snow day, baby

today is my first official snow day. church got canceled because of the snow. WOO! it's not that i'm excited that church is canceled but i'm excited to not have to do something because of the snow. that's never happened to me before. YAY snow day.

that said i will now commence my year in review

january
the new year's day fiasco with bill... mostly involved not being able to do anything we wanted all day long and then having to walk home from the movies. trip to virginia for home finding - had a sinus infection and almost died the night before the trip due to an allergic reaction to some medicine that i can never remember. i should probably write it down the next time i remember. trip to seattle with amber and cici to visit dad. disneyland for my 25th birthday.

february
civil war reenactment in ca for valentine's day. trip to hawaii. the neighbor setting their apartment on fire and the fire fighters chopping a "small" hole in our wall. trip to san francisco to visit little dan.

march
driving a 17' uhaul with my car towed behind it from arizona to virginia. i still can't believe i did that. i'm pretty hard core. as is gina. i would totally do it again... but only if gina was with me. highlights: getting the uhaul and company stuck in a parking lot in downtown atlanta, the coke factory, all the mcdonalds across the country, ALABAMA, snow in new mexico and cookies at the doubletree. started work at the new d&b... which involved me being told i needed woman classes. obviously they didn't know who they were dealing with. the first sunday at church here when i met phil and the teeth. ::hahaha:: meeting arianne and she turned out to not be hispanic like i had expected.

april
store opens. woo! emmy came to visit. i had a house warming party that i was hours late to. hmm. i think work was pretty much everything that was going on during april.

may
i got sylvie the hamster. duck beach. we stayed in this adorable beach house and i had top bunk. had fun bonding with stephanie and arianne... our lovely photo scavenger hunt. saw the wright brothers museum. the first of the hair fiascos... i tried to get my hair dyed red... and it turned out pink. it was all down hill from there.

june
i realized that it rains a ridiculous amount in virginia. never-ever trust a virginian when they tell you about the weather. they are all weather liars. you could be standing there getting rained on and they will deny the fact that it is raining until they die. i think virginians like to pretend they live somewhere cool like california and that it doesn't do things like rain or snow... but it's a LIE. it rains all the time here, don't be fooled. went to the world's boringest baseball game with jon. had a big month at work. lots of party planning in june. those were the days, yo.

july
4th of july!!! we organized a trip to dc to celebrate the freedom and birth of our great nation. best day ever. made some new friends and got to know people better. saw an amazing fireworks display. got accused of groping phil on the subway (which i did not do). went to waffle house where we witnessed people having a dtr next to the dumpster. some day that will be me, if only in my dreams. i think my favorite part of the trip was when we went for a walk, me, daniel, nate and tiffani and saw some more of the monuments and we had firecracker popsicles and just generally had a nice time being together. its moments like that that stay with me for some reason. nothing big or exciting happened but we were all together and i was, just, sincerely happy to be there.

august
trip to ca. it was so nice to go home and just get away for a bit. i don't remember too much else about august except this was when i got really, really depressed. the trip home helped me get out of that a bit. it was just such a terrible feeling. i would come home from work and just lay in bed crying. i hope i never feel that way again. i believe august is about that time i got that HORRIFIC hair cut. i'm still recovering. ughh.

september
lauren came to visit! it was so nice to have her out here. we did all sorts of touristy stuff while she was here. we even had TWO picnics. and it POURED rain on one of them. ha. i believe this was about the time i became friends with jessica 'queen fug'. we definitely went to the field day of the past during september. i learned what a tractor pull is. i couldn't explain it to you if i tried. all i know is that people wearing confederate flag shirts like to watch them.

october
this was the beginning of my 30 rock obsession. i hid away for a weekend and did nothing but watched 30 rock all weekend long. it was AMAZING. i love 30 rock b/c i relate to liz lemon so much. it cracks me up. i believe october is when we took the bus trip to nyc. for halloween i dressed up as a zombie cowboy. the next day i decided i would need to be zombie richard nixon for halloween 2010.

november
november involved several attempts at hair dying. most of which turned out to be an ultimate fail. i got a haircut that turned out pretty normal and now i'm still working on growing my hair out. had thanksgiving with diane, javi and quentin. it really was a nice thanksgiving, very relaxing.

december
i took a trip up to NYC all by myself. SOOO much fun. I did touristy stuff around the city and just generally enjoyed the city experience. i hung out at 30 rock and pretended to be liz lemon. my first snow day! and i get to go home for christmas! spent time with people i adore throughout the month. learned how to work the tv finally. kimy bought a house! ready to get my 2010 on.

