Category Archives: Women

A Night of Empowerment!!

Good evening!

You know what? This may TOTALLY JUST BE MY RAGING HORMONES SPEAKING, but…

I usually take a lot of crap in my daily life and normally that is ok with me! There are a lot of perks to the life that I have created for myself, but tonight I have just HAD IT!!!

I AM SO SICK OF PEOPLE TAKING PIECES OF MY POWER!!
MY JOY!!! MY BLISS!!!

Tonight, even if it is for just one night only – I am TAKING MY POWER BACK!!! I will let all of you who need some of it borrow it tomorrow, but tonight IT IS MINE!!!

I am not your mother,
your slave,
your lackey,
your sugar momma,
your door mat,
your alarm clock,
your personal secretary,
your gofer-girl,
your Prozac, I’m not!
So get your crap together
and get outta my way honey!!
Because tonight, I am SOOOOOO TAKING THE NIGHT OFF!!!
I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR!!!!

WHEW!! Ok, thanks, I just REALLY had to get that out of my system!!! but I feel much better now!!! Sorry, I know that that rant may have seemed to come out of left field, but I have been letting my power be spread a little too thin amongst my circle, and it is leaving me unhappy, and angry – but REALLY??? It is my own fault, I am the one who lets my power be “loaned” out, and I haven’t been doing too much to make sure that it comes back to me! I am going to have to seriously work on that!!!

So all of you out there, you know who you are – I love you, but tonight I am taking care of MYSELF!!! Trust me, tomorrow I am sure you will thank me for it!!!!

Have a FABULOUS evening! 🙂

Outfit of the Day!

Good morning!

After not posting an outfit of the day for the past few days, on of my favorite aunties reminded me that I HAD TO GET IT OUT THERE!!! Well, because of timing and how long it takes to get pictures ready to post, I usually post my outfit from the day before. However, because I didn’t take a picture yesterday, so I will have to pull one from last week:

Dress: Lane Bryant
Cardigan: Torrid
Belt: Torrid
Shoes: Payless

This was the outfit that I wore on Valentine’s day! Even though that was just last Monday, I have been so busy that last Monday feels like eons ago!! LOL! It took a lot of courage to get out of the house in this dress. First, it’s a dress, which I don’t wear many of these out of the house without either leggings or pants underneath them. Second, I was worried that it was too tight or to busty!! Looking back now, I think that I may have been being silly – it took me a little while, but I soon felt very comfortable in this outfit!! Anyway, I would LOVE to hear your thoughts!!!

I am going to finish getting ready for work today, but I have to tell you, now that I have signed up for belly dancing classes starting in March, my attitude about work has kind of changed. This “job” facilitates me being able to take this class, which I think will help  me grow my courage muscles, not to mention BE A LOT OF FUN!!! YEAH!!! It is AMAZING to me how perspective colors your outlook on life!!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS day!!! 😉

Getting Out of the Doldrums!

Good evening!

You may not know this, but my life has gotten to be in a little bit of a rut! Doing the same thing every day, day in and day out! Get up, go to work, come home, eat, watch tv, go to bed, get up, go to work…well, I think you can see what I am talking about!

I have just this moment made the decision to look into taking a dance class!! Matter of fact……………………….

TIC-TOC
TIC-TOC
TIC-TOC

I just made a call to one of the local dance studios, and I am making arrangements to get into the beginning belly dancing class that starts at the beginning of March. It is an 11 week class, and it is going to cost me about $9 per class!!! YEAH!!! Now, the hard part will be going – but HONEY, I have got to do something crazy to build my courage muscles and get out there and be brave enough to be me!!!

Wow!! Now, that I have had a chance to think about what I have just done, I am going to have to REALLY get my bravery muscles out!!! I know it will be a BLAST!!! I love the idea of idea of feeling comfortable in my own skin, and learning how to move and undulate with grace and confidence. Plus the idea, that I will be doing something outrageous for just myself is rather exciting!!! Plus to be able to say that I did something scary, is motivating and I know that if I can do this, I can do ANYTHING!!! PLUS – I think that this will be a fun way to get exercise and get in a little better shape!! I can’t wait until classes start!!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS evening!!! 😉

Just a Saturday!

