Where is Parker, TX home of Nastia Liukin Olympic Gold Medalist?

Well Parker, TX is the home of Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze 2008 medalist Nastia Liukin and well I live very close to it In fact I drive through it each and every time I go to see my family in Plano and Allen. It is a very tiny town. In fact I do not believe there is even a town square or downtown in Parker. The fire station is made up of volunteer firemen. It has 2 water towers and lots of farmland still. The city is tiny and the city hall sits on the same land as the city fire station and police station. It's right next to The famous Southfork Ranch famous from you guessed it, the TV show Dallas.

I guess I should include information on where exactly is Parker, Tx in the state of Texas. Well it is North of Dallas on Highway 75, ( Also known as Central to us Texans, we kinda like the 2 and 3 differnt names per street and/or highway around here. Check out 544. I swear it must have 10 names, just depending on what part of 544 you are travelling! ) Once you enter Plano look for the Parker Rd (Not Park! Parker) exit on 75. Go east on Parker Road and as you drive on Parker Road you drive right through Parker, Texas. Now you will know when you are in Parker by first the sign in the middle of the divided road and then look to your left and you will soon see a few Welcome Home and Congrats signs for their Olympic Hero, but most importantly my the Parker cops that park in the middle of the road just to catch those speeders, so DON'T SPEED on Parker Road! If the Parker cops don't get you odds are the Plano police will. I have been lucky and the one time I sped down this street I was blssed to have the nice police man flash his lights at me to slow down. I was lucky.

I never thought twice of the city as I drove through it until now. Who knew an Olympic Champion lived so close. There is a big home coming and parade planned for her upon her return.

Do you think like what i do that the US gymnast have been cheated out of some medals? I can't believe Nastia did not win the gold on the bars. She clearly made less mistakes than the other Chinese girl, let alone those Chinese woman are NOT woman! They are girls and they can not be 16 years old! they should lose all of their medals! I am sorry but cheating is cheating and if there is tie breaker rule then ALL of the rules need to be followed! Girls not 16 years old should not be able to compete and win. I am sorry those are the rules and I find it very hard to believe that a girl missing a tooth still is 16 years old. There faces and bodies all but say the are not 16 so why didn't the Olympic committee step in and make the Chinese follow all of the rules.

Why do they keep scoring so badly! I mean how can a girl fall on her vault landing and be awarded the Gold medal? Things need to change for the next Olympics and someone better challenge the Chinese on those girls ages! They know how old they are question them alone away from their coaches. UGH! So frustrated for the woman's team. Oh well I hope she wins Gold on the beam tomorrow! It sure has been fun to watch but also the most frustrating games as far as woman's gymnastics goes.

Dilemma - What is a Girl to do?

What is my dilemma? So I ventured out Sunday on the last day of Texas' tax free weekend. I swore I would never shop on one of these weekends because the stores are just too packed, but I stopped by a small mall with a TJ Maxx to check out the sales. I find a sweater and then check out some Kathy Vreeland bags. Great price on these bags but I just wasn't in love with any of them at this store, I picked one up and carried it around, but then I spied this beautiul bag on the sale rack and in choclolate brown. The price was $19.00. It was made for me. it felt so good on my arm. I carried it all around the store with me. I LOVED it. I have beenlooking for and wanting a hobo style purse but not a deep one, most all of the ones I find are big and deep. This one wasn't, I had to have it. I thought how lucky I was to find it befoer everyone else. It was BEAUTIFUL! And just Yummy to the touch and smell of it. A leather purse for $19.00, a must have!

But then I got to the counter and upon check it gulp, not $19.00 BUT $119.00! BIG GULP! What is a girl to do? I never fall in LOVE with purses. I was in love with this yummy piece by Donald James Pilner. Ok so I have never heard of him or his handbags before but this purse was over the top wonderful! (I've since learned he is big in Beverly Hills, who knew) Never has a purse felt so good on my shoulder, but then again never have I ever paid $119.00 for a purse. Now it was orginally $575.00 and I got it for a knock down bargain price of $119.00 Even the bag pictured in blue I found online for this picture was on sale for $270.00, so $119.00 was a steal right? What do I do? Do I buy it and treat myself or tell the sales lady I don't want it afterall. It's not relaly in my budget. What do I do? What do I do?

Well I bought it! And I still love it!

Playing

Ok so I am playing around with banner ideas and trying to finally learn Photoshop Elements in the process. I never liked the name of my blog. What doyou think of Vintage V's? Not sure if is a winner or not. Certainly not as creative as some of those I read on a regular basis.

I will play around some more tonight hopefully. That or try and read more of Breaking Dawn as I watch the Olympics. I am in Book two of BD. Not sure I like this side of the story. Hopefully it will get back to the original way soon.

UGH! It's been over a Month! - New Eye Glasses

I can't believe it has been over a month since I posted. Wow the summer has flown by for sure.

I havn't accomplished much this summer, but oh well! I did go on a mini vacation with my SIL and neice and nephew. We had agreat time in the Hill country of Texas. I managed to get nice an tan the old fashioned way and with penty of sun block. The other added benefit was shopping at a Scrapbook stor ein fredersiksburg texas. It was a great little store and since there aren't to many these days in the DFW area this store was a nice find and the lil ones were very well behaved in the store for the hour or so their mom and I were shopping. I'll post some pics later. I do need to figure how to take better pics with my camera. Why my pics come out slightly blurry is beyond my thinking right now. Oh well. My SIL and I are sharing pics. so hopefully she has some good ones that I don't.

On another note I found themost excellent Blinga Bella eyeglasses at Len crafters but the cots was outrageous! They wanted $465 for frames and I still have to order glasses on top of that and I want those new transisiton lenses I think. and of course in lightweight and non glare non scratch flavor so the cost of lenses will be expensive as well. Well I had them hold the frames, but then decided to serach for them online somewhere. As I was searching online I decided to give my eye doctors office a call and see if they could buy them for me, and they take my VSP insurance even better than Lens Crafters. Well upon searching online I realized Lens Crafters has their glasses marked up way to high! I found them online and my Doctor's office was able to order them for me based on the online number I found. They arrive Monday, then Ihave to go in and figure out the lenses. I can't wait to get them. They look like this! They have real Savorski crystals in them! They bling in the from and from the side! Most eveything I found had blong only on the side but not these! With the rhnestones on the hinge they bling from the front! I will still wear my contacts but these are good for all the other days!

I am so EXCITED!

I am so excited that I am going to see her this year at Silver Bella!!

I have been a fan for years and once even had my kitchen in all Mary E! It was her Afternoon Tea dishes and set and I loved it for the 10 years I had it in my apartment kitchens. Now to meet her in person! WOW!

And then to add to my fun this week I invited myself to go along with my SIL and my niece and nephew on a short trip to the hill country of Texas. I just called this morning to talk to her and when she mentioned she was going to pack up the kids in the SUV and go out of town by herself with the kids to go see the State of Texas, I asked if I could go and she said yes! I knew I could ask since my brother wasn't going. We are going to Mo Ranch, to the Enchanted Rock, Fredricksburg, and any other state park we decide to head off to. So I will be out and about next week. Taking a few days off work to tag along with the family. I have never had anyone to go with me so I am excited to finally see other parts of the states of Texas after all of these years!

We may een antique shop along the way.