This has been the most uninteresting week. For real.
I've been in a training class for work - Telecommunicator I. Basic call receiving. It's a good class, very informative, but so boring. But there's nothing I can do about that.
Missy and I were carpooling together, having been denied hotel rooms when we asked a month ago because Puyallup is too close to Burien. But after spending three hours in traffic on both Monday and Tuesday, we asked Mark again to let us stay in a hotel and he agreed. So last night we stayed at the Clarion, and we'll be staying here again tonight.
Last night, Missy and I went to The Cheesecake Factory in Tukwila. I'd never been there before, but it was amazing. Justin met us there, and so did Missy's boyfriend, Sean, who is a cop in Seattle. It was an entertaining evening, with fantastic food and the BEST CHEESECAKE I'VE EVER HAD. Peanut butter cup fudge ripple. Seriously, it was like death on a plate. Death by sugar overdose. It was amazing.
Back at the hotel, Justin and I were hanging out when the freaking fire alarm went off. At MIDNIGHT. And it was pouring rain outside, and overall just a horrible experience. On the bright side, Justin is going to take me on a real date. Or so he says.
So right now I'm chilling at the hotel with Missy, watching "The Devil Wears Prada". I think we're going to The Cheesecake Factory again. Ugh, I'm effing hooked. And I so love this movie.
Tommorrow we have the T1 exam, and I'm starting to stress about it. I hate tests. I suck at tests. I'm sure I'll be up until the wee hours of the morning studying. Yay.
On the bright side, I have the weekend off. Hooray!
And 100-calorie strawberry yogurt Chex packs are LOVE. FYI.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
OUCHHHH. plus more freaks.
Time to rant again. It makes me feel better.
I'm currently laying in bed, with my laptop balanced on my stomach, stealing my neighbor's wireless internet, waiting for the vicoden to kick in.
My back hurts SO FUCKING BAD, you have no idea.
I still have no idea what I did to re-injure it. But I did. And it sucks.
So, backstory [no pun intended] - I injured my back five years ago when I fell off Cici during my last jumping class at the Thurston County Fair and did a header into the fence. The same accident that broke my wrist. And it's hurt ever since then, but only a dull, manageable pain.
About three and a half weeks ago, it started to hurt again. I'd sit all day at work and by the time i got home, I'd be in so much pain that I couldn't do anything except lie down. Even standing up hurt.
Last Sunday, while at work, the pain was so bad that it was making me sick, and I was throwing up. So I went to a doctor at a walk-in clinic since I don't have a regular doctor in Puyallup yet. He poked and prodded for a few minutes, told me it might be a pinched nerve and sent me home with a shitload of drugs and made me take two days off work to rest.
But now I've started to wake up in pain, and I'm having trouble sleeping - I'm getting like three hours of sleep per night. And the pain is starting to creep down my left leg, especially when I walk or lift my leg.
I still have no idea what's wrong. I'm seeing a spine specialist on the 23rd, and I'm praying to God that whatever it ends up being, it doesn't require surgery.
I hate this. So much. It's so frustrating.
I missed Christmas with my mom's side of the family because I was at the doctor's office.
And today was AWFUL - not only was I sitting in class all day, but it was a 90-minute drive each way. Which sucked balls. Even the five-minute trip to the dispatch center hurts. Three hours in a car was torture. And I have to do that for the next four days.
Kill me now? Thanks.
P.S. - Off-topic, but the creepy Myspace people are at it again. WHAT. THE. FUCKKKKKK. Why me?
I'm currently laying in bed, with my laptop balanced on my stomach, stealing my neighbor's wireless internet, waiting for the vicoden to kick in.
My back hurts SO FUCKING BAD, you have no idea.
I still have no idea what I did to re-injure it. But I did. And it sucks.
So, backstory [no pun intended] - I injured my back five years ago when I fell off Cici during my last jumping class at the Thurston County Fair and did a header into the fence. The same accident that broke my wrist. And it's hurt ever since then, but only a dull, manageable pain.
About three and a half weeks ago, it started to hurt again. I'd sit all day at work and by the time i got home, I'd be in so much pain that I couldn't do anything except lie down. Even standing up hurt.
Last Sunday, while at work, the pain was so bad that it was making me sick, and I was throwing up. So I went to a doctor at a walk-in clinic since I don't have a regular doctor in Puyallup yet. He poked and prodded for a few minutes, told me it might be a pinched nerve and sent me home with a shitload of drugs and made me take two days off work to rest.
But now I've started to wake up in pain, and I'm having trouble sleeping - I'm getting like three hours of sleep per night. And the pain is starting to creep down my left leg, especially when I walk or lift my leg.
I still have no idea what's wrong. I'm seeing a spine specialist on the 23rd, and I'm praying to God that whatever it ends up being, it doesn't require surgery.
I hate this. So much. It's so frustrating.
I missed Christmas with my mom's side of the family because I was at the doctor's office.
And today was AWFUL - not only was I sitting in class all day, but it was a 90-minute drive each way. Which sucked balls. Even the five-minute trip to the dispatch center hurts. Three hours in a car was torture. And I have to do that for the next four days.
Kill me now? Thanks.
P.S. - Off-topic, but the creepy Myspace people are at it again. WHAT. THE. FUCKKKKKK. Why me?
Saturday, January 3, 2009
redneck hugh hefner?
i get messages from the creepiest people on myspace.
seriously, i think something about me attracts all the scary men.
what the fuck is wrong with me?
i mean, i know i'm not the best catch, but i don't deserve messages like this:
what. the. hell.
that scares me.
he's like 60.
i'm 21.
he's like the redneck wanna-be hugh hefner.
i also frequently get messages from army guys who want me to come "party" with them in their barracks.
that's not normal.
okay, rant over.
seriously, i think something about me attracts all the scary men.
what the fuck is wrong with me?
i mean, i know i'm not the best catch, but i don't deserve messages like this:
what. the. hell.
that scares me.
he's like 60.
i'm 21.
he's like the redneck wanna-be hugh hefner.
i also frequently get messages from army guys who want me to come "party" with them in their barracks.
that's not normal.
okay, rant over.
oh hello, 2009. you snuck up on me.
THE BEST AND WORST OF 2008.
I meant to get this posted before the start of the new year, but it took too long to write. I apolgize in advance for how insanely long it is.
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NEW YEAR’S: New Year’s Eve 2007 didn’t start off very well – I ended up getting into a huge fight with my mom. I was hanging out at Kory’s house in Lakewood, and my mom made me drive all the way back to Yelm (about 40 minutes) to feed the horses. Then I had to drive all the way back to Lakewood to celebrate at midnight with Kory and his family, then I had to drive all the way back to Yelm. My mom had threatened to kick me out of their house, where I was living at the time, if I didn’t feed the horses. Stupid, really, but I had no choice. Kory was leaving for school in Utah on New Year’s day, so I wanted to spend as much time with him as possible. Eventually things calmed down between my mom and I, and I ended up having a really good New Year’s.
MY RESOLUTION: I decided that as my New Year’s resolution, I wanted to cut out Mountain Dew. That sooned turned into cutting out all regular soda (anyone who knows me knows that I was a soda addict, so limiting myself to diet pop was a pretty big step). By the middle of January, it had turned into a full-on diet. My mom and I joined Weight Watchers, and in six months we’d each lost about 25 pounds. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be, especially with Madre doing it too. I didn’t even work out while I was dieting – I stepped on a treadmill once. I can only imagine how much more I could have lost if I would have exercised more. But I eventually fell off the wagon, and I’ve gained all the weight back. It’s horrible – all that hard work for nothing. I feel like a failure. But I’m determined to try again. My cost of living adjustment will give me about $150 extra per month, and I’ve decided to put a chunk of that towards the Weight Watchers fee. I did it once … I can certainly do it again.
VALENTINE’S DAY: Yet another one spent by myself. I wasn’t in a single relationship this year. Sure, I dated, but it was never anything serious. I focused instead on work, and my family and friends. I’m hoping this year will be different. I’ve never had a successful relationship, and I would like to change that. However, I’m not going to go out looking for Prince Charming. He can find me. :]
MY TWIN, NATALI: Beginning in March, I really started focusing on my writing. I started posting some of my work online, and one of my readers happened to be a girl named Natali. She was also an extremely talented writer, and she also happened to like the Jonas Brothers and many other things that I liked as well, and we quickly became friends. Over the course of the last 9+ months, we’ve come to realize that we are pretty much twins, despite her being 18. Unfortunately, she lives just about as far away from me as possible, in West Palm Beach, Florida. What started out as us being fans of each other’s work turned into writing a joint story, then IMing each other constantly, then texting, then calling, and now we’re planning a trip to Disney World in November of next year. If she didn’t live in Florida, she would without a doubt be one of my very best friends in real life. But we’ll just have to settle for being internet besties, or “iBiffles” as we like to call it. :]
PUTT-PUTT ADVENTURES: In mid-April, Kory and his now-wife, Analee, came to Washington for a visit. They were only here for a couple of days, and I picked them up from the airport. While at lunch on the way back from Seatac, we were trying to come up with something fun to do that night. I was underage at the time, and there were no local clubs that had the age limit dropped down to 18 that night. I was working part-time at a black light miniature golf place, and a couple of days earlier, the owner had suggested that I had my birthday party there. He’d said that I could have the place after hours and everything. So while at lunch with Kory and Analee, I called him up and asked him if I could have the place that night after closing instead, and and he agreed. So I rounded up a bunch of my friends and we partied after closing. I plugged in my iPod and blasted music, and we all had a blast playing black light putt-putt, Guitar Hero, and arcade games.
MY BIRTHDAY: On April 28th, I turned the big 2-1. My birthday was on a Tuesday, and I had to work, so there was no partying at midnight. My actual birthday was pretty uneventful – I went and got my license renewed (and got the cool sideways “big-boy” license that you have when you’re over 21), went to work, drove to Yelm, and had a birthday dinner at Puerto Vallarta with family and close friends. Mom and John were there, as well as Christa and Ina, and Danae and Katelyn. The following Saturday, I had a party at the Loft in Tacoma. Since a lot of my friends are under 21, I had to choose a place that was 18 and over, which was fine. The downstairs part was kind of lame, but the dancing was fun. And the bar upstairs was really nice with private booths and flat screen TVs in each booth. I didn’t actually drink too much that night – a couple of Amaretto Sours (my favorite drink) and Andrea’s brother, Case, bought me a shot called Birthday Cake. Which tasted just like cake. Haha.
OLYMPIA APARTMENT: In early May, I packed up and moved to a two-bedroom apartment in Olympia with Andrea. It wasn’t the nicest place, but it was close to work and it was better than living with my parents. The only thing I didn’t like at the time was Andrea’s dog, Roo. Ugh. Dogs don’t belong in apartments. Especially when the owner is never home to take care of it. Whatever.
AMERICAN IDOL: The finale of American Idol aired in May, and my good friend Laura was home from college and watched the show with me. She was just as addicted to Idol as me, and even though she had been at school in Kentucky, we had constantly talked about the show week-to-week. She and I were both huge fans of rocker David Cook, and were obviously thrilled when he made it to the finale. So I drove out to Laura’s parents’ house and watched Cookie be named the new American Idol. It was so exciting to watch the contestant who had been your favorite since the auditions make it the whole way through the competition and WIN. I think I screamed like a twelve-year-old. :]
KENNY CHESNEY CONCERT: In June, Laura invited me to go with her to the Kenny Chesney concert in Ridgefield, near Vancouver. It was my fourth Kenny concert, and the second one that I had been to with Laura. Sadly, I don’t remember much about the show, and neither does Laura. I remember having to walk like two miles to get to the venue from the parking lot, and almost getting stuck in the mud. I remember standing in line at the souvenier booth for AGES just for a light-up necklace and a guitar-shaped bottle opener. Both LeAnn Rimes and Kenny Chesney put on an awesome show. And I remember stopping on the way home at like 1:00 in the morning for ice cream. Haha!
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW: In late June, it was time to leave for the World Show in Texas. It was a ten-day trip, and it was a blast! Kati and I flew down, but it took us a whopping 23 ½ hours to get there. We were supposed to leave at 3:00pm, but our flight was delayed for 2 hours because the pilot and crew were missing. So we finally left at 5:00, which made us miss our connecting flight in Los Angeles. There were no other flights to Dallas until the following morning, so the airline put Kati and I in a hotel for the night. I remember walking down the block to a Taco Bell, only to find that they had a security guard inside the restaurant! That was a little odd. The next morning, we got to the airport about 2 ½ hours early only to discover that the airline had booked our 6am flight under the wrong flight number. So then we had to go stand in line and by the time we reached the counter, we had missed our flight. Luckily, they rebooked us for a 9am flight and we got to Dallas with no more problems. Until we ran into a cab driver who didn’t know where the Will Rogers Memorial Center was, and after we decided to find a driver who was familiar with Fort Worth, the first driver wouldn’t give us back our luggage. How lovely. Eventually we got our bags and got to the show grounds.
Before I move onto anything else, I have to write about the main reason why I was in Texas – my mom was competing at the APHA World Championship Show for the first time. It had always been her dream to show at the world level, and she finally decided that 2008 was her year. I never dreamed that she would do as well as she did. She ended up placing fifth in Hunt Seat Equitation, and was RESERVE WORLD CHAMPION in Novice Amatuer Showmanship. It was incredible. She did well in all of her other classes, too, and made it to the finals in 5 of her 8 events. In her final class of the show, Kira ended up stepping on my mom’s foot and breaking her toe, but not even that could bring my mom down from Cloud 9.
The rest of the trip was incredible. My mom usually only had about one or two classes a day, so there was a lot of downtime. Most of which I spent being dragged around the HUGE gift show by my mom. I spent WAY too much money on that trip, and I think most of it was at the gift show.
One of my mom’s close friends lives in Justin, a town about 20 minutes away from Fort Worth, and one day me, my mom, and my mom’s good friend Rachel (who shows with my mom but didn’t bring her horse to Worlds – she only came to watch and cheer my mom on) drove to Leslie’s house to spend some time in the pool. We relaxed all afternoon and then went out to dinner to a Mexican restaurant in a town called Trophy Club.
