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I love knitting! Whenever I saw my mom or sister Robbin knitting I was always jealous of them because I didn’t know how to knit. I decided I needed to fix that, so I went to the perfect person who could help me out…my Grandma Maxine. I called her up and off we went to Michael’s to get everything I would need. Knitting needles and yarn, that’s it. My Gma proceeded to teach me step by step how to knit. At first it was a little hard to do, but in no time I was a pro at knitting, at least I thought so. Then I finished my first scarf and realized I needed a little more practice to be at the level that my Grandma, Mom and sister were at. 
Now I’ve been knitting for a few years and I’d have to say that I have improved. Although I can only make scarfs I guess there is more practice that needs to be done. But for now I am content with just making scarfs. I have jazzed up the scarfs thought. I’ve made a couple stripped scarfs for my dear friend VJ and a couple with little hangy downy things at the ends. The next steps in my knitting adventures is to learn how to knit hats, gloves, socks, a blanket is probably easy, and maybe even attempt a sweater. haha I might have to turn to my Grandma Maxine again because she knows how to do everything!
Some people do make fun of me because I knit. They think old people just knit and that it is boring. Well I don’t think so. I enjoy knitting, it is very relaxing. I usually carry my knitting with me in my purse and knit at work and then it is with me outside of work whenever I want to do it. I was thinking though the best invention would be to find a way where you can read and knit at the same time. Because you use both your hands for knitting it’s a little hard to hold a book too and turn pages, unless you use your feet. That can look a little awkward though and be a little challenging. So I thought what if a machine was made where it will hold your book for you and turn the pages for you. But it is difficult to knit without looking sometimes. So if anyone has a way where you can knit and read at the same time, let me know!
There are a few of my friends at work and just friends that are jealous of my knitting just like I was jealous of my mother and sister. I am going to teach them how to knit. Maybe I’ll have a knitting club. I already am having a knitting party with my friend Nikki and her boyfriend Geoff and we’re going to bake some cookies. It’ll be a fun-filled event! Maybe I’ll start charging people for my services. Just kidding, all I’m saying is yes, I am a knitter!
I know I know! Its been forever since I blogged, but I’m gonna try to start doing it again. We’ll see what happens. : ] But I’ll take this time to tell you what I’ve been up to since it has been oh so long.
Let’s see, I graduated High School in May which was a very exciting time. There was an awesome graduation party in my honor, so thank you all who came and helped me celebrate. Now at first it was really wierd realizing that I didn’t ever have to go to school again if I didn’t want to. Such a strange feeling. This summer I worked at a place called Goals Inc. where I got to hang out with little kids all day. My cup of tea! I loved working there so much and all the kids that I decided to stay there for the school year as well. So I am still working there as of now. About mid July I had a friend wanting me to move out with her, so I said why not. I spread my wings and moved out all on my own. I then realized that I would need a second job to afford it. : ) Not really sure about where I wanted to work I got a job at Starbucks, and I LOVE it! It is a lot of fun there and I love everyone I work with. Being apprehensive at first about working there it has been and good thing and I am happy I’m working there. I stay pretty busy working two jobs. My day consists of me working in the morning at Starbucks usually between a 4 hour or 8 hour shift. Then I have an hour between job and I’m at goals for 4 hours. Some people may think I’m crazy for working two jobs but I am loving it…so far. ; ]
Alright now many of you may be wondering if I’m going to school. As of right now I am not. I was originally going to go to Metro State in the fall, but I decided to take a semester off. I am going to start taking online classes in January through the summer. Then the plan right now is to attend Metro State in the fall and try to live downtown. My plan for what I want to get my degree in hasn’t changed. Teaching is still calling my name and possibly a minor in business so then I can start plans to open my bakery. I never thought I’d hear myself say that I miss school, but I won’t lie I do miss school. Working at Goals I help the kids with their homework and I always think I wish I had homework to do. : ] Yes I am sure though once I start school again I’ll hear myself say, “I miss the days when I didn’t go to school.” haha. I am excited for the future and to see what will happens. Yes I do have plans of what I want to do with my life and what I want to do. But really it is all up to God and what he wants me to do with my life. He might have completely different plans for me. I’ll have to wait and see. : ] Life is an adventure, that’s for sure.
