YA EVER REALLY WISH YOU HAD A TAPE PLAYER????

Yep she's mine all mine!! She cost me a chunk of change that I SHOULDNT be spending right now but what can you do??

YAY!

TAGGED?!?!

I've been tagged by Amy here we are...

Tag of threes

3 joys

My friends... the people who have been there for me lately and been able to support me even when I'm being a moron (like in the chevron lol) and give such good hugs

The sun... I am totally solar powered No sun = sad jena

Music... Driving on the freeway at 80 mph - sunroof open and singing "Allllllll summer looooongggggggggggggg" ahhhhhhh pure bliss

3 fears

I'm always afraid that someone is waiting to jump out at me and get me - the whole bad-guy-hiding-in-the-backseat thing. Lame I know.

I'm HUGE paranoid when I'm driving. Remember when I got pulled over and had to do the breathalizer?? Yeah its cuz the fucker was following me and I was freaked that it was someone gonna kill me. I drive around the block if someone is following behind me in my car... seriously!

This one is the worst... I'm afraid of being poor. Money terrorizes me - not enough to take care of what I need and/or want. I hate being broke and have broken down in crying fits because my bank account was negative. Seriously its bad - poor jon has had to deal with me - he can tell ya!

3 obsessions/collections

One of my more recent obsessions has been blogging! (stolen answer!! LOL!)
I'm a halloween freak. (never woulda guessed that one huh?) seriously - I love halloween and wish we could have halloween every day.
My latest obsession has been with being a bartender. I don't know... it just sounds fun I guess.

3 surprising facts

Ok.... Here's your warning... if you don't have a strong stomach, stop reading!!

You've been warned!

I'm a really good kisser! I know this because I have only kissed probably five boys in my lifetime but I've kissed THREE girls!! WeIrD SICK huH?? lol! and I'm not talking kissy-kisses I'm talking full on k-i-s-s-i-n-g!

I'm really excited to go out and be on my own. I've never had that before. I've ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS lived with someone, and up until I was 26 I lived with several someones. Lol I lived with my MOM til I was 26!!! even after that I've always had roommates - probably part of why my marriage failed I've probably only lived with JUST JON - with no one else - for maybe a total of ONE %#@*ing YEAR!!!! Maybe not even that long!!! Rent was cheap and we were having fun! Now rent is expensive and I'm bored cuz jon's always playing on a computer!! No one around to entertain me :-)

I've always assumed I'd have kids! I'm pretty sure that if I ever do then I'm going to have twins. I don't know why, its just a feeling I have.

Ok Belle!! Consider yourself tagged!

My favorite family in the whole wide world

This very dark picture was taken after we went to the ringling brothers circus!!! Ain't they sweet??

Elephants!

1/2 of my favorite little family in the world :-)

CORNSTARCH CATASTROPHY!!!! OY!!!

as I shove a box of mac and cheese onto the top shelf of the cupboard, the cornstarch makes a flying leap and proceeds to smack the wall, hit me, and fall upside down on the counter. I still haven't gotten all the cornstarch off the counters and walls!

YAY!!!!!!! SO PROUD!!!

Quote from a certain blog...

She was eating her cereal and looking back and forth between the table and my belly when she said, "Mommy, your tummy is getting shorter....like this!", and then she lifted her night gown to show me her tummy

OMG!! When a five year old notices a change THATS a good sign!!!!

K bye now... I'm going to the gym! LOL

My fav new quote....

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. --Oscar Wilde

LoL... that was intended for me isn't it??

Hee-larious!!

I hate apartment hunting

I know I'm a spoiled little brat when it comes to apartments but I need someplace affordable so I can save my pennies and buy a condo next spring, I need a place that will let me have my dog, and I need someplace preferably not so wrecked that I wanna puke when I walk in the door (I looked at a place today that had me gagging it was SO bad) WHY is that so difficult????????????????????????????

I'd prefer a patio so I can use my beautiful bbq, but it can be stored at moms - grrrrrrr why? why? why? WHY? GOD I'm cranky now.

Keep your eyes open party people.

xoxo

Doing a "wet test" at bullfrog!

Who knew?? they let you come in and try out all the different jetpacks!!! That place is freaking cool!!! and the hottubs are AMAZING!!!!

ade is amazing!!

Beautiful!

ade performing ballet!

See the one that looks like an angel in the front? Thats my adrianne!!!

Independant woman!!

All in all its being a GREAT week!!!! So far this week I've jumped out of a plane, ridden on a sweet ass motorcycle with a strange man, dragged puking best buddy out of a bar restroom (LMAO), installed TWO doorknobs (try it sucker... its harder than you think), installed halogen lights, and put out a fire (with a fire extingusher!!!)