The Stockyards in downtown Fort Worth are fantastic! My mom, Rachel and I spent one afternoon walking around and shopping. We ate lunch at Riscky’s BBQ (the BEST barbeque I’ve ever had), watched the cattle drive, went through a crazy human maze, at fudge at Cowtown, rode a mechanical bull, drank Buffalo Butt beer at the Booger Red’s Saloon, and shopped until we literally almost dropped in the 100-degree weather. I can’t remember if it was the same day or not, but we also went to Billy Bob’s, the biggest honky tonk in the nation, and got our picture taken on the giant bull. I really wanted to go to Filthy McNasty’s Saloon, just because of the name, but we never got a chance to.
I don’t remember much about the fourth of July. I just know that Mom and I went to the Macaroni Grill with Rachel, which was a blast because we were writing inappropriate things on the table. I remember watching the fireworks that they shot off at the Botanic Garden right next to the show grounds. Other than that, I really don’t remember much.
Highlight of the trip: My mom’s Showmanship class, obviously.
Low point of the trip: Losing my Chanel sunglasses. :[
SHOWBOX CONCERT: A couple weeks after I got back from Texas, my friend Sara and I went to the Metro Station/Good Charlotte/Boys Like Girls concert at the Showbox Sodo in Seattle. It was about a billion degrees outside (okay, closer to about 98 degrees), and we had to stand in a line that stretched nearly three blocks for about an hour. While it sucked standing in line for so long, the girls behind us were super entertaining. From making fun of the girl with the shutter shades and shoelace headband to all of the Jonas-wannabes donning fake Ray Bans, the girls (who ended up being like 14 – I never would have guessed) kept us laughing until the moment we walked into the door.
We started out in the equivelent of about the 20th row (it was all General Admission standing room only) for the Maine. I’d never heard of the band before, but they put on an amazing show and now I’m hooked on them. By the time Metro Station came out, we were in about the 15th row. Then for Good Charlotte we squeezed up to about the 10th row. It was so hot in the club that security was spraying water out into the crowd and were pulling people out who were on the verge of fainting. So by the time Boys Like Girls came on, who I had been looking forward to the most, Sara and I were up to about the 3rd row. There were a couple of times that I felt really dizzy, but there was no way I was missing the band that was the reason I bought the tickets. I had never seen BLG in concert before, and they were incredible.
911 DISPATCHER: In late July, I left my job at the Olympia Police Department to take a new job as a 911 Dispatcher with the City of Puyallup. About a week before I left, my Sergeant found this very blog and an entry in which I had talked about how I thought one of the officers was hot, among other things. Definitely my most embarassing moment of the year. So while I would miss my job and the people I worked with, I was also very happy to leave. I LOVE my new job, and the people that I work with. Some days have been very stressful, but overall I’m very happy with where I am at. Plus, people call 911 for the silliest things, and I already have some very entertaining stories.
FAMILY DRAMA: One of the lowest points of the year was the drama caused by my dad’s marriage. I’ve never been a fan of my stepmom – she made my life hell when I was younger, causing me to go to therapy after I was diagnosed with depression at age 13. Needless to say, I was not sad when my dad told me earlier in the year that he and Barb were getting divorced. Unfortunately, that didn’t last long. They were back together before the summer. But in August, he had decided that he’d had enough and told me again that he was done with her. After months of Barb dragging the whole thing out and threatening my dad with expensive lawyer fees, she’s now in the process of moving out and is currently living with a 30-year-old Army guy. How lovely. My dad’s pretty broken up about the whole thing, which kills me. But I just want him to be happy, and I know that in order to be happy, he has to get rid of Barb completely and move on with his life.
HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: With the exception of the time one of my stylist friends chopped a ton of my hair off four days before my high school graduation, I’ve always had long hair. And even then, it was still several inches past my shoulders. I always considered my hair to be my best quality. But after I got my job as a dispatcher, I started to consider cutting my hair. My hairstyle made me look young, and I wanted something more professional and more mature. So in August, I called my mom while shopping at the mall and ran the idea of cutting my hair by her. She told me that she loved my long hair and that I shouldn’t cut it. As soon as the call ended, I walked to Gene Juarez and made an appointment. A couple hours later, I walked out of the salon with 14 inches of hair gone, donated to Locks of Love. However, when I got home, I discovered that I wasn’t really fond of the haircut I’d gotten. I didn’t mind the shortness, just the style was wrong. So a couple of days later I went to the Gene Juarez school where my friend Sam is a student, and one of her friends cut even more of my hair. Three more inches disappeared, but I LOVED the cut. It was a modern bob, stacked in the back. I definitely got the mature cut I was looking for!
"DO THE PUYALLUP": I’ve always loved the Washington State Fair (AKA the Puyallup Fair), the same one that I used to show my horse at every September, but now that I’m a dispatcher in the same city that it’s held in I really don’t care for it. Chaos erupted when the fair, which draws over a million people each year, came to town. From calls about the traffic on Meridian Street in front of the fairgrounds to calls about two gay guys doing it in some lady’s front yard a block away after closing, the fair caused me more stress than I had imagined. But I made it through the ordeal, and had a blast at the after-fair party with the other disptachers and cops at the Longhorn in Auburn.
However, I must say that when I’m NOT working, I still like the fair. I even went to the rodeo and Chris Cagle concert with my best friend, Christa, and we had a blast. We took photos in the photo booth, and ate at Marlow’s, which has the BEST French dips I’ve ever had.
Oh yeah, and you can’t forget about the scones. That was the one nice thing about working during the fair – the police officers would bring scones up to the dispatch center. :]
MOVIN’ ON UP TO PUYALLUP: The one downside to my new job in Puyallup was the commute. It would take me about 35 minutes to get to work, but when I fought the afternoon traffic next to the military base, it would sometimes take me an hour and a half to get home. So in late September, I packed up and moved to Puyallup. I had found a gorgeous apartment that was only about three minutes from work, and it even had it’s own garage! Working at a 911 center allowed me to look up all the 911 calls from the apartment complexes I was interested in, and I was able to rule out the ones that had lots of crime. Bradley Park Apartments was the complex I chose, and I loooove the place. I got a two bedroom, one bath apartment, and I painted the living room and my bedroom. When I lived in the Olympia apartment, most of the living room furniture had been Andrea’s so I wasn’t able to get creative with decorated. I love interior design, and I was really excited to decorate my new place, and I love how it turned out. It’s always nicer living in a place that you enjoy being in. :]
RE-FRIENDS: Kira used to be one of my best friends, since meeting in health class in eighth grade. We were walking partners at our high school graduation in 2005, and we moved into an apartment in Tumwater together in 2007. But we ended up fighting a lot, and we both moved out of the apartment. After moving out, we were still at each others throats for several weeks before we severred ties and stopped talking to each other. In late October of last year, nearly a year later, I was browsing through Myspace profiles and stumbled across hers. I was over the drama that had gone down the year before, and I’d grown up a lot in the time since the fight, so I sent her a message asking her how she was doing. I wasn’t even sure if she would respond, but she did, and we both ended up apologizing for the immature fight, and we put it behind us. We began to hang out again, and picked up as if the bump in our friendship had never happened. We even went to a Seahawks game together in early November. We may have had our differences before, but she’s still one of my best friends, and she’s one of those rare friends who I know will be in my life for a long time.
TWILIGHT: Natali has gotten me interested in a lot of things, and the Twilight book series was one of them. I was familiar with the book – I’d seen in in the bookstore, but had always passed on it because vampires and fantasy didn’t really interest me. But Natali swore up and down that I would fall in love with the book, so I decided to give it a shot. Boy, was she right – I couldn’t put the damn thing down. Pretty soon, I realized that everyone I knew was reading it – Christa borrowed my copy and got hooked, then passed it on to her mother. And over half of my co-workers were addicted to the saga, most of them reading it at work when the radio and calls were slow.
So you can imagine my excitement when the movie came out! I’d been counting down the days for two months, and bought tickets to the midnight showing on opening day three weeks in advance. Tanya and Char, two of the ladies from work who I’m closest with, had also been hooked on the books and went to the movie with me. We went to dinner at the Rock beforehand, and ended up getting to the theater at about 11:30, thinking that a half hour would be plenty of time to get good seats. Oh boy, were we ever wrong. We ended up having to sit in the very first row, which was horrible. And the girl who was sitting on the other side of Tanya was CRAZY. She was screaming in excitement the entire time, and I thought Tanya was going to choke her. The movie itself was … okay. It was awkward and cheesy and didn’t live up to the hype, but I still loved it. I ended up seeing it four times, which I’ve never done for any movie in a theater before.
JINGLE BELL BASH: In early December, Brittany and I went to Jingle Bell Bash, or JBB. She was supposed to go with me the year before to the same show, when I had front row tickets and the Jonas Brothers were headlining, but she ended up not being able to go. So I invited her this year, to make up for it. This year it was The Academy Is, Boys Like Girls, and Fall Out Boy. It was my second time seeing BLG in concert, and my first time seeing Fall Out Boy, one of my favorite bands. We went to eat at BJ’s in Tacoma before the show, which is my new favorite restaurant. Their drinks and fettucine alfredo are to-die-for. We accidentally stayed at BJ’s too long, and got to the concert late, completely missing The Academy Is. I didn’t really mind, though, since I don’t know most of their songs. But Boys Like Girls came on second, and they were amazing, as usual. Fall Out Boy put on a fantastic show as well. Our seats were nowhere near as good as the front row ones from the previous year, but that was fine.
WINTER WONDERLAND: Even though winter in Washington is cold, we don’t usually get much snow. And when we do, it’s usually some freak dusting in April or something and it always melts right away. I can’t even remember the last white Christmas we’ve had. But this year, about a week and a half before Christmas, a crazy storm came through and over the course of a few days dumped nearly a foot of snow. The temperatures stayed super cold, and the snow stuck around for almost two weeks! We had a white Christmas, and it finally melted away several days after that. I usually don’t like snow, but I didn’t mind it. It’s just all the crazy people who can’t figure out how to drive in the snow that scare me!
CHRISTMAS: Usually Christmas is a huge family affair, but this year it was very low-key. We spent some of Christmas Eve with John’s family at Uncle Ted’s house, then I jetted over to my dad’s to spend some time with him. We opened gifts (I gave him chocolate, “3:10 to Yuma”, a Louis Lamore book and a bowling gift card, and he gave me money) and then watched a couple of movies and had orange floats – like a root beer float, only with orange soda. It may sound gross, but it’s SO good.
Then on Christmas morning we opened presents at my mom’s house. My sister now lives in Idaho and couldn’t get enough time off work to come home, so my brother hooked up his laptop and we all did a video chat with Larissa for a while. You know you’re getting old when you get house stuff for Christmas – vacuum, George Foreman grill, tupperware – and you get excited about it. Haha! My mom also got me these kickass slippers that I had been wanting. They look like cowboy boots, with faux-faux-ostrich on the toe and leather tooling, and the tops are all furry. She had a pair of them that she’d bought in Texas in July that she was going to let me have, but one of the cats ate them. So she got me a pair when she went back to Texas in November for the NASCAR race, and I love them. I’m wearing them now, in fact.
Oh, and I consider myself lucky to be alive today. John and Russell got small-ish remote control helicopters for Christmas, and there were several times that I came close to being decapitated.
Overall, the year was one of the best ever. There were both good and bad times, but I grew up a lot and learned a lot of lessons. I hope that 2009 proves to be even better, and I can’t wait to see what the year has in store for me.
MY GOALS FOR 2009:
- Eat healthier and lose weight.
- Use the Wii Fit at least four times a week.
- PROJECT 365! (Visit my Myspace to take a look at the project: myspace.com/classygame)
- Learn how to cook.
- GO TO DISNEY WORLD!
- Learn to play my guitar.
- Write a song.
- Go to at least four concerts.
- Show Kira in Showmanship. (Kira the horse, not Kira the friend.)
- Go on a roadtrip with friends.
- BE HAPPY!
I meant to get this posted before the start of the new year, but it took too long to write. I apolgize in advance for how insanely long it is.
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NEW YEAR’S: New Year’s Eve 2007 didn’t start off very well – I ended up getting into a huge fight with my mom. I was hanging out at Kory’s house in Lakewood, and my mom made me drive all the way back to Yelm (about 40 minutes) to feed the horses. Then I had to drive all the way back to Lakewood to celebrate at midnight with Kory and his family, then I had to drive all the way back to Yelm. My mom had threatened to kick me out of their house, where I was living at the time, if I didn’t feed the horses. Stupid, really, but I had no choice. Kory was leaving for school in Utah on New Year’s day, so I wanted to spend as much time with him as possible. Eventually things calmed down between my mom and I, and I ended up having a really good New Year’s.
MY RESOLUTION: I decided that as my New Year’s resolution, I wanted to cut out Mountain Dew. That sooned turned into cutting out all regular soda (anyone who knows me knows that I was a soda addict, so limiting myself to diet pop was a pretty big step). By the middle of January, it had turned into a full-on diet. My mom and I joined Weight Watchers, and in six months we’d each lost about 25 pounds. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be, especially with Madre doing it too. I didn’t even work out while I was dieting – I stepped on a treadmill once. I can only imagine how much more I could have lost if I would have exercised more. But I eventually fell off the wagon, and I’ve gained all the weight back. It’s horrible – all that hard work for nothing. I feel like a failure. But I’m determined to try again. My cost of living adjustment will give me about $150 extra per month, and I’ve decided to put a chunk of that towards the Weight Watchers fee. I did it once … I can certainly do it again.
