1. Road trip to visit all 50 States of Amurica.
2. Bungee jump in New Zealand.
3. See Mumford and Sons in concert. (June 17-18)
4. Ride the halfpipe….(WELL).
5. Run a Half Marathon, preferably White Rock.
6. Backpack around Europe.
7. Grow a garden. Successfully.
8. Own a Cabin in the Mountains where I can snowboard all day and then eat waffles for dinner and drink holiday beer, and listen to music as loud as I want and dance hard with my husband.
9. Buy a BIG dog that will wrestle me.
10. Become a master chef, even if it means cooking only for my immediate family.
11. Spend a significant amount of time on an island.
12. Attend the World Cup.
13. Attend the Winter X Games.
14. Marry my best friend.
15. Adopt at least one child.
16. Learn to fix a car.
17. Become fluent in another language.
18. Fall in love with as many things as I can.
19. Laugh until I cry. Often.
20. Have missions be a crucial part of my life.
21. Heli ski (snowboard).
22. Own a lake house and a boat and spend every weekend of my summers on the lake, teaching my kids to wakeboard and having tube wars.
23. Write a book.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
23 People
23 People I would marry on the spot:
1. Cam Gigandet.
2. Chace Crawford.
3. Liam off 90210 (Matt Lanter).
4. Taylor Lautner.
5. Josh Hartnett in Pearl Harbor.
6. Paul Walker.
7. Orlando Bloom.
8. Ryan Reynolds.
9. Zac Efron.
10. Jim off the office (John Krasinski).
11. Adam Gregory.
12. Bono.
13. The lead singer of Mumford and Sons...I have no idea what he looks like.
14. Channing Tatum.
15. Ryan Gosling.
16. James Franco.
17. Christian Bale...only if he has his raspy Batman voice.
18. Chandler off Friends (not Matthew Perry).
19. Joshua Radin.
20. Dave Barnes.
21. That Australian guy off the Last Song.
22. Matt Chandler.
23. Alexi Murdoch.
1. Cam Gigandet.
2. Chace Crawford.
3. Liam off 90210 (Matt Lanter).
4. Taylor Lautner.
5. Josh Hartnett in Pearl Harbor.
6. Paul Walker.
7. Orlando Bloom.
8. Ryan Reynolds.
9. Zac Efron.
10. Jim off the office (John Krasinski).
11. Adam Gregory.
12. Bono.
13. The lead singer of Mumford and Sons...I have no idea what he looks like.
14. Channing Tatum.
15. Ryan Gosling.
16. James Franco.
17. Christian Bale...only if he has his raspy Batman voice.
18. Chandler off Friends (not Matthew Perry).
19. Joshua Radin.
20. Dave Barnes.
21. That Australian guy off the Last Song.
22. Matt Chandler.
23. Alexi Murdoch.
Friday, May 13, 2011
23 Things I Miss about Childhood
1. Running through the corn stalks. My grandparents had a garden in their back yard and I could get lost in the corn stalk aisles. It was really fun to see who could run through them the fastest. You would get scratches all up and down your arms, but that just made the game even better. Who had the worst battle scars also meant who ran the fastest.
2. Jump Jumps: Those magical places where we could jump against the walls in sweaty abandon. here we had access to jump perfection. These days kids have jump castles, jungles, obstacle courses…which just proves that there is no limit to the size and shape of our ability to inflate rubber into a jumpable delight.
3. Lucky leaves. On the playground during elementary school, when I wasn’t chasing Jackson Tan around the big tree, I was catching Lucky Leaves. I am fairly positive that I made this game up in Kindergarten so I am wondering why I didn’t patent that shiZ and make some quick cash. The goal was (during autumn) to catch leaves as they fell from the trees, before they hit the ground. If you caught one you got a wish. And I wish I knew what I wished for in Kindergarten so I could tell you whether or not the magic is real.
4. Building mud bombs. At Sunshine School while Madison Russell was reading on a 5th grade level, I was building mud bombs with Sky Ashley to throw at her. And I kept one of said mud balls until about 7th grade. It was crusty and disgusting, but it was a piece of my childhood that I wasn’t ready to give up.
