Happy belated Easter! Hope everyone had a great & relaxing weekend. Friday evening I spent 3-1/2 hours grocery shopping (we had no food left in the house, y’all. It was that or make an Australian Shepherd burrito). Have you ever spent 3-1/2 hours grocery shopping the Friday before Easter? Do yourself a favor and DON’T. I was nearly mauled by a woman pushing a shopping cart heaped full of bananas. Yeah, just bananas. Either she has a potassium deficiency or she was making the world’s largest banana pudding.
Saturday I spent the day painting faces at an Easter day camp, & Saturday night we went bowling with 2 of our friends. I hadn’t been bowling in YEARS and I am not proud of my score; my husband however showed his true colors & bowled a 175 (his true colors being he’s amazing at all sports and oh yeah, cannot lose at anything, EVER). Corlene bowled really well too, which sort of blew us away. In the first place, she had been opposed to going bowling, and had claimed to be bad at it… and yet she kept getting strikes & spares. Something wasn’t adding up. Then we figured out there’s a different kind of bowling in Canada & it’s way harder (something about 5 pins & a smaller ball), so she’s basically been trained to bowl under much harder circumstances. Give her a regular size ball and throw 5 more pins down & she’s a bowling Olympian. Later that night she & I watched Steel Magnolias for the nine millionth time, and spent the rest of the weekend quoting it (“Clairee! Are you high?!,” “He is a boil on the butt of humanity,” etc). Sunday morning we went to church, & Sunday afternoon we did NOTHING which was the best part of the whole weekend. For dinner we made salmon & rice & for dessert I made chocolate-covered strawberries. Overall, a wonderful weekend, I just wish there was more of it. Totally not ready to face this week.
Some new things have happened since I last posted. I have new hair:
I went much much blonder, got my layers redone, & had her cut chunkier bangs. I had meant to have side-swept bangs, per usual, but since she went a little shorter with them, I discovered I can also wear them straight across, which I love look-wise but somehow always feel like something is tickling my eyebrows. So far I’ve only worn them like this once, but we’ll see how it goes.
And I’m almost done with the Shred (Wednesday is my LAST DAY!).
Jen (at Pearls & Politics) sent me the cutest Easter gift in the history of mankind (check out her etsy store!):
Note: Jen has the BEST handwriting! It’s worth ordering something just to see it! There are few things as wonderful as lovely penmanship. Or maybe that’s just the English major/nerd in me.
Sunday morning, an amazing woman at church (who was wearing the cutest necklace/headband) came up to me & said “I read your blog & I want to give you my barely used KitchenAid mixer.” Um, EXCUSE ME? I kind of started hyperventilating. It’s been on my list of things I want for FOREVER, & to tell you the truth I haven’t been able to stop talking about it since she told me. I guess this whole blog thing is really starting to pay off. Oh look, good things can come from being absolutely crazy & writing about it on the internet. Anyway, hi Stephanie! Thanks for being so generous & making my year (!!!).
Michael has chosen a school (well, we’re 99.99% sure), & I don’t want to say where exactly, but we will be STAYING IN TEXAS (hallelujah)… we’ll just be going East. Way East. We’ll be living in a small town & to be perfectly honest, I was terrified to begin with. I was all I CAN’T LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. Then I remembered: Um, Lauren, you grew up in The Middle of Nowhere, and when you were 13 your parents moved you out even MORE to the Middle of Nowhere, and when you were 18 you went away for a year to a town that had maybe 12 people living in it, and then you went to college in a town where people go to Wal-Mart for fun because there’s nothing better to do. So yeah, I should be used to it by now. I’m really a country girl at heart, & now that we’re moving forward with this decision, I’m actually getting excited about living in a small town & doing small-town things. And of course, blogging about it, while sitting on my back porch (assuming/hoping I have a back porch) & sipping sweet tea.
After all, sweet tea is “the house wine of the South!”
Emily Jane says:
Your new hair is STUNNING! I love everything about it. And congrats on the new plan – it must be such a relief, and I’m excited to hear about your new adventures (and maybe be SLIGHTLY envious of your new back porch lol)
RootsAndRings says:
Why does Leia have to be the burrito?? Pancho is the Mexican.
I bruise my thumb when I bowl. So I don’t do it. But good for you for practicing the ultimate white trash sport… you’re all ready for east Texas!
Marlena says:
Thinking about east Texas schools….b/c really, we’re already in East Texas. SOUTHEAST BABY! You’re already small-town, ya dork! I say that with love. :) Are you guys going to move back here post graduate school completion?
Also, love the hair. I’m still in the witness protection program until I locate someone with adequate skills. That doesn’t cost a fortune.
Katherine says:
That mixer will come in handy when you are bored because you live in the middle of nowhere! Very Pioneer Woman, hahaha. Lo0o0ove you!
P.s. Sister, you are hott.
Kristina | Pretty Shiny Sparkly says:
That’s it. We simply have to meet before you LEAVE htown forever! :) the hair looks great! I got mine done on Saturday!
Tabaitha says:
Love the new haircut!
East Texas peaks my curiosity.
So cool about the new Kitchenaid Mixer.
Blair@HeirtoBlair says:
You look GORG. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORG.
Happy Easter! mwuah.
