The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

So, my blog friend, Katie does this segment called the good, the bad, and the ugly. Since I'm having a bit of blogger's block, I thought it'd be a good way to get some stuff on paper...er... the web.. today. :) Soooo here goes my attempt!

The good: I finally remembered to call my dermatologist today to get my yearly checkup appt soon!

The bad: I walked all the way downstairs to get some privacy when I called b/c I dunno about you, but I didn't really want all my coworkers to know I'm going to the dermatologist. It's just weird. Anyway, after going all the way down, the doc's office was closed today. Arg!

The ugly: I have a spot on my leg that I'm convinced is nothing good. WHY did I tan so much back in the day?! Mad at myself. Hopefully I'll get in soon!

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The good: I got the groupon for a personal trainer! 3 sessions for 39 bucks! Um. AWESOME.

The bad: I really need to call to do it before Maui, but just haven't...

The ugly: my @ss..that is, unless I get gym-motivated again. This week has been bananas! I've only made it once.

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The good: Went to an event last night representing the young alum group I'm chairing! Was hoping to get more volunteers and got a few!

The bad: Met a guy who kinda gave me a random/weird vibe, but wanted to get involved...

The ugly: I put my digits on my handout. And um.. he text me last night...three times. Freaking great. *eye roll* haha..

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The good: I don't have a wedding to attend this weekend! I will likely have an incredibly good time drinking wine with my girl friends on Saturday night and laughing at randomness.

The bad: *thinking..thinking* There is no bad.

The ugly: Me if I have too much wine on Saturday night.

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The good: We have AWESOME frozen yogurt in our building in a cafe downstairs.

The bad: I went with my coworker, got some, and ATE IT ALL. *head hung in shame*

The ugly: I reiterate that I haven't scheduled that personal trainer yet sooo yeah. Oh and I plan on going to a ribs festival tonight. Ribs, fro yo (yeah, I just called it fro yo), some chocolate, AND lots of caffeine today. *whoops* This whole "I will be super healthy before my vacay" doesn't seem to be working.. *furrowed brows*

Happy Friday, peeps! Hope you have a fantastic weekend! And GOOOOO TU!!!!!!!! We're playing another in-state game tomorrow, so can't wait to see what happens! :) Cheer for Tulsa; we need it!

Hugs, not drugs...

I really like the subject line and used to say it um... all the time. I really wanted a tee shirt that said it, but couldn't find one and lost interest. Anyway, that's all irrelevant. I really just wanted to let you peeps know...

I heart you! Whenever I need to vent, rant, need opinions, want to celebrate, or just want to talk about randomness, ya'll are there. I read every single comment and appreciate you peeps' often-quite-thoughtful responses. I'm not the best at writing back in email sometimes b/c I can't access personal email at work (which is admittedly likely a very good thing), but I'm definitely getting better! (In other words, if you have a question and I didn't write back, feel free to harass me..hah!) ;) Sometimes I find that when I'm having a hard time with something, I'll find one of you having a very relatable experience at the same time. It's crazy! Do you ever do that?! And even if I'm in a funk and read one of ya'll's blogs and you've just gotten some outstanding news or are having a great day, it kinda cheers me up.. unless I'm in a REALLY bad mood...and then I'm likely not on the internet b/c I'm off being grumpy somewhere... haha.. ;)

I feel like I've got a ton of pen pals. (Remember pen pals?! Did you ever have one?! Wow, I'm kinda a.d.d. right now) So yeah... thank you all for rocking this midwestern girls' world (yes, I consider OK in the midwestish).  :)

So, here's a hug from my blog to yours! (How cute are these little girls?!)

And randomly, but this picture is kinda creepy, right? I looked up hug on google and this came up. I mean.. it kinda applies.. She's hugging text... like a blog... er...or.. maybe I'm just reaching here. Whatever. My mind goes "creepy...or cool...................no it's creepy..." haha!

Weekend Recap...ON TIME for once! ;)

Hiiiiiiiiii everyone! How was your weekend?!

Mine? 

Fabtastic, but BUSY! Why? 

Well...I got to spend time with some fabulous friends at a bachelorette party, went to a surprise brunch for one of my first college friends to turn the big three-oh, volunteered at my former university, and autumn-ized my casa!

But, the best part is... 

Do you remember this post where I talked about the handbag I saw a month or so ago and fell in love with b/c it seriously is the PERFECT bag? Do you remember how I said I'd been looking for a bag like this for um... years? But, I just couldn't justify it right now with lots of wedding showers and other events plus Maui?

