100 Things You May or May Not Know About Me

So I was tagged by Jayme so here is the forever long list:

1. I was born on June 16
2. It was Father’s Day
3. I tell my Dad that I was the best gift he ever got
4. I think he secretly believes it
5. I was named after my great-great-great grandma Sarah Catherine McGee
6. She just so happened to have died on June 16
7. My mom is convinced I look like her though it can’t be proven cause we have no pictures of her
8. I’ve lived in 9 different cities
9. In 5 states
10. In the last two years I have moved 7 times
11. I can’t stand small cities
12. My favorite place I lived was Mesa, AZ
13. I grew up with massive amounts of snow
14. But have never been snowboarding
15. I have been wakeboarding
16. And I love it
17. My favorite color is green
18. But I prefer wearing black and white apparel
19. Real life mysteries in history intrigue me
20. As do histories of the Egyptians, the Romanovs, and Pompeii
21. I love watching movies
22. I can be perfectly content to lay on the couch and watch movies all day
23. I can’t pick a favorite cause it changes with my mood
24. Disney cartoon animation movies are at the top though
25. I like being spontaneous
26. Like going to IHOP at 3am
27. Or jumping in the Columbia River after midnight
28. The Columbia river is very cold in April
29. I love reading books
30. But only works of fiction
31. I hate self help books
32. My favorites are The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, The Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer and any book by Jodi Picoult
33. I will have a massive library one day
34. It will contain only books I have read
35. I’m working on building it up currently
36. I love the smell of old books
37. I absolutely love underwears. I love shopping for them. I love receiving them as presents. I will never have enough.
38. I will never have enough shoes either.
39. I love animals
40. Since I was little I wanted to be a veterinarian
41. Largely in part to reading James Herriott Books
42. In high school I realized 8 years of college and thousands upon thousands of dollars would be wasted when I became what I really wanted….a mom
43. Cause I wont let someone else raise my kids while I selfishly choose to work
44. Their names were already picked out
45. Losing the future you had all planned and picked out sucks
46. I wouldn’t wish it on the people I hate
47. I don’t hate people
48. I find it near impossibly to harbor a grudge
49. There have only ever been two or three exceptions
50. I’m working on getting over that they suck at life
51. Since I was 18 I have had little rebellions every year or so
52. At 18 I got my naval pierced
53. At 20 I got a star tattoo on my left forearm
54. The star is my favorite shape
55. I love stars in the sky and love learning the constellations
56. At 21 I got my upper ear cartilage pierced
57. The same day I also had my hair cut into a faux hawk
58. At 22 I gaged my ears. Only to a size 10.
59. I just turned 23, so I haven’t decided my next rebellion.
60. In my life I have had 4 terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad days.
61. December 9, 2005
62. January 17, 2006
63. January 15, 2007
64. November 16, 2007
65. January 15 pretty much blew them all outta the water
66. I wished I hadn’t survived through any of those days
67. Some days I still do
68. I hate being alone
69. I miss my best friend
70. I love words
71. Especially the less conventional ones that are less used
72. My poetry contains a lot of those words
73. Yeah I write poetry
74. Not often though. As cliché as it is I can only really write when I have inspiration. Usually they aren’t happy, but describe parts and people of my life.
75. I love words so much I read the dictionary from time to time
76. I love the music scene
77. I’ve seen Yellowcard, Dashboard Confessional, Get Up Kids, Nine Inch Nails, Reel Big Fish, Thrice, The Format and Iron Maiden in Concert…that I can remember at the moment. I know there have been more
78. I have seen too many local bands play to count
79. I recently found out I can paint
80. Yes like pictures with acrylic paint
81. I guess it was inevitable though seeing as I have amazing artists on both sides of my family
82. One of my coworkers wanted to buy a painting from me
83. I didn’t let her pay though cause she always gives me free physical therapy
84. I can’t sleep in bed without covers
85. No matter how hot it is
86. I need the comfort of the weight of the blankets
87. I still sleep with a stuffed animal
88. It’s a yellow duck that someone important gave to me once upon an Easter
89. I sleep in men’s boxer briefs
90. And shirts that once belonged to that important someone
91. Maybe one day I won’t need to anymore
92. I don’t trust new people
93. I expect them to disappoint me
94. I can’t stand liars
95. If you lie to me you wont be kept in my life
96. I wish I hadn’t have had to grow up so quickly
97. My niece and nephews are cuter than yours
98. They crack me up
99. I was there when Josi was born
100. I am the only one of my sisters that Josi will call aunt

I tag Lisa and Brandi. Darren you can do it too.

