i love this guy

My sister FINALLY put up new pictures of Connor. He's getting so big! He's almost 5 months old. The last time I saw him he was 2 months...i NEED to see him soon or else he'll be a grown up next time i see him!

anyway, so here's a few pics of the cutest baby ever born on this universe(believe me,once you see these, you will agree 5000 percent)


handsome little man:



big smile!



his first attempt at eating solid food! (that's rice,btw)



he's the cooooolest



so this weekend FLEW by for me! on saturday i had a mandatory training thing at the starbucks corporate office building in seattle for work. it was from 9-3. it wasn't so bad, we got free coffee and tea! plus we got paid! so i can't complain about that.

on sunday i was baby sitting hiedis two boys while she went to work. it wasn't an amazingly beautiful day but it was nice enough to go outside. we walked a couple of miles to a park where they got to play for a bit. then we walked back home. it was nice to get out and get some exercise while breathing fresh air. i don't get to do anything during the week besides work,come home,sleep, start over, so i try to make the most of my weekends. this one was definitely a great one! it went by too fast! maybe obama will pass a law to make weekends longer...a girl can dream!

til next time...

hello,you

in case you can't tell by my lack of blogging, these past few weeks have been pretty hectic. I haven't even had time to THINK about blogging. actually,that's not true. on saturday night i made a really long videoblog, but it had no sound. so,you get this.

let's see...what have i been up to the past 2 weeks...

well, the mxpx show i went to in seattle with my friend cindi was a BLAST. that night we came back to my house,played some Phase 10 and fell asleep. the next day it was gorgeous so we took a walk around downtown tacoma with my roommate heidi.

me and cindi:


after that, back to work for a week.

on FRIDAY my friend Sarah from california flew up for the weekend. crazy insane good times were had by all. her friend allie drove up from oregon to meet us in tacoma and that weekend we managed to: see jimi hendrix grave, drink lots of coffee,go to a Tumbledown show in Seattle, visit pikes place market and the original starbucks,have a super fun dance party that resulted in sarah setting her hair on fire(hahahahahahahahaha!...i mean, how tragic...),eating a delicious breakfast at ihop, seeing the "famous mountain", and seeing every site in my area that had to with the movie 10 things i hate about you that there was to be seen.(if i missed anything,sarah, feel free to add that on)there are lots and lots of pictures and video that i will put up at a later time. PROMISE. i was super sad to see her go, but i'm planning a trip to cali at the end of march so i'm REALLY excited for that!

while i'm on the subject of trips...i'm also planning a trip to houston to visit my sister and her family in may and i'm DEFINITELY going to be in minnesota for the 4th of july.you heard it here first! more busy-ness to come...can't wait!!

you may remember reading about me wanting to apply for the free online classes my work offers and going for my Child Development Associates. Well, i've officially applied and should hear back whether i got accepted by the end of february.

that's about the jist of it for now. hope everyone is doing ok...i know i owe some of you phone calls and emails...i'll get to those as soon as i can! talk to YOU soon!

something to someone

i have a few songs i could listen to repeat day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, second after second, and never get tired of. these songs include:
come down to me-saving jane
invitation to understanding(acoustic)-mxpx
world spins madly round-the weepies


another one of these is "something to someone" by Lit. when i was homeless back in the beginning of '06 i connected to this song because i felt like no one wanted me,wanted me to live with them, or wanted me around. i love these lyrics and have been listening to them all night...so here they are,for your reading pleasure:


Something To Someone lyrics
They say something I don't wanna hear
Ringin' like a shotgun in my ear
But they don't know what I'm really aimin' for
Gonna leave a mark on society


Faster and faster my whole situation
Fallin' apart, crossin' my heart
And I hope to live
But something has to give

'Cuz I just wanna be something
I just wanna be someone
Someone who stands out in the crowd
Mother would be proud
Something to someone

These days gettin' shorter by the year
Tickin' like a time bomb loud and clear

Faster and faster the whole situation
Fallin' apart, straight from the heart
Then I sing my song
And I'll prove them wrong


Faster and faster my own situation
Rollin' along, provin' you wrong
And you can't believe
What you see when you're lookin' at me...


Somethin' to someone

i've got sunshine, on a cloudy day

my car has not had a working sound system in it for about 2 months now. because of this, i spend a lot of time thinking when i am driving from point A to point B.

today, while i was driving my 35 minute commute to work i had a revelation.

this is a good week, and i am feeling good.

there is no specific reason for this. my life is SO far from perfect,i don't have anything super special going on(currently), and i haven't won the lottery(that i know of), i just feel good. i'm sure i SHOULD be feeling stressed, or worried, or i should be moping about how much something isn't going right, but i'm not, and i have no desire to. my preschool kids have been acting like maniacs, i can't find my debit card, and i don't have any quarters to do laundry...but i don't care. right now, i feel like i'm on cloud nine, and nothing could bring me down.

play it loud

I have a couple of pretty big weekends coming up that i'm absolutely STOKED to tell you about.





