Backyard pics and PBI facts.

MY BACKYARD.......

I love my view as much as I love my job!

The reason? My view and my job are different every single day. I never know what to expect and that keeps me very interested....which is a hard job. I have the attention span of a monkey in a hat, talking on a banana phone.

I took the picture below yesterday during one of our common afternoon storms. Check out the rainbow.......it's super faint. Also, check out Palm Beach Island!

Another pic from yesterday.....a storm was rolling through!

Close up of the backyard with Lauren

I love when 5 shades of blue make up the intercoastal. Oh, and another one of our afternoon storms skimming Palm Beach Island.

PBI was established by Henry Flagler who was also the founder of standard oil. Palm Beach Island is a barrier island, it's 16 miles long, and has had some crazy residents.

Residents (past and present) include:

Donald Trump, Jimmy Buffett, Kennedy family, Rush Limbaugh, Horace Dodge (Dodge automotive family), Rod Stewart, Vera Wang, and sooo many freaking more! Funny ones too..like the creator of Slim Fast. haha. Not sure why that's funny to me?

OMG...it gets foggy out there too!

At night the water is not much of a view.....but the city rocks!
WEST PALM BEACH

I find art everywhere...

MY CHERRY COKE
MY JUMBO JELLY BEANS

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FAVORITE HAIR PRODUCT:
OLEO RELAX

I have to have this hair product every time I step out of the shower. There are a couple of similar looking products by kerastase...so don't get tricked. This particular one is kerastase, oleo relax. It makes my hair super soft and manageable . I have long, thick, & wavy hair and I always seem to go back to this golden bottle.FAVORITE VIDEO GAME:

GUITAR HERO

It's pretty rad and I think it's my new school fav.

Halo is my old new school fav.

Really old school faves include, but are not limited too:

All Mario Bros games ,Wizards and Warriors, Adventure Island, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tetris, The Simpsons, & Disney's Aladdin.

FAVORITE MEMORY TODAY:

TGIF

It's Friday night and all this video game chatter makes me think of my Friday night ritual growing up. My mom would take my sister and me to rent some movies and video games. My sister Lauren always wanted to rent "Drop Dead Fred" and I would agree if I could choose the 2 video games. We would race to our playroom and play video games until the most anticipated hour of the evening rolled around. TGI freaking F! Full House, Family Matters, Step By Step, Mr. Belvedere, Dinosaurs, Perfect Strangers, Boy Meets World, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. All of those shows made a run on ABC starting in 1988-2000. I owe a lot to TGIF.....2 hours of entertainment every Friday night. If nothing else, you could count on that!

"DROP DEAD FRED" TRAILER (1991)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgh27gCgiQw

Pretty funny video.

My friends dancing....enough said.

PIZZA LUNA

The joint is located on Clematis St. in West Palm Beach. I'm a huge fan of their tasty pizza around 1 AM or on lazy Sunday afternoons. The aroma of spices, glistening pepperoni, warm red sauce, hot melted cheese, garlic, and parm pour onto the street. It's a buy it by the slice kinda place and I love that since I can't ever decide what type of pie I'm craving. I'm a traditional pepperoni/cheese lover but I can get down with Hawaiian. I like that dang tropical pineapple! In my older years I have been liking pizza with vegetables on it....yeah, real veggies!

This is the dough rising in the afternoon at PIZZA LUNA.
I'm chilling with an amazing slice that's as big as my head. Notice I took a bite before I could pose....I'm a fatty like that!

Gifts for the bachelorette party

GIFTS FOR THE GIRLS
Look at the cute beachy themed gift I gave the girls at the bachelorette party. I love, love, love, coral and think it's an amazing natural art form. That's why I incorporated coral into my wedding and fell in love with the sugar/creamer set below. Lauren usually loves everything I love, which makes it super easy to buy her gifts. I'm sure she loves that quality in me.
When I picked Lauren up at the PBI airport I had cute little pink flowers for her. When we got home she saw the tropical flowers and roses I ordered her too. Plus all the chips, cokes, and her favorite....PETIT FOURS. Those are the small bite sized cakes...usually found at classy joints, like my condo! haha. No, really, I had to explain what petit fours were to every guy I mentioned them in front of. THEY HAVE NO CLUE!!!

LAUREN'S WEEKEND

LAUREN's PARTY

The girls flew into West Palm Beach to celebrate Lauren Thomsen getting hitched in June. I had the best weekend with the girls and I was sad to see them leave on Sunday...tear! Below is a pic of us on Clematis St tearing up the floor at MONARCHY. D.J. Scribble from MTV owns part of the club and can be found spinning there from time to time.

ME, ASHLEY C., LAUREN, ASHLEY B.

I PROMISE LAUREN HAD A GREAT TIME THAT NIGHT....haha

SEE, ASHLEY C. AGREES......Lauren is having a great time.
OH, and LOOK, ASHLEY B loves watching Lauren dance.

I'm alerting the authorities about all the fun going on.....by yelling and clapping!
We decided to leave the intense festivities and end the night with a romantic bike ride for four! Lauren had no idea either....the bike was waiting for us outside the club when we left.

It was so fun to ride around downtown, Cityplace, and along the intercoastal at one in the morning. We could yell and point at anyone and had the best photo opportunities along the way.