Random Bits of Nothingness

So not a whole lot has been going on lately but the little that has been going on has been full of random awesomeness! So first off I will tell you of one of the best presents I have ever been given, second really only to getting a pony for christmas one year when my sibs and I were just wee little tikes! Yeah thats right, I was one of those kids that their Daddy spoiled...ok not really, but yeah a pony and you are jealous. But really this present rocks! Billy gave me my very first guitar which just so happens to be a stratocaster! Wee-ooh! Allbeit's no Fender and only a Behringer, still a freakin strat and its mine! Not to mention it is one sexy beast! So that was awesome! Thanks Billy!

A few weeks back I was meandering the Bellevue Square Mall with a friend I pretty much freakin miss all the time, and came across the Martin Lawrence Art Gallery. They were having an auction and within the list of paintings for auction I found my new favorite painting that I totally want! Nevermind that it is going for over $9000...perhaps I can get Painted With Oil to recreate it for me! But yeah I just love the colors and how they flow. The painting is called Transcend and the artist is Deborah Paswaters out of California. All her paintings are pretty amazing including some she did for the 2005-2006 Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness Life in Bloom series. Just beautiful.

So I pretty much have like the most amazing boss in the world! He has been a great friend and support through the "rough patches" in my life....to put it lightly. Very very understanding for which I will forever be greatful! Anyway this last week was Administrative Professionals Day! Yay! Which I hope you all thanked the admin people you work with for all they do cause I know you have no idea how much we do until we aren't there to keep the place running! I know we make it look easy! Anyhow, I had totally forgotten it until in came this gorgeous bouquet of all sorts of flowers just for me! Just a little thanks from the staff. Hehe which half of them didn't even know about! So thanks for all the appreciation and support Joel! So then just to get out for the evening Robyn and I went to The Cheesecake Factory to celebrate! Good night! their food is wicked tasty and the cheesecake! Oh the cheesecake is to die for! We even bought a piece to take home and eat later!

I have also been getting out a bit more thanks to the help of Orit and Matt's friend Jeff. Although from here on out he will be known as Jefe cause that is how he got entered into my phone and I really like it much more. So we went somewhere near north Seattle and saw a few different bands play and a couple places there. First we saw a really poppy punk band by the name of the Cute Leopards. They were pretty good to hear in a local scene but not anyone I would rush back to see again given other choices. The next band we saw was way awesome! They are outta Bellinham and go by the name of Yogoman Burning Band. If you like the music stylings of Sublime and 311 and whatnot you will love these guys! They are excellent musicians and do an amazing job vocally of harmonizing! Not to mention their bass player is a chick with a great set of pipes! So they have her, a guy on guitar, a guy on drums and three more on the sax, the trombone and the trumpet. Yeah I totally am going to buy their cd! Makes me remember how much I loved the local music scene in Arizona and how much I miss the feeling of having your head in a fish bowl when you leave!

And to top it all of yesterday my coworker Richard gave me my Bestest Cd...or so the cd says! Hehe! He has great taste in music so I've been wanting him to make me a mix and he did not let me down! Thanks Richard! I love it! And by far I love that the first line on the first song which is a guy saying "I can ride my bike with no handle bars, no handle bars, no handle bars!" Yeah I don't know, I just love it! The Flobots. Pretty sweet. Yeah and so that concludes my ramblings for the night. I need to go undo the tape job Orit did on my knee cause my body rocks and decided my knees needed to cause me pain this week. Yay...not to mention I hear it can be quite the process to remove Endura Fix and Tape. Removing it too fast can also aide in removing your skin...good times. Have I ever mentioned how much Orit is my hero!?! Yeah she is always fixing me. The best is when my back is killing and she will do Advanced Strain Counter Strain! It's her barely touching me on either side of the spine in certain places that allows the deep muscles to release and hence letting the spine go back into alignment! Amazazing!