Tomorrow I'm going to see one of my bestest buddies perform in the ballet showcase with the university of Utah department of ballet, friday I'm signing my lease on my new apartment, this saturday I'm going to go pick out a hot tub with one of my friends, and sunday i'm going to come see the Monet to Piccaso exhibit at the UMFA!! Then next week I'm going to the body worlds exhibit. Next Saturday is the my "Making Martini's" class and then the Circus with the kids - unless me and amy decide to ditch in which case lord only knows what kind of trouble I'll be in!! Ima gonna be all sorts of cultured!! I'll take pictures!!

xoxo

END LLAMA SUFFERAGE NOW!!!!!

LMAO!

OK PEOPLE THIS IS IT!!! LLAMA'S SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!!! WHO ARE WE TO SAY THAT LLAMA'S CANNOT VOTE!!! ARE THEY NOT INTELLIGENT, INSIGHTFUL BEINGS WHO ARE HAVE CONCERNS AND WORRIES JUST LIKE THE REST OF US!! END LLAMA SUFFERAGE TODAY!!!!

oops sorry one more...

PROOF!!!

SPARTA!!!!!

Happy happy Joy joy!!

I'm in a damned good mood!!! The world just seems like its so wide open now that I've ditched the negative nelly's that were bringing me down! That and having a really good best friend that I can talk to even though she lives sooooo far away from me - but its ok I love her anyway! She's always positive and happy and doesn't constantly have to be pissed at someone in order for her to feel good about herself and that's a really nice change... I love ya girly and I think you are awesome!! I know I just talked to you two days ago but I miss ya already!!!!!

LOL

8 Fairy Tales And Their Not-So-Happy Endings
by Stacy Conradt -

You might have noticed that I’m a bit of a Disney buff. This is kind of out of character for me, to be honest, because I’m not a huge fan of happily ever after. I like movie endings that are unexpected. After doing a little research, though, I realized that maybe fairy tales and I are a perfect match: those Disney endings where the prince and the princess end up blissfully married don’t really happen in the original stories. To make sure kids go home happy, not horrified, Disney usually has to alter the endings. Read on for the original endings to a couple of Disney classics (and some more obscure tales).

1. Cinderella
Don’t break out your violins for this gal just yet. All that cruelty poor Cinderella endured at the hands of her overbearing stepmother might have been well deserved. In the oldest versions of the story, the slightly more sinister Cinderella actually kills her first stepmother so her father will marry the housekeeper instead. Guess she wasn’t banking on the housekeeper’s six daughters moving in or that never-ending chore list.

2. Sleeping Beauty
In the original version of the tale, it’s not the kiss of a handsome prince that wakes Sleeping Beauty, but the nudging of her newborn twins. That’s right. While unconscious, the princess is impregnated by a monarch and wakes up to find out she’s a mom twice over. Then, in true Ricki Lake form, Sleeping Beauty’s “baby’s daddy” triumphantly returns and promises to send for her and the kids later, conveniently forgetting to mention that he’s married. When the trio is eventually brought to the palace, his wife tries to kill them all, but is thwarted by the king. In the end, Sleeping Beauty gets to marry the guy who violated her, and they all live happily ever after.

3. Snow White
At the end of the original German version penned by the brothers Grimm, the wicked queen is fatally punished for trying to kill Snow White. It’s the method she is punished by that is so strange – she is made to dance wearing a pair of red-hot iron shoes until she falls over dead.

4. The Little Mermaid
You’re likely familiar with the Disney version of the Little Mermaid story, in which Ariel and her sassy crab friend Sebastian, overcome the wicked sea witch, and Ariel swims off to marry the man of her dreams. In Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale, however, the title character can only come on land to be with the handsome prince if she drinks a potion that makes it feel like she is walking on knives at all times. She does, and you would expect her selfless act to end with the two of them getting married. Nope. The prince marries a different woman, and the Little Mermaid throws herself into the sea, where her body dissolves into seam foam.

Now here are four more fairy tales you might not be familiar with, but you might have trouble forgetting.

1. The King Who Wished to Marry His Daughter
What It’s Like: Cinderella, with an incestuous twist

The King’s wife dies and he swears he will never marry again unless he finds a woman who fits perfectly into his dead Queen’s clothes. Guess what? His daughter does! So he insists on marrying her. Ew. Understandably, she has a problem with this and tries to figure out how to avoid wedding dear old dad. She says she won’t marry him until she gets a trunk that locks from outside and inside and can travel over land and sea. He gets it, but she says she has to make sure the chest works. To prove it, he locks her inside and floats her in the sea. Her plan works: she just keeps floating until she reaches another shore. So she escapes marrying her dad, but ends up working as a scullery maid in another land… from here you can follow the Cinderella story. She meets a prince, leaves her shoe behind, he goes around trying to see who it belongs to. The End.

