i shot the sheriff.

Yesterday was my first day of my summer speech class. It wasn't too bad to be honest, and didn't really feel like 4 hours. But I'm sure some days it will feel longer than 4 hours. The professor is really cool. He's married and has an 8 week old baby boy. And he speaks almost fluent german. Found out he went to Biola..pretty interesting. He reminds me of someone, perhaps a cartoon character, I just cant figure out who. This class is going to be a lot of work, some days we'll have TWO speeches due, just lovely. I'm just prayin I can get through it.

The other day a customer called me baby girl. I'm not your baby. and I'm not your girl. In fact, I don't even know you. So please, refrain from calling me, "baby girl". Thanks.

I think my sleeping disorder is back. A few years ago it would take me forever to fall asleep. I'm talkin like 2 hours, I would be laying in bed staring at the ceiling. Then, for about a year, a year and a half, when it was bed time, I was out. My time of agony went down to about 10 minutes. But recently, it strikes again, letting me not fall asleep till the wee hours of the morning. And it's really not good, especially when I have to get up early, leaving me with about 2 and a half 3 hours of sleep.

My little brother Aidan turned 1 on Sunday. He really is just the cutest little baby. We had a little party for him, and of course, AFTER everyone left (including me because I had to work), he dug into his cake, getting blue frosting everywhere. I saw pictures, and videos, it was adorable. I wish I could share them, but they have yet to be put on the computer. Ill post them later.

I've always known that I don't eat healthy, at least not as much as I should. This past week or so, I discovered I have absolutely no self control whatsoever. Really. I say I'm not gunna eat certain foods or things like that, but when it's staring me straight in the face? I mean come on. You cant do that to me. I love food too much.
I guess i'll realize I need to stop when I gain 120 pounds one day.

We got this new hand soap in our bathroom downstairs called Pomegranate Mango. Its amazing. Get it.

Every time I have a piece of gum, I nicely fold the paper back the way it was, looking as if there were a piece of gum in the wrapper. Every single time.

Every can I drink out of I make a dent where my thumb is. It's just by instinct, as soon as I open it up, I make the dent. I got if from my dad, and I have been known to pass it on to others. I have also been known to be made fun of for doing this. But it is a habit I have, and happen to like.
Don't judge me.

Im thinking about looking for a new job, maybe towards the end of summer. I was possibly thinking of waitressing, The problem with that is that I'm not sure if I would have to start out as a hostess. Anyway, it's just something I would look into. Lots of details I would need to know.

Every time I start to work out, I'll stay consistent with it for about a week, then lose motivation. This past week, perfect example. I was totally pumped every day to work out. Then Saturday came, and since then I've been "ehhh" towards it. It's bad.

I never went to Prom. Always wanted to. Seeing everyones prom pictures online makes me want to go back to high school, just to go to prom, and other dances.

The other day I found out a girl I work with has been with her boyfriend for 3 years. Then I found out they were each others first boyfriend/girlfriend. I love that.

Today, I discovered I'm starting to get addicted to fmylife.com.
FML

I want to know what all the hype is about Twitter. All I know is that you can "follow" someone? and you can update what your doing and what not. Dont you update what your doing on your facebook?

Last week I saw someone get hit by a car while riding their bike across the street.

I got a new bathing suit at Target yesterday, and I'm excited for it. Is that weird? That im excited I got a new bathing suit? I also got two tank tops:2 for $12. Can never pass up good deals. I get home and realize I had a Target gift card, and evidently forgot about it. Good thing I shop at Target often. Plus, it only had about $7 on it.

I talk to myself quiiite often. I talk to myself as if there's someone else there with me, but that someone else is another me. make sense?

Other breaking news: I have a Murder Mystery party to attend next Friday night, I am quite excited about it. That same day, I have a doctors appointment. I am NOT. excited for that.

a time when the livin's easy.

