Per Request

Per my mom's request here are some festive colors. :) This will likely be the extent of decorating I do this year. haha.

Thanksgiving was good. We ate lots of good food and dranks lots too. It was a fun time for all...ate, drank, watched football, ate and drank more, played cards, ventured out to a couple bars and drank some more. Friday morning and having to go to work came way too quickly!

Didn't do much over the weekend. Saturday went to a spinning class and ran some errands, went out for sushi with a couple of friends, then met up with some different friends for cards later that night. Sunday just kind layed around. And been working all week. It was nice to relax a little over the weekend being my next few are jam packed.

Happy Turkey Day!!!

Haha I had forgotten I had changed my blog color and almost didn't recognize my page when I turned to it. Anyhow, my class went well this past weekend but it was long and exhausting. Who knew sitting for 28 hours could be so tiring! Lol! I definately know that I am not made to sit for 8 hours a day, I was squirming in my chair like no other. I was super glad that I decided to get a hotel for some of the nights at least, on thursday it took me 1hr 45min to get to my hotel 10 miles away. One thing I don't miss about living in a city.

I'm not going to be able to make it home for Thanksgiving so I'm celebrating with some friends here. We are going to have SOOOOO much food! I'm currently baking pies since I have to work all day tomorrow and have plans with a friend tomorrow night. Hopefully they'll make it until thursday. :-/ I'm second guessing making the one tonight, worried that it may be a little soggy come thursday but too late now.

I'm bored waiting for my pies to cook so here is a little survey for you. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving and eat lots and lots of food!!!

I think this survey may be too deep for me but here it goes...

Ten Things You Want To Say To Ten Different People:
1. Angkor: you are a rockstar and you MUST come to chopstix again!
2. Phil/Travis: Who are you and where did you get my phone number from??
3: Amy: I know I'm right about how you get out of tickets, slurp slurp.
4. Dana: I'm excited about all the yummy food we are going to make!
5. Missy: If I did something to you I would really like to know, I would think that we've been friends for too long to just throw that away.
6. A patient: One word--deodorant!!!
7. Mom: Thank you for supporting the decisions I've made even though you may not agree with them
8. Dad: Try to support me because the more you tell me I'm wrong the further away you push me
9. Ross: Sorry but you get the short couch. Hahaha
10: Jeff: You are not as hot as you think you are and it's guys like you who give men a bad name

Nine Things About Yourself other people may not know:
1. I bit my tongue off when I was little
2. I cannot stand olives
3. I hardly sleep
4. I stutter when I get nervous
5. I worked in a mine for a summer
6. I used to play the trumpet
7. I have a hard time sitting still and can hardly sit through a TV show
8. I hate when people are flakey
9. I am always cold and my feet are usually blue

Eight Ways To Win My Heart:
1. Be honest
2. make me laugh
3. be motivated
4. have goals, I don't care what they are as long as they are goals!
5. be yourself, not someone who others want you to be
6. give me the space I need yet be there for me
7. be there for your family and friends when they need you
8. make me feel special

Seven Things You Did Today:
1. ate breakfast
2. spilt coffee on my white sweater :(
3. ate lunch
4. worked
5. ate dinner
6. went to the gym for a midget workout
7. made a couple pies

Six Things You Wish You Never Did:
1. spent so long in a bad relationship because i was afraid to leave
2. let a guy treat me badly
3. not keeping in touch with some dear friends
4. let someone get to me and allow them to know that they did
5. not doing a few choice things because a fear of failure
6. regret these things

Five Turn Offs:
1. flakiness
2. cockiness
3. taking longer to get ready than i do
4. coming on too strong
5. unmotivated

Four Turn Ons:
1. eyes
2. smile
3. making me feel special
4. honesty

Three Smilies That Describe Your Life:
1. ;)
2. :)
3. :*

Two Things You Want To Do Before You Die
1. to get married and have a family
2. be truely happy

One Confession:
1. I sometimes feel like I keep moving because I am running from something or in search of something but just not sure what. I give one place a short chance then don't find what I am looking for, even though I'm not quite sure what that is, and then leave again. Hopefully one day I'll be able to stop running...

