I Can't Believe It!

I am having a hard time believing that Christmas is less than a week away, and feel bad that I have neglected my blogging duties. All in all have been very busy lately. I finished my class I was taking, English 2010, and thanks to all who posted a comment or emailed me about womanhood, your comments were wonderful, and I ended up with an 'A' on the assignmen and an 'A' in the class as my final grade.
I am looking forward to Christmas, with siblings coming into town and getting to see my nieces. I was very proud of myself for getting my holiday shopping done early, and even have them wrapped and under my tree ready to be handed out (yes Amber, I have a tree now!)
Other than that my life has been pretty boreing lately, hence the lack of posts. Will have to think of something clever to post about later, I am sure I can think of some interesting antidote to tell, either from the shark tank (dateing life) or I can recount some more prison stories just to make Keri laugh! Happy holidays to all!

Nine Names

This was pretty fun, so if anyone want so do it feel free to consider yourself tagged.


NINE NAMES
1. YOUR REAL NAME: Trudy Ann Overton
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus
'izzle') Truizzle
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite
animal) Purple Dog
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you
live on/or neighborhood ) Ann Chase Lane
5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last
name,first 2 letters of your first name) Ovetr
6. YOUR SUPERHERO/CRIMINAL NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color,
and favorite drink) Blue Fresh Lime
7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd
letter of your last name, 1st letter of your last name, 2nd
letter of your mom's maiden name, 3rd letter of your
dad's name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and
last letter of your mom's first name) Reoafaa
8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (parents middle names) Earl

Have Fun!!!

HELP!!!!!!!

So I haven't posted in a while, mainly because I am always busy and when I do think about it I am at work, and the state computers won't let me post most of the time. This post is mainly for my own selfish wants and wishes so if you feel like comenting or emailing in response please do so (email to pixiedust119@msn.com). Anyways this is a call for help to all my women friends and even you have just happened upon this and want to comment pleas do so. I am in an English 2o10 class and need to write a research paper. I am doing it on what is means to be a woman. So all you ladies out there, tell me what it means to you to be a women. Do you work, stay at home, both? What went into that decision, are you happy you made it, do you plan to change that decision at some point? If you have daughters what do you want to make sure you teach them that you were taught or that you wished you had been taught? What is something your own mother taught you about being a woman that has helped you in someway? Kind of a random paper, but I am having fun doing the research for it and finding all the odd facts about what women have done in the past and present. So basically tell me your thoughts, feelings, concerns, whatever on being women, and what makes you prowd to be a women. So yes selfish because I would like the opinions of all of you to help in the paper. If any of you don't want to be quoted in my paper let me know and I won't otherwise there is the possibility your coment will be referenced in my paper. Thanks for the help and comment ASAP!

Tag of 8

So the fabulous Jackie tagged everyone who wanted to do it, so for lack of something better to do-yes I am at work but that is besides the point- I am going to accept the 'Crazy 8' tag.

8 T.V. shows I like to watch

1. The Big Bang Theory
2. Chuck
3. CSI: New York
4. CSI
5. House, M.D.
6. Numb3rs
7. Dancing With the Stars
8. Grey's Anatomy

8 Things That Happened Yesterday

1. I went to work
2. I got a new Ipod off of Ebay
3. I scored tickets to a Goo Goo Dolls concert
4. I asked a guy on a date- to the concert
5. I cooked dinner
6. Thought about cleaning out the fridge- didn't do it.
7. Started family indexing- pretty fun if you have free time
8. Snuggled with the dogs

8 Favorite places to eat

1. Olive Garden
2. Popeye's Chicken- sadley there isin't one in Utah
3. My grandma's house
4. Zupa's
5. Chen's Noodle House
6. Bajio
7. Carl's Jr.
8. Mimi's Cafe

8 Things I am Looking Forward to

1. The Goo Goo Dolls concert- with a date I hope
2. Diantha's Halloween party tonight
3. My ward's Halloween party on Monday
4. Melanie's Halloween party on Friday
5. Choir practice
6. Getting my new dishwasher on Saturday
7. My Birthday
8. Thanksgiving

8 Things on my Wish list

1. Get Married
2. Go to Ireland- 3 more years!!!!
3. Go to Italy
4. Have kids
5. Get out of debt.
6. Get new brakes for my car
7. Rock Band Tuesday
8. Getting my new Ipod

I liked Jackie's answer so I tag anyone who wants to do this tag- most especially my lovely sister Amber who is new to the blogging universe!

Confusion

Boys are confusing. That is what I have to say about it. Any advice in dealing with boys/men would be greatly appreciated!

