Happy Birthday Sarah!!!!

Our fabulous roomate Sarah turned the big 22 last week. Last year we threw a huge 21st Birthday for her with all of our friends. This year she wanted something more demure and so we appeased her with a celebration of my homeade pizza, homeade birthday cake made by Chelsea, a movie and a glass of wine the weekend of her Birthday and dinner out at Wing Central on her Birthday. Sarah is an amazing roomate and friend. She is kind and thoughtful and is always there when you need her. I feel so blessed to have her!!! Happy Birthday Watkins! I hope you have a wonderful year!!! :) Ps...welcome to the old people's club! ;) (My pictures were taken with the camera phone hince the graininess)



I made stuffed pumpkin pizzas...rolled out the dough and cookie cutted it
Tomato Paste, Cheese, Sausage, and Olives!!!

Put the other half on top and creased the edges! Ready to bake!

Come out all doughy and crispy goodness! :)

Sarah with her homeade chocolate cake (and the Yankees in the background!)

Sarah with her cake and her birthday card I made!

When Sarah went to class on Friday Chelsea and I quickly went into action....her making the cake and me making her card! Sarah LOVES Halloween...this was very fitting! :)

Summer Pictures From My Phone....

Cameron Bug

Cold in my Kiosk

Toke taunting Gunner

My Birthday cake...inflamed

Toke all cuddled up

The Bullpen @ The Rainier's Game...on the hunt for Brandon Morrow!

Sitting Fireside @ Chelsea's The 3 little kidlets looking out the window for Mom

Reasons I Love Fall

• Everything Pumpkin Spice! Coffee Creamer in my morning breakfast drink or in my hot chocolate...or a delicious smelling candle
• The smell of wood burning fires
• The beautiful colors on the trees as they change...There is a section of campus where the trees are old and line the entire street dangling their colored leaves...its just gorgeous!
• Snuggled up in a blanket watching TV in front of the Fireplace
• Halloween Movies!
• The foggy mornings and the distinct smell of fall
• Football Sundays with homework and hearing Chelsea yell for the Seahawks
• Being able to wear a vest with a long sleeve shirt underneath...no reason for a heavy jacket yet!

and quite possibly the most fabulous reason I love Fall.....

• BASEBALL PLAYOFFS!!! while its tragedy the Mariners are not in it this year its something Im used to! :) I love the excitement, the rivalries, the pressure, and the legends that are born in the playoffs. I love carving my pumpkins while watching The World Series. I love spreading my homework out on the floor during Playoff Saturday's and watching game after game in front of the fire. I simply...love it. I live for it. Each moment is a piece of our history. Its incredible.

HAPPY FALL TO YOU ALL! :)

Our Afternoon of Crazy

Okay...so everyone knows we have a very interesting black cat named Toke here at school. He is our baby. He loves to cuddle, snores, loves people food and weighs about 15 pounds. Toke is also illegal meaning we are harboring him without actually paying for him here in our residence therefore, he is an indoor cat. Toke, would never survive outside and only goes outside when we are holding him. He is always around one of us and you can say he is attatched at the hip of either Chelsea and I. If he is not with either of us he is in his bed by the tv and fire in the livingroom. We are so very careful in not letting him outdoors. If we have people over we lock him in one of our rooms so he doesnt accidently get out.

Therefore, you can imagine my suprise when as I was walking home from class today I get a frantic phonecall from Chelsea saying Toke had gone missing. That Sarah and her had searched all over the house and could not find him anywhere and that the yard guy had said he had seen an adult black fat cat near the edge of Timothy Park's property near the big cow field. I thought it was a cruel joke. But then remembered that right before I had left for class I had stood in the doorway with the door wide open talking to my roomies before I shut the door and walked to school. I didnt remember Toke wandering past me outside but it was very possible that he had.

I was in a panic. I called for him as I got closer to home yelling "Here Kitty Kitty! Come here Toke!! Tokeriah!" like a fool. I went wandering partially into the cow field hoping to see him chasing a bird. Sarah and I met at home and preceded to drive around calling his name and parking near another field looking for him. Sarah who is not a huge fan of little Tokeriah wandered through a field yelling for him. I am crying thinking I have lost our cat! We looked through open garages thinking he had wandered in there hiding. We called his name and listened hoping to hear the meow we are so used to. I went in and looked through my closet afterall he loves to hide in there sometimes. Chelsea and Sarah had also looked in all the closets, the laundry room, under the beds, in the bathrooms, opened cubbards and decided he was indeed not in the house.

