1. ZombieBot! He's not the best quality, but I made him all on my own and I'm very proud! I'm so thankfully and happy that Robyn was willing to teach me how to go in a circle! Thank you!

2. Eureka... and knowing who this is before she does. Thanks for loving me on TILT.

3. Matt is making strange noises... like a horse... he's like shaking his voice or something weird. It's amusing.

4. Friends! Hearing from old friends. Hanging out with new friends. Missing friends. Having friends. Loving friends.

5. MY DAY OFF to do whatever I want! YAY!

1. Eating at the park with an old friend.

2. Deciding to return some clothes that were just okay and not awesome.

3. Sleeping in.

4. Hugs and random hand holding.

5. My wonderful camera.

1. Staying positive most of the day yesterday and letting things just roll off.

2. Learning to crochet in a circle and do a double crochet and a tripple crochet! You can bet I'm taking my stuff to work with me!

3. Sleep... I would like more today. I'm so tired! Day 2 is harder than Day 1 and it's darker today. But I love sleep.

4. Blogging. I hope to start my next one soon.

5. Smiles.

1. The lunch I had yesterday at the Bristol... salmon with grilled asparagus and lobster mac and cheese. To drink? French Press Coffee complete with dipping sticks. Delicious! Definitely the best meal I've ever had.

2. Going to the mall with my mom. It'd been YEARS since we did that. Plus, I got 2 new pairs of shoes! We went to payless where I got 2 pairs of comfy and cute shoes for half the price of 1 pair at the other stores.

3. David Cook's sign in Blue Springs! Whenever you drive by BS you'll see that he's from there. It's pretty cool.

4. Random and wonderful text messages from friends!

5. Not being caught in a tornado.

1. Being alive. Last night my mom, Kendall, and I were driving to Lawrence for a family dinner. At about 5:15 we were on 1-70. I looked out the window and noticed this strange, white cloud was hanging down and kind of moving. It'd get a little longer, then shorter, then it looked like a big spiral, but it wasn't moving fast enough to really freak me out. If you don't know, I'm TERRIFIED of tornadoes. When we got to Lawrence the sirens went off. We'd gotten off at the wrong exit and didn't know exactly where we were, so it took us awhile to get to my Aunt's. Thankfully, Aaron answered and told me not to worry... but no one in the family had even given us a heads up about the Tornado Watch. WHAT? Anyway, we sat through dinner and everything with the sirens going off, but no one seemed to be too concerned. It turns out that the cloud I saw WAS the tornado that hit the ground and destroyed houses at approximately 5:20. OH MY GOODNESS.

2. Being home and seeing my mom and family. Aside from the tornado incident, I got to go to the city market, drink cherry lemonade, go to an art gallery, eat a chocolate cupcake with peanut butter frosting from Baby Cakes, eat half a pineapple with cream cheese frosting cupcake from Baby Cakes, go to a working gallery, go to an awesome AMC theatre and watch State of Play while eating popcorn and drinking soda, and go to Lawrence to eat smoked turkey, beets in orange sauce, asparagus, corn casserole, wine, and an awesome chocolate pudding with alcohol dessert! DELICIOUS! Then, I watched SNL with my mom and went to sleep.

3. Having the bed to myself. I love stretching out and sleeping however I want. I love Matt, but I'm a weird sleeper and it's hard to be confided to one side of the bed all the time.

4. Food. I love food.

5. Having two days off! (I'm not really looking forward to being up at 6am tomorrow, but I'm happy for the time I had here.)

1. Stick figure cards. 

2. Getting paid to not work at CW for the first time since I started. 5 full hours of teacher reception and kids book discussion. I LOVED it!

3. Being home. 

4. Erica being back! 

5. Cassie's random text messages. 

1. Going home to see my mom tonight!

2. Making spirit sticks and crafting at work!

3. Percy Jackson book discussion and Teacher Reception that I get to help with tonight!!!!!

4. Curly hair!

5. New toothbrush!

Update: Only 58% of my customers went bagless or bought a reusable. Some even said they had bags in the car. I offered to wait while they got theirs or to not give them a bag and they said plastic would be fine. Grrrr. It was Earth Day people!

Good stuff:

1. Matt smells like Florida.

2. I'm applying for a part time floral designer position today.

3. After an awul day, Matt made me dinner and we watched a movie and everything got better.

4. Talking to old friends.

5. The sun. I sat outside and read yesterday... so nice.

1. Support from friends! Thanks, Cassie, for the love on yesterday's post! Way to sing the Gilmore Girls theme song... my heart soars! :)

2. Dinner at TGI Fridays with Cat and Karina and Matt! Plus, I had coupons so we had a fried green beans (appetizer), 1/2 rack of ribs dinner (matt), sirloin with broccoli (me), a margarita (me), and a beer (Matt) all for under $25! It was pretty awesome! And my dinner was from the healthy menu and I loved it! It's what I'll get every time now.

