Here I sit in the most fabtastic airport, DIA, where the girls are pretty and the WiFi is free. I’m headed to Las Vegas for Blogworld Expo 2010 … Vegas Baby!  Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, my flight is delayed my flight by a few hours.  Like any responsible blonde mommy blogger, I headed to the nearest bar and am diligently writing….

Sadly, DIA is a Pepsi sphere and there isn’t a Diet Coke to be seen so I made my usual stop at the news shop the most important travel  necessities, skittles and water. I usually like to grab a magazine like Runner’s World but today I was stopped short as I perused the rack.  There, right in front of me, was the most beautiful picture of Rob Lowe! I snatched up the magazine and actually giggled when I realized that it was a copy of Architectural Digest. What? I’m not exactly a regular reader of this particular genre of magazine. I’d love to be someone who could dress a room and match colors but I was not blessed with a decorators sense of anything. In my experience, architecture is best left to the professionals.

As you know, I’m a total dork when it comes to digging deep for more information on anything that strikes me as curious or interesting. So, of course, I found out that this People & Places edition of Architectural Digest, will serve as the last under the direction of the magazine’s editor in chief since 1971, Paige Rense Noland. What a gift she has given her successor by transitioning with Rob Lowe! Out with a BANG!

I’m sure celebrities are not a rarity on the covers of this particular publication, but Rob Lowe spoke to me. Those eyes made me want to take an interest in my home. You know, gather some ideas, glean some inspirations? I’m almost 40, I’m aging, my children are old enough to wipe their own bottoms (although, Lord knows when they’ll be coordinated enough to hit the water and remember to flush) – the timing for this cover is perfect!

I picked up the magazine because I wanted to touch Rob Lowe but I’ll actually read it because the pictures are fantastic and it’s oddly interesting to read about the people that live in these sparkly clean dwellings. Suddenly I’m hypnotized by a fresh and vibrant home library and a couch that just screams “Come on in, put your feet up and read a good book.” Of course, a space that clean and quiet would be a dream but I prefer a little proof that life exists in my decor…. the only things missing from these photos are the granola bar wrapper on the floor, and a sciences book with yesterdays math homework crammed into, propped open by a lone sock……

I’m sure it was just an oversight. Perhaps it will be something for Ms. Paige’s successor to consider?

What’s your favorite room in your home? What makes it “speak” to you?

Gone mountain livin’

You are probably looking around wondering where you are, but YES, this is me and I’ve not only cleaned things up in here but I’ve moved to WordPress!  I’d been wanting to do it for a very long time and finally sucked it up and got it done!  So what do you think?  I know a lot of people have expressed that they didn’t like the typewriter font.  I love it – for me, since I’ve always been a connector, even way back in the days when I typed letters out to my grandmother, this header sort of symbolizes  that move from typewriter {through gigantic Brother word processor, my fist computer Commodore-64 (OH WOW I’M OLD), my first Apple computer, my first cell phone, to the very first texting phones to my LOVEly iphone… too deep?  Too bad – the font is staying for now!

I am actually typing this post as I sit on an airplane to Atlanta ~  using GoGo Inflight Internet!  I am so geeking out right now!  I’m heading south for the Race and Relax weekend that @theblogrollers are hosting ~ I won the contest to fly down and run a 5k race with all of my favorite Atlanta ladies!  So far?  I’m definitely relaxed! Tonight I’ll be heading out to a Tweet-UP so keep your eyes open for the #racerelax hashtag on Twitter.  I even remembered my camera this time so I’ll be sure to take lots of pictures!

Have a super weekend!

Ah yes, spring in France.  The French Open. Fuzzy yellow balls flying through the air and the free spirited tennis phenoms prancing about in their lacy black and red teddy style lingerie, ahem… sports wear.  It’s all the rage!

It’s all anyone can talk about. (Well, not anyone, but my mom used to say things like this all the time and I think it sounds good and dramatic, so let’s keep it.)

Yes, I’m referring to Venus Williams’ choice of clothing.  Some are saying “oh, my! too revealing, shocking really!” and others say “she’s Venus she can wear whatever the heck she wants.”

How long do you think it’ll take to get the image of this outta my head?  What the H-E-double-hockey-sticks kinda message are you trying to send?  ”Hey look at me, Ima crack a few balls over this here net and then you can catch me 2nd shift at The Moulin Rouge”?

So what if she actually can wear anything she wants to?  WHY?  Why would someone with such talent cause such spectacle on purpose?  How many people do you think were discussing her actual physical execution of a real live tennis game today?  Anyone?  I couldn’t watch – it was hard to take seriously!

Perhaps I’m being a tad bit harsh and really, she was just thinking, “sheesh, I gotta get up and whoop another chicks ass today, I can’t even be bothered to get myself dressed.  It’s Pajama Day at The French Open, baby!”

Really?

Really, really?