Weekend Comments

“Lisa your really smart, you’re just lazy” and “You’re more likely to get cancer then to lose weight”. Yes, both these comments were said to me last week and I have to say both of these comments should have been kept to yourselves. Who says this crap to people? Well anyways both comments are under my skin at the moment and I’ve been fretting over them all weekend. What do both of these mean? Should I trust the sources they came from? One was a comment made by a co-worker and the other was some random person at Wendy’s at 11:30 at night with my friends. Am I lazy? What constitutes lazy? I just spent the entire weekend helping paint a condo that’s not even mine, my work week consist of project after project lately, I’ve been more social and out there this summer then I have been all year, but yet am I still considered lazy? And geeze I know I’m over weight, welcome to the story of my life, but really “I’m more likely to get cancer then to ever lose weight”. I have to tell you this might be a load off. My life of endless diets after another can finally come to and end. I can let my inner fat person take over and give up on the sofa with a tub of frosting and a spoon while watching Biggest Loser on TV. Why fight the fight. If this comment is correct I should be embracing it right? Afternoon workouts….. CANCELLED. Eating right…… CANCELLED. 8 glasses of water a day…… CANCELLED. I think you get the gist. Wow what a weight off my shoulders. At least as a true girl I can go to sleep tonight with the assurance that I may be lazy and I may die fat and with cancer, but at least I’m smart.

Update

Its going to be one of those days…. Everyone has called in sick to work today

Cough

Cough

I think I might be coming down with something (or maybe it’s just too quiet at work and I want to go home)…. You make the call doctor.

In the mist of my boredom today, I thought I would update my blog and my workings for the last month or so…………. Get ready for it!!!!!!!

Work; I passed my probation, with an EXCEPTIONAL status. I’m a full time state employee now…. Woot woot!

In the month of May I help put together, the State food drive where we collected $2700 and 5000 lbs of food for the Utah Food Bank… (largest donation ever to come from the State Government).

In my office, I set up a “Battle of the Sexes” game, pitting the men against the womento try to raise money. My office alone raised 174 lbs of food and $649, not bad for only 27 employees. The men won of course, but there’s always next year for the women.

Biggest Loser Competition…

(if you’ve seen the show, I do not need to explain more). This is the states way of getting all us fat, out

of shape state workers to lose weight….. in my part, they failed, but I made some friends out of the deal.

“E Team”: I have joined something called the “E team”. The governor has his new save 15% energy by 2015. The “E Team” is one of the quality teams that comes up with different ways to make this happen. This is oneof my newer projects at work, but I’m exited to see how it turns out.

Happy 30^th Birthday Wendy… yes I said 30. I couldn’t ask for a better big sis and my cool big sis just turned 30 on June 1^st. Her Hubby of almost 10 years just tuned 32 right along side her one May 31^st…. so Happy Birthday Trevor too…… the Adams of course had a pool party to honor their birthdays…. Nothing better then a swimming pool, BBQ, and cake all rolled into one.

I’ve justgotten back from St. George… My dad is working again up in St. George and my mom wanted someone to hang out with…. This was just a relaxing weekend chillin’ with my mom…. we watched movies “My Life in Ruins”& “Star Trek” (Star Trek was my dad’s choice… I don’t think my mom would’ve gone to it other wise). I went to the “Bear Paw”

and yes, it was as good as I remembered it. Saturday we road the Zion’s Tram around Zion’s National Park, held our breath through the 1.1-mile tunnel, hiked two of the hikes up at Zion and decided we’d had enough and went back to the hotel to relax.. I wasn’t ready to go back to work after this weekend. Time in St.George was too short.

Weddings; Singles friends for me in the past few years has been few and far between it seems. Well I’m about to lose another friend to the masses of married bliss. Jaime is getting married. Now with marriage comes the dreade Bridal Shower... Bridal Showers and Baby Showers are not a single girl’s friend. It reminds us that we’re just two cats short of being lonely the rest of our lives while our friends move on with their’s. Well I went… Jamie had a Bridal Shower this past week. Homemade coasters, homemade bath products, strawberry Costco cake, finger food, and four hours later the shower was done……. Remind me again why I go to these things? In addition, add the weird tan lines that won’t seem to go way from sitting in the sun those four hours.

.o bridal shower bliss!!

Sushi: okay okay I know to some of you don’t find sushi exciting, but for months, I have been trying to talk friends and family to try sushi with me. I’ve always wanted to try it, but no one will. Well thanks to Jaime, I have tried sushi… crunch rolls, California rolls, and everything in between. I love sushi …. Why I didn’t try it sooner I don’t know, but I have tried it and I like it….