First off, this coming weekend I am getting to see my favorite band in the whole entire universe, MxPx, play for the first time in over a year. Now, when it comes to this band, I've been pretty spoiled. They happen to be local (from Bremerton,WA) so i've seen them live quite a few times. I think I saw them 7 times in one year at some point. Anyway, going a year w/out seeing them live has not been my favorite. They are playing a benefit show at El Corazon on Saturday, Jan 31st. My favorite blue haired girl Cindi is going to be accompanying(sp??) me that night, as well as the rest of the weekend, and we ALWAYS have a great time. Good times will be had by all for SURE.



The next weekend, Feb 6th-Feb 8th my friend Sarah will be flying in from California to visit ME!! Yep, I get a visitor. I'm stoked. We have SO much planned it's ridiculous. One weekend is not enough time! Incentive to come back?? I think so! On Friday we are gonna be attending a Tumbledown show in Seattle (her first, my 345978th). Who's Tumbledown?you ask?? Well, look at the 4 hot dudes above and then Google Mike Herreras Tumbledown. They're rad. Other things we have planned are: visiting Bremerton,eating, visiting Seattle, eating, visiting the original Starbucks, eating, eating and...oh, eating.

Can't wait!!

procrastination

Not much has changed since the last time I updated, hence the lack of updates. Did I mention before that our basement flooded? Cause it did. Dudes have been working "hard" at getting it dry and putting our basement back together. Well, it's dry. The carpet has been stretched and new padding has been put in place. It's finally livable again! which is so nice. I love the fact that i can walk to my room without worrying about tripping over an exercise machine or some rolled up carpet. Now the trim needs to be put back on, walls painted, and bathroom tile needs replaced. After allll that...we're good to go!

I've got most everything unpacked. Just a small bag on the bottom of my closet floor that i forgot about. I need to buy some curtains for my VERY see through blinds, and then finally bring over and unpack the stuff from my parents house. I'm hoping I'll find my flute sometime, I'd love to bust it out and see how wonderfully amazing I still am!

I've been thinking about dying my hair black again. I dunno though. It may look weird just cause my hair is so long. So i made a promise to myself that if/when i lose 30 lbs i will chop off all my hair(again)and dye it black(again). Just you wait and see!

Have I mentioned that the company i work for, Bright Horizons, is named one of the top 100 companies to work for by Forbes?? One of the perks of working for my company is they have this thing called Bright Horizons University. In this university you have the option of taking classes and earning your Child Development Associate certification...for FREE! This is a big deal and once I am certified I will receive a 10 percent pay raise. I have the option of taking classes online or at a local community college, I will be taking them online. Also, it will take about 15 months. There is an option for a "fast track" so i'm hoping to qualify for that, so i can get done sooner!

Ok,that's really about it for now. If anything exciting happens i promise you guys will be the first to know. Love ya!

heidiheidiheidiho

It's Saturday night and I just got back from watching my roommate, Heidi, play an acoustic set with her friend Chris at a coffee shop Forza right down the street from our house. Can I just rant and rave on how talented she is?? For real. Her voice is so clear and pure and amazing it's wonderful to hear. One night she was giving me an impromptu guitar lesson and she was singing a lot of her songs for me. I told her "Heidi, all your songs are so sweet sounding whether you're sad, or happy, or mad. Sing me a sound and sound ANGRY!". Yeah, not possible. She's only been playing the guitar for almost two years now but some of the songs that she's written have great lyrics that just run through your head day and night and you want to apply them to your life. Those are my favorite kinds of songs. I've been attempting to learn my guitar for about two years now. I always am hardcore into it for a month or two, then just stop practicing. But right after I'm done with this I'm gonna go work on what I know and get good at the guitar! Maybe someday someone can be writing a blog about how talented THEY think I am. That would be sweet.

Anyway, not only is she an amazing musician and writer, she's a wonderful mother who loves her boys so much and it shows in how she takes care of them and is protective of them from the bad things in life. She can paint and draw like it's ridiculous. I would truly be so honored to have one of her paintings hanging up on my bedroom wall. On top of all of THAT she's one of the nicest, most kind people I know, who I know would do anything for the people that she loves. She really is an inspiration as a single, working mom. I'm in awe at all the things she has accomplished and things I know she will accomplish despite all the complications that have been thrown her way.

It's very odd for me to be this in awe of someone, especially since I've known her for a short amount of time,and especially to write a blog about it and state it publicly for people to read, but I had to get it out there, how great this friend of mine is.

If you would like to check out some of her music you can go to her music myspace at http://www.myspace.com/heidivladyka. The songs that are up are just rough cuts of things she's written, probably recorded in her bedroom at home.

End rant.