Will Ferrell Quotes
Here's the deal. I'm at work right now, and I need to occupy my time with something, so I am going to do a little Will Ferrell trivia. I have enabled anonymous comments on my blog, so everyone can play. Here is goes....
1) "Are you not aware that I get farty and bloated with a foamy latte?"
2) "And son of a vondruke, if I didn't lose your baby."
3) "I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science."
4) "What I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not?"
5) "It's just like Santa's workshop! Except it smells like mushrooms... and everyone looks like they wanna hurt me..."
I think I'll just do five for now.... Let's see how much you kids love the funniest man alive!

Forrest Gump
Ok, that man definitely lived the dream. Today I was watching a little bit of the movie over at Michael's and remembered how great it was. If I were alone, I would have totally cried. Let's consider this thought that the character Forrest Gump had a great life. Here are the reasons:
-He wasn't a smart man, but he knew what love was.
-He totally rocked at Ping Pong
-The love of his life (although she died and that sucked) realized how great he was and that she loved him too.
-He made a fortune by keeping his word.
-He followed his heart in every situation.
-He made an impact on the world.
I'm sure there are many more reasons. If you have any, feel free to share them. My point is, why do we make life so complicated? It really shouldn't be. If you love someone, you should tell them. If you make a promise, you should keep it. If you have a debt, you should pay it. If you feel like dancing, you should dance. Ok, that last one was just for fun. But seriously, why not? Alright, I think I'm being a little too hippie for some of you, just my thoughts for the day. :o)
Happy Sunday folks.

The Horror of Childbirth
How many of you out there have heard,"Sure it's painful to give birth, but once the baby is born, you forget about the pain." Ok, so I'm taking lamaze classes with my sister, and yeah, that's a total lie. Childbirth is painful!!!! Spoiler alert.... if you don't want to know the cold hard truth about childbirth, quit reading now. Here is a list of painful and just plain gross things that women have to go through during childbirth:
1)Let's face it, pregnant women gain weight. And after they have the baby, it's hard to take the weight off.
2)Not only do you have to give birth to a child, you have to give birth to the placenta too! Who knew?
3)You know when you're trying to fit a water balloon around a faucet that's kind of big, and the water balloon is too small so it rips? Yeah..... get my drift?
4)Sometimes you push too hard and poop in front of everyone.
5)Two words: Mucus Plug
6)If the baby isn't head first, the doctor will fix that by moving him to that position. Ouch!
7)Contractions.
8)Hemroids.
9)Loss of bladder control.
10)Awkward positions.
Ok, that's pretty much all I can say right now. Sure, babies are miracles, but let's not deny that they are also painful, and pretty gross, and kind of ugly when they come out. Lord help me if I get pregnant!

Afternoon Delight
Funny story: yesterday I went out to lunch with my dear friends Debbie and Lauren. We went to the wonderful world of Wendy's (or as I like to call it "Wednesday's). When we were ordering our food, Lauren asked the lady if they sing happy birthday there, because it was Debbie's birthday. The lady just laughed, and Lauren said, "That's okay, we'll just have to give her a little afternoon delight." The lady that was taking our orders gave us the funniest look and then said,"Ok....." The literal meaning for the term "afternoon delight" is in fact daytime love making. Hilarious. I still like singing that song though, it's delightful. I'm totally at work right now, good times. It's a pretty quiet day, great day for some shout outs!
Lauren-You are totally going to be the first one to read this because you're sitting right next to me. Shout out to you for not being ashamed of the greatest song ever, afternoon delight.
Tani- I can't wait to hang out with you tonight. You better stay up this time, I even went to bed early last night so I could stay up longer tonight. Love ya.
Farah- A month and a half until you move here! Horray, I am so excited to live with you, it's going to be fantabulous.
Michael- I told my friends at work about the old school words you use, they laughed. I commend you for your word usage.
Parker- I promise I'll sit next to you in Sunday School because we're practically best friends and you know it. If I get a new TV, can you install it for me?
Steph- Hope you have a good weekend. When are you gonna come visit? You can bring your man candy if you want.... :o)
Carrie- Hurry up and come home! I miss you.
Everyone Else-Thanks for reading! Sorry I didn't give you an individual shout out....