VALENTINE’S DAY: Yet another one spent by myself. I wasn’t in a single relationship this year. Sure, I dated, but it was never anything serious. I focused instead on work, and my family and friends. I’m hoping this year will be different. I’ve never had a successful relationship, and I would like to change that. However, I’m not going to go out looking for Prince Charming. He can find me. :]
MY TWIN, NATALI: Beginning in March, I really started focusing on my writing. I started posting some of my work online, and one of my readers happened to be a girl named Natali. She was also an extremely talented writer, and she also happened to like the Jonas Brothers and many other things that I liked as well, and we quickly became friends. Over the course of the last 9+ months, we’ve come to realize that we are pretty much twins, despite her being 18. Unfortunately, she lives just about as far away from me as possible, in West Palm Beach, Florida. What started out as us being fans of each other’s work turned into writing a joint story, then IMing each other constantly, then texting, then calling, and now we’re planning a trip to Disney World in November of next year. If she didn’t live in Florida, she would without a doubt be one of my very best friends in real life. But we’ll just have to settle for being internet besties, or “iBiffles” as we like to call it. :]
PUTT-PUTT ADVENTURES: In mid-April, Kory and his now-wife, Analee, came to Washington for a visit. They were only here for a couple of days, and I picked them up from the airport. While at lunch on the way back from Seatac, we were trying to come up with something fun to do that night. I was underage at the time, and there were no local clubs that had the age limit dropped down to 18 that night. I was working part-time at a black light miniature golf place, and a couple of days earlier, the owner had suggested that I had my birthday party there. He’d said that I could have the place after hours and everything. So while at lunch with Kory and Analee, I called him up and asked him if I could have the place that night after closing instead, and and he agreed. So I rounded up a bunch of my friends and we partied after closing. I plugged in my iPod and blasted music, and we all had a blast playing black light putt-putt, Guitar Hero, and arcade games.
MY BIRTHDAY: On April 28th, I turned the big 2-1. My birthday was on a Tuesday, and I had to work, so there was no partying at midnight. My actual birthday was pretty uneventful – I went and got my license renewed (and got the cool sideways “big-boy” license that you have when you’re over 21), went to work, drove to Yelm, and had a birthday dinner at Puerto Vallarta with family and close friends. Mom and John were there, as well as Christa and Ina, and Danae and Katelyn. The following Saturday, I had a party at the Loft in Tacoma. Since a lot of my friends are under 21, I had to choose a place that was 18 and over, which was fine. The downstairs part was kind of lame, but the dancing was fun. And the bar upstairs was really nice with private booths and flat screen TVs in each booth. I didn’t actually drink too much that night – a couple of Amaretto Sours (my favorite drink) and Andrea’s brother, Case, bought me a shot called Birthday Cake. Which tasted just like cake. Haha.
OLYMPIA APARTMENT: In early May, I packed up and moved to a two-bedroom apartment in Olympia with Andrea. It wasn’t the nicest place, but it was close to work and it was better than living with my parents. The only thing I didn’t like at the time was Andrea’s dog, Roo. Ugh. Dogs don’t belong in apartments. Especially when the owner is never home to take care of it. Whatever.
AMERICAN IDOL: The finale of American Idol aired in May, and my good friend Laura was home from college and watched the show with me. She was just as addicted to Idol as me, and even though she had been at school in Kentucky, we had constantly talked about the show week-to-week. She and I were both huge fans of rocker David Cook, and were obviously thrilled when he made it to the finale. So I drove out to Laura’s parents’ house and watched Cookie be named the new American Idol. It was so exciting to watch the contestant who had been your favorite since the auditions make it the whole way through the competition and WIN. I think I screamed like a twelve-year-old. :]
KENNY CHESNEY CONCERT: In June, Laura invited me to go with her to the Kenny Chesney concert in Ridgefield, near Vancouver. It was my fourth Kenny concert, and the second one that I had been to with Laura. Sadly, I don’t remember much about the show, and neither does Laura. I remember having to walk like two miles to get to the venue from the parking lot, and almost getting stuck in the mud. I remember standing in line at the souvenier booth for AGES just for a light-up necklace and a guitar-shaped bottle opener. Both LeAnn Rimes and Kenny Chesney put on an awesome show. And I remember stopping on the way home at like 1:00 in the morning for ice cream. Haha!
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW: In late June, it was time to leave for the World Show in Texas. It was a ten-day trip, and it was a blast! Kati and I flew down, but it took us a whopping 23 ½ hours to get there. We were supposed to leave at 3:00pm, but our flight was delayed for 2 hours because the pilot and crew were missing. So we finally left at 5:00, which made us miss our connecting flight in Los Angeles. There were no other flights to Dallas until the following morning, so the airline put Kati and I in a hotel for the night. I remember walking down the block to a Taco Bell, only to find that they had a security guard inside the restaurant! That was a little odd. The next morning, we got to the airport about 2 ½ hours early only to discover that the airline had booked our 6am flight under the wrong flight number. So then we had to go stand in line and by the time we reached the counter, we had missed our flight. Luckily, they rebooked us for a 9am flight and we got to Dallas with no more problems. Until we ran into a cab driver who didn’t know where the Will Rogers Memorial Center was, and after we decided to find a driver who was familiar with Fort Worth, the first driver wouldn’t give us back our luggage. How lovely. Eventually we got our bags and got to the show grounds.
Before I move onto anything else, I have to write about the main reason why I was in Texas – my mom was competing at the APHA World Championship Show for the first time. It had always been her dream to show at the world level, and she finally decided that 2008 was her year. I never dreamed that she would do as well as she did. She ended up placing fifth in Hunt Seat Equitation, and was RESERVE WORLD CHAMPION in Novice Amatuer Showmanship. It was incredible. She did well in all of her other classes, too, and made it to the finals in 5 of her 8 events. In her final class of the show, Kira ended up stepping on my mom’s foot and breaking her toe, but not even that could bring my mom down from Cloud 9.
The rest of the trip was incredible. My mom usually only had about one or two classes a day, so there was a lot of downtime. Most of which I spent being dragged around the HUGE gift show by my mom. I spent WAY too much money on that trip, and I think most of it was at the gift show.
One of my mom’s close friends lives in Justin, a town about 20 minutes away from Fort Worth, and one day me, my mom, and my mom’s good friend Rachel (who shows with my mom but didn’t bring her horse to Worlds – she only came to watch and cheer my mom on) drove to Leslie’s house to spend some time in the pool. We relaxed all afternoon and then went out to dinner to a Mexican restaurant in a town called Trophy Club.
The Stockyards in downtown Fort Worth are fantastic! My mom, Rachel and I spent one afternoon walking around and shopping. We ate lunch at Riscky’s BBQ (the BEST barbeque I’ve ever had), watched the cattle drive, went through a crazy human maze, at fudge at Cowtown, rode a mechanical bull, drank Buffalo Butt beer at the Booger Red’s Saloon, and shopped until we literally almost dropped in the 100-degree weather. I can’t remember if it was the same day or not, but we also went to Billy Bob’s, the biggest honky tonk in the nation, and got our picture taken on the giant bull. I really wanted to go to Filthy McNasty’s Saloon, just because of the name, but we never got a chance to.
I don’t remember much about the fourth of July. I just know that Mom and I went to the Macaroni Grill with Rachel, which was a blast because we were writing inappropriate things on the table. I remember watching the fireworks that they shot off at the Botanic Garden right next to the show grounds. Other than that, I really don’t remember much.
Highlight of the trip: My mom’s Showmanship class, obviously.
Low point of the trip: Losing my Chanel sunglasses. :[
SHOWBOX CONCERT: A couple weeks after I got back from Texas, my friend Sara and I went to the Metro Station/Good Charlotte/Boys Like Girls concert at the Showbox Sodo in Seattle. It was about a billion degrees outside (okay, closer to about 98 degrees), and we had to stand in a line that stretched nearly three blocks for about an hour. While it sucked standing in line for so long, the girls behind us were super entertaining. From making fun of the girl with the shutter shades and shoelace headband to all of the Jonas-wannabes donning fake Ray Bans, the girls (who ended up being like 14 – I never would have guessed) kept us laughing until the moment we walked into the door.
We started out in the equivelent of about the 20th row (it was all General Admission standing room only) for the Maine. I’d never heard of the band before, but they put on an amazing show and now I’m hooked on them. By the time Metro Station came out, we were in about the 15th row. Then for Good Charlotte we squeezed up to about the 10th row. It was so hot in the club that security was spraying water out into the crowd and were pulling people out who were on the verge of fainting. So by the time Boys Like Girls came on, who I had been looking forward to the most, Sara and I were up to about the 3rd row. There were a couple of times that I felt really dizzy, but there was no way I was missing the band that was the reason I bought the tickets. I had never seen BLG in concert before, and they were incredible.
911 DISPATCHER: In late July, I left my job at the Olympia Police Department to take a new job as a 911 Dispatcher with the City of Puyallup. About a week before I left, my Sergeant found this very blog and an entry in which I had talked about how I thought one of the officers was hot, among other things. Definitely my most embarassing moment of the year. So while I would miss my job and the people I worked with, I was also very happy to leave. I LOVE my new job, and the people that I work with. Some days have been very stressful, but overall I’m very happy with where I am at. Plus, people call 911 for the silliest things, and I already have some very entertaining stories.
FAMILY DRAMA: One of the lowest points of the year was the drama caused by my dad’s marriage. I’ve never been a fan of my stepmom – she made my life hell when I was younger, causing me to go to therapy after I was diagnosed with depression at age 13. Needless to say, I was not sad when my dad told me earlier in the year that he and Barb were getting divorced. Unfortunately, that didn’t last long. They were back together before the summer. But in August, he had decided that he’d had enough and told me again that he was done with her. After months of Barb dragging the whole thing out and threatening my dad with expensive lawyer fees, she’s now in the process of moving out and is currently living with a 30-year-old Army guy. How lovely. My dad’s pretty broken up about the whole thing, which kills me. But I just want him to be happy, and I know that in order to be happy, he has to get rid of Barb completely and move on with his life.
HAIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: With the exception of the time one of my stylist friends chopped a ton of my hair off four days before my high school graduation, I’ve always had long hair. And even then, it was still several inches past my shoulders. I always considered my hair to be my best quality. But after I got my job as a dispatcher, I started to consider cutting my hair. My hairstyle made me look young, and I wanted something more professional and more mature. So in August, I called my mom while shopping at the mall and ran the idea of cutting my hair by her. She told me that she loved my long hair and that I shouldn’t cut it. As soon as the call ended, I walked to Gene Juarez and made an appointment. A couple hours later, I walked out of the salon with 14 inches of hair gone, donated to Locks of Love. However, when I got home, I discovered that I wasn’t really fond of the haircut I’d gotten. I didn’t mind the shortness, just the style was wrong. So a couple of days later I went to the Gene Juarez school where my friend Sam is a student, and one of her friends cut even more of my hair. Three more inches disappeared, but I LOVED the cut. It was a modern bob, stacked in the back. I definitely got the mature cut I was looking for!
"DO THE PUYALLUP": I’ve always loved the Washington State Fair (AKA the Puyallup Fair), the same one that I used to show my horse at every September, but now that I’m a dispatcher in the same city that it’s held in I really don’t care for it. Chaos erupted when the fair, which draws over a million people each year, came to town. From calls about the traffic on Meridian Street in front of the fairgrounds to calls about two gay guys doing it in some lady’s front yard a block away after closing, the fair caused me more stress than I had imagined. But I made it through the ordeal, and had a blast at the after-fair party with the other disptachers and cops at the Longhorn in Auburn.
However, I must say that when I’m NOT working, I still like the fair. I even went to the rodeo and Chris Cagle concert with my best friend, Christa, and we had a blast. We took photos in the photo booth, and ate at Marlow’s, which has the BEST French dips I’ve ever had.
Oh yeah, and you can’t forget about the scones. That was the one nice thing about working during the fair – the police officers would bring scones up to the dispatch center. :]
MOVIN’ ON UP TO PUYALLUP: The one downside to my new job in Puyallup was the commute. It would take me about 35 minutes to get to work, but when I fought the afternoon traffic next to the military base, it would sometimes take me an hour and a half to get home. So in late September, I packed up and moved to Puyallup. I had found a gorgeous apartment that was only about three minutes from work, and it even had it’s own garage! Working at a 911 center allowed me to look up all the 911 calls from the apartment complexes I was interested in, and I was able to rule out the ones that had lots of crime. Bradley Park Apartments was the complex I chose, and I loooove the place. I got a two bedroom, one bath apartment, and I painted the living room and my bedroom. When I lived in the Olympia apartment, most of the living room furniture had been Andrea’s so I wasn’t able to get creative with decorated. I love interior design, and I was really excited to decorate my new place, and I love how it turned out. It’s always nicer living in a place that you enjoy being in. :]
RE-FRIENDS: Kira used to be one of my best friends, since meeting in health class in eighth grade. We were walking partners at our high school graduation in 2005, and we moved into an apartment in Tumwater together in 2007. But we ended up fighting a lot, and we both moved out of the apartment. After moving out, we were still at each others throats for several weeks before we severred ties and stopped talking to each other. In late October of last year, nearly a year later, I was browsing through Myspace profiles and stumbled across hers. I was over the drama that had gone down the year before, and I’d grown up a lot in the time since the fight, so I sent her a message asking her how she was doing. I wasn’t even sure if she would respond, but she did, and we both ended up apologizing for the immature fight, and we put it behind us. We began to hang out again, and picked up as if the bump in our friendship had never happened. We even went to a Seahawks game together in early November. We may have had our differences before, but she’s still one of my best friends, and she’s one of those rare friends who I know will be in my life for a long time.
TWILIGHT: Natali has gotten me interested in a lot of things, and the Twilight book series was one of them. I was familiar with the book – I’d seen in in the bookstore, but had always passed on it because vampires and fantasy didn’t really interest me. But Natali swore up and down that I would fall in love with the book, so I decided to give it a shot. Boy, was she right – I couldn’t put the damn thing down. Pretty soon, I realized that everyone I knew was reading it – Christa borrowed my copy and got hooked, then passed it on to her mother. And over half of my co-workers were addicted to the saga, most of them reading it at work when the radio and calls were slow.
So you can imagine my excitement when the movie came out! I’d been counting down the days for two months, and bought tickets to the midnight showing on opening day three weeks in advance. Tanya and Char, two of the ladies from work who I’m closest with, had also been hooked on the books and went to the movie with me. We went to dinner at the Rock beforehand, and ended up getting to the theater at about 11:30, thinking that a half hour would be plenty of time to get good seats. Oh boy, were we ever wrong. We ended up having to sit in the very first row, which was horrible. And the girl who was sitting on the other side of Tanya was CRAZY. She was screaming in excitement the entire time, and I thought Tanya was going to choke her. The movie itself was … okay. It was awkward and cheesy and didn’t live up to the hype, but I still loved it. I ended up seeing it four times, which I’ve never done for any movie in a theater before.
