BOO!

Okay, I was watching the Ellen Degeneres show today because I wanted to see SugarLand perform (number 1 album in the country right now-go buy it!) and this was on the show. . . I seriously was crying because I was laughing so hard. This lady is one of Ellen's writers for the show and they sent her through a scary maze at Universal Studios. It's not fake-it's real. I think it's hilarious to watch people get scared. Not too scared. Not when they are really scared for their life, but when you know they'll live and be fine, it's totally funny. I love scaring people! So funny! Watch this video, you'll laugh! Also, I posted a video of Ellen scaring Taylor Swift. Okay, I'm not really a fan of Taylor Swift. She's got insane talent but she just kind of bugs! Caecee and I kind of joke about her music so when we saw this video we about peed our pants. Funny stuff. Again, love watching people get scared! I've been scaring people all month! I put on a mask at walk around my house and peek around corners and my parents freak out, especially my dad! I also scared Katie and Caecee pretty good the other day. They came to my house and I hid in the bushes. Funny stuff. No doubt, I get way scared myself! I freak out when people scare me! Funny though! Have fun with the last few days of October and scare someone! BOO!
If you don't have time to watch the writer being scared at least watch Taylor Swift being scared! It's only a minute long and it's soooooooo funny!
*scroll to the bottom of my blog page and pause the music before pressing "play" on the videos




I love that she says at the end "sorry I swore at you". Haha, at least she apologized!




She falls on the floor. . . priceless.

Fabric Store.

Today I learned that fabric stores freak me out. Everything about them is just kind of strange to me. The people in them, they way they smell, etc. Let me start by giving you the image. . .

I woke up this morning at 7:55am and I had to be at work at 8:10am. Yikes. I don't do well with cold weather and snooze buttons. I hate waking up when it's cold!! I just sat in bed not wanting to get up. Then it was 8:02am. And I'm slow in the morning, real slow and grouchy too. . . So I changed my shirt and changed out of my pink pajama pants and put on a t-shirt and sweat pants. Much better looking right? Not at all. I should have just actually put on jeans and sweater. It would have taken just as much time and I would have looked 10x better. But something about waking up to the freezing cold and still being half asleep made me want to stay in cozy clothes. Then, I tamed the fro (pulled my hair up), brushed my teeth, looked at the clock and it was 8:12am. Crapper. I looked out the window and saw that there was a bunch of snow/ice on my windshield! GRRR! So I grabbed a diet coke (priorities people) then went outside and scraped the ice off of my car and went to work.

Here I am in baggy gray sweat pants (with a hole by the right pocket), a black band t-shirt, slipper/shoes that have fur on them, and a tan furry jacket. I was warm. . . but not attractive looking. I had no make up and I looked like a dofus. I kind of looked like a high school drop out/wanna be rock star. Both of which I am not. The power of appearance. . .

Anyway after work I needed to go to the fabric store to buy fabric to make tutu's for my Halloween costume. This was the only day this entire week that I had time to go to the store and make the tutu's. Now-I'm not a girl who really cares what people think and heaven knows that I don't have the need to look perfect all the time. But. . . I didn't want to go in the fabric store looking like I did. Trust me, it was bad. But I thought to myself "it's 11:00 in the morning on a Tuesday, in a fabric store. . . I'll probably be the only one in there and if there are other people in there, they will all be old enough to be my grandma so who cares what I look like".

I was wrong. There were a TON of people. And they weren't all old/cute/sweet grandma's either. I should have known, it's the week of Halloween at a fabric store! Duh!

I found my fabric that I needed while everyone stared at me because lets me honest, I didn't really look like the "fabric store" type at the moment. I had no idea what I was doing because lets me honest, I've probably only been a fabric store a handful of times in my life and each time I was with someone who knew what they were doing! I got in line at the cutting counter and this one lady in particular just glared at me the entire time. I smiled, she glared. She was probably in her late 30's, she kept talking to herself looking at a list saying "got that, got that, and that, good!" and she had a lot of make up on, her hair was all done up and curled, and she looked like she knew exactly what she was doing. The fabric store was definitely her turf. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with having make up on, your hair curled, or to look like you know what you are doing. . . I was just feeling a bit vulnerable in my baggy sweat pants with the hole in them and no make up on.