5. Picking Honeysuckles, and eating their honey. Did anyone else do this? Cripes honeysuckles smell amazing, and just one whiff can take me back to age 7.
6. POGS and SLAMMERS. I was the POGS Queen and my castle was atop the Big Red Slide at Sunshine School.
7. Bikes and buried treasure. My mom still recalls to this day when I told her that my life was over and that I would never have friends again because Beef and Cara lived down the street from each other, and I lived in BFE. They rode their bikes together every day and I sat on my dock and mourned the loss of my social life. Instead of giving up though, I just moved into Beef’s house for a summer and rode my bike with them. And we made a package of all of our greatest and most prized possessions along with our deepest secrets and sent it down a river (READ: sewage pipe) in hopes that we would someday find it. We haven’t yet.
8. Writing notes in church: Remember passing the bulletin back and forth during the sermon with notes of who had a crush on who and where we were going to eat lunch? It was a real buzz kill when you forgot your pen and had to use one of those gnarly miniature golf sized pencils that the church keeps in the back of the pew. I would rather not write than use that tiny half-pencil…especially since my hands
have always been so large, it was borderline impossible to write with such a small utensil.
9. The lack of body odor/hair. Remember when we could run all day long and not smell like death? Remember when we didn’t have to shave our legs? Back in the day when tube socks covered the hair and nobody cared. Ah those were the days.
10. My mom’s packed lunch. I wish that my mom would still pack my lunch for work. Because she would give me my sandwich ingredients in separate baggies so that my sandwich wasn’t soggy by the time I ate it. And she would pack strawberries and a baggy full of sugar to dip them in. And of course oreos for desert, which would WITHOUT FAIL, end up in my eyebrows.
11. Jump Start 4th Grade Haunted House. Did ANYONE play this awesome computer game!? This was the greatest game known to mankind. Jump Start 1st-3rd grade sucked and every Jump Start after 4th was lame, but they really hit the jackpot with this one. Cacka would agree, and Beef wouldn’t know as she wasn’t allowed to play games with haunted houses. Buzz Kill.
12. AOL/AIM. If I could count how many hours I spent talking to people on AOL/AIM …..well I would have counted a lot of hours. This was the only avenue to Middle School social life. If you didn’t have Instant Messanger you were a nobody. And so I’d be damned if Allypoo11 wasn’t online Every. Single. Night.
13. Vacation Bible School. The week you spent at church, playing games, learning songs, and eating generic cookies. Ah, bliss.
14. Feeding the ducks. I do not know why feeding the ducks was so fun as a toddler, but man oh man was it like the jackpot of afternoon activities. Birds creep me out at this point in my life and therefore this hobby would no longer prove enjoyable. But 4 year old Ally would differ.
15. Follies Practice. How Donna Middleton got a group of 10 5th graders to learn an organized dance to Elvis songs is something that I will never know or understand. I only hope that I can ask her one day when my future imaginary kids are driving me insane, I will just whip out the memory box and teach them our 5th grade rendition of “Blue Suede Shoes”.
16. Birthday dance parties in the Eagles Nest at Northridge. Ah the greatest parties were dance parties at Northridge Country Club. The blissful awkwardness of dancing with the opposite sex builds like a tower of ill placed jenga blocks. And everyone went big or went home. We had Elvis impersonators, choreographers for the sock hop (thanks Ali Burrow) and we even invited the people from the grade above us. Cripes, they could have made a TV show about PG’s middle schoolers.
17. The days when you could wear tennis shoes with ANY outfit.
18. Ryan Holman.
19. That Nokia phone that had the game “snake” (we are fairly positive that Emily Middleton may or may not still own her Nokia from 9th grade.) Anyways snake was the best thing to hit cellular devices since cellular devices themselves. It was a pixely version of heaven.
20. Making up Dances. This was the only thing acceptable of a sleepover between the ages of 8-15. You had to make up a dance if people were staying the night at your house. You could get creative and include a trampoline and shampoo and multitask, like Beef and I. Or you could record said dance and watch it when you are 23 and laugh, such as the time when our band, BAAM, (Bethany Ashton Allyson Megan) made up a one hit wonder routine to “Baby Got Back”. I could still perform at least the first 10 seconds.