It's finally almost here.
One more week.
Then SUMMER!!
I'm so excited for summer this year. There's kind of a lot going on. But a lot of it is mostly towards the end..if only I didnt have work, things would be perfect. I'm actually taking a summer class: speech. Not necessarily looking forward to it, but my boyfriend talked me into taking it with him. So since 1. he will be in the class with me. 2. its only 6 weeks, compared to about 16. 3. I have to take it eventually anyway. and 4. it's 2 days a week, and gets out at 12, I think I'm gunna be ok.
So besides work and that one summer class, these are some things I'm looking forward to of summer '09:

-BEACH!! all the time.
-not having "school nights", for more than one reason.
-staying up late, and once my summer class is over, somewhat having a life.
-Coldplay!
-family vacation to mammoth, including my boyfriend.
-possibly helping out at a high school summer camp.
-a one year celebration<3
-bike rides.
-Disneyland a lot more often.
-Tuesday nights.
-sleeping in a lot more.


May not be a long list, but I just have a feeling this summer is going to be amazing. I am very much so looking forward to it. :)

you know what happens when you assume..

I'm so sick of people assuming things. So many people do it. It's just such a nonchalant thing to everyone.

A lot of (worldly) people that party, assume that since THEY party, everybody parties. And if they don't party, they SHOULD party. Is it really worth it to go get wasted off your butt every weekend and not even remember what happened?

Or [this one cracks me up], the people that look at a couple, and assume they're having sex. "Well you have a boyfriend/girlfriend, I just assumed you were doing it."
Really? What ever happened to the old fashioned, wait till your married thing? In todays world, that doesnt exist to a lot of people. Now a days, it's uncommon to not be having sex with your boyfriend or girlfriend. Isn't that sad?


What has this world become?

a very eventful, and fun-filled day.

This past Saturday was a wonderful day. I hung out with my boyfriend, Blythe, and Jordan.

we went just about everywhere. Our initial plan was to go to Disneyland, but a little bit before we were about to leave we discovered we were blocked out. We were at my house thinking of what we can do, when the zoo came into play. San Diego Zoo--$35 to get in! Santa Ana--$7 much cheaper. Then Steve mentioned the Orange County Zoo, at the Irvine Regional Park, which we had no idea even existed---$2 to get in..perfect.

So, we made our way over to the zoo..

(I must warn you, there are a lot of pictures)

But first we had to stop off at Albertsons and money..

Jordan, intimidating the mountain lion.

She wanted to catch swine flu.

Along the way we found a place where we could feed goats and animals, and then right next to that was a petting zoo type place...

Two at one time, Blythe knows how to get it done.

This picture cracks. me. up.

baaaaaaaaa

The only photo of all four of us we got that day.

Some Animals

According to Jordan, this think looks like it has mold growing on its head.

Meet Nacho the Bear :)

Swine Fluuu

This picture makes me happy

We then proceeded with our journey and went to Taco bell at the Tustin Market Place for some grub. Now normally when I go to Taco Bell I get a burrito, taco, and nachos, you know the ones with the side of cheese. Ok now dont judge me for what im about to tell you..I put fire sauce in the cheese, and mix it around, then sometimes theres too many beans in my burrito, so I squeeze those out and scoop them on my nachos. Well while we were there, I found out that I can get nachos, with beans, cheese, and sauce on them already, for 10 cents cheaper than the plain nachos I regularly get. All three of them said that I should have gotten those, I wasnt aware...next time though..

"Purple Shirt"

After Taco Bell, we went across the way to Yogurtland for some desert..

Then, after yougurtland, we ventured over to Target, my favorite..

