Old TV Shows

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.

Oh Deer, Oh My!!

Usually on Wednesday’s I meet with my friend Sam to have a Bible study. Well we had the Bible study as usual and actually had a really good study. We are studying Romans and studied chapter 2 tonight. I had to get home quickly because I had to bake some brownies and get ready to watch Lost!

Sam lives in kinda by Brighton. To get to his house I take 120th to Brighton road. Now I was on my way home and turned on Brighton road to get back to 120th. Well as I was driving this car coming towards me and kept flashing their brights at me. My first thought was okay my brights are on, turn them off. Nope my brights weren’t on. Well the car kept flashing them at me and I was like what the heck my brights aren’t on. They kept doing it and I didn’t know why. Well after they passed me I was so confused and focused on why the stupid car was flashing there lights at me. I looked to my left and it looked like this two big bulls were running towards me. I was like oh crap. So I floored it just in time so they wouldn’t hit me. It was a close call!

As I was driving the rest of the way home I was thinking that maybe I was just seeing things and there was really anything there. I decided to call Sam.

“Hey Sam, I have a strange question to ask you. On this back road by your house, is there a farm?”

“There use to be one but not anymore, why?”

“Well like two bulls or cows or something just rammed me!”

“It was probably deer.”

I continue to explain to Sam how the car wouldn’t stop flashing there brights at me and it was annoying. Sam then tells me “That’s why they were flashing their brights at you, to tell you to slow down!” Then it all clicked, flashing their brights at me to tell me to slow down because there was deer. Duh Elise!

I’m pretty sure the deer looked like this:

I just can’t imagine if the deer actually rammed me! All I know is that I almost had a Rory Gilmore moment that’s for sure!

Word of advice: When a car is flashing there brights at you wise to think that your brights are on, but also consider that there could be the possibility of a deer down the road… so slow down!

An Eventful Birthday Week

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!!

Maybe a Little Laugh For The Day?

When my sisters and I were younger we were all sitting with my Dad in a chair telling knock knock jokes. We were having a good ol time when it kinda started to smell, so my little mind went to work and I decided to make up my own knock knock joke. So here it is…

Elise: Knock knock?

Family: Who’s there?

Elise: Pincher Bug

Family: Pincher Bug who?

Elise: Pincher Bug tooted!

There ya go that was my cleaver joke… I’m sure if you use it it’ll be a knee slapper!

The Day Bethany and I stopped fighting

Throughout mine and Bethany’s childhood, we fought constantly. My mom would tell us to stop fighting and sometimes we even had to hug for 30 sec. and it felt like hours. One day we learned our lesson…

Bethany was about 5 yrs old and I was probably 4 yrs old. Like usual there we were fighting doing who knows what when my mom came and found us. Now we didn’t want to get in trouble so we started running around the house so my mom couldn’t get us. We ran through the kitchen and flew down the stairs. My mom then came stomping down the stairs because being little and hearing those stoms, you knew you were in big trouble. So hear comes my mom and Bethany and I had no where else to run.

All of a sudden we see my mom fall down the stairs and ends up in a heap and the bottom of them. You should of seen how big our eyes got. Now my mom couldn’t really move so we had to run upstairs grab the phone and my mom called our neighbor John Griego. He was a big trucker guy and had to carry my mom up the stairs.

As it turns out is that my mom ripped her calf muscle and really couldn’t move around much. Let’s just say Bethany and I learned our lesson about running and having our mom chase us. I’m sure we still fought here and there but stilled always remembered what happened. I think we both learned our lesson.

Spiders Are Creating an Army Against Me

If you look back to one of my blogs I wrote about killing a spider, you might need to read before reading this one.

Well today I woke up like any normal day went into my bathroom to prepare for my shower. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a little something crawling around in my tub. You guessed it.. it was one of my friends.. Mr. Spider. It was a normal spider; medium size, normal color and easy enough to kill. Grabbed a cup and started pouring water on it, continuing until it drowned. That whole system works great. The spider went down the drain and I was so proud of myself that I had killed Mr. Spider.

As you know on most shower curtians there is a plastic curtain part that goes inside the tub. So as I was moving that I noticed that something was there. It looked a little strange. I then hit the curtain and that strange thing was in my tub. Then these gross legs came out of it and sure enough it was another one of my friends… Mr. Spider 2.

