Are you kidding me? Enough already!!!

Dear Mother Nature,

It is April 24th & I have a Jazz playoff game to attend. I normally wear SHORTS to these playoff games. Enough with the snow!!! It is springtime!

Seriously! Enough already!!! This picture was taken out of my window at work. (Thanks El for the camera!)


And while I was typing this post I had to take a 2nd picture!

Welcome Back to my fake friends!

Well my 27 layer haircut post is now the most popular post I have ever made (at least comment wise). Thanks to everyone for your comments and continued friendship after seeing that picture. However, I can't have that ugly picture be the first thing I pull up when people look at my blog. Thus on to new posts!

It has been a long, long, looooooooooooong winter. In addition to freezing for much longer than I wanted or expected to (still freezing I might add), I have also not had the company of my television friends thanks to the writers strike. It has been a long hard winter & needless to say I am counting down until real TV returns. I can't wait until Thursday night when my friends return. Friends named Jim, Dwight, JD, Turk, and one day.....McDreamy & McSteamy.

In the meantime, I have found a new favorite show thanks to Jenna. She has introduced me to my newest boyfriend....Eddie Latekka on October Road. I probably love him because on the show he loves the fat, ugly girl & all girls can related to the fat, ugly girl (at least mentally), but seriously look at him & what is not to like?

27 Layers....oh the memories

Many of you may remember the now famous "27 Layer haircut" I received at age 19. I have tried for 13 years to put it out of my mind, but the damage this haircut may have done in my life is immeasurable. You go in to get your haircut & ask for a few layers....when did 27 and a "few" equal the same thing? I mean really I'm 19 and I look like I'm 40.

As I was recently getting my haircut, my dear friend and hair dresser Brooke does not believe that this hair cut was really as bad as it was. I've told her the stories, tried to describe it, but really you just have to see it to believe it. So I promised her I would post a picture of it so that she could see the proof. If by some chance she thinks this is a good haircut for me I may be forced to find a new hair dresser. However, I have learned from past experience that you should never, ever have someone over 50 at JCPenneys, cut your hair unless you yourself are close to 50 (or at least desire to look 50+).

I've come a long way since this haircut (I hope!). Unfortunately having this type of haircut at age 19 (and the subsequent "growing it out" period) didn't help the dating scene. Really, who wants to date someone who looks like their mother? Maybe someone who cooks like their mother or something, but not someone who looks 50! I can't blame them. As Kramer on Seinfeld once said "Look away....I'm hideous!!"

So there you have it Brooke. I have posted the ugliest time in my life for you and the entire internet world to see. You can all laugh (and should laugh) at how ugly I was. For those of you who have remained my friends through this haircut I consider our friendship priceless as our friendship is obviously built on more than what I looked like.....or perhaps I was just your "project" at the time and then you found out I was SUPER COOL too....LOL!

P.S. Becki should be happy I cut her out of this picture. I didn't have her consent to post a picture of her back then nor do I think she would be pleased with viewing it :)

P.P.S. Also FYI....this picture was taken as Becki & I did the "NuSkin half time shoot out" at the BYU vs. Utah basketball game. At the time, I won a ton of NuSkin haircare products for making a layup, free throw, & 3 pointer. Who would have known I would have had NuSkin everywhere in my house & didn't need to showcase the 27 Layer haircut to the entire Marriott Center.

BYE BYE Winter!!

I would like everyone to know that I have officially said good-bye to winter. I only hope that winter says good-bye back. As many of you probably have I have been enjoying the nice spring weather we have been having the past couple of weeks. I started spring cleaning, running outside, not wearing a coat, wearing sandals, stopped snowboarding, etc.

That is why I was very depressed Sunday morning to wake up to SNOW. Snow on the ground in the valleys on March 30th? Very depressing. Well since it pretty much snowed all day Sunday and then more Sunday night/Monday morning I thought I would officially say good-bye to winter by going snowboarding this morning.

I checked the snow report this morning, saw that they have a foot of new snow & promptly emailed work to tell them I would be "late" meaning 2pm late....LOL! I will say that I completely enjoyed snowboarding all by myself (with my iPod of course). The snow was awesome, powder up to my knees, fresh snow on all runs (no groomed since it snowed overnight). I did fall a few times because my board was buried in snow and I couldn't lift it! The resort was empty so I also got to make fresh, new tracks on at least 8 different runs. I mean fresh. Nobody had been down any of the runs including Bishop's Bowl. It probably helped that I was there right as they opened. This is why I didn't make it to work until 2:30. I just couldn't leave all that great snow. I kept saying "last run" but when I was going down I kept saying "one more." I shouldn't have come to work at all, but my legs told me it was time to leave & I did have a 3pm meeting to go to.

