Sunday, January 31, 2010
Lavender Chick’s 25 Things She Didn’t Realize Until Her Mid-40’s
In terms of my blogging plagiarism of BooMama, I'm stealing her idea of 25 things, but not on what makes me happy. I have instead chosen to create a list of 25 things that have taken me 40+ years to figure out. I went on a girls road trip last weekend with Lisa and Sami because it was Lisa's birthday. It was really a spur of the moment trip which always makes the best ones. Hey - I didn't put that on my list, so make number 26 be that sometimes spur of the moment turns out better than anything well planned out. That's been my experience anyway.
Okay - so since my girlfriends and I have been in our 40's for several years now, and since this year we will be entering the hump year of being 40, we've had a number of conversations on things we know now that we should have known then....
So here it goes, my list of 25 things that took me almost 45 years to figure out:
1. Trying to be like everyone else is exhausting and boring.
2. Wealth is defined by personal fulfillment, not by how much money I have.
3. Most people aren’t all that smarter than me. That's scary.
4. My family is my family....
5. Being with friends at home is more fun than going somewhere out with friends.
6. Home cooked food is better than restaurant food.
7. Homemade birthday cakes are better and more special than store bought cakes.
8. Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day were all created to make me feel guilty and for economic stimulus.
9. Cloth napkins are much better than paper napkins.
10. Too much Botox looks really ridiculous.
11. I just really don't like steak.
12. A house just isn’t a home without a big fat cat.
13. Nothing should be saved for that special day.
14. Buying some great lip gloss or a really good candle can be more thrilling than buying something really expensive.
15. It’s no big deal if I don’t make my bed every day.
16. Having time alone is a WONDERFUL thing.
17. For the most part, celebrities are weirdoes.
18. Only insecure people keep up with the Joneses.
19. Over-accessorizing is kind of trashy.
20. Everyone is not looking at me!
21. I'm not that easily impressed anymore.
22. Wine doesn’t have to be expensive to be good.
23. Fresh flowers are a good thing.
24. Having one really nice thing is better than five mediocre things.
25. When traveling with friends or visiting friends/family out of town, I can get my own hotel room if I want my own space. I don’t have to be crammed in with someone else if I don’t want. After all, I'm over 40....
Friday, January 15, 2010
Twitter Dee Twitter Dum
It’s an entire world I know nothing about.
Anyway, the purpose of this post is that there is apparently a Twitter chick that goes by the name Lavender Deb. So this is the deal - Ms. Lavender Deb Twitter chick has caused confusion because, as most of you know, my name is Deb. To add to the confusion, Lavender Deb Twitter chick is also into aromatherapy and natural cleaners just like me, Lavender Chick, or Lavender Deb, which I’ve also been called, and which is also my email address.
Are you confused yet?
Bottom line, please don’t confuse Lavender Deb the Twitter chick and Lavender Chick the blogging Deb.
Okay. I’ve just worn myself out with this. I have to go to bed…
But thanks alot for stopping by!!!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Lavender Blue Monday
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
Jingle, Belle, & Holly

So do you see Jack over in the right hand corner? Look real close....




Jingle is telling Belle, "Okay, put your head forward like this and really concentrate; you can do it, you can! I was in your same hooves last week!"


Friday, January 8, 2010






Imagine how beautiful she would be if she would simply let herself be her age?


Lord please help me embrace my twilight years and not defy it. I’m getting to where I see so much beauty in older women that are just that – older and beautiful without all the yaya. Please let me keep it that way!
And Lord, please don't let this post be the cause of me never getting to meet Priscilla, becoming her BFF and getting all the great inside scoop on Elvis. I'm just sayin'.....
Sunday, January 3, 2010
A sidenote to my sappy previous post...
Anyway, I scrambled around the house for some paper and pens so everyone could write down their bad memories and invent their good memories for 2010.
But I got a little stuck on the task. I actually said, “But I don’t want to leave anything behind…” And then I realized that was just silly. So, I wrote down that I wanted to let go of dogfights for 2009 (having 6 dogs it happens from time to time), and I wanted to bring in new landscaping for 2010.
Then I realized all the other girls were writing down really deep, well thought out and profound statements. Even things in which they used words like “whilst.”
And then I pondered.
And I pondered some more while trying to think of fancy words and deep thoughts….
Then I thought, Yeah, dog fights and landscaping. Sounds good to me. And threw it in the fire.
Then I put on the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack and danced the ‘bump’ with Bonnie.

New Year's Eve At Hummingbird Bar

I still can't believe that we're in a new decade! It seems like just yesterday that we were all hunkered down for Y2K...

Jack spent New Year's Eve with my dad out in west Texas, and I spent New Year's Eve having a slumber party! In fact, there was something fun going on out here the whole week leading up to New Year's Eve.
Those black-eyed-peas, they tasted alright to me.....
Bonnie actually confirmed the "power of the peas" after being stopped on New Year's Day driving back to Nashville and only getting a warning. But the good part about that is that she also got stopped the day before and only got a warning.... And she had 3 different violations! So what would the odds have been if she had not eaten those peas???
(Just in case you're not from our neck of the woods, eating black-eyed-peas on New Year's Day is a tradition, it brings you good luck for the rest of the year. I've always eaten them because it's just what you're supposed to do...)
And of course it wouldn't have been a holiday around here without planning a party for the dogs, too. Even animals deserve to celebrate the holidays!
Can you count how many animals are in this picture??? This picture was actually taken on New Year's Eve, eve, eve. Like I said, it was a week of great fun! And I haven't even shown you pictures of the new baby longhorns yet!

Here's to 2010!!!