2. The Lost Childen
What It’s Like: Hansel & Gretel meets Saw 2
This French fairy tale starts out just like Hansel & Gretel. A brother and sister get lost in the woods and find themselves trapped in cages, getting plumped up to be eaten. Only it’s not a wicked witch, it’s the Devil and his wife. The Devil makes a sawhorse for the little boy to bleed to death on (seriously!) and then goes for a walk, telling the girl to get her brother situated on the sawhorse before he returned. The siblings pretend to be confused and ask the Devil’s wife to demonstrate how the boy should lay on the sawhorse; when she shows them they tie her to it and slit her throat. They steal all of the Devil’s money and escape in his carriage. He chases after them once he discovers what they’ve done, but he dies in the process. Yikes.

3. The Juniper Tree
What It’s Like: Every stepchild’s worst nightmare
Cannibalism, murder, decapitation… freakiness abounds left and right in this weird Grimm story. A widower gets remarried, but the second wife loathes the son he had with his first wife because she wants her daughter to inherit the family riches. So she offers the little boy an apple from inside a chest. When he leans over to get it, she slams the lid down on him and chops his head off. Note: if you’re trying to convince your child to eat more fruits and veggies, do not tell them this story. Well, the woman doesn’t want anyone to know that she killed the boy, so she puts his head back on and wraps a handkerchief around his neck to hide the fact that it’s no longer attached. Her daughter ends up knocking his head off and getting blamed for his death. To hide what happened, they chop up the body and make him into pudding, which they feed to his poor father. Eventually the boy is reincarnated as a bird and he drops a stone on his stepmother’s head, which kills her and brings him back to life.

4. Penta of the Chopped-off Hands
What It’s Like: Um…you tell us
These old fairy tales sure do enjoy a healthy dose of incest. In this Italian tale, the king’s wife dies and he falls in love with Penta… his sister. She tries to make him fall out of love with her by chopping off her hands. The king is pretty upset by this; he has her locked in a chest and thrown out to sea. A fisherman tries to save her, but Penta is so beautiful that his jealous wife has her thrown back out to sea. Luckily, Penta is rescued by a king (who isn’t her brother). They get married and have a baby, but the baby is born while the king is away at sea. Penta tries to send the king the good news of the baby, but the jealous fisherman’s wife intercepts the message and changes it to say that Penta gave birth to a puppy. A puppy?! The evil wife then constructs another fake message, this time from the king to his servants, and says that Penta and her baby should be burned alive. OK, long story short: the king figures out what the jealous wife is up to and has her burned. Penta and the king live happily ever after. I can’t really figure out what the moral of this tale is. Chopping hands off? Giving birth to a dog? I just don’t get it. Help me out here, people.

Labor Day Weekend 2008

Friday night went to Ogden to go play and hang out with Liz and Scott... that kid is so funny!!! As I'm laying under the kitchen table in the "clubhouse" being told the rules I had to laugh because that little girl is growing up so fast! She amazes me constantly and she was ON that night!! DAMN that kid had me rolling! We stayed up waaay too late (not liz, she went to bed) but the good news is that we beat Guitar Hero!! Whoo hoo!!! I'm a rockstar!!!

We head home Saturday after taking Liz to the park for a while (stupid hornets) and we invited jenny and mike to come over and watch movies on the "big screen" ya know... the projector... it really is like having a movie theater in the house .... its cool even though I fought against ever getting it... when I leave jon I'll hafta get one of those...

We hang out on sunday til its time to go to Brewvies for geek show... I tell ya what... just because you are a geek doesn't mean you can't be a little bitch... I'm talking to you Jeff Vice... you are giving geek a bad name. So anyway we are greatly entertained by Wrath of Khan .... hee-larious (you have your mothers ass ha ha ha!!) and we are about 1/4 into Empire Strikes back... keeping in mind that I would have been 5 years old when ESB came out and so I don't remember seeing it on the big screen although my parents reassure me that I did indeed go to opening weekend.

anyway...

We were having a great time and the rules for drinking were as follows for wrath of khan 1. every time Sulu said something that sounded gay(everything he said) 2. every time someone said khan(which they do. A LOT.) there was another rule, but with all the "khan"ing hell if I can remember. The rules for EMPIRE were 1. every time Hans tried to be suave, 2. every time Luke was whiny 3. Or whenever 3CP0 was fussy We were having a great time and suddenly the power dies ... :-p SO I've seen part of empire on the big screen ... I guess I'll just hafta be happy with that.

So I've got an open tab, and suddenly I'm held hostage... brewvies won't give me my credit card because I had an tab and they don't have a total. Shit. That sucks. You should have seen the storm that knocked out the power!!!! Holy monsoon batman!! I'm pretty sure that must have been been related to Gustav!!

Good news is that my car handles great in the bad weather and we drove to grantsville to see Amy, Seth and the kids.... I love those kids... they are the most awesome kids ever and always make me feel like a million dollars... they are GREAT kids and I just adore all three of them... we always have good times together!!!

So that's it folks... Good times were had by all!!!