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House Hunting: “Single female seeks rich, successful male to buy her a house”. In the words of Madonna, “we are living in a material world” and I am a single girl. For the past few months, I’ve been looking for a house… or townhome/condo to be more exact and boy have I been to some houses….. the houses I can afford I need to take a shower after touring them and the houses I love I keep getting outbid on. Let’s face it I’m a single girl in a couple’s society. I can’t buy a house alone so I need to start working on PLAN B…. use the money I can’t buy a house with, get some lipo, boob job, and find me a sugar daddy to buy a house for me…. I’ll let you know what happens. Hopefully I’ll find a house before the boob job.

Well all and all I think that’s the bulk of my past few months… if I left something out feel free to add…

MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice

Everyone wishes they could relive their childhood in some way or another and I have discovered a fun way to do it. It started with the New Kids on the Block Concert… (Yes, you read right). Nothing like girls, my age, with crimped hair, NKOB memorabilia, and screaming Donny we love you at the top of their longs all shoved into one concert hall. Now its time to repeat the whole experience….. this time its Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. This whole day at work, all I have in my head is “Ice Ice Baby” and I “Its Hammer Time”. I’m so exited, I can’t decide to go all out and find a fun 90’s outfit, (can you still find Hammer pants) or just to get all dolled up for it. 90’s Here I come! No worries I will take plenty of pictures.

So I’ve been slacking on my blog again and I was informed by a friend yesterday that I need to update. So here, it goes… the last month in a nutshell.

27th Birthday.

Well I’ve reached my twenty seventh year in life. I was told by Wendy that twenty-seven isn’t a big year to celebrate a birthday, but I beg to differ, what if I don’t make it to twenty-eight. I would have regretted not enjoying my twenty-seventh….

Birthday List:

Sparkly “Birthday Girl” Tierra (check)
Pink and White Feathered Boa (check)
Balloon that sings, “whoop there it is” (check)
Mexican Restaurant (check)
Movie “He’s just not that into you" (check)
Twenty-seven cupcakes spelling out “27” (check)
Envelope with twenty-seven dollars in it to buy twenty-seven things (check)
Having the little ones sing “Happy Birthday” (check)

You can put all the pieces together...


San Diego:

Well last weekend I went to San Diego with my mom and Wendy. The trip involved relaxing on the beach, visiting the San Diego Temple, eating and shopping at Old Town San Diego, and sitting back and relaxing for the weekend. Only downsides: listening to Wendy and my mom both snore, the traffic, backseat driving, and the monsoon that decided to hit San Diego the day we flew out. I would have pictures, but the battery on my camera died and my mom only believes in film… j/k.


Sleepovers

So about a month ago Tyler asked me about sleeping over at my apartment with just him and Ali (Bryce doesn’t sleep through the night yet). They sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa Adams all the time and I realized I haven’t had them come over once in the year I’ve lived in Sandy.

First sleepover:

Shopping: both got to pick out two treats, one drink, and their own pizza
Played “Ravenous Raving Rabbits” on my Wii
Watched indie movie “Bride & Prejudice”
Let them stay up til 2:00 am…

Drive home after sleepover;

Tyler: “This was fun Lisa”
Me: “Well anytime you guys want to sleepover let me know”
Tyler; “We get off track on Tuesday”

Second Sleepover:

Girls Night: Ali slept over at my apartment, while Ty slept over at Grandpa’s
Shopping: pick out two treats, one drink, and cheese pizza (yum )
Party store for boa, wand, rings, and a toy of Ali’s choice
Make chicken McNuggets since Ali didn’t like the cheese pizza
Movie “Tale of Despereaux” at the dollar movie
Silly String fight
Let Ali stay up and watch indie movie “Bride & Prejudice”
Morning: Bri made Chocolate chip pancakes for us

Drop Ali off:

Tyler: “So Lisa next sleepover, I think Ali should sleepover at Grandpa’s and I can sleepover at your house”

Lazy Weekend

This weekend I decided to be lazy… I bet my roomie enjoyed that. I put my phone on silent, just hung around house in my pj’s, watched the first season of “Roswell”, and did laundry. I know it sounds productive, but I think sometimes you just need a weekend where it’s all about you.

Now it’s Monday and I’m back to my daily responsibilities!

Weekend!

Well today, I’m sick. No need to alert the media or send out a news brief, but I am sick. I didn’t sleep a wink last night so pray that I don’t fall asleep at my desk. I don’t think that will go over too well since I’m the first person everyone see’s when they walk in the office. I had Tyler and Ali sleep over this weekend. Tyler had mentioned something about sleeping over so I thought now would be as good a time as any. I picked them up around 6 on Friday and then we went to the store where they both got to pick 2 different treats and a 2-liter of their choice. It wasn’t anything big, we just played Raving Ravenous Rabbids and American Idol and then I let them watch a movie, but we didn’t get to sleep until around 1:00 in the morning, so I’m thinking this lack of sleep is what contributed to my cold. The cute thing was I asked Tyler and Ali if they had fun and Tyler said we should have another sleepover. I told him to just let me know and I’ll ask his mom. Tyler’s response, “We get off track on Tuesday”. Saturday I went to Tyler’s basketball game where the kids tied 16 to 16, then I went shopping and to a movie with my mom. This cold didn’t hit me until Saturday night and I’ve spent the rest of my weekend in bed reliving the wonderful sun filled days of summer and wishing it was closer then it seems. Zzzzzzz oops sorry about that this blog made even me doze off for a bit….or was it the Nyquil?. I hope everyone had a good weekend and everyone drives safety in the snow!