After target we went back to my house and let my camera charge for a little bit. We were planning on going on a hot hair balloon ride, night ride:) The Orange County Great Park Balloon. Blythe and Jordan have ridden it before, and I've always wanted to go on, so we all thought it would be a great idea. Especially since its FREE. Although sadly we found out that it was too windy to ride. So we decided to go bowling, since Jordan had a free game, but when we got there we found out it wasn't as great as a free game..so THENNN we decided to go to Starbucks and back to Frankies and play some games. We played Cranium, which was fun, and we also played Guestures, which is always fun. Especially with 2 people on a team. You get to go more often, and also the person will definately hear you when you shout out the answer ;)

uh-oh. cranium

That was pretty much the end of our day. It was all so much fun, everything we did, everywhere we went. It was nice for all four of us to hang out, its been a while since we've done that. It was an amazing day.

Lets do it more often guys:)

the month of march.

This past month has been very exciting for me. Tons of things have happened and there has been so many fun events.
Let me just start off by saying I never posted a blog from my birthday party, or my birthday, which I've been meaning to do for a week and a half, so its all going to be in here. Needless to say this is probably going to be the longest blog I have ever written.

So here we go.

March 2nd

I got my license

Sadly I have no pictures from this event, I just have the excitement of FINALLY having my license. You can read more about that right, here.

March 21st

80's themed birthday party.

For my 18th Birthday I had an 80’s party. 80’s is pretty much my all time favorite. I was so excited to get dressed up, and to see everyone else’s outfits.

Me and the boyfriend

Me and Kaylee. A friend I hadn't seen in years.

Mom dressed up too.

The 2 best dressed.

Brother

This is a little somethin, a little, entertainment. Frankie dancing to Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. Sorry the video is sideways...

If you want to compare his moves to the actual dancer, click here to watch the music video..

More photos..

"Stephen at a party"
I really like this one.

All in all the night was really fun. I love dressing up for parties. My cousin and good friend Kaylee stayed the night that night. We stayed up till 4am. And if you don’t know, I either have school or work every single day, and even when I don’t, I don’t go to bed that late. I'm physically not able to. That’s probably the latest I've stayed up since the beginning of last summer. We all 3 crammed into my full size bed. Wasn’t the most comfortable thing but, we survived. I ended up waking up around 11:30, Then got ready for another fun filled day. :)

p.s. Thanks blythe for some of those great pictures!

March 22nd
A day out with Dad

My dad came down for the weekend and the day before my birthday we hung out. My dad lives in Temecula, so I hardly ever see him. If you haven’t read my blog about my dad, I miss him dearly. I love spending time with him, especially since we never get to see each other. So I was super excited to spend the day with him.
He came to my house around 1:00 or so and him, my mom and Steve gave me THIS:

The ipod Touch

This thing is absolutely amazing, I love it. For a while I was content with not having one. I figured, oh I'll wait a little bit and eventually get one. But after Christmas, my boyfriend and two brothers got one. So they were all cooonstantly on it. Then not long later, Steve, my step dad, got one. That’s when I really wanted one. So I got that for my birthday. 32G. Just splendid.


Me and my dad headed off to BJ’s, one of my favorite restaurants. I got BBQ chicken pizza, which was delicious. We talked about everything. Caught each other up on our lives. My school, his work, my work, the kids, my boyfriend, everything. It was really nice. I loved it. We ended lunch by getting a magnificent chocolate chip pazookie. Oh so scrumptious.
After lunch we made our way to the spectrum. We walked around for a bit, checked out some stores, then made our way to the movie theater. We had about 30 35 minutes to kill, so we decided to play some of the video games they had there. We played 2 rounds of elvis pinball, which was quite entertaining. After we ran out of tokens he thought it would be fun to just explore the theater. That’s what I love about my dad. He does fun random things like that.

*side note. One time we were leaving Costco and he saw the store The Great Indoors. He had never seen it before and asked what it was all about. I said I had no idea so he said, “well lets go check it out thennn! Sounds like fun, the GREAT indoors what can be so special about it.” We just walked around the store, playing with anything we could..