3. Headbands. I'm currently wearing a hot pink one with black stars! I hope I can wear it all day, but it'll probably give me a headache.

4. EARTH DAY! This should be my number 1! Happy Birthday Earth! (I don't think it's really the Earth's birthday, but do we ever celebrate that? No. So, I am... today!) My challenge... get 70% of my customers to purchase a reuseable tote or go bagless!

5. Working out while watching the end of Step Up 2 The Streets. Yes, my guilty pleasure. Tres Fun!

1. Creative things. I'm thinking about starting a new blog where I would write an ongoing story based on my screenplay, Happenstance. I'd write a portion every day or every week and hopefully catch some kind of following. Thoughts?
2. Good nights at work! It wasn't busy, we had nice customers, and member cards were ON FIRE! Nice.
3. My camera. I love it. I love taking pictures! I love documenting life.
4. My phone. Especially for text messages like this one... "Blue Tortilla Corn chips."
5. Ann. I miss you, Lady. Come visit again! YAY!

1. Free coffee when you bring in your own mug at Starbucks to celebrate Earth Day!

2. Matt wanting to make me lunch.

3. Stretching.

4. 30 Rock.

5. Having tomorrow off! I'm going to clean more and organize for the garage sale! Then, have dinner with Karina! YAY!

1. Crazy customers. While I dislike dealing with them, they make great stories later.

2. Losing weight... I hope I still am. I was not that great this week. LOL.

3. Old Movies.

4. Rain. Warm rain. Delicious.

5. Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper from Sonic. Oh, it's been so long!

1. CRAFTS! I'm obsessed right now. Someone, please teach me to make amigurumi. Thank you.

2. Fruit flavored long lasting bubble gum!

3. Erica visiting the store even though she's on vacay and not in the city... Magic? Yes.

4. Photos and free photo offers. Even though I still pay shipping and handling, it's way better than paying full price.

5. Friends across the sea. This reminds me of a line from Juno "I am a craken of the sea!" which I've had in my head for awhile.

1. Gilmore Girls. It's on ABC Family right now and Jackson is freaking out about a giant pair of scissors around. Awww... the wonderful humor and oddity that is this show. I miss them. I wish they'd make more. I need to rewatch them all.

2. Days off. There should be more of them. I just want to lounge around all day again.

3. Making crafts. I hadn't sewed in 6 years until yesterday. It was so fun! The picture today is the detail of my first bag.

4. Weird dreams.

5. Fun Earrings.

1. Making food to enjoy at the park!

2. Sleeping.

3. Eating.

4. Breathing.

5. Laughing.

Pretty basic ones today. :)

1. The Ellen Show! I love Ellen! She's consistently one of the top 10 things I am thankful for. YAY ELLEN!

2. Working out! Especially stretching... oooh... stretching!

3. Eating mexican with Erica! (I'm not in love with the fact that she's leaving for a week... fyi)

4. Watching movies all night. We watched The Day the Earth Stood Still (the 50s version... much better than the new one story wise) and Water Horse. Random... we know.

5. Getting money. I may not want to go to work, but I'm happy to have a job and a paycheck. And really my job is pretty good... like we say "My job would be great if it weren't for the customers!"

OOOOOh... it's so early! Matt's sleeping like a little lamb... I want to sleep more.

1. Postcard from Taiwan.

2. Finding my grey boots. What am I going to do when summer comes?

3. Easter cards from my mom.

4. A great friend letting me borrow a microwave!

5. Starting the day on a positive note!

Random moment I enjoy: "We're at the park." "Which park?" "Forest?"

Random moment #2: "I still have some control of my body... I'm just really stupid!"

1. Cupcakes.. Guiness and Baileys... delicious!

2. Playing games and watching Tudors with super awesome people!

3. The dot game at work. We had NO customers and barely anything to do...

4. Easter bunnies from Megan. I am glad that I got some form of Easter candy.

5. Having the day off and getting the house organized!

Thank you Kattie!

1. My across seas friend, Kattie!

2. Cassie!

3. Cupcakes from Erica!

4. http://acrossmo.blogspot.com/

5. Easter!!!! I hope everyone has a great holiday! (I'll be at work, but I'm celebrating next week with my family!)

Happy Easter everyone! Yay new life!

Okay, so I still don't feel well and it's really early and I need more sleep. So, this post is going to be very difficult. :)
















1. I'm thankful for sick time. Part of me wants to call in again today, but my responsibility weighs stronger.

2. Watching movies all night is fun... even when you have to stop in the middle to go to bed because you have to work in the morning.

