Basketball and the Camera

On Wednesday, my boss offered a co-worker and I tickets to a Houston Rocket's Basketball game! The game started at 7:30...we we're finished with work at 6:30, and waited for her husband to email the tickets to us and at 7:00 we rushed downtown!

I texted my basketball-fanatic-cousin James saying "Yao and I are at the Toyota Center" - I thought I was hilarious!

Here are some pictures:


Yao playing offense (??)


Just call me "photographer of the year"


This is how big Yao is: look at his legs/feet/body compared to everyone else!

It was a fun game...The Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings 94 to 82. Oh, and we rushed down town...ran into the game, not wanting to miss anything and...but our seats were on the 4th floor, 3 rows from the top...our view, without my 10x zoom, REALLY looked more like this:



Either way, it was totally fun and my first Houston Rockets experience!!!

What Not To Wear...

I love this show! Alot. And I regularly think about whether or not Stacy and Clinton would approve of a given outfit.

But sometimes I think...do people really dress in their suggestions to "go to the grocery store"? Seems to me like jeans are OK to wear to the grocery store! And can't a girl just wear sweatpants or pajama pants sometimes!?!

Also, I have been "Rediscovering" things in my closet that I haven't worn in a while...and its pretty fun b/c ppl think it is something I just bought!

Works for Me Wednesday...

I have been meaning to post about this for a while but I keep forgetting to write it up on a Wednesday (b/c I wanted it to be a "works for me Wednesday" post)...and today is perfect b/c it pushes those horrible pictures down lower on my page! ahh!

okay, my friend TRICIA (who should start a blog) taught me this...


I use a wrinkle free eye cream every night, now, in my twenties...all the way around…lid too!...the theory is: if we keep the delicate skin around our eyes moist now, then it will be harder for wrinkles to develop later...I don't know if there is scientific proof or anything, but it seems to make sense and its definitely not going to hurt!

I chose Burt's Bees eye cream with pomegranate because I like the smell of it when I go to bed! :)

Recipes

My easiest, tastiest meal EVER is: Meat Loaf with Yummy Green Beans!

I used to hate Meat Loaf (when my mom made it - with this recipe)...but when I found out how easy it is to make...now I love it!

Meat Loaf - serves 6-8
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef
1 chopped onion (I use dried)
10-12 oz tomato sauce
3/4-1 c. dry oatmeal

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine all above ingredients together and shape into loaf. Top with remaining tomato sauce. Bake at 375 for 45 min-1 hour-- or until firm and cooked through.


Yummy Beans in crock pot
2 cans cut green beans- drain one
1 can pinto beans drained
2 beef bullion

Pour into cockpot, set on low, go to work (6 or 8 hours), come home and eat!

Thats it...and its Yummy and both are super easy! :) happy cooking...cant wait to try all the new recipes...Thanks for doing this Ash!

4th Picture

I was tagged by Amber at "Here's the Deal"...

This actually ended up being a little difficult for me...my 4th folder was "family" and then the 4th folder in there was "garrett prom"...but there was NO 4th picture (only 3)!!

So...I clicked the FIRST folder which was labeled "2007" then went to the 4th folder which was "Hives" and this was the 4th picture:



Pretty awful, huh?!

I almost didn’t post it, because I was so embarrassed!

But I decided I could explain it:

By the end of this workday, I was really itchy and my eyes were so irritated...so I came home, took out my contacts and laid down for a nap...and woke up SOO hot and itchy...

I was on the phone with my dad trying to explain what I looked like but he was acting like it was no big deal...so I started taking pictures...

I don't know if these even illustrate HOW itchy and hot and irritated I was...it was like I couldn't sit still but when I moved I itched more...I couldn't get comfortable!! I think I missed 3 1/2 days of work...










(some of the pictures that showed how awful it was was my stomach, but yeah right that I am going to show that on the internet!)

I had HIVES! ...and I don't know what from...

Six days later, some steroid shots from the doctor, oral steroids, lots of oatmeal baths and lots of anti-itch lotion...it finally cleared up! :) The end.

oh, and on that Thursday, I *thought* I was "well" enough to go to this great bible study that I had gone to once, (the week before)...I wore long pants and a three quarter length shirt, so there was no splotches showing and I had really hadn't been itchy in a while but about half way through the bible study...I swelled up and got real splotchy and itchy :(

also, on that Friday night, I *thought* I was "well" enough to go out on a date...wow...that was horrible...at the end of the night, I told him not to think of my as "Crazy Itchy Girl" - guess what...there was no second date!! oh well!

I tag: Mel, Jaci, Missy and Jen Chi!
1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.
2) Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3) Explain the picture.
4) Tag 4 people to do the same.
No cheating (cropping, editing, etc.)

A Tale of Two Brown Shoes

Once upon a time, I bought these shoes:



in high school for like $5 from Kohl's...i loved them and wore the ALOT! I am sure I wore them in college plenty too. But I hadn't really worn them since I moved to Kingwood, so the other day, when I needed brown shoes, I decided to pull them out and dust them off...

Imagine my surprise when they "BLEW OUT" in Target!! I actually didn't notice until my toes felt abnormally cold...then I looked down and was totally surprised so see:





These shoes, didn't just rip a little...There wasn't just one hole...It's like the ENTIRE shoe just ripped apart!! I was on the other side of town when this happened...OOPS! oh well! Sometime you should try to walk with only one piece of your shoe holding it onto your foot! Its pretty hilarious, I was cracking up while I was walking all by myself through the apartment parking lot!

Before I threw them away, I did spend some time acting like this:



(and maybe even making it burp some too! haha!)

Don't worry, for Christmas I asked for new brown shoes...err, boots...and got these:



I LOVE THEM! :) and have worn them almost everyday since Christmas!!

Did anyone see Mike Leach on 60 minutes?

click here to see it:
Mike Leach: The Mad Scientist of Football

...kinda an odd guy...
...such a fabulous football coach...
...i'm glad he's a red raider!

p.s. doesn't "embed" mean to copy the video onto something else (e.g., a blog)? obviously i was doing it wrong, b/c i wanted the video to show up right here!