Setting Goals
It's definitely not what you think. Today I set a goal that I would beat solitare at least once, and wouldn't you know it, I think I have beat it about 6 times already, and the day isn't over yet! Kind of a big deal....
Only a couple more months until the lovely Farah and I move in together. I'm pretty excited about it, I think we'll have some good times together, pretty much like everyday. Farah, what do you think about Mason jars for drinking glasses? Be honest. My little sister is graduating on Friday, weird. I remember when she was just a wee babe... my how time flies. Well, this day of work is almost over, maybe I can win one more time. Oh and that movie "The Breakup", horrible. The only thing that remotely redeemed it was the brother who had an acapella group "The Tone Rangers", other than that, the movie stunk, don't go see it. Happy Tuesday!

Week O' Fun
What a crazy week it has been! First of all, Ric and his friend Steve came and stayed from Monday night until Saturday. It was a great time. I miss living in the same city as Ric. :o(
Let's see.... I saw X3 on Thursday night, that was pretty exciting. I'm going to have to say that my favorite was the 2nd one, that one just rocked. The third one was good, but not as good as the second. Anyway, enough of that. Sacramento was a blast. My favorite thing was soccer and seeing all of my old peeps. Good times. Hopefully I can go back this summer for a little backpacking action/bodega bay. I can't believe my sister is going to have a baby in a few months! I am totally going to lamaze classes with her. Fun fun. Hopefully it will help me get over my fear of child birth. Because yikes, it looks pretty rough. I'm pretty excited right now because today is Wendy's Wednesday and Tani is celebrating with me. Horray!

Come and get your love
I don't know why I was compelled to make that the title of my blog, I just like that song.
So, I sent to Sacramento last weekend, good times. I had a blast spening time with old friends, adn I even made some new ones too. Buca Di Beppo is an amazing place to eat at, especially if you have a big group of people, I felt like I was in Italy. To top it all off, not only did I get to hang with Rickory this weekend, he also came to Santa Maria on Monday night. He brought a friend from Kentucky with him, Steve. He's pretty cool, he went to In and Out for the first time yesterday. Sadly, he compared it to McDonalds even after Ric and I explained that it's basically blasphemy to compare In and Out to McDonalds, we'll see if he goes to Heaven. :o) Summer is almost here! I am very excited about this because that means: I move in with Farah, my sister has a baby, it's warm, and lots of other things too. Let me just say that I can't wait for tonight- season finale of LOST. The suspense is killing me people! I really hope they get rid of Michael soon, he is way too evil now. Welp, I suppose it's time for me to stop writing.... kepp it real my friends.

MCoram Deo and all that jazz
The theme for college retreat this year was Coram Deo which means before the face of God. The main thing I took away from it was- How do I live my life everyday before God's face? So that's the practical question that I am going to ask myself everyday. Good times.
Two more days until Sacramento! I even made some cd's for the road. I guess I don't really have anything else to say. More shout outs? Ok, I suppose......
Tani- Thanks for finally getting your triple barrell out of my car. :o)
Michael- Thanks for awakening my heart to crunchy peanut butter.
Farah- I LOVED your blog about the kids day lie. I commend you for unmasking the lie that everyday is kid's day.
Steph-Thanks for changing the sushi plans. Seriously, it means a lot. I really hate sushi and sushi bars.
Ashli-Sorry I'm not going to be a yg tonight to laugh with you. :o( Good job for going back to school, I think it's a greeeat idea (in Tony the Tiger's voice).
My dear Bottelsen Friends-I think about you guys all the time and remember the good times we had working together. I still don't know where the stick of big red is!

That's all for now, once again- I'm sorry if I left anyone out.