3. I'm thankful for medicine.

4. Pinapple Express... one of the best films ever.

5. Spring... the bird is still singing.

OOOOH! And I'm thankful for new sunglasses from my wonderful boyfriend Matt. Yesterday was our anniversary... kind of... 2 years and 10 months!

1. Daily Show Senior Citizen Spring Breakers Piece. Very funny... but serious, of course. Our senior citizens need to learn to use protection. Lol.

2. Soon I will be free of this drama.

3. There's a bird outside my window singing. It's turning to Spring!

4. Cassie's going to be here today. I want to eat Imos. (This is partly Erica's fault.)

5. Crocheting.

I think I'm going to eat a cupcake. Yummy.

1. Working out with Tai Chi and yoga!

2. Venture Brothers!!!

3. Being approved for an apartment! Having a place to live!

4. Eating burgers made by Matt!

5. Spending all day with my wonderful boyfriend who makes me very happy!

1. Last night there was this really sweet deaf man that came into the store. I love it when I can use my small knowledge of sign language. So, this man was so happy that he took his hat off and bowed to me. :) And he taught me how to say "What's the sign for?" and "bag." YAAAAAAAAY!

2. Matt being awake. I wish I could wake him up right now, but he's acting like a fallen tree.

3. Still loving the cupcakes.

4. Spinach feta pretzels at the cafe. The world doesn't want me to eat the soup... 2 days in a row! So, I had the pretzel. Yummy... probably not that healthy.

5. Tai Chi. I really hope Lindsey calls me RIGHT NOW so that we can go to the class.

1. Glad my student loans are in order.

2. Happy to have friends who'll cook DELICIOUS meals and let me eat them.

3. Still not over the delicious cupcakes.

4. Work was okay yesterday.

5. We're getting our apartment stuff together today! YAY!

This day in April...

I am thankful for lots of things!















1. Tudors and Tudor dates!
2. Paying off my loans.
3. Having a full time job.
4. Excercising (I'm going to win my weight contest!)
5. Eating better and not letting myself get really full!





Cheers to a great day!

1. CUPCAKES! I love them! And I love making them! We made mocha cappachino ones with almond buttercream icing and chocolate curls. We also decorated them with multiple colored neon-icing.
2. Stray cats... we found one last night, Notty, and wanted her to live in the basement until we could take her to our apartment, but she couldn't get out if she wanted to and we didn't want her to feel trapped. But I love her.
3. Having Cassie here. It's REALLY fun!
4. Weekends off.
5. This one's a secret: ------- -----!

Oh, I have so much joy, I can barely contain myself!

1. I love two great days at work in a row.

2. Sleeping in after a night of art, fun earrings, pizza, and free fondue.

3. Friends spending lots of time with me.

4. Experimenting with cupcakes.

5. Enjoying time off!

I did not give myself enough time to get ready. I have no idea what I want to wear! I think it's cold outside, but I want to wear my short pants. AHHH! :)

I love...

1. Rain. Yesterday was magical.

2. Working with Renee instead of just angry customers.

3. When Matt just looks at me.

4. Eating free pizza.

5. Knowing friends are coming to see me tomorrow!

Hooray! Weekend off here I come!

Oh man. I'm tired. I really don't enjoy opening. It's like my body is ALWAYS ready for closes, but opens...no way. I don't even know if I'll be able to adjust to it. My manager and I had the discussion about how hard it is for the body to adjust. I'm glad she's with me on that. :) LOL. Anyway, there's no nothing I can do about it... just wanted to say it because it's the prominent thing on my mind. :)

1. VACATION! I looked at the schedule and realized that with my 2 days off a week and my 3 vacation days, I'll have like a 7 day stretch of time off! Hooray! I thought I was going to have like 4 days. LOL. YAY! Niagara Falls here I come!

2. Dreams that make me want to stay in them.

3. Walking around on campus. Talking to Cassie. Figuring life out.

4. My nefew Dexter, who I would still like to meet.

5. Getting in touch with old friends, who I haven't talked to in awhile.

Okay, I had a great day off yesterday. It was so fun to be around Chelsea and go to the zoo and hang out. And now I have to go to work. It's so early. UGH! I just want a normal schedule so my body can get used to something instead of being thrown around. I don't even know what day of the week it is 1/2 the time.

To my loves:

1. Hot chocolate with whip cream and chocolate sauce. Thanks Matt!
2. Crochetting.
3. Having the money to pay rent.
4. Gossip Girl.
5. The Office page a day calendar. Thanks, Cassie!
6. OOOOH... my new Seoul mugh! Thanks, Chelsea!
7. Aaron's face.
8. Breakfast at Gaileys... Thanks for re-introducing my love for it, Erica!
9. Smiles.
10. Light in the sky.