There's no turning back now!

I just officially paid for my ticket to Hawaii. I leave May 10 ( 2 days after my last final) and return on June 22. Wish me luck cause I'm still scared to not know anyone 600 miles from home. (Not completely true, I will have my friend Erik there... just no girls) But I think its something I have to do to keep some sanity and get away from school and work for a few weeks. Mahalo!

Acoustic Show #2

The show was awesome and we almost had no troubles this time. Just because a few of the 3 Fountains residents didn't know about my party they started freaking out and calling each other and coming up to the clubhouse and asking random people what was going on. So I had my mom talk to a few people and get everything straitened out and it was fine the rest of the night. I even had a few people come up to me at church today saying that I did a nice job cleaning up and that they were happy that there was no problems.

My friends Joshua and McKay, from Utah, were doing a little mini weekend tour this past weekend so that's why we had the show at my clubhouse. They played in St. George on Thurs, Las Vegas on Fri, and then Mesa on Saturday. Joshua James who is on the right hand side, has just recently sent some of his material into itunes and they love his music so his album is now on sale there. He is actually on the "Staff Favorites" list on the main page so you should definitely check him out, he will blow your mind.

McKay is on the left side and he is also an amazing performer.

A few other people played at the show as well and they all rocked the house.

All in all, I'd say it was a success!

Its the Worlds Biggest Tea Party

A couple of weeks ago I won some tickets on the radio to go see My Little Pony Live on stage. I could honestly only think of one little girl that would be completely excited to go. Who is 4 years old, loves the color pink, Ponies, and tea parties? MABEL of coarse. I couldn't tell her about it until two days before the show cause I new she would just be asking about it everyday up until that point and it killed me every time I saw her cause I knew how much she would love it and I just wanted to spill the beans, but I held my ground. I had 4 tickets so I invited Brittany and her niece to join us.

Kmle Country even gave us our own special private tea party before the show complete with cookies, lemonade, coloring pages, necklaces, and a tiara.

I figured that I got the tickets for free so I went ahead and bought her a little flag so that she could wave it when the ponies came out

We all had lots of fun watching the show and doing the "I'm a little teapot" dance

The seats were awesome, Thanks Kmle Country!!!

He sprung a leak!

So every day at work at the end of the day this little 2 year old boy Marcus has to come see me and let me love on him like 10 minutes before he goes home with his mom. Today he was sitting on my lap and we were playing with some magnets when I feel this warm sensation on my pants... yes, Marcus was peeing on me. I picked him up and tried to run him to the bathroom holding him with my arms extended out in front of me. By the time we got to the potty he had finished. All he left was a trail of pee from my chair to the bathroom door and a large wet spot on my crotch and down the inside of my leg... so basically it looked like I wet myself. One parent came in, looked down, and without saying a word, just cracked up laughing. When other parents came in the first thing their kid would say was "Marcus peed on Ms. Cathy" then they would look at me and laugh. Its probably a good thing that I love Marcus so much or I don't think I could have been in such good spirits about it. Everyone got a good chuckle at my expense, but I'm the one that go to go home early... Who's laughing now?

Probably still everyone else cause I'm sure I'll still get made fun of for the rest of the week.

Only crazy people fall in love with me

Two weeks ago at my institute class this kid reaches over and hands me a dollar bill and on it written is...
"I would like to take you out this weekend, what do you say? Sorry but I didn't have any else to write on. My name is Spencer."
I have never seen or talked to the kid in my life and he's asking me out on a date in the middle of class. So I waited till class was over and told him I was really busy but I'd see him next week at institute... purposefully not giving him my number or saying that we should do it another time because frankly he creeped me out... fast forward to this week... Spencer comes in late and sits diagonally behind me and starts poking me with his phone and on it written is a text. So we start writing back an forth on his phone and our conversation goes something like this...

Spencer: "So how was your weekend that you couldn't go out with me?"

Me: "It was good"

Spencer: "So I guess you're probably not interested in going out with me. Right?"

Me: "No offense, but not really" Unless you have more money that is. JK"

Spencer: "Oh, so you're money hungry huh? Can I ask why your not interested?"

Me: "You're not my type"

Spencer: "That's okay, I don't like dating snobs anyways"

Me: "Well I guess its settled then, we just won't date each other, I'm sorry you were offended"

end of conversation. I've never been so blunt with a guy but I was sick of being disrupted when I was trying to learn about the D&C.

Was I wrong to say all those things? Was I too mean?

I got a shiner

This is my new black eye that I got on Wednesday at my softball game. It was the first pitch of the game when I swung and the ball hit the ground and came strait back up and hit me in the face. It's not too bad and hopefully it won't get worse cause sometimes it takes my body a couple of days for a bruise to really show up.

What to do...

So I've been planning on going to Hawaii this summer for a couple months now with some of my friends. Brookie sent her deposit in for our house a while ago and I sent mine in about a month ago. Briley has been back and forth about whether she still wants to go or not and the more she waits the more I think she'll talk herself out of it. My theory is that I have no commitments here in Mesa once the summer starts so why not take advantage of this time and get away for a while. It'll just be for the months of May and June and I'll be back for the rest of the summer to work and maybe for a summer school class. Well, Brookie just told me tonight that she's not going anymore and that she had already called the landlord to get her money back.

