The Divine Secrets of a Southern Diva

That is pretty much where I live these days. I swear, I don’t have enough time in the day to do everything, but I somehow get it done. Or “Git ‘er done” as the rednecks say.

Last weekend was the first time we had some down time. We hung some more stuff in our house, slept in a bit and went to a concert in the park that Mike blogged about. It was fantastic and a nice way to ease back into the crazy of the coming weeks.

Us being cute at the park:

Work is nuts. Everyone is stressed about a big project we have. We are all having to buckle down and get it down because our deadline is creeping up fast. By the time I get home I’m just exhausted and want to veg in front of the tv with food that takes no time to make. I don’t want to think, I don’t want to talk to anyone… I just want to be.

I bought freakin’ Yoga Booty Ballet to try to get rid of some of this booty, but I have no desire to do it. I’m gonna try to rectify that this week.

My brother was home this weekend, so Friday night we had dinner at my mom’s house with my brothers fiance, her mom and her nieces. It was delish, but the drive home was hell because of a wreck.

Saturday we got up early to cheer on The Planet in Houston Dragon Boat Races. I’m not sure how we did overall because I had to leave early, but I know that The Planet Underdogs (Non-management team) beat The Planet Big Dogs (Management Team). There was a lot of pride at stake, but the Underdogs prevailed which may or may not effect our reviews next week. I did see via Kristy’s tweet that we won the Spirit award which didn’t surprise me because we are awesome. We had a lot of people show up to support us!

I would have loved to stay out there all day, but I had tons to do. We needed to get some stuff for a shoot Mike’s doing Monday at The Planet. We stood in line to get passports and photos for our trip to Cabo. I got my hair cut (always muy importante).

Then, that night, we experianced what we’ve been waiting for since we saw some bootleg trailer from a comi-con what seams light years ago. We saw Iron Man. AND IT WAS FUCKING AWESOME! I’m so excited for Robert Downey Jr. I’ve been a fan for so long. It was great to see him look amazing and really pull of an exciting and amazing larger than life movie. And Jon Favreau? I would have never known he could pull off something like this- not because he’s not talented, but there are those who can make really great movies and there are those who can make killer awesome action movies. It’s rare that you find both. He’s a long way from Gutter, that’s for damn sure. I wanna see it again, but there are so many more movies to see, I just don’t know that I’ll have the time.

Also, in the lobby, I met someone. I had to whip some ass and show him who’s boss, though.

After the movie, we did some midnight grocery shopping and Sunday we cooked and my whole family came over for dinner. It was so nice to have everyone over- we didn’t get to do it all that much in out other place because it just wasn’t big enough. But now we have plenty of room so hopefully we’ll be doing it a lot more.

So, I’m pooped. I’ve got a week of work crazy, Amy is here and we are trying to squeeze in some time together and next weekend we are off to Louisiana. Fingers crossed that I make it through everything without passing out at some point.

-Fixin’ ta sleep like baby.
Ali