Okay, so Friday night, Eric and I went to a chillax dinner. It'd been a long week for us both and we were looking forward to stuffing our faces with chips and salsa and doing a big fat nothing. So, alllllll the way there I bitched discussed how, while I love being involved and invited, having a wedding related activity and/or other thing EVERY weekend lately was really bogging me down...and breaking the bank. (So basically I was whining a lot and likely being annoying) So, after a beer and some guacamole, life was all good again.. haha... Anyway, we got in the car and Eric took my handbag from me and put it in the backseat. 

I thought "well, that was nice" and said thank you.. Then, he said "here's your handbag" and I said "No, you can leave it back there" semi confused....

...until he pulled out THE bag....

I love that guy....a lot. 

I gasped and said "No.you.didn't." And then, things got a little blurry... like literally...b/c I got tears in my eyes...haha.. Here I'd been a whiney moron the early part of the evening and Eric went and was so freaking thoughtful. Good grief I don't deserve him sometimes... a lot of times... 

After lots of thank yous and hugs and staring at the leather bag, I had Eric take my photo with it...haha! I then proceeded to embrace the bag. Yeah, I did. I'm not going to be a cheesy mess here, but if I could put into words how much I appreciate Eric, you all would stop reading my blog b/c you'd never make it through the post... I don't deserve the bag...or Eric sometimes...but I'm certainly extremely happy and lucky to have them both... :)

Okay, stop gagging now and let's move forward.... ;)

Saturday night, headed out for Carrie's bachelorette party! She's in the middle in the bright dress. Eric was at the groom's bachelor party out of town at the same time. :) Eric went to high school with the groom...and we both went to college with the bride. I'm 99.9% sure they actually met through Eric (he's thoughtful AND a matchmaker. I'm just sayin...). 

We started the night at one of the girl's houses where we played a game involving wearing a..ahem...headband...and throwing rings over it. These pics likely won't make the facebook album, but the whole thing was freaking hilarious!

Sunday morning, a group of Brooke's friends and family gathered at a local eatery for a surprise 30th birthday brunch! She's the first girlie in our group in T-town to hit the big dirty thirty so we decided do something fun! :)  

Andrew, Sarah, and their adorable little guy....

The birthday girl, Brooke, her hubs, and their cutetastic son (you'll start to see a trend that all my friends have little boys...)

Ashley, Lee, and the newest member of the little basketball team in the making (haha)...

Jenny, Jeff, and their adorable kiddo.....

And last but not least, me and my family...er...child....er...handbag.... haha.. I totally had Sarah take this to be funny after all the family photos...

The girlies... 

They're buddies and it's seriously adorable. 

Hope you had a fabulous weekend, peeps! How did it go by so quickly?! Sheesh... But, the good thing about Monday this week... GOSSIP G!RL IS BACK! Do you watch?! I'm so excited! We're having a lil premiere party at our house! 

(Last) Weekend Recap! And Um.. Other Stuff, too.. :)

Yeah yeah, I'm way behind on my photos. *head hung in shame* Hell, I'm way behind in my blogging this week. I miss you, peeps.Here's why I've been MIA. And yeah, it's a lot of text. Skip ahead to the pictures if you're bored. :)

Tuesday- dinner with a fabulous friend in town also known as my former boss from my previous jobbidy! In the past few weeks, I've hung quite a bit with my former co-workers turned friends (not that they weren't friends as coworkers. haha..). It makes me SO happy that we've been staying in touch, lest you remember my tearfest when I left there like "*sob sob* I'm worried I won't see them again..*" I'm so overdramatic sometimes. ( <-- I rarely admit that and mean it. LOL!).

Wednesday- Friend intervention about a boy. It was unplanned. It was necessary. It involved wine and a cheeseplate. ha! All is good in the land of friendship once again. Gotta get each others backs, ya know? :)

Thursday- Dinner with my best friend, Blaze! Hadn't seen each other in FOREVAH, so it was awesome! We talked about excitingness, so stay tuned for more on that sometime.

