Shape Up... or Ship Out!

As my official bridesmaids duties approach yet again (this time for my cousin in May in Mexico and my sister Kelly in June) I've decided I need to do something to kick this old body of mine into high gear... so my friends, I decided to be brave and sign up for "adventure boot camp". A camp that lasts for 4 weeks, 3 days a week that begins at 5:30 a.m. (for all of you that know what a GREAT morning person I am - you know that this is really reaching above and beyond my capabilities!) Granted, I'm still waiting for the "adventure part" to kick in, but hey - I accomplish more before 6 am 3 days a week than most people do all day so I figure that's got to be worth something, right?

This is about as exciting as my life has been in awhile for in between times, I just work about 80 hours a week and do homework for my 2 grad classes (one more to go and a thesis and I'm done!) and oh ya, sometimes - I get to see my boyfriend Erik which is always a nice surprise. Anywho - so I will try and blog about bootcamp. I've got one from today which reminded me more of concentration camp rather than bootcamp. Stay tuned!

Greeting Card Grumblings

Human behavior is so interesting to me. I just love to watch people and their actions, their interactions with each other and behaviors they have. Take for instance, my experience this evening at the super target. There I was in the card aisle trying to find that perfect graduation card for someone. Most people know about my deep love, affection and appreciation for greeting cards. It stems from my 4 year stint as a sales associate at Jan's Hallmark while in highschool. Anywho, I was just minding my own business looking for the perfect card and along comes this couple and while I'm reading a card they literally push me over, and come in front of me to read cards! Ugh! Then they don't move - they just stand there! Picking up cards and saying to each other "oh look at this one!" "this is a good one!" Meanwhile - I'm forced to look at the father's day cards just until they move. Finally they do and boy did I give them a dirty look. NO ONE interupts my card browsing! Seriously. some people and the nerve they have.

Always Watch before Washing!

I ask you -- what do a Drivers license... black leather steve madden high heels... black beaded earrings and my umbrella all have in common? Well, I have thrown each of these items accidently into my washing machine! Miraculously the washing machine still works, the ID is still readable and the heels are even wearable! Unfortunately, it's time for a new umbrella and earrings.

Serves me right just picking up an entire pile of clothes and throwing them in there. Next time - I'll look more closely!

Here's to washing your clothes! (and not other random objects!)

Am I THAT Lady?!

I swear that even though I am only a young 26 years of old - I am finding myself feel more and more like an 80 year old each day! Not only have I been called "ma'am" at least 12 times in the past week - but I think I may be turning into somewhat of a crotchety old lady who is irritated by everything and everyone and nothing ever seems to be right. I had this revelation when at midnight last night I submitted yet another work request to my apartment maintainence center. It read like this...

Dear Apartment Maintainace Man,

Please complete the following:

• spray for ants and spiders in the entryway and garage
• my disposal in my sink isn't working. Please fix it.
• The water in my bathtub is draining rather slowly. Please clear it.
• The ice dispenser on my freezer is broken for the 8th time in a row and even though you have replaced pre-mentioned ice dispenser - I wonder if it is the freezer door you need to fix because come to think of it - it stopped working after that was replaced

So now I feel bad and hope that when I get home today that all of my belongings aren't on the side of the street and death notes aren't placed anywhere!

If anything else - I'm probably just known to them as "that lady with too much time on her hands to complain about things!" But then I think - I pay a lot to live here - I have a right for them to fix everything! :)

MVC 2007 ~ A Multitude of Melodramas... and Tourney Champs!

All I have to say about MVC 2007 is THANK GOD the Jays Won because getting to St. Louis - wasn't easy. We had a blizzard in Omaha that slowed things down as well as a single engine jet plane ride without a bathroom and where the stewardess turned into the co-pilot with one single swoop. This is only the beginning though folks as I must consult with my counsel on the rest of the details but I'm going to start a running list so I don't forget all of the fun that was had at MVC 2007 ~ Whee!

• the mustache men
• talking to my new friend Nick Porter - you rock dude!
• new theme cheer: JIMPATJULIEMATT.... gooooooooooo jays!
• we are gonna SWEEP those salukis under the rug!
• Chasing Jackie and Will or Wackie and Jill with the broom
• Nicole's various encounters with the male anatomy
• getting hit on by 45 year olds
• Darrell Encounter number 38
• Awesome basketball seats
• Number One Champions
• stalking people like its our job - oh wait it IS our job
• bleeding faces on the outside of Sheraton
• scalping tickets
• familiar faces and places
• too many photos of me, nicole and me and emily
• dancing drama - this is our space - GET OUT!
• Adventures with drunken fish, thelma and louise
• working with LaDonna and Laqueeta
• taxi cab drivers giving us advice on how to drive in snow
• Drunken 15 year olds yelling at parents
• our new best friends: the funks, anthony toliver and nick porter - just to name a few
• oversized baggage - $25 anyone?
• New ways to the Billy Bluejay table topper
• no winter coats + parking 80 miles away = not a good idea
• taking taxi's to close places
• our weird friend Dan
• 45 gallons of Pabst Blue Ribbon
• being old

Giddy Up... Ching Ching... GO JAYS!