Good evening!

Today has just been a plain old Saturday. Not good, not bad just plain!! I have been sitting here trying to think of something witty, or fun, or interesting to talk about, but I got nothing. I think they call this writer’s block!

I am a little sad today, or maybe just hormonal. My best friend is on her way back to Arizona today, and I am just praying that her and our niece get back safely.

I have been crying pretty non-stop, but not all sad tears, which is why I think I am just a raging hormone at the moment! Commercials, television shows, just thinking – cry, cry, cry!!! Happy – cry! Sad – cry! Funny – cry! Emotional roller coasters are draining!!! LOL!!!

My husband and I have been hanging out at the house today, watching movies, and literally doing much of anything!! How sad is that!!!  I am watching an old Shirley Temple movie, I am not sure which one, but one of the women in this movie is inspiring me to roll my hair in curlers this evening!!! Maybe, I will take pics and post this for you! 😉

My husband just came home from the grocery store and offered me ice cream for dinner – HAHAHA! I turned him down, but that just shows you what kind of a lazy kinda day we’ve been having!!! I think it was just time to have one of those kind of  Saturdays!!! I hope you get the opportunity to have one of these kind of days too!!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!! 🙂

Another Outfit of the Day!

Good morning!!

After many false starts this week, it is ACTUALLY Friday!!! YEAH!!! I am sooooo glad!!! Not to say that I am not going to have to work this weekend, but at least I don’t HAVE to unless I WANT to!! (How else am I going to get a handle on my workload right now???) Anyway, I can feel it in my bones that today is going to be a VERY GOOD day!!! 😉

Do you like my pic??? I decided that I really needed a red-lip day!!! Nothing bad could ever happen while you have on your red lips!!! LOL!!

I have been trying to post a different outfit everyday, and I want to say thank you for all of the feedback I have been getting on my these outfits. It is one thing to think that you look a certain way in your mirror, shocking to see what you actually look like in a photograph, and encouraging to hear what you look like, and how you can JAZZ it up from people who can stand back and look at you through new eyes. So again, I thank you!!!! 😉

Here is today’s outfit of the day:

Cardigan: Torrid
Tank: Lane Bryant
Pants: Catherine’s
Shoes: UHM… I don’t remember
Glasses: Vogue
Earrings: Claire’s
Bracelets: Torrid

Just looking at this picture, I can really tell that I am cross between my mother and father!! Dad’s build, mom’s arms, dad’s face/smile (except for the makeup!), mom’s attitude!! 😉 I can also see, looking at this picture, that I really dress for comfort, and style may be a secondary after thought, which is funny, because I have always thought that I have had a classic kind of look. Forgive the walking shoes – I wear these a lot, seeing that I work at a hospital and I have to be able to get a round as quickly as possible, at the drop of a hat. Hmmmm…any thoughts on the rest of the outfit?? 😉

Well, last evening I had the opportunity to take a couple of pics of Jason and I with Alex and the kids, and I wanted to share a couple of them with you this morning!!

This is our nephew, Christopher, my Sweetie, Jason, and our niece, Victoria!! It was the last photo of the day, and Chris HATES getting his picture taken and both Jason and V were sick, soooooo all-in-all, I think it is a pretty cute pic!!! Don’t they all look sweet? Don’t let them fool you – they are all lil’ stinkers!!! LOL!! 😉

This is my sis, Alex, and myself! I think this may be the BEST picture I have of the two of us!!! She’s my girrrrrl!!! I love you sissy!!!

As I zip off to work…

Have a FABULOUS day!!! 😉

Dinner at the Manse!

Good evening!

