The Quality of Being Authentic

All I want to do is go to sleep... But in good conscience I can't not update my blog. It has been a few weeks and I can't fall behind anymore. I guess things have been pretty hectic these past few weeks. I traveled home to throw my bestest friend a bachelorette party and bridal shower. That was so much fun. I went home on Wednesday and stayed until Sunday. The Bachelorette was fun, we stayed in a hotel in Atlanta, Ate a great dinner, Drank too much Champagne, and threw a little lingerie shower. The next day came early and La and I were slow in making it to The Smith's where the next party was to happen. I won't lie to you I tried to call it quits a few times throughout the day, but  thanks to Lauren and her pep talks we ended up throwing a fabulous party for the bride and groom to be. I am sure you can tell embedded in this paragraphs are stories untold, and that is correct. In reality this whole weekend was deserving of its own post, but on second t...

Z and I have been busy revamping our chic 800 sq ft apartment. We started as you know with a bed change (from queen to King) *side note: Best decision ever! Then I bought new pillow covers for the couch, new side tables and dresser for the bedroom, re decorated the closet; complete with new storage, and a new "green" themed place setting, and yes that is my home grown basil as the center piece. It has been about 3 weeks in the making but we are finally done. The apartment looks great! And I love when we redecorate, although the budget doesn't allow for that very often. Although this revamp did come with a bit of drama, specifically surrounding the bed. SOO here's the dealio, living in a one bedroom apartment in Miami has some amazing upsides, but also some downsides. The biggest one is little to no storage. So this was the drama, we store a lot of our things under the bed in the water heater closet and outside on the deck. So this is all fine and dandy until we get ou...