Dress Dilemma

Okay, so here's the dilemma. Which dress should I keep? I have to go to a party for Tony's school being finished and it is formal -- like cocktail party formal. So... the black dress is crinolin, strapless, with little black peekaboo netting underneath. It was $60, really $120 but I got it half off because it was on the wrong rack, so I had to get it tonight to get that price.

This is the other dress. It is red/pink-ish and can be worn with or without the straps. It was $40 at H&M. The fabric is a thick cotton with a lining underneath and you can see the satin trim on it too. If I wore it to this party I would wear it without the straps.

Some extra notes that add to my dilemma. Part of me leans toward the red dress because it is cheaper and I have more occasions to wear it to down the road. It can be dressed down or up. I feel like with the black one I have to wait for the special occasion to come up to wear it to. And I'm thinking that down the road when something special comes up I will be able to afford to go out and get something at that point. Wondering if I should save my money now??

Anyone have an opinion?

Hallelujah!

I submitted my final draft of the research paper today. He told me to reduce my use of pronouns and then it would be an "A" paper. So I went through and fixed that and just sent it in. It's a good day. :)

I have one last project to turn in. I finished most of it at work today. That will be turned in on Saturday! Hopefully life will return to normal soon.

By the way... Sunday is my exciting Celtic Woman Concert that I have been waiting for since September. See my post on September 15th of last year. :) My friend Bethany is as excited about it as I am, so we are going together. Tony was more than happy to oblige... and now it works out great because he's leaving for Florida Sunday morning anyway.

Another week gone by... Time for an update!

Update on Paper: 23 pages right now. I'm hoping to wrap it up today so that I can send the rough draft in for feedback. Once that gets sent in I have to start on my portfolio that is due on Saturday. I'm probably about a third of the way through it.

Update on Life: We'll be looking for cheap plane tickets for Tony to get down to Florida. He is ready for the in-office interview. So... we should find out date options today and then Tony will decide what works for him. Please pray that we can find reasonable tickets for this trip. It is basically a 24 hour trip... fly down Sunday evening, spend a full day at the clinic and then fly out Monday evening.

Here are a couple Easter pictures: She was a cutie, but much too busy to get her picture taken! We tried...

Wow... it's been a week since I blogged anything! Time is really flying by. Which at the moment, is not such a good thing. If I'm lucky, I may have a moment to blog some Easter pics... but more than likely you may not hear from me for awhile. I graduate on May 1. Grades are due April 23. Somewhere in between there, I need to write a 25 page action research paper. The topic I have chosen is: The effect of symbolic gesturing on language development with infants. So basically, how does infant sign language affect normal speech development. Fortunately, I don't have to do the actual research, I just have to write everything else. Why did I put this off? No idea. I blinked and all of a sudden it is April. AHHH!!!

So I'm doing a small bit of freaking out currently... Thankfully, Ruthie has offered her babysitting services. And Tony is being very helpful as well. So one way or another I'll get this thing done. I may not have any hair by the end, but that's the least of my concerns! :)

American Idol -- Sanjaya Craziness

Just came across this link today. What a devoted person this is to tally up states population to determine a plan to get Sanjaya off American Idol. Click on this link to check out her page.

http://www.voteagainsttheworst.com/

Maybe, just maybe it will work tonight. We can only hope...

1 year pictures!

More Chatter

Sorry, I haven't posted pictures lately because I have temporarily lost the battery charger to our digital camera. I think I actually put it back where it belongs and can't remember where that spot is. :) AHHH!!! Anyway... pictures will be returning sooner than later, hopefully. We had a good weekend. I went to a few yard sales on Saturday morning and found a bunch of maternity clothes! (NO, I'm not hinting at anything!) Maternity clothes are just so expensive, so when I find cute ones for 50 cents & $1 I just have to get them. And surprisingly, Tony understood my logic on this one. Normally he is not a fan of me buying things that we have to store. :) That was really the only thing I got -- had to head home early to help our friends move. Jason and Jen (Kaiya is at their house when I am at work) moved into a house this weekend! They were so excited to get in a bigger place. And it worked out perfect because Sherry (Kaiya's babysitter) watched AJ & Kaiya at my house so that we could move without having to worry about them getting in the way. :) I got home in time to play with Kaiya a little bit before bedtime and then just chilled the rest of the night. I think Tony & I fell asleep at 9:30. :)

Sunday was a good day too. Kaiya played a great April Fool's Day joke on me. While I was getting her into her carseat I let her hold my keys. Once she was buckled in, I grabbed the keys from her and tossed them into the front seat. I shut her door and went to open my door and *GASP* the door is locked. She had locked the car w/ the remote buttons. My cell phone inside the car, my keys inside the car, my BABY inside the car. Fortunately, my neighbors were still home and I was able to call Tony. Only I tried like 6 times and he didn't answer. He was on his way to a seminar at school. I got ahold of Ruthie and had her try Tony's phone. I was afraid he wasn't picking up because he didn't recognize my neighbor's number. Ruthie got him and he came home to rescue us!

I had a productive day after church. I visited with a friend I hadn't seen in about a year, went to Trader Joe's, got Kaiya down for her nap and headed outside to work in the yard. I was able to pot a couple planters for Ruthie and then attempt to plant some petunia & allysum seeds that I bought. I haven't ever planted from seeds before, so we'll see if they grow. :) But for 10 cents a packet I don't have much to lose if they don't come up. After that I had time to mow about 3/4 of the front yard before Kaiya woke up from her nap. We went for a walk through the cemetary next door -- which I know is weird, but it has the perfect balance of hill & straight and nice paved path for the stroller. And it's really quiet. :) After Tony got home we convinced him to take us to the park and had such a good time. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera, but Kaiya was so wide-eyed and giggly the entire time. She loved watching the big kids, going on the swing with Daddy, and the merry-go-round with Mama. It was great. I think it was just as much fun for Tony and I seeing Kaiya so happy.

We have made it halfway through the cleanse. And I'm happy to report that I am wearing one of the pairs of pants that I couldn't get on last Sunday. I've also lost 7 lbs! So I'm glad that I decided to do this with Tony. It's been a great exercise in self-control and discipline that I really needed. And I really do feel better. I was able to go without make-up several days last week (I think because of my skin looking better and glowing a bit more because of my healthy body). But I forgot to ask Tony about that. Anyway, one more week of veggies and fruits and then we will add a small portion of meat for the third week. Oh! And I thought this was neat -- Tony has discovered that he really likes sweet potatoes! I made some oven-baked sweet potato fries and he seasoned them with southwest & cajun seasonings and LOVED them. He said even when this is done he wants those instead of the normal potato wedges we have. :) So that has been fun to learn something new & healthy that he likes.