Time

I am sitting at my sister's office and we started talking about blogs. I realized this is one time where I actually have time on my hands so I might as well write a blog post. This weekend I got to go on a last minute trip back to the midwest to visit my brother and sister. I am very lucky to have siblings that I actually like to hang out with! This weekends events include: - bonding time with my sister's cat and dog who both have made decisions to see how physically close they can get to people. - getting to see my brother's band The Wheelers play at Mission Creek Festival - getting to join my brother and see the Poison Control Center at Gross Domestic Product in Des Moines, IA - getting to see some fun friends who I haven't seen in a while - doing some shopping with the sister - having some bonding time with the brother Should be a great weekend filled with great music and friends! Definitely looking forward to it!!

I attract the creepies

I have a reoccurring problem of attracting creepy men. It use to just be creepy old men which always was a little entertaining and you could brush it off with the phrase "Oh Grandpa!" but now it is not only the creepy old men, it is becoming the creepy younger men as well! I'm not sure what to think about it or if it is something I need to be very concerned about.

2 years and 6 months later...

I had a conversation with a friend about 3 months back about blogs. I told him I use to have a blog but my life is boring. He informed me that those are sometimes the best blogs. So in hopes of providing another boring life turned into an interesting blog, I decided to start my blog up again. Though I probably won't inform people of it. :) I did also start a blog to keep my family updated on my Grandma who was in the hospital for about a month. I think that blog may be more entertaining than this one.

5 Months Later, WOW!

Wow! So it has been a long time since I added a new post. So much has happened in the last 5 months or so! How time flies and how things change! No pictures were ever posted of the photo shoot that was taken back at the end of February. I continue to be friends with the bar tenders there and continue to visit the bar. There are a couple people I have met there that definitly will be friends of mine for years to come!

This summer has been a whirlwind! I had a family reuinion in June, went to visit friends in Nashville in July, and had family come out to visit in August. This month is going to be the craziest though! This next weekend I am going back to Iowa for a friend's wedding. I haven't seen her in about 10 years! It will be a lot of fun to see her and other people back in IA! It will be a very quick trip but it should be lots of fun!

I'm excited I am finally going to Journey concert. I have been trying for a few years with my friend Joy but now finally am going! I am sad that she will not be able to join me but I know I'll be txting and calling her periodically through out to tell her how much I miss her and wish she was there and remember great times of karokeing to them!

There are so many more stories, and adventures that I have had the last 5 months but I don't have time to explain and tell them all but I will try not to let another 5 months go before I write again.
Some highlights that I have learned:
- Live is very random and entertaining
- Boys are weird
- I really does take about 2 years of living in one place before you start to get a good group of friends
- I have been blessed with great friends from all over the different places I've lived and visited!

Photo Shoot

So far 2008 has been one of the most interesting years in my entire life. Not only did I get a charcoal sketch done of me in Starbucks but this last Sunday, my cousin and I went to check out this bar near the house she has been living at and got roped into doing a photo shoot for the bar. We almost didn't even stay but my cousin decided we should just go for it and try the place out. It was one of the best decisions! Not only did we get free drinks and food but coming soon you wil get to see her and me on a website holding up our drinks and pretending to be best friends with people we met 5 minutes earlier. It was definitly a memorable night! If 2008 can be this amazing and uncomfortable in the first 2 months, I am interested in seeing how the rest of the year goes!

(I know you are dieing to know, and I'll let you know when the pictures are up :))

I'm ready!

When did I become old? I knew it was coming and have been fighting it in a way but today I officially felt old and think I might actually be ok with it. I came to this realization when I read an email from a friend of mine. She had a meeting with a guy and said that he was young and couldn’t be over 31. I totally agree with her that 31 is young and that’s when I realized that I am officially old. I know I am still 5 years away from even turning 30 but to view 31 as young, I think that makes me old. Besides that, I can’t drink like I use to any more. I figured that one out a couple weekends ago when I went to visit friends in LA. I always thought that when I turned 25, that would be when I needed to figure out when I should start worrying about wrinkles and start using an anti-wrinkle cream or something. I am turning 25 in 36 days. I can’t eat anything I want like I use to and when I do I can get the pounds off but they don’t come off as easily as they use to. I still feel young in some ways though. I can’t imagine being married right now. I know people who have gotten married at 19 or 20 and cannot imagine being married for 5 years at my age. My Mom already had 2 kids at my age. I haven’t even changed a dirty diaper. My cousin just had a baby a month ago and I am totally content being the “fun cousin Beth” for at least a few years. I watched my cousin’s baby for about an hour a few weeks ago and that was the first time I had ever baby sat for a child under the age of 1. I have been out of college for almost 3 years now as well. I think I am finally ok with turning 25 though. I have been struggling with it for the last year but today I finally feel ready. I’m ready to put all the dumb decisions, bad choices in boyfriends, and bad choices in friends behind me. Take the things I have learned in life, the person I have become and step forward into the unknown world of adulthood. I still have a long ways to go but I am slowly learning what I want out of life and what is really important to me and the type of person I want to strive to be.

Uncomfortable Morning

I had a really weird day today! My boss who is also one of my cousin's wife called me this morning and asked if I would watch her about 2 week old baby, Rocklyn, while she ran to a meeting. Her monther-in-law is coming in to town today and she was thinking that she would be around to watch Rocklyn while my boss went to the meeting but her mother-in-law wasn't going to be in town soon enough. So I went down to where the meeting was with her and just hung out at a Starbucks and watch Rocklyn while my boss went to the meeting. I walk into Starbucks and place Rocklyn down and not even 30 seconds after I place her down and start thinking about how I was going to work the whole juggling her and my purse while I go get a drink when this random guy comes over to chat with me about Rocklyn. He is definitly older than my dad and starts chatting with me about Rocklyn and asks if he can get me a coffee. I tell him I'm ok, I'll get myself a drink in a minute. He insits and I give in and he goes to get me a coffee. He comes back and starts chatting with me. I first think he is just a nice man and think nothing of his chit chatting with me. The next thing I know he is telling me that I should come down to Renton sometime (the city we are currently in) and he would show me around which is a little odd to me. He is an artist and the next thing I know he decides he wants to do a charcoal drawing of Rocklyn. I was a little annoyed because he was trying to get better lighting and was more concerned about getting the right angle than keeping her asleep. My main concern was obviously to keep her asleep because I knew the moment she woke up she would start crying. The next thing I know he decides Rocklyn is kind of hard to draw so he wants to draw me. I'm trying to focus on Rocklyn and keep her asleep while he is telling me to look at him and turn my head certain ways. Then he starts joking with me about how I am going to pay him for the drawing and suggests maybe I should go to lunch or dinner with him. Very uncomfortable at this moment, I just laugh it off and say that he was the one that wanted to draw in the first place. Thankfully Tarelle came not too long after this and rescued me and Rocklyn. He drew 3 pictures and gave them to Tarelle and I. Needless to say I don't think I have ever been so uncomfortable in my entire life.