Edit: New Site – Blogger v. WordPress
Posted by: asbelle on: August 25, 2008
New site is up…at blogger! Go here.
So I have been contemplating a switch back to wordpress. I’ve been a blogger for a little over a month now and I’m not really impressed. There isn’t anything that will niftyly back up your entries – which I have to have because knowing me there will be a huge catostraphic event that will wipe out everything. Or simply me messing about. I will let you know my decision.
recieved
Posted by: asbelle on: August 14, 2008
Monday afternoon I was completely angry with myself for missing my massage appointment, I’d been aching for, literally. I was comptely upset with myself, almost crying. [I still don't know why I was going to cry]. I came home to find these and the sweetest note.
“Love,
I made the best decision of my life, when I asked you to marry me. I love you sooooooooo much.
Love Always,
Ryan”
my new favorite
Posted by: asbelle on: August 12, 2008
I have been on hiatus for awhile. I can’t really explain my lack of blogging other than pure laziness. 
However, my lovely SIL came down and we went on over to the super mall to buy some make up at sephora. I looked but found nothing, as all I wear are browns and they didn’t have anything brownish. I remembed that MAC was in the store we’d walked through and I loved some eyeshadow they have. So I picked that up and then went for some lipstick and I have to say it’s become my favorite new item. I usually hate lipstick as does Ry, for fear of the bits that could get left on him. This new Pro Lipwear doesn’t come off. My color of choice – For Keeps. The color goes on, dries and then you touch up with the gloss. Nothing comes off and your lips still look as if you’ve just applied lippy but without the shine. Perfection!
quotes
Posted by: asbelle on: August 8, 2008
“Write to be understood,
speak to be heard,
read to grow.”
Lawrence Clark Powell
Stay tuned.
Posted by: asbelle on: July 20, 2008
I”ve been contemplating a post for the last couple of days. The post I usually begin to think about when I’m doing a lot of nothing and there isn’t anything in my life to report. Everynow and then I think about saying goodbye to my blog and stop wasting my money because I would rather just write things, with a pen and paper….maybe just a wordpress.com would be best.
Stay tuned.
Dream Home *Sigh*
Posted by: asbelle on: July 11, 2008
Yesterday I went to Target to pick up a few things and as usual I head on over to the book section. I was talking to my mum on the phone and I picked up this magazine called “Beautiful Homes,” opened it up and there it was….my dream home. Completely my dream. I couldn’t believe it and I still can’t. Now the design I tweaked a bit because I wanted it different but the colors, the structure, everything is amazing! I found some pictures from the architect’s site and the I scanned some from the magazine, but I am in awe!
Updates.
Posted by: asbelle on: July 9, 2008
Woo, it’s been awhile since my last post. Shame on me, I’ve been a bad blogger. I hate those blogger-types that say, “oh I promise I’ll write more later on and I’ll update and such.” Does anyone else know this problem? Naturally, I’ve been to the gym regularly since my last post and then I see the same dude, doing the same lean-to on the eliptical, and then an older man really working hard, dripping sweat, and looking like death but holding on and thus really not accomplishing anything but sweating. Then there are those people who don’t wipe off their machines, like my husband or sister-in-law. That’s gross! I wipe before I sit on a machine and afterwards.
Sunday was my training for my new job, or orientation as they called it. I was completely dreading it. I thought, “Oh this will be just like my last job orientation with people asking stupid questions and really not listening.” It drives me nuts when the intstructor says something and then a person will ask the same question over and over. The thought of it just makes me cringe. But I was pleasantly surprised when the instructor took attendence and briefly explained what we were to be doing and then said, “I’ll be sending you off on your own to complete this and you have until 8:40 to complete it and then call back into the conference center.” I was extremely surprised and very pleased with it as I am much faster than most people are with things because I skip words, and I’ve always been a fast reader. I finished in about 30 minutes with the entire thing that was supposed to take 3.5 hours! I had dinner with mon mari and cleaned the kitchen. It was a lovely training session. Now I’m going to try and get my mum the same job. The actual training starts on the 21st from 10:00am 2:00pm and goes like that for a month and it’s paid! 
