"Hellllllllo Louis!!!!!!!" + What I'm Doing

In an effort to give "Louis" a proper intro, Kurt and I made a laughable, impromptu attempt to re-create the Audrey Hepburn photo (see top right hand corner of my blog for Audrey photo). Granted, the outfit, background and hairstyle are all wrong, my red eye apparently wasn't working during this time, and I look nothing like A.H., but work with me here, people!!! I am thinking of doing some others like this, when I go on trips, and doing like a "Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiago" type of thing. Thoughts?? **Silence** Ha!!

OMG so we celebrated like 9,000 Christmases over the past week. Which was coolish, just took F.O.R.E.V.E.R.! I love the holidays but we are all ready to have our old lives back. Even TODAY, we celebrated not one but TWO Christmases. The first with Kurt's mom's extended family and the second with my mom and brother.

Speaking of Christmas #1 today, it was at NOON...on Sunday. Yes, Ashtangs, I gasped as well. It was ACTUALLY supposed to be LAST SUNDAY, but Kurt's aunts canceled at the last minute due to inclimiate weather. I decided I absolutely couldn't miss two Sundays in a row, so I went to Ashtanga until headstand, and had to boogie on out. The POINT of this long story is that Kurt's entire family is uncomfortable-ish with eachother anyway. They all dress up pretty cute and go sit and talk about the weather. Hmmmm...exciting. I fly out to the farm and arrive on the scene 1.5 hours late in a hot outfit: teal fleece v-neck pullover, lime greens pajama pants with dogs on them and "yoga hair." HOTNESS!!! Oh well... P.S. If you are questioning if I showered before arriving on the scene, the answer is "no." GAROSSSSSSSSSS! I did shower before yoga, of course, and after I got home from the gathering!

Yoga class was a rough one. I skipped yoga all last week due to the insane amount of Christmas gatherings, so I was feeling muy "ew" and out of shape. I could definitely tell a difference in how long it took to warm up compared to normal. This might also be because I didn't get out of bed until 10am...yikes!! I decided to be "cute" the night before and drink too many Bud Lights in a can at the Eargasm show. It was a certainly a fun time and a great show but I'm definitely never drinking again!! :)

Muy loves, hugs and namastes to y'all.

Love,

Ann

::cues Veronica's "Goodbye To You"::

"How could I have loved someone like the one I see in you??

I remember the good times baby now, and the bad times too...

These last few weeks of holding on,

The days are dull, and the nights are long...

Guess it's better to sayyyyy...

Goodbye to you!! Goodbye to youuuu! Goodbye to you!! Goodbye to you!!"

Goodbye (part of my) John Deere bonus!!!!!! Hello Louis!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VERY SPECIAL THANKS to my lovely friend Keri (and partner in handbag O.C.D.) for bringing this honey from Europe! We decided every woman should have at least one piece of Louis Vuitton monogram canvas. Also, since it's my first LV (gasp!!), I had to go obnoxious. I was almost committed to the Speedy 30 when Keri informed me the 30 was actually designed for Audrey Hepburn as she wanted something large enough to carry flats, in case her feet starting hurting. Sold!!!! Anything carried by the lovely Audrey Hepburn is sheerly delightful in my book. OMFG!!!! I found a pic of her w/ her Speedy!
Of course everyone will think you're fake...but don't worry, Louis, my love - I'll know you're real! Muah!!!!!!!!

Happy Handbags to All!

A.

Here On Gilligan's ISLE!!

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny Ship.
The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the Skipper brave and sure,
Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour.
A three hour tour."





Note the bag above but post below!

P.S. Ingore the "hot" pic of me, Craig and Crystal. This was like 4pm on St. Patrick's Day, okay! :)

My Dec 15th Handbag (aka Investment Strategy)

First of all, THANK YOU to you Keri G-M for directing me to the most awesomest site on the web: http://www.purseblog.com/. These B's have my dream job of analyzing designer handbags all day then blogging about them. What I can't figure out, though, is how they have the cash to buy so many of them since they don't appear to have "real" JOBS. I can't bear to think it's possible that Louis Vuitton, Hermes and YSL just GIVE their bags to the purse blog girls. Even the mere suggestion of this idea causes a pain so deep I can't even breathe. Ugh...the trauma....