That is where my life is right now. Just staying busy busy busy. : )
(Jenny Freyta! I finally blogged! Just for you! : ) I still hope you’ve been checking it everyday and will continue to because I’m back! : ])
Nickeldeon
1.) Clarissa Explains it All – when there is a brother named Ferguson it’s worth watching. Then there is Sam who must have been afraid to use to front door because he always came in through Clarissa’s window with a ladder. Strange.
2.) AAAHH!!! Real Monsters – I think this show was close to my favortie. You had the long skinny monster named Oblina she was the smart one. Then there was the trouble maker Ickis red, short, with long big ears. Then there was Krumm he just smelled bad. But Krumm was my favorite because his eyeballs weren’t attached to his body so he held them up with his hands. I thought it was cool.
3.) The Secret World of Alex Mack – This show was awesome! Alex Mack was doused with a mysterious chemical called GC-161. So Alex was able to turn herself in to a glob of silvery liquid and move around. She could squeeze through doors and could listen in on conversations. What an awesome show… being able to turn into a silvery glob of liquid because of GC-161… AWESOME!
4.) Legends of the Hidden Temple – My favorite game show of all time! You have contestants that not only have a cool outfit but cool names like Blue Barracudas! The outfits for the blue barracudas was brightly colored sweat pants and t-shirt that’s always too big and a bright gold helmet. And you can forget the best parts… the talking head thing.. and the ooga booga people that scare you.
5.) Doug – do do doo do doo do… the theme song was always so great! It was cool that all the characters where different colors; Roger the mean one was greenish yellowish, and his best friend Skeeter was blue. Doug’s dog’s name was Porkchop… what a great name for a dog.
6.) Rocket Power- this was a great show! I always felt bad for the really smart guy.
7.) Hey Arnold! – “Move it football head” One of my favorite shows. The one episode I distinctly remember is when he was in a food eating contest and had to eat a lot of ice cream. And how Helga or whatever her name was, was in love with Arnold and had shrine of him in her closet. ha!
8.) Saved by the Bell – Who doesn’t like Mr. Belding?! Favorite episode when Jessie gets hooked on caffeine pills and Zach comes to her rescue, but she is all for still singing and busts out in song, “I’m so excited and I just can’t…” then breaks down. classic. (I can’t remember if this was a nickelodeon show, but it was a still a show I loved)
9.)Rugrats - Phil and Lil always pulled lint out of there belly button, Tommy always had a screwdriver in his diaper to bust out of their play pin, and Chuckie was afraid of the toilet when he was being potty trained, Angelica was just mean, and they had a cool dog named Spike. Probably my favorite show growing up.
10.) The Angry Beavers - it was a good show, made me laugh!
11.) Salute your Shorts - I don’t remember this as much as the others, but I remember the theme song…
“We run. We jump. We swim and play. We row and go on trips
But the things that last forever… are our dear friendships
Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts.
And when we think about you (it makes me wanna fart!)
It’s ‘I hope we never part’. Now get it right or pay the price.
Now we will share a lifetime of the fondest memories.
By the lakes of Anawanna.. Sat in the old pine trees.
Camp Anawa-.., we hold you in our hearts.
And when we think ab-.. (this thing came apart)
Think Anawanna-wanna, speak Anawanna-wanna..
Live Anawanna-wanna! Ugh!”
12.) Are you Afraid of the Dark? – No this show I actually never really watched because it always scared me when I was little. Too much to handle! : )
13.) The Wildthornberry’s – Traveling around in a RV looking for rare animals… now that’s one way to live your life.
14.) As Told by Ginger – “Some one once told me the grass was much greener on the other side…”
Some shows I liked on Nick t Nite: Full House (cute little Michelle), Fresh Prince of Bel- Air, Home Improvement, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Growing Pains, The Facts of Life (they had a movie at one point), I Love Lucy (Lucy I’m Home), and The Brady Bunch. At least some of these shows are still on TV.
