I saw Katie's top eight and i wanted to partake!

8 TV shows I watch:

1. Paula Deen's Home Cooking

2. Everyday Italian

3 Man vs. Food

4. Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern

5. The hills (guilty!)

6. Jon and Kate plus 8 (omg adore this how. i'm an only child and i recently realized that i watch it because i never knew how it felt to have brothers and sisters. this show enlightens me)

7. Sex & The City

8. Flight of the Conchords

8 favorite restaurants:

1. Jason's Deli

2. La Bodega (CS only yo)
3. Panera

4. Court of Two Sisters (New Orleans)

5. Gringo's

6. Cafe Express (hello, sweet potato fries)

7. IHOP (i just really, really love breakfast)

8. ANYWHERE that serves brunch.

8 things that happened yesterday:

1. I did good deeds and gave needy children christmas presents

2. I recorded breaks for my online radio station i DJ for

3. I worked a lot

4. I was still without phone and very anxious to get it back.

5. I hosted a party for one of my jobs and no one showed up (sad face)

6. I saw my roommte for the first time after a whole week!

7. I spoke to two police officers...

8. I rode in a taxi for the third time in my life!

8 things I'm looking forward to:

1. TNG 2008 (sad it only happens about once a year)

2. New Years Eve (best holiday ever)

3. 21st Birthday (Best birthday ever)

4. 2 year anniversary (this year he's planning it)

5. First semester A&M (i'm very proud)
6. Visit with my family at Christmas (we're hillarious)

7. The food that goes along with Christmas (Hello, honey glazed ham?)

8. Ski Trip 2009!!!!! (memories!)

8 things on my wish list:

See my wish list below! It's longer than eight, my bad.

8 things I love:

1. My dog, Bo Jackson

2. My dreamy man

3. My purse, Franny

4. My lovely mother and father

5. My beautiful friends! All 10 of them

6. My life (sorry, a little overzealous, but it's pretty swell)

7. Christmas Decorations/ Snow

8. W hotel in New Orleans

8 things i can't stand :

1. When other people are sick (I feel like i can never really help enough)

2. Putting too many entrees on my plate of life

3. Lemon on anything other than in my water

4. Ugly furniture

5. Voicemails

6. Gweneth Paltrow/ Renee Zelweger(sp?) ((they are equally unstandable)

7. Hot, Hot weather.

8. Repeat Callers (if i didn't answer the first time, i obviously can't get to my phone)

That last eight group is a little bitchy! Yikes. Re-read the 8 things i love, so you don't have a bad taste in your mouth.

Christmas Wish List 2k8

As i'm sitting here at work, i remembered that i told numerous people that i would put together a wish list of thing i'd like to receive for Christmas. Now, i do not expect to get anything on this list. These are just things that, if someone would be interested in buying me, would be greatly appreciated. I wish for:


Decemeber 23rd to last long into the night. I miss TNG a great deal and I wish we could all hang out more often.

Hot chocolate kisses (not the hershey's kisses!) I love hot chocolate and i love my man. The combination of the two could be immediate fatality.


More snow. That is a tough one to get. Although, i have seen those snow machines on movies. Perhaps i could rent one for Texas again. I'm sure i would not be the only one who is grateful.

A santa suit for Bo Jackson. He does not prefer to get dressed up, but i saw an exceptionally adorable santa outfit for pups his size. I think he would really like it.

Black boots. I'm particular about boots, but i did see a pair of dream boots somewhere in the Galleria. I didn't check the price because sometimes i get my hopes let down.

My great grandmother's banana pudding. This might also be near impossible seeing as she is sun bathing in heaven. I might look into getting the recipe from my grandma. That would bea great present.

A hot stone massage. I got one two years ago on Christma break and it was fantastic. I've been super busy with work and i'd love to have a pamper-me-lauren day. I don't like facials. sick. The thought of someone rubbing my face with ther oily hands gives me the heebee jeebee's (sp?). No thank you masseuse.

Something cute with a&m on it. I might be a 2 percenter but i recently to accepted to the university and i'd like to have some kind of proof. A key chain? A wine glass? I don't really care.

Incubus' new DVD. I saw a preview for it and it looks really, really good. I have their other DVD, live at Red Rocks and it is phenominal. I know their next one could be just as good.

A wine lover's subscription. Where they send you a new bottle of wine every month? I love wine and i'm pretty sure it would the best day ever to get a new bottle every month. I'll countdown the days until the next month.

Heath bars. 'Nough said.

A Jason's Deli gift certificate. If i could. i'd go there every day toeat lunch. Their brocolit and cheese soup is to die for. And their chicken panini. AND FREE ICE CREAM. seriously y'all, that place is awesome. I recently saw that chipotle has 500 dollar gift certificates, and i'm crossing my fingers that Jason's Deli can hold that much money as well.

Ski clothes. I'm going skiing the week after new years and i really really need ski pants and mittens. I haven't even began looking yet. I love cold clothes and cute colors. Green would be a great color to look into. Oh, and beanies. I have a few but you can never have enough.

Pick at your own risk

I've been noticing a terrible, horrible fad catching on. Everywhere. Not just around where I live. I mean EVERYWHERE. Being caught is humiliating and I am unsure why people insists to pick... their noses.