Ok, so it wasn’t exactly at the manse, it was a condo, but it was dinner, and it was dinner with FAMILY!!! Family means so much to me, I hope that anyone who has ever read my blog knows that about me!! SO WHEN ARE YOU ALL MOVING TO SALEM ALREADY????? Anyway, I digress. Jason made his KILLER barbecue chicken legs, which are simply DELECTABLE!!! I can’t believe he braved this freezing weather to stand outside and cook over the grill!!! HE IS SUCH A GOOD MAN!!!

He is also a SICK man! Him, and most of the rest of my family have a NASTY bug that is causing them to cough, and hack, and snarf, and snot, and sneeze! It is a SYMPHONY of DISGUSTINGNESS!!! I think the only reason I haven’t caught the bug is that I have just been TOO DAMN BUSY to hold still long enough to catch the little bugger!! THANK GOODNESS!!! Anyway, even though he is feeling a little under the weather, he did a FABULOUS job cooking all of us dinner!! You always know that he has done a good job whenever our nephew, Christopher – AKA the word’s pickiest eater – eats 2nds – I think tonight, he might have had 3rds!! THAT HUBBY-O-MINE MAY DESERVE A TROPHY!!! 😉

Tonight I also got to do something that was A LOT of fun, and that was help my sissy, build her blog!!! I do have her address, but it is not finished being built yet! When it done, and she gives me the thumbs up – I am going to share it with all of you!!! 😉 She is such an amazing and joyful person!! She is one of those people that you can just stand in her presence and  she makes you feel, just by being there, one of the most important people in the world!! What a blessing she has been to me and my husband!!! She moves to Arizona in two days, and I wish and her kiddos ALL THE VERY BEST!!! I can’t wait until we have out first girls’ weekend get together in California!! I can guarantee you right now, it is not going to be SOON ENOUGH!!! I love sissy!!!! 😉

As I am blogging this evening, Jason is busy cleaning up the kitchen, and I am loudly serenading him with one of my many, self-composed creations!!! A talent that I am pretty sure that most of you never even knew that I had!! Well, ok “talent” might be a bit of a stretch, but singing silly little ditties that I make up on the spot in the style of a lounge singer is one of my many past times! Great timeless songs such as “The lady in the Turban On the Toilet In Tinsel Town”, or “I’m Tired”. Tonight I composed a new little number called “I Get No Love From You”, which basically means – “HEY, PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!! I AM NEEDY!!! LOOK AT ME!!” Ok, so my “talent” may actually mean I need to see a psychotherapist, but it makes my hubby smile, and isn’t that all that matters!?!?!?! LOL!!!! 😉

Ok, with that silliness out of the way, I am off to go get ready for bed!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!!! 😉

Outfit of the Day!

Good morning!!!

Ok, I woke up this morning TOTALLY believing it was Friday!! So I started be-bopping through my morning routine, getting ready for work, when all of the sudden it dawns on me – IT IS THURSDAY!!! BOOO! HISSSSS! HAHAHA! 😉 Oh, well! I still now TODAY is going to be a GREAT day!!!

My sis, Alex is coming over this evening – I forgot to ask if we are swimming, I will have to check in with her!!! Anyway, she is leaving for Arizona Saturday morning – I need to soak up her presence, so I can keep some of her joy with me her in Oregon!!! 😉

Speaking of Oregon, what the heck is going on with the weather???? Yesterday, it was sunny, then rainy, then sunny, then it was hailing SO HARD that it actually looked like there was an inch of snow on the ground!!! WHAT?!?!?!? I heard from someone in the main hospital building that you could see it hailing out of the north side of the building, but it was just grey out of the south side – IT WASN’T HAILING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING??? How creepy is that!?! LOL!!! I am not sure how to dress to be prepared today, so I have just done the best I could to be ready for ANYTHING!!!

Talking about getting dressed…I wanted to share my outfit of the day. To be honest with you, this outfit was actually one I wore a couple of days ago, I will share today’s outfit tomorrow!! If I try to do it all in one morning, I find that I am just running around like a crazy person and I don’t have as much posting! So here is the outfit of the day:

Top: GoodWill
Pants: Lane Bryant
Shoes: Payless Shoes
Bag: Ross Dress
Bracelet: Torrid

I got such great feedback yesterday, I would LOVE to hear your thoughts again today!! I know this outfit is rather simple, but I think it is cute, and I feel good in it!! but any ideas to spice it up, or mix it up, would be GREATLY appreciated!!!

