When I first found out that our next destination was Louisiana, I didn’t quite know how to respond. I’ve never had anything against Louisiana. After all, my dad was born there. Part of th...
// Ombré nails: A Oui Bit of Red (OPI), Rose Among Thorns (China Glaze), OPI on Collins Ave, A True Ab-Original (OPI), & Seashore Darling (Maybelline). Glitter: Techno (China Glaze). Another week...
I recently updated my “About” page, and thought it would be good to post in the main body of the blog for my newish readers. This is LfT 101, so if you’ve been reading for awhile, y...
We move in two weeks. SAY WHAT? I know. Every time I think about the fact that, in two short weeks, I will no longer live in Texas, I get really nervous. I’ve never not lived in Texas (double n...
// love a man with a master’s. WHEW. This weekend was such a whirlwind. It’s official: I’m married to an M.S., SLP. It was a weekend full of so many good things. First, this little ...
// via Bakerella 1 >> MICHAEL IS GRADUATING TOMORROW!!!!!!! 2 >> After graduation, we are celebrating in The Best Way: with a crawfish boil. Both our families have Cajun roots (so where w...
// East Texas Piney Woods // When we first moved to this town, in the summer of 2010, I was 24. It was only two years ago, but it feels like a decade. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I feel older, a...
First, the Twitter winners… 1. @RUaDSarah 2. @saucygurl915 And now, the blog comment winner… 3. D’Rae If you are one of these three, please email me at laurenfromtexas (at) gmail (d...
// via {scissor variations} 1 >> I’m moving, again. If you missed the announcement, read yesterday’s post. 2 >> Thank you all for the positive comments on my upcoming move. I ...
WHEW. This week has already been crazy. I guess that’s what I get for taking a four-day weekend, but you know what I have to say to that? WORTH IT. If you read my blog Friday, you know that I s...
// via Baubauhaus. We’ll just go ahead and call this “5 Things on a Friday – The Giveaway Edition”! If you don’t like giveaways, leave now. Shoo. Be gone with you. If yo...
My first encounter with Coastal.com was about a year ago, when they were doing the “free pair of glasses” codes that exploded on Facebook and Twitter. I got a pair of glasses that ended u...
//via Sweetapolita I know what you’re thinking. Wait, didn’t you just have a birthday? Man, you are really milking 26 for all its worth. And while that may be true, I’m not talking ...
// via Paperfashion 1 >> I just got home from my friend Andrea’s house. This woman is really amazing. She has 4 kids, homeschools the two oldest, runs a very successful gourmet cakes and ...
The show Hoarders is a train wreck. It’s awful and horrifying but I can’t look away. The guy with all the rabbits? That were multiplying like…well, rabbits? And the one with all the...
{Since I don’t get enough sleep these days, Pancho is doubling up for me} One day I will stop blogging about how much I am working / how tired I am, but today is not that day. And if you wonder...
// via 1 >> I really love my job with the media company. We have amazing clients, my boss is awesome, and his wife brings me red velvet cupcakes, which makes her my favorite person in the world...
{via} Sometimes I like to imagine that I am Wonder Woman, except blonde and not as muscular, and that I can go through my weeks effortlessly, using my superpowers to banish anything bad that tries to...
I always enjoy the “on who I am (at the moment)…” posts by the ever-so-lovely Kerri, and thought it might be fun to do something similar today tonight. I have: Been wearing glasses ...
{photo via, edited with instagram} 1. I wrote a lot of words this week. Thanks for reading and for the comments, tweets, and messages. There were a couple of times throughout the week when I realized...
{via} Last week, I walked into a shop selling feminine wares and wiles to ask if they were interested in purchasing some advertising from the newspaper. No one was at the counter, so I began to meand...
(via) I’m afraid of a lot of things. I know, I know. ”The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Or how about “fear is a friend that’s misunderstood”? That...
I like the idea of keeping tabs on myself through this blog. It’s very easy to make goals but not tell anyone, then quietly break them later because they get to be too challenging. It’s m...
{via} With temperatures on the rise, I decided weekend-before-last that it was time to pack away my winter sweaters and pull out the sundresses. And because I’m OCD and can’t be part of a...
Sometimes, you attempt to do too much in a week. You work your two part-time jobs, you work on projects, you clean your house, you do your laundry. You try to exercise and count your calories. You ma...
1 >> I’ve been obsessed with fruit this week (see above photo) and actually have been eating pretty well. I made it to the gym twice (once for yoga + elliptical, once for elliptical only)...
When I wrote my goals for 2012, one of them was to figure out a way to repurpose the many drafts I have written that are sitting quietly in their folder. From when I started this blog in April of 200...
Michael (as waiter is describing a certain sushi roll): Is there cheese in that? LfT (after the horrified-looking waiter left our table): Oh my gosh. Michael: What? LfT: CHEESE? REALLY? Michae...
Leia got her hair cut last week, and I’m obsessed with how tiny she looks without her fluffy coat. I can’t stop picking her up and squeezing her; it’s like she’s a puppy again...
{Essie’s Going Incognito, a birthday gift from Chelsea} Last post I listed “currently” stuff; today I’m listing 5 things! It’s what I do. I make lists. And then I blog t...
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