Chelsea came home from school and we wandered through Timothy Park calling for him and preceded to knock on doors to tell people that our black fat cat named Toke was missing and if they saw him to try and catch him and bring him to us. I can only imagine what people thought of three crazy girls crying about their fat cat named Toke. I just couldnt believe that he had gotten out and kept thinking that he had been watching the birds out my window which gets him so excited, saw the open door and made a run for it and quite possibly decided to follow me to school.

After we knocked on prettymuch everbody's doors in the vicinity of the area including looking under porches and barns across the street we came home and decided to call and leave descriptions with Vet offices as well as the humane society. Chelsea made signs to put up in case he didnt come home. We left his food dish and scratching post on the front porch hoping he would pick up the smell of home.

Chelsea then decided she would go on a run and see if she maybe didnt see him. Sarah and I settled in to do our homework with every blind and window open in the house hoping to maybe see him run across the lawn. I kept thinking that I heard a funny noise. As I was writing the homework assignments I needed to complete on my white board I heard a noise and looked over and lo and behold...there was tokeriahs head sticking out of the closet. Imagine my shock as I yelled TOKE! I started crying and grabbed him hugging him even Sarah was happy to see him and took off to try and find Chelsea...and then...the extreme anger set in. HE WAS IN MY CLOSET THE ENTIRE TIME!!!!!!!!!! all three of us had looked for him. we had called for him! we had tried to lure him out with food! HE IGNORED us! He got a bath as punnishment. He smells so good now

• Now everyone in the vicinity knows that the crazy girls at 801 have fat black cat named Tokeriah...I keep expecting somebody to bring a random black cat to our place
• Chelsea chased after a random black cat thinking it was Toke only to find she was chasing somebody elses black cat who did not appreciate her chasing their cat
• We atleast now know all of our neighbors...it was a great way to meet guys!
• Sarah and I got honked at and flipped off because we were driving so slow hoping to spot him
• our cat apparently hates us because he wouldnt respond to us even though we were all calling for him and looking for us in the closet and even bribed him with food
• 4 veternary offices now have a description of fat black cat named Toke
• we found out Sarah really does love Tokeriah
• we are reinforced in thinking that Toke would never survive outside as he layed on his back tonight curled up in my arms under a blanket watching Greys Anatomy.

But most important the little stinker was hiding in my closet the entire time. He has one hell of a hiding spot. And he never escaped. He was safe the entire time. Too bad we wasted 4 and half hours of our lives looking for the little poop.

A Fun Survey

***********FOODOLOGY***************

What is your salad dressing of choice? Ranch

What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? I do Love Red Robin

What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of? Pizza!

What are your pizza toppings of choice? Maui Zaui from Round Table...ham, bacon, pineapple, onion, green onion, cheese...

What do you like to put on your toast? Peanutbutter and Blackberry Jelly

********TECHNOLOGY***************

How many televisions are in your house? We have 4 here at Timothy Park

What color is your cellphone? Black and Red

Do you have an iPod? yes. sometimes its my best friend! :)

***************BIOLOGY******************

Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right

Have you ever had anything removed from your body? Wisdom Teeth and a Cyst in the back of my knee

What is the last heavy item you lifted? Probably shipment at work

Have you ever been knocked unconscious? Nope!

************BULLOLOGY**************

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? Yes.

If you could change your name, what would you change it to? Im not sure I would change it

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000? Probably not. It could very well kill me haha

**************FAVORITOLOGY****************

Season? Fall. Especially in Ellensburg!

Holiday? Christmas

Day of the week? Thursday

Month? December

***********CURRENTOLOGY*****************

Missing someone? I miss Melissa. I miss my Mom. I miss Cameron Bug. I miss my co-workers

What are you listening to? Don't Forget Me - Way out West

Current worry? Money. Always Money

************RANDOMOLOGY*****************

First place you went this morning? to the shower...then climbed back into bed!

What's the last movie you saw? We watched Halloweentown yesterday in all its corny goodness

***************OTHER-OLOGY*****************

How many pairs of flip flops do you own? Too many!

Last time you had a run-in with the cops? hmmm...maybe when I got pulled over a year and a half ago? I honestly dont know!

Last person you talked to? Sarah

Last person you hugged? Amber

Do you always answer your phone? Depends on who it is! :)

It's four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it? Probably Melissa with some sort of story to tell me! :)

If you could change your eye color what would it be? Blue

What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic? Ive never even been to Sonic

Do you own a digital camera? yes

Have you ever had a pet fish? oh yes.

Favorite Christmas song: O Holy Night

What's on your wish list for your birthday? I wanted a face cleanser washer thingy...and I got it! Thanks mom

Can you do push ups? hahaha noooo.