I Wish I could Sleep in Like Tani
It's just not fair! :o) Oh well, I suppose I'll get over it. I am very excited about these next few weeks. Let me just tell you guys about it...
This weekend is college retreat, and it is going to be way fun! Not only that, but I'm sure there will be some relaxing involved too. Then, next Thursday night, Crystal and I are heading up to Sacramento to see our dear friend Rickory graduate, we also get to see some other wonderful people too (like you Steph). I am just really excited I guess. Plus, today this lady at work brought quiche! And this other girl brought mexican sweet bread, yummy. I love working at my job, the people are great. You know, I think I want to give shout outs too. Here it goes, my first attempt....
Farah- Shout out to you, my future roomie! I am so excited about living/decorating/having fun with you. I can't wait 'til you arrive in the 805 for good.
Tani- How I've missed you. I am really glad you're home, thanks for having lunch with me yesterday, and for spending the night on Saturday, even though you didn't even stay up with me. I love you.
Michael- Good times at Klondike. Next time, we should have a pac man duel. I'm stoked to get to see more of you as I am the honorary bff of the gf.
Ashli- You were cracking me up at youth group! Thanks for making me laugh everytime I see you. :o)
Steph- One more week! Thanks for letting me stay at your casa, I can't wait to see you.
Carrie- Congratulations on the degree my friend! Oh the places you will go. I love you.

Sorry if I forgot anyone....

Back to High School
Today Michael and I were discussing what it would be like to return to high school as the people we are now. If I had the chance, I definitely wouldn't want to go back to high school, but if I absolutely had to- here's what I would do differently....
-ditch class at least twice a week
-have more confidence
-pay attention more in Spanish
-participate in PE
-not have a job
-do crazy things all the time
-go to every dance
That's all I can think of right now. Anyone else have anything they would do different?

I Love Sundays
I really do. I mean, first of all there's church to look forward to. You get to see all of your friends, and meet your hug quota for the week all in one day, you get to sing great songs/hymns with the family of God, sometimes you get to go out to lunch with your family, or even better, there's a bbq going on for some charitable organization and you can buy chicken or tri tip at a reasonable price, you can take naps, play games, play sports, watch movies, clean your room, do laundry, blog, and many other things that I can't think of right now. But I just love the Sunday mood. You know what I mean?
Happy Easter by the way. The Lord is indeed risen. Pastor's sermon was great this morning. I love the way he talked about the day we will stand before the throne of God to hear our "sentence", and He will say, "How do you plan to pay for all of these offenses?" And Jesus will stand up as my defendant and say, "I paid the price for her." How amazing. I will forever keep that picture in my head.
Since it is Sunday, and I really don't have much to do right now, I think I'll write about something I was thinking about last night. If I may use the word, I was thinking about how my reationship with the Lord has evolved over these past few years. And one big thing that I really thought of was the way I thought He looked at me. I realized that I had always looked at God as a judge, I guess like a police officer. If I was reading my Bible, and following His laws, He would be happy with me and love me, but if I wasn't doing those things, I felt like He would judge me and maybe even love me less. And that led to me obeying Him in order to, I guess, earn more of His love. As I have grown in these past few years I have realized that He fully loves me all of the time. Whether I obey Him or not. Whether I am faithfully reading His word, or not. Whether I am ministering to His sheep, or not. I don't need to do anything to earn His favor, I already have it. And knowing that motivates me to serve Him, follow Him, obey Him, and love Him. It's so much easier to have a realtionship with Him when He's not Officer God. I feel so much more free now that I can look at Him in this light, as a Father who loves me dearly whether I am sinning or not. I am so thankful that He is new everyday.
Happy Sunday everyone!

Santa Maria: The Windy City
It is so windy today guys! At least it's not raining again. :o) Here's the scoop folks, I might be trading in my car. I'm totally serious right now, the X might be ancient history starting tomorrow. I know, it's a little sad. I mean we've been through so much together, and those nights at the driv-in, but she's paid her dues, and I think she might be going to a new home. I can't say for sure, but the outlook for the X doesn't look so good right about now. I'll let you know the final decision. What could possible replace her you ask? A beautiful 2003 VW Jetta. It's pretty amazing, almost too amazing.... Anywho, I better get back to work! Have a fabulous day folks!

