Hughes Landing

1. REBEL

I absolutely loved finding a dress for $9 from Forever 21.  I feel like…well I am a rebel. This shot is from a quick post called REBEL that I did to style my new $9.00 dress from Forever 21.  I like to wear what I want, do what I want and not be told what to do.  I think it’s cool to save a lot of money on a dress to compensate for the occasional nice shoe or handbag, or vacation.   And then of course, there is the four tiered pony tail combo that my friends all laugh about. I do me.

2.  FATHER’S DAY TEXT

I worked on Father’s Day so I didn’t have time to go to Dallas to visit my Dad that weekend.  I did, however, send him a quick text. I am impressed that my dad knows how to choose and use emoticons, and yes, he will kill me if he sees this post.  I actually shared a screenshot of this on my Instagram account, but of course my family doesn’t read my blog or look at my Instagram and do not even understand that I rep products and companies, I’m sure they assume I am just a narcissist.  I would like to add, that no…none of us believe in abortion, especially my dad.  My mom and dad got pregnant with my brother before getting married, and then about 5 weeks after he was born, they got pregnant with me. I guess it took a while to figure out where babies come from. Either way, that was the pretext for the funny text I sent about not aborting me!

3.  HUGH’S LANDING, THE WOODLANDS

There is a fabulous new area of The Woodland’s called Hughes Landing.  I’ve been hanging out there a lot lately because they have fabulous new apartments, and I’ve had some clients interested in renting. There have also been a few great restaurants opening up there, and the blog post for Hugh’s Landing is coming up!  I took this shot on a Monday night before a huge storm came through.  My friends love to go to Del Frisco’s Grille and if you were in the market for romance, the views are conducive to such matters. Actually, if I wanted another husband, I might be able to pluck one from there, Just sayin. The food isn’t bad either! There’s also other great places, which will all be listed on the next post!

4.  BIKINI POLITICS

The quickie post we decided to do from The Golden Nugget Hotel in Lake Charles, was derived from the realization that some people just love to strip down and get naked at pool time in front of strangers.  I…do…not.  I sort of feel that you need to know me, love me and pay my bills to earn the right to judge my nakedness.  So I survived pool day, and you can check the Bikini Politics blog here.

5.  IT’S EXPENSIVE TO BE ME

“It’s expensive to be me,” was a reply by Anna Nicole Smith in court trying to fight for her money from her dead “husband” and justify her expensive costs of living.  I laughed and it stuck with me.  Being a rebel, when we were told at work to do whatever you want, but please do not chew gum…it made me want to chew gum daily.  I developed a fetish for those little hard Mexican gum bits.  As I was driving down the road, close to 4pm, I bit down the wrong way, and cracked a crown…which took the tooth with it.  Ugh.  My bad.  I had taken this picture to send to friends because we had plans to go out that night and I was not going!  I could not get to the dentist that night, glued the crown/tooth back in until the next day…but could not eat dinner with them, but of course, I had drinks.  I literally remember nothing from that night. Chewing hard little banana flavored gum like a crack addict ended up costing me a lot of money.  I have been to the dentist about 5 times this past month and I wanted to keep it real, and show that everything is not perfect in my world.  I’ve got problems and challenges here and there, I just don’t blast them across the internet. This really sucked.

6.  DAVID YURMAN COUTURE

I’ve had this lavender amethyst David Yurman Couture Collection ring for about 6 years.  I saw it in the window at their Houston Galleria location, and fell in love.  The past few years, I didn’t wear it much because I was scared of shattering the edge of the stone, because it is a delicate design.  I kept meeting ladies with beautiful Yurman pieces on, and was constantly told about the quality assurance policy from the Yurman company, so I took it out of my safety deposit box, wore it for a week….and of course, looked down, and realized the stone was chipped.  I took it to the Yurman Galleria store it was purchased from…not really knowing what they would or could do.  In my particular case, they replaced the stone. I was so excited to get this ring back after being gone for 4 months, but 4 months was nothing to wait for a complete repair.  I am emotionally attached to this bauble (which is so wrong, yes…I know) and I have new respect for the David Yurman company.

-SDS