Disney
1.) Boy Meets World- A wonderful show! It was so funny and I’m glad there were so many seasons. Eric was very funny… I liked when he hid in different places trying to scare Topanga like in the couch. haha Probably my favorite disney show. I am totally going to get the seasons on Netflix so I can watch them… oh yeah!
2.) Lizzie McGuire – Yes I did watch this show sadly. haha!
3.) Even Stevens – Funny stuff. This is when I first saw Shia LaBeouf, he was so little.
4.) Smart Guy – A 10 year old or however old he was in high school… crazy!
5.) Sister Sister – I like the newer theme song they made. They also had many seasons where it showed them all the way in college… must of been a good show.
Now I’m sure I am forgetting many shows, but there are some of my favorites! I just wish Nickelodeon and Disney could be just as good now as it was back then. These show were pretty awesome, so sad most of them aren’t on TV anymore.
On Wednesday January, 7th I turned 18. My birthday week though started on Sunday the 4th. I went to church like usual, then to lunch, and then I had to go buy a book for school with my dad (he was paying). Well earlier Robbin called me because she wanted to hang out. I love Robbin and all but I didn’t want to hang out because it was my last day before school started back up again after break and it felt like I had so much to do. Well my mom and dad kept saying “you really should hang out with Robbin, she really wants to hang out with you”. So I gave in and said fine. Robbin picked me up at 5 and we didn’t really know what to do. Finally we decided to go to this cute cupcake bakery downtown by the Denver Zoo. When we got there the door was open but they were closed. They lady work still let us get cupcakes but we weren’t able to sit down and talk. Back on the highway we went to look for a Starbucks. Found one went through the drive through and then sat in the parking lot to eat our cupcakes and drink our Starbucks. We finished up by going to Target for a little bit. When we were leaving I started to realize that Robbin was texting and driving a lot. I glanced over at her and saw that she was texting we’re on 120th and sent it to my mom. hmmmmmmm….. Well earlier Sam and Heather Holmes invited me to come over and watch a movie or something. Being the kind person I am, I invited Robbin to come along. She said “sure, but lets go home so you can drive also in case I want to leave early”. Whatever. So we get home and Robbin says lets just run inside real quick. We walk in the door and I hear a little chatting and then some shhhhs. Turn the corner of the kitchen and SURPRISE!! There was a surprise party waiting for me! It was a lot of fun and I got to play Apples to Apples one of my favorite games. I also got some really cool gifts too! Thanks all that came!!
Then Wednesday rolled around my actual birthday day and my parents were so kind to excuse me from school. : ] Unfortunately both my parents had to work on that day but my plan was to get my nose pierced! I planned to go out to breakfast with Sam and Heather because Heather was going to get her nose pierced as well with me. Well things came up so they came a little later to pick me up which was fine so went and got Starbucks real quick. Robbin was paying for my nose so we met her at her work during her lunch and my mom and Alex tagged along too. Off we all went to Mile Hi tattoo place. The whole car ride there Robbin kept saying “it’s gonna hurt really bad, your gonna cry,” and I kept getting more and more nervous! We arrive at the tattoo place and right away Heather and I fill out this question sheet before we actually got it done. My favorite question was – Do you realize getting a tattoo or piercing will change your appearance?- ha no duh! After we we’re done I made Heather go first because I was too nervous! I was convinced that it was going to hurt extremely bad!! The guy said you better not watch then, so Robbin and I stayed out of the room and looked at tattoo pictures. Then it was my turn! Yikes! I walk into the room and my heart is pounding, I was thinking it was going to come out of my chest! I sit down and right away I ask “Can I hold someones hand,” I grab Robbin’s hand and start squeezing right away even though nothing has happened. The guy kept telling me just to relax, but it’s kinda hard to when a needle is going to get put through your nose! He cleans of the side of my nose and I close my eyes immediately so I won’t know it’s coming! And before I know it’s over. My eyes watered some just because that’s what they did naturally but the first words out of my mouth were, “Guys I didn’t cry, my eyes are just watering, I promise I didn’t cry!” In the end it actually didn’t hurt all that bad and no I have a cute little nose! Afterwards Sam and Heather surprised me by taking me to PF Changs for lunch.I love that place! It was delicious! I had a very awesome birthday day!!
