late to the party

I am not going to claim I have the best taste in music. In fact many would say it is terrible. It's filled with lots of pop ( I love me some B. Spears) and rap (the hit throw it in the bag anyone??). I go as far as to say Ignition (remix) by R. Kelly is my favorite song. It is. If you have not heard it you must have been living under a rock or if you don't like it, I question your taste in other things in life as well. All this aside, I have now listened to the new Kanye album and its mucho bueno. I also purchased the Nicki Minaj album and it is also good. So for what my musical suggestions are worth, I would recommend purchases these musical items from ITunes or Napster, whatever the kids are using these days. This new music is making my never ending work excel project be slightly more bearable. I should mention I have been staring at this excel project since early December. Who knew excel went up to 40,000 lines. I do know and I really hope my self-imposed timeline of having it done before Feb. is over will be realized. Happy Jamming!

Hot Mess

Girlfriend you have been looking a hot mess lately. Divorce is not suiting you. Get some sleep and dress less skanky. You are still a good singer.

xoxo,

Taylor

Happy Valentines

Hope all my bloggy friends, holler I'm up to 13, have/had a wonderful Valentines day. I got to spend it with this precious baby nugget.

This, my blogging friends, in my baby friend Avery and she is the best. She belongs to my friends Annie and David and she has pretty much stolen everyone's heart who has met her. David jokes that my friend Debika and I are are fan club and it's pretty much accurate. What can we say, we love her and it doesn't hurt that she is so freaking cute. And in case you were wondering, yes that is her real hair, not a baby toupee.

125

125 was the number of books I was trying to read last year. I decided about mid-March that this was going to be a goal and I tried my best but ended the year at 87 books. Not to shabby if I do say so myself. I am not going to say they were all the highest quality of reading but I read them all. Well I didn't finish Oprah by Kitty Kelley but I still counted it. I figured having read 200 of the pages was the amount of a regular book so I gave myself credit. That and as much as I enjoy Oprah her life was not excited enough to me for this long of a book to have been written. If you need recommendations on books let me know since I have read a fair amount.

Looking over my list from last year here are my Top 5 or just 5 I wish to recommend.

1) The Hunger Games series. Technically this consists of 3 books but I am including them as one line item because you will read them so quickly. Sure these books are targeted at teens but I was a huge fan and loved them. Please rush out and get them

2) The Help. I am not reinventing the wheel by recommending this book but I read it in one day so clearly I enjoyed it. I plan on rereading it again this year before the movie comes out.

3) 12 Mighty Orphans. My friend JA told me about this book because he knows my love of a true sports book. This is a really great story about a football team of orphans. Run out and get it ASAP. You will not be disappointed.

4) Devil in the White City. Another true story set in Chicago during the world's fair. Very interesting and taught me a bit about a time in history that I did not know a lot about

5) The Summer we Read Gatsby. Lighthearted read. Differently for the ladies, so sorry to my one reader JC, you might not want to read this one, or The Help for that matter. A good easy well written read about life and finding love.

This year I will continue on my reading challenge and have settled in on the number 100 for the year. That seems like a reasonable amount especially considering how much I have going on. As of today I have read 6. If you have any recommendations on books I should read, comment them below and I will consider them.

It's chilly willy

It's cold here in Austin Texas, well it's just cold in Texas in general. If you have been on facebook and have any friends in this region I am sure their status updates have been all about this. You will notice I have said nothing. It's cold and windy but that's all here in Austin. No rain or ice or snow, so calm down. A lady at work yesterday was talking about how it was too windy to come to work, are you kidding me? I mean I would love an unexpected day of from work just as much as the next kiddo but that is just ridic. I am sure this change in weather would not have seemed so shocking and status updating worthy if it had not been 82 on Sunday and I had been laying by the pool working on my tan. Flips flops to uggs. Oh well. Now we return to our regularly scheduled programing of my random rantings on this here blog...oh wait that qualified.

Crate and Barrel

Dear Crate and Barrel-
Please stop emailing me and telling me to enter your 100,000 wedding contest. I am not engaged nor do I have a beau so please so seeing if want to enter. It only makes me feel more alone.

Still taking offers of set ups with single men in Austin,
Taylor

Blonde

A blonde is something that I can never be. It simply does not go with my skin tone. I don't really have a desire to be blonde but then I run across Rachel McAdams and love her hair color and realize it is a dream I will never seem come alive. She skin is such that she can do blonde, brown, red, whatever her heart desires. Lucky duck.