21. Sonday’s Camp. Oh the beautiful bliss that was sleeping in uncomfortable twin sized bunk beds with over excited counselors waking you up at the crack of dawn to paint your entire body blue and orange and gear up for an entire, and I do mean from SUNRISE to SUNSET, day of screaming. What did we scream? Well we cheered for our church, our towns, our state, or just insignificant noises at the top of our lungs and we played trash cans as drums. We had blue and orange floaties, we had bandanas, we had matching socks and we had t-shirts. We were color coordinated and louder than a thunderstorm. Rain or shine, we rose the flag of extraordinary over the other mediocre churches who didn’t have the budget for matching shirts and proved what it really means to be a Christian by shouting out the letters that spelled the town where we came from. TEX – ARK – ANA - FBC. We were like Titans at that Christian Summer camp and I loved it.
22. Power Rangers, and pretending that I was the pink one.
23. Fraggle Rock.
2. Jump Jumps: Those magical places where we could jump against the walls in sweaty abandon. here we had access to jump perfection. These days kids have jump castles, jungles, obstacle courses…which just proves that there is no limit to the size and shape of our ability to inflate rubber into a jumpable delight.
3. Lucky leaves. On the playground during elementary school, when I wasn’t chasing Jackson Tan around the big tree, I was catching Lucky Leaves. I am fairly positive that I made this game up in Kindergarten so I am wondering why I didn’t patent that shiZ and make some quick cash. The goal was (during autumn) to catch leaves as they fell from the trees, before they hit the ground. If you caught one you got a wish. And I wish I knew what I wished for in Kindergarten so I could tell you whether or not the magic is real.
4. Building mud bombs. At Sunshine School while Madison Russell was reading on a 5th grade level, I was building mud bombs with Sky Ashley to throw at her. And I kept one of said mud balls until about 7th grade. It was crusty and disgusting, but it was a piece of my childhood that I wasn’t ready to give up.
5. Picking Honeysuckles, and eating their honey. Did anyone else do this? Cripes honeysuckles smell amazing, and just one whiff can take me back to age 7.
6. POGS and SLAMMERS. I was the POGS Queen and my castle was atop the Big Red Slide at Sunshine School.
7. Bikes and buried treasure. My mom still recalls to this day when I told her that my life was over and that I would never have friends again because Beef and Cara lived down the street from each other, and I lived in BFE. They rode their bikes together every day and I sat on my dock and mourned the loss of my social life. Instead of giving up though, I just moved into Beef’s house for a summer and rode my bike with them. And we made a package of all of our greatest and most prized possessions along with our deepest secrets and sent it down a river (READ: sewage pipe) in hopes that we would someday find it. We haven’t yet.
8. Writing notes in church: Remember passing the bulletin back and forth during the sermon with notes of who had a crush on who and where we were going to eat lunch? It was a real buzz kill when you forgot your pen and had to use one of those gnarly miniature golf sized pencils that the church keeps in the back of the pew. I would rather not write than use that tiny half-pencil…especially since my hands
have always been so large, it was borderline impossible to write with such a small utensil.
9. The lack of body odor/hair. Remember when we could run all day long and not smell like death? Remember when we didn’t have to shave our legs? Back in the day when tube socks covered the hair and nobody cared. Ah those were the days.
10. My mom’s packed lunch. I wish that my mom would still pack my lunch for work. Because she would give me my sandwich ingredients in separate baggies so that my sandwich wasn’t soggy by the time I ate it. And she would pack strawberries and a baggy full of sugar to dip them in. And of course oreos for desert, which would WITHOUT FAIL, end up in my eyebrows.
11. Jump Start 4th Grade Haunted House. Did ANYONE play this awesome computer game!? This was the greatest game known to mankind. Jump Start 1st-3rd grade sucked and every Jump Start after 4th was lame, but they really hit the jackpot with this one. Cacka would agree, and Beef wouldn’t know as she wasn’t allowed to play games with haunted houses. Buzz Kill.
12. AOL/AIM. If I could count how many hours I spent talking to people on AOL/AIM …..well I would have counted a lot of hours. This was the only avenue to Middle School social life. If you didn’t have Instant Messanger you were a nobody. And so I’d be damned if Allypoo11 wasn’t online Every. Single. Night.
