WORDless Wednesday!

Minorities & Alzheimer's

The lastest news about Alzeimer's is that African-Americans and Hispanics are particularly vulnerable to the disease. Read the article here....

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-03-09-alzheimersstats09_ST_N.htm

Happy Tuesday!
Magnolia

Weekend Madness

You ever have thouse weekends that things just keep popping up. Well that was my weekend. In fact two things popped up, 2 retirement parties J mentioned to me at the last minute. The first was Saturday. At about 1:30 in the afternoon, he mentioned to me that his commander's roast was that night at 5:00. Well needless to say, I needed to wash the hair, dry it and flatiron it, then find my face and get dressed by 4:30. Doesn't sound bad right, well it takes about an hour to do just my hair. Happy news though, I got it all done with time to pick out J's clothes. The second was Sunday, J told me at about 9:30 that there was a going away lunch for one of his soldiers at 11:00. Well, at least I didn't have to do my hair since I done it the night before but still, I had to find my face and get dressed and across town. Thank goodness he called a little bit later and said they moved the lunch until 11:30. Well, that was the madness!

Now on to the really good stuff, I bought a great pair of capri pants at Banana Republic for $23! And I got a great spring/summer dress at the Gap for about $25. I love good deals! Right now you can find great deals on pieces that you could wear all year long (or at least in the south you can). Oh! And if you're wondering why I didn't shot my husband with all these last minute madness, well he did buy me a great Slane & Slane necklace for my birthday Saturday night so I guess I can't get too mad right?!?!? Not that I'm going to stay upset with him anyway.

So how was your weekend???

Blessings
Magnolia

Style Friday

I thought I throw out some of my favorite things on Friday, just for fun.

First, the satchel purse, I love these purses, of course I loose stuff in them since they are bigger.

I personally have the one of the right (Lucky Brand) and I love it since it's got two pockets on the outside, one for my cell phone and the other for my keys, so neither of them get lost in the bottomless pit I call my purse. Actually, I have that purse in two different colors (I got them both on sale, Yeah me!)

The other thing I want to share with y'all today is the stuff that keeps my hair shiny and frizz free......

It's Redken Glass, and you can buy it from just about anywhere you find Redken products. We southern women with big hair can use all the help we can get! Although, it recommends you can use it all day long, it will weigh your hair down, so I only use it in the morning after I flat iron my hair.

Hope this was fun and helpful.

Great Shopping,

Magnolia

WORDless Wednesday!

Alzheimer's on CBS!

This is a great piece on Alzmeimers for those who are and aren't familiar with the disease. Some of the statistics will shock you. Hope you enjoy. I did!

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6089199n&tag=related;photovideo

Hugs,
Magnolia

PS. I think that either Buzz or Kate is going to get kicked off tonight on Dancing with the Stars.

New Year Starting Now!

I know kind of strange title, but I'm going to start fresh starting now with my blog. There have been so many things that I've wanted to say that it just gets all jumbled up sometimes. So, here's how it goes, Monday's will be a recap of the weekend (you know just in case something exciting happened). Tuesday and Thursday is going to be updates about Alzheimers, Wednesday is wordless Wednesday (of course unless something crazy happens that I just have to talk about) and Friday, I'm going to try and find out new styles to post.

So let's get started. My weekend started off on Thursday after work, thank goodness my boss believes in Good Friday. J and I went to the Maundy Thursday service at church, and can I just tell you that it was pretty powerful. I mean think about it when the paster says that you can come to the front of the church and nail a nail in a cross up there, because you were the ones that put them there in the first place, well, that sort of thing really makes you think hard about what sins you've committed. So after all the hard stuff to think about, Friday was pretty much, get pretty day, I got my nails done, and J and I headed to the mall. And yes of course I bought stuff, but I was really good, I only bought 2 pair of shoes from Marshalls! Saturday, I got a bug that I needed a new Easter dress, so I headed out and came back with what I thought was a cute dress, when I got home I tried it on for J and this is what he said "It makes you look like a lampshade", well at that point I resigned myself to wearing a dress I bought last year and promptly returned the dress today since all I need is to look like a lampshade. Sunday, we were up and at church 25 minutes before the service started, not really a bright idea since our church has 3 services and we go to the second one, and since we got there early, 1st service wasn't out yet and we had to park in West Egypt!!! The service was awesome to say the least. Our paster always gives you something to think about for the week. Lunch and home finished out our day. Needless to say with the extra day off, I really hated for that alarm to go off this morning. Thanks the good Lord for COFFEE!

Well, until tomorrow and some Alzheimer's news.

Blessings,
Magnolia