Only 1 more full day until P-A-R-T-Y time in St. Louis at the annual MVC basketball tournament! Or more formally known as - a perk to my job. This is an entire weekend dedicated to partying, drinking beer, making indecent signs to hold up at basketball games, seeing basketball games, passing out at basketball games, drinking from 10am until 2am yelling at famous and semi-famous people, jaywalking and you yourself becoming famous... whether its dancing on the street, passing out in a random hotel room with your coat on, taking hotel shuttles to and from hotels or being scared crapless at the top of the St. Louis Arch... It's time to return and this year I'm excited because many of my friends will be there too! Yahoo! It will almost be like a mini-reunion and MAN do I need that! Despite my working out at 5am for 2 weeks straight baby! I'm still stressed, crabby and needing a jolt from my winter time blues. I can almost guarantee with the combination of people that will be going it will be fun times for all. Now let's just see if I can sleep one night in my entire clothes (I'm talking shirt, jeans, COAT, boots, and clutch purse in hand) for a third year in a row! This time without a random guy next to me though.

As we said in 2003 and which I hope to bring back again in 2007...

GIDDY UP! CHING! CHING! GO JAYS!

What a cute kid...

I babysit for 2 boys every Tuesday... I love it - not only because I love kids but because they always seem to make me laugh. Take for example, the note that Stanley, age 6 left out for his parents today (they leave for Disney World tomorrow). It reads, verbatim...

before you two got here.

28:04 intill plane trip.

wake up, get breffitch at buger king, go to airport, and we'er out of here

Granted it's much cuter in his handwriting but it still makes me laugh. Ah - to be young again!

How I Ruined Nicole's Birthday...

Check out how I ruined Nicole's birthday... at least her photos... oops! Happy Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

I'm sad, yet excited that I have crossed that road once again from calling Valentine's Day "Black Wednesday" to again calling it - Valentine's Day.

I began to hate Valentine's Day once I hit high school for it was there, an all girls high school, that Valentine's Day without a boyfriend was DEATH because everyone's boyfriend sent their girlfriend FLOWERS. They called names over the intercom out all day long to "come and get your flowers from the office"... you would wait longingly to hear your name over the intercom so you could pick your flowers up, carry them around with you all day so that everyone else could admire them (and be jealous of course)... but that day my name was called - never came. So from then on - I DESPISED Valentine's Day and began to wear all black on this day and give everyone the evil eye. Gladly though - I have since switched back to Valentine's Day being a day of happiness, love, flowers and candy - even though I still may not get flowers - it's the love that goes around that counts.

Happy Valentine's Day to all and to all a good night!

Now Here's Something Worth Blogging About!

I want everyone to be witness to this - I, Sarah, woke up today at FIVE AM to go and WORK OUT. I never in a million years would have thought that I would be able to do this - but I did - and I think I'll even want to do it again! Only once did I feel nauseous and want to quit but the rest of the time I was a pro! This day has ROCKED too! I'm sure I'll crash soon but until then - I love it!

My how things change

Here's me senior photo to the left... funny thing is that I thought I looked REALLY GOOD in this photo... you know, I layed out everyday for a tan, grew my hair out and even weenie rolled my bangs. Then I went home and wondered WHY I didn't have a boyfriend? I laugh! To the right is where I am today... just a SLIGHT improvement... no? (and I now have a boyfriend :))

I love MySpace!

Among other things... but seriously - since I have this problem of "stalking people"... well not stalking people but you know - I like to investigate and stay up on the scoop... find out people are connected etc. MySpace rocks for this! Not only could I tell you what ex-boyfriends from the 6th grade are doing but I can tell you who dated who and when, who is married, pregnant, out of work etc... I tell ya - this thing is like a highschool reunion without even showing up!
It's also fun to see how small the world really is. If you're super bored - check out my page sometime at:

http://www.myspace.com/stupendoussarah

Think, PINK!

I love the color pink and thus have switched my blog template to this color. We'll see how long this lasts before I want to puke pepto bismol up all over. :)

I wish...

While bored at work (don't worry - I have PLENTY to do... I just don't feel like doing it at 4:05 p.m. on Friday afternoon) I was looking through my friends' blogs and all I have to say is WOW and I wish I could do the same. I wish too to be creative and witty... but alas my life has sucked this out of me.

Oh well - what's a girl to do?

Lesson Learned!

