When To Be Quiet

Ok people I need some advice. I am a very outspoken person. If I have something on my mind I am going to say it. Now don't confuse me with those trashy Housewives who don't have a filter. I have perfected speaking my mind and saying it nicely - most of the time anyway. But there are times in life when you just need to give someone a bitchy reality check and tell them to get off their high horse. In this instance I don't know if I can. It's not a friend or my own family member who needs a reality check, it's someone else's family member who I am fairly close with. Some could even say we're going to be a family (if you catch my drift wink wink).

When does it get into "crossing the line" territory? This person has been so self involved ever since I've known them and it's really getting old. If you have good news, they have to top your news. If you have bad news, they have even worse news. If you're not talking about them, they either don't pay attention or make it so you have to talk about them. When am I allowed to say enough is enough? I am constantly fighting this war with myself because normally I would rip them a new one but now, I'm afraid it will cause an even bigger argument then what it's worth. I've tried making jokes about it and dropping extremely subtle hints but they are either so oblivious or so into themselves it's not working. One day I'm just going to explode and it is going to be a disaster.

I've tried talking to my "friend" about it but they are honestly no help. They just keep making excuses for them or giving them the benefit of the doubt or just changing the subject completely. I understand they are your family but come onnnnnn. If they're annoying me this much and I hardly ever see them, how can you not be stabbing your eyes out with forks! I feel like I'm stuck in a lose-lose situation and no matter what I do, it's never going to get better.

Has anyone else had to deal with something like this before? Did it get better or worse for you?

With love and pearls,
Ashley

The Perfect House

Ughhhhh! Can I just start off saying that house hunting is an awful, awful thing?! Now that Jay and I are "grown ups" it's time we start looking to buy a house. We have gone to a few open houses and found a few houses that we really, reallllly liked. But they were in awful neighborhoods, or had a tiny kitchen, or didn't have a finished basement, or didn't have everything that I've ever wanted in one house. I know that last statement is a ridiculous wish that will only come true when we become millionaires and can build our own house. But it's still really hard to find important, necessary things in one house. We plan on living there for a while, having children and maybe moving if the house feels too small for our growing family. We want to find a house in a great school district because there is nothing worse then changing schools (trust me I've done it!). We want a nice backyard for our dog and kids to (eventually) run around in. We want something with a lot of parking so when we have dinner parties or holidays, people won't have to park around the corner and down the block. We want a nice, somewhat updated kitchen so he can teach me to be as great of a cook as he is. We want a finished basement so he can make that his man cave and not put his ridiculously ugly sports memorabilia anywhere where people can see it :) So far, we've found places that have some of these things but not one house that has enough of them that we would be willing to make sacrifices to call it our home. Damn you Pinterest for making me think houses like this actually exist:

Amazing kitchen/dining area

Of course a 2 story closet is necessary!

An entryway like this would be amazing

You would think a wine room would be on the top of my list for as much wine as I drink!


With love and pearls,
Ashley

faking orgasms

Ok ladies why do we fake em? Don't lie, you know you do! Is it we are trying to make the boys feel better about what they are doing? Is it because we are not going to cum so we fake it to get it over with? The thing about faking them though is that we are letting the man think he did a good job when in reality he needed to do something different in order for us to cum.  So why not just let them know how we need it done in order to achieve ecstasy we all know we want? Are we scared to hurt their feelings? But if we continue to fake it, we jeopardize not making that "o" face forever! Yea I know how to make myself cum because I've been doing it since I was 6 years old in the bath tub with the shampoo bottle, but don't we owe it to ourselves to let our man know how to get us there as well? I deserve to orgasm every time, hell they do..... those simple minded bastards!

Hockey Vote

Ok everyone. In honor of the intense Philadelphia Flyers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins playoffs going on we're going to have our 1st official vote segment! But we're going to make it more our style... Since there are like 7 attractive guys in the entire hockey world we're going to have a sexiest man vote. Your choices are between:

 Andreas Lilja of the Philadelphia Flyers

vs. 

Craig Adams of the Pittsburgh Penguins

Let us know what you think ladies! And if you find any other hot hockey players, please let us know so we can start enjoying hockey ;)

With love and pearls,
Ashley

OMG I'm Getting Married!

