Why Didn't I Think of That?

Lately, I've had a lot of "Why didn't I think of that moments?" Here they are...surely you can commiserate with some.

1. I happen to have a lot of "Why didn't I think of that" moments when I'm going over a test with classmates....I hate that.

2. I'm sure you've all heard of the woman who was willing to give away a spot as a bridesmaid in her wedding to the highest bidder! Dr. Pepper gave her 10,000 dollars for her wedding and provided the refreshments. She also was able to get around 5,000 dollars from someone who wanted to be in her wedding. Gosh...why didn't I think of that?!?

3. My sister was telling me about this 15 year old who came up with creative "skins" for blog backgrounds and ect. Of course she's making a ton of money.

4. A lot of times when I'm surfing around on the Internet, I come across some great blogs. It gives me a case of blogger envy and I always wonder why I didn't think of their blog first!

5. I also wonder why I didn't think of becoming a nurse...when I was a FRESHMAN in college...rather than a 26 year old OUT of college...ooooh well.

Facebook is CLEARLY better than MySpace

I thought that since I already vented about Facebook, I should bring up MySpace also. I really do think that Facebook is better than MySpace and here are the reasons...

1. Facebook was started as a college networking device whereas MySpace was not. Therefore, on Facebook there are not as many creepy people checking out your page.

2. I only received a few date offers on Facebook and about 50 on MySpace from both guys and girls. I guess that could be considered a plus for some people, but not for me. I'm not the kind of girl who dates guys from the internet. Ha...except when my parents sign me up for E-harmony...I fall in love and decide to marry a guy from the internet...shhh..don't tell anyone..I vowed I would never do that!

3. MySpace seems like it is always having technical difficulties....

4. There aren't as many marketing ploys on Facebook.

5. Facebook is more organized and it is easier to find friends you know.

6. Aspiring porn stars don't ask to be your friend on Facebook...hence why I closed my MySpace account.

There's Just Something about...GRAHAM!

There's just something about Graham because...

1. He's excited to wear a tux in my wedding. He's going to be the best ringbearer ever!

2. He was calling birds by their scientific names by the time he was four!

3. He writes sweet notes on mirrors!!

4. He finds creative ways to pick up people that are 5 times as big as he is!

5. He lets me know when he "feels better" in the middle of a play. (that's an inside joke!)

6. He makes me laugh.

What a great nephew...I have great neices as well...and I'm sure they'll make it on my weekly posting soon! :)

Things About Facebook Applications that DRIVE ME CRAZY!

1. Facebook applications seem to always have contingencies, such as making you send an invitation to all of your friends.

2. Facebook applications sometimes automatically send out notices to people without you even realizing it. For example...I think I've sent notices to my "pseudo friends" about how I ranked them on facebook?!? What?!? Ranking...seriously? (okay, I admit it...I did want to see how I compared to my friends on facebook and I fell into the trap of ranking...I vow I won't do it again!)

3. There is a facebook application for absolutely everything! I don't want to be a knight, zombie or send cupcakes.

4. There are a billion walls to write on...the funwall, the superwall ect. What's wrong with the original wall?

5. In order to see what someone wrote to you on the funwall or superwall application, you have to add the application. I'm always a sucker for adding this, because my curiousity always gets the best of me...then after I go through all the work of adding the application, I find that it was a generic post to everyone on facebook.

Don't get me wrong, I'm an avid facebooker. I just don't some aspects of a lot of the applications.

Reasons I Have Not Been Blogging

1. I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time studying.
2. I'm planning a wedding...okay..well I'm helping my mom plan my wedding.
3. I have too many tests in nursing school.
4. I have too much homework in nursing school.
5. I'm in nursing school ALL day long.

So...the main reason I have not been blogging is because of NURSING school.....but I have a break soon. HALLELUJAH!!! I will then be back to my normal blogging self.

Little Sisters Really Do Listen

I realized the other night that I'm still the little sister that practically believes everything my older sister says. Here is some evidence to the fact that I have always thought their (I have 3 sisters) words were golden.


1.Holly and I were watching t.v. and I was quite skeptical about the Neutrogena Wave product. Holly said "I bet it does help a little." Guess who bought the Wave at the store the next day...that would be me.

2.One of my sisters (I'll let them remain anonymous) told me when I was in 7th grade that I had a very small chest because I wore my sports bra to bed. I quit wearing my sports bra (during the evening hours of course). Way to freak out the poor girl enduring puberty anonymous sister!

3. One of my sisters convinced me that I should go into the medical field. Good advice Paige!

4. Holly once told me that my hair was made of daddy-long legs. I have an intense fear of spiders. I felt like my head was crawling for at least 20 minutes.

That's four reasons to be careful what you tell your younger sister...even if they are now 26!

How NICE are YOU?