JINGLE BELL BASH: In early December, Brittany and I went to Jingle Bell Bash, or JBB. She was supposed to go with me the year before to the same show, when I had front row tickets and the Jonas Brothers were headlining, but she ended up not being able to go. So I invited her this year, to make up for it. This year it was The Academy Is, Boys Like Girls, and Fall Out Boy. It was my second time seeing BLG in concert, and my first time seeing Fall Out Boy, one of my favorite bands. We went to eat at BJ’s in Tacoma before the show, which is my new favorite restaurant. Their drinks and fettucine alfredo are to-die-for. We accidentally stayed at BJ’s too long, and got to the concert late, completely missing The Academy Is. I didn’t really mind, though, since I don’t know most of their songs. But Boys Like Girls came on second, and they were amazing, as usual. Fall Out Boy put on a fantastic show as well. Our seats were nowhere near as good as the front row ones from the previous year, but that was fine.
WINTER WONDERLAND: Even though winter in Washington is cold, we don’t usually get much snow. And when we do, it’s usually some freak dusting in April or something and it always melts right away. I can’t even remember the last white Christmas we’ve had. But this year, about a week and a half before Christmas, a crazy storm came through and over the course of a few days dumped nearly a foot of snow. The temperatures stayed super cold, and the snow stuck around for almost two weeks! We had a white Christmas, and it finally melted away several days after that. I usually don’t like snow, but I didn’t mind it. It’s just all the crazy people who can’t figure out how to drive in the snow that scare me!
CHRISTMAS: Usually Christmas is a huge family affair, but this year it was very low-key. We spent some of Christmas Eve with John’s family at Uncle Ted’s house, then I jetted over to my dad’s to spend some time with him. We opened gifts (I gave him chocolate, “3:10 to Yuma”, a Louis Lamore book and a bowling gift card, and he gave me money) and then watched a couple of movies and had orange floats – like a root beer float, only with orange soda. It may sound gross, but it’s SO good.
Then on Christmas morning we opened presents at my mom’s house. My sister now lives in Idaho and couldn’t get enough time off work to come home, so my brother hooked up his laptop and we all did a video chat with Larissa for a while. You know you’re getting old when you get house stuff for Christmas – vacuum, George Foreman grill, tupperware – and you get excited about it. Haha! My mom also got me these kickass slippers that I had been wanting. They look like cowboy boots, with faux-faux-ostrich on the toe and leather tooling, and the tops are all furry. She had a pair of them that she’d bought in Texas in July that she was going to let me have, but one of the cats ate them. So she got me a pair when she went back to Texas in November for the NASCAR race, and I love them. I’m wearing them now, in fact.
Oh, and I consider myself lucky to be alive today. John and Russell got small-ish remote control helicopters for Christmas, and there were several times that I came close to being decapitated.
Overall, the year was one of the best ever. There were both good and bad times, but I grew up a lot and learned a lot of lessons. I hope that 2009 proves to be even better, and I can’t wait to see what the year has in store for me.
MY GOALS FOR 2009:
- Eat healthier and lose weight.
- Use the Wii Fit at least four times a week.
- PROJECT 365! (Visit my Myspace to take a look at the project: myspace.com/classygame)
- Learn how to cook.
- GO TO DISNEY WORLD!
- Learn to play my guitar.
- Write a song.
- Go to at least four concerts.
- Show Kira in Showmanship. (Kira the horse, not Kira the friend.)
- Go on a roadtrip with friends.
- BE HAPPY!
Friday, December 19, 2008
love/hate relationship.
part of me adores christmas. all of the joy and gifts and family-ness.
but there is also a HUGE chunk of me that hates christmas with a passion.
it's fucking stressful.
christmas is like five days away.
i've bought one present. an amazing, special present for my mom that was handmade and supposedly shipped over a week ago, but still hasn't arrived. and now i'm freaking out that it may not get here in time.
i have NO idea what to get for my stepdad. my mom suggested car dollies. yeah, right. he may want them, but i'm not buying john little mini ramps to drive his car on.
the siblings are easy. gift cards are an amazing thing. larissa and booger, there is a 99.9% chance that you will never see this page. but if, for some crazy reason, you're creeping on my blog, i'm sorry i just ruined christmas.
daddy is easy. gift certificate for bowling at paradise. i gave him a gift certificate for westside lanes in olympia several years ago, and it's still chilling on his refrigerator. because we never go to olympia. but paradise is halfway between our houses and we were there just a couple of weeks ago, so i think it's safe to say that it will get used. bowling is our bond.
fuck barb and her kids. she's psycho, and she won't be my stepmom for much longer, so she's not getting anything from me. speaking of her, i need to pick up the crock pot she bought for me from my dad's house before she takes off with it when she finishes moving out. call me selfish, but i at least want something from her before she leaves. she owes me for all the shit she's put me through the last ten years. a crock pot doesn't make up for therapy and being on prozac at age 13, but it's better than nothing.
i also have to find a gift for tamara, who's name i drew in the gift exchange at work. wtf ... every single other coworker has pretty much taken up stock with starbucks, they drink it so much. a gift card would be an easy gift, but no ... i get the one person who doesn't "do" starbucks. eff my life. maybe she'll enjoy the lovely hot cocoa set i got on sale at stupid prices? i bought it for a backup present in case i forgot anyone in my family. but i suppose it would do.
okay, enough ranting. i hate being stressed.
thank god tomorrow is my friday.
but then i have to go christmas shopping after work. most likely by myself, since i live so far away from my friends that no one wants to brave the snow to come to puyallup and shop with me.
shit.
i hate christmas.
i'm stressing myself out thinking about it.
i need to go to bed. there's no stress when you're unconscious.
but there is also a HUGE chunk of me that hates christmas with a passion.
it's fucking stressful.
christmas is like five days away.
i've bought one present. an amazing, special present for my mom that was handmade and supposedly shipped over a week ago, but still hasn't arrived. and now i'm freaking out that it may not get here in time.
i have NO idea what to get for my stepdad. my mom suggested car dollies. yeah, right. he may want them, but i'm not buying john little mini ramps to drive his car on.
the siblings are easy. gift cards are an amazing thing. larissa and booger, there is a 99.9% chance that you will never see this page. but if, for some crazy reason, you're creeping on my blog, i'm sorry i just ruined christmas.
daddy is easy. gift certificate for bowling at paradise. i gave him a gift certificate for westside lanes in olympia several years ago, and it's still chilling on his refrigerator. because we never go to olympia. but paradise is halfway between our houses and we were there just a couple of weeks ago, so i think it's safe to say that it will get used. bowling is our bond.
fuck barb and her kids. she's psycho, and she won't be my stepmom for much longer, so she's not getting anything from me. speaking of her, i need to pick up the crock pot she bought for me from my dad's house before she takes off with it when she finishes moving out. call me selfish, but i at least want something from her before she leaves. she owes me for all the shit she's put me through the last ten years. a crock pot doesn't make up for therapy and being on prozac at age 13, but it's better than nothing.
i also have to find a gift for tamara, who's name i drew in the gift exchange at work. wtf ... every single other coworker has pretty much taken up stock with starbucks, they drink it so much. a gift card would be an easy gift, but no ... i get the one person who doesn't "do" starbucks. eff my life. maybe she'll enjoy the lovely hot cocoa set i got on sale at stupid prices? i bought it for a backup present in case i forgot anyone in my family. but i suppose it would do.
okay, enough ranting. i hate being stressed.
thank god tomorrow is my friday.
but then i have to go christmas shopping after work. most likely by myself, since i live so far away from my friends that no one wants to brave the snow to come to puyallup and shop with me.
shit.
i hate christmas.
i'm stressing myself out thinking about it.
i need to go to bed. there's no stress when you're unconscious.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
end-of-the-year awards.
1) DRINKING BUDDY OF THE YEAR?
char.
2) LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD (longest friend) -
christa. it's been like eight years.
3) NEWCOMER AWARD - COOLEST NEWEST FRIEND?
anne.
4) HIGH POINT OF THE YEAR?
getting a new job and moving to puyallup.
or the world championship show in texas.
5) LOW POINT OF THE YEAR?
dealing with the daddy drama.
6) BAND FOR 2008?
jonas or boys like girls.
7) SONG FOR 2008?
ummmm. probably "burnin' up" - that was my summer anthem.
8) MOVIE FOR 2008?
there were quite a few good ones.
but i'm going to go with "stepbrothers".
9) BOOK FOR 2008?
TWILIGHT!
10) WHO DID YOU SPEND VALENTINES WITH?
no one.
11) ALL AROUND GREAT FRIEND TO HAVE
christa.
12) WHAT WERE YOU FOR HALLOWEEN?
nothing. i was sick. :[
13) RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR?
BJ's.
14) BEST KISS OF THE YEAR?
wouldn't you like to know? ;]
15) BEST DECISION MADE THIS YEAR?
to move to puyallup.
16) WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR?
keep doing the same thing.
hopefully be successful.
17) MOST STUPID IDEA WHEN DRUNK?
i didn't really have a stupid idea.
because i didn't get drunk.
18) TV SHOW OF THE YEAR?
gossip girl.
or american idol.
19) MOST LOYAL FRIEND?
christa.
20) BIGGEST CHANGE OF THE YEAR?
moving to puyallup.
21) BIGGEST douchbag AWARD?
haha. her name starts with an "a".
22) NEW YEAR RESOLUTION?
lose weight.
char.
2) LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD (longest friend) -
christa. it's been like eight years.
3) NEWCOMER AWARD - COOLEST NEWEST FRIEND?
anne.
4) HIGH POINT OF THE YEAR?
getting a new job and moving to puyallup.
or the world championship show in texas.
5) LOW POINT OF THE YEAR?
dealing with the daddy drama.
6) BAND FOR 2008?
jonas or boys like girls.
7) SONG FOR 2008?
ummmm. probably "burnin' up" - that was my summer anthem.
8) MOVIE FOR 2008?
there were quite a few good ones.
but i'm going to go with "stepbrothers".
9) BOOK FOR 2008?
TWILIGHT!
10) WHO DID YOU SPEND VALENTINES WITH?
no one.
11) ALL AROUND GREAT FRIEND TO HAVE
christa.
12) WHAT WERE YOU FOR HALLOWEEN?
nothing. i was sick. :[
13) RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR?
BJ's.
14) BEST KISS OF THE YEAR?
wouldn't you like to know? ;]
15) BEST DECISION MADE THIS YEAR?
to move to puyallup.
16) WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR?
keep doing the same thing.
hopefully be successful.
17) MOST STUPID IDEA WHEN DRUNK?
i didn't really have a stupid idea.
because i didn't get drunk.
18) TV SHOW OF THE YEAR?
gossip girl.
or american idol.
19) MOST LOYAL FRIEND?
christa.
20) BIGGEST CHANGE OF THE YEAR?
moving to puyallup.
21) BIGGEST douchbag AWARD?
haha. her name starts with an "a".
22) NEW YEAR RESOLUTION?
lose weight.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
"gimme more" week two.
So I'm a little late with this, but oh well. It's a miracle that I'm doing it at all. Because I have a hard time with sticking to things once I start them.
1. MARTIN JOHNSON, lead singer of Boys Like Girls.
I fucking adore this guy. He's for sure on my top five list of people I want to meet. I'd kill to hang out with him for a day - he seems like a bag full of fun.
Natali got me hooked on Boys Like Girls (just like she's gotten me hooked on everything else ... just wait, crack is probably next), and now I freaking love them. I've seen them twice in concert ... once back in July and again two weeks ago. Not only is Martin insanely hot, but he's also talented beyond belief. His singing and songwriting skills ... oh man.
He's also entertaining as hell. Exhibit A: martinsays.com. Freaking hilarious. Also, I just bought the Boys Like Girls rockumentary DVD, and it's amazing. When Matin fell and busted his arm on some Seattle sidewalk when he was giving John a ride on his back ... classic.
2. Folie A Deux.
I was lucky enough to get Fall Out Boy's new CD a couple of weeks before it came out, and it's been playing nonstop since then. It's incredible. I thought their last album was awesome, but this one is ten times better. Their sound keeps changing, but in a good way.
The best tracks:
- Tiffany Blews. Current favorite song. ("Oh, baby you're a classic like a little black dress//But you'll be faded soon, stuck on a little hot mess")
- Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet.
- America's Suitehearts.
- What A Catch, Donnie. The ending is amazing. Different people sing Fall Out Boy covers in the background. Panic At The Disco, The Academy Is, The Cab, etc.
3. BJ'S RESTAURANT AND BREWERY.
This new restaurant opened in Tacoma a couple of months ago, and it's amazing. I've been there like five times in the past three weeks. It's mine and Anne's "place". It's huge and gorgeous and they have an awesome bar. And the best fettucini alfredo I've ever had.
BJ's is amazing. That's really all there is to say.
4. "STEPBROTHERS".
Pretty much the most hilarious movie ever.
- "I'm going to take a pillowcase and fill it full of bars of soap and beat the shit out of you!"
- "Holy Fucking Santa Claus Shit!"
- "You have the voice of an angel. I mean, it's like Fergie meets Jesus."
- "I want to roll you up in a ball and stick you in my vagina. And whenever I feel a little tickle, I'll know it's just your hair."
Need I say more??
5. MY FAVORITE HIGHWAY.
So there's this awesome girl (Heygirlheyyyy, Ash!) who got me hooked on this band. I absolutely adore their music, but "Entertain the Pain" is by far my favorite song by them. Looooove it.
Plus, these guys are pretty entertaining. Yes, Dave, Joe's eyebrows ARE magical.
That's all she wrote, folks.
Since Christmas is a week away (HOLY SHIT!), I'll end this with a lovely performance (no, really, it's actually pretty good) of the Jonas Brothers singing "Girl Of My Dreams". Even though Joe is wearing a plaid jacket, I'd still sex the hell out of him. I think I have issues.
