BBQ With Friends: For no reason.

I bought this brand-new romper at a garage sale for 50 cents!

My wanna-be Kors watch ($60 from Citizen) that I’ve had for years now.

Fashion Lunch Two Weeks Ago: Have been meeting (almost) weekly with Austin Fashion Bloggers to talk shop. It’s been a blast!

BFF In Town: The lack of pictures is due to the fact that most of the time we were playing drinking games. Isn’t she GORGEOUS??

I’ve been obsessed with this lightweight French Connection dress I got at a resale shop for $1.99!

Friend’s Birthday: Too busy again to take pictures of the events but did get shots of the house they rented for the weekend.

The best part was this shower. there were three different places the water sprayed from and then a separate but included section for the huge bathtub. genus. i must have one.

Fashion Lunch One Week Ago:

D.C. To Visit Cousins:

Sorry for the lack of posts. Been crazy busy doing who-knows-what. I’ll make it up to you all (I know you’re struggling without your Sandhya fixes) next week with tons of pictures from D.C. and this past week.

For now, I am off to see these beautiful ladies, my cousins, for some quality fam-fam time in the Capitol:

(This was from Christmas here in Austin so it’s been far too long since we’ve all been together!)

If any of you are out in D.C. shoot me an email so we can meet up!

Have a wonderful weekend!

I don’t think I know of a single person whose life has not been affected by cancer. I also don’t think I understand why this one medical demon has evaded a cure. With all of the things this world has accomplished, we’re still stopped by the miniscule cells in our body.

Didn’t make it to Wedding 2 of 5 this Sunday because my uncle who had been successfully (or so we thought) battling a rare form of cancer for 4 years is back in the hospital, waiting to meet with a specialist. Without too many details, things aren’t looking great but we always have hope.

We’ve lost others in our family to cancer. The hardest part is seeing my father so upset and attempting to comfort him.

But our family motto is “whatever is meant to happen will happen” and we know we can’t stop living.

I recently had these videos sent to me and they are perfect examples of folks who have never stopped living:

Found this through an article on CNN about a couple who has been together for 72 years!! They blog and tweet! This video is from their blog:

This is a video of a Holocaust survivor who is, along with his family, dancing to ‘I Will Survive’ at Auschwitz:

We had a jungle-themed party for our youngest furbaby, Shere Khan, all weekend long with drop-in visits from both our parents and a pizza party on Friday night:

confused about decorations

yes, that’s my shoddily made coconut in the background, don’t judge

shere khan means tiger king…she’s a queen, obvs.

made sure 007 didn’t feel left out

restin with papa before the spoilfest

jungle cupcake-cake!

cake for Bond and SK – butter, milk and treats!

ROAR! i mean…yaaaawwwwn.

The winner is:

ANASTASIA of SweetButterBliss!! Congrats!

If you didn’t win, don’t worry….you’ll win next time. Probably.

And next time will be in just a few days…

When two consultants live together something magical happens….

….you end up with a LOT of hotel toiletries!

Now that we are no longer living in hotels (thank goodness!), we needed to do something with the above mess.

So I bought a bunch of white boxes and cheapo ribbon from Michael’s and along with stolen paint sample cards from Home Depot…

…..I decorated the boxes into something much more presentable for our guests:

Now that we have a guest bedroom and bathroom and all.

So far this weekend has started out well – I went to an estate sale this morning and had eclairs for breakfast. Now I’m off to doggy playgroup and then getting ready for Shere Khan’s Jungle Book Birthday Party tonight!

Have a fun weekend, dolls!

Shameless plug – go vote for me here: http://www.adoredaustin.com/2010/07/vote-reader-submitted-best-aloof.html on Indiana’s Aloof Blogger Pose contest.

I used this cheesy picture:

Usually don’t submit things to giveaways like that but just thought it was too much fun not to. Voting ends tonight.

P.S. Don’t forget to enter my own giveaway for the fantasmo ring!

P.P.S. Sorry for the lack of updates…been up to my elbows in dogs. Seriously.