Weekend Escapes

So I've been gettin pretty stir-crazy lately and was very much in need of getting away. So I hit my friend Matty up for an assist in the escape. Who doesn't need a little aiding and abedding now and then eh? So Friday I get off work, pack some crap and start heading to the beautiful city of Portland! Fast forward an hour and you find me, barely 20 miles from where I started. Gotta love the rush hour traffic! Snore...Ok fast forward 2 more hours to find me finally entering Portland! Yay! So I meet up with Matty at his friends' apartment. There I find yet another native of Idaho Falls. Sadly Greg had the misfortune of attending the Halloween High of Idaho Falls. Hanyway so we hung out, watched some Heroes and had some wicked yummy salad that Greg made! Well then midnight rolls by and then 1am rolls by and Matty and I start to head back to his place to crash. So what is best at this time of night!? Fast food of course! So we make a little detour to Tabo Bell! Mmmmm! So we get back to Matt's place, put on Juno, which by the way is an awesome flick, and enjoy our Taco Smell! Well Matt quickly fell asleep curled up on the floor so I finished watching the movie alone. I think he woke up around 6am and finally went to bed. Hehe and I got the oh so comfortable couch which he said is where he usually sleeps. Of course the best part is the oh so warm and comfy blanket of his I got to use, which oh yeah I made, so by default rocks! So then I think we both woke up around 11:30am. Matt headed the library to do some homework and I headed to the Portland Art Museum. There is an awesome exhibit there currently called The Dancer, featuring the artists Degas, Forain and Toulouse-Lautrec. All the paintings and sketchings and statues were of ballet dancers. It was amazing. I think my favorite was Degas by far though. Then I just wandered about the Portland State University grounds and took pictures that you see about. There were also a group of peoples playing music in the park. It was pretty sweet. There was a little girl, that was a daughter of one of the guys there, that was like 5 and had fuscia hair and kept telling me I should dance. I headed back to his place when it was getting too cold. I hung out there for a bit while Matt went out to dinner with his parentals. Then we headed back to Greg's place to chill. K well mostly I chilled and they played beer pong. But I got to meet Matt's current girl. She was way cute and very sweet. Well then Matty and I walked back to his place, which was very cold by the way! Where the heck is summer!?! Good crap! So then Sunday morning I think we woke up around 3pm. And Matt had a study session so I just chilled for a few hours before making my way back to lameland, aka my life. Which by the way only took 2 hours this time around. So thanks for the escape Matty!

Birthday Parties & Jam Sessions

So a few weeks ago I went over to my great Aunt Sissy's house, a.k.a. Nuna, to celebrate my cousin Billy's birthday. It was a pretty sweet deal. We had a massive amount of food goin' on which included some ever so yummy crab! Mmmm! During, which of course, a food fight broke out! Beware flying slices of hard-boiled egg! It will get stuck in your beard Billy and paint it a lovely shade of yellow! Then it was time for Billy to blow out his candles. Yipee! Of course a party isn't a party without some good tunes! So through out the night we could all be found downstairs playing on all of Billy's equipment which includes an electronic drum kit, 2 keyboards, a bass, a 1968 Gibson SG and his newest purchase, a 2003-04 Fender Stratocaster. So we had Billy and his son Will on the electric and bass, Maggie's fiance Joel on the drums, and I was adding the smooth sounds of the keyboards...er something. I also dinked around on the drums a bit too. And at one point I pretended I knew what I was doing with the bass. When realistically Will was just telling me what strings to strum while he layed down a track on the guitar. Then when the night was getting on, the old people, a.k.a Billy, decided they needed to go to bed. And since my car was being awesome and my headlights were outta commission, which only took $350 to replace the part and now they work again...grrrrr...I had to abandon my car at Nuna's for the night. So I accompanied Will to yet another birthday party of his friend...yeah I dont remember his name...sorry dude. Anyway so we headed to downtown Burien to a club where the fiesta was taking place. Needless to say just about every one of his friends bought him a birthday drink so I think a few hours and something like 15 drinks, birthday boy was three sheets to the wind! Meanwhile a trio of peoples sitting next to us, which included as Will put it, the most beautiful girl he has every seen, decided that I looked exactly like Winona Ryder. Ok...I dont see it. Anyway, Will and I headed back to his place to crash for the night. But not before making a pit stop at the Jack in the Box drivethrough for some breakfast that, let's face it, tastes the best at 2am! But by far the best part was that I got to drive Will's fire engine red Lexus! I dont know the model but this beauty had pedal shifters on the steering wheel. So need you ask if I obeyed the speed limit? That would be a very big negatory! So thus ended the festivities when we rolled out of bed around 1pm, but of course not before we finished watching Wayne's World 2! Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder?

Let Me Tell You Why My Life Rocks...

So this shall be my very first blog on here at the behest of my amazingly awesome friend Lisa as seen in the beautimous pic on the right striking a near perfect Charlie's Angel pose. Check you out. So.. Reason One my life rocks: I've got Lisa Marie in my corner. And thanks for draggin that hubby of yours into the corner too! TJ you rock! Reason Dos: Brandi & Darren and my overwhelming urge to call them Litchipoo...seriously I wish I knew. Hanyway... thanks for lettin me crash your abode endlessly! And all the hugs...and movies...and food...mmm. Reason Drei: The friend that has been by my side every night when it feels my world is crumbling, with his beautiful green eyes and deep rumbles of love, he holds up my world, my Atlas. Although he does have a tendency to attack anything that moves... Any which way I should actually have been in bed a couple hours ago...yeah maybe one day I will get that good nights sleep I haven't been privied to in a horrendous amount of time. Well here's to the drugs that are my best friends now. k buh bye.