Meow

Okay so I’m sure you’re all getting sick of me at this point, but I really have to post the past 20 minutes of my life… I believe I’ve just eaten cat. Now I cannot confirm or deny the fact, but the texture was defiantly not chicken. When you order from a Chinese place and its sesame chicken, trust me you want the texture to be that of a chicken.. otherwise, your head goes to places like the back alley of the Chinese place or the local animal shelter. Talk about adopt a pet! Needless to say, I did not finish off the poor animal.. I hope by throwing the remains in the garbage the poor thing doesn’t think it died in vain. I believe I have just tried my first and last cat dish of my life. I think my stomach is meowing as I type this. I’m having visions of “spaceballs” when the alien comes out of the guys stomach at the bar and starts singing “hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my big time gal”, but in my case, it’s going to be the cat I just consumed…… Help! See below for visual!!!

to be private or not private that is the question?

So if you haven’t noticed I’ve been fighting with whether to put my blog to private or to just leave it open for all to see. It bugs me that I have to log on to my blog to look at others blogs, but at the same time I have people checking my blog several times a day, when its really not that fascinating to look at, so why check it so much. So please just bare with me as I keep putting it to private and then off again. I just can’t figure out what to do yet.

Empty Office!

So I am in the office alone today. All of my main bosses are out in meetings this morning, even Julie has left the building. I would like to say when the cat is a away the mice will play, but I am sitting at the front desk, so its not like I can really run and play, but this does mean I don’t really have anything to do. I’m an assistant, what do I do with no one to assist? Update on the job though. I still love my job. Everyone seems super stressed right now in the office, but that’s to be expected. In the first three months of the year, the legislature is in session. Meaning no parking, lots of budget meetings for my bosses, trainings for loss control, and lots of paper work for everyone else in the office. I’ve been told this is the most stressful and busiest time of the year. The legislator is also talking about cutting the health department from the state and redistributing it throughout different departments. That seems to be the uproar of today and yesterday it was losing all our parking spots to the big wigs. I’m still the new girl, I don’t understand all the inside jokes or past history, but its nice to just be the person people want to get to know. Most of all I’m just so grateful for this job. I guess I didn’t realize how much the old one was affecting me not only at work, but in my life. I’ve noticed since the moment they let me go at CMC everything just got lighter. I leave work with a smile on my face every night and I don’t dream about what I have to do the next day anymore. Everything just feels like its getting back to where it should be; family, friends, life…. I just need to find a way to keep this positive mojo going.

Institute Thought

So we went to institute tonight and I just wanted to share a thought about what we learned. Tonight’s lesson for me was basically about what sacrifices the prophets have made for us and what sacrifices people in our lives make for us and what are we going to do with that. My teacher brought up Joseph Smith. He found something to believe in and would not falter on that belief. He was tortured and even martyred in his life for that belief. Would I have survived in those days with the trials that the saints suffered? They paved the way to bring forth the gospel today and I take it for granted everyday. Also in life, we’re going to have trials, but those trials are there for us to become stronger and learn from these trials so when bigger trials come our way we’re ready to face them. In the past few months it just seems like its been one thing after another and last night I just realized does any of this really matter. Am I making the sacrifices that are leading me to my real purpose in life or am I dwelling on the small trials I’m suffering in life now. I feel so far behind from where I need to be, but do I want to be an example in life or someone who falls behind. There’s a lot of work to be where I want to be, but I feel like it’s never too late to make those changes. God has never turned away from me, but how I’m living my life now, have I turned away from him?

Birthday Lunch!

So they’re having a birthday luncheon at work today for all the people who have Birthday’s in January. I’m sorry to say I’m dreading it. I mean I don’t really celebrate my birthday anyways, but now we’re going to add a luncheon to the mix. I’ve only worked at this job a month. I mean they pick to show me who likes me and who doesn’t it after only a month here. I just found out the “popular girls” in my office aren’t going to come, but they made cupcakes in their absence. Should I take that personally or should the other two people who have birthdays in January take it personally? Think I’m allowed to skip my own birthday luncheon, there will be two other people to create the distraction and I can always go next year when I know a few more people. Maybe I can make an excuse about how I have to man the phones. Ahhhhh! But I’m sticking with my new resolution of stepping out of the box or out of my comfort zone per say. So wish me luck… no Happy Birthday, cause we know I’m going to hear enough of that for one day!