13. Vacation Bible School. The week you spent at church, playing games, learning songs, and eating generic cookies. Ah, bliss.
14. Feeding the ducks. I do not know why feeding the ducks was so fun as a toddler, but man oh man was it like the jackpot of afternoon activities. Birds creep me out at this point in my life and therefore this hobby would no longer prove enjoyable. But 4 year old Ally would differ.
15. Follies Practice. How Donna Middleton got a group of 10 5th graders to learn an organized dance to Elvis songs is something that I will never know or understand. I only hope that I can ask her one day when my future imaginary kids are driving me insane, I will just whip out the memory box and teach them our 5th grade rendition of “Blue Suede Shoes”.
16. Birthday dance parties in the Eagles Nest at Northridge. Ah the greatest parties were dance parties at Northridge Country Club. The blissful awkwardness of dancing with the opposite sex builds like a tower of ill placed jenga blocks. And everyone went big or went home. We had Elvis impersonators, choreographers for the sock hop (thanks Ali Burrow) and we even invited the people from the grade above us. Cripes, they could have made a TV show about PG’s middle schoolers.
17. The days when you could wear tennis shoes with ANY outfit.
18. Ryan Holman.
19. That Nokia phone that had the game “snake” (we are fairly positive that Emily Middleton may or may not still own her Nokia from 9th grade.) Anyways snake was the best thing to hit cellular devices since cellular devices themselves. It was a pixely version of heaven.
20. Making up Dances. This was the only thing acceptable of a sleepover between the ages of 8-15. You had to make up a dance if people were staying the night at your house. You could get creative and include a trampoline and shampoo and multitask, like Beef and I. Or you could record said dance and watch it when you are 23 and laugh, such as the time when our band, BAAM, (Bethany Ashton Allyson Megan) made up a one hit wonder routine to “Baby Got Back”. I could still perform at least the first 10 seconds.
21. Sonday’s Camp. Oh the beautiful bliss that was sleeping in uncomfortable twin sized bunk beds with over excited counselors waking you up at the crack of dawn to paint your entire body blue and orange and gear up for an entire, and I do mean from SUNRISE to SUNSET, day of screaming. What did we scream? Well we cheered for our church, our towns, our state, or just insignificant noises at the top of our lungs and we played trash cans as drums. We had blue and orange floaties, we had bandanas, we had matching socks and we had t-shirts. We were color coordinated and louder than a thunderstorm. Rain or shine, we rose the flag of extraordinary over the other mediocre churches who didn’t have the budget for matching shirts and proved what it really means to be a Christian by shouting out the letters that spelled the town where we came from. TEX – ARK – ANA - FBC. We were like Titans at that Christian Summer camp and I loved it.
22. Power Rangers, and pretending that I was the pink one.
23. Fraggle Rock.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
23 Reasons to love Betsy
Here are 23 Reasons to love and be thankful for Betsy (AKA my mom):
1. She loves me, Brit, and Carson more than anyone else in the world.
2. She laughs at my jokes…even when they aren’t funny, but more often when she doesn’t get them.
3. She still cries whenever we talk about losing the High School Volleyball State Championship…not because she gives a crap about the State Championship, but because she remembers how much it devastated me, and she empathizes sometimes a little too well.
4. She wore KEDS until about 3 years ago.
5. She will pat you relentlessly…but attempts to refrain from making red marks on her daughters’ legs, arms, backs because she knows it infuriates them. And she loves us enough to not pat. That’s SAYIN' something.
6. She always talks in a happy voice. Unless you say something mean to a sibling and then you get ‘The Look’.
7. She is the most selfless person alive.
8. She gave me the genetic gift of never being on time, and flying by the seat of my pants.
9. She gave me the genetic gift of being nice to others and genuinely caring about them.
10. She still loves Winnie the Pooh. Like REALLY loves him.
11. She cries anytime the Texas A&M Fight song plays.
12. Her favorite movie is likely Finding Nemo.
13. She’s beautiful—especially in that Glamour shot from before I was born, right mom?
14. She wants everyone to be happy….and for everyone to have the same amount of happiness—even steven.
15. She sends me CD’s with the lyrics to Mark Harris “Find your Wings” and makes me listen to it in my dorm room as she talks me through why the lyrics apply to us. I must get my love for lyrics from her.
