I Got Tagged

Eight things I did yesterday
1. Skipped Financial Policy Class
2. Rearranged our front room
3. Finally caught and disciplined Howie for pooping in the house (he has become stealthy lately)
4. Watched HGTV.com holiday tips
5. Went to Walmart at 11:30 to buy printer ink for my homework
6. Got a massage… from the Hubby
7. Watched the Office
8. Went to work


Eight Places I like to eat
1. Fredrico’s
2. Jamba Juice (does that count?)
3. Rodizio’s
4. Black Pearl (except when I get bad sushi)
5. Hamilton’s
6. Pizza Hut- Stuffed crust
7. Home
8. Pizzeria Sicilia

Eight Shows I like to Watch
1. Prison Break
2. Heroes
3. Fringe
4. Criminal Minds
5. The Office
6. Lost
7. Two and a Half Men
8. CSI

Eight Things I look forward too
1. Thanksgiving in St. George
2. Christmas/My Birthday
3. Buying presents for everyone
4. Going home to Howie
5. Finals… so the semester is over
6. When Brock gets a new job that is during the day instead of night
7. Graduating next year!!
8. Having kids
8.1 Max coming home

Eight People I Tag:
1. Ashley Poulsen
2. Courtney Burkholder
3. AJ Anderson
4. Jenny Jewkes Johnson
5. Kenny Wilkes
6. Aubrey Revo
7. Marissa Wilkinson Anderson
8. Danny Brownell

Christmas for Thanksgiving

So today I felt in the Christmas mood- Brock and I have been listening to Christmas music on Pandora since November started and we've enjoyed it. My theory is- every year after Christmas is over I always wish it would last a little longer. So why not start it earlier!!

When I got to work today I had a new PC (my old one would turn off randomly...yet especially when I had someone at my desk) however I didn't have a keyboard. So I had to work at the empty desk aka "new accounts" desk. So I cleaned it off, very dusty, I even cleaned some of the very dirty letters on the keyboard and I wiped off the mouse.

That computer at that desk is the one that determines what music is played, so since it was my desk for the day- so was the music. I decided that some nice classic oldies Christmas would do just fine. WELL let me tell YOU that was not what everyone else thought. I have never seen such a reaction to music. I mean I probably could have played rap-sic-not your mama's music (not that I like that garbage) and gotten a relatively kinder response.

I overheard a few of my co-workers complain about the music, and claim that "people were complaining" about the music.... well guess what.... I had people complain that we didn't play Christmas music more often! No one ever asked me to change the station. Anyways, Steve- who is awesome and I know he doesn't like Christmas music before Thanksgiving, started a fun little game once he was back from lunch. He had turned the stereo volume all the way off. Once I noticed I casually turned it back on. IT WAS ALL FUN AND GAMES, but everyone seemed so passionate about it. I thought I might just get a demerit of some sort! Eventually my Pandora station was changed, and the power was cut to the speakers SO I had to go to my backup plan. I had a personal stereo at my desk from Halloween so I could play spooky music, and I decided to put on the non stop Christmas station. Since the speakers to the whole building had been sabotaged by NOT me, everyone could apparently hear my personal Christmas experience.

Donna, Kristi and Ali stormed over and demanded I turn it off. Ha, they were so funny because it drove them crazy. (Sorry guys but it's true). They ended up stealing the cord that goes from my stereo to the plug in the wall... which I got back later.

Anyways I think my boss was a little concerned about how everyone was picking on me, how I was being rebellious, and how everyone was being very Grinchy. And I hope I didn't make anyone mad by calling then Grinches... if I did I am sorry, it was all in fun.

It was so hilarious, and I couldn't help but keep playing along. I would never have thought that playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving would get me almost beaten by an umbrella.

Congratulation

I just wanted to take the time to congratulate myself on the fact that someone from:

Republic of Seoul, Korea, on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:47:37 -0600

visited my blog.


I'll be famous, one day.

Homework

So I have way too much Homework to do this weekend, and i've just finished Part 3 of my Portfolio for my Fashion class. It's a great class, just a lot of random stuff I have to do. We watched this youtube video in class and I thought it was worth sharing! It's what people back in the 50's(or sometime back in the day) thought the dress in the year 2000 would look like.

Listen for the, "ohh swish"!



Enjoy!

"We are fellow Americans"

Well, i'm one for one! Congratulations Barack, you almost have the same name as my husband! (and you are the president elect) I thought that John McCain did an excellent job on his concession speech. A few things he said:

He pledged to "do all in his power" to help Obama improve the country in these dangerous and fiscally challenging time.
He told his supporters to give Obama their help "to help restore our prosperity" and to defend the country.
"Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans."

GO USA, I hope that we can all come together and not loose faith in this great country of ours.

“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer,”

Obama also had some good words: We are not red and blue states, but The United States.

