like the Dentist and have fun w/ him. So, I gave in and said OK and her friend (his cousin) gave him my #.

We've been out about five times and so far I REALLY LIKE HIM!!!

Recently he had a birthday and I had NO idea what to do about it. Once again, Mom was right. She said to send something little to his work as a surprise. She says guys LOVE to get a surprise in the mail at work. I did as she said...just sent a small something (silly banz of his favorite team). Guess what? He really liked the surprise!! :-) So, Thanks MOM!!

So, I like him a lot and I'll keep you all posted!!

XOXO
Gamecock Queen

Busy Busy...

I've been SO BUSY!! I have not had time to go to the grocery store in two weeks (which has been just great for my diet), much less give any attention to my blog. I've done some exciting stuff...more dates w/ the new guy (I call him Dentist, that's what he is), seeing Trans Siberian Orchestra in concert (they were amazing, go if you ever get the chance), and helping one of my work friend's daughter with her high school pageant. The pageant was last night.

Let me tell you, this pageant has been as much work as if I was in it myself! And somehow even more stressful. I just want so much for this girl. She is the nicest, prettiest, most wholesome and respectful teenager. I've been trying to help this girl w/ her walk, stage presence, interview, etc. A, my roommate and also a former pageant queen, has been helping her as well. We did her hair for her interview and pageant together and it turned out really well...we're a team!

This is the shirt I bedazzled for her for her opening number. I think it turned out pretty good. It was a Lady Gaga theme pageant. Let me add that I don't have a Bedazzler (maybe Santa should bring me one!). I use E600 glue and glue these suckers (rhinestones) on one at a time by hand!
The pageant was last night and the results were dissapointing to us all. Don't get me wrong, I'm very PROUD. My friend's daughter is a beautiful girl and she looked gorgeous. She is a smart, athletic, and accomplished young woman. She was just nervous and not on her A-game. This was only her second pageant.

Losing has happened to us all. I am all too familiar w/ the feeling of standing there (heart pounding, sweaty palms) waiting for your name to be called only to get nothing. Nothing after LOTS of hours of hard work preparing. We've all hard our fair share of losing, I know that. It was still hard to see her get so dissapointed though. I think it may have actually been worse to see her get dissapointed than if I'd been up there myself.

Today is her birthday and when I spoke to her on the phone after she got out of school today she was already feeling much better. She was excited about a date w/ her boyfriend tonight. Her boyfriend is the cutest high school boyfriend ever and SUCH a sweet guy.

This is me rocking my sign last night!


I'll update more later...and fill yall in on Dentist!! I got a sweet text last night asking how the pageant went...aww!!

XOXO
Gamecock Queen

Thanksgiving 2010

I love this time of year and I'm super excited to be traveling home to upstate SC tomorrow to celebrate Thanksgiving with my family!! And Thankful to be doing so!!
I was thinking after my last post about engagements and happened accross this at Tiffanys. Don't you just LOVE?? I love it!!
Naturally I am beyond pumped about the USC v. Clemson game on Saturday!! Last year (34-17) was AMAZING!! I would love a repeat of that!! In all honesty, we can have a losing season and then beat Clemson and I'll be as happy as a clam. Being from upstate SC, which is deep Tiger country, and growing up around Clemson football instilled a real dislike for the Tigers in me (plus I am a USC grad). As far as I go, this is the most exciting game of the year. GO GAMECOCKS!!
As usually it goes, the guy I'm talking to currently (recent development for those of you who follow my blog) is a Clemson grad and a HUGE Clemson fan. It seems like I ALWAYS end up seeing people who are big time Clemson fans. I don't know how it works out that way, but it always does! I think it's kind of funny. I've been invited to tailgate w/ him and his family Saturday for the big game so I'll let everyone know how that goes!!

Hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving!!
XOXO
Gamecock Queen

Engagements, OH My!!!!

Anyone that knows me knows I LOVE Jessica Simpson. We're both from Texas, both have July birthdays, and both love big hair! I think she is STUNNING. She is so so pretty. So you can imagine my excitment when I was laying in my bed (with Trinket, of course) on Sunday night watching E! and it came accross the screen that she was engaged.

