P.A. Moore's Blog, page 7

Looking back at May!

It’s been twenty days since I updated my blog with any of my details about my fabulous life. During the past three weeks, I’ve been busy hosting a teenager party; a teenager camp in the backyard sleepover, getting daughter dressed for a quinceañera, and celebrating mothers day.
 During that time, I developed a new obsession with the website polyvore.com and began creating sets, joining groups and submitting them to contests. You will see a bunch of my “sets” posted below. I have since stopped updating them to my blog and twitter cause I wasn’t getting my “likes” or notice. It seems that one has to have many followers on Polyvore as well as spend hours on the site to get your “sets” nominated to be “Top Sets” by the Polyvore editors.


I’ve managed to collect just over 100 followers. Followers are people who view your sets on a regular basis. I am following about 330 artists. I won 4thplace in a group contest. Yeah! I’ve entered approximately 10+ contests. Polyvore is a surprisingly relaxing activity that got me through the busy first weekend of the month when my house was full of teenagers.
 

This wasn’t my first teenager party but it was my most recent. I took the day off on Friday, May 10th to prepare the house and pick up the food for the party. My son wouldn’t let me make invitations to send out, he just wanted to invite people over to the house after school. They got out early after school on Friday and sure enough about 25 fourteen year olds showed up about 2:00 p.m. It was about half girls and half boys.


I had purchased Batman themed decorations, paper plates and games but my son decided that he didn’t want any of that baby stuff. So I just used the Batman paper plates and my good serving dishes. The party was held out in my back yard where I set up several round table and chairs with umbrellas, table clothes. I set up the food on the table inside.


The menu included 50 pieces of Lucky’s fried chicken, 2 spaghetti casseroles , garlic bread, salad, strawberry cheesecake, cupcakes and punch. There was plenty of chicken. I didn’t have enough garlic bread. No one ate the salad. The punch dispenser got broken and splattered punch all over the deck. Kids left the paper plates on the table and they blew all over the yard before I told them to pick them up.
 

I couldn’t see much of what was going on because my son insisted on closing the blinds to the patio doors and then the kids moved the tables around to the side of the house so I couldn’t see what was going on. The hammock some how got broken but other than that the yard was pretty much intact.


As the evening went on, their parents were slowly picking up people but no one came in to say hello. My friend Derelle came over around 5:30 or 6:00 p.m stopped by for a piece of fried chicken and spaghetti. She brought a baguette of French bread and some olive oil and cheese for us to snack on. I opened a bottle of wine and we snacked on that stuff for a while. Then she packed up her stuff to go see another friend who was helping her with her hair for that evening.


By about 7:00 p.m. everyone was gone that wasn’t staying over. I had to drive a few people home. Sigh! When I got home, my husband was helping my son and his friends put up the tent in the backyard. The plan was for the four boys to camp out in the back yard. Initially I had told them that they could take the television and the Xbox outside and they eventually got that rigged up but it didn’t work the way that they wanted it to. So, they took a technology break. Yeah! And spent the evening talking.


They covered the floor of the tent with the air mattresses, took plenty of blankets and sleeping bags outside and had a blast. They had electric extension cords strung outside so that they could charge their phone and plug in a lamp. At some point they ordered a pizza because they were hungry. When it first got dark, I felt bad and told them to come inside because I didn’t want them to get cold. No one wanted to come inside. They said after they got into the sleeping bags that it was warm. So they spent the night camping in the yard eating pizza and talking.


In the morning they all came into the living room and hooked up the Xbox. Then they wanted breakfast. By this time, I had re-discovered Polyvore and was happily immersing myself in mindless creativity. But the boys wanted breakfast. So I set about cooking grits, hot link sausages, eggs, toast, and biscuits.


I cleared off the kitchen table for them to sit down and then my son announced that they were eating breakfast on the patio. So they moved outside. It was quite warm on Saturday, May 11th and they spent quite a bit of time sitting out there. My son took the toaster and a loaf of bread out there and plugged it in and they ate toast and jelly. I jokingly offered them some tea and they said yes. So I took them a pot of peppermint tea. They drank two pots of tea while they sat outside in the morning sun.
Eventually they finished up, got dressed and went home. My son decided to go visit his friends house so he and another friend when right over there.


After the boys left my daughter decided to get dressed for her friends quinceañera. The party was at the Veterans Hall and began at 3:00 p.m. I took my daughter to get a new dress David’s Bridal. We found something on the clearance rack. It was a short black and white dress. The top had black sequins and the bottom was white chiffon ruffle.  She chose to wear flat shoes instead of the low-heeled dressy shoes. Sigh! I let her borrow a dressy purse and shoulder wrap. She put on her make up and I helped her curl her hair. She called about 10:00 p.m for us to pick her up. She had a great time. Her best friend who was in the school play with her was the birthday girl and had two costume changes. I peeked into the hall when I dropped her off and she had a long pink/orange color dress. I spoke with the mother when I was dropping my daughter off and she invited me to stay. When I picked her up the mother told me how happy her daughter was that her friends could come to the party because she didn’t want it to just be her cousins at the party.
 Mother’s Day didn’t turn out to be all that great. The kids hid out in their room and I sat alone on the patio. I cooked breakfast for my husband and then sat alone. He finally got up and went to Costco to get some stuff for employee appreciation week that was that Monday. Still nothing for me. Eventually he went to the grocery store and purchased some items for lunch. Shrimp, flank steak, hamburgers and hot dogs. Unfortunately he can’t cook very well. I was hoping for a picnic somewhere at a park. But hey...the backyard wasn't bad. 
The Friday before during the party, the huge Laz Boy chair I purchased for my husband arrived. It is called the Brutus and I had it covered in leather like type fabric. We had to re-arrange some of the furniture because the chair is so big. No my living room looks more cluttered than ever. I would like to get rid of the entertainment center and the computer cabinet and just use a flat screen television. This would open up the space a lot more. Unfortunately that is probably not in the cards.
 

