Happy Tuesday!

I would just like to forget yesterday. Talk about case of the Mondays! After a perfect, and I mean, WONDERFUL weekend with Steven, I had a horrendous Monday. Long story short- Austin Electricity screwed up my  new account when I moved into my apt, so my apt recently figured it out (unknown to me) and they shut off my electricity (even though I had paid). Luckily I was out of town this past weekend, so it wasn't a huge deal. I spent an hour on the phone with their number one idiot- Nick, and he belittled me and didn't even try to listen to how THEY screwed up. I almost slapped a baby yesterday, I was furious. Not only did they not turn on my electricity until late, but charged me $300 for THEIR mistake! WTF! So I called today and tried to remain calm and talked to a supervisor and FINALLY got it all worked out! Amazing what happens when people actually listen and aren't hard headed. Anywho, that just set me off yesterday, coupled with the fact I was exhausted and sucked it up at bowling. I was not a happy camper. My friends at bowling and Steve cheered me up last night and this morning I woke up with a little hitch in my step. Smiling from ear to ear. This was even before I found out they were going to drop the $300 charges! Life's too short, and it's Mr. Guy's bday. Plus I had one of the best weekends this past weekend with Steve...sooo I guess I can talk about that a little....

Started off a little late on Friday- got to La Cantera around 9 or 9:30 and upon check in found out that he got us an upgrade! We were on a floor with it's own happy hour and meeting area. Our room had a view of the golf course and the weather was absolutely perfect! We were in the room for like 10 minutes when there was a knock on the door and it was this cart with champagne and chocolate covered strawberries! When Steve had called he mentioned it was our early Valentine's weekend and they just sent that up! How nice. Unfortunately Friday night my stomach started hurting- must have been the beer, wine, liquor and champagne on an empty stomach! Eek. We went to dinner, then turned in kind of early. Saturday we hung around and went shopping at La Cantera, ate a late Italian lunch, watched the Aggie bball game, hung around some more....then went to see Dear John at the drafthouse. It was just ok...weird twist in it and I didnt really like that. Sunday we went to the Stockshow and Rodeo. Didn't actually see the rodeo part, but went and checked out the carnival and all the animals. Steve loved the petting zoo! He was very apprehensive about it and thought it was uncool, buuuut I'm pretty sure he would go back again and loved it :) 

David's birthday is today and his HH too! Steve's gonna chaperone the Valentine's Dance with me Wednesday and that's all I really have for the week. I have my half on Sunday- I ran for the first time in 3 weeks yesterday and my knee is in paaaain. We'll see how Sunday goes- I have a feeling I'll be walking about half of it. Ah well. Maybe after I visit the dr I can find something to help out my knee and maybe do the Cap 10K in April with Paige and Alison. 

Here are some pictures from the weekend:

Notice the bottles we already brought...the guy opening our new bottle probably thought we had a drinking problem....

View from our room!

 

My favorite picture of the weekend- did I mention they had like a tennis court full of moon bounces? This is Steve going through the obstacle one. Apparently he has no problem throwing his body off the top of it!

  

Picture at the moon bounce :)

  

With our new expensive shades we bought at La Cantera!

 

Steve awkwardly posing at the petting zoo. He says those aren't  kangaroos. I think they are. Thoughts??

 

Me feeding the animals! Eek I was so scared they were gonna bite me

  

Steve wasting his money, errr I mean winning me a stuffed animal! :) He didn't get it here, but Winston (the frog) is the best stuffed animal I own!

 

"Pigture Perfect" haha 

  

Have a wonderful week! Say a prayer for me and the rest of my week/training! :) 

I'M BO$$Y!

Forgot to add a couple bowling pics----every week I'm getting better and better! This past week (Alison took a bunch of fun pictures, I'll post those later) I got a 153! My highest yet. So far, so good! 

Here's a couple from last week. That hat was good luck for me that week, not so much the week after!

My wifey is the best!

This past weekend I had a WONDERFUL time with my wifey! We were both not sick (or covered in hives) and ready to have a good time! Court's friend Mo was also in town from Connecticut, so we were ready to paint the town red! Friday night, I organized a girls' dinner to get them to meet all of our group, and just have fun! Here's a picture from dinner.  

 

12 girls- most girls I've been around and liked all of 'em! ;) Here are some other pictures from the night....

  

Saturday night not as many pictures, but we basically did the same thing... 

