Jimmy Kimmel Live!!!

Eleven friends and I visited LA this weekend for 2 friend's birthdays and we had so much fun! One of the many things we did was go to the Friday night Jimmy Kimmel Live taping...and we made it on the show!! I included links below to 3 videos…..one is the introduction, one is from Austin Nichols' interview, and the last is the musical guest. You can see our group on all 3 videos. The "itinerary" they talk about is about our trip schedule that Lora made and had laminated for the girls (I attached it too). Jimmy Kimmel actually read it to the entire audience during the pre-show, we were all laughing so hard we were crying. During the musical guest clip, we are all lined up behind Jimmy when he introduced the band. After the show we got to go into the VIP green room and hang out with Austin Nichols and a lot of the show staff. Needless to say, it was a blast!!! Everyone was so nice too…guess they couldn't help reciprocate the southern hospitality with 12 Texas gals around. Our 15 seconds of fame!!

Monologue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEKBU9Jlod4

Austin Nichols interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FFoSGbZ2Co

Music section: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXjfhtfXZj0

Happiness is a Good Poker Hand

Downtown Austin Chic

Went to see Deejer on Friday night at Stubb's with Renae and Melissa. On the way to dinner, I snapped this quick photo of them around the corner. I am super happy with it....AND the girls agreed to be my "models" one day soon, so I can get some more like this one! :)

Gotta LOVE Texas Weather....

One minute the sky is about to open up and drain.....it did, it poured for about 30 minutes. Then an hour later, it's all good again.

6.13.07 Pic of The Day

Something new....photo a day!!

So, I'm going to try something....and see if I can keep it up (and no, I don't mean this no carb diet thing that Amy has me doing in preparation for our PV trip at the end of the month!).

I'm going to try to take one picture and post it per day. Yes, like taking ONE picture a day is a hard thing for me to do....BUT, let's say that this is my attempt at trying to be more creative. I just ordered two photography books from amazon.com today, that will hopefully help me more. Granted, I need a much better camera than the one I'm using, but we'll see what I can do with what I have.

For tonight....here's what I have. Yes, it's a picture of a beetle bug (or whatever these little critters that hang around the light are called - I can't remember right now). It was sitting on the the ledge of the back door window tonight. Nice little bug didn't try to come inside when the door opened, so I took his (or could it be a her?) picture.

My Molly

The First 2007 Trip to Lake Travis...

We went to the lake on Saturday with Shon and LJ. It was my first time on the lake this summer, and boy did I need it!! Talk about WHITE! We hung out in Devil's Cove, and then headed over to Jardin (of course) for dinner after the water. So, I took pics.....but I'm not posting any pics of ME from the lake on Saturday, but here are two cool ones that I took of Chris. I joked with him that he could use them for his MySpace page....and then he DID! LOL!!!

HAIL!!!

I was working from home today, and for about 7 minutes, the rain and hail came down like no other. Of course, I had to run out and try to get a picture!!! It was the size of golfballs, and the noise was so loud. But just like Texas weather, it was all melted and sunny outside about an hour later.

Oasis

Gotta love that view! Had dinner at The Oasis with the Arredondos the Saturday over Memorial Day weekend!

Just call me "Bubble Girl"....

Laura and I decided to play in a poker tourney on Saturday afternoon/night. It was $100 buy in, 24 people playing, pay out top 3 players. High stakes, yes, but we figured we earned it. :)

The game started with 3 tables of 8 people, 10,000 in chips, at around 530. There were 4 women playing out of 24, and 3 of us ended up at the same table. Lucky for Laura, she was at a table of her own. I am just not a fan of playing with women, especially annoying ones.....like the ones that say things like "Now why did you do that?", when you raise before the flop. Um, because that's how you play poker....now shut up and either call or fold. Anyways...I got over it, but not before I handed a LOT of my chips to one of the ladies who didn't even realize that she had a full house and beat me on the hand. More annoying.

I was playing terribly, but still having a good time. I was down to about 5000 in chips and got a pretty decent hand. Blinds were 200/400. KB raised to 800, I re-raised to 1600, and then Chris to my left raised it to 5000. To call him put me all in. I had K-10 suited. I'd seen the hands that this guy had been playing, they were all over the place....so I sat there and thought for a while, and decided to call him. I would have been pretty much out anyways if I had folded with only 3400 in chips left. So, I called. He had A-K. Well, a 10 came on the flop and nothing else paired....so, I WON. It was one of those hands that really makes you sweat...I was SO thrilled that I won it!!!

Now I had 10,000 chips again, so I was starting from scratch. I got A-A a few hands later, and bet REALLY big pre-flop. One guy called, I think out of pity, and then on the flop I bet big again, he folded. I had to show because of the hand that I had, and thanked him for the generosity.

Shortly thereafter, I got moved to Laura's table. I didn't really win any big hands, I over bet my good cards to be sure I wouldn't lose, and managed to stay in long enough to make it to the final table, top 8 players. I was lucky to be sat in seat 8, so I got to stay in the longest without posting blinds too. (yay!). KB was also at the final table with me, to my left. Well, KB went out pretty quickly, so then it was down to 7. I wasn't the shortest chip stack, but was FAR behind the leaders. I let the other players take each other out. It got down to 4 people and I got K-10 suited again. (It was the hand of the night for a lot of people). I went all in, the big chip stack called me. He had Q-10. The flop came with 2 of my suit.....turn was a Q, and river was nothing. So, I went out 4th. Did I mention that they were paying top 3??? Oh well, I got a few lottery tickets as a loser prize, and think that I made $10 on them. The 3rd place walked away with $230, 2nd $900 and 1st was $1170. Man, what I could have done with that kind of cash....but, overall, I was surprised that I made it that long, so I can't be too disappointed. I never had anymore than about 18,000 chips the entire time and hung on until 4th. :) Fun night overall....better luck next time.