Friday- Oh, right.. That's today. Well, today was the Day of Caring! At 6:30 am, I met a thousand other peeps for the 19th Tulsa Day of Caring Kickoff! Do you participate in Day of Caring in your city? Didya know Tulsa has one of the largest in the NATION?! Yeah. We do. Awesome. Oh.. let me rewind.. I got to the Day of Caring Kickoff AFTER I cleaned the cat poop off Gracie's face b/c she thought that was a brilliant thing to stick her face in at 5:45 am in the dark backyard. Ugh. And after having to wake up my roomie and her best friend who had apparently crashed after having a little too much vino last night...but were parked BEHIND me. They don't work on Fridays, so I'm sure my 6am wakeup call making them move the car kinda sucked. *shrugs*

Friday lunch- a tidbit I haven't shared.. I went to lunch with a friend from my former University. We were chatting about plans b/c... I'm the new chair of the Young Alumni! Fun stuff! I might pick ya'll's brains for some ideas... if you don't mind. We need to build alumni engagement.. a lot.

And now... on to some PHOTOS!

Happy Birthday to Eric! Happy Birthday to Eric! I played with Picnik Photo Editing! Happy Birthday to Eric!

Friday's sushi dinner with some of his friends :)

Eric likes presents.

Pretending his gift is a shake weight. Yes, he really is. (and no, it wasn't a shake weight).

I got him some boots he was wanting. No idea what kind of face he's making. He obviously loves them.

Note: Never arch your back and conceal it with your arm accidentally. You will look like you have a baby belly. Just sayin. Example below. (This was at dinner at the new W0lfgang Puck's in Tulsa!)

Brunching it up at a local place with a fun patio :) I wore my hat. And my TU gear...b/c we went to watch 4 hours of the TU game only to have them lose in the last 5 seconds the TU game after brunch..

We also went to a couples shower for some friends. Well, obviously they were our friends b/c I guess we wouldn't go to a random person's wedding shower. Whatever. I played with Picnik photo editing again. :)

From the couples shower, we headed to another friend's OU watch party. Unlike TU, they won. People cheersed with beverages a lot. See below for example.

Lauren was also in town from the Chi! I didn't get to see her as much as I would have liked or take any good photos, but glad we got to hang for a little bit. :)

Oh, and I went a little darker with the hair! But, um.. a lot of people don't seem to notice. Or maybe they notice and they haven't said anything b/c they hate it. Bastards. Whatever, I like it. And for those of you reading who DID notice and said something to me this week, you rock. Love you. :)

So, there's a weekend recap and lots of other jazz you prolly didn't care about.. just in time for this weekend.. haha.. Maybe I'll be more timely next week. *shrugs*

What's on your agenda for the weekend? Now that you've read all the randomness of my life, I'll tell you one more thing.. I have a bachelorette party for a friend tomorrow night! YEEHAW! Should be fun. Would have been more fun if it wasn't TU's first home game but ya know. Whatever. Football comes and goes; friends are forever. *insert awwwww*

Have a great weekend, loves! I'm out. *throwing up peace sign and pursed lips*

About blogging...

Great post from The Pioneer Woman about blogging. :) (Don't you just LOVE her?! I do.)

Ten important things I've learned about blogging

I'll try to upload some pics from the weekend later, but wanted to share the above! :) And also, I haven't gotten to write you back individually yet b/c I can't access personal email at work and using my leetle buttons to type from my phone semi frustrates me sometimes... but THANK YOU (<-- all caps necessary to indicate appreciation) to those of you with tips about boots! I eagerly wrote all brands down and plan to be a google searching freak at some point soon! haha! :)

Hope this short week is treating you well! Looking forward to catching up with the bloggidy world lata from the comfort of my cozy casa on this rainy day....

Approaching Autumn....

What a great weekend! Hope the long weekend treated you well, friends!

I have pics, but I need to upload them. (You're reading that sentence a lot lately). Plus, blogger is kinda a beast lately with uploading pics, so it's not enticing to start the process I suppose... Anyhoo, Eric had a good birthday! (unless he lied to me..haha!) Thanks for all the wishes! Thanks for all the comments on the after Labor Day white wearing, too! :) Honestly, I TRY to follow the rule, but it's mostly b/c it's a rule and not b/c I actually believe in it one way or another. I just don't want to be "that girl" at the party or whatever in a white linen dress. I just have this vision of Blair and Serena (Goss!p Girl reference) whispering about me or something. :) That said, I haven't packed away my white shirts, etc quite yet. I'm also fully convinced there are no rules in paradise/Maui. Therefore, my white pants are well within the boundaries there. ;)

Speaking of, I feel like Maui will NEVER get here. But, I'm halfway okay with that b/c I need to seriously take my spending down a hundred decibels before we actually go on vacay. Goodbye lunch dates and hellllllllo microwave meals.