Also, on a side note: I have heard that today is Random Act of Kindness Day!! So, I am going to have to keep that in mind and look for some extra Random acts that I might be able to surprise people with today!!! What might you do??? If you feel like sharing, please let me know in the comment section above!

Have a FABULOUS day!! 😉

An InStyle Evening!

Good evening!

I have had such a better day than I have had in quite a few weeks! What does that mean? As you probably know, work has been SUPER-CRAZY-WHAT-THE-HELL-IS-GOING-ON-AROUND-HERE-??? for probably the past 6 weeks!! but today our entire team rallied together to work through any and all issues that we had, and took a HUGE chunk out of all of the problems we were having!!! WHEEEEEEW!!

So, on the way home tonight, I decided to break my moratorium and purchased a magazine! EEEEEK! It wasn’t just ANY magazine, it was INSTYLE!!!!

THE MAGAZINE OF ALL MAGAZINES!!!

Did you see the heavens open up and hear the angels start to sing? Ah-Ah-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! 😉 This is the magazine that causes me to drool over every outfit, every hair-do, every made up face!!! Oh how I wish I could have one of these stylists show me how to put my random clothing pieces together!!! I would LOVE to be able to walk out my front door looking tres chic at a moments notice!!!! I will have no choice, but I will have to PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!!!

Anyway, I have a lot of catching up to do in my personal life!! I have been working so many crazy hours, that I am not sure how my sweetie even knows what I look like any more!! 😉 My sis, Alex is moving in 2 FREAKIN’ DAYS!!!! I have got to get my booty over there and see her!!! My house is SPOTLESS – except for my office, which has kind of gotten the brunt of my negligence, and I have got to get crackin’ on getting that straightened again!!! Reading has gone by the wayside, but I am planning on starting a new book tonight called, The Best Year of Your Life, so that should be at least a good start! and I haven’t called my family in weeks!! I need to make sure I reach out and touch someone!! HEE! HEE!! 😉

Oh, and I am dreaming of taking a REALLY SA-WHEET vacation with my sweetie!!! I am not sure where yet, but I am thinking someplace, quiet, cozy, and romantic!! I deserve it for all the CRAZY work I have been doing, and Jason deserves it for being my rock and support!!! Ok, off to plan, and dream, and sleep, and dream some more!!

Have a FABULOUS evening!! 😉

Look of the Day!

Good morning!

I wanted to do something a little different today, shocking – I know!! 😉 I have a ton of clothes and I am experimenting putting different pieces together, and thought it might be helpful to get some feedback for you!!! So, today I have published my outfit for the day. Please let me know what you think in the comment section above. I LOOOOOOVE hearing from you!!!

Dress: Walmart
Jacket: Torrid

I am off to go to work and I am DETERMINED to have a GREAT day!!! Thank God for friends!!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS day!! 😉
~Christina

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Flapper Friday!!

Good morning!

Can you feel it in the air??? It’s not only Friday – it is FLAPPER FRIDAY!!! A day where I am going to borrow some of the crazy, zany, and SPECTACULARLY FUN spirit of the FLAPPERS!!!!

Tonight my niece, Megan, is coming over for Auntie Night!!! When we get together, we always plan on doing

ALL THINGS GIRLY,

because she lives with 3 BROTHERS!!! She is funny because she has recently started to complain to me that all they ever do now is “boy stuff”! HAHAHA! So AUNTIE DAY TODAY IT IS!!! 😉

We may…

Get all DOLLED UP!!!

Take a few photos!!

Go out on the town!

Do some dancing!!!

Share secrets!

Or maybe we will just hang out and look FABULOUS!!!

I can’t wait!! Whatever we do, I KNOW we will have FUN!!! I love you, Miss Megan!!! 😉

Have a FABULOUS day!!