Kathleen says:
Okay, Chelsea’s comment is hilarious, because east Texas really is hick. Anyway, I wish I could get bangs to look like that. Mine just hang there limply and get greasy.
Karen says:
My first time commenting, but I really love your blog! Your hair looks totally cute!
Samantha says:
I love your new hair; it fits you perfectly.(Although, someone as gorgeous as you could probably pull off any sort of hairstyle!)
I look forward to hearing where you two will be moving. I bet you’re glad to at least be staying in your state!
Sweet tea is the best. I might be slightly addicted to it. :)
legalstyle says:
Your new hair looks fabulous! And AMAZING about the unsolicited easter present… that’s amazing. My blog got me my summer job, so, um, yeah, good things CAN come to crazy girls who write about themselves on the internet. Good life lesson right there.
I’m excited to read about your upcoming adventures. What is Michael going to school for? Did I miss this?
Lindsay
Victoria says:
I LOVE your hair!!! It looks AMAZING!
That is awesome that someone was so generous and is giving you their Kitchen Aid mixer :)
I was watching Julie & Julia after work and I just kept on thinking of you lol
lobster killer! ;-)
tillie says:
LOVE LOVE LOVE your new hair do! It’s so awesome! I’m excited y’all will be staying in town…I miss the middle-of-nowhere living…though I can’t seem to bring myself to move there :)
Suburban Sweetheart says:
Glad (for you) that you’ll be staying in Texas. Such a relief to know where you’ll be going!
And I love the hair. Bangs take a little while to get used to in terms of eyebrow tickling. Totally normal. But it looks great!
Jill says:
Your hair looks A-MAZING (in the words of Rachel Zoe!) seriously Lauren, you could be a model, you do know that right?! Awesome.
As long as you have high-speed Internet, you will survive. My parents live in the middle of nowhere, where there is no Walmart, and they don’t have high speed. Slow and painful death, I’m telling you…
sarah says:
“There’s no such thing as natural beauty…”
That was my way of saying that I love the new hair.
(and congrats on the mixer!)
And for the record “I don’t like her. I don’t trust anyone who does their own hair. I don’t think it’s natural. “
Cio says:
in thirty years i’m PRETTY sure, you’ll still look amazing (like Clairee) And I’m going to look exactly like Ouiser (only darker,but just as cranky)
“Honey, time marches on and eventually you realize it is marchin’ across your face.”
(Truvy was always the wise one lol)
Also, your bangs are hot…no no ..your HAIR is hot.
I wish I could pull that off.
You go girl! ; )
Erin says:
You look beautiful, what else is new! Also, totally excited at the thought of a MOVE but I only wish it was to EAST FLORIDA! Luub ew!
Karen says:
Your new hair looks amazing!
And good luck with the move! I’m happy for you that you get to stay in Texas.
jenferlouise says:
First of all, you are gaw-geous, dah-ling. Love the new hair ‘do. I’m too chicken to get bangs that short. But I heart them on you!
Thanks for the shout out! :) I’m glad to see they made it to you without being flower petals!
Good luck on the move! Small towns aren’t so bad. That’s all we have here in West Virginia! .. And they’re beautiful. (Well, most of them.)
Rachel says:
I love your hair! It’s real summery looking. I have a Kitchen Aid Mixer and I love love love it. Get the attachment package. You’ll be making things you didn’t think people actually made at home anymore.
Kristin says:
Love the hair – cannot wait for your review on the Shred! I started it 5 days ago.
Corlene says:
It’s not that I was completely opposed to bowling. It’s just the idea of wearing shoes shared by thousands of other people and then throwing a heavy ball that you think is going to break your fingers as soon as you let go multiple times (also shared by thousands of people). It just doesn’t sit well with me. Especially after seeing how they so call “sanitize” those things. However, I did end up with a pretty nice score and it was fun to hang out with good friends. (I mean, my only friends =)
All I can say (after this short story) is…in a good shoe, I wear a size six, but a seven feels so good, I buy a size eight.
Stephanie says:
Hey, I made YOUR blog! You are very brave for bragging about my generosity before I even give it to you. Oh wait a minute, maybe you bragged about my generosity to insure I WOULD give it to you. You want me to follow through with my promise eh? You may be a country girl but you are still smart.
Nora says:
Sounds like a lovely Easter Weekend! Can’t wait to hear where you’re headed on the next adventure & journye. Will have to send you a housewarming gift for the new place and come visit at some point so we can do the homemade tacos & margarita thing :)
steph anne says:
I love your hair! I wish I looked that good with bangs. There are some days where I wish we lived in the country with a house in the middle of nowhere and a white fence all around. :)
Kyla Roma says:
Yes! Lauren that is beyond fantastic news about where you’ll be living! I hope the showings are going well and this transition moves smoothly and quickly- I can’t wait to hear about your new life!
And Your hair is beautiful- you’re so photogenic! I hope you had a wonderful time at your easter fair, but if they’re handing out kitchen aid mixers to you I kinda think that the happy hyperventilating is a good indicator =)
Heather says:
We might be hair twins. Love the bangs!!
Lauren says:
I love you with bangs!
Brittney says:
Have I mentioned I love you? You’re all terribly adorable but never stuck up. <3