I'm not crazy about the engagement ring. I love rubies (my birthstone) so I think what turns me off is the yellow gold. What do you think?
I LOVED her engagement ring from Nick. It's gorgeous. That's the kind of ring I dream of! LOL In all seriousness, I sort of can't even imagine being married. I've had two long term relationships (one for about five years, one on and off in my teens and then again with the same person more recently), but I just can't imagine FOREVER. It's kind of scary!

AND even MORE engagements!! When I was a little girl I told my babysitter that I wanted to marry Prince William when I grew up because I wanted to ride horses through the English countryside all the time. I think Kate is very chic.
I'm looking forward to seeing what their wedding will be like!

Happy Tuesday!
XOXO
Gamecock Queen

The Older Guy....

Ladies, thank you SO much for the helpful suggestions on my weight loss!!! I'm so ready to shed this pesky 10 pounds. I did yoga last night, which feels like a day at the spa compared to the treadmill! Ha! Tonight I'm doing 45 minutes of cardio (treadmill or elliptical, whichever is free) and then free weights (arms).

SO, The Older Guy. As you might remember I met a very handsome older man early this fall when my school played Southern Miss in football. We had some great dates, and then started seeing each other regulary for about six weeks.

As will happen when you spend time w/ someone I noticed a few annoying tendencies. However, they weren't too terribly irritating and I dealt w/ it. I REALLY honestly tried to give this one a chance. Often I am way too quick to find something annoying or just something (sometimes even something petty) that I dislike about a guy and set him free early on. In the past I've done this because I was still sooo in love w/ my ex that I dated on again/off again for years {my Mr. Big}.

The annoying habit that I picked up on about this Handsome Older Man was that he was argumentative. He would get on a tangent, or stuck on a topic, and just NOT LET IT GO!!

Example: We're riding in the car w/ my BFF A, a mutual friend of all of ours, and obviously, me and Handsome Older Guy. I mention something about having to run by a pet store to get Trinket's food. He launches into a lecture on pet food. I assure him that Trinket eats high quality food. He then proceeds to argue w/ me that I need to read the ingredients and he "gaurantees there's corn in her food"...Umm, no I feed Trinket Blue Buffalo dog food which is corn, soy, and wheat free because she has allergies. There is a BIG badge on the food advertising that it is corn, soy, and wheat free. He just kept talking right over me and wouldn't listen to anything I was saying.

Another time I asked him nicely to please stop touching me because I didn't feel well. He wasn't having it. I might as well have not said anything at all, because he wasn't going to respect my wishes. ANNOYING!!

The kicker was Halloween weekend. He went out w/ me and my friends as part of our KISS group. Afterwards everyone was at my house. Trinket hates him and has already bitten him. The day she bit him, he tried to pick her up. I TOLD him, several times, giving him plenty of warning, NOT to pick her up and that she would bite him. He woudn't listen and picked her up. She got terrified and bit him. So, on Halloween when he was over Trinket was barking, because obviously now she's super scared of him. In front of everyone, he started in on me about Trinket. How she misbehaves, how she's not socialized. He was saying she's so bad because I don't have her around other dogs. I tried to explain to him that I DO have her around other dogs and she's NOT unsocial, she is just afraid of him because he picked her up, totally ignoring that she was terrified.

Company was just sitting there stunned during all of this. A went to her room and shut the door because she couldn't take another second of arguing.

HE WOULD NOT LET IT GO!!! SO, that HAD to be The End of him!!! I can't stand argumentativeness like that!! I'm a laid back girl and I can agree to disagree. However, you can't agree to disagree w/ a person like him that wants to beat a point to death. THE END. I'll spare you the detials, but he wasn't too pleased about our relationship ending. Yikes!

Hope you all found that amusing!!
XOXO
Gamecock Queen

Body Post

As those of you that read my blog regualry know, I've been trying to lose about 10 pounds since August. I saw some pics of myself at a concert, and I wasn't too pleased! It's only about ten pounds, but I can really tell in my FACE and upper body. My legs and stomach are still OK.

So far I've stayed at 150 (I was horrified to hit 150, it's the most I've EVER EVER weighed). It's good that I haven't put on more, but bad that I haven't lost any weight even though I've been trying.