Then on Saturday the 10th I had a shopping day! My parents gift for my birthday was money so that I could get new clothes. I originally planned to go with Jenny and Jovan. Well early that morning Jenny texted me and said she couldn’t go because she was sick. I thought that’s okay it’ll still be fun with Jovan. Then Jovan texted me and said she couldn’t go because Averi was sick. Shoot! I still wanted to go so it ended up being a mother daughter day! We went to the Cherry Creek Mall and I got a lot of cute stuff!! I mean they even had a parade for me from noon to one, even though I didn’t make and appearance! ; ] To top it all off and the end of our shopping day I saw Chris Anderson aka the bird (Nuggets player) It was hilarious! My mom and I are walking through the mall and then this couple gets my attention because of there appearance. There was this SUPER tall guy with this short little girl. I thought huh that looks kinda of funny. I just glance at them and the guy is wearing sunglasses and a hat. We kept walking right past them the I turn around all the sudden. I glance back at the guy’s tattoo’s and suddenly realize who it was. I said to my mom. ” Mom that’s Chris Anderson!!” She said, ” I thought he looked like a basketball player.” I didn’t get to talk to him, but it was still cool to see him! : ]
Well my birthday week was more like 3 days but it was still fun. Thanks everybody who helped to make my 18th birthday so special!!
My last day of school was June 4th and I am happy to say that I’m on summer break and a big bad senior now!
One thing I accomplished this year in my WAFL class is that I read the book Les Miserables, which was about 1500 pages. A pretty long book if you ask me. And finished it all in about 2 months. Woo!
When I first started this book I was a very worried girl. I thought that it would be really boring and I would have to suffer reading it for 1500 pages. Well I was very wrong! I thought it was a great book. Very detailed and Victor Hugo did a great job hooking you.
I recomend everyone to read this book, okay some may say “hey I watched the movie no need to read this long book!” But I watched the movie and I really didn’t like it. Some of the most important parts of the book were left out.
Look at it this way some of you may have a whole summer to read it! = ]
I can say so many things about my Dad. One thing is I was mad at him because he took me off his shoulders. (picture above)
My Dad is one of the best dad’s ever, I am very thankful he is my father! I love him so much and let me just list a few reason’s why:
- There for me
- Makes me laugh
- Supportive
- Helps me with homework
- Fun
- Giving
- Kills spiders for me = ]
- Gives great advice
This is only a start. The truth word’s can’t describe dad, he is just that AWESOME! The truth is my Dad is my hero!
Thanks Dad for everything! You have helped me so much through these 17 years of life. You’ve helped me become the woman I am today. You have taught me many life lessons and you always know what to do. Best of all you are a great loving father to me! Thanks!
I LOVE YOU DADDY!!
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This morning I woke up around 8:00 to get ready. It was just like every other morning; I was really tired and didn’t want to get up but I had to… but what i didn’t know was that this morning was going to be different….
I walked into my bathroom to go get ready for my shower. I pushed my shower curtain out of the way and started the water to get nice and warm. Then out the corner of my eye I see a gross, huge, ugly, awful spider! ! (looked somewhat like the one in the picture above) EWW! I then had a slight problem. It kinda grosses me out to touch a spider even if it’s with a shoe or tissue, it gives me the crawlers! So what is a girl to do….Well let me tell you…
Luckily for me there was a mason jar sitting on my counter. (we use them as glasses) I grabbed the jar as quick as I could and filled it with the hot steamy water and you can probably guess what my next step was. That spider was getting 3rd degree burns all over it’s body. Now here is were I think spiders are so stupid! I continued to throw water onto it and the spider would shrivel into a ball then when the water wasn’t hitting it crawl up my tub. Oh it was on, that spider wasn’t getting out of that tub alive. Finally after fighting back and forth with the dumb spider it died. oh boo hoo! Then I had my next problem!