woo! i'm sure i left lots of big stuff out. hey! add a message with any big things you remember that i left out!

anyway, overall i've had an amazing year with lots of growth and learning. i'm thankful for the amazing people that have come and gone throughout this year. i really am learning that things don't always turn out like you might expect but they always turn out.

gee wiz

this is me pretending to be happy about that fact that i'm being snowed on. the snow started up pretty quickly. i don't know if that's always what happens with snow since this really has never happened to me before. by the time i got home from work it was coming down pretty heavily.

the snow stresses me out and i got very little sleep last night. for whatever reason i would wake up in a panic every half hour or so and would bolt over to the window. i think part of me was afraid that the snow would have disappeared or that the whole world would have filled up with snow. i don't know which would have been more shocking to me. at any rate it made for a very stressful night.

this morning i decided i would try to take some pictures of the snow. so i put on jeans and a sweatshirt and opened the front door and realized there was no way i was going outside like that. i went and grabbed my snow coat, opened the door and got to the open air and went back inside for more gear. i grabbed a scarf and pulled up my hood and finally made my way to the parking lot. i took a few photos before i realized i really should have put on gloves and my fingers were killing me. i scurried back to the apartment as quickly as possible (which was actually very slowly b/c i was petrified of falling, breaking an arm and dying alone in my apartment).





















so the other night we decided to have some fun with diet coke and mentos (yes, i've been on a myth busters kick). fun with diet coke and mentos eventually leads to fun with other household items... like cornstarch. we learned a lot about what happens when you combine water and cornstarch (CREEPY) but more importantly i learned what happens when you combine fire and cornstarch... this:

i'm still trying to get my hands on the video to post here. it's a good time.

anyway, i've got a lot of stressful stuff going on right now. i've got some career decisions to make. ::joy:: and just generally waiting on some stuff to work or not work out. also, all the christmas parties for this weekend got cancelled due to the weather so that means more events moving to january. things definitely did not play out the way i had expected. but then again they rarely do. just ask my hair.

"it doesn't snow in virginia"

so that's my car. obviously i'm not going anywhere any time soon. snow is like being sick but without being sick. you have to stay in your house and watch a lot of tv.

it's the journey

so yesterday ann and i got lunch at mcdonald's. ann orders and then i go up and order and at the end of my transaction this happens:
mcdonald's worker man: you're very beautiful.
me: oh, uhmm thank you.
mcdonald's worker man: i just had to say it. i couldn't keep a straight face anymore.
me: (in my head) is that still a compliment? can i have my lunch now? where's the nearest exit?

which leads to... my favorite stories of times guys have randomly hit on me! woo!

so i'm in the parking lot at the ontario mills (i think it's important that i tell you ontario mills... if you've ever been there you'll understand). laurel and i are walking from the movie theater (where we have just purchased tickets for a movie that starts in an hour or so) and are making our way to the food court for dinner when a random guy runs up to me
random guy: hey, hey!
me: uhm, yeah?
random guy: what are you doing?
me: uhm, we're going to eat.
random guy: can i buy you a burger?
me: no i don't think so.

so i'm leaving denny's with little dan. we're getting into the car and next to my side is a truck of guys.
driver guy: hey, can you do the hula?
me: what?
driver guy: i said can you do the hula?
me: uhm, no.
driver guy: oh... uhm because you look like you're hawaiian.
me: dan unlock the car.
::i think the guy either forgot the punchline of the joke or chickened out but i'm sure it should have ended with something about getting lei'd::

and then there's always the assortment of random work incidents. oh the work incidents. like the captain who would come in and dance with my chair. or the kitchen worker who would sneak up and hold my hand. or the server who would tell me i looked like a school girl. or the guy at the coffee shop who wanted to name his daughter after me luckily his wife wouldn't let him (that mostly just qualifies as awkward). or this
him: i love you.
me: i know.
him: no, no you don't.
me: ::awkward::

oh when i was in new york katelyn got hit on by some weird guy. the best part: when he came over and went to start talking he totally drooled on the table. nice.

reminds of the time i was talking to some guy at a networking event. so we're outside chatting it up and suddenly a bug just flies up his nose. his eyes go wide, he looks at me and says 'i have to go' and walks away. i was just like uh yeah you do.

oh life! cracks me up!