Have you ever been in a waiting room where there are too many people? This makes me completely nervous and I just can’t sit still. Mon mari and I went for some routine tests and were in the waiting room for at least half an hour before we were called. I told him that I would be out in the car after I was finished. *Sigh* also makes me shudder.
Nothing else happening around here, other than my washing machine just stopped draining. I hate that, having a washing machine to me is a complete necessity, the dryer however, isn’t. I delt without a dryer for quite sometime. The washing machine is still new, 2 years old, and the drain pump just stopped working. We took apart the entire thing ( geeze was a mess) and then tried to find the issue. I was too afraid to take the pump off because then we wouldn’t be able to get it back together. Mon mari was such a good sport. After that we decided to have a look at our local appliance store to see if we could find a new one, no luck, just the same machine; we like to look at the “damaged” ones, you know the ones with dents that you can’t see or scrapes on the bottom, and you get huge discounts. I plan to go back after a week or so to see if any new ones have been placed in the “dent” room.
Next time you’ll see how a southerne belle and her hubby change lights on a car. Stay tuned.
Dear fellow-gym goers
Posted by: asbelle on: July 3, 2008
- In: Health
- 2 Comments
This southern belle believes highly in exercise and being healthy. For most of us that means getting our bums to the gym, as we don’t work as hard as we used to. Sadly enough that is true…my great grandparents farmed until they died, but that’s another topic. Fellow-gym goers I must congratulate you on not only making the effort but actually pursuing your desire to be the thinnest person at the office or the thinnest mum on the block, but leaning forward on the elliptical so that you’re not standing up straight really doesn’t do anything for you. In fact, it’s pointless. Those things aren’t there for you to lean on but for the heart-rate monitor to come down to your level. Please make the necessary adjustments or else you’ll be fat (in your opinion) for much longer.
Signed,
Southern Belle gym-goer extraordinaire
Southern-speak.
Posted by: asbelle on: June 30, 2008
I often wonder if one day that I will be as popular as some of the blogs that I read. My content is varied so I think people may have a difficult time identifying what I’m talking about. Right now I am in the middle of a variety of events: baby talk, moving, Uni (again), so there are many things that are really present but perhaps that I don’t voice.
Secretly, I hope to be like the blogs I read, so often clicking “refresh” in hopes that while I’ve been reading it’s been updated. I do this countless times a day because I love the content. With my new blog here titled A Southern Belle, I’ve come to a new direction in taking things from a southerners point-of-view, a lady southerner. I think there are a lot of stereotypes about us southern gals and gents for that matter.
Granted there are a few duds in the south, but there are also people like my mother who speak with an accent and southern twang but is also very intelligent. My accent only comes out when I speak to my mom or I’m around distinct southern-speakers. It is our own language to some extent and yes as an English major it drives me absolutely MAD when people mispronounce things. My grandmother for instant says “rurnt” instead of “ruined”. It’s one of those things and we laugh at her for it.
When I was in high school (all those eons ago) I took 3 years of French and my professor was absolutely nuts. She’d suddenly say that we’d made her upset and her medical condition and then promptly flee into her office, slamming the door. The class would be stunned to silence and look at each other for some sort of explaination. But taking French in an Alabama school took its tole on my ears when we were forced to speak aloud. “Merci” became “MERRR-C”, “Est-ce que vous parlez anglais? (Do you speak English?) becomes “essssss c cay vouse parrrlez anglais?” enough to drive anyone batty, but the dufus who did it managed to do so well on exams.
So I am thinking of a variety of things I could post on about being southern, married to a northern-ish husband and his very northern mom and grandfather as well as my mother being married to a northerner. I speak both northern and southern English.
carpe diem!
I am stalking another blogger, constantly refreshing the page, hoping for a post but I know that she will not post for days as she contemplates what to write. I feel the same, now where is my idea for a book?
I’m so sleepy.
This Belle is Listening