Some history about my weight. Growing up I was teeny tiny. Little stick arms and legs. Both my parents are little, small boned, and skinny. Growing up I played sports, lived on a farm, and ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I never gained any weight and was like this until I was in my mid-twenties.
Around 2008 I had gained a little bit of weight from college (living in the dorms, eating fast food a lot), but not much. After college graduation I was doing pageants and lived off a pretty strict diet and exercised A LOT. I was in GREAT shape. I think I was around 135 here, which is pretty small for someone almost 6 ft tall. I know realistically that this is probably too much work to maintain w/ the lifestyle (work schedule, social obligations) I have now, and I'm OK w/ that.
Fastforward to present day. I've aged out of pageants. They were A LOT of fun and I wouldn't trade my experiences and memories for anything. That being said, I don't miss them all that much! ALL that WORK! Not just for me, but they were stressful for my Mom and dear sweet roommate (who basically got snookered into being my "stage mom" for years). I've had so much more time and money for fun stuff...concerts, trips (to places I want to go, not b/c I'm in a pageant there), more free time...BUT I've gained 10 lbs.

This summer I enjoyed the occasional beer by the pool, ate pretty much whatever I wanted, and was burnt out on the gym so I didn't go all that much. 10 lbs creeped on before I knew it!

Now, I understand 10 pounds is NOT a lot. NOT really even worth being so upset about. And in fact, I wouldn't even be upset except for two things. I don't like feeling like my face is bigger AND so many of my clothes are tight!!

Right now I really wouldn't even say I'm FAT. I know I'm not. I may not be teeny tiny Gisele sized like I once was, but I'm still pretty fit and toned. I'm just BIGGER, kind of like Brooke Hogan. I'm OK w/ it, really.

EXCEPT for the clothing issue! I have put A LOT of my income into my clothes. Add to that I don't make as much $ I used to make, so I don't have as much to spend on my wardrobe as I once did. I also have a car payment now, whereas I drove a car that was paid off for years. Over time I've bought some really nice clothes. $200 Paige Demin jeans that I LOVED are now so tight they are like sausage casing. I can wear them, but they cut into me so much that it's uncomfortable. I can't afford to spend that kind of money on clothes anymore, so understandably, I want to lose this weight and wear the clothes I already have and NOT have to spend $ replacing them. :-[

This is SO frustrating! Last week I went to the gym 5 out of 7 days. I'm going to try to go as much as I can this week as well, although I'm going out of town on Friday. This week I plan on:

Monday (today): spinning
Tuesday: zumba
Wednesday: yoga
Thursday: 30 minutes cardio, about 20 lifting weights

I'm also trying to eat less and I'm NOT buying sweets and treats at the grocery store. I'll keep you posted as to when some of this comes off!!

I welcome any suggestions!! 10 pounds seems to be impossible to shed! I want to get back to 140 so bad I can't stand it.

XOXO
Gamecock Queen

Halloween Recap ~ "You Wanted The Best..."

"...You Got The Best!!!" For those of you that ARENT big KISS fans like I am, that is how KISS opens their shows. I'm a big KISS fan and my friends and I were KISS for Halloween this year! I'll be honest and say that I'm still in touch w/ my inner 14 year old girl and I LOVE the movie Detroit Rock City (which is a movie about KISS, again for those who aren't fans). Just give me a stuffed animal from middle school to curl up with, some popcorn, and I will watch Detroit Rock City ANYTIME!!

I was Peter Criss, the drum player. He's the one that sings "Beth" and sounds a little like Rod Stewart.
**Look carefully and you'll see Michael Meyers in the picture as well**

The makeup is somewhat hard to do. I have a lot of experience doing stage makeup from my pageant days so it wasn't that hard, but it wasn't exactly easy either. I did "Gene Simmons" makeup for him and it was much easier to do a KISS face on someone else as opposed to on yourself.

As you can see in the picture A made "sexyface" all night long. The real Paul Stanley makes this face all the time too. She's a ham!

People LOVE Kiss. Everywhere we went we got a lot of attention! I think we are cursed when it comes to boots and Halloween. Last year I was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader and my boot broke. This year A wore black boots and HER boot broke!

I've got a lot going on at work so I'll cut this short for now.

Coming soon: What caused THE END of me and The Hot Older Guy.

XOXO
Gamecock Queen