1. MARTIN JOHNSON, lead singer of Boys Like Girls.
I fucking adore this guy. He's for sure on my top five list of people I want to meet. I'd kill to hang out with him for a day - he seems like a bag full of fun.
Natali got me hooked on Boys Like Girls (just like she's gotten me hooked on everything else ... just wait, crack is probably next), and now I freaking love them. I've seen them twice in concert ... once back in July and again two weeks ago. Not only is Martin insanely hot, but he's also talented beyond belief. His singing and songwriting skills ... oh man.
He's also entertaining as hell. Exhibit A: martinsays.com. Freaking hilarious. Also, I just bought the Boys Like Girls rockumentary DVD, and it's amazing. When Matin fell and busted his arm on some Seattle sidewalk when he was giving John a ride on his back ... classic.
2. Folie A Deux.
I was lucky enough to get Fall Out Boy's new CD a couple of weeks before it came out, and it's been playing nonstop since then. It's incredible. I thought their last album was awesome, but this one is ten times better. Their sound keeps changing, but in a good way.
The best tracks:
- Tiffany Blews. Current favorite song. ("Oh, baby you're a classic like a little black dress//But you'll be faded soon, stuck on a little hot mess")
- Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet.
- America's Suitehearts.
- What A Catch, Donnie. The ending is amazing. Different people sing Fall Out Boy covers in the background. Panic At The Disco, The Academy Is, The Cab, etc.
3. BJ'S RESTAURANT AND BREWERY.
This new restaurant opened in Tacoma a couple of months ago, and it's amazing. I've been there like five times in the past three weeks. It's mine and Anne's "place". It's huge and gorgeous and they have an awesome bar. And the best fettucini alfredo I've ever had.
BJ's is amazing. That's really all there is to say.
4. "STEPBROTHERS".
Pretty much the most hilarious movie ever.
- "I'm going to take a pillowcase and fill it full of bars of soap and beat the shit out of you!"
- "Holy Fucking Santa Claus Shit!"
- "You have the voice of an angel. I mean, it's like Fergie meets Jesus."
- "I want to roll you up in a ball and stick you in my vagina. And whenever I feel a little tickle, I'll know it's just your hair."
Need I say more??
5. MY FAVORITE HIGHWAY.
So there's this awesome girl (Heygirlheyyyy, Ash!) who got me hooked on this band. I absolutely adore their music, but "Entertain the Pain" is by far my favorite song by them. Looooove it.
Plus, these guys are pretty entertaining. Yes, Dave, Joe's eyebrows ARE magical.
That's all she wrote, folks.
Since Christmas is a week away (HOLY SHIT!), I'll end this with a lovely performance (no, really, it's actually pretty good) of the Jonas Brothers singing "Girl Of My Dreams". Even though Joe is wearing a plaid jacket, I'd still sex the hell out of him. I think I have issues.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
oh, the weather outside is frightful.
it snowed!
normally i hate snow, but it's not so bad when you don't have to drive in it. i was brave enough to drive up the street tonight to go to walmart (literally, it's like two blocks away), and i obviously didn't die. so that's good. i did almost eat it in the parking lot, though. i'm not exactly the most graceful person.
i'm pretty much bored out of my mind. no one wants to drive because of the weather, and to be honest, i don't really either. so i'm stuck here at home by myself. not fun.
kira and i had a movie day earlier today. i'm so incredibly glad that she and i are friends again. our fight was the most rediculous, immature thing ever, and i'm so happy that we made up. she's one of my very best friends, and i love her to death. we're so much alike it's scary. she's my twin. plus, she's pretty much my one close friend that can drink. :] except i wish yelm was closer to puyallup. that way i could see her more often.
barb is actually moving out of my dad's house. i never thought i would see that happen. this is like the fourth time in the last two years that my dad has said that he's done with her, but every other time he would take her back. but it really seems like their relationship is over this time. she flipping went crazy. she won't even let my dad be at the house while she's moving her stuff out. like, literally the other day she kicked him out of the house for two hours because she didn't want to see him. it's so pathetic. i hate to see my dad hurting. and i know he's hurting, even though he does a good job at covering it. i just want the dad back that i had before this whole barb ordeal. i miss my old dad. i want to be my daddy's girl again.
still no exciting events on the boy front. i'm really beginning to think that something about me repels every single guy on the planet. i've been single for SO long ... almost three years. i'm ready for a relationship. i just can't seem to find a guy that's ready for someone like me. maybe it's because i'm too picky. but i'm not about to lower my standards and accept less than i want, less than i deserve.
where on earth has this year gone? it dawned on me today that in less than three weeks, it will be 2009. this year has gone by so fast, it's insane. but so much has happened. some good, some bad. i moved to olympia. went to the world championship show in texas. had a falling out with my roommate. got a new job. moved to a beautiful new place in puyallup. made some awesome new friends. and had a blast with my old friends, as always. it's been an amazing ride.
i'm so stoked for christmas. except for the fact that my mom is the only person that i've bought a gift for. but everyone else is pretty easy. i'm a huge fan of gift cards. i still don't know what the christmas plan is ... something small, i assume. larissa's not coming - she and alex are staying in idaho. i think russell is coming home from central, but i'm not sure. even so, i know it'll be a blast. christmas is my favorite holiday.
okay, i think that's enough rambling for tonight. i bought boys like girls' dvd, so i have that to watch. plus, i need to think of a few things for my "gimme more" list ... maybe i'll do that now.
and part of me really wants to make brandyn go outside and make a snowman with me when he gets home. we'll see if i'm successful.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
"the jonas brothers murdered an elderly woman."
i must admit, this is probably the funniest thing ever. i feel horrible for saying that, but just watch. i'm sure you'll agree.
admit it. you laughed.
because this is funny shit.
jimmy kimmel is my hero.
the end.
admit it. you laughed.
because this is funny shit.
jimmy kimmel is my hero.
the end.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
"gimme more". week one.
So based on a similar idea that a couple of my friends had, I've decided to do a weekly "Gimme More" list. It's a list of things that I'm pretty much in love with at the moment. Hopefully this will remind me to update this blog more often. :)
1. "If U Seek Amy" by Britney Spears.
It's Britney, bitch. I was lucky enough to get BritBrit's new CD a couple of weeks early, and since the moment I first heard this song, I thought it was catchy. I instantly liked it. It wasn't until yesterday that I discovered the hidden message in it, thanks to TMZ. The way Britney sings the line "if you seek Amy" it sounds just like "F-U-C-K me". Which now makes the lyrics that made absolutely NO sense before, well ... make perfect sense. Oh, BritBrit, how I heart you and your dirty hidden messages.
2. Blackberry Storm.
I bought my new Crackberry about a week and a half ago, and I'm still waiting for it to ship. BUT I got to play with one in the Verizon store, and let me tell you ... this thing is amazing. Unlike my current LG Voyager, the screen actually really clicks. You can highlight things before you select them, and you can feel the screen click when you press down. It's hard to describe, but it's awesome. All I've ever owned is LG phones ... in the past three years, I've gone through SEVEN different models. Some of them were upgrades, and a couple were accidental deaths. Haha. But I really want to have a 3G phone since I'm an internet whore. Let me tell you ... I cannot WAIT to get this phone.
3. David Cook's new American Idol commercial.
That video gives me goosebumps galore. Everytime I watch it. It's incredible. It's hard to believe that less than a year ago, he was a complete nobody, and now he's the current American Idol and has an AMAZING album out. No joke, I've had his CD on repeat sinec it came out. I even bought more than one copy so I could get all of the bonus tracks. David Cook is just amazing. Plus, he freaking kicked ass on Ellen today. :)
4. Twilight - the movie.
This was probably the corniest, cheesiest, most awkward movie I have ever seen. A lot of the movie caused the audience to laugh, most of the time at things that I don't think were intended to be funny.
But regardless, I absolutely loved it. Parts of it were really good, and the song that is used in the baseball scene is the ringtone on my cell. The first time I saw it was the midnight showing on opening night, and we ended up sitting in the front row. There was a girl on the other side of one of my friends that I thought was going to get shanked. She kept screaming constantly, and I thought she was either going to A) piss herself or B) cum in her pants. It was rediculous. That first night was bad; we were so close to the screen it made us dizzy, plus we had to deal with the shrieking preteen. But the other times I saw it (yes, I admit, I saw it four times) it was better. Still corny and awkward, but better.
And you can bet that I'll buy it the day it comes out on DVD.
5. The Jonas Brothers interview on Jay Leno and performance of "BB Good" on Jimmy Kimmel.
I'll be the first to admit that the Jonas Brothers sucked royally during their halftime performance at the Seahawks/Cowboys game on Thanksgiving. I thought Nick was going to pass out; he couldn't sing half the words to "Burnin' Up" because he was breathing so hard. Maybe the 81239472934 cheerleaders that were on the stage with him got him all excited. But seriously ... the Jonai sucked almost as bad as my Seahawks did. A that was a lot.
JB has never been known for their outstanding vocal abilities during live shows. But their performace of "BB Good" on the Jimmy Kimmel show was awesome. Shocked the hell out of me. It was super, super good. Don't get me wrong, they aren't on the same level as David Cook, but I was pleasantly surprised by their performance.
And their interview on Leno ... hearing Nick and Joe talk about Kevin being sexy (lyke, omgzzz, they said the word "sexy"!) around the 3:00 mark was just about the funniest/most awkward thing ever. Well, second most awkward only to the fan-blowing Biology scene in Twilight. Plus, Joe's epic fail at stand-up comedy was pretty darn cute, too.
Also, it looks like Joseph has grown fond of the ugly pocket on his t-shirts. Because it appears that since the shirt on Kimmel didn't have one, he took the liberty of drawing it on with a sharpie. ;)
Alrighty, folks. That's all I've got for the first edition of "Gimme More".
This post has been approved by I-Wanna-Shank-A-Bitch-While-Wearing-Grandpa-Pants Nick Jonas:
This could also be I-Want-To-Kill-My-Purity-Ring-Because-I-See-Boobs-And-Not-Preteen-Boobs-But-Hot-Cheerleader-Boobs Nick Jonas. Take your pick.
1. "If U Seek Amy" by Britney Spears.
It's Britney, bitch. I was lucky enough to get BritBrit's new CD a couple of weeks early, and since the moment I first heard this song, I thought it was catchy. I instantly liked it. It wasn't until yesterday that I discovered the hidden message in it, thanks to TMZ. The way Britney sings the line "if you seek Amy" it sounds just like "F-U-C-K me". Which now makes the lyrics that made absolutely NO sense before, well ... make perfect sense. Oh, BritBrit, how I heart you and your dirty hidden messages.
2. Blackberry Storm.
I bought my new Crackberry about a week and a half ago, and I'm still waiting for it to ship. BUT I got to play with one in the Verizon store, and let me tell you ... this thing is amazing. Unlike my current LG Voyager, the screen actually really clicks. You can highlight things before you select them, and you can feel the screen click when you press down. It's hard to describe, but it's awesome. All I've ever owned is LG phones ... in the past three years, I've gone through SEVEN different models. Some of them were upgrades, and a couple were accidental deaths. Haha. But I really want to have a 3G phone since I'm an internet whore. Let me tell you ... I cannot WAIT to get this phone.
3. David Cook's new American Idol commercial.
That video gives me goosebumps galore. Everytime I watch it. It's incredible. It's hard to believe that less than a year ago, he was a complete nobody, and now he's the current American Idol and has an AMAZING album out. No joke, I've had his CD on repeat sinec it came out. I even bought more than one copy so I could get all of the bonus tracks. David Cook is just amazing. Plus, he freaking kicked ass on Ellen today. :)
4. Twilight - the movie.
This was probably the corniest, cheesiest, most awkward movie I have ever seen. A lot of the movie caused the audience to laugh, most of the time at things that I don't think were intended to be funny.
But regardless, I absolutely loved it. Parts of it were really good, and the song that is used in the baseball scene is the ringtone on my cell. The first time I saw it was the midnight showing on opening night, and we ended up sitting in the front row. There was a girl on the other side of one of my friends that I thought was going to get shanked. She kept screaming constantly, and I thought she was either going to A) piss herself or B) cum in her pants. It was rediculous. That first night was bad; we were so close to the screen it made us dizzy, plus we had to deal with the shrieking preteen. But the other times I saw it (yes, I admit, I saw it four times) it was better. Still corny and awkward, but better.
And you can bet that I'll buy it the day it comes out on DVD.
5. The Jonas Brothers interview on Jay Leno and performance of "BB Good" on Jimmy Kimmel.
I'll be the first to admit that the Jonas Brothers sucked royally during their halftime performance at the Seahawks/Cowboys game on Thanksgiving. I thought Nick was going to pass out; he couldn't sing half the words to "Burnin' Up" because he was breathing so hard. Maybe the 81239472934 cheerleaders that were on the stage with him got him all excited. But seriously ... the Jonai sucked almost as bad as my Seahawks did. A that was a lot.
JB has never been known for their outstanding vocal abilities during live shows. But their performace of "BB Good" on the Jimmy Kimmel show was awesome. Shocked the hell out of me. It was super, super good. Don't get me wrong, they aren't on the same level as David Cook, but I was pleasantly surprised by their performance.
And their interview on Leno ... hearing Nick and Joe talk about Kevin being sexy (lyke, omgzzz, they said the word "sexy"!) around the 3:00 mark was just about the funniest/most awkward thing ever. Well, second most awkward only to the fan-blowing Biology scene in Twilight. Plus, Joe's epic fail at stand-up comedy was pretty darn cute, too.
Also, it looks like Joseph has grown fond of the ugly pocket on his t-shirts. Because it appears that since the shirt on Kimmel didn't have one, he took the liberty of drawing it on with a sharpie. ;)
Alrighty, folks. That's all I've got for the first edition of "Gimme More".
This post has been approved by I-Wanna-Shank-A-Bitch-While-Wearing-Grandpa-Pants Nick Jonas:
This could also be I-Want-To-Kill-My-Purity-Ring-Because-I-See-Boobs-And-Not-Preteen-Boobs-But-Hot-Cheerleader-Boobs Nick Jonas. Take your pick.