Are you guys so excited fall is around the corner?! I lurve fall.... just hate that winter inevitably follows. I can't wait for the spicy scents, football games, brisk mornings, colorful leaves, pumpkin spice beverages....ahhh... *happy sigh* I'm definitely going to miss looking out my office window (at my former job) and watching the nearby trees turn. Maybe I can pretend my cube walls turn colors? Eh? Yeah prolly not. (Making mental note to change screen saver at work to something fallish).

But, um.. if we have a winter like we had last year...WHOA. I know what you're thinking if you live north of me, and believe me, I'm not trying to compare. That said, Tulsa is just not equipped to deal with the snowy/icy crap we've been getting in recent years. It just comes down to what the city can handle in terms of equipment/manpower in some regards. I mean... a few years ago, ice took out power for 13 days! (for me, that is. Newer areas of town were only out a few days). Last year, we had so much snow (and not enough plows) that everyone was literally stranded for around 3 days at Christmas. (Mom and I had a lot of wine and sat in our pjs. Not horrible but still).

So, if you're reading this and your city gets snow, I have a question....

Do you have any recs for good snow boots?! 

I want some that are decently cute, warm, waterproof, good traction (I'm clumsy). Yup. That's about it in terms of requirements. Last year, I just couldn't justify it even though my old ones sometimes get water in them. I thought "Well, winter won't be THAT bad. I don't need to spend $$ on boots." Um. That was a HUGE mistake. When it got crappy, boots were already all sold out everywhere online and in stores. After a winter of wearing the leaky boots, I'm officially ready to add some new ones to my shopping list in the coming months. 

And b/c I can't end this post on something about winter b/c it makes me shiver, exhale happily with me as you look at this pic. Doesn't it make you want to go talk a walk by the water, wearing a fall scarf and long sleeves, while sipping a pumpkin spice or hot cider? :) Have a good Tuesday, peeps! :)

Thursday Thoughts

Just some randomness...

* I finally switched over to the new blogger posting tool or whatever. Let's see how this post shapes out. -Shrugs-

* Two weekends ago started absolute shower/wedding madness for Eric and me. What is the maddess, you ask? Well, two weekends ago, I attended a baby shower followed immediately by a wedding shower that night. Last weekend-bridal shower. This weekend-couples shower. Next weekend-bachelorette party. Following weekend-FREE! YAY! TU FOOTBALL! Weekend after- wedding. Weekend after that-wedding. THEN HAWAII!!!!! Then, we have a rehearsal dinner then wedding the weekend we arrive back from Hawaii.

And then the maddess ends. For a little bit. And my bank account recovers in time for the beating it will take at the holidays. haha...

* Along the lines of the holidays, someone facebooked "FOUR MONTHS TIL CHRISTMAS" last week and I kinda wanted to punch them in the face. It's summer. No holiday talk yet. Except I really do want a pumpkin spice from Starbucks...like NOW! And that drink kinda reminds me of fall/holidays, so whatever... but still. No Christmas countdowns yet.

* This weekend is Eric's birthday! How comedic is it that we were both born on holiday weekends when there's typically no one in town and limited things to do that are open?! (I'm the 3rd of July). Anyhoo, I'm kinda excited b/c I really like (1) birthdays (2) spoiling people I care about and (3) celebrations. Soooo.. yeah. Oh, and dessert. I like dessert. Duh. I guess he was born on actual Labor Day and his mom was asked "how did it feel to be laboring on labor day?!" You moms out there can likely imagine the look she prolly gave them b/c it's the same one I would have given. haha..

* I dont understand why people don't have facebook walls. Are you that scared of what someone is going to post there? If so, that makes me incredibly nervous about being your friend, you closet psycho. Teasing, but really...

Happy Thursday, peeps! Hope you're gearing up for a fabulous long weekend ahead!

Ooooh and while I'm on this topic, I'll leave ya with a question....

After Labor Day... White or no white?

Uninvited guests....

So, our pantry is located directly off our back door. Our house is old and therefore not insulated that well.. Anyway, some of theeeeese little buggers got inside and decided to take over anything they could find in the cabinet in a bag or box last week. Ugh.

Google led me to a solution: black pepper. I lined the doorway with it and no more ants! YAY!

Right?

Wrong.

B/c the other night, I woke up, hearing something that sounded like someone was trying to get in the house. I FREAKED OUT. I grabbed my cell phone and my keys, prepared to run for the hills. I dialed 9-1-1...and held my finger over the "call" button.

Yes, I was that freaked out.

The noise continued intermittently.

I finally got up, went into the kitchen and decided to sit in the dark, listening.

If I heard someone trying to get in, I was OUT....but I just wasn't sure what the noise was...