I like how he said to his two daughters "you are earned the new puppy that is coming with us to the White House".
"I will never forget who this victory belongs to, it belongs to you."
"the road ahead will be long, the road is steep, we may not get there in one year or one term but I promise you we will get there"
"I will always be honest with you on on the challenges we face"
"let us summon a spirit of patriotism, of service"
He said that those whom he did not win their vote, he will be their president too.

He also talked about a lady in Georgia who went to the polls today at 106 years old. She has seen so much, from cars, planes, man on the moon, the berlin wall coming down, and now today she had touched a screen that helped change history. What changes will the younger generations see in a century? What will his daughters live to see?

"May God Bless the United States of America"

Get out and Vote today!

Well today is here. Every leap year on the first Tuesday in November we should all be out to vote. We've all probably followed at least a little of what's going on- some of the issues that our country and state faces. This is the first year i'm able to vote (I missed it by a few months 4 years ago) and Brock and I just got back from doing exactly that.

It was actually pretty fun. Since i've never voted before I was a little nervous- only because I didn't want to look like a gomer with all these older people there able to work technology better than I could. They didn't even check my ID... ? When I got to my little booth I found myself looking over my shoulders to make sure no one was looking. I didn't really know how to use the card the poll lady gave me. I tried swiping it like a credit card, then I clicked it in and out of the machine. It said "Your ballot has been cancelled, please see the poll lady"... What?! Did I ruin my chance to finally vote? No I just didn't push the card in right. Ha.

So I started my voting process. There was alot of people to vote for! I think next time i'll learn about the local issues because I was a little confused at what I was voting for some of the time (please don't take that as stupidity-- i'm a very smart person). I wrote myself in on a few... I almost did for President but then I realized even if I won I wasn't old enough. :)

Ha ha overall voting was great, and there wasn't really any line for Brock and I to wait in. So moral of the story is-- get out and vote! Even if it's for yourself!

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How to make said cute Halloween Wreath

How to do what I talked about in the Title of this blog, and sorry that it's coming about 361 days late!

STEP ONE

Buy this wreath :

($3.00 at Michaels, and a similar one would probably do)

STEP TWO

Buy some cute things to glue on to your wreath:

Wood gravestones/"trick or treat" saying : $0.50 each

Googely Eyes: $1.00 for a bag of tons

Spooky old-looking picture frames: $1.00

Natalee's face as she hot glue's her finger: Priceless

STEP THREE

If you don't have a hot glue gun, (like me) you can buy one for pretty cheap. I got one that is fairly small and it was only $2.99 at Michael's and I think a bag of glue was about that much as well. Print off some black and white pictures of you, your family, you're cute dog... etc and glue different size googely eyes onto the eyes in your pictures. Then place the pictures in the frames and place your decorations around the wreath. Hot glue them on.

STEP FOUR

Finishing touches. I used some extra ribbon that I had to make the center ribbon and then just folded it around my fingers to make the curls. Be creative... maybe you could add creppy fake spiderwebs or even real fake spiders!

Then hang and enjoy!!

Halloween Hot and Cold!

Well Halloween is my Dad's birthday so we always get to celebrate! I'd have to say when I was young it was not really a big bummer because we still got to go trick or treating, and it gets better every year because I think the Halloween parties that people in CV throw are lame. Like the Howl/Scream... yeah they combined the institute dance and the cyran (sp?) wrap model rave together. Who knows?

Brock and I dressed up for work. He was a bad Jedi- aka Sith, and my work had the theme "Where's Waldo" so I dressed up as "Witch Waldo" haha. Clever I might add... I was trying really hard to find a Sarah Palin Waldo outfit but, aparently there's not much you can do at 10PM on Oct 30th. And of course Howie dressed up, he had a cute little bee costume... stinger, antena and all!

Also I made Brock go shopping with me on Saturday to get all the 50% off, 75% off Halloween decor items. It's the way to go when you're a poor college wife who just HAS to have cutsie things. I should try and become more creative. Wait.... wait... wait!! What am I talking about! Brock and I made a craft, yes--- a wreath! We even took pictures on purpose so I could blog about my DIY halloween wreath. (More to come on that later)

Now to the hot and cold.... I was just at home tonight making dinner when I thought I smelt a familiar smell... One step it would smell strongly, and then one more step it got fainter... I got on my hands and knee's. It wasn't under the rocking chair, nor on the love sac, I looked near the computer and all the corners by the banana chairs... I was about to give up when I caught a glimpse of what looked like deer droppings underneath the dinning table. I had found the source. Howie had a few little "poops" he left for me to find under the table.

It's just a good thing I have the sence of smell or we couldv'e run into some stinky situation!

Thanks for reading!

St George

This post will be dedicated to the adventures of St George that Brock, me, Adam and Maria Covington had a few weekends ago... a few things to be mentioned:

-all the shopping we did
-me getting us there in like 4 hours
-body world
-fiesta fun (or not fun)
-getting lost on the golf course in a golf kart
-soccer sluts (pardone mi frenche)

Modifications and updates to come..