Can you do the splits? most definitely NOT

Does the future make you more nervous or excited? Excited

Do you have any saved texts? Of course... I rarely delete


Have you ever been in a car accident? A fender bender

Do you have an accent? Nope.

What is the last movie to make you cry? Marley and Me

Plans tonight? Watching Chelsea Lately then going to bed!

Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? yes and then life hits me again! :)

Name 3 things you bought yesterday: yesterday? absolutely nothing!

Have you ever been given roses? Yes

Met someone who changed your life? Yes

How will you bring in the New Year? hmm good question not sure yet!

What song represents you? The Climb. Miley Cyrus

Name two people who might complete this? Allen might.

Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? yes most. definitely!

Have you ever dated someone longer than a year? no.

Do you have any tattoos/piercings? my ears are pierced. thats its.

Does anyone love you? My family and Friends!

Would you be a pirate? No. The Pirate's life is not for me

What songs do you sing in the shower? Whatever is on my mind. Sometimes Taylor Swift, sometime christian music, and sometimes Christmas music!

Ever had someone sing to you? Yes

Do you like to cuddle? Its my favorite thing to do

Have you held hands with anyone today? no

Who was the last person you took a picture of? Tokala

Are most of the friends in your life new or old? I have a great mix right now!

Do you like pulpy orange juice? ew no. disgusting!

What is something your friends make fun of you for? Oh where do I even begin?!?! :)

Stepping Up On My Soap Box....

There are alot of little things that annoy me. Such as when people chew with their mouths open. Or I can hear people chew. Or when people dont merge correctly on the freeway, drive waaaay under the speed limit or dare to talk during a TV show and then have the adacity to ask what just happened. But nothing annoys me more than hypocrites, suck ups, and people with entitlement issues. These three are at the top of my list and I have found generally go hand in hand. I have lately just been so annoyed with people and their suck up, hypocritcal, entitlement issues that I just have to get it out there to the Universe. Maybe writing it on my blog is being passive aggresive...but frankly, I dont care.

I guess its something I should get use to. I deal with people like this everyday whether its at work with co-workers or customers, in the classroom or hell even in my family. I am fully willing to admit, that at times I too am guilty of my three annoyances. I have certainly on more than one occassion been a hypocrite. I have certainly tried to suck-up (I fail miserably and find that being polite gets you just as far as sucking up) and yes even at times have had entitlement issues. But the key thing here is that I recognize I have these...faults and work hard everyday to not fall victim. But I wonder why if I can easily admit my faults and that I make mistakes, why other people cant? Do people not see that they are being hypocritcal or do they just chose to ignore it because their ego is so big it wont allow them to?

Maybe its an insecurity, but lately Ive been thinking about what I say on my status updates on Facebook. I let myself go on my twitter account because there are less people there that I doubt care. But Facebook I have 366 friends. Thats 366 people who see what I say and follow what I do thanks to the stalker home page and lets face it we all know everybody loves to keep up on the gossip.I often read people's updates and wonder what the hell they are thinking especially when they are friends of mine. When do you tell somebody that their status is hypocritical or that they are clearly having an entitlement issue? Do they not know how ridiculous they sound?

Clearly not. Or they just simply dont care which is what bothers me the most. Why WOULDNT you care how you come across to people?! The same can be said for Suck Ups and even entitlement lovers. Is selling out friends, family, or co-workers really worth that extra little push you might get? Or relentlessly demanding and/or thinking you should get something just because you think you deserve it or to get that moment of praise that you crave? I often find that when they dont get what they want they are negative and foul until they get what they want when suddenly, they are singing a different tune...aka a total hypocrite.

Unfortunately these people always get ahead in life because people allow them to continue to behave the way they do without any consequences. Many of them get rewarded when they shouldn't be. Nobody, is willing to say what the majority is thinking. Including me. I often chose to stay quiet because I tend to think that the majority is thinking what Im thinking and hope that one day things will come full circle. Or that maybe, just maybe one day they will "realize" their fault like I have and want to "fix" it. One can dream right?! I guess the lesson here after my rant is that I cant change other people. I can only change myself. And while these things totally and througherly annoy me they are always going to be there and I have to think of a way to handle my feelings and just make sure that I am none of these things that I so dispise.

End. Rant.

This Is Halloween...

Which means my blog music has changed to...Halloween music! :)

There is music from The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland (My personal favorite!) Hocus Pocus, Halloween, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Michael Jackson, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and of course...The Monster Mash! Enjoy! :)