Everytime I go to update this thing I realize it's been 6 months since I've even bothered to touch it. Oh well, I'm a busy girl.

So of course this summer was incredibly hot so I spent a lot of time hanging out on decks and boats and in pools to seek refreshment from the heat. I managed to have a super fun birthday (which included scoring a gorgeous Michael Kors top on sale) and got to see Brenden Fraser from a distance of 10 feet.

I visited Michigan for my dad's birthday and got to see all of my high school friends and my family. It was so nice not to be rushing around like I do during the holidays.

So half of my garden is suffering the ill effects of this scorching weather and I was forced to transplant many of my flowers to keep them out of the blazing sun. All of the impatiens are dead except the ones in my hanging planters which get mostly shade.

Then there's the bucket o' flowers which are thriving in and old half barrel I found in the trash.

Yes, garbage picker :) It all started when I was real little and my dad would throw me in the dumpster behing Kroger to hand out rotted lettuce to take home to the hogs. Free hog food seemed like a good reason to dumpster dive.

Hm... what else? Boyfriend and dog are both good. Mike still working on his "man cave" doing paneling... at least the bar part is done, nice to have a cocktail occasionally, eh?

The Charity Chicks are doing awesome as well. Some of us hosted an event called "Orlando's Got Talent" where we raised money for The Center for Independent Living so they could build wheelchair ramps for folks. Here's me thanking Dave Collins from 107.7 for emcee'ing the event and handing the biggie check to Doug for ramp buildin'! My friends Debbie and Penny were absolutely amazing in pulling this thing together.