 

Playing Spin the Bottle--- for a dance off!  

 

And we had to end the night with a "Kung Fu" picture of course. Way to go David! hahaha

Wonderful weekend, and it ended spending some food eating and game playing with the Yarrington's. I had a blast. Buuut all good things must come to an end, and I got a horrible cold because of all the fun I was having. Last night I watched the Aggie game (against Mizzou) and witnessed one of the sweetest college dunks everrr by Mr. Ray Turner. Here's a cool picture of it.

 

I'm glad I'm feeling better, because my thoughtful boy is taking me to La Cantera this weekend for Valentine's! I don't know what I did to deserve this, but it should be a memorable weekend! Here's a picture of the place we're staying...

 

I forsee lots of lounging in the hottub/pool and maybe some golf for Mr. Steve. We might check out the rodeo or something else while we are there. Plans on being lazy and relaxing are definitely in order! I'll try and take lots of picture to share. The weather is predicted to be perfect! 

Out with the old?

Same song, different verse. Still not good at keeping up with the bloggie! I have been busy being a hostess, a teacher,  and a sickling, so blogging has been put on the back burner. I actually found my "xanga" blog from when I was a wee one in college. It's weird how much I'm grown, and stayed the same! I'll put it on here, but it's pretty embarrassing! I was really into surveys and things, so I thought it would be fun to do one now, and see how  m uch my answers changed since then. I'll put my new answers in PINK, old in regular font.

10 years ago: I was  turning 11 years old! I was in 5th grade, and pretty much the picture of awkwardness already. glasses, braces, short, skinney. yeah needless to say i hadnt had that first boyfriend yet haha. i just joined The Wave- a year round swim team and quit dance. I was turning 15! I was scared to get my learner's permit because I was scared of cars! I was also going to SACS and being a good little girl :)

5 years ago: Junior year.   Just got back from 2 and a half weeks all over europe. i Was VP of my class and we were waist deep into banquet planning. i'm pretty sure i liked jared kiefer. the theme for our jr sr banquet was wild west and i was a can-can girl. yes, i still have the video. jim was my date to jr sr banquet (and now he's engaged- weird!!!) I was 20- ended my first year as a fish camp counselor, and was starting my second with one of my favorite camps- Camp Peebles! What's funny is that in my last post I talked about my date being engaged, and sadly he's married and divorced now. Starting too young goes to show ya...

4 years ago: Senior year of high school. wow....i was skipping 7th period conceptual physics on a daily basis, i dated teal hausman and then started dated john at the end of my senior year. we went to panama city, fl for our senior trip. christian guerra was my date to christmas banquet and daniel oliver was my date to senior. I turned 21! Was a totally lame birthday in College Station. My birthday is after school gets out for the summer, and before summer school starts- so CS was dead. Oh well, I was finally legal!! I was dating Colbey Walker. Barf.

3 years ago:  freshman year of college, i was always at home, did NOT go to fish camp. i thought i was in love with john and we spent ever single waking moment together. i was involved in aggie sisters for christ and i was roommates with stephanie williamson and she was a badass. i made ok grades. I was 22- dunk my ring ( 1 min 12 seconds) was a co-chair, and graduated college!!

2 years ago:  sophomore year. my life changed. john and i finally broke up. i met garrett and "the boys". garrett and i dated for about 3 months and then i met colbey. colbey immediately became my best friend and totally changed my life. we dated for about 6 months. he insisted i apply for fish camp, so i did and i became a member of session  c red, camp pausky. and i met some of the most wonderful people in my life. including chelsea love and ryan mclagan. ok this old post is the weirdest- yes my life changed, but because of Colbey? Please. Fish camp did change my college life, for the good and those two people I met in Pausky are still some of my favorites. But now- two years ago, I was working at Deerpark Middle School, living in Austin and being lonely! I had Tyler, Kit and Steve (kind of) and thaaat's about it. I became really really close with Amy Ducote and the rest if history! :)

1 year ago: still dating colbey, learned a lot about school and myself. lost some friends, realized that my friends from back home werent always going to be there for me. become part of another camp- camp peebles. became a member of the big event. and FELL IN LOVE WITH IT! started to get more and more into my major and became more and more dependent on colbey to make me happy in my life and lost track of my other friends. A year ago, I hit rock bottom of being alone in Austin, started at a brand new school in RRISD (Walsh) and felt was it was like to be micromanaged and belittled on a daily basis. Not so fun! I almost moved to Dallas, but decided to stay because I felt like God was leading me to.