Friday, November 28, 2008
my christmas list.
So yesterday my mom told me that i need to come up with a Christmas list. Here goes.
- An Acura TL. White, please.
- Joe Jonas. If he's not available, then I'll take David Cook. Oh, heck, I'll take both Joe and David. Camilla and Kimberly can suck it.
-Blackberry Storm. It's on it's way. Yay!
- A John Carlson jersey. Because he's awesome.
- Vacuum cleaner.
- Airplane tickets to Florida. Heck, how about the whole Disneyworld package, too?
- Webcam.
- Seahawks tickets.
- iTunes gift card.
-My two front teeth. Got those already!
- Coach purse. One that's not fake.
- Season one of "House" on DVD.
- For the Jonas Brothers to NOT co-produce Honor Society's CD.
- George Foreman grill.
- "Apples to Apples" board game.
- "Stepbrothers" on DVD.
- A nose job. Maybe some lipo, too.
- Big & Rich's Super Galactic Fan Pack, Volume Two.
- Green Converse. Size ginormous.
- An Acura TL. White, please.
- Joe Jonas. If he's not available, then I'll take David Cook. Oh, heck, I'll take both Joe and David. Camilla and Kimberly can suck it.
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- A John Carlson jersey. Because he's awesome.
- Vacuum cleaner.
- Airplane tickets to Florida. Heck, how about the whole Disneyworld package, too?
- Webcam.
- Seahawks tickets.
- iTunes gift card.
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- Coach purse. One that's not fake.
- Season one of "House" on DVD.
- For the Jonas Brothers to NOT co-produce Honor Society's CD.
- George Foreman grill.
- "Apples to Apples" board game.
- "Stepbrothers" on DVD.
- A nose job. Maybe some lipo, too.
- Big & Rich's Super Galactic Fan Pack, Volume Two.
- Green Converse. Size ginormous.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
"turkey for me, turkey for you."
"...Let's eat the turkey in my big brown shoe." Oh, Adam Sandler, you created a classic with that song.
So it's 2am on Thanksgiving morning. And I can't sleep.
I haven't updated this in over a month, so I figured there's nothing better I could do with my time.
This year has gone by so fast. It's unbelieveable. It literally seems like just yesterday that I was celebrating New Year's Eve at Kory's house.
I've had a few rough patches this year ... roommate drama. My dad and Barb separating, then getting back together. And then separating again.
But for every bad thing or stressful thing that has happened, ten good things have come my way. I feel so lucky and blessed. I have an amazing job, an awesome apartment (with no psycho roomies!) and the best friends a girl could ever ask for.
The only thing I'm lacking in is the boyfriend department, but I guess I can't have everything. I'm content with how life is right now. I can't complain. I've been dealt a great hand.
I'm so incredibly thankful for everything I have, and for everything I've ever had. I used to take a lot of things in my life for granted. I know I was spoiled rotten, especially by my Nana. But I know she only did it because she loved me. I wish I hadn't taken my time with her for granted, because I didn't know that she would be taken from this world too soon. But I'm thankful for the seventeen years that she was in my life.
I'm thankful for my crazy mother, who I consider my best friend. I'm no longer jealous of her accomplishments - I'm just so incredibly proud of her. She's the best mom on the planet, and I love her to death. Even though she did pass on the impulse-buying gene to me. Although I've got to give her credit for her latest purchase ... a 40-foot horse trailer with a walk-in closet and a flat screen tv is pretty fricking awesome.
I'm thankful for my dad, and I'm glad that he's finally realizing that he doesn't have to put up with all of the shit that he's put up with for so long. I'm glad that he can stand up for himself and make his own decisions. I just want him to be happy, and I know he will be eventually. After almost losing him seven years ago, I'm just glad to have him in my life.
I'm thankful for every single thing I have, for everything I've ever worked for. I'm thankful that I've made the decisions I have.
I'm simply thankful for everything.
Happy Turkey Day. And may the Seahawks suck less today and beat the Cowboys. :]
So it's 2am on Thanksgiving morning. And I can't sleep.
I haven't updated this in over a month, so I figured there's nothing better I could do with my time.
This year has gone by so fast. It's unbelieveable. It literally seems like just yesterday that I was celebrating New Year's Eve at Kory's house.
I've had a few rough patches this year ... roommate drama. My dad and Barb separating, then getting back together. And then separating again.
But for every bad thing or stressful thing that has happened, ten good things have come my way. I feel so lucky and blessed. I have an amazing job, an awesome apartment (with no psycho roomies!) and the best friends a girl could ever ask for.
The only thing I'm lacking in is the boyfriend department, but I guess I can't have everything. I'm content with how life is right now. I can't complain. I've been dealt a great hand.
I'm so incredibly thankful for everything I have, and for everything I've ever had. I used to take a lot of things in my life for granted. I know I was spoiled rotten, especially by my Nana. But I know she only did it because she loved me. I wish I hadn't taken my time with her for granted, because I didn't know that she would be taken from this world too soon. But I'm thankful for the seventeen years that she was in my life.
I'm thankful for my crazy mother, who I consider my best friend. I'm no longer jealous of her accomplishments - I'm just so incredibly proud of her. She's the best mom on the planet, and I love her to death. Even though she did pass on the impulse-buying gene to me. Although I've got to give her credit for her latest purchase ... a 40-foot horse trailer with a walk-in closet and a flat screen tv is pretty fricking awesome.
I'm thankful for my dad, and I'm glad that he's finally realizing that he doesn't have to put up with all of the shit that he's put up with for so long. I'm glad that he can stand up for himself and make his own decisions. I just want him to be happy, and I know he will be eventually. After almost losing him seven years ago, I'm just glad to have him in my life.
I'm thankful for every single thing I have, for everything I've ever worked for. I'm thankful that I've made the decisions I have.
I'm simply thankful for everything.
Happy Turkey Day. And may the Seahawks suck less today and beat the Cowboys. :]
Saturday, October 25, 2008
i freaking love halloween.
BEST. MOMENT. EVERRRR.
Cop #1 [to Dispatcher]: I'll be out with a green Teletubby smoking in front of the Liberty.
Dispatcher [to Cop]: Copy, out with a green Teletubby in front of the Liberty.
Cop #2 [to Dispatcher]: I can't beat the Teletubby thing, but I'm out of service.
About ten minutes pass. During this time, Cop #1 goes up to the green Teletubby and shakes his hand to tell him how awesome he is. Teletubby's drunk friends take a picture of their equally drunk, costumed friend in front of the patrol car. Cop #1 and I leave, and Cop #1 makes a comment in the call about how the Teletubby was smoking a cigarette and how "beautiful" the whole thing was.
Cop #1 [to Dispatcher]: Clear, MDC.
Dispatcher [to Cop]: Copy, clear the Teletubby.
Cop #1 [to Dispatcher]: I'll be out with a green Teletubby smoking in front of the Liberty.
Dispatcher [to Cop]: Copy, out with a green Teletubby in front of the Liberty.
Cop #2 [to Dispatcher]: I can't beat the Teletubby thing, but I'm out of service.
About ten minutes pass. During this time, Cop #1 goes up to the green Teletubby and shakes his hand to tell him how awesome he is. Teletubby's drunk friends take a picture of their equally drunk, costumed friend in front of the patrol car. Cop #1 and I leave, and Cop #1 makes a comment in the call about how the Teletubby was smoking a cigarette and how "beautiful" the whole thing was.
Cop #1 [to Dispatcher]: Clear, MDC.
Dispatcher [to Cop]: Copy, clear the Teletubby.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
guess what? it's gonna be me.
i'm so incredibly bored. i got off work an hour ago, and instead of sleeping, i'm watching old *nsync videos. yes, i'm really that bored. "it's gonna be me" is pretty much the best video ever, btw.
i got off work an hour ago, after working since 10pm. so why am i not sleeping, you ask? ugh. the main reason is because i'm waiting for 7:30 to roll around so i can call the power company about the bill i received. a $40 electric bill wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't a $140 first-time customer deposit fee tacked on. wtf. i had the same energy company at my old apartment. the garbage company is jerking me around too - i've been waiting for a bill to arrive in the mail, and yesterday i got a notice that my account is past due and that i owe $97, and that it's going to collections if i don't pay up before the 29th. wtf, mate. i only moved in three weeks ago. so i'm thinking that the tenant before me had a past-due account. i swear, i have a bullseye on me this week as far as bills go.
on the other hand, everything else is going really well. work is great. we had a first-alarm fire this morning that was pretty crazy ... a second reason why i'm jacked up and so awake. a small vet hospital caught on fire and is pretty much a total loss - it was fully involved when we got the call. luckily, no people or animals were inside. i'm starting to like the graveyard shift, but i wish that the radio traffic and calls didn't come to a stand-still around 2am every night. well, minus the rollover accident last night and the fire this morning. every other night this week has been DEADDDDD. i've started working on the police radio this week, and tonight was my second night working it. i've only messed up on a couple of things - the first night, i goobered the time twice. but tonight i had no errors and my speed is really improving. i have experience on the other end of the radio from when i was a cadet, but i never realized the amount of work that the dispatchers were doing on the other end. even for a simple traffic stop, you have to make sure you hear the location and license plate correctly, typing in a flurry of codes at the same time, then repeat the location and time back to the officer. then you have to sift through all of the returns from the plate and attach different information to the call. it's crazy. but i'm getting better at it every night. the other two dispatchers even complimented me tonight, telling me how well i was doing, that i was a natural. it felt really good to hear that. :]
i put in for my first vacation for next year - as a dispatcher i have to work holidays and such, so we get a bank of holidays at the beginning of the year to apply toward a vacations. so my first vacation slot is april 24th to may 11th. that way i have my birthday off. i think, if things work out, i'm going to go on a cruise. i've never been before, and i've always wanted to. there's a 7-day cruise to the mexican riviera that i'd love to go on that leaves april 25th, which means that i'd celebrate my birthday on the ship on the 28th. which would be a freaking BLAST. i'm hoping christa can go with me ... going on a cruise with the bestie would be awesommmmme.
7:30's here ... gotta go have a nice chat with the power company. then it's off to bed. if i can sleep. if not, i'm cracking open "breaking dawn" ... i'm halfway through, and it's INCREDIBLE. i'll be sad when i'm done reading it, though. at least i have the movie to look forward to in a month! :]
okay, in the words of *nsync ... "bye bye bye!"
i got off work an hour ago, after working since 10pm. so why am i not sleeping, you ask? ugh. the main reason is because i'm waiting for 7:30 to roll around so i can call the power company about the bill i received. a $40 electric bill wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't a $140 first-time customer deposit fee tacked on. wtf. i had the same energy company at my old apartment. the garbage company is jerking me around too - i've been waiting for a bill to arrive in the mail, and yesterday i got a notice that my account is past due and that i owe $97, and that it's going to collections if i don't pay up before the 29th. wtf, mate. i only moved in three weeks ago. so i'm thinking that the tenant before me had a past-due account. i swear, i have a bullseye on me this week as far as bills go.
on the other hand, everything else is going really well. work is great. we had a first-alarm fire this morning that was pretty crazy ... a second reason why i'm jacked up and so awake. a small vet hospital caught on fire and is pretty much a total loss - it was fully involved when we got the call. luckily, no people or animals were inside. i'm starting to like the graveyard shift, but i wish that the radio traffic and calls didn't come to a stand-still around 2am every night. well, minus the rollover accident last night and the fire this morning. every other night this week has been DEADDDDD. i've started working on the police radio this week, and tonight was my second night working it. i've only messed up on a couple of things - the first night, i goobered the time twice. but tonight i had no errors and my speed is really improving. i have experience on the other end of the radio from when i was a cadet, but i never realized the amount of work that the dispatchers were doing on the other end. even for a simple traffic stop, you have to make sure you hear the location and license plate correctly, typing in a flurry of codes at the same time, then repeat the location and time back to the officer. then you have to sift through all of the returns from the plate and attach different information to the call. it's crazy. but i'm getting better at it every night. the other two dispatchers even complimented me tonight, telling me how well i was doing, that i was a natural. it felt really good to hear that. :]
i put in for my first vacation for next year - as a dispatcher i have to work holidays and such, so we get a bank of holidays at the beginning of the year to apply toward a vacations. so my first vacation slot is april 24th to may 11th. that way i have my birthday off. i think, if things work out, i'm going to go on a cruise. i've never been before, and i've always wanted to. there's a 7-day cruise to the mexican riviera that i'd love to go on that leaves april 25th, which means that i'd celebrate my birthday on the ship on the 28th. which would be a freaking BLAST. i'm hoping christa can go with me ... going on a cruise with the bestie would be awesommmmme.
7:30's here ... gotta go have a nice chat with the power company. then it's off to bed. if i can sleep. if not, i'm cracking open "breaking dawn" ... i'm halfway through, and it's INCREDIBLE. i'll be sad when i'm done reading it, though. at least i have the movie to look forward to in a month! :]
okay, in the words of *nsync ... "bye bye bye!"
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
movin' on up.
after nearly a week, i FINALLY finished setting my apartment up. and i love it. it's so me. i don't have too much time, but i wanted to post some pictures:
Thursday, September 18, 2008
hotel california.
oh man, i wish i was in california right now. but i AM at a hotel. taking a break from studying. this whole week i've been in burien/seatac for a dispatcher class, and tomorrow is the last day. complete with an exam. lovely.
i'm starving and i can't decide what to have for dinner. decisions, decisions.
one week until i move ... yay! i can't wait! not only is it going to be awesome living so close to work, i'm also excited to live by myself. i can't wait to decorate how i want to decorate, and to have a garage to park my car in. it's the little things i'm looking forward to the most. :]
okay, i've got to cut this short - there's more studying to be done.
ugh.
i'm starving and i can't decide what to have for dinner. decisions, decisions.
one week until i move ... yay! i can't wait! not only is it going to be awesome living so close to work, i'm also excited to live by myself. i can't wait to decorate how i want to decorate, and to have a garage to park my car in. it's the little things i'm looking forward to the most. :]
okay, i've got to cut this short - there's more studying to be done.
ugh.