Regarding realistically-priced handbags (i.e. not $3,000), I'm totally over Coach and cannot stand the sight of a Dooney. =Ew on both accounts. However, I have long-since committed myself to buying AT LEAST two semi-expensive handbags per year: one for Christmas and one for my b-day in March. In spite of these recent brand boycotting limitations, I have, thank God, found some pretty sweet handbag options at Von Maur.

Let me say that I have wanted to be a Kate Spade fan for years but just can't get into it. I refuse to give up and fortunately, they have some decent stuff this winter. For my b-day bag 2007, I tried to go nautical and bought a navy blue canvas Kate trimmed in white. It was adorable at first but then just got to be too Gilligan's Island. Plus, it was canvas and I truly just carry too much stuff for canvas as it was always all bumpy-looking. Ick. I break out this Kate every now and again if I'm feeling a little shipwrecked, but other than that it usually lies dormant in the purse tote.

With no further ado, here are the options:

Option #1 of 3:

At first I wanted this one in light grey but now I think I want this baby in BLUE (see below)!!!






Option #2 of 3:


So I really dig this hot lil' number (see below) in Eggplant with patent trim. It's just cute and tres, tres "holiday." I can see myself getting sick of it easily but I really dig it.






Option #3 of 3:

I really think I just might have to buy a Louis. I mean you only live once, right?

Thoughts anyone? Anyone? Bueller? ....Bue-ller? .............BUE-LLER??

Love,
Moi

P.S. MANY, MANY props to my muy bueno friend Josh Herting for splurging on the Marc Jacobs Stamm bag for his girlfriend's Christmas prize. Note: I did not say Marc by Marc Jacobs. Ew. He went for the one-eye- real-deal-steal-Teal-Hollifield (inside high school joke on that one but you get my point)! Any man that spends over $1K on a handbag prize is A+++ in my book.

Cool Blog, Dude...

"Blogging up is hard to do..."

OMG this blog sucks. Sadness!!!! There is nothing worse than being wayyy bored online (especially on the weekends when Tyler Durden doesn't work), desparetly checking someone's blog only to find nothing new has been posted for several days...or weeks... I HATE THAT!! I regret to say this blog of randomness has turned into "that blog" after only two posts! Yikes! I'm traumatized about it all!!

SUPER sorry to those :) who have recently mentioned checking out moi's blogspot. I have started writing a few blogs then decided not to hit "PUBLISH POST," thinking no one would care about my topics. I have been informed that while this might be true, my "followers", who have YET to sign up as legit followers (this comment excludes Miss hlb1978), would still read them.

So...hip hip horray! I will have two upcoming sweet blogs (I can't divulge the order yet. It's a "technique" to add "suspense" to my blog...):


One covers my annual handbag acquisition. Every year on Dec 15th, I invest my JD bonus WISELY and buy a new handbag. It's an ASSET I tell you, an ASSET. And if you depreciate it over the numbers of days, weeks or months you actually carry it, it becomes basically free. I mean if you carry a $500 handbag for 100 days, that's like $5 per day, which is free in the handbag world. This doesn't work if you make the big mistake of spending $375 on the 2007 Spring Coach white-trimmed wickerish large tote and realize it is dorky and heavy after carrying


















it for only seven days. Not that I speak from experience...or anything...because I would never make such an unwise investment. ANYWAY...

The second topic covers my ultra-awesome, semi-obsessed yoga practice. I know everyone will be on the edge of their seat reading this blog since no one will talk to me about it when I bring it up. HA! Seriously, why isn't ANYONE interested in how FUNNY it is on Sunday a.m. when we all curl into lotus and roll nine times to signify the number of months in the womb? LOL. I just love that class and all of the yoga peeps!!! It's so much fun. My good friend J$ has been yogaing with me and impressing me with her amazing new headstand skills. I will have to remind her to check the blog when I post that one. She'll totally agree that the "lotus roll" is a good time. Ha!

Note: I searched images of Garbha Pindasana (embryo pose) and couldn't resist this one of the cool cat with the fab aviators. Namaste FOR SURE to him. Anyone who yogas with aviators 100% rules in my blog.













Mucho love to y'all.

A$