What should I do? It freaks me out to be without a support system. I have an easier time being myself when I have friends around who I know and trust. I'm not very good at talking to new people... On the other hand, it could force me to step out of my comfort zone which is probably good for me. And hey, its freaking Hawaii. Really I just need to get out of Mesa for a while. Away from school, away from work, and just relax in a stress free place. When am I ever going to have a chance to do this ever again?

it makes my heart hurt

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone is folding a paper and slides their fingers across to crease it. I don't know why, but this sound makes me cringe every time. I have now noticed that the sound of chalk on a chalk board sounds very similar to this. My math teacher insists on writing every single bit of information on the board, even if its a huge long word problem. Every once in a while during class I get that crappy feeling in my heart when she makes that wretched sound. As if math wasn't bad enough. AHHHH!!!!!

Do you have any weird sounds that give you the heebee geebees?

Girls Weekend!

This weekend 9 of us girls went to my friend Alecia's cabin for a weekend of just the girls. Two of the nine left their husbands, and one left her fiance behind for this road trip. It didn't actually snow when we were there but it was so thick that it went past my ankles. The weekend was complete with a dance party, prank calling, and lots of girl talk. Me and Katie even made a snowman Sunday morning with a popsicle nose.

Is this a joke?

Me and Brittany found warmth together in this jacket.









It snowed so much in Mesa!!! My friends and I found this park about 5 miles from my house that was just covered in snow and we weren't the only only ones; at least a hundred other people did the same thing. There were life size snowmen, snowball fights, and people sledding and snowboarding down the little hills. It was truly amazing but none of us were prepared. All I had was a long sleeve shirt, no jacket... Briley was wearing flip flops!!!

Como?

Is there any place on the internet where I can rent a baby? Sometimes on Sunday at church I just want to hold a baby through out the meetings to keep me a little more interested. I thought about ebay or craigslist, but I don't want to buy one, just rent for a couple hours each sunday afternoon. Boy or girl, doesn't matter to me... maybe between the ages of 3 and 8 months old.

It's go time

I'm going back to school yet again. I always get nervous the first day of school no matter how comfortable I am with the school and the surroundings. I'm still not used to ASU, it's just so huge. Last semester I only took 2 classes because of some problems I had with not being able to register till the morning school started... 40 minutes before my first class... This semester I'm back to full time. 4 classes and 12 credits. I'm taking math which I haven't taken in over 2 years... for some reason my trig class that I took at MCC didn't count as a math class at ASU, so now I'm in college algebra. And I'm also taking 3 sociology classes. Sociology is my plan for a major... not sure what I'd do with that degree but its interesting to me. I really do like ASU and I'm very happy that I stayed in AZ... plus, it's the number one party school in the nation!!! whooooo!!!!!!!!!

The miracle of Accutain

A few months ago I started taking Accutain with recomendations from my doctor. I can't even believe how much it has helped me. I was seeing results within the first month. Picture 1 shows all deep nasty zits and picture 2 is all just scarring that hopfully I can get rid of another way.

Jordan and Cathy's Night of Fun

Friday night I was hanging out with some of my friends and by 12:30 they all wanted to go home. So as I was dropping everyone off my friend Jordan said to me "You can take me to my house but I'm not going in". I told him that I wasn't tired either so we ended up just driving around and talking. We stopped on Brown Rd. to try and rescue a run-away dog but failed cause it was surprisingly fast for being such a little guy. We then found our way over to Mill Ave. at about 2am, just as all the bars were closing and got to see all the crazy drunk ASU kids staggering out to the streets. Then we went over to Tempe Town Lake and walked around in the park till we got kicked out by a park ranger for being there after hours. By then it was about 3:30 and we still weren't tired so we went over to Riverview Park and hopped the fence into the driving range because of one of Jordan's brilliant ideas. We filled my backpack up with golfballs until we couldn't shove another one in there and then went over to his house to get some clubs. Jordan and I then headed out to Saguaro Lake and got there at about 4:30am to hit the golfballs into the lake. We did that for about an hour until all the balls were gone and then sat in my car and talked until the sun came up. At about 8am we headed for Mesa and I took Jordan home and got back to my house at 8:30am. It was one of the funnest and most random nights I've ever had. I'm so happy that Jordan is off his mission now cause he's just one of my best friends and he always has such crazy ideas.


When I got home I slept for about an hour and then got woken up so I could go hang out with my mom and sister. Then at like 4:30 I fell asleep again and woke up at 8:45pm thinking that it was 8:45 on Sunday morning so I went back to sleep again. My friend Briley called me at 9 and confused the heck out of me cause she asked if I wanted to go to a party with her. ( I still thought it was Sunday morning).

So that's how I spent my last 48 hours. I now have some good memories and extremely sore shoulders.