So on this great snowboarding day I say GOOD-BYE WINTER! I'm done with you. I'm ready to swap the snowboard for a wakeboard, my heated blanket for a pool floaty and most of all my white, white skin for a tan.

A NEW CAR!!!

Since I recently paid off my student loans, my life felt empty without any debt. So I thought, why not buy a new car??? Ok, really my car was starting to show signs of age & according to consumer reports was not going to last much longer. It needed about $1300 in work done which seemed like a lot. I thought that while I had some money and my car was at a higher trade-in value that I should get a new car that would last forever. Well after doing some hefty research to make sure the salesman couldn't screw over the "dumb girl," I was off to the lots to test drive.

The first stop was the Honda dealership. I was trying to go cheaper and possibly Hybrid so I test drove a Honda Civic. I did not like the Civic AT ALL. However, it apparently does go faster than I thought as I got PULLED OVER for speeding on the TEST DRIVE. Thankfully I did not get a ticket, although Nicole & I thought for sure I had one coming as the cop was not very nice. He did have mercy on me though!

After that I drove an Accord, Camry, RV-4, Prius, Sonata (on different days), but I was most in love with the Accord the whole time. So I haggled away with the Toyota & Honda dealers in hopes of getting a good deal between the 2. I liked the Camry, but felt I was too young to drive a Camry. I need 4 kids to drive a Camry, but not a sporty Accord. I felt I actually got a good deal and I didn't pay any "extra" fees they make you think are nonnegotiable, but I negotiated my way right out of them. Good thing I did my homework & now I have a new car!

Here is a picture of me with my sexy (and long lasting) new car. It is a 2008 Honda Accord with only one owner (ME!).

Birthday Help!

Many of you read a few posts ago that I have really sucked it up at birthdays. Because I am now officially losing my mind and getting old I have signed up for a birthday alarm service.

So for all my friends (I figure the ones I most care about are reading my blog) please go to this link & enter your birthday. Then I can let technology help me where my brain is apparently now gone.


http://www.birthdayalarm.com/dob/82374767a219569362b362

I'm one of "those" people

So many of you may or may not know that I love to listen to sports talk radio. I'm not a man, but I think they are funny and the local 1280 the Zone always makes me laugh. I listen to sports talk radio most of the time when I'm in the car. However, now in addition to listening to sports radio I am one of "those people" who calls in and plays their silly games.

Well on 1280 The Zone they have this weekly segment called something like "Bark like a dog, quack like a man" or something like that. Basically the premise of the segment is that women don't know anything about sports and can't answer simple sports questions that any man would know the answer to. They have 3 women call in and answer sports questions (really, they are pretty easy questions about local stuff). The 3 women on the phone are given an animal sound to "buzz in" since we are all on the phone. Most of the time the women say stupid answers or giggle while trying to remember and the guys can laugh and feel how smart they are and how dumb women are. Anyways, I decided to call in last night as I was driving home.

I was awarded the sound of a duck (quack, quack) in order to "chime in" with my answer. This meant that when I thought I had the answer I had to quickly say "quack, quack" before the other girl "barked" or "moo'd." Whoever was heard first making their sound got to answer first.

To make a long story short I actually had a girl who was pretty smart & quicker than me with her "Moo" (instead of my "quack, quack") on a few answers. We had to go into a tie breaker, but I WON. Of course since we are women we don't win Jazz tickets, we win massages, but I really like massages so that is ok I guess, although I would have preferred Jazz tickets. I'm a little concerned that the massage is at "Massage Envy" where the pervert was recently found in the news. I guess we will see how that goes.

The funny part was that my Dad was actually listening and heard the whole thing so he can validate this story.

For all of those who are wondering, here are the questions I answered correctly (that I can remember, I can't remember them all):

1. How many teams are in the mountain west conference (answer: 9)
2. What is the first name of Utah State's head basketball coach? (answer: Stew)
3. The Air Force/San Diego State game just ended....who won? (answer: San Diego State)

Tie Breaker question: What former Ute basketball player did the Jazz play last night? (Answer: Andrew Bogut)

Questions I wasn't "quick enough" on & didn't get to answer...although I knew the answer except for the Rat Pack one:
1. Who leads the current NBA standings? (Answer: Celtics)
2. What conference does Weber State Play in (Answer: Big Sky)
3. Name 2 people from the "Rat Pack" (I had heard of them, but really....is this a sports question?)

So now I am one of "those" people that calls in the radio. What has become of my life? Do I need more friends? I may have to call in weekly depending on how bored I am or how nice that massage ends up being!