It was my turn to have my fabric cut. I told the cute, sweet lady cutting fabric (that did look like she could be my grandma) "ummm two yards of each?" And everyone could tell that I had no idea what I was doing. So she started to cut away and the lady behind me (the one with the curled hair, make up, knew what she was doing) started talking to me (which only drew more attention to me and my grubby sweat pants and make up free face!) and this was our conversation. . .

Lady: "What are you making with all of that fabric?"

Me: Tutu's.

Lady: That's a lot of tutu's.

Me: Ha, yeah. (It would be a lot of tutu's if I were making them for children but no, I'm making them for grown adults and we have big waists).

Lady: For Halloween costumes, or for dance?

Me: Halloween costumes.

Lady: What are they gonna be?

Me: Witches. . . witches with tutu's.

Lady: (With a very disgusted look on her face). Oh.. .. .. interesting?

Me: Yeah....

I know that, that conversation sounds polite and such, but it wasn't. That lady did not like me and it was obvious. I'm sure she thought I was making tutu's for children..... but no I am making them for 3 grown women. Maybe I am reading too much into that lady with the curled hair. But I'm positive that I will never go into a fabric store with grubby sweat pants and no make up on, ever again!!

October Fun!

I love October! I love crunchy leaves. I love the colors. I love HALLOWEEN. I love decorations. I love this fall inparticular because the warm weather lasted longer than usual.

I have done quite a few things in celebration of Halloween and October. My friends and I went to this super lame "haunted" river boat ride, we went to Hee Haw Farms and did the haunted hayride and the haunted barnyard walk-thru. I love Hee Haw Farms. I am a bit biased because I used to work there back in the day, but I love it there. We had a great time! We survived the walk thru when I really didn't think we would. We also got scared by the leaf man and then watched him scare people as they walked by. Pretty hilarious. Watching people freak out is quite entertaining!

We also went to Frightmares at Lagoon in celebration of Caecee's 20th birthday! We had such a blast! I had never been to Frightmares before and wasn't expecting much, but it was so great! The whole park is totally decked out in Halloween decorations, they had tons scary people with really good make up and costumes(Frankenstein, chain saw guys, etc, etc, etc.) who would walk around the park scaring you, they had like 6 different haunted house walk thru things, it was so much fun! We went on all of the rollercoasters then we did the haunted houses. I only peed a little on the rocket, dropping from 200 ft. in the air at 4.5G's calls for a little bit of pee! And of course we went on Wicked. The roller coaster that goes straight up and straight down, I'm starting to really love that ride. Such an adreniline rush! The haunted houses were pretty scary. . . theworkers have really great costumes and make up. It was pretty creepy! We did a lot of screaming and laughing!!!
I also went to Witches' Night out with my mom. It was crazy. TONS of people. But fun and very interesting! I love October! I'm very excited for Halloween this week!! What are you dressing up as?

Us getting ready to get of the car at Lagoon for Frightmares!

Before Hee Haws!

We like to think that we are funny.

I don't even know what's up with the glasses, again we think we're funny!

Nice.

We had pixy sticks that turned our tongues blue. Katie's tongue is definitely the longest. It's kinda crazy.

Witches' Night Out!

My mom and I at witches' night out. Definitely not the most glamorous picture.

Butterflies in my Tummy!

After a long, nice, needed weekend, my week gets crazy. I finish school (lots of final tests with the state to get certified as an official nurse assistant) and I start a new job! Tomorrow is a big day. I have orientation for my new job! So I don't actually start my new job tomorrow, because I will be training for the next couple of days but still, it gives me butterflies in my stomach! All day orientation tomorrow, 7:45am-4:30pm then I must go right to school from 5:00pm-9:00pm. But school is almost over, yay! It will be a long day tomorrow and I'm quite nervous. New jobs are nerve racking. But I am glad to just get the first couple training/orientations out of the way so I can actually start working at the hospital! For those of you who don't know, I got a new job at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in the Emergency Room. I will be working as a Psych Tech a.k.a, I work with patients who are suicide risks, drug overdoses, anyone who is a threat to themselves or anyone else. Did I mention it's in the E.R.? I'm soooo excited!!! A goal I have had for a very long time now is to work at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo and work for Intermountain Healthcare and I've finally reached that goal. Of course, my goal is to be a nurse there, and it will come, in time. I'm just a tech right now, but at least I got my foot in the door! I have to brag, just a little!!! But I definitely have butterflies for orientation tomorrow. New things can be scary! But hopefully, all will go well tomorrow.