Today: i have lost my best friend, but instead i have gained a complete independence. i still dont understand why humans are so quick to lie and sell out their best friend to get what they want. i have learned the true meaning of frienship and being in love versus thinking you are in love. i have lost some friends this year, but i learned that your true friends are going to be there for you no matter what b/c they know who you are and who you arent. i became good friends with jim cole and i kinda like him . just taking everyday one step at a time and seeing where God wants me to go. I'm now a proud co-chair, a memeber of the Big EVent committee again, a member of CARPOOL and i start my language arts/history middle school methods in the spring. My brother is now 6 feet (or more) tall and is turning 16 in a week. i grow to love my family more and more every day and i had a phase where i wanted to go into the peace corps. but now i realize that i need to make some money to start paying my parents back so i hope to get a job in the round rock district when i graduate in dec of '06 .

wow. that was some therapy. haha Look at that! I got a job in RRISD right after I graduated- I've since moved to AISD, but learned a lot from my 3 year stint in RRISD and made many friends. Today I'm still living in Austin, but I am singing a different tune. I have a great group of friends that I am so glad that I waited for and was patient for. I was for sure that I was never going to find a solid group like I did with my friends in college, but alas, I did. Nothing will ever compare to the crazies (and our first crazies wedding- Mrs. Chelsea Love Clarke was this year!) It's crazy how much changes in 5 years. Maybe I'll find this blog 5 years from now and see how much I'm still continuing to change.

5 snacks that I enjoy:
1) hot tamales hot tamales

2) cheese anything with spinach in it (dip, enchiladas, sandwich, pasta, etc)
3) shrimp queso

4) fruit crispix
5)  cereal pita chips and hummus

5 things I would do with a million dollars:

1) pay off all my parents stuff, my stuff, and my brothers future college (same)

2) buy a new house for my parents (same)

3) invest for my future family- my kids' education, and their future (same)

4) get a new car. seriously. (buy a house for me)

5) get new cabins for lakeview? ha i dont know. probably donate to my church back home shopping spree. apparently I've become more selfish over the years....a teacher's gotta look good! ;)

5 places I would run away to:
1)  my house in SA same

2) venice, italy i wish venice, lets be real here. Imma say NYC

3) my childhood the boys house

4) san fransisco Los Angeles

5) ...aggieland? i guess after i leave..? A vineyard

  5 bad habits:
1) putting off school work - now it's putting off school work at work!

 2) holding in what i feel (eh, not so much a problem anymore! ) lack of confidence

3) eating things I shouldn’t same

4) not working out enough same

5) splurging on gifts same!

5 favorite foods

 
1) mexican

2)  seafood

3) italian

4) cornbread caserole and key lime pie (not mixed together though) anything with feta or goat cheese

5) Breakfast food humus!

 

5 things you would do if you were going to die tomorrow
1) write a letter to my closest friends and family telling them how much they impacted my life and how much they mean to me/how much i love them. good choice elisa

2) pray samesies

3) eat whatever the heeeeeeell i wanted to check

4) spend time with family, friends double check

5) have sex. i mean duh. it's my last day. hell to the yes check :)

5 famous people you would love to meet
1) Jesus

2) Justin Timberlake Michael Phelps

3) Angelina Jolie Jennifer Aniston

4) Jennifer Aniston Zooey Deschanel

5) Adam Brody Justin Timberlake

 

5 favorite bands
1) Kelly Clarkson- iknow she's not a band but i looove her Taylor Swift

2) Death Cab for Cutie Zac Brown Band

3) Dave Matthews Band same

4) The Format Mates of State

5) Dashboard Confessional John Mayer

5 boyfriends/girlfriends 

( i hope this is not like ranking them, i just put them in most recent and down)
1)we are dating...but jim :)  Steven

2) colbey Jeff

3) garrett Tyler
4) john  Jim

5) teal  Colbey

5 favorite places to go
1) home same

2)kyle field same
3) italy town lake

4) roadtrips same

5) the lake boys' house

5 most annoying things ever
1)  ignorance,racism, sexism

 2) liars, and cheaters

  3) losing your cell phone

4) getting up and going to class being sleepy
5) when people coast in the passing lane, those who dont use their blinker and those who pull out in front ofyou to go 5 mph. sometimes i really hate driving.

Guess there are some big changes, and some not so big changes!