Quotation of the Year!

So while reading Connie's Blog in my midst of procrastination I ran across her Christmas Tradition blog. Now Connie always gives me reasons to laugh, she is witty to say the least and her blogs reflect her wit. But this has to be the best quotations of her interactions with her Brother, Carter, ever!

Carter: What's the Clapper?

Connie: You know. Clap on, *clap clap* clap off.

Carter: Oh.

Carter: I thought it was the clap.

Carter: I was like "they can sell that kind of stuff?"

Sometimes you just have to read the full story.

Book of the Season!

So I have noticed that my time to read really opens up every year when my parents run off into the wild for a week and I don't get any nagging phone calls, text messages or emails about stupid stuff. Or lately my mother's favorite... 4am signatures for contracts that "just have to" be signed.

So last year I read from the Twilight Series... Eclipse and Breaking Dawn

This year... the reading book of choice is:

The movie was really moving... I would know I have seen it 4 times. And so I just had to buy the book.

Sick...

Sometimes I wonder why I do it to myself... is it because I have head sick disease that just makes me cheat the system that is my body and put junk into it that just ends me on the floor of the bathroom at 2 in the morning tossing up whatever I ate hours before. I personally think its because the world has lots to offer and its only fun if you enjoy it all. And well. they have yet to design a gluten free sugar free puff patry. And that means no croissants, no pretty tarts or desserts and well... nothing fun in life... and so I did it. This holiday season I was cranky and toilet friendly the entire season because I ate stuff that I knew I shouldn't have drank sugared up soda and enjoyed myself. Except at night. It was worth it in the moment, but the headaches, the tummy aches and overall raw throat makes me wonder... why am I sitting here with a butterscotch lollipop when I know its going to get to my head and my stomach at the same time. I hate allergies, I hate having diseases and I hate the fact that a miracle will have to happen before I can live to see a cure for my disease.

Christmas Smishmas...

This year I decided to be a good girl and do what my mother told me to do... and I will forever regret it and mother will forever never hear the end of it.

I was a bridesmaid in a wedding that was last minute planned... last minute invited and just last minute everything... and this is why when I have my big grande wedding I plan on taking my sweet time planning every detail out.

It was horrible. This had to be the worst wedding ever and it was on Christmas Day! That alone should have given it some browning points. But nope... this is the worst Christmas ever... this even beats on Xmas 2002 when I was in a foreign country that didn't even give school off on Christmas because it was a European Holiday they said and not something they really celebrated which sucked for me since I was at school and Christmas was a sham! This one was just plain dreadful.. between the freezing cold and the boringness of tradition... I now mark 2009 as the worst Christmas of my life... plus I had to wake up at 6am for it!

Yes, I Need to Clean my Desk

Yes, it is true, I need to clean my desk. I once did work and studied on this desk... and somewhere along the way B got me into doing work in bed... and so I started working in bed and my desk became like this... yeah... that is productivity at its finest right here!

I Am in Theater, Therefore I Am Surrounded By Drama

I am in Theater... which means I love to perform on the stage. Performing anywhere is fun... but on the stage is a world on its own. I am surrounded by Drama... its not always stage drama either...

I recently performed in, "A Christmas Carol", the musical, based on the beloved Charles Dickens novel. It was fun, however... now I know why nobody returns to this company to perform. It's dramatic and unprofessional to say the least.

I was apart of this company last season in High School Musical 2: Live on Stage, and I thought, it was a good time, dramatic, but still it was fun. And I thought, this is a big performance for them. This is their 10th year doing it. I was a little curious as to why nobody from the previous years were apart of the cast this year except for children, and I figured it out! Nobody wants to work with Dan after the disaster of a show he puts on. In the first show I did with him, it was classified as children's theater in my opinion. So I gave it the benefit of the doubt... this time around. This show just sucked. I had a speaking role, and I had some fun performing, and I loved the cast (most anyways), but the choreographer was a witch and the director was just not on his game and neither was the producer. This was an unprofessional environment if I ever saw one. With backstage throw downs, foyer fights and a failed attempt at lying to the cast over and over and over. We have closet alcoholics, and interesting theories. I made some new fabulous friends, and I will forever be great ful for that. But I have also learned the lesson, that some companies are just burn out companies.

