The Southern Daily

Music takes me there

lusciouslacey — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:08:33 +0000

I love songs that can make me smile… smile because it takes me to a place in time that meant and continues to mean so much to me. My memory bank is full of amazing times spent in the forefront of a great song. I love that one awesome artist can remind me of a wonderful person and perfect times spent with them. A simple wonderful song can take me to dancing with my best girlfriends all night, a campout on the living room floor, a roadtrip, first kiss, day at the park, driving my jeep for the first time, birthdays, sporting events, my first album, my first concert, highschool, dancing in the rain… the list goes on and on and I’m sure you get my point.

I have read so many blog posts about music affecting people in a big way. Bottom line… I heard a song today that took me back and thought I would add myself to the list and write about it too.

Quote for life!

lusciouslacey — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:31:21 +0000

I used to be huge on quotes. Well, let’s be honest… I still am. I have them on notebooks, post its on computer screens, chalk boards and dry erase boards around my house, framed in picture frames everwhere… pretty much anywhere I can!! Quotes say it best! I’m convinced they make you feel and help you express! With that combo on hand how can it be bad?

I read this today!!

“I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.” — Theodore I. Rubin, MD

All I can say now is… Perfect!!

A better fit…

lusciouslacey — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:52:13 +0000

A new blog … here we go!!

Pretty much the same as the other… whatever I think goes!!

Love it!! Love me!! … please!

I love sharpies!!

lusciouslacey — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:52:24 +0000

I have a little sharpie obsession. Okay little might be considered a white lie to some. I have a big sharpie obsession. I write with them all the time… even if the task clearly doesn’t call for it. I have ever color and they are everywhere in my house. I mean all over kitchen drawers, my purse, laundry room, tool box and weird enough my underwear drawer. That’s where I keep the good colors so I don’t over use them. Sad… I know. Soooooo I was jumping around from blog to blog today and I found this!! A whole basement decorated with SHARPIE!!!!! Yup… you heard me. No wallpaper, no paint to mess with … a few sharpie markers, a vision and some time. LOVE IT!!!!

Nice... fun...

How crazy is that!!!!?

100

lusciouslacey — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:10:13 +0000

I saw someone do this on their blog… I thought it was cool and something I could wip up in no time. Little did I know it would take me three weeks. Working on it… getting stuck or busy and having to find the time to come back. I didn’t know coming up with 100 Lacey facts would be this hard… or time consuming. It’s kind of cool to sit and think of things that really mean something to you… really make you tick … really define you in a way! This in no way is everything and I could do 1000 more if I had a free couple of months on my hands. For now… and for what it’s worth… here is my 100. Try your own!

1) I was born and raised in Georgia and absolutely love being a peach

2) I love to fish but don’t like to bait my own hook

3) I’m 27 and 30 doesn’t scare me … yet!

4) I try to be the best person I can be… and I’m better today than I have ever been

5) Most of my very best memories took place while doing something outside

6) My very best friends are all married or engaged

7) I’m convinced my mom and dad will live forever because my brain doesn’t accept any other option

8) I have two dogs and they make my house a home

9) I am addicted to my blackberry curve even though I probably don’t know about and/or use half the features it has

10) I had my own radio show at 20 years old

11) I work in the wedding industry

12) I have two brothers. I am the middle child

13) I love a comfy comfy couch. The type you sink into when you sit down.

14) My middle name is Ann. I share it with my mom and both grandmothers

15) I was scared to live alone and I have fallen in love with it… even though I can’t wait to share my space again

16) I have written 2 books and have done nothing with them and don’t know if I ever will. I wrote them for me… but I might write one to publish or for someone else down the road.

17) If Im on my laptop I’m in or on my bed (90% of the time not counting when Im at work)

18) I love fair food. Funnel cakes, roasted corn and anything on a stick!

19) I love to cook and I think I’m pretty good at it.

20) I would take a burger and fries over a nice 5 course meal any day of the week.

21) My favie shoes are flip flops I have had since I was 17

22) I have a pair of oversized sweatpants that I call my “feel better pants” and they really do make me feel better

23) I cried the day I bought my jeep wrangler because I was 18 and did it myself… and I will cry the day I sell it because I am so in love with it. A jeep girl through and through

24) Singing used to be a big part of my life. I actually got paid to do it

25) I love peanut butter m&ms

26) Snuggling is the best… ever

27) I love to travel

28) Personal growth has been my greatest accomplishment thus far

29) A song that can take you back to any point in your life is a damn fine song in my book

30) I love to write with pencils. I don’t really get to because it seems there is no place for pencils in the buisness world

31) My favie beer is Yuengling a close second these days is Purple Haze

32) My parents never cease to amaze me. They are nothing short of perfection.