So here's a lesson I learned the hard way - I went to get my regular eye exam and got to pick out new glasses... man, was I excited! I just love new accessories!

Well, I got my eye exam and they asked if I would like the option of using their new fancy schmancy machine instead of getting my eyes dialated the old fashion way. I said "sure" until they told me it'd be an extra $60 outta my pocket... so FORGET IT! You can dialate my eyes with the drops... ya - BAD idea because the following happened:

They asked me to pick out my frames while my eyes were dialating... I picked out what I thought were some nice brown tortoise shell glasses...they also had some zebra print inside which I thought was kinda fun and sassy. Well, that was a BAD idea because when I went to pick my glasses up a week later I realized that there were also sparkled gems all over the top, bottom and sides! Oh well, now I "sparkle" wherever I go... :)

I love you friends!

Just a general shout-out and thank you to all of my friends out there. I can't tell you how warm and fuzzy you make me feel when you email, call, text, send me a christmas card, leave a message for me on myspace or just quick say "what's up?" Thanks again! I only hope I'm as good of a friend to you as you are to me!

My New Year's Revolutions

Well, it's that time again... a new year... a fresh start... a time to make promises to yourself and to others that you really think you'll keep and follow through with...but you usually don't. Anywho, I like calling them "revolutions" instead of "resolutions." Erik thought of "revolutions" but only on accident... he kept saying "new years revalations? new years resolutions? no... new years revolutions!" Which I like because in a way... it is a revolution man, hurry up and get on the band wagon... make love and not war! And while I'm on the subject of my boyfriend... I was getting my hair cut today (which might I add looks VERY similar to a mullet... not a good start to the year) my hair dresser asked "so, what's your boyfriend like? " I responded "oh you know, he's cute and he's really nice. And, he talks to everyone. That's what he's like." I thought it was cute and I think he's cute too.

Now enough with the tangents... onto my new years revolutions!

At first I thought they would be the usual:
1. exercise more
2. get in shape
3. lose weight
4. look fabulous
5. be the "it girl" at work
6. remove the clutter from my apartment
7. learn how to speak french
8. learn how to cook

Then... I started to re-think those and have since changed them to...
1. Get back to feeling like my old self (if you haven't noticed lately I've been stressed, over-emotional, EXHAUSTED and feeling and looking like Hell -- even my dad noticed and said something and he doesn't even notice if a room has been painted bright green from white... so you know it's bad) I'm going to the dr tomorrow to get things checked out. My mom thinks it's my thyroid and I'm hoping to God she's right and it's not something horrible like cancer, HIV/AIDS or some horrible liver disease

2. BLOG more! I love to write and I have some pretty funny things to write about...therefore, I will try and blog more!

3. Spend more time with friends and my family

4. Stop stressing out about the small things

5. Just be happy with who I am and where I am in my life right now... everything will fall into place someday.


Here's Cheers to 2007!

I'm Never Sleeping Again!

So I got about an hour of sleep last night... I think it was in two shifts... one was from 10:38 until about 11:04 p.m. and the other one was from 6:33 a.m. until 7:02 a.m. The rest of the time I was thinking and getting mad at myself for not falling asleep... (as if I could do something about it).

At first I thought not getting my usual 8 hours of sleep was a bad idea. I didn't have the best of nights as I managed to be extremely rude to my boyfriend for no apparent reason (sorry again, Erik! Thanks for putting up with me and my insomniac nonsense!) and then this morning when I got up from my "cat nap", I kept dropping things and running into walls (although this is acutally quite normal for me on days that I get 8 hours of sleep) oh and I also burned myself with my iron, but I should have known from prior scars that ironing your shirt while you have it ON is NOT a good idea.

So anywho - after my not so good start to the morning and barely being able to drive, walk or even function... the rest of the day has been stellar! But only because it has been funny to my co-workers. You see ... when I don't get sleep my internal filter that usually says "stop Sarah, don't say that" turns off... so as you can imagine I've been saying things that I probably shouldn't... but I don't care and my co-workers think I am more hilarious than usual!

Man - who knows - maybe alls I need to be a stand up comic is no sleep and few diet cokes!
Hurrah!

If I could name a band...

Do you ever think what you would name a band if you were in one? I think about this all the time and often switch my first choice. But today's first choice... drumroll please...

"The Contaminated Ramekins"

Sounds cool and doesn't make sense, eh? Lovin' it!

Wanted: Tips on How to Not Be So Accomodating

Does anyone know if they have one of those "Dummie" books on to be not so nice and over accomodating for everyone for everything? Something like "It's Okay to say No" or "How to be appreciated and not taken advantage of" or "Saying No for Dummies"? I'm sure there is something out there but if anyone has any tips... let me know! I've been nice all my life but it's starting to stress me out. I also need tips on how to get people to do things for you instead of you doing things for others.

Thanks for your help!