Reconnecting... #1

Recently I have been given the opportunity to reconnect with friends and I am taking it for all that its worth. Amy is the first person on my list of friends from afar that I was able to reconnect with. I have not seen her since December 2006... amidst the finals that we were suffering through, it was December 14 that was the last time I saw her. We were friends while at school in VA... she was a finishing school, I was just starting. She was the RA... I was friends with a girl on her floor. And I lived in the house down the street with 2 friends that were purely VA friends. I loved Amy, she was so sweet and nice and really a person I could look up to at the bright eyed age of 17. And I was sad when I moved back to CA, and she well... grew up. Finds out the through the world of mormon blogging... that she had moved to CA only 18 months ago and was about to move back to TX with her husband! Her husband! She got married, and I knew about it from facebook, she had a baby... knew about that from facebook also. I sent her messages and facebook comments and she did the same thing for a long time. And finally, after a little careful blog reading it dawned on me that she was but an hour away from me! 1 hour! And so I decided on a whim to call her and meet up! And it was the best decision ever. We both regret not know the other was so close, but it was worth a couple hours of bonding and hopefully another spur of a future relationship building. I miss Amy... and check out her blog.

This is baby Mina in her carseat sleeping. I can't believe Amy is a mommy... she was meant to do this job!

I learned about maturity and friendship and commitment from Amy when I was in VA... and here in CA... she taught me how to tear a phone book in half.. the lessons will never end.

Obsessive Sale Shopper

Ever since I started working for a baby store and started college at Cal... I have become very poor. And very frugal and very obsessed about sales. I love to sale shop and I think the customers who come to our store are crazy since we rarely hold amazing sales, things are not cheap (unless you get a discount), and stuff is just pricey in general. We sell everything under the sun, but its not like they are amazing and you can't find this stuff for cheaper somewhere else. Because trust me, you can. Heck, even I find better deals at target for the same stuff. Well, now that I have taken a liking to thrifty shopping from pure college student poorness, I have become obsessed with making it work to my benefit. IE... get things free.

There are million of rebates, coupons and deals and steals out there and now I am even shopping for friends to help them save money! For instance, I bought $500+ dollars worth of toys this past Thursday, and it only cost $68 plus tax. Yeah, you heard me right. Say hello to santa! Well, at least for the toy drive kids.

I also learned where things are just useless to buy on sale. And why having a family makes it easier to sale shop. When I am married, I will have the super pantry and storage of things my family will need. With a Food Saver, coupons and newspaper in hand, I plan on raising a family on name brands (non generics), organic healthy foods, for a very low cost so that our savings will one day be 20% and not just the average american 5%. Now all I need is a husband and 2.4 children and possibly a medium sized dog lol. Oh the future!

Anyone in need of toys?

Off...

I have been off the last week. After the whole thanksgiving feast and after thanksgiving feast, and weekend movie and junk food feast, I lost 6 pounds. Pretty much because through it all, I have barely had a couple bites here and a couple bites there. It's been interesting. I have a want to eat when I see it, but once I take a couple bites, I am super full and just want to push it away. I eat little by little throughout the day, but it took me 4 meals to finish my thanksgiving dinner plate. And it wasn't even that much food. Same happened when I was in vegas, it took me forever to finish a bowl of soup.

Since Monday, I have had the following things to eat, 1 Chipotle Rice bowl, 1 bowl of fried rice, 1 bowl of potato leak soup, 4 string cheeses, 3 cups of hot cocoa, 9 mini egg rolls, a little bit of popcorn, 4 slices of ham, 1 serving of chicken nuggets, 2 bowls of cereal, 7 nut thins, 9 pieces of romaine lettuce and am currently trying to swallow down a serving of green beans and a 2 servings of potatoes. [Update... I threw away the green beans... only because I had no dog to feed them too... there goes my only source of vitamins for the day...]

Thats all I have had to eat in 6 days. It's pathetic, I have a fridge full of food, and its just kind of sitting there now. I have had to reheat the potatoes twice already. Will need to do the same to the chicken nuggets.

It makes me worried something is up... the last time this happened I was sick for months and spending time in oncology. I just need to eat!

On a positive note, I have lost 16lbs in the last 2 months.