Now Mr. Spider 2 must have been all of these spiders colonel or something. I mean he was huge (or at least it seemed) and his color just wasn’t right. He was like a dark redish orange color and to me it seems that kind of spider can hurt me.  I had to kill this spider but I just gave all my courage when I killed the first spider. That’s when I turned to someone else to come to my rescue…my father!

I ran upstairs, through the kitchen, up another flight of stairs and swung open my parents bedroom door. “Dad! Dad! Dad!” I said. “I need you to come down and kill a HUGE spider that’s in my bathtub. I already killed one and I can’t kill this one, it grosses me out. Can you please come and kill it real quick?!” He responded some what like my mom in the last spider blog, “Can’t you just pour some water on it and put it down the drain?” “I can’t  Dad! It’s just way to gross and it’s HUGE! Did I say that it’s HUGE??” “Okay, okay,” he said. “I’ll be down in  mintue.”

I ran back downstairs to watch Mr. Spider 2 to make sure he wouldn’t escape to call his troops in.

My dad finally arrived in my room and went to business to kill that spider. I must have learned from the best because my dad got a cup of water and started drowning Mr. Spider 2. In no time Mr. Spider the colonel was down the drain and gone forever! Yay! I finally was able to get on with my morning as normal.

I am pretty sure that spider hate me now. Pretty soon I am going to have an army of spiders in my tub one morning that’ll look like this:

 

          

(except i am sure they’ll be a lot bigger and much much more of them!)

When this happens I am afraid I might die, or have a heart attack or something. Let’s just say it’s not going to take to much work or effort for this spider army to take me down!

My Daddy and Me

 

                  

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!!

 

What a Great Start to My Morning!

+ = (DEAD!)

 

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!!

Belize – 8/3/07 Day 7

The last day in Belize! We had to be up and ready at 6:45. Nice and early! We took a water taxi to Caye Caulker. The water taxi was cool for awhile. But it took 45 minutes and it was really hot. Right when we got to the Caye we went snorkeling. It was my first time and I was super nervous, but I did it! Robbin chickened our right away though but I stuck with Stephanie. It was surprising how much fun I had and enough courage to go out there. It is sure a memory I won’t forget!

After snorkeling  we came back to clean up and then go explore the island and eat lunch. I ate at the Happy Lobster and got some yummy pasta with shrimp. Then it was time to go souvenir shopping and I got some great stuff! We decided that it was time for ice-cream. I got this cookie sandwich thing. It was good but melted fast.

We came back to the hotel and Stephanie and I took a nap for 2 hours! Man did that feel good! Then we had our evening meeting when we got to reflect on our whole trip. Then we to dinner somewhere but I don’t really remember what it was called. The trip was so awesome and it was cool to see how everyone changed!

Belize – 8/2/07 Day 6

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!

Today was our last day of VBS. It was hard because we all got so attached to the kids so it was hard to say good bye to them all. Overall VBS was awesome! I believe that each of the kids were touched somehow, through something we did throughout it all. Again Kevin was the one that I clicked with. He was a little 12 year old boy and today was the day we got to really hang out!

Kevin came with us to lunch and I played cards with him and decided he need them more than me so I gave them to him. You could see his eyes light up. We then did a sports ministry with all the kids around so Kevin and I went to go and play some soccer. I enjoyed getting to know him and hang out with him. He was a pretty good soccer player! Then we headed over with everyone else to go and play basketball. And of course our team won! ; ) Since it was humid I got hot real quickly. We went inside of the church to cool down. And there attached to my hip was Kevin. He was like “Let’s take a picture together.” He loved the camera!

 

The next thing to do was more visitations. We were on the bus and the next thing I knew Kevin was there too.  The first house we went to was this lady named Burnadette. She had a broken foot and looked in a lot of pain. The sad part was a few days before she broke her foot, her niece had died. She was in pain physically and in her heart. We got to pray for her and pray that the pain would go away. After her house we walked to the next house. While we were walking I was teasing Kevin asking him if he had a girlfriend, then he said “Your my girlfriend.” That was cute. After the last visitation we headed back to Bermudia Landing, to eat some scrumptious dinner. The awful part was we had to say our good byes to everyone!

Saying good bye was so hard! While I was hugging Abigail she was crying which didn’t help because I started crying too! Then came the worst part when I had to say goodbye to Kevin. : ( I gave him my address and he gave me his. I am going to miss that little guy! I am hoping that we can keep in touch! I was so sad to say good bye but at the same time happy to come home.