16. She is funny…mostly when she doesn’t know it.
17. She always keeps her nails long, and she likes them painted. She keeps dirt out from under those suckers too, even if she has to flick all day long. We do not share this quality.
18. She can ROCK some gaudy jewelry from Dressin' Gaudy.
19. She prefers polka dots to anything else.
20. She sometimes drops a cuss word (hesitantly) and it has really been a bonding factor in the last few years. *The first time I ever heard her say a cuss word was when I disobeyed her on a stressful morning the day of my 6th grade Bon Voyage party. I spilled something in the car, (after she had asked me to hold it-I sat it down) and she said damnit. I cried when I got out of the car and called my Grandmother to see if she was even going to come to my party. She came. And hugged me a lot. And wasn’t even mad at me. I was relieved.
21. She would do anything in her power to make me happy.
22. She loves the people around her like Christ calls us to love them.
23. She is the best mommy in the whole world, and I feel so blessed to call her mine. Not like anyone could deny it anyways…we look identical.
Pictured above is my other mother, my aunt Trudy who I love dearly. They are both rockin' some hair glitter in this pic haha, and matching scarves!
Happy Mother’s Day!
1. She loves me, Brit, and Carson more than anyone else in the world.
2. She laughs at my jokes…even when they aren’t funny, but more often when she doesn’t get them.
3. She still cries whenever we talk about losing the High School Volleyball State Championship…not because she gives a crap about the State Championship, but because she remembers how much it devastated me, and she empathizes sometimes a little too well.
4. She wore KEDS until about 3 years ago.
5. She will pat you relentlessly…but attempts to refrain from making red marks on her daughters’ legs, arms, backs because she knows it infuriates them. And she loves us enough to not pat. That’s SAYIN' something.
6. She always talks in a happy voice. Unless you say something mean to a sibling and then you get ‘The Look’.
7. She is the most selfless person alive.
8. She gave me the genetic gift of never being on time, and flying by the seat of my pants.
9. She gave me the genetic gift of being nice to others and genuinely caring about them.
10. She still loves Winnie the Pooh. Like REALLY loves him.
11. She cries anytime the Texas A&M Fight song plays.
12. Her favorite movie is likely Finding Nemo.
13. She’s beautiful—especially in that Glamour shot from before I was born, right mom?
14. She wants everyone to be happy….and for everyone to have the same amount of happiness—even steven.
15. She sends me CD’s with the lyrics to Mark Harris “Find your Wings” and makes me listen to it in my dorm room as she talks me through why the lyrics apply to us. I must get my love for lyrics from her.
16. She is funny…mostly when she doesn’t know it.
17. She always keeps her nails long, and she likes them painted. She keeps dirt out from under those suckers too, even if she has to flick all day long. We do not share this quality.
18. She can ROCK some gaudy jewelry from Dressin' Gaudy.
19. She prefers polka dots to anything else.
20. She sometimes drops a cuss word (hesitantly) and it has really been a bonding factor in the last few years. *The first time I ever heard her say a cuss word was when I disobeyed her on a stressful morning the day of my 6th grade Bon Voyage party. I spilled something in the car, (after she had asked me to hold it-I sat it down) and she said damnit. I cried when I got out of the car and called my Grandmother to see if she was even going to come to my party. She came. And hugged me a lot. And wasn’t even mad at me. I was relieved.
21. She would do anything in her power to make me happy.
22. She loves the people around her like Christ calls us to love them.
23. She is the best mommy in the whole world, and I feel so blessed to call her mine. Not like anyone could deny it anyways…we look identical.
Pictured above is my other mother, my aunt Trudy who I love dearly. They are both rockin' some hair glitter in this pic haha, and matching scarves!Happy Mother’s Day!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
23 Birthday Wishes/Memories
I feel very privileged for another year of life to be beginning as of tomorrow. So here is 23 birthday wishes combined with my favorite birthday memories.