The dead spider was just floating in the water and I didn’t know how to get rid it. hmmm.. I knew what I would do. Just run up stairs get my dad and he’d come to the rescue and take care of it. So I quickly turned of the water (yes it was running the whole time, I know a waste, but hey people I was in a crisis!) As I got upstairs I looked outside and my dad’s car was gone! oh no! Well then I thought my mom is pretty brave she’ll come and take care of it. Oh but was I wrong….I opened her bedroom door and believed our conversation went like this:
“Mom there is a spider in my shower!”
“Kill it with a shoe.”
“I drowned it and don’t know how to get it out!”
“Elise I am tired, just flush it down the toilet.”
Well it looked like I was on my own. Great!
I ran back downstairs and went into my bathroom. As I got in there I peeked over the bathroom tub and there that spider was stuck to the side of it. EWW! I was in trouble because I didn’t want to touch that gross thing. So I thought I’d take my mom’s advice and flush it down the toilet. I turned the water back on so I could scoop it into that mason jar..well there was another slight problem. When I turned the water on…the spider kinda went down the drain. At that point my emotions were torn.. I was happy I finally defeated the spider, but then I was like great it is going to come back up from the drain!
Being the brave person I am, I proceeded to take my shower. The whole time I was thinking it’s going to be like return of the Achaearanea Tepidariorum(common house spider)! I looked at the drain just thinking that any moment the spider would come up and get me! Unfortunately this whole situation caused my shower to be cold so that wasn’t fun and I think I have a clogged drain because of the gross ugly spider that’s in it. I am absolutely not unclogging that drain.. that would be a job for my father!
Spiders are just awful and I hate them!!
it’s a big bummer i am such a procrastinator.
i had about 5 daysish to write an essay
that is due tomorrow…
and i just decided to start writing it about an hour ago. haha.
oops.
i am not even done with the rough draft yet,
then i have to type it all up. bummer.
i was going to have my sister help me edit it too…
but she is sleeping. lucky her.(granted she does have to wake up at 4) haha.
i have decided something though…
it is okay i am a procrastinator..
because i got to enjoy my weekend.
i didn’t worry about homework or anything.
and it was a fun weekend.
now tonight i might not get much sleep…but hey..
you can always catch up on sleep later.
my point is procrastination isn’t bad…its actually okay! = ]
Ah Accomplishment!
Here was my homework for tonight:
- Complete a work sheet for a seminar in class tomorrow.
If you read the blog below..you probably noticed I tend to procrastinate a lot. Tonight I taught a piano lesson at 6, so I told myself I will do my homework afterwards. After the piano lesson I decided to finish watching Desperate Housewives then I’d go do my homework. The I went again..procrastinating.
Finally after Desperate Housewives was over I went down on the computer for a little bit. Procrastinating. : ) I think it was around 8 I actually did go into my room and got my homework out. And guess what?? I actually did it! I finished it all by 9:00pm.
I just loved having that feeling of not having to get anything done anymore. It’s great. I thought to myself “Wow all my homework is done..I don’t have to stay up late doing it. Go me!”
Ah..feeling of accomplishment… Don’t you just love it??
Procrastinate: to put off intentionally and habitually; to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done
This past week I had Thanksgiving break and it was relaxing. There was three things of homework I had to do over the break. They were:
- Read Book 21 of The Iliad
- Read Book 22 of The Iliad
- Read an article for a seminar on Monday.
Let’s just say that it’s 7:43pm on Sunday night, I have school tomorrow at 7:15am and I haven’t done one of those three things. Most of you are probably thinking it’s just reading. I do love reading, but not when I have to do it.
This will come back to bite me in the butt when I am up late tonight trying to get all the reading done. : )
Thank Goodness for Spark-notes! : )
Procrastination, lets just say….I am real good at it!
