SNOW!

Here is a picture of the snow falling outside of my office:

It started coming down pretty heavy right after I got to work. Then it stopped. Then it started again. Then it turned more to sleet. Now it's snowing again. I guess even snow in Texas falls into the typical weather patterns. I've spent most of the morning staring out the window just watching it. I'm not sure what's more entrancing... snow or curling. It's a toss-up. And right now I'm watching both!

We've been trying to convince the boss-man that we need to declare today a snow-day, but so far, no luck. Maybe I'll have better luck this afternoon. Because I mean really, there's no point in it snowing if I don't get to go home and curl up on the couch. Nevermind that I have to work tonight at BBW... I'd just enjoy a few hours off from work!

She's crafty...

DAR State Conference is in a couple of weeks. One of my jobs as the State Chairman of the Outstanding Junior Member Contest is to attain 2 corsages to be presented to the State Winner and State Runner-Up on the Thursday evening of the conference. There are two stipulations for these corsages: they must be silk flowers, and they must be yellow roses. Okay, the second might not necessarily be a stipulation, but I've only ever seen yellow roses as the corsage in my 10 years of DAR.

The previous chairman went to Michael's and had them make the corsages. I was out running errands yesterday and decided I should go ahead and get this taken care of, since it will be March 11 before we know it. I stopped by my neighborhood Michael's and was completely unimpressed in their floral selection and their lack of staff to assist. I decided to give Hobby Lobby a try today on my lunch break. While I was looking for someone to assist me in the floral section, I came across an aisle that had everything you needed to make your very own corsages. Of course, they seem to only think that people use silk corsages for WEDDINGS (which I have seen done well, but none of the displays were of that calibur)... but that's another story.
I gathered everything I needed and it came out to a grand total of $17.07, that's way cheaper than I thought ordering the corsages would be! I brought everything back to the office and in less than 30 minutes, this is what I made (the pen is for proportion reference):



I have to admit, I'm kind of impressed with myself! Who knew I could be so crafty?

Valentine's Day

This past weekend was Valentine's Day, and my parents did something they haven't done for me since my CHILDHOOD... they sent me flowers! Originally, the flowers were scheduled to be delivered to the Capitol on Friday, but I wasn't at work. Not sure what happened with the delivery since no one in my office ever saw it, but the flowers showed up on my doorstep Monday night. Very bizarre. But flowers, are flowers... no matter when they show up!

Of course, since they arrived I have remembered why it's a good thing no one ever sends me flowers.... Smokey finds them VERY tasty. She started chomping on them before I could even get them fully arranged in a vase. I first put them on top of a book case that is out of her reach, but she is determined. Last night I caught her several times jumping up onto the shelf below and trying to get her fat booty on the next level. Instead of sacrificing my book case, I had to resort to putting my flowers here....

Snow!

I went home to Lufkin on Friday for a funeral (my cousin's grandmother), and I got to witness beautiful SNOW! It NEVER snows in East Texas, and it was so pretty to see while driving. From College Station to Lufkin, there was snow everywhere. The Davy Crockett National Forrest was absolutely beautiful with snow-covered trees. Of course, when I drove back to Austin on Saturday, the snow was gone. And my car got gross from the slosh on the road, but it was due for a nice wash anyways. Here's some pictures of our house with snow, there had been more in the morning, but I didn't have time to walk around and take pictures before the funeral.

Frightening statistic and strange news...

Carolyn found a news article last week that said some pretty scary stuff! A recent study shows that by age of 30, women have cycled through 90% of their eggs. Nice. Though the discovery of that information doesn't really set my biological clock ticking, guess that has to do with the fact that my mom was 34 when she had Jay and me. But I just thought I would share that with all of you in case you wanted to be freaked out!

In other strange news, a man was arrested yesterday in Massachusetts after shoving 75 full-sized bottles of lotion down his pants at a Bath and Body Works. Given my extensive knowledge of BBW products, I can't even begin to imagine how big those pants had to be AND how heavy it must have been to walk! I would have loved to witness that, though. If someone started shoving bottles of lotion down their pants, you would have to notice pretty quickly...