Crazy Article
Ok, I have some more grief to talk about. Today I was reading an article on Yahoo about the 9/11 911 calls from the trade towers. And one of the relatives of a victim in the towers said that the 911 dispatchers didn't handle the calls properly and that they weren't prepared. OK, seriously! Who was prepared for that? What were they supposed to say to those hundreds of people who called 911? All they could do was stay on the line and try to give them some comfort. I think people need to stop blaming and move on because there's no way in Hades that we could have expected/predicted/prepared for/prevented an attack like that. It was definitely a horrible, horrible thing that happened, done by people with pure evil running through their viens. And as much as we try to think of ways to prevent attacks, they think of ways to carry them out. It's sick. So for heaven's sake, don't tell a 911 operator that their words weren't good enough. Those people have a job that I would never want. They have to stay calm in hopeless situations, if that isn't enough, they have to try to keep the caller calm and get information out of histerical people. Ok, now I'm starting to ramble. Anywho, that's my political opinion for the day. Don't judge me. :o)

What the Heck?
On my way home from AG today I was listening to Radio U. For those of you who don't know what Radio U is, it's a Christian radio station that plays hard Christian stuff. Anywho, after one of the songs, the dj came on and said, "Some news out of Pismo Beach, a man in Denny's shot two people and then killed himself." Pretty sad. I listened on thinking he would give the listeners some more info about it. Instead, he turned it into a joke. He went on to say that the thing that makes him sad about this whole situation is that no one should ever be afraid to eat at Denny's except for if they're going to get a grand slam breakfast. It was something like that. Then he talked about how much he likes to eat at denny's, and then he said, "Let's take a moment of silence for Denny's, and the grand slam breakfast, and those people that got hurt." I was completely shocked. How could he turn that into something funny? 3 people were killed in that shooting. Those people could have been husbands, wives, children, mothers, fathers, they were important. I felt compelled to call in to the station and tell the dj that what he said sounded disrespectful to the people involved as well as to their families. I expected to get an apology, or some sense of remorse from the dj, but I got something totally different. The conversation went a little something like this:
DJ-"Hello, Radio U"
Me-"Hi, I was just listening to you talk about the shooting in Pismo and I think you came across as disrespectful to the people that were involved."
D-"So?"
M-"I live there, and it's a serious tragedy. I think you made it sound like a joke."
D-"Well, I live in America."
M-"You don't think it was wrong to turn it into a joke?"
D-"People are going to get offended no matter what."
M-"Well, I just wanted to let you know how you may have sounded to the listeners."
D-"Have fun if you eat at Denny's."

Ok, I would have NEVER expected that out of a Christian radio station. I will never listen to that station by choice ever again. It was like he was trying to argue like a child would. I am totally baffled. Just because we have the "freedom" to say whatever we want in America, doesn't mean we should. Well, that's my grief for today.

New Week
Another week is over, wow. In theory, I'm a well trained "teller". I get to put my practice into action next week. I'm pretty excited about it. It's literally raining cats and dogs right now. (ok, maybe not literally, but I just like using that word when it's just ridiculous to use) There's a pile of hail outside that looks like snow, it's crazy! I even went outside and played in it for a bit. I'm glad I got to spend some time with visitors this week. I scrapbooked with Harry, went out to coffee with Tani, and saw a movie with Carrie. Good times. Carrie and I saw Failure to Launch last night. It was great. I think everyone who reads this should go see that movie, it will make you laugh A LOT. My plan this morning was to sleep in until 10. Sadly, I woke up at 7:30. At least I'm not tired. Well, I guess I don't have anything very exciting happening right now. HAve a good weekend friends!

A Week at Work
Well, it was my first 40 hour week in a long while, and my first time working in 2 and a half months. I'm tired. I know I sound like such a baby right now, but I just wanted to be honest. I had training this week for Coast Hills, it has involved a LOT of videos, some internet class/test things, lecturing, playing hangman, and some other stuff. I get to start at the real deal next week. Very exciting. Anywho, that's enough about that. Tonight I went over to my grandma's and quilted. It was very fulfilling. A nice close to a busy week. Two special people are in town this week, lets give it up for Carrie and Tani. I would definitely like to spend some time with both of you. Well, I think that's all I've got. Tata.

