Ridiculous Dogs

Hi, son! I promise, promise, promised you some photos of your dogs so here you go.

Can I just say that they are RIDICULOUS?

But look how cute little Mollers looks with her little white-speckled face.

And Scoutie with his weird over-developed inner eye lid? It really does look strange doesn't it? I think it's just aging but I'll ask when I take him in next time. It could also be because I woke him up to take the picture. :) Not nice, mawma!

Also? The reason they look so possessed in these pictures? Because I had to freaking BRIBE them to look halfway alive by holding a pancake in my mouth while I tried to get them to look at the camera.

It is only because I have one single shred of decency left (but it's seriously hanging by a thread!) that I am not showing you a photo of the pancake that went down my cleavage as I was trying to talk while I held it in my mouth. It was a special moment.

You're welcome.

The first week of classes is done! One down, fifteen to go! Overall, I think it will be a good semester. I like my physiology class a lot, even though it's a lot of work, and I think physiology lab will be pretty fun. Organic Chem II will be pretty challenging but I like my prof WAY more than the one from last semester. O Chem lab.....ugh. Not looking forward to that one at all, but at least it's only one semester, right? And then my honors seminar might be fun. Maybe. We'll see- it's going to be more work than I anticipated!

In other news, last night I went to the basketball game against BYU with my friend Alyssa! We started off sitting by ourselves but then we met up with some of her friends from work and sat with them. It was so much fun, especially after a long day of sitting at a desk (since I had to work yesterday). I am pretty sure that the CSU crowd pretty much appalled the BYU people. Is the thing. There were a lot of families there from BYU and I'm pretty sure the parents didn't totally appreciate all of the vulgar and offensive chants from our side. Oh well.

Also? Can I just say that I am COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY OVER the new people at the gym? They are always in my way and they don't know the rules for the locker rooms and equipment. The other night I went to a kickboxing class and I almost had to cut someone for the chance to get a locker. Annoying. Tonight I am probably just going for a regular workout, and then tomorrow is either kickboxing again or something called Cardio Blast Step. I also might rent a locker- that way I won't have to fight for one anymore, plus I can keep some basic shower-y things in there in case I am so inclined.

(I just reread this post and I'm pretty sure it could qualify as The Most Boring Blog Post To Ever Appear On The Internet. Organic chem, BYU, and gym lockers? WOOOOOO exciting!)

You know what I am super freaking excited about? Being an ORIENTATION LEADER!!! We have our staff kickoff this Wednesday night- which, can I just tell you about this coming Wednesday? Here is what Wednesday is going to look like:

8 am- Physiology Recitation

9 am- Organic Chem

10 am- Physiology lecture

11 am- Lunch

12 pm- Organic Chem lab (for three ridiculous hours)

3 pm- Honors Seminar

5 pm- Leave seminar early to go to Alt Break training

7 pm- Leave Alt Break training early to go to OL kickoff

9 pm- Come home from OL kickoff, promptly pass out.

OMG. We will see if I can survive this ridiculousness. Anyway. Orientation Leader. SO EXCITED. After our kickoff, we have our first staff retreat in Estes Park next weekend! I am really looking forward to getting to know all of the other OLs, since we'll be spending so much time together in the coming months. Plus it'll be good to get me out of my normal friend group for a while and get to know some other people around campus.

Okay, I am going to wrap up this insanely boring and unfunny post now but I may post again later out of boredom and procrastination this afternoon! :)

Ultimate Dancing Band Geek

Does this make you wish you still WERE in band or make you glad you're NOT?



This makes me laugh so much!

Post In Which I Don't Call My Daughter Trashy

Son! When I re-read the title of my previous post, I realized that it could EASILY be misconstrued as meaning that you were trashy. That is NOT what I meant. Although it could also be said that the gifts that you usually leave for me on the computer table are trashy. So I don't know. What was I saying?

So here are the interesting facts about my day:

(also? how can you make a bulleted list in blogger?)

1. One of the workers from across the street had to be taken away in an ambulance today. I saw him on the stretcher and I think he was okay, just precautionary. The good news is that the firefighters who responded were very cute.

2. Your dog is annoying as hell and barking like crazy right now thanks to your dad. Please make it stop.

3. You know the people who dress up as the statue of liberty for the tax place? This year they hired a two foot tall little person to stand out on the very busy road. For real. I have so much more to say about this. It doesn't seem safe. Also? I thought he was sitting down. That's not trying to be mean, just honestly what I thought.

4. Your contacts came in the mail so I have a box of stuff to send to you. If you have any requests, you have until Friday when I put the box in the mail. And no, I will not put Scout in there. But if he doesn't shush up, I will!

5. The dad on "I Used To Be Fat" is an ass. His daughter is 18 and all he can worry about is that she isn't thin enough to get a guy so she can get married. Where do they find these people?

Okay, so that turned into something different that interesting things that happened to ME today. But I am not going to go back and fix it.