21 is a big number

My birthday was last thursday and I'm now legal in all 50 states to do pretty much whatever I want. That's why I spent my 21st birthday in Utah with a bunch of LDS friends

Everybody LOVES free stuff

I've never really been fond of Halloween. Don't get me wrong I like all the fun parties and I don't mind dressing up, its just finding something original to dress up as that gets me. Every year I go through the same thing where I wait till last minute to think of something and then its not very well put together. There was parties going all weekend since Halloween was on a Tuesday this year. Friday I borrowed a big afro wig from a co-worker for an idea that I had that fell through so I ended up putting a sweatband on it and wore short shorts with tube socks and went as a girl Richard Simmons. Saturday night I didn't even dress up when we went out.

Then on Monday night I was watching Oprah and she had a guy on that would stand out on the streets with a sign that said "FREE HUGS" and people were actually hugging him. He now has the number one video on youtube.com (its really funny, you should watch it) So me and my friend Briley decided to do that for Tuesday's YSA Halloween Party. We made posterboard signs and hung them around our necks offering "free hugs"

It ended up being one of the funnest nights of my life. I wish I would have tried to count how many we got cause it was amazing. This was my favorite Halloween costume I've ever done. Lots and lots of hugs, 5 kisses (on the head or cheek), and one full handed butt grab that took me very off guard.

Even when all the parties were over and I was going into my house I got stopped by one of my neighbors that saw my sign. He and his roommates are college students that live just across the alley way. I've never actually met him before but he said that his car radio was stolen that night and he needed a hug. How could I resist?

Tsunami Squad

When my friend Tony got home off his mission in March he said that we should make a co-ed softball team and I thought it was a good idea. I called up a bunch of my friends and got all the necessary forms to fill out. We're a pretty decent team but in the last few games we always fall short of winning by one or two runs. It's pretty frustrating. I look forward to every Tuesday night when we have games cause it gives me a chance to see some friends that I don't usually get to see on a regular basis. Some are married, others live farther away, and we all get carried away with our busy lives. I'm fortunate to have such good friends that I can enjoy one of my favorite activities with. Our team name is the Tsunami Squad and we have green shirts with the picture on it. How the name came about is another long story... My favorite part about the name is listening to how many people CAN'T say tsunami.

I decided that every season if we change the team name it should have a word that people can't pronounce like rendezvous, or bjork. Any cool suggestions?




ps
My grandad won the car naming contest with Bonzai. Very close runners up were car-y-car, sent in by Mabel, and Gary Weiner for Jill who said I should name my car after the salesman.

Here she is

This past Tuesday, October 3rd I bought my first car. It's a 2003 Toyota Camry, a ten year upgrade from the last one. I am in love with this car. It actually has working cold air and seat belts... something I wasn't used to with the other car. It drives so smooth that I have to keep my eye on the speedometer cause sometimes I don't realize that I'm speeding... Oops. I never imagined myself driving a tan car. I thought they were reserved for old people, but I bought it from a private dealer for a decent price and the color is starting to grow on me. Its definitely a girl car and I think she needs a name... any suggestions?

Rest in peace old friend

Last Monday my car officially took its last breath and died forever. I was out shopping and had finished spending money so I got in my car and tried to turn it on. It was hard to get it started so I thought "oh great, I need a new battery". So as I was driving down McKellips I called my parents just in case the car died on the way home. As I was talking to them, I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a huge cloud of smoke coming from the exhaust. I pulled over and told them to come pick me up. As I was sitting there a boy came over to see if I needed any help and then yelled a few profanities when I showed him what happened when I turned the car on. My parents took me home and we got a tow truck in the morning and sent it to Gunnels. They said that I had blown the head gasket and that it would cost more to fix it than what the car is worth.

So this has been my ride to work for the past week. The weather has been fairly nice lately so its not so bad. Plus my job is only half a mile from my house.



And thank you times infinity to Mom, Dad, and Grandma for each letting me take their car to school. I love you all.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Why to get to KinderCare of coarse.

Yesterday when I got to work, everyone was talking about how there was a chicken in on our playground in the backyard, and sure enough, there was. A little black chicken had squeezed through the rod iron fence and was pecking away at our grass. It was in a part of the playground that we never use and is fenced off, so when the kids went outside they were all lined up against the fence watching it peck at the grass.

One of my co-workers, Kim, said that if I could catch it, she would take it home and keep it... That sounded like a challenge to me. So me and another lady I work with, Connie, went out on our mission with boxes in hand. By this time, our little chicken friend had moved out front and was hiding under the busses. After a few failed attempts to catch it from under the bus, I look over at Connie chasing it back over to the playground. It squeezed through the fence again so I ran and hopped over while Connie ran around through the building. Meanwhile all the kids are still lined up against the fence, on the playground side, screaming and yelling while I'm chasing the chicken with a box. Finally, after running around for a few minutes, I trapped it in a corner and caught it with my box.

It had to have been the funnest, craziest morning of work. Kim took the chicken home and now it roaming around in her backyard... Chickens are fast... but I'm much faster