HoHum

First off there is this guy who goes to my gym that looks so much like Garrett that it almost makes me sick.

Anyhow, I had a pretty uneventful weekend, didn't do much worth writing about. This week I have a 4 day class thur-sun that's north of Seattle so I worked today and then will have to take a day of vacation. Traffic is going to suck!!! To get there in time I'm going to have to leave by 5:30, yuck! I broke down and got a hotel for thursday night and am not too worried about traffic on the weekend but thursday morning and friday night are going to be hell! Plus being that I drive a gas guzzler gas is going to kill me. Ah the joys of continuing ed, hopefully it will at least be a good class.

Stair Climb

I somehow got suckered into participating into a 56 floor stair climb race to help raise money for cystic fibrosis research. What it entails is me hauling my butt up 56 flights of stairs (I believe it is in the Washington Tower in Seattle). They then tally up our team of 5 times to come up with a winner. Hope the guys aren't looking to win being they bugged me to be on the team, of which I am the sole girl, and I have not run stairs since high school!

The reason I am doing this is because a guy I work with has CF and is really involved in the foundation. CF is an inherited chronic disease that affects the lungs and digestive system of about 30,000 children and adults in the United States (70,000 worldwide). A defective gene and its protein product cause the body to produce unusually thick, sticky mucus that:
-clogs the lungs and leads to life-threatening lung infections;
-obstructs the pancreas and stops natural enzymes from helping the body break down and absorb food.

SOOO, if anyone would like to support me and my team in this climb along with supporting cystic fibrosis research here is a link to donate money to our team. Ross set a goal of raising $1,000.
https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=247038&supId=195111262


**ok I guess the link doesn't work but it works for me if you cut and paste it.

Halloween continued...

This time we went to a bar that I seem to visit almost weekly but it has very cheep drink so how can you go wrong. LOL! This night wasn't nearly as fun but I did get to see a few friends who I haven't seen in a while. The night ended early for Dana and Alicia while I stayed a while longer and caught a ride with some other friends. Unfortunately my night ended with some stupid boy drama which kind of ruined the night for me.

As promised here are a few pictures.

Michelle, me, Dana, & Alicia


Michelle, Dacia, and me

Halloween

Saturday we decided to celebrate halloween a little early. First we went on this haunted trail which was actually really good. They had people jumping out at you and chasing you the whole trail (it was about 1 mile), complete with a guy with a chainsaw and all. I think my favorite part was this house with all black walls, things hanging from the ceiling, no lights, and no door. You wander in circles trying to follow a wall but just running into everyone for about 5 minutes before they let you out. It was fun.

Next we went back to Alicia's to have a few drinks and get ready to go to the bar. Our costumes were interesting but we had a great time! I almost got my butt kicked by some lady who out weighed me by about 100lbs and was dressed as a bucket of KFC chicken with rats on it. She claimed we stole her table, we wouldn't move, and she pushed me. Ah, excitment. I did manage to come home with a gun and several glow sticks that I didn't start the night off with. LOL! Here are a few pics. Sorry mom my skirt is really short but no worries I don't dress like this normally. :) Hopefully I'll have more pics to post after wednesday.


The Girls


Alicia, Dana, and I


Me with my newly acquired gun

car trouble

Why is car work so expensive? I have dropped more than a lot of people pay for their car getting mine fixed this past week! First, I got some body/paint work done on it. It wasn't anything major, just some scratches that had been there for awhile but one of the little spots was starting to rust a little so figured I better get it taken care of. So I was without my car all week and it cost me a TON. Then they managed to miss a part of it so I get to go without a car again on monday. Yipee. Then I decided that I had better take it in for a 30,000 mile maintenance since I know nothing about cars. Plus I was pretty sure my transmission was leaking. Turns out I was right about the transmission, this is my second transmission leak and my car is only 2 years old! Then to add to the trouble I also have a leak in my rear differential! Thank god I decided to get the extended warranty. So that means yet another day with no car and having to bug someone to give me rides to and from the dealer. Think I may be trading this car in before I hit the 70,000 mile mark and am without a warranty with the way things are going. Sucks though cuz I was hoping for a little time with no car payment but looks like no such luck.