Friday, September 12, 2008
"nick's all good with the cougars" ...
BAHAHAHAHAHA. joe posers rock. [especially when they're your friends! lol]
best. convo. in. history.
xoxo shameless (6:58:35 PM): OMGZZZZZZ! JOE I LOVE YOUUUUUU! MARRY ME?!?!?!?!?!?!
joefosho (7:01:05 PM): sure.
joefosho (7:01:09 PM): wedding in fiji?
xoxo shameless (7:01:15 PM): helllls yes.
joefosho (7:01:26 PM): oh shoot.
joefosho (7:01:27 PM): sorry.
xoxo shameless (7:01:28 PM): YAYYYYYY!
xoxo shameless (7:01:33 PM): wtf, joe.
xoxo shameless (7:01:37 PM): don't kid like that.
joefosho (7:01:48 PM): prior arrangements with this chick named taylor. we're getting married in tuscany.
xoxo shameless (7:01:54 PM): screw taylor.
xoxo shameless (7:02:07 PM): let's go live in utah. polygamy is hot there.
joefosho (7:02:34 PM): no. i'd rather do taylor for the rest of my life. she's everything in need. and more.
xoxo shameless (7:02:36 PM): see? win-win situation.
xoxo shameless (7:02:39 PM): wtf.
xoxo shameless (7:02:41 PM): i hate you joe.
joefosho (7:02:53 PM): i love you. who are you tho?
xoxo shameless (7:02:54 PM): you can take your purity ring and shove it up your ass.
joefosho (7:03:10 PM): that would be rather uncomfortable.
xoxo shameless (7:03:17 PM): that's the point.
xoxo shameless (7:03:28 PM): i'm russell brand, beeyotch.
joefosho (7:03:28 PM): nah. i'll keep it on my finger until taylor takes it off.
xoxo shameless (7:03:31 PM): bahaha.
joefosho (7:03:41 PM): oh no you don't, russel brand!
xoxo shameless (7:03:46 PM): is she gonna eat it off your hand like chelsea handler?
xoxo shameless (7:03:48 PM): that's hot.
joefosho (7:04:13 PM): no. she'll throw it across the room, then jump me and rip off my clothes. i don't mind.
xoxo shameless (7:04:37 PM): well shat. how does nick feel about older women?
xoxo shameless (7:04:42 PM): he's not a nark, is he?
xoxo shameless (7:04:46 PM): i don't want to go to jail.
joefosho (7:05:07 PM): nick's all good with the cougars.
xoxo shameless (7:05:25 PM): sweeeeeeet. hook me up with some of that, then.
joefosho (7:05:39 PM): it's a deal. double wedding?
xoxo shameless (7:05:43 PM): f'sho.
joefosho (7:06:06 PM): cool. i'll brb, taylor wants a make-out sesh.
xoxo shameless (7:06:08 PM): tell nick that somewhere in his vows he has to belt out "for you baby".
xoxo shameless (7:06:10 PM): wtf, joe.
xoxo shameless (7:06:20 PM): send nick my way now then.
xoxo shameless (7:06:27 PM): put him in the mail.
joefosho (7:06:30 PM): YOOO it's nick. takin' over joe's IM
xoxo shameless (7:06:32 PM): fed-ex his ass here.
xoxo shameless (7:06:39 PM): well helloooooo, honey.
joefosho (7:06:47 PM): hey babe. i hear you're older
xoxo shameless (7:06:55 PM): damn straight.
joefosho (7:06:55 PM): i'll do anything "for you, babyyy"
xoxo shameless (7:07:04 PM): ohhh man.
xoxo shameless (7:07:20 PM): nick, you drive me crazy with that just-post-puberty voice of yours.
joefosho (7:07:38 PM): thanks... i try to make it break as much as possible.... hence "sorry".
xoxo shameless (7:07:51 PM): and "can't have you" ...
xoxo shameless (7:07:56 PM): but you CAN have ME, beh beh.
joefosho (7:08:00 PM): ...and "a little bit longer."
xoxo shameless (7:08:01 PM): mhmmm.
joefosho (7:08:08 PM): oh i'll HAVE you... no purity ring necessary.
xoxo shameless (7:08:10 PM): ... and like, every other song.
joefosho (7:08:14 PM): basically.
xoxo shameless (7:08:23 PM): snaps ... i like you better than your brother already.
xoxo shameless (7:08:36 PM): you're easy-peasy, darlin'.
joefosho (7:08:46 PM): babe. i'm only easy for you.
joefosho (7:08:59 PM): joe's just tough to crack cuz he's all over that taylor chick,
xoxo shameless (7:09:09 PM): well, she's hot. it's understandable.
joefosho (7:09:27 PM): yeah. not gonna lie. she's gorgeous. but i donno if joe would let me get in on that action.
xoxo shameless (7:09:33 PM): wtf, nick.
xoxo shameless (7:09:39 PM): that's not very nice.
joefosho (7:09:46 PM): which is why i have you.
xoxo shameless (7:10:11 PM): pshh. and three years older is nothing. go big or go home ... six years your senior is just what you need.
joefosho (7:10:29 PM): you're right, baby, you're right. i'm all yours. who's taylor?
xoxo shameless (7:10:39 PM): exactly. love you, beh beh.
joefosho (7:10:49 PM): love you too.
joefosho (7:10:52 PM): oh shiz. joe's back.
joefosho (7:11:01 PM): YOOO DANJA IN DA HOUSEEE.
xoxo shameless (7:11:04 PM): CALL ME!
joefosho (7:11:05 PM): taylor was awesome =)
xoxo shameless (7:11:09 PM): oh snaps, i'm late.
xoxo shameless (7:11:18 PM): don't rub it in, joe.
xoxo shameless (7:11:21 PM): not nice.
joefosho (7:11:21 PM): i told him to call u... he said he would.
xoxo shameless (7:11:24 PM): sweeeet.
joefosho (7:11:31 PM): fine, but...
joefosho (7:11:35 PM): you know who i will rub?
joefosho (7:11:36 PM): taylor.
xoxo shameless (7:11:40 PM): ewww.
xoxo shameless (7:11:46 PM): tmi.
joefosho (7:11:57 PM): is the cougar jealous?
xoxo shameless (7:12:16 PM): fine. you go do that, and i'll go ... kiss my nick poster.
xoxo shameless (7:12:18 PM): take that!
joefosho (7:12:36 PM): don't cut ur lips on it tho... papercuts suck.
xoxo shameless (7:12:42 PM): trust me, i know.
xoxo shameless (7:12:43 PM): :/
xoxo shameless (7:12:54 PM): aight, paper-nick awaits.
joefosho (7:12:57 PM): my turn to say...
joefosho (7:12:58 PM): tmi.
xoxo shameless (7:12:59 PM): peace out, dangaaaaa.
joefosho (7:13:04 PM): PEACE, YO.
xoxo shameless (7:13:25 PM): <3
best. convo. in. history.
xoxo shameless (6:58:35 PM): OMGZZZZZZ! JOE I LOVE YOUUUUUU! MARRY ME?!?!?!?!?!?!
joefosho (7:01:05 PM): sure.
joefosho (7:01:09 PM): wedding in fiji?
xoxo shameless (7:01:15 PM): helllls yes.
joefosho (7:01:26 PM): oh shoot.
joefosho (7:01:27 PM): sorry.
xoxo shameless (7:01:28 PM): YAYYYYYY!
xoxo shameless (7:01:33 PM): wtf, joe.
xoxo shameless (7:01:37 PM): don't kid like that.
joefosho (7:01:48 PM): prior arrangements with this chick named taylor. we're getting married in tuscany.
xoxo shameless (7:01:54 PM): screw taylor.
xoxo shameless (7:02:07 PM): let's go live in utah. polygamy is hot there.
joefosho (7:02:34 PM): no. i'd rather do taylor for the rest of my life. she's everything in need. and more.
xoxo shameless (7:02:36 PM): see? win-win situation.
xoxo shameless (7:02:39 PM): wtf.
xoxo shameless (7:02:41 PM): i hate you joe.
joefosho (7:02:53 PM): i love you. who are you tho?
xoxo shameless (7:02:54 PM): you can take your purity ring and shove it up your ass.
joefosho (7:03:10 PM): that would be rather uncomfortable.
xoxo shameless (7:03:17 PM): that's the point.
xoxo shameless (7:03:28 PM): i'm russell brand, beeyotch.
joefosho (7:03:28 PM): nah. i'll keep it on my finger until taylor takes it off.
xoxo shameless (7:03:31 PM): bahaha.
joefosho (7:03:41 PM): oh no you don't, russel brand!
xoxo shameless (7:03:46 PM): is she gonna eat it off your hand like chelsea handler?
xoxo shameless (7:03:48 PM): that's hot.
joefosho (7:04:13 PM): no. she'll throw it across the room, then jump me and rip off my clothes. i don't mind.
xoxo shameless (7:04:37 PM): well shat. how does nick feel about older women?
xoxo shameless (7:04:42 PM): he's not a nark, is he?
xoxo shameless (7:04:46 PM): i don't want to go to jail.
joefosho (7:05:07 PM): nick's all good with the cougars.
xoxo shameless (7:05:25 PM): sweeeeeeet. hook me up with some of that, then.
joefosho (7:05:39 PM): it's a deal. double wedding?
xoxo shameless (7:05:43 PM): f'sho.
joefosho (7:06:06 PM): cool. i'll brb, taylor wants a make-out sesh.
xoxo shameless (7:06:08 PM): tell nick that somewhere in his vows he has to belt out "for you baby".
xoxo shameless (7:06:10 PM): wtf, joe.
xoxo shameless (7:06:20 PM): send nick my way now then.
xoxo shameless (7:06:27 PM): put him in the mail.
joefosho (7:06:30 PM): YOOO it's nick. takin' over joe's IM
xoxo shameless (7:06:32 PM): fed-ex his ass here.
xoxo shameless (7:06:39 PM): well helloooooo, honey.
joefosho (7:06:47 PM): hey babe. i hear you're older
xoxo shameless (7:06:55 PM): damn straight.
joefosho (7:06:55 PM): i'll do anything "for you, babyyy"
xoxo shameless (7:07:04 PM): ohhh man.
xoxo shameless (7:07:20 PM): nick, you drive me crazy with that just-post-puberty voice of yours.
joefosho (7:07:38 PM): thanks... i try to make it break as much as possible.... hence "sorry".
xoxo shameless (7:07:51 PM): and "can't have you" ...
xoxo shameless (7:07:56 PM): but you CAN have ME, beh beh.
joefosho (7:08:00 PM): ...and "a little bit longer."
xoxo shameless (7:08:01 PM): mhmmm.
joefosho (7:08:08 PM): oh i'll HAVE you... no purity ring necessary.
xoxo shameless (7:08:10 PM): ... and like, every other song.
joefosho (7:08:14 PM): basically.
xoxo shameless (7:08:23 PM): snaps ... i like you better than your brother already.
xoxo shameless (7:08:36 PM): you're easy-peasy, darlin'.
joefosho (7:08:46 PM): babe. i'm only easy for you.
joefosho (7:08:59 PM): joe's just tough to crack cuz he's all over that taylor chick,
xoxo shameless (7:09:09 PM): well, she's hot. it's understandable.
joefosho (7:09:27 PM): yeah. not gonna lie. she's gorgeous. but i donno if joe would let me get in on that action.
xoxo shameless (7:09:33 PM): wtf, nick.
xoxo shameless (7:09:39 PM): that's not very nice.
joefosho (7:09:46 PM): which is why i have you.
xoxo shameless (7:10:11 PM): pshh. and three years older is nothing. go big or go home ... six years your senior is just what you need.
joefosho (7:10:29 PM): you're right, baby, you're right. i'm all yours. who's taylor?
xoxo shameless (7:10:39 PM): exactly. love you, beh beh.
joefosho (7:10:49 PM): love you too.
joefosho (7:10:52 PM): oh shiz. joe's back.
joefosho (7:11:01 PM): YOOO DANJA IN DA HOUSEEE.
xoxo shameless (7:11:04 PM): CALL ME!
joefosho (7:11:05 PM): taylor was awesome =)
xoxo shameless (7:11:09 PM): oh snaps, i'm late.
xoxo shameless (7:11:18 PM): don't rub it in, joe.
xoxo shameless (7:11:21 PM): not nice.
joefosho (7:11:21 PM): i told him to call u... he said he would.
xoxo shameless (7:11:24 PM): sweeeet.
joefosho (7:11:31 PM): fine, but...
joefosho (7:11:35 PM): you know who i will rub?
joefosho (7:11:36 PM): taylor.
xoxo shameless (7:11:40 PM): ewww.
xoxo shameless (7:11:46 PM): tmi.
joefosho (7:11:57 PM): is the cougar jealous?
xoxo shameless (7:12:16 PM): fine. you go do that, and i'll go ... kiss my nick poster.
xoxo shameless (7:12:18 PM): take that!
joefosho (7:12:36 PM): don't cut ur lips on it tho... papercuts suck.
xoxo shameless (7:12:42 PM): trust me, i know.
xoxo shameless (7:12:43 PM): :/
xoxo shameless (7:12:54 PM): aight, paper-nick awaits.
joefosho (7:12:57 PM): my turn to say...
joefosho (7:12:58 PM): tmi.
xoxo shameless (7:12:59 PM): peace out, dangaaaaa.
joefosho (7:13:04 PM): PEACE, YO.
xoxo shameless (7:13:25 PM): <3
Thursday, September 11, 2008
survey says ...
1. ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT? Back of my hand. Killer toaster oven. Or the new one on my ear. My straightener tried to eat it. My ear, that is.
2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM? A bunch of posters. Movie ones ['Smokin Aces', 'The Holiday'], JB ones. A bunch of pictures.
3. DO YOU SNORE, GRIND YOUR TEETH, OR TALK IN YOUR SLEEP? None of the above.
4. WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? Anything. Mainly rock and country.
5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN? 5:16pm.
