This is totally inexpensive (around $5-bucks). Plus it’s a great way to recycle a bottle.
http://www.gerardotandco.com/blog/recycled-bottle-torch/

Transform everyday vessels into elegant vases by coating their interiors with glass enamel. Any container will do — buy up old bottles at a flea market or try kitchen cast-offs, such as jam jars. We used white enamel, which yielded different shades of green depending on the tint of the glass.
http://www.marthastewart.com/article/best-bottle-beauty?

I had a fun weekend. I did some fun things, hung out in new places, and met new people. I’m quite social when I want to be, and sober too! I was surprised that I was so social, because I’m usually only social and friendly when I’m tipsy.

I had a ton of fun Saturday night with my outfit. I made a shirt, that was kind of obscene, but I thought it was hilarious (and so did everyone else). I wore real black handcuffs as bracelets, a gun necklace, a gun ring, and a gun earring.

In other news, I have discovered the household chore that I despise more than laundry: mowing and edging the lawn. Man, that totally sucks! I’m just glad that I have slow growing Bermuda grass. I really only have to mow about once month, if even. However, I always let it get higher than I should and then it’s a pain to mow. I hadn’t edged at all this year and realized last night how much the grass was taking over my sidewalk. Ooops!

Tonight I’ll have to finish edging because my electric, rechargeable battery powered, weed eater ran out of juice on me last night. Well, that and I ran out of juice.

I’m already working on making shirts for Brenna and I for this coming weekend. This is getting to be my new favorite thing! I wish I had my own fashion and accessories company. I’d be making all my own clothes.

I leave you this sexy photo.

I almost maimed my face backing my desk chair up, because I just about fell out and crashed my head on the corner of my desk. This is why I firmly believe all seats should have seatbelts, not just in automobiles.

I went grocery shopping this week and I was so proud of myself for going to an actual grocery store instead of Target. I was even more proud of myself for buying super healthy food. I’ve been doing so much better this past year about eating healthy.

I bought food for a couple of weeks or more, and only walked out of the store with TWO MEAT dishes. TWO PEOPLE! The rest was all tofu, soy, or veggie. Shockingly I did not buy any vegetable. How is that possible? I did buy lots of fruit!

I even bought fake cheese! It’s made of rice! I bought wheat bread, which I used to HATE, but I’m growing to enjoy. I bought tofu ice cream sandwiches too. SO proud of myself!

I’ve lost 3 pounds recently. YAYS! I’ve got about 3 more to go and I’m happy. My goal is to be under 170, like 169 would be perfect. I need to get back in the habit of riding my bike again. That would definitely help me drop the pounds.

I’m excited about this weekend. Brenna and I have some fun times and outfits planned! I hope fun people are out!

I think I’m finished with the new header for my website! I might tweak it a bit over the next few weeks, but I think for the most part it is DONE. I’m pretty pleased with it because it turned out cool and it’s a very accurate representation of me and my “multiple personalities.”

I posted all the pics used in full size here. Click the image to enter the album.

Website header photos

It’s been a crazy few weeks lately. My friend Brenna has been staying with me on the weekends and sometimes during the week and we’ve been having so much fun hanging out and going out. I love living along, but it is also really nice to have someone around frequently to talk to and do things with. Brenna and I get along super well and it’s super easy to hang out and do things.

Work has been crazy busy. Now is the busiest time of the year for property management. Everyone wants to move during the summer because their kids are out of school. Most people that rent out properties usually have their leases expire during the summer because it’s the best time to do a turnover. I’d normally have 5 or less properties for lease each month, but during this season it’s about 30.

Between work and running around with Brenna, I’ve been pretty busy. I thought I was going to spend my summer doing things around the house and getting into better shape, but that hasn’t been happening. I’m not upset about it though, I’ve been having too much fun to care.

I was in such a rut a couple of months ago and now I don’t feel like that anymore. I haven’t been going to the Rusty Spur and I’ve been hanging out in different places and with different people. Brenna also inspires me to be a little more daring with what I wear, so I’m enjoying doing that too.

I love planning new outfits for each weekend. This past Saturday I woke up thinking that I wanted to wear something out completely different that anything I’ve worn before. Brenna and I went shopping and everything just came together. I never would have thought I’d wear cutoff shorts rolled up, but I did it and I liked it.

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I had a good weekend. I went to a wedding Friday night and had an awesome time dancing all night. Saturday I spent the day shopping with Brenna, then we went out to Charlie’s to hang out with some friends. Sunday I played around on the computer all day, working on making a new header image for this blog (see the image at the top). I spent a few hours playing dress up and taking pictures. I LOVE playing dress up! Monday I was super lazy. I spent all day on the couch and napping. I really needed and enjoyed that extra day off.

This week I don’t have too much going on yet, but already the week seems like it’s flying by.

I have been down with allergies for a while now. Every time I think I start getting better, I’m knocked right back down. I’ve had this horrible cough for like two weeks now. I also have dry itchy eyes, but I hear there’s a Visine for that.

My BFF, Brenna, has been staying the weekends with me and we’ve been having so much fun. This weekend we went to Frank Restaurant at 4th and Colorado. OMG it was so delicious! They make everything with BACON.

B and I had Bloody Marys with Bacon infused Vodka. They also had a wooden bbq skewer in them with a HUGE chunk of thick bacon, a piece of cheddar cheese, and olive, and a pepper. The bacon inside it was DELICIOUS.