I love the photo you posted of us for two reasons. It is true that there are few photos of us where we don't look either like damn fools or drunk. Or where we don't have Mike and Ike's as fangs. Or where I am not flipping you off. Or we don't have our mouths all contorted. Who hearts themselves? Is it us? The second reason is that it is another form of a before shot for both of us! We HAVE to take another picture this next May and compare the two. We have changed already, son! Imagine what it will be like in 5 months!


WHAT? You wanna GO?

I think I will just keep to posting embarrassing pictures. Lord knows I have plenty!

What has two thumbs and four chapters of reading to do already?!

THIS GUY!

This is my fourth semester here at college, and every. single. time it never ceases to amaze me how much professors will just lay on you, right from the first class. I get it, we are Adults who are Supposed To Be Responsible and who Should Have Enough Dedication for all of the reading. Whatever. It doesn't change the fact that it is a LOT to do.

Anyway. Son, I very much enjoyed your last post except now I am sad that I cannot watch trashy TV when it is actually ON. I have to wait until it comes online and I have a spare hour or two to watch.

Anyway, earlier I texted you that I would post an official review of my first day of classes so here it is:

AMY'S OFFICIAL REVIEW OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE SPRING 2011 SEMESTER, WITH AN OVERVIEW OF EVERYTHING THAT WENT DOWN:

6:30 AM: Get up and wash face; prepare for early morning workout class at the student rec center. Feel ridiculous for getting up so early when the first academic class is not scheduled until 10 AM.

7:15 AM: Go to workout class (a class called Women On Weights, which is pretty self-explanatory) and immediately realize that it is not for me. Maybe it's because I hadn't lifted in a while, maybe it was because the instructor was so boring, but I struggled for a good 20 minutes before I realized that I was getting shaky and nauseous (something that has happened in the past during first-thing-in-the-morning workouts), even though I had had what I thought was a nice fueling breakfast. I ended up leaving the class 15 minutes early.

8:00-9:40 AM: Drink coffee, read blogs, eat more breakfast, get ready for class.

10:00 AM: Go to Physiology class and become nervous about how demanding it is. At least it will be interesting. So I can be intellectually engaged while I'm being whipped to death by the mechanisms of human function! Yay!

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Have no class, feel completely lost because no routine has been set yet and therefore I have no idea what to do with my time. End up getting lunch (asiago potato soup and foccacia bread, yum) and reading blogs on my iPod.

12:45-1:15 PM: Go to a class called Health & Wellness; marvel at my instructor's arms (she had some nice toning going on)! Get out early, which, more time for my nap!

1:30-3:50 PM: Nap! Glorious.

4:00-6:00 PM: Dinner and procrastination time

6:00 PM: Meeting with all of the Returning Peer Mentors and our current supervisors- Keith (the main peer mentoring coordinator) and Jordan (the graduate assistant coordinator). Stephanie, the graduate student who will take over for Jordan in the fall, was also there, which was neat. Basically, this meeting was hilarious and fun and we didn't even really do any work until like the last 20 minutes. And Jordan gave us all presents (water bottles and picture frames) and candy, which, hello. Can all of my future meetings have Jordan in attendance?

And now I am here. I have had pretty much no time to do anything else tonight (we also had a floor meeting, which was too boring to blog about), so sorry that this was boring and lame. I will post tomorrow after my CRAZY BUSY LONG INSANE OMG day.

Also, please enjoy this picture, which I selected because it a) contains the two of us, and b) miraculously does NOT contain the two of us looking like damn fools. Because, let's be honest, most pictures that are only of the two of us are kind of embarrassing.

Where's My Trashy TV buddy?

Amy is back at school for the semester. Boo! Well, it's really a good thing because she has to go to school so she can get a good job so she will have enough money to buy a big house because I'm going to live in her walkout basement when I'm old. Also? Did that sentence remind anyone else of "If You Give A Moose A Muffin"? Because now that's all I can think of.

So truly? I'm glad that I have a smart daughter who can go to university. But now there is no one here to watch Teen Mom with me tonight.

Oh yeah! Amy, I almost forgot to remind you . . . The milkman comes tonight. :)

Seriously?

So really? We THOUGHT we created this blog OVER.A.YEAR.AGO! And I swear that we did. BUT! I think that since we didn't have any posts for that amount of time something hinky happened and it wouldn't let us change the design or anything.

Anyway. . . . . Over a year and NO POSTS? That is just crazy. Apparently we (okay I) like to plan to do things but then they never get finished. Or even STARTED for that matter. Amy, did you get THAT from me too?

Case in point: I am currently uploading photos to be printed from our family vacation. Last May. So yeah.

This is us! This was our "before" picture on vacation. "Before what?" you ask? Before the heat and humidity of Massachusetts took it's toll on us Colorado girls. I probably won't post the "after" photo. It's scary. But you never know! It is all part of the ridiculousness so it may show up some day.