Lizard Man

Back by popular demand, I have made some more pictures using Paint. This weekend I had a little visitor in my living room. He was tiny and green and actually pretty darn cute. I'll let you see for yourself how it all went down...

Disclaimer: Items in pictures are not drawn to scale

 And that's what I did this weekend.

Fascinating, I know.

Emmy Recap

If you know anything about me, then you know that I love and watch WAY too much television. For this reason The Emmy awards are like Christmas to me. I love being so invested in characters and stories that I literally jump up and down and scream when the shows and actors are recognized for bringing these characters and stories to life. Here are some of my highs and lows from last nights telecast.


First off, I'm going to start with the most important thing. The fashion! Here are some of my favorite looks from the evening. (I don't like to do a worst dressed list. No hate on this blog!)

Sofia Vergara. She is one of the most beautiful women in the world (even though she looks a little crazy in this picture) and she's hilarious on Modern Family. I love the color of this dress and the way it hugs her curves without showing off all of her goods.I can't believe she's 39 years old! 

Next up is another one of my favorite actresses, Elizabeth Moss. I adore her character on Mad Men and he spunky spirit! I loved the softness of this dress and the shear arms.

Another one of my best dressed was Aubry Plaza from Parks and Rec. I don't watch this show and the only thing I've seen Aubry in was Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, but she def stood out to me on the red carpet. This pictures doesn't really show off the dress like I'd like it to but I love the ruffles at the top and her soft waves. Very old Hollywood!

Last on my list was Lena Headey. Her dress was a simple black, long-sleeved lace number that really wasn't anything special. However, she's just so beautiful and unique looking that she makes anything look phenomenal. Gorgeous.

Onto my favorite and least favorite parts of the actual ceremony. The most exciting, unexpected win for me was Peter Dinklage as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his role as Tyrion Lannister on Game of Thrones. GOT had a ton of hype surrounding it when it premiered in April. Having read the book I was really looking forward to watching the show. The show overall was a good show, but did not live up to the hype. However, Peter Dinklage was fantastic and is extremely deserving of the Emmy. Another plus, he thanked his dog sitter in his acceptance speech. Too cute.

Another highlight was Ty Burell's acceptance speech. It was incredibly heartfelt while being laugh-out-loud funny. I'm not complaining about the Modern Family sweep because while the show definitely fell into a sophomore slump in season 2, it was still leaps and bounds better than every other comedy nominated for Emmys. Had Community been nominated I might be singing a different tune, but it wasn't. Oh well. 

Congrats Ty! 

There is a lot of hate on there on the interest about The Lonely Island medley. I thought it was hilarious and the Michael Bolton Jack Sparrow song is one of my all time favorite SNL bits. If you don't know what I'm talking about, please watch this video

Moving on to my least favorite parts of the evening:

- Charlie Sheen's public apology. It was just plain awkward.

- The continued shameless plugging of Charlie's Angels

- The Emmytones. What was the point? Why did you agree to this, Joel McHale

- January Jones' absence from the red carpet. She just had a baby.

Finally, my absolute least favorite award moment was Steve Carell's monster snub in the Best Lead Actor in a Comedy category. In the six years he was on The Office he never won an Emmy. While there were times when I had a love/hate relationship with Michael Scott, Steve Carell did such an amazing job with that character and deserved recognition. Boo on dropping the ball there Emmys. 

You're the winner in my heart, Steve!

My favorite things

Watch out Oprah, Alex's is copying you taking over! 

Here is a little insight into something I absolutely love, white pumpkins. 

I think they are so beautiful and magical, they just make my heart happy. If I get married in October, you better believe there will be white pumpkins EV-ERY-WHERE!

Another one of my other favorite things is anything miniature (it's not really one thing, but oh well). I'm such a sucker for packaging and will overpay ridiculously for anything in a tiny format. If I ever have children, I will go bankrupt buying them tiny shoes. I just can't get enough. 

So, what happens when you combine white pumpkins and miniature things? You get these:

 

Tiny white pumpkins! And one tiger stripped one.These little cuties are proudly hanging out in my living room until the end of time (or until they get stinky).

It officially feels like fall and I'm lovin' every minute of it!

Yoryoryoryoryor, yoryor, Football!

I'm very glad that I have a BF who is an IT professional. Without his help, my computer would have 50,000 viruses, I wouldn't know how to work the DVR, and I would never be able to transfer my pictures from my camera to the computer. So yay for people who know what they are doing! As promised, here are some pictures from last weekend.

For some unknown reason we had this Auburn ice sculpture at our tailgate and my dad made us hold it and take pictures...

Clay got in on the action and decided he needed some ice to cool down

Finally reunited with my bestie!

Ain't it a beautiful sight! 

It was a great weekend and I'm hoping this one will be too!

P.S. If you don't get my reference in the title, check out this video about former Ole Miss head coach 

Ed Orgeron. He has such a way with words.

Sun Soaked

Alrighty people. I really need to learn how to use technology. I can't figure out how to get the pictures off of my camera onto my computer. It's sad, but true.

I had a really fun weekend in Auburn. I saw some great friends, got to spend time with my family, and went to my first (and hopefully not last) Auburn game of the season. I have great pictures of all of this but you're going to have to wait on seeing them until I can get my act together. Yesh!

In the meantime, here's a picture of what I looked like after spending 4 hours in the blazing hot Alabama sun...

Those are some sexy tan lines! 

The things I will do to cheer my Tigers on. 

P.S. I have clothes on. In case you were wondering.

Daily Prophet

I feel like this should be in the classified section of The Daily Prophet, not The Corner News

Silly Muggles, wands are worth WAY more than $25.00. 

P.S. I'm watching Dance Moms and it's frightening. It should be called "Crazy Dance Instructor". 

Also, I broke down and joined Twitter. @AlexSmith207

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying

I'm not the most graceful person in the world. 

This is an understatement.

I trip a lot, roll my ankles, fall up stairs, run into my coffee table...you get the picture. I rarely ever actually fall down, but today was NOT one of those times. I was walking back from lunch with a friend and it was in the middle of a class change. Well, apparently I'm not good at walking and talking at the same time and I lost my footing and fell forward. Now I thought I had steadied myself, thus avoiding the complete fall. I had not. I ended up falling backwards on the sidewalk and flashing my granny panties to everyone in the UA business school. It was bad. Really bad.

It looked a little bit like this little man (minus the coffee)

I wish I could have blamed it on someone else...

Or something else...

But this one was all me kids. I laughed it off and ran into the bathroom as quickly as possible. I now have a bloody ankle and a bruised ego, but at least I have a four day weekend!