He did it! We're engaged!

I'm definitely a little behind the ball because he did propose 2 Saturdays ago but I feel like it hasn't officially set in yet. I keep looking down at my finger and have to remember that is a real engagement ring and not one of the many cocktail rings I'm used to wearing.

I am beyond excited to marry Jay. He is amazing and I truly am the luckiest girl alive, but I am 100% completely scared to officially "grow up". Is this a normal feeling? I have to start my own life, with my own family, in my own house, and make my own new memories. I won't be able to come home after work to mom and dad's, sit on the couch, and wait until they make me dinner. I will have to be the official dinner maker in my house, which will probably not be true since Jay is a much better cook than me.

But enough of the sad stuff, the great news is that I booked the venue of my dreams!!! For those of you who live in the Philadelphia area, you have probably heard of Cescaphe before. If you haven't, you must be living under a rock! They are rumored to do the best weddings ever, seriously. I am beyond excited to add my name to the Cescaphe brides after next year. I cannot wait. This truly will be a fairytale come true :)

If any of you have any advice for a newly engaged bride, please share!!

With love and pearls,
Ashley

todays men

I got in a huge fight this weekend with my boyfriend about drinking too much and hanging out with his friends all the time.  And it came after I read an article about why guys never grow up. Now before I continue, let me say I am an advocate for getting drunk and partying, so I knew it was something more.  So I got upset because I just wasn't feeling it, doing the same thing we always tend to do.  I wanted to lay low and chill, but oops I picked a hell of a day to feel like this, St. Pattys Day. My issue though was that he didnt pick up on my quietness and decided not to approach me because God forbid I ruin the day dedicated to drinking.  Anyway we talked it out, voiced our opinions on the matter and I hope worked it out to be more intune with each other's aka my feelings and being more proactive about keeping each other happy.  But the article and this fight truly got me thinking about todays men, no I'm sorry, our generation of losers.  Why are they so into themselves? What has changed that has made all the romance in a relationship go away? It used to be that a man found a girl that he wanted to make his wife and then did what ever he needed to do to provide for her and his family.  Now a days it goes like this.....a man goes to college because that is what he is told to do, picks a stupid major that he will eventually change in order to stay in college longer and mooch off his parents until he is 35, graduate, move back home bc he can't find a job that he "likes" because God forbid he pick a job to make a steady income or bust his ass to the top, no no, these boys are too proud for that, they belive they are owed more than that and will eventually find his dream job and mkae the big bucks because he knows a guy who did ( a guy who is in the 3% of the people who actually got a job doing what he wanted to do) but that seems to be motivation enough to hold off for something bigger and better! Anyway, he then refuses to take girls on "dates" (who dates anymore) because why put on a tie and pay for a meal when you have your mommy to cook for you, a computer filled with endless free porn sites and a right hand to pleasure yourself?  So instead of trying to find a wife and start a family and grow up, the typical male develops bromances for companionship, someone who understands his needs of male bonding time, Playstation, drinking, watching the game, jerking off, random sex and not answering to anyone.  It is time to change.  We need to let this batch of selfish pricks die out.  Why do you think the lesbian rates are so high?!?! A duh! Guys SUCK and adopting African children is the new fad!

Poor Snooki's Baby

I cannot resist any longer! I have to comment about the Snooki being pregnant thing. I will admit, when Jersey Shore first came out I was fist-pumping with the best of them. But now, it's kinda creepy and The Situation is 200 years too old to be hanging out and partying like that. The worst part about this is Snooki's baby stands no chance in society. Nicole, as she now likes to be called, may be growing up and maturing, but the Jersey Shore will live on forever and her child will have to deal with her behavior for the rest of his/her life. We have all made mistakes. I have made plenty...we'll just call them my college years. But my life was not broadcasted on television for millions of people to watch me hook up with some fugly dude and then fall on my face as I was doing the walk of shame (that may or may not have happened). Snooki did all that and more and I'm sure her poor child will never be taken seriously or will have to prove themselves much more than the average person. All in all, I feel bad for this baby and I hope that Snooki and her baby daddy are doing this for the right reasons and not to try and change their images.

But as bad as I feel for the baby, I cannot help but pee myself anytime I read some of these...

With love and pearls,
Ashley