1. WISH: That I could spend tomorrow with all of my favorite people...MAINLY BRITTNEY LYNN RICE (...impossible)
2. MEMORY: Last year when Megan saved my birthday. Read more about that here: Megan Saves the Day!
3. WISH: That I could fly.
4. MEMORY: When I turned 21 and had a joint birthday with Lindsey Roloff and both Beef and Meg were in attendance. And Becca was there. It was fun until Meg fell asleep in Daisy Dukes……then all my best friends from college like Candace and Alaina threw me a small party at their house called Allypalooza. Some girl showed up who was univited...remember Beef?
5. WISH: That tomorrow would be sunny and warm.
6. MEMORY: When my boyfriend and friends threw me a joint surprise 16th birthday party alongside Cara (Cacka) Rochelle at Chils. I was really mad at him that day for not hanging out with me (he was secretly planning the party) oops.
7. WISH: The movie Burlesque on DVD.
8. MEMORY: Mine and Beef’s joint birthday in the 6th (?) grade in which an Elvis impersonator came and embarrassed us to the point of tears. It was so tragic and awful and I think it was only in the last year that Beef finally forgave her mom for allowing it.
9. WISH: That my boss would order me to wear sweat pants to work.
10. MEMORY: My 6th birthday at Skate America, when they pushed me around in the huge skate and everyone chased me. That was so fun. You got to ride around in it for the duration of 1 song of your choice and I am fairly positive that I chose “Achy Breaky Heart” –luckily my musical preferences have improved.
11. WISH: That Blair would not move away.
12. MEMORY: My 17th birthday party when Andrew had my birth
day party at his lake house all weekend. I got to invite my 5 best friends and he invited his 5 best friends and it still stands as one of my favorite birthdays. We had tube wars and played Frisbee and jetskied and wakeboarded and played washers and layed in the hammock and laughed and ate cake.
13. WISH: A yellow cake with chocolate icing.
14. MEMORY: My 10th birthday party where we had a cookout on our dock and I wore my yellow flower overalls that I wore to essentially any special event that year. It had a matching hat.
15. WISH: A hug from my little brother.
16. MEMORY: When my roommates and suitemates had a birthday party for me the night before we moved out of the dorms freshman year of college. They went crazy with crafts and made me all kinds of things, got me a cookie cake and an elephant card. A great way to turn 19.
17. WISH: An iPad 2.
18. MEMORY: When I woke up to my entire house decorated with streamers. We had an all day party which involved a lot of craziness and birthday crowns and sonic drinks with the windows down and Becca driving me around in her white xTerra. And a massive, and I do mean massive, dance party in my living room which lasted the majority of the night.
19. WISH: That I could visit Becca in Belize because she lives here:
20. MEMORY: My 18th birthday...I am having trouble deciding exactly how my 18th birthday was spent, but I know for a fact I spent it with Ali Burrow and Emily Middleton. Probably included some shenanigans.
21. WISH: That Edward Cullen was a real person.
22. WISH: That I could spend tomorrow at the lake, wakeboarding and laying out and playing loud music.
23. WISH: That 23 would be the best year of my life thus far.
1. WISH: That I could spend tomorrow with all of my favorite people...MAINLY BRITTNEY LYNN RICE (...impossible)
2. MEMORY: Last year when Megan saved my birthday. Read more about that here: Megan Saves the Day!
3. WISH: That I could fly.4. MEMORY: When I turned 21 and had a joint birthday with Lindsey Roloff and both Beef and Meg were in attendance. And Becca was there. It was fun until Meg fell asleep in Daisy Dukes……then all my best friends from college like Candace and Alaina threw me a small party at their house called Allypalooza. Some girl showed up who was univited...remember Beef?
5. WISH: That tomorrow would be sunny and warm.6. MEMORY: When my boyfriend and friends threw me a joint surprise 16th birthday party alongside Cara (Cacka) Rochelle at Chils. I was really mad at him that day for not hanging out with me (he was secretly planning the party) oops.
7. WISH: The movie Burlesque on DVD.8. MEMORY: Mine and Beef’s joint birthday in the 6th (?) grade in which an Elvis impersonator came and embarrassed us to the point of tears. It was so tragic and awful and I think it was only in the last year that Beef finally forgave her mom for allowing it.