For my meal, I had a homemade pork, bacon and sage sausage on a bun, topped with macaroni and cheese. OMG, soooooo good! Then for dessert we shared a piece of chocolate covered bacon and a bacon chocolate chip cookie. We were in heaven! I seriously did not want to ever eat anywhere else again.

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While we were eating I was telling Brenna that I’ve really been wanting some brass knuckles. I was telling her how convenient it would be to have some. You could tap them against your glass when you want the waiter to bring you more water. You could tap them on the table when you need your waiter’s attention. The possibilities are endless!

Later we were stuck in traffic and the person in front of us was just sitting in the lane, doing nothing. I told B that it would be the perfect opportunity to use the knuckles. I could walk over to the window and tap the knuckles on the window to intimidate them into moving.

So we decided our mission for the day should be to find me some brass knuckles. It was not going to be an easy mission, as they are not legal to sell. They have to be sold as a belt buckle or paper weight, and even then, most people won’t sell them.

We went to a gun shop on Lamar first. I was shocked at how many people were shopping in the gun store with young children, even infants. Now, I realize some people think it’s perfectly normal to raise kids around guns and to hunt. I am not one of those people. I don’t believe children should play with guns or be exposed to them, especially young kids! So I found it a little traumatizing to see kids in a gun store, kind of like seeing kids in a liquor store, or a strip joint.

Anyway, the gun store was a bust, so we went to the Flea Market on 290. We found a vendor at the front that looked like he would sell them. He had knives and throwing stars. So I asked for the knuckles. He immediately said that they didn’t have any, but the guy working with him said, “Yeah we do. In the back.” “No, we sold those yesterday. We’re all out.” The guy working with him looked real confused.

It was obvious to B and I that they just didn’t want to sell them to us. Maybe we look like cops? They told us to try another vendor at the back of the Flea Market, so off we went.

On the way, we passed by a vendor selling belt buckles and he had a buckle with a holster and a gun in it. OMG. I had to have it. I asked to see it and he told me that it’s a shocker gun. It shocks people! Now, I really had to have it. I purchase it and we headed off for the knuckles.

We got to the other vendor and I had B ask this time. There were two guys working at the booth. They looked at each other, looked us up and down, then back at each other and then said, “No. We don’t have any of those.” WHAT?!?!? We tried to make conversation with them and show them we were cool, but they weren’t having it. They told us to try the guys at the front of the market. We told them that those guys sent us to them, and that still didn’t help.

We started pooling our resources of ghetto friends. I sent out a tweet, I posted on Facebook and Brenna started making calls. We got a lead to check the Military Surplus store on Airport Blvd, but that didn’t work either. Then our golden lead came in! We were told to check the Flea Mark on North Lamar.

We pulled a u-turn on the highway and sped on up there! We wandered around the market for a while before we spotted the vendor. He had NO SHAME about selling them. He had them all out on display! I found an awesome black set of knuckles and purchased them. Supposedly the knuckles are meant to be a belt buckle. Wink wink.

The night’s outfit was coming together smoothly. The next stop was to buy some black and white Converse sneakers and I would be done! I already had some cool hipster glasses to wear, so the outfit went together perfectly.

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We got dressed and headed off to Shannon’s birthday dinner at Serranos. Shannon was the first victim for my gun shocking, but the darn thing didn’t work. I must have used the only juice it had left when I shocked myself before I bought it, which was totally an accident. I didn’t realize that it was self-shocking. I thought you could shoot a shock at someone. I know, I’m dumb!

Anyway, so after dinner we rush off to Target to buy new batteries for the gun and that was a hilarious endeavor in its own. First we had to find one of those eyeglass repair kits with tiny screwdrivers in it so I could take apart the gun. It was not made to be taken apart easily. We must have looked real suspicious taking apart a gun in the eyeglass aisle at Target because Mr. Security Gaurd came around snooping on us.

We took our business to the electronics counter to buy some batteries and then change out the dead ones. OMG. I would put the new batteries in and start putting the gun back together and it would shock the hell out of me. I would jump and scream, the gun would fall apart again, and B would be dying laughing. This cycle happened FIVE times before I finally got it put back together. I thought I was going to die. Those shocks HURT. That gun does not play around.

We met up with Benjamin and Emily at the Carousel Lounge way up north and hung out for a bit. I got to shock both Emily and Benjamin and it was super fun. I told Emily it was a lighter, so when it shocked her, she threw it because she thought it was malfunctioning and catching her hand on fire. GOOD TIMES!

We hung out at Charlie’s and OCH for a while, but the gays are too smart and I couldn’t get any of them to fall for my gun shocking trick. That totally ruined all of our fun. I mean, we still had fun, but not nearly as much as we could have had if people had been stupid enough to get shocked.

I did enjoy wearing the knuckles all night. I was tapping them on everything and trying to intimidate everyone. I was pretty sure I was going to get my butt kicked, but managed to end the night without a fight or going to jail! Yays for me!

This weekend B is coming back and we have a Bears versus Gaysians themed birthday party to attend. We have decided that we do not want to dress up as either of those, so we’re going to go as hipsters. We want to look cute because we’re not sure how long we’re going to stay at the party and we may have other engagements where it would be nice to look pretty.