...and my alarm/motion detectors were fine...

Sooo.. I sat there... index finger hovering shakily over that little green key on my phone, 9-1-1 already entered in...

and I heard the noise...

INSIDE THE KITCHEN.

Which made me realize it was....

...or rather something more like this...
Yes, friends, mother nature is trying to re-claim our kitchen or something.

And damnit we're CLEAN people. Ugh. So annoying. (But so glad it was just a mouse!!!)

I sighed heavily and went back to bed.

When the ant parade occurred last week, I'd put everything I could inside plastic baggies to keep it safe. For example, my granola bars, while individually wrapped, were in a box...that ants got in to.

*gross*

So I put the wrapped bars in a baggie and threw out the box while cursing at the ants who didn't understand me and thoroughly confusing the dogs

I woke up the next morning after I realized a mouse had been in the house...

and it had EATEN THROUGH THE PLASTIC BAGGIE and gotten all my granola bars.

That's it.

Between ants and mouse, I've lost like $30 in food this week!

This is war. Little sqeaky furball is going down. Trap is set. And now, peeps, we wait....

(admittedly, I dont really WANT to find a dead mouse. I kinda want him to just run out from wherever he came and never return).

So, yeah. There's that rant for ya...

And um... I was shopping today and fell in love.

Like not just in love..

In love. In lust. In wildly passionate I have to have this....

over....this....

IWANTTHISBAG. SO BADLY. I've been looking for a gorgeous camel bag for like ...3 years now. Every winter, I look and look and never find what I want. I want one that's big, but not with tons of crap all over it. I want it to be tasteful. I want it to have those kinds of handles.

I saw it in the store window and was pulled as if by some other force into the store....

...until I saw the price tag and wanted to shed a tear. Things Jax doesn't need to spend hundreds of dollars on=handbag.

So, I will wait. They'll have coupons...er...right.. And there's always ebay. *le sigh* But I wanted to share my newest leather love with all of you. Maybe it'll be my 30th birthday to myself! (Yes, my birthday is almost a year away....and yes, I'm also going to Hawaii as a present to myself in some regards...but just let me justify it.) Maybe it'll be my "I caught the mouse" present? Eh? Fine. Whatever. Hmph.

Hope you had a great weekend! I'll recap tomorrow. XOXO!

B/c I'm way behind in photos...

So, I know I SAID I went to a baby shower last weekend, but uh...my life ate the ability to upload photos this week...Soooo here are last weekend's pics!

The adorable cake!

Watch out, world, I have cooking utensils and an apron....
The girlies with the hot mamma to be!
Awwww!
Hostesses with the mostesses (ha!) and glowing, gorgeous mother to be Jennifer in the middle. :)

That night, we had a couples shower for some friends! (yes, lots of showers! And actually I had another one yesterday and have ANOTHER one next weekend). The tables were decorated with huge fake diamonds. I tried to be funny. Eric didn't get the memo.

But, he did the second time around... hahaha!
Played a funny game (no, really.. it was funny.. I know the word "game" and a shower makes everyone cringe like it does me). We had to all write a question involving "who" like "who wears the pants in the relationship..." and they had to sit back to back and answer the questions by pointing at the person they feel does the action asked in the relationship... Some of the questions were...ahem... not rated for blogger...which made it all the funnier! ha!
Sunday, we headed to watch Eric's friend race at a local speedway! Judging from some of the insane sports cars at the track, it seemed like a rather expensive hobby to me.. ha! Ah, boys and their toys... ;)

B/c my dog's adorable...and other randomness...

*these were all taken today* :)

I keep my bag with my gym clothes by the door so I don't forget em on the way to work... Looks like someone didn't want me to leave...Awww... :)

"Herrow, I'm the best doggie in the world!" :)
"Please stop taking my photo and get ready for bed, you hussy."
And they say dogs don't smile... pshaw I say! :) (ignore the random wet spot where she'd been licking before she smiled. Whatever).

If you haven't heard about this weekend's sale coming up for all the G@p brands, you're living under a rock. Or maybe you aren't...b/c I hadn't heard about it til recently either. In the event you haven't heard, I wanted to share! :) Click here.

So, um.. guess what...wait for it.. wait for it... ERIC PASSED THE CPA HE TOOK IN JULY! YAY! He just found out today!!! He's still waiting on the score from last week's exam, but that means he officially is 3/4 of the way DONE with the CPA! YEEEHAW! You guessed it; there was definitely Mexican food tonight. :)

1/2 Weekend Recap...