Chi-Chi

This is Chi-Chi. I went to Gunnison this past week to visit a friend and fell in love. I wasn't planning it, but that is usually how love happens right. So now I have two dogs, both pretty cute and small. Don't know if I am going to keep the name, so if anyone has ideas let me know. Am toying with the name Tayler the Late Dog.

Ahhh, Memories.....

On Saturday some friends and I went up to SLC and saw 'My Fair Lady' at the Pioneer Theater. It was great. The actors did very well, the costumes were fabulous, and they all had good sets of pipes, which is always a must have in a musical. I was slightly distracted during part of the play however. When Eliza Doolittle is singing her little heart about how long she could have danced for, my mind had wandered off into memories. The familiar words took be back to my freshman year of High School and to the all girls choir. We sang a medley of songs that Mr Lindsey mashed together himself on two of them came from 'My Fair Lady'. I have very fond memories of choir, but we had the most awful choir outfits that year. I think most of us in the choir have suppressed the memory, but let me just say- the pants! Oh my the pants. The concept was good in theory, but the fabric we ended up getting was not stage appropriate. We looked as if we had on black garbage bags. It was really bad. Not to mention the next year we had the dresses that wouldn't wrinkle. Anyone remember those??? Ah yes, fond memories indeed!

Tag I'm It!!!

So I was tagged by my most wonderful Lyndsie so here goes. I have to answer with one word answeres and then pass it on to seven others!
Ready, Set, Go:

1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Where is your significant other? non-existant
3. Your hair color? dyed
4. Your mother? tireless
5. Your father? employed
6. Your favorite thing? bed
7. Your dream last night? forgetable
8. Your dream/goal? celestial
9. The room you're in? living
10. Your hobby? reading
11. Your fear? snakes
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? married
13. Where were you last night? school
14. What you're not? asleep
15. One of your wish-list items? dishwasher
16. Where you grew up? Utah
17. The last thing you did? read
18. What are you wearing? scrubs
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? dog
21. Your computer? laptop
22. Your mood? tired
23. Missing someone? yes
24. Your car? escape
25. Something you're not wearing? bra
26. Favorite store? any
27. Your summer? vacationing
28. Love someone? lots
29. Your favorite color? purple
30. When is the last time you laughed? yesterday
31. Last time you cried? Saturday

So there you have it, my life in a nutshell. I am tagging: Melanie, Andrea, Erin, Jackie, Rachel, Jessica, and Keri.

Ode to a Mushroom

Disclaimer: this post will have nothing to do with mushrooms, just liked the title.

I had a fantastic Sunday!!! Even though I was incredibly sore- I walked a 5K on Saturday while walking my brother's dog, bad combo- I had a really great day. The highlight of the day after having my visiting teachers come, going to a commitee meeting, and church was choir practice!

Now I love my ward choir. Am slightly biased I will admit but I think it is one of the best choirs I have been in. I believe what really helps is 1) we have guys that show up and know how to sing and 2) most of the people in the choir have been in choirs previously so they already know how to read music.

We haven't been having choir practice in the summer because lets face it singles ward, no one is there in the summer, so we picked it up yesterday after a dry spell. I have been practically giddy all week because I knew that choir was happening on Sunday. My happiness was not wasted either! It was a great practice. Our first number we are going to sing is a fabulous arangement of 'I Need Thee Every Hour' and let me just tell you, I almost cried. We have new people in the choir and some of the tenors were amazing.

So I am happy! Not quite as happy as man happy, but pretty close.

Hair Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures of my new haircut. Hope this works! They aren't terrific, but you can kind of see the highlights a little.

Hair

So I cut my hair. It is now supper short and spiky. It is also now a dark brown with purple highlights! Picture to follow when I figure out how to post one, am slightly blog illiterite.

Mornings

I am really not a morning person. I would much rather stay up late and watch movies, talk on the phone, date, all that fun stuff. However, I have to get up at 5 in the morning in order to get to work by 6:30 so staying up late doesn't happen very often, and my morning starts very, very early. Now I say 'get up' because I am not really 'awake.' The waking up process doesn't start for about an hour, usually while I am driving to work, or on days like today, during the first couple of hours of work. I am kind of rambling, but that's ok cause I am really tired and have to stay awake for class tonight. Hopefully the diet coke will kick in soon!!!

Laundry Day

So I hate folding laundry. I really don't mind washing or drying the laundry, but I really, really, hate folding it and putting it away. More often than not my laundry will stay in the clothes hamper until I need to put it on, then it will be transfered to the dirty clothes hamper without ever seeing the inside of the dresser. I don't know where this aversion came from, but it is there. We have machines to wash and dry the cloths, so why not have one that folds them too???