Honestly, I get in my car, and I always check around me because I consider myself a good driver. I check out the car in front of or beside me, or driving along next to me on the highway, and I always seem to catch men and women digging for gold up their shnoz (sp?).

Do these people think they can't be seen!?! You are picking your nose in a giant fish bowl.

EVERYONE CAN SEE YOU!

And it's the worst when say, this man I saw was talking on the phone while he was picking away. Imagine the person on the other line. Say, it is his girlfriend. She's on the other line, "aww, I love you so much too," and he's picking his nose. You can not honestly say you love someone when you have your entire figure up your nose!!!


So, in conclusion, don't do it. It's not safe and it's not sanitary and it could be a quick trip to the hospital if you get in an accident.


P.s. while on the topic of what I see when I drive, this almost tops that rant. I was on my way to my 9 a.m class the other day and looked over to see a man with his windows down in his cadilac escalade. He had a business suit on, tie and all, and a nice watch and even a wedding ring. And I tell you what, he was not puffing on a cigarette....
Shorty was getting hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh on his way to work!

Pain Is Beauty

If you don't know this about me, it may be very shocking. So shocking, in fact, that you might have to stop reading right now. What I'm about to say is rare and I don't really like to admit....


I am so blind that I am above and beyond helpless without my glasses or contacts. For example, if my spectacles fall off of my side table (i.e. I brush them off in an angry fit of being half asleep, I kick my sheets so wildly they knock them off, etc.), I have no other option than to call for help. Sometimes the boyfriend makes jokes, and it is not very funny to me, seeing as he has close to perfect vision (opposites attract anyone??). I am completely and utterly useless with these eyes the good Lord bestowed me. Kid you not people, if my cell phone is ringing, and my coke bottles aren't attached to my face, I can not read my screen until about three inches from my face.


I'll let you soak that one in...





So this is my point. I recently got cuter than average specs. These are hot. Mama bought them for me and I love love LOVE them! I feel very sophistique (new word?) in them.
The downfall = I have zero depth perception in them.

I am that girl with no depth perception while wearing my eye glasses. Do not follow me when I go down stairs, for it takes me at least 3 minutes (a long time for one flight, I might add). When I drive, I am doubly careful because I honestly can not tell how close the car is in front of me. Not to mention they always slide down my face so I am constantly pushing them up. But regardless, I wanted to brag about my cute glasses, even if I am having incredibly poor issues with them.

plain? me?

The other day I was walking in target. Minding my own business, I could not decide which lane i wanted to walk down. So I am reading each description of each lane and a young man ran right into me. We did the weird dance, I tried to go left and so did he, He tried to go right and so did I, and finally I stopped and he went around, his girlfriend following a few feet in tow.

30 minutes later (if you can not tell, i adore target and could shop around for hours there) I was walking down a different, larger lane. I see the couple that passed me earlier. Seeing as I do not know either of these people, I smile but keep walking. I would have stopped and chit chatted, asked what they were looking for, but I wasn't in any mood to converse.

About the time they are just walking past me, I hear the girlfriend (they were holding hands) ask "do you think she's pretty?"


and this reponse...... not in any kind of hushed tone whatsoever...

"i think she's kind of plain looking."




Seriously now. I'm not posting this because I think he was absurd is saying I am plain looking. I need to share this because of the blatant tone of their voices. I could clearly hear them as they were passing four feet away. And her insecurities were practically screaming louder since she had to ask her boyfriend if she is better looking.


And for the record, neither of them were attractive at all. They were very frumpy, and a little on the chubbier side. Quite short too. Sucks to their assmar.

Virgin Blogger

Greetings from my place of work. Stumbling across Kelly's blog spot, I could not resist getting hooked onto yet another branch of the wonderful world wide web. I'll start with basics.

My name is Lauren (L-A-U-R-E-N. Pronounced Lour-ynn. If you pronounce it "Larn" or "Law-ryn" i will murder you.)
((unless your name is kelly, and Larn is perfectly fine))

I love ice cream.

Currently, and for the next three weeks, I am living with my parents in my hometown and working with my best friend. The company her and I work for sells products such as barns, storage sheds, buildings, hottubs, spas, saunas and above ground pools. Being a secretary that takes every call to the office, I daily listen to at least ten different stories about how angry he or she is that her hottub is not properly working (and i COMPLETELY understand the frustration, seeing as the end of the world is 2012 and a spa is a necessity these days). Other than looking forward to five o'clock every day, I do my daily duties and find things to do. Blogging is a calling.

I also love acovados, and if I could, I would add them onto any meal.

I will be moving back to the town I have lived in for the past two years. I'm moving in with a great friend of mine and her little sister.

Red onions. They mean business. No kissing, but for sure delicious business.

I want to sell pharmacy drugs to doctors as a living. And wear fabulous business outfits and very high stilettos. I love shoes.

I firmly believe that brunch is the quite possibly one of the best meal ideas taken in effect. Much better than "fourthmeal" ::insert copywrite symbol::

I have a great boyfriend who treats me very well. We laugh about the same things. He is the most handsome thing that Texas has ever bore. To quote the great 311, "Seeing you is like praying with my eyes." I'm in love.

I. Love. Food.