Anyways, we walked around, checked everything out, when he wondered what was upstairs. We walked over to the bottom and he started walking up. When he was about 4 steps up I read the sign I spotted aloud: Employees only past this point. And that’s when he turned right back around and we both started laughing.
Time for the movie. We ended up watching Last House on the Left. It wasn’t the greatest movie, but it wasn’t horrible. Although, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend seeing it, at least not paying $11.50 to see it.
After the movie we wanted to make a quick pit stop at Joanne’s, but it closes at 7 on Sunday, and it was 7:23…23 minutes late. Dang.

I had an absolute great time with my dad. We decided that we should start getting together at least once a month or something and hang out and do stuff like that more often. I really hope we both follow through with that…

March 23rd

My 18th Birthday!

Eighteen at last. I was so excited for my birthday, I really don’t know why either. I mean every year I get excited for my birthday, but this year I was just stoaked. It could have just been the fact that I was turning 18, I was going to be an adult. I think it was .
My boyfriend Frankie came over in the morning, and brought his present, including a ginormous card he made.

I thought it was absolutely adorable. And so creative. If you cant tell, some of the words in the letter he replaced with candy. It reads this:

“I remember when I first Looked at you. You were one Hot Tamale and I was just a Nerd who wanted to be your Big Hunk. Ever since we fell in love I knew I would travel the Milky Way just to be with you. With me, your Sugar Daddy, making 100 Grand on Payday, I will provide for you any Thingamajig you want. You will Now and Later be my Baby. Because you are so special to your hunk. Our love will never Sour when team grapefish is around. So give me lots of kisses and believe that I love you so much. I hope you love this Thingamajig I made you, it should taste wonderful. P.s. I know you love Twix PB”

So cute. Well me and him went out to breakfast at IHOP, and I was so excited. I love going out to breakfast, especially at IHOP. I was actually a little disappointed in their hashbrowns, especially since those are my FAVORITE part of breakfast, but other than that it was delicious.

After breakfast we met up with my family at the spectrum and walked around for a little bit.

After the spectrum we came back to my house for about 30 minutes. We finished watching Lost from the week before, then made our way to IN-N-OUT, with Disneyland to follow..

Oh the hats Disneyland has..

All 4 of us

TOON TOWN!!

Happy Birthday to Me.

My birthday was absolutely amazing. I loved every single minute of it.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention. I don’t know how I forgot! I got Coldplay tickets!!! Me and Frankie are going to see them over summer, theyre in town. I am so excited for the number one reason, I LOVE Coldplay. They are one of my favorites. And number two, I've never been to a legitmate concert. :) I'm excited.

March 27th

Promotion

I work at the lovely Stater Bros. as a courtesy clerk, also known as “box-boy” or “bagger”. When I applied for the job I thought it was going to be horrible, turns out it wasn’t as bad as I thought. I actually love my job. I started July 28th 2008, and after 2 months of being there my boss already wanted to promote me. But only being 17, he couldn’t. He had to wait until I turned 18. Throughout the months all he could talk about was promoting me, which got me super excited. Well, last Friday, after 8 months of working at Stater Bros…my boss promoted me. Although, it’s a bitter-sweet type of deal. I am excited, I got promoted. Sweet. I get paid more, awesome. BUT, he promoted me to Service Deli. And everybody at my work knows that I said, if I get promoted, Service Deli is the one place I do NOT want to go…of course I get promoted there.
My boss told me it's not a permanent position, its just a stepping stone. He says that he honestly really thinks that one day I'll be a checker, which is awesome. I went back and forth debating on whether I should move up to service deli, I decided I will, and just see how things go.
Another negative about this is that I wont have my regular 6-3 shift. Which is the best shift to have. Service Deli is completely different, and I am NOT looking forward to getting my new schdual.
I guess we’ll see how everything pans out on Monday…

March 27th-28th

REDEEMED

My good friend Aubree Worrell put together a girls conference called Redeemed. She has been planning it for months and it finally happened this past weekend. It was just astonishing. I am so proud of her and everything she did. She is an amazing girl of God. God did wonderful things in girls lives during this conference, including mine..God is so good.

Like I said, this past month has been wonderful.