Life is Fun Again
Ok, so I'm just going to say that I am very relieved right now. Number one, I got a job. Yay! It's at Coast Hills. I am very excited about it, and I start training this coming Monday. Number two, I am working on my second quilt which is turning out beautifully and I have all of the squares completed so it won't be long before the whole thing is done. Number three, I got to visit some great people in Oregon. These people included: Reuben Rawk Hough, Greg, and,my aunt and uncle and cousins. That was good times. Number four, a magical bill fairy paid my cell phone bill so that it didn't get turned off. Thank you magic fairy, you are truly wonderful. Number five, I get to go to a cal poly baseball game for FREE tonight and sit in box seats! I've always wanted to sit in those, and now I get to, for free! Number six, my dad is going to buy me new clothes for my new job tomorrow. Oh yeah! Ok, I think that's about all the excitement I can write about for now. Oh wait, there's one more.... a magical grocery fairy filled up my refrigerator with vanilla soymilk (my fav), it's a beautiful sight. :o)

After I write this I am going to eat some oreos
Well, maybe I won't eat oreos, but I will eat something because I am sooo hungry! I guess what i am really saying right now is that writing on my blog is more important that food. Hmmm. Anywho, I had a great weekend. Steph and Lori came down from Sactown to visit. We did a lot of fun things like: go to the zoo, go to the beach in SB, go to church, eat at the olive garden, go to Pismo, make ice cream, watch office space, walk to Kay's country kitchen and eat brunch, it was nice to have them here in my hood. Although I liked living in Sacramento, and I made a lot of good friends there, I never really felt at home. I feel at home here. It's nice. I finished my quilt. It's amazing. Well, at least I think it's amazing because I worked really hard on it. If anyone tells me otherwise, I don't think I can be friends with them. My next project will be more ambitious... I'll let you guys know when I start it. I had 2 job interviews on Friday, at Midstate bank, and Coast Hills. They both went well, I think, but we'll have to see if I get called back.
On Thursday morning, around 415am, I will be heading to SLO to get on plane to go to Oregon. I am very excited about this trip because not only do i get to see and hang with Reuben and his new friends, I get to see my aunt whom I haven't seen in about 7 years. I also really like flying, especially when they give you warm cookies. Well, my stomach is complaining I'm afraid I have to answer it's call. Peace to all. :o) Oh and happy valentine's day!

La Vida Loca
Just kidding. Tonight, I successfully watched 4 and a half hours of television. Here is what I watched in order: Seinfeld, Jeopardy, Seinfeld, Skating with Celebs/Wife Swap, The Bachelor Paris. I feel a little guilty about it, but I'll get over it. I don't know if I've ever been this hooked on TV before. I mean there's Lost, American Idol, Skating with Celebs, The Bachelor, Survivor, I just can't quit watching. And I should probably go to bed right now, but I just drank a coke (sorry Michael) so I am kind of wired. In other news, I am making a quilt. It's not very big, just a baby quilt, but still. When I am working on it I never want to stop, but my grandma convinces me to so that's good. I'm glad I'm learning how to quilt, it's really relaxing and fun. Anywho, I'm pretty excited that some friends from Sac are coming down this weekend, it's going to be great. And then maybe on Valentine's Day, we'll order a heart shaped pizza.... yum. I just had to throw that in there. Good night y'all.

The Movies
I used to HATE going to the movies. I just couldn't stand the thought of sitting in the same seat for 2+ hours, stuffing my face with crap, and paying 6+ dollars. But now, I'm ok with it. However, I am not okay with the movie that I saw on Saturday, The New World. It sucked! There was a collective moan of disapproval at the end of it. First of all, Tani fell asleep during it, Parker kept checking the time, I kept sighing, it was just bad. If I ever see Collin Ferrel in person, I am going to tell him to give me my six bucks back. I would not reccomend that movie to anybody. Ok, I think I'm done bashing The New World. On a happier note, we had a potluck at church tonight. I ate so much! (I know, I'm bad Michael) And I think that's about all I have to say tonight. I'm glad you were home this weekend Tani.