33) I painted my bedroom wall in my last place tourqoise. I really wanted a blue wall

34) I think target is fantastic

35) I hate ranch dressing… I know Im like the only one that does

36) I have a calendar for my purse, one in my work bag, one in outlook, a dry erase calendar and one on my blackberry. I use all of them

37) It really bothers me when people do not say please and thank you

38) My boyfriend opens the car door for me always and I love it… I think its a dying trend that should make its way back

39) I stopped drinking anything with caffiene over 5 years ago but still need my morning decaf coffee to wake up. It’s a mental thing

40) I only got and used my passport for the first time this year a couple months ago. I’m dying to use it again

41) I’m scared of heights

42) and deathly afraid of snakes

43) I really dislike the color pink

44) It drives me crazy when people ask you to do something they can easily do themselves

45) I love to ride in the car…

46) Im over the top organized at work. And I mean crazy organized… my folder tabs have post it tabs. I have tabs on tabs on tabs and can find anything anytime you need it.

47) I really like blogging even though I don’t feel that I’m that good at it

48) It’s hard for me to find pants that fit most of the time cause I wear a 34′ in length

49) Most of the time I shower 2 or 3 times a day. I love to shower right before I get into bed

50) I love my I-pod and hardly know how to use it

51) I really like the smell of scotch tape

52) I think gift bags are cheating.

53) I have beat one video game in my life. Jak and Daxter on the PS2 and I love it

54) When I sleep I have to have my feet and most of my legs out from under the covers. Not sure why, I just do

55) At work I sit with my legs up in my chair most of the time. Indian style or my knees up to my chest… very professional

56) I set goals for myself and a reward for once I reach those goals. Than I start the cycle over. I find this keeps me reaching for my dreams… anything is possible

57) When I grocery shop I always get a basket even if I need 200 things. Im convinced I can make it fit and don’t need a cart

58) I love sharpies

59) If we are getting pizza… my vote will always be pepperoni

60) I love to run errands

61) The rain makes any stress I may have go away

62) I met two of my best friends in highschool and the other almost 9 years ago. They are amazing!!

63) My hair is curly/wavy and I wear it straight just about every single day

64) I think an open mind has endless possibilities

65) I love to be barefoot

66) I am a creature of habit and a total planner

67) 24 is my favorite show

68) I wear the same jewelry just about every single day

69) I’m super lucky that I get to work with two of my bffs daily!! Soooo fun

70) I think road trips are fantastic

71) I like tons and tons of pillows on my bed. Extra extra soft please

72) Gerber Daisies are my all time favie but I love roses and all other fresh flowers too

73) I adore board game nights and playing cards

74) I’m a wine girl all the way… red wine only please

75) Listening to music online gets me thru my workday

76) I love cinnamon toothpaste… I don’t know anyone else who does

77) I didn’t know coming up with 100 Lacey facts would be this hard

78) Even though I love the rain…I hate driving in it

79) Laughing is one of my all time favorite things to do and I’ve done it more than ever lately

80) I love love love cheesecake. (hate graham cracker crust though)

81) I truly think people can change… and do change

82) The beach (any beach) makes me happy

83) I think french fries go best with honey mustard

84) Holiday Weeks on The Food Network are sooooo my favorite ever

85) Some people think I don’t shut up and others tell me I am toooo quiet

86) I fell into a new feeling this month and I want it forever

87) I think fruit should be fruit… served alone as fruit. Never in anything particularly desserts!! On the side… but never ever in

88) I watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation every year on Christmas Eve and It’s a Wonderful Life at least three times from Thanksgiving night until January 1st. It’s tradition

89) I hate being cold… but I love the change in season and snow

90) I have horrible eyesight and would love to get lasik, but I always find better options for spending $5000 when it comes down to it

91) I love all music but my favorite has to be country music. I go thru phases

92) I think people that wear bluetooth headsets all day should be kicked in the butt

93) I’m convinced that dreams really do come true

94) If I could travel anywhere right now… Italy is next on my list or some place sunny beachy and amazing

95) I have no patience for rude customer service representatives

96) I love kids

97) I didn’t think I was a very touchy feely person… lately I have proved myself so wrong and I love it

98) I am beyond lucky and happier than I have ever been

99) I must have a REAL Christmas Tree

100) I’ve been in love one time. It has changed my life and continues to every day

My Pun’kins!

lusciouslacey — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:57:25 +0000

I have thrown out not once, or twice… but whole lot of times that I am a pretty good pumpkin carver. I thought I should back that statement up. Here are some of the pumpkins I have carved the last few years. Yay Halloween!!!

The best one I have ever done

Happy Halloween!!

lusciouslacey — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:23:40 +0000

I dare to say that Halloween is my favie holiday!! Now, Thanksgiving and Christmas are right up there on my list as well. But for some reason Halloween has just always been my thing. I like to think that I am freakishly good at carving pumpkins, pretty creative in the costume creations and just for kicks… I’m throwing in the fact that a couple years in a row I made the greatest orange and black construction paper garland ever!!! Best part… I put it up outside on our Victorian white grand porch… and after an afternoon rain shower… turned that beautiful white porch into a Halloween colored mess!!! Mom and Dad loved that, let me tell ya!

Soooooo this year… I couldn’t do my usual half clothed sexy costume thing because I needed a costume that was work appropriate. I have never dressed up at work before. So … why not!! Two of my very best friends work with me so I grabbed one and told her she was dressing up with me!! We needed something we could do together. (We thought it would be easier to win best duo award over best overall or most original) We didn’t have a lot of time… 24 hours really sooo this is what we came up with….