Haven't uploaded photos from the awesome baby shower we had this weekend for our friend, Jennifer...or from some friends' wedding shower....or from my first experience at some car races today...

...so they're coming soon!

So in the meantime....

Things that are weird that I plan to do: take a copy of Maxim mag to my stylist.

b/c um.. I love this chick's hair. (Yes, I realize I'm kinda obsessing about the hair thing. It's my blog. I can.). So, maybe this, but with quite a few blonde highlights? Eh? *shrugs* I like it. We'll see...

* photo from Maxim mag

I also kinda want her stomach. So um.. if my stylist can do that too, that' d be awesome. ;)

Moving on... Saturday, after our friends' couple shower, we opted to be awesomely lame head home and watch a movie. What'd we see? Despite my repeated attempts to get Eric to watch Girl with the Dr@gon Tattoo (the Swedish version), and debate about 4 or 5 other movies, we settled on Date Night. (He alleges he's going to read the actual book, hence not seeing the movie first. We have a bet going..b/c he has like 5 books ahead of it that he wants to read. So, I'll let you know who wins.). ;)

Vote: cute, funny, predictable but in a good way. :)

Hope you had a great weekend! I'll leave you with a pic someone tagged of Eric and me from the couple shower at a local restaurant. Please note Eric and my face. Without knowing each other was doing it. Yeah. :)

If You Really Knew Me...

Thank you for all the good luck wishes for Eric yesterday! :) I guess he'll know in a month... *sigh* :)

Leslie at A Blonde Ambition did this fun blog today and I'm hopping on board to keep it going! I haven't seen the MTV show yet, but judging how addictive Teen Mom and all those others have become for me, I'm confident I'll like the show. Anyhoo.. as for the blog post...

If you really knew me, you'd know that...

- I totally hate garden gnomes. They frighten me actually. The travelocity commercials make my heart beat a little faster in terror like the gnome is going to run into my house and laugh at me maniacally or something.

- I'm a research FREAK. I LOVE research...on pretty much anything. Example: Travel- I know what times are best to book flights, what blogs are best to read, how much things should cost in various countries, typical gratuity, etc etc etc...

-I like to understand everything and I like to be understood. I don't even need to agree with the idea, concept, opinion, etc, but I want to understand it. I've noticed that in arguments, I get EXTREMELY frustrated if the other party doesn't try to understand me/my feelings/my idea, etc. Even if they just say "I understand where you're coming from, but..." it makes me feel better-LOL!

- I guarantee I can beat you at hoola hooping. I was the champion in my middle school geography class (when DARE came) at something like 25 minutes...and they stopped me b/c no one else was still hooping.

- I used to be incredibly shy and only talked to my immediate friends. Teachers even wrote in my middle school yearbook that I should speak up more. Somewhere around 8th grade, I discovered my voice...and I think many would say I've more than made up for lost time...haha!

- I was a dancer in high school...and when college came around, I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it. My bff, Blaze, and I went to the week-long clinic, learned the dances/cheers (she was trying out for cheer), etc. The morning of try-outs, I got ready, put a pretty bow in my hair, drove to the university....and kept driving. I just didn't want to do it. But, I drove around for 2 hours...then went home and told my mom I didn't make it. I kept that lie up for um.... at least 6 months. I eventually told her and she was like "I didn't care! I just didn't want you to regret something!" She thought I was hilarious. Jax=doesnt like disappointing people.

- I haven't seen a TON of movies it seems like EVERYONE has seen. Top Gun? Nope. Breakfast Club? Nope. Goonies? Nuh uh. *le sigh* The life of an only child without siblings to influence my tv-watching... :)

- It almost physically PAINS me to see an abused or neglected animal...especially dogs. I get a feeling in my gut that's somewhere between tears and being punched. If I hear a news story, etc about abuse, I am tortured by it for DAYS.

- I don't sleep on the pillow. I start on the pillow and end up with my head below it. *shrugs*

- I'm hate failing at anything. I often equate losing something with failing at it. Even coming in nearly LAST place at laser tag a bit ago makes me want to go back on my own and figure out how to win. Seriously.

- I sometimes type way too fast and write "nad" instead of "and" and actually laugh out loud. every.single.time. I'm 12 years old. It is what it is.

- I check my alarm like 4 or 5 times before I go to sleep. OCD? Maybe. ;)

Yeah, okay that's a lot more than I thought I'd say. My overload of iced tea makes me talkative apparently. Or blogative. Whatever. Anyway, join in the fun! If I really knew you, I'd know that.... ????