6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW? To move. I want to be in my new place.
7. WHAT DO YOU MISS? Certain people.
8. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION(S)? My two state championship ribbons. Proof that hard work really does pay off.
9. HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5'7".
10. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC? Not really.
11. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DARK? A little bit.
12. THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU CRY? I can't remember the last time I cried.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOGNE FOR A GUY? Agua di Gio by Georgio Armani. Yummm.
14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX? Dark hair, blue or green eyes.
15. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF BEING PROPOSED TO? No idea.
16. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINK? Energy drink.
17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING? Pepperoni and olives.
18. IF YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Macaroni and cheese. Sounds so good.
20. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A GOLDFISH? The cracker kind. Haha.
21. WHAT WAS THE FIRST MEANINGFUL GIFT YOU'VE EVER RECIEVED? I don't know.
22. DO YOU LIKE ANYBODY? Not really.
23. ARE YOU DOUBLE JOINTED? Nope.
24. FAVORITE CLOTHING BRAND? Ummm. I don't know. Ed Hardy, maybe.
25. FAVORITE BAND? Honor Societyyyy. <3
26. DO YOU HAVE A PET RIGHT NOW? Two horses. Cici and Callie.
27. WHAT KIND IS IT? Horse. Haha.
28. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING? I don't think that's something that can really be controlled.
29. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TELL SOMEONE HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU? Just straight up tell them. Don't beat around the bush.
30. SAY A NUMBER FROM ONE TO A HUNDRED: Nine.
31. BLONDES OR BRUNETTES? Brunette. :]
32. WHAT IS THE ONE NUMBER YOU CALL MOST OFTEN? Mommy.
33. WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST? Bad drivers.
34. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF THE USA? Yes. Mexico and Canada.
35. YOUR WEAKNESSES? Dessert.
36. MET ANYONE FAMOUS? Bret Boone. Hahahaha.
37. FIRST JOB? Waystation Ranch.
38. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL? In like middle school.
39. FAVORITE DISNEY MOVIE? Ummmm. The Little Mermaid. Nooo, it's NOT Camp Rock. Haha.
40. WHAT ARE YOU WEARING ON YOUR FEET? Chucks.
41. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE FILLING THIS OUT? A whole lot of nothing.
42. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST? Eyes. Lately hair.
43. HAVE YOU EVER HAD BRACES? Yes. I'm a walking orthodontic ad. Four years of braces, three types of retainers, one permanent, a night guard, head gear ... yeah.
44. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY? A motorcycle with a sidecar. No ... I have no idea.
45. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT? Two.
46. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Nope. However, I'm convinced that if I had been a boy, I would still have the same exact name. Only it would be Aaron Lee instead of Erin Leigh.
47. DO YOU WISH ON STARS? Sometimes.
48. DAVID COOK OR DAVID ARCHULETA? Oh man, Cookie for sure. <3
49. WHAT KIND OF SHAMPOO DO YOU USE? Pantene.
50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Sometimes.
51. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Honey ham.
52. ANY BAD HABITS? Bite my nails.
53 WHAT CD ARE YOU MOST EMBARRASSED TO HAVE ON YOUR SHELF? Ummm. Probably the High School Musical soundtrack. Haha.
54. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Hells yeah. I'm awesome. :]
55. FAVORITE FOOTBALL TEAM? Seahawks. Duh.
56. DO LOOKS MATTER? To an extent.
57. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER? Listen to music and just chill.
58. WHERE IS YOUR SECOND HOME? Christa's. But I don't go over there a whole lot anymore.
59. FAVORITE ADAM SANDLER MOVIE? Happy Gilmore.
60. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD? Ummm. Those Nano Pet things. Haha.
61. HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE? A ton. Like, over 200.
62. WERE YOU A FAN OF BARNEY AS A KID? Yes. Loved him.
63. DO YOU USE SARCASM? No, never. Haha.
64. MASHED POTATOES OR MACARONI AND CHEESE? Mac and cheese, please.
65. WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL? Humor, trust, maturity. And he has to be cute, not hot. :]
66. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES? Schooly, Er-Head.
67. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER? Stargazer lily.
68. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? Gossip Girl, CSI, Grey's Anatomy.
69. WHAT WAS YOUR ACT SAT SCORE? Didn't take it.
70. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Gold Medal Ribbon from Baskin Robbins.
71. DO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR FINGERS AND TOES? Yup.
72. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WORKED OUT? Couple months ago. I need to start again.
73. DID YOU NOTICE THAT THERE WAS NO #64? There was too. Potatoe/Macaroni battle. Liar.
74. WHATS THE FASTEST YOU HAVE GONE IN A CAR? Like 120 with Adam. Scared the shit out of me.
75. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? Naw.
76. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? "With Me" by Sum 41. Looove it.
77. LAST THING YOU DRANK? Lemonade.
78. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Dorene.
79. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE/SAME SEX? Eyes, smile, hair. Not necessarily in that order.
80. FAVORITE THOUGHT PROVOKING SONG? Um. I don't know.
81. FAVORITE THING TO HATE? I don't really hate anything.
82. FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR? October.
83. FAVORITE ZODIAC SIGN? WTF.
85. WHAT IS YOUR HAIR COLOR? Brown with blonde highlights.
86. EYE COLOR? Hazel.
89. FAVORITE FAST FOOD RESTURANT? Taco Bell.
90. YOU LIKE SUSHI? Gross.
91. LAST THING YOU WATCHED? CSI.
92. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR? Um. No idea.
93. PLAY ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS? Guitar, a little. I suck.
94. REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT? A little of both, I suppose.
95. KISSES OR HUGS? Both.
96. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE NIGHT STANDS? Relationship, for sure.
97. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT? A TV stand for my bedroom.
98. WHAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU HAVE? Scion tC.
99. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? New Moon.
100. DESCRIBE YOUR LOVE LIFE: Non-existant.
2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM? A bunch of posters. Movie ones ['Smokin Aces', 'The Holiday'], JB ones. A bunch of pictures.
3. DO YOU SNORE, GRIND YOUR TEETH, OR TALK IN YOUR SLEEP? None of the above.
4. WHAT TYPE OF MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO? Anything. Mainly rock and country.
5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN? 5:16pm.
6. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW? To move. I want to be in my new place.
7. WHAT DO YOU MISS? Certain people.
8. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION(S)? My two state championship ribbons. Proof that hard work really does pay off.
9. HOW TALL ARE YOU? 5'7".
10. DO YOU GET CLAUSTROPHOBIC? Not really.
11. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DARK? A little bit.
12. THE LAST PERSON TO MAKE YOU CRY? I can't remember the last time I cried.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOGNE FOR A GUY? Agua di Gio by Georgio Armani. Yummm.
14. WHAT KIND OF HAIR/EYE COLOR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX? Dark hair, blue or green eyes.
15. WHERE CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF BEING PROPOSED TO? No idea.
16. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINK? Energy drink.
17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING? Pepperoni and olives.
18. IF YOU CAN EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Macaroni and cheese. Sounds so good.
20. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A GOLDFISH? The cracker kind. Haha.
21. WHAT WAS THE FIRST MEANINGFUL GIFT YOU'VE EVER RECIEVED? I don't know.
22. DO YOU LIKE ANYBODY? Not really.
23. ARE YOU DOUBLE JOINTED? Nope.
24. FAVORITE CLOTHING BRAND? Ummm. I don't know. Ed Hardy, maybe.
25. FAVORITE BAND? Honor Societyyyy. <3
26. DO YOU HAVE A PET RIGHT NOW? Two horses. Cici and Callie.
27. WHAT KIND IS IT? Horse. Haha.
28. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING? I don't think that's something that can really be controlled.
29. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TELL SOMEONE HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO YOU? Just straight up tell them. Don't beat around the bush.
30. SAY A NUMBER FROM ONE TO A HUNDRED: Nine.
31. BLONDES OR BRUNETTES? Brunette. :]
32. WHAT IS THE ONE NUMBER YOU CALL MOST OFTEN? Mommy.
33. WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST? Bad drivers.
34. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF THE USA? Yes. Mexico and Canada.
35. YOUR WEAKNESSES? Dessert.
36. MET ANYONE FAMOUS? Bret Boone. Hahahaha.
37. FIRST JOB? Waystation Ranch.
38. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL? In like middle school.
39. FAVORITE DISNEY MOVIE? Ummmm. The Little Mermaid. Nooo, it's NOT Camp Rock. Haha.
40. WHAT ARE YOU WEARING ON YOUR FEET? Chucks.
41. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE FILLING THIS OUT? A whole lot of nothing.
42. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST? Eyes. Lately hair.
43. HAVE YOU EVER HAD BRACES? Yes. I'm a walking orthodontic ad. Four years of braces, three types of retainers, one permanent, a night guard, head gear ... yeah.
44. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY? A motorcycle with a sidecar. No ... I have no idea.
45. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT? Two.
46. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Nope. However, I'm convinced that if I had been a boy, I would still have the same exact name. Only it would be Aaron Lee instead of Erin Leigh.
47. DO YOU WISH ON STARS? Sometimes.
48. DAVID COOK OR DAVID ARCHULETA? Oh man, Cookie for sure. <3
49. WHAT KIND OF SHAMPOO DO YOU USE? Pantene.
50. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Sometimes.
51. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Honey ham.
52. ANY BAD HABITS? Bite my nails.
53 WHAT CD ARE YOU MOST EMBARRASSED TO HAVE ON YOUR SHELF? Ummm. Probably the High School Musical soundtrack. Haha.
54. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Hells yeah. I'm awesome. :]
55. FAVORITE FOOTBALL TEAM? Seahawks. Duh.
56. DO LOOKS MATTER? To an extent.
57. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER? Listen to music and just chill.
58. WHERE IS YOUR SECOND HOME? Christa's. But I don't go over there a whole lot anymore.
59. FAVORITE ADAM SANDLER MOVIE? Happy Gilmore.
60. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD? Ummm. Those Nano Pet things. Haha.
61. HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE? A ton. Like, over 200.
62. WERE YOU A FAN OF BARNEY AS A KID? Yes. Loved him.
63. DO YOU USE SARCASM? No, never. Haha.
64. MASHED POTATOES OR MACARONI AND CHEESE? Mac and cheese, please.
65. WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A GUY/GIRL? Humor, trust, maturity. And he has to be cute, not hot. :]
66. WHAT ARE YOUR NICKNAMES? Schooly, Er-Head.
67. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE FLOWER? Stargazer lily.
68. WHATS YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? Gossip Girl, CSI, Grey's Anatomy.
69. WHAT WAS YOUR ACT SAT SCORE? Didn't take it.
70. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Gold Medal Ribbon from Baskin Robbins.
71. DO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR FINGERS AND TOES? Yup.
72. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WORKED OUT? Couple months ago. I need to start again.
73. DID YOU NOTICE THAT THERE WAS NO #64? There was too. Potatoe/Macaroni battle. Liar.
74. WHATS THE FASTEST YOU HAVE GONE IN A CAR? Like 120 with Adam. Scared the shit out of me.
75. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? Naw.
76. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? "With Me" by Sum 41. Looove it.
77. LAST THING YOU DRANK? Lemonade.
78. LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Dorene.
79. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE/SAME SEX? Eyes, smile, hair. Not necessarily in that order.
80. FAVORITE THOUGHT PROVOKING SONG? Um. I don't know.
81. FAVORITE THING TO HATE? I don't really hate anything.
82. FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR? October.
83. FAVORITE ZODIAC SIGN? WTF.
85. WHAT IS YOUR HAIR COLOR? Brown with blonde highlights.
86. EYE COLOR? Hazel.
89. FAVORITE FAST FOOD RESTURANT? Taco Bell.
90. YOU LIKE SUSHI? Gross.
91. LAST THING YOU WATCHED? CSI.
92. FAVORITE DAY OF THE YEAR? Um. No idea.
93. PLAY ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS? Guitar, a little. I suck.
94. REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT? A little of both, I suppose.
95. KISSES OR HUGS? Both.
96. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE NIGHT STANDS? Relationship, for sure.
97. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU BOUGHT? A TV stand for my bedroom.
98. WHAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU HAVE? Scion tC.
99. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? New Moon.
100. DESCRIBE YOUR LOVE LIFE: Non-existant.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
video girl syndrome.
i was extremely bored. which is pretty obvious since i made a video about what was in my purse. i must admit, parts of this are kind of funny.
Monday, September 1, 2008
randomosity.
1) gossip girl season premiere starts in one hour and two minutes. THANK GOD.
2) playing madden on the wii makes your shoulder hurt. and your ankle, if you do your endzone dance too crazy.
3) don't clamp your hair straightener down on your ear. it hurts very badly. and the blister is really gross. ew.
4) orangecicle dream cupcakes from indulge in downtown puyallup are the best ever. they should be their own food group. the "omfg, these are so good but have so many calories they could kill me" group.
5) i still suck at the "honor roll". legit failure.
6) tomorrow night i am stalking kasey kahne. yes, stalking. if i get arrested, please be a dear and bail me out of jail.
7) friday is dress-up-like-a-redneck-and-find-a-hot-cowboy day. mhmmm. rodeo time, bay-bay.
ALSO, TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN NANA'S BIRTHDAY. REST IN PEACE, NANA ... I MISS YOU MORE EVERYDAY.
2) playing madden on the wii makes your shoulder hurt. and your ankle, if you do your endzone dance too crazy.
3) don't clamp your hair straightener down on your ear. it hurts very badly. and the blister is really gross. ew.
4) orangecicle dream cupcakes from indulge in downtown puyallup are the best ever. they should be their own food group. the "omfg, these are so good but have so many calories they could kill me" group.
5) i still suck at the "honor roll". legit failure.
6) tomorrow night i am stalking kasey kahne. yes, stalking. if i get arrested, please be a dear and bail me out of jail.
7) friday is dress-up-like-a-redneck-and-find-a-hot-cowboy day. mhmmm. rodeo time, bay-bay.
ALSO, TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN NANA'S BIRTHDAY. REST IN PEACE, NANA ... I MISS YOU MORE EVERYDAY.
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