9. WISH: That my boss would order me to wear sweat pants to work.
10. MEMORY: My 6th birthday at Skate America, when they pushed me around in the huge skate and everyone chased me. That was so fun. You got to ride around in it for the duration of 1 song of your choice and I am fairly positive that I chose “Achy Breaky Heart” –luckily my musical preferences have improved.
11. WISH: That Blair would not move away.
12. MEMORY: My 17th birthday party when Andrew had my birth
day party at his lake house all weekend. I got to invite my 5 best friends and he invited his 5 best friends and it still stands as one of my favorite birthdays. We had tube wars and played Frisbee and jetskied and wakeboarded and played washers and layed in the hammock and laughed and ate cake.
13. WISH: A yellow cake with chocolate icing.14. MEMORY: My 10th birthday party where we had a cookout on our dock and I wore my yellow flower overalls that I wore to essentially any special event that year. It had a matching hat.
15. WISH: A hug from my little brother.16. MEMORY: When my roommates and suitemates had a birthday party for me the night before we moved out of the dorms freshman year of college. They went crazy with crafts and made me all kinds of things, got me a cookie cake and an elephant card. A great way to turn 19.
17. WISH: An iPad 2.18. MEMORY: When I woke up to my entire house decorated with streamers. We had an all day party which involved a lot of craziness and birthday crowns and sonic drinks with the windows down and Becca driving me around in her white xTerra. And a massive, and I do mean massive, dance party in my living room which lasted the majority of the night.
19. WISH: That I could visit Becca in Belize because she lives here:
20. MEMORY: My 18th birthday...I am having trouble deciding exactly how my 18th birthday was spent, but I know for a fact I spent it with Ali Burrow and Emily Middleton. Probably included some shenanigans.
21. WISH: That Edward Cullen was a real person.22. WISH: That I could spend tomorrow at the lake, wakeboarding and laying out and playing loud music.
23. WISH: That 23 would be the best year of my life thus far.
Monday, May 2, 2011
23 Questions
1. Why is Blair Whitley moving ironically to Texas, adding her to the list of people that are too far away from me?
2. Why do I feel the need to be overly competitive in every aspect of my life, like for example, who can be in their pajamas in bed the fastest? (I always beat my roommate)
3. Where the hell is Carmen San Diego?
4. Why would a guy with a Christian fish on his car cut me off when merging lanes this morning?
5. Why does anyone on God’s green earth own a Kia after that God-awful commercial with the oversized hamsters?
6. What the hell was Peter thinking when he fell asleep in the Garden of Gethsemene?
7. Why is it rendered socially unacceptable to kick people when they piss you off?
8. Why did I think it was a good idea to attempt to order my food in Spanish today at Chipotle? I ended up with the wrong order and laughing at what I think was a joke that I didn’t understand.
9. Who let the dogs out?
10. Why does 9am-5pm pass so slowly, but 9pm-5am passes so quickly?
11. Why hasn’t Texas seceded yet?
12. Who thought it was a good idea for Donald Trump to run for President?
13. When is it appropriate to drop it like it’s hot?
14. Why can you never figure out how to open your eyes in real life, when you have subconsciously been made aware that you are dreaming?
15. At what age is it appropriate to start using terms like ‘the good ole days”?
16. Why does the guy beside me drink out of his coffee cup like it is the goblet of fire?
17. Why do personalized license plates exist?
18. Why does the lady at the bank assume that because I am not a child that I do not want a sucker?
19. Why do I always sit near the guy at church who has his own loud rendition for every worship song?
20. How the hell do you exit Ikea?
21. Where can I purchase one of those chairs that will transport me up and down the staircase to my basement?
22. How many rounds of defensive driving does it take before you cease to get speeding tickets?
23. Why doesn’t every snack have a prize at the bottom like Cracker Jacks? Cracker Jacks suck. Put something legit at the bottom of a pack of nerds and I’m golden.