Month End Wish List 

I am still looking for a lottery win to purchase airfare to Hawaii over Thanksgiving.
Go on at least one park visit.
Stinson Beach Visit with picnic.
Sleep
Finish reading.

Love

View this collection on PolyvoreLove by mspamoore on polyvore.com

Remodeled Vintage Trailer = WoCave a @skinnycow @polyvore contest

Remodeled Vintage Trailer = WoCave a @skinnycow @polyvore contest by mspamoore on Polyvore

Marvelous Mani: Your Favorite Nail Art

Marvelous Mani: Your Favorite Nail Art by mspamoore featuring nails inc nail polish

Skinny Cow’s Build Your Own WoCavé™ Contest

Skinny Cow’s Build Your Own WoCavé™ Contest by mspamoore featuring tech accessories

"I Love the Bling" ~ Marvelous Mani: Your Favorite Nail Art

"I Love the Bling" ~ Marvelous Mani: Your Favorite Nail Art by mspamoore featuring deborah lippmann nail polish

Create #instantjoy with Havaianas

Create #instantjoy with Havaianas by mspamoore featuring a vintage optical

Decorating Ideas for Vintage Trailer

Decorating Ideas for Vintage Trailer by mspamoore on Polyvore

Things I love!

 Stacked bracelets


http://dressmeblog.me/stack-it/

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Bare Minerals Original Foundation


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Glamping (Glamour Camping) 
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 Shabby Chic Decorated
Travel Trailers

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Erotic romance with multicultural characters
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Erotic Romance that's Naughty

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Beautiful "Plus Sized" Lingerie & Loungewear


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Warm Weather


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Cruise Ships
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Blogs with lots of pretty pictures
http://www.thefancyfarmgirl.com/

Weekend WishList
 Get a manicure

Outline idea for new novel

Read Wallbanger

Plan birthday party for son next week

Wash and Detail Car

Stuff from garage to thrift store.

Walk/ Hike at Point Richmond or Redwood Park

Picnic with family at Point Richmond or Redwood Park


 Week In Review!

Packed away Bar Exam study books/ material

Hosted a BIG meeting at work

Walked Daily

Tracked weight watchers points daily

Hosted daughters 15th birthday party which included bowling, pizza party and 2nd ear piecing

Cooked lasagna for dinner

Entered TranquilityduJour Blog giveaway.

 

Two weeks in Review! Spring in full swing!

www.pinterest.comSpring Fashion ThenJayne Kennedy, Earth Kitt, and Freda Payne 1970's via PinterestFrom Pinterest Burlesque Dancer Ethelyn Butler circa 1955 via pinterest. Work it girl! Watched two performances of High School Musical in which my daughter was performing. Saturday date night with hubby.Hosted son and his friends for video games and hot dogs. Planned his upcoming birthday party.Shopped for dresses for daughter who is interning at BET in Los Angeles.Shopped with daughter number two for a spring outfit.Hosted mother for visit and shopping at thrift town and the mall.Cleaned house. Sorta.Started Family Reunion Facebook group page for hubby's family reunion. Gathered pictures from previous reunions to post. Pictures need to be scanned. Sigh!Reviewed pictures of myself and family from years ago. *smile*Caught up on stuff at work. Spent the next week day dreaming. Lunch date with hubby at Dead Fish restaurant in Crockett.Attended follow-up medical appointment with hubby.Hit the gym 2 X last week and 2X this week. Walked daily Practiced mindful eating for past two weeks. Packed and ate lunch daily.Cleaned out kitchen cabinets of expired canned foods. Organized kitchen.Cleaned out kitchen cabinets of unused pots and pans. Donated them to Thrift Town.Bags of unused clothes to Thrift town.Met beautiful & friendly cat with extra toes on all paws. Snuggled with daughter when she returned from late play rehearsals. Planned post on mindful eating. Planned post on mindful mothering.Reserved condo in Hawaii for Thanksgiving week. Researched airfares to Hawaii for Thansgiving week. Started watching Starz miniseries DaVinci's Demons. My new favorite show.Withdrew from the July Bar Exam. Sigh! I'm doing everything but studying regularly. The last day to withdraw for a 60% refund is April 30th. Developed this new obsession with the color yellow and lemon related decor. Planned Grandmother post for Mother's Day. Signed petition at change.org to get Married to Medicine reality television show cancelled. The fight was just too much. Coached daughter in college on marketing herself for a job. Goals for upcoming week
Sort pictures and scan them.Update Family Reunion Facebook Group page.Continue to eat mindfully. Finish reading Wallbanger.Exercise daily.