9.67 Dozen

9.67 dozen. Or 120. Thats how many cookies I made today. I am pretty much cookied out. I made 8 dozen for the construction workers at church, and then with the left overs my roommates ate some. I also made a bag of them to take with me to work tonight because the nurses are nicer if you feed them. Seriously. Now I am going to curl up in my bed for a couple of hours before I have to go to work.

Could've Been

I have been in a weird mood, and filling out random things seem to go along with it. I am not going to tag anyone because I don't want them to feel obligated, but feel free to copy and paste!
Some of these were pretty funny.


1. Put your iPod or iTunes library, or MP3 player etc... on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing this as well as the person you got this from.

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
I want to know what love is


WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Being in Love

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Le Ballet D'Or

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
One Vision

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
God With Us

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Bless Me Indeed

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Full Moon

WHAT IS 2+2
Your Grace is Enough

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
My Favorite Things

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
What the World Needs

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Last Regret

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
(Another Song) All over again

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Grey

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
If We are the Body

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Yes

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Sandy

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Hound Dog

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Hello

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Hope

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
What I Want

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
SOS

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Wherever We Go

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Up Periscope

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Angel

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Life, Love & Other Mysteries

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Come Back to Bed

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Carol Ann

WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Could've Been

16 Random things about me

1.I love the dentist. Seriously.
2.I can't get dressed unless my bed is made. I don't want to throw my clean clothing that I am going to wear for the day on the unmade bed.
3.I have watched every episode of Friends ever made.
4.I can read really fast.
5.I love my down comforter- it makes a crinkly sound when I am sleeping under it.
6.I love city noises- trains, sirens, that sort of thing.
7.One time I had $5 that I lost and I think my brothers gerbil ate it.
8.I read People magazine every week.
9.I have been to Mexico without a passport.
10.I once killed a chipmunk with my bike.
11.I love scrabble. A lot.
12.I still play with my dollhouse.
13.I have cousins that are two months older than me but I graduated a year ahead of them.
14.There is a tattoo that I want on my back but I am afraid of needles.
15.I have at least ten purses.
16.I love the cold weather and snow and everything.

I tag LisaGrace, Mandy... you have to say 16 random things about yourselves.

SUPER Deal

OMG.
I NEVER say that. In fact, I abhor that "phrase."
This deserves it.
I ran into Target this morning after work to pick up a baby gift. I noticed that all of the clearance racks had something white on their signs. When I read it it said that there was an extra 30% off the already clearanced price. Seriously. Most everything was already 50-75% off, so I spent $32.29 on the following:
Black pajama pants- My favorite fabric, and its usually pretty expensive.
Fleece pajama pants- Superman print-- just for fun
Grey dress shirt- for just that-- dressing up
Grey short robe- I have been looking for a hooded robe, and I found one for less than $7
4 pairs of socks.
And the baby gift. I was/am so excited!
But no more target for me... I have blown my target budget.
Totally worth it.

Seriously

I had a plan for sleeping and working this week. It kinda flew out the window when I woke up today at 1:30 after being asleep since 9:30. Dang it.
Oh well... I am just laying in bed all afternoon and evening so maybe it will all balance out.

10 Hours

I amazed myself today. Seriously. I slept 10 hours!! I fell asleep at like 9am then woke up at 7pm. I don't think I even got up to go to the bathroom. I was way tireder that I thought. Then I usually spend some time with my roommates but the dining room was too bright so I went back to my room and watched a disk of 30rock with the lights off.
And had a bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
That was my day, and now I am at work. Also... my jaw is still really tender, so I just don't touch that side of my face.
Have a nice day!

Half Price Books

As I mentioned in my last post, I went to Half Price Books the other day. Super fun!
They price the books at half of the manufacturers price so a paperback is like five dollars. They also had quite a nice selection, which I was rather suprised. I had envisioned a warehouse with piles of old books all around but I was wrong.
Worth checking it out!