2. Why do I feel the need to be overly competitive in every aspect of my life, like for example, who can be in their pajamas in bed the fastest? (I always beat my roommate)
3. Where the hell is Carmen San Diego?
4. Why would a guy with a Christian fish on his car cut me off when merging lanes this morning?
5. Why does anyone on God’s green earth own a Kia after that God-awful commercial with the oversized hamsters?
6. What the hell was Peter thinking when he fell asleep in the Garden of Gethsemene?
7. Why is it rendered socially unacceptable to kick people when they piss you off?
8. Why did I think it was a good idea to attempt to order my food in Spanish today at Chipotle? I ended up with the wrong order and laughing at what I think was a joke that I didn’t understand.
9. Who let the dogs out?
10. Why does 9am-5pm pass so slowly, but 9pm-5am passes so quickly?
11. Why hasn’t Texas seceded yet?
12. Who thought it was a good idea for Donald Trump to run for President?
13. When is it appropriate to drop it like it’s hot?
14. Why can you never figure out how to open your eyes in real life, when you have subconsciously been made aware that you are dreaming?
15. At what age is it appropriate to start using terms like ‘the good ole days”?
16. Why does the guy beside me drink out of his coffee cup like it is the goblet of fire?
17. Why do personalized license plates exist?
18. Why does the lady at the bank assume that because I am not a child that I do not want a sucker?
19. Why do I always sit near the guy at church who has his own loud rendition for every worship song?
20. How the hell do you exit Ikea?
21. Where can I purchase one of those chairs that will transport me up and down the staircase to my basement?
22. How many rounds of defensive driving does it take before you cease to get speeding tickets?
23. Why doesn’t every snack have a prize at the bottom like Cracker Jacks? Cracker Jacks suck. Put something legit at the bottom of a pack of nerds and I’m golden.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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Happy MAY you guys! Best month of the year that we are embarking on here. While May hosts a number of events including Cinco de Mayo, Memorial Day, Breast Care Awareness, Mother’s day, and the Indy 500, it also holds a special significance in being my birth month. And in honor of the beginning of the 23rd year of life, all my blog posts will host 23 of something. 23 of what? Who knows, people?! The sky is the limit. I got this idea off of a girl’s blog who doesn’t know I am her friend, and I thought it was a splendid idea.
We will kick this party off with:
23 things that make you Bad Ass (inspiration from Sydney Shrum):
1. Dancing like Beyonce.
2. Drinking your coffee black.
3. Running for fun and/or completing a marathon.
4. Pulling off the ‘beach wave’ hair-do. Or the messy but cute one.
5. Doing tricks in any extreme sport (surfing/snow-wakeboarding).
6. Beat boxing.
7. Having a watch tan.
8. Longboarding.
9. Having a pack of gum and not eating every piece within 24 hours.
10. Being left handed.
11. Taking road trips without directions.
12. Reading books with more than 100 pages.
13. Being able to cook well.
14. Under packing.
15. Sky diving.
16. Having a chaco tan.
17. Dressing trendy.
18. Traveling in a VW van.
19. Backpacking through a foreign country.
20. Having your toenails always painted.
21. Organization skills.
22. Quick wit.
23. Being Sydney Shrum.
There you have it. 23 ways to be LEGIT. Have a bad ass Sunday!
We will kick this party off with:
23 things that make you Bad Ass (inspiration from Sydney Shrum):
1. Dancing like Beyonce.
2. Drinking your coffee black.
3. Running for fun and/or completing a marathon.
4. Pulling off the ‘beach wave’ hair-do. Or the messy but cute one.
5. Doing tricks in any extreme sport (surfing/snow-wakeboarding).
6. Beat boxing.
7. Having a watch tan.
8. Longboarding.
9. Having a pack of gum and not eating every piece within 24 hours.
10. Being left handed.
11. Taking road trips without directions.
12. Reading books with more than 100 pages.
13. Being able to cook well.
14. Under packing.
15. Sky diving.
16. Having a chaco tan.
17. Dressing trendy.
18. Traveling in a VW van.
19. Backpacking through a foreign country.
20. Having your toenails always painted.
21. Organization skills.
22. Quick wit.
23. Being Sydney Shrum.
There you have it. 23 ways to be LEGIT. Have a bad ass Sunday!
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