Where are you?

I have some family that never talks to me. I can take things more personally than probably intended sometimes, but I also think there's something off. What's the deal? Everyone is unreliable.

My birthday was really fun. Lots of unexpected people showed up which was really cool. We ate, chatted, and rode a mechanical bull. No big thangg. Skyler rocked the mechanical bull, better than I have ever seen. He must have been a cowboy. I don't have any pictures.....and I'm not really in the mood to talk about it.

updates

First off, it's my 20th birthday tomorrow! I've been celebrating for weeks, and tomorrow, my day of birth, is the perfect "grand finally"(1).

UPDATE ON SCHOOL: school starts in 18 days. I am very excited. I will be very busy, and no longer available to hang out all the time. Sorry. One thing I am very sad about however, is that Harper will have to go to daycare;I think I will collapse on that day.

You see....Harper and I have been very close the last 13 months. We have spent every day together, doing everything together, all the time. We have never been apart for more than 3 hours at a time (a total of 30 min. is spent inquiring about her), and I have never not done something important without her. So you may be able to imagine that the distance and time apart will be quite hard for me. I dread Oct.12th, for that reason, and that reason only!

Otherwise I'm super stoked to start school!!!!

WHEN SHOPPING FOR SHOES, I GOT THE BOOT.
Today I was sad because I was looking for a pair of comfy, reliable, and snazzy black boots. Who, except me, doesn't have a pair of this kind? ( I want to extend my condolences to my dear friend Lauren who just recently lost her fav pair of black boots). Everywhere I looked they were either too expensive, or out of my size!! I was sad and about to give up, when I got an idea from my Aunt Stephani. ZAPPOS! So I went to see, and I found. These Rocket Dog, Western style sheriff boots for $22 less than in the store. Ah, I have been saved.
Unfortunately, that's all I have for now. Sorry I cannot be more witty or entertaining, but to be truthful, I'm quite a boring body of a person.

(1) sign made by Jennifer Wittenburg and me, in the summer of 2002 indicating the end to our 4th of July Dance Show. The sign hung and read "Grand Finally" before our final dance.

The Zoo Trip & My Knee

Harper, Grandma, and I went to the PHX Zoo last Wednesday! It was super fun,especially because it was free, and those are my favorite things right now. If you insist on seeing pics of the animals let me know your name, e-mail, and the animal you would like to see a picture of and I will get back to you.

Also today, I fell and scraped up my knee. It hurt really bad, and was extremely embarrassing. My neighbor ran over and helped me up, then wiped all the dirt off my knee as a sniffled. He was a very nice neighbor.

I will be 20 on Friday.

On the monthly, not just the updates

Ello,

Went to the art museum last week, super fun. Ashamed to say the stuff they own gets boring to look at, so spent most of my time in the traveling exhibit part. Didn't get a chance to see awesome new Warhol movie, boo hoo. My company that evening was prego and very hungry, and as we had already been as the museum for 2 hours i thought it would be negligent to make her stay another 75 minutes to watch a movie she didn't care about. Nice me.
Going to the zoo tomorrow to take advantage of free Wednesday's in September. Taking my mother and Harper, but now aparently my mother is taking us, just because she's driving.

Wanting to paint, but too nervous to paint so soon after museum trip. I will admit it. I will copy things I saw and liked. Not on purpose, just because they are fresh in my mind and i really like it. Often we paint what we like, and like what we paint. Same is true for books and writing ( i think, at least for me personally).

So anyway, I haven't done or seen anything really exciting other than the previously mentioned.

Trendy Frugalists'

There's a another site I wish to report for those of you wishing to be trendy, but are - can i say it?- broke.

freebootr.comt

Type in your zip code to see what free stuff is up for not sale, but reuse in your area.





Phx Zoo- Free admission for 2 with Fry's V.I.P card every wednesday in September. I know Harper and I will be going! Whoop for animals!


Last but not least: Free movie. A Walk Into Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory. Today; 4-7pm at the Phoenix Art Museum.

my treasure box

I have found a few things quite entertaining.

1) myfashionplate.com is really neat. Its free to join and its cool little place for the fashion frenzied and also for those who have the "deer in the headlights" look. You go on there and upload pictures of your clothes to create your little online wardrobe, or if you are completely decked out in designers they have pictures you can just add into your wardrobe. After you do that you are pretty much free to reign the fashion industry....okay maybe not. But you can put outfits together on your personalized avatar, or you can tell other members about your event or outing and ask for help with outfits. My fav thing about this site is you can trade/buy/sell your wardrobe items with others (how awesome!), not to mention the discount designers sites and deals you get to be a part of!!

My B-day is coming up and I wanted to go to Provo to visit my sis-n-law and have some major fun. I've never been to Utah so I was super excited by the idea. I'm trying to find a nice cheap flight, but it doesn't seem to be happening. Bummer!

Man, today I'm fuming like a chimney.
1) I need to find a nice suitable care giver to watch Harper a few odd hours when Sky and my schedule overlaps when I start school. Well, you think it'd be easy, but they're all asking for a fortune; for three measly hours a day. It's preposterous.

2) Even if we could afford to pay someone our limbs to watch out precious baby, we wouldn't have them, because my husband is off spending our arms and legs on booze and burritos! ( the booze was a lie, but most definitely burritos and such!) javascript:void(0)

3) The maintenance crew for our apartments still hasn't come to take down our kitchen light to dispose of that awful scorpion. He's just a crunchy outer shell, but the silhouette is unbearable. It makes me cringe, but I do think I can contribute my recent loss of weight from the site of it whisking away my appetite.

4) Well, that's all I can think of for now.

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COSMO SCHOOL LOOK OUT! LANNAN THERE'S A SCORPION LOOK OUT!!

Here I come Regency Beauty Institute!

I have always wanted to go to beauty school. Always. I used to cut all the hair off my Barbie's and line their eyes with sharpie. In the later years I experimented with cutting my own hair; and in Junior High I had a very good friend who let me use her head (Thank you Sydney).

It's official! I am enrolled and I start October 12!

I will be going part-time so I can still get my harper fix in. I couldn't be away from such a sweet girl for so long in the day. It will take me longer to graduate, but that's even more time for me to savor school and the newness. This is my dream; I'm finally making it happen!

I saw something really gross today.

That is a dead scorpion carcass in my kitchen light-thing. Ew. I was making some mac-n-cheese for my baby girl; I looked up and saw this above my head.

footnote: my apartment is very clean.
footnote2: scorpions suck.
My cute Harper with some sweet kicks.