ReStyle

In my effort to spend my money purposefully this year, I went to an adult consignment shop. I don't usually like going to those because they are can be pretty skanky, but I thought it would be good to know where one is and if it is worth going to. It totally was.
Yesterday my mom and I went down to Des Moines to run some errands, she needed to buy text books and go to the Des Moines Sams Club, and I needed to go to the uniform shop to get some more scrubs. I decided when you work full time, it is really needed to more than one pair of pants that are for work. I was doing laundry WAY too much.
We also went to Half Price books which was right next door to the uniform shop.
Anyway.
The consignment shop was called ReStyle, and it was in a cute business park that has some sort of castle reference in the name. If you look on google maps is is 1.8 miles from Merle Hay Mall to give you a reference point.
Everything there was clean, well organised and very neat. I used to work at Duckworth Wearing on mainstreet here in Ames, so I am pretty particular about neatness and the like.
I bought a cute sweatshirt from Gap, an undershirt that was C9 from target, but they are not cheap there, and a green leather purse. All together I spent $11!! I was super excited about my new find!
My friend Lisa had gone there the other day and told me she liked it, and she wasn't wrong.
They don't have a website but HERE is the like for the address and phone number.
Another good consignment shop is Plato's Closet by Jordan Creek.
Happy bargain hunting!

I LOVE THE DENTIST!!!

I may be the only person that thinks this, but I love going to the dentist. I am a teeth person so it makes me happy to go and they super clean your teeth, and tell you that you are brushing well. I was told that have to floss for about the thousandth time at my last checkup, and in the month since then I have flossed about three times. But I am trying.

Anyway

I had to go back today to have a cavity fixed. I don't care... because it is sitting in a chair for a while and they are making your smile that much better.

They prepped my mouth with some cherry tasting stuff and I thought, great, start the drilling! The my dentist said; "ok, I want you to wiggle your toes and breath through your nose." I thought thats weird, and then she put a HUGE needle into my mouth and gave me a bunch of shots. I didn't even care. Progress on the needle front.

That was the coolest feeling having almost exactly half of your face numbed.

Thats really all I wanted to say, and I really like my dentist.

Have a nice day!

Picnik

My new favorite website for editing picture is Picnik. It is so much fun to play with your pictures and make them fancy or whatever.

Christmas 2008

These were the presents on the Sunday morning before Christmas. My family did not want to wait until Christmas to open presents, so we had our gift exchange the sunday before. They were all going to Texas Christmas night so they wanted to get gifts out of the way before then.

It was rather sad that my mom didn't even put up a tree.

These were some p.j.'s that Esther got, I was rather jealous, I wanted some just like that!

I spent Christmas Eve and Day at my grandmas with my cousins and brother, and aunt and uncle. We played twister... Bailey had to have help stretching.

One of Justus' presents... it was pretty cool, we played with it later.

Aunt Teresa and me.

The night my roommates broke my bed.

'Twas before Christmas, not sure of how many nights, the roommates and I were being quite nice. We had presents for each other before we all went away.

We were goofing around, taking pictures for fun, when all of the sudden, we heard a gun.

Just kidding I just needed to rhyme. Now to get this finished in time.

With a crash and a snap, the bed went tumbling down. Everyone had to get away so that Kaci would stay. We took a picture and laughed all around, but I was a bit sad for my bed breaking down.

This is what happens when you put four people on an antique bed, it just does not hold up the it would if it were a sled.

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year everyone! I rang in the new year at work, and even that I almost forgot to note when the years changed over. Excitingly enough, we had to log out at 12:00am and log back in a minute later to get a higher shift differential. That is what second and third shift as an incentive I guess for working those. Its an extra three dollars an hour so I don't complain. I did also get time and a half too because it was a holiday.
Did anyone have a resolution this year?
I did actually. I usually don't, simply because I don't care that much. This year though my friend called me and said that she didn't want to buy anything new this year. She was going to do the whole consignment thing, and eBay and garage sales. I was super excited for her, and then thought, well, why don't I do that too? So she and I are going to be spending purposefully this year. We will do our best to buy second hand because that is always at least half the price. If we have to buy something new it will be something that we REALLY need, and not just a want.
I am super excited to get started! We both went shopping the other day and kind of got splurge shopping out of our system.
I know I am behind on posting pictures, but I will get to those tomorrow!