I know I know… people have done it before. But I hadn’t! I had never worn a costume made out of a box before. It makes you laugh just to put the dang thing on. This costume definitely has its perks too!!

The best parts about this costume….

1) Going to the UPS store and trying on boxes. haha the sales person thought we were nuts!! I mean hello… Halloween was a day away what did he think I was stepping in boxes for?

2) It’s sooooo freaking fast and easy!!!

3) The whole costume I think cost around $6 or $7 bucks… couple bucks for a box, couple bucks for a can of white spray paint, 52 cents for a piece of black poster board and TAH – DAAAAA there you have it!!

4) Can of White Spray Pain in one hand… a glass of red wine in the other… 30 something degrees outside and your best friend along side… I have not laughed that much or that hard in a long long time. That’s worth the time spent right there.

5) Comfy Comfy clothes…. I sit here now at my desk in Black cotton pants, my favorite v-neck tee and a black fleece… and my super awesome fuzzy black slippers. Sooooo I take the box off, and sit at my desk comfy and happy all day!! haha

Yeah … pretty damn good costume if I do say so myself!!

Idiot Move of the Day

lusciouslacey — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:52:14 +0000

I’m not a big facebook user… I don’t get the features, I don’t know how to find people and I learned how to post pictures on the thing two days ago. I’ve had the account for a while I just haven’t really put enough time into getting things figured out. I’ve always been more of a myspace girl personally because that’s the outlet we most often use in radio/tv/media projects in general. Recently I have figured out that most of the people I want to be in touch with use facebook more then myspace … sooo… I’m making an effort to figure the damn thing out. Trying to get over my back and forth battle with the oh so confusing facebook world I have been talking to friends, commenting, getting in touch, keeping in touch and doing the best I can at all of it. A dear dear friend of mine and I talk maybe a few times a month… a phone call, a facebook message an email here and there… whatever the means we make it happen. Not as often as I would have liked… but none the less we did it. I met this friend in middle school. We are 27 clearly, we have been friends for what seems like forever. Today I went to his facebook page… we hadn’t talked in a little over a month or so. Last time we talked he told me he was moving back to Georgia and I was going to get to see him and we made plans on plans on plans to see each other. Last comment a few weeks ago I was counting down till I got to see him again! Well, it’s about that time… so this morning I had 2 mins to leave a facebook comment and jump into my meeting. I signed on… jumped to his page… left a post on his page that read something like this “I miss your face!! Are you here yet?… its about that time.. hope you are well!!” Typical Lacey message. I post and run into my meeting.

Now… I have facebook on my blackberry. Blackberry facebook is a less detailed version. You see when you get a message, a post or a friend request. Halfway thru my meeting my buddy sent me a message, my blackberry buzzes again, same buddy posted a comment… buzzes again.. another message. I click the link to read the message (in the middle of the my meeting) he writes to tell me that my friend in the first paragraph of this horribly sad post had passed away a little over a month ago. A new reason to hate facebook… I know its not facebooks fault but damn!!!! So I leave a I miss you and can’t wait to see you and call me when you get here message to a friend that is gone. Middle of the meeting tears down my face and an over the top pain because I didn’t know. It took facebook for me to find out. Ugh. I went back to his page and saw comment after comment of rest in peace, you are deeply missed… and thinking of you posts. I looked thru the pictures and just got lost for a while.

I’m sick and sad over this. I hate that I didn’t know. I hate that I didn’t go to the funeral, I’m sick with the idea that plans made wont happen and that I wont see him again when I was looking so forward to it. Just sick over it.

It’s not the best subject and maybe it is terrible of me to even write about all of this but my healing is writing… I had to get it out. The idiot move of the day… caring so much for someone and not knowing something this huge!!!! Not traveling out to see him, calling more, loving better!! We do what we can and life gets in the way… why do we let it?

I want people to know what they mean to me. I want people to know how they affect me, how they make me feel, what they have taught me and how they have pushed me to grow! I think I do a better job letting people know who they are to me and how much they make up my world… but I’m going to do better… much much better.

The sweeter side of life…

lusciouslacey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:36:40 +0000

The top of my desk

I have a serious sweet tooth!! And when I say serious… I mean over the top. You can often find me eating peanut butter m&ms for breakfast at my desk or leaving the office mid afternoon for a milkshake run! haha It might have something to do with the fact my dad let me eat cake for breakfast and my mom makes the best cookies (well anything sweet really) ever!! It’s truly amazing I am not 800lbs. I eat healthy for meals I just love little junk food snacks here and there. At work, I have file folders and all of my office supplies ontop of my desk. My tape dispensor, stapler, pen holder, lotion… you name it, and it’s on top of the desk not inside of my desk. Why not in the drawer you ask….

Theres no room for office supplies because my candy takes up the whole thing. And let me just tell you… the people in my office love me when they need something sweet.

A look inside my desk drawer!

Knowing what you want…

lusciouslacey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:55:03 +0000

Have you ever put yourself out on a limb… knowing that after the grand gesture was made you would with no doubt be standing out there on your own??

I worked my way out on the limb as far as I could. So now… I guess we’ll see.