Lately, I've come across some situations that have really tempted the not so nice girl in me to come out. Of course I resisted the temptations to be mean in person, but decided to make a quiz about it on my blog.

1. There's a girl that sits in front of you in class who talks the entire time. Not only does she talk, but she also wears a blue tooth that catches radio waves. Therefore, there is a remote sound of a radio voice in the background of your teacher lecturing. What would you do?

a. Politely ask the girl to stop talking and turn of her bluetooth.

b. Get your whole row to stare at her until she notices that everyone is annoyed with her behavior.

c. Rip the bluetooth out of her ear and stomp on it.

2. You are at the gym working out when a guy stops and stares at you becuase he wants the piece of equipment you are using. What do you do?

a. Take as long as possible. If he has the audacity to be that rude...he's going to have to wait for that piece of equipment.

b. Tell him there's another piece of equipment he can use on the other side of the gym.

c. Quietly finish your reps and wipe off the machine when you are done.

3. You are quietly standing in line at the school bookstore at the beginning of the semester. Someone just decides to cut in front of you because they apparently just "feel like it." Do you...

a. Push them out of line and tell them to get in their place.

b. Loudly shout so everyone can hear "Excuse me...you budded."

c. Let them have the spot, they must have been in a hurry if they were rude enough to budge in line.

I Don't Know Why I Blog...I JUST Do.

My fiance and I were talking about my blog and he suggested that I write a blog about this topic. The title happened to be the exact phrase I said to him. So...of course he suggested I write a list about it.

I don't know why I blog...but here's a few reasons why I might.

1. I might blog because it's the only part of my life that I can truly organize in a unique way. Heck..who else can write their entire life in a list?

2. Maybe I blog because I have a secret hope that some big time blogger will say "hmmm...this b(LIST)fulness girl...she really does have something going for her. I'm going to make her a blogging star!" Then I can say "I didn't know why I blogged, but now I do." Of course I'll make a list about it.

3. I possibly blog because it provides an outlet from my nursing life. I don't have to write about anything nursing related if I don't want to.

4. It could be that I blog because I like to look up who's reading my blog on Google Analytics....I think that may be a major reason. My hope that someone from every state and continent will read my blog just might cause me to blog a lot.

5. Blogging may be something I do just because it's something I kind of enjoy. I don't know-I just blog just because it's something I do!

There's Just Something about Selmer!!! (DAD)

I figured the only person I should be featuring in my blog this weekend would be my dad, Selmer!
There's just something about dad because

1. He used to take me out for dinner every time I finished a piano book.

2. He taught me to not be afraid to try new things.

3. He brought a new definition to the phrase "hubba, hubba."

4. He wore smiley scrubs to work at a business office. Thank heavens he wasn't the only one!

5. He paid for e-harmony and was therefore instrumental in bringing Joel and I together! Way to convince me to date online dad! :)

6. He is very good at sharing root beer.

7. He taught me that cheese and jelly really do go together.

8. He drove my furniture across the country.

9. He helped me through my 6 years of undergraduate school....not many dads can say that!

10. He is named "Selmer?!?" Who couldn't love a guy named "Selmer"

You Know You Live in the South When.....

I live in VA. Most people don't really consider this state to be "the South" unless you grew up in a place like MN. According to us, ANY state south of the Mason Dixon line is "the south." Heck...if you have any sort of twang in your accent...you're DEFINITELY southern.

Here goes. You know you live in the south when....

1. Your fiance grew up playing "Yankees and Rebels"

2. The confederate flag is posted on every truck that you see on the highway.

3. The highway is filled with trucks.

4. The lady at the DMV asks you for a BEAL. When you respond that you don't know what a "BEAL" is...she looks at you like you're the stupidest person on the planet and says, "You don't know what a credit card beal is?" You then reply, "OH, you mean a BILL (emphasis on the I sound)."

5. You eat cheese and grits. Personally, I didn't know what this existed until I moved here.

6. GRITS stands for more than the little white gritty things you eat at meals. Apparently it also means "girls raised in the south." Whatever...I'm a proud GRIN. (Girl raised in the north)

Bugs...they TICK me off.

So, within the past year or so, I've had a lot of bug mishaps. I'm going to let you relive these horrific moments with me in the form of a list.

1. One night I was sleeping and woke up briefly to change my head position...and I heard a little scampering noise on my pillow. To my absolute horror...there was a big, brown, furry spider scampering where my head should have been peacefully resting.

2. A couple of months later, I woke up because my head was tickling...I reached up to scratch it and I flicked a palmetto bug off of my hair. EEEEWWWWWWW.

3. About a week and a half ago, I found a tick consuming my blood. This is the most disgusting to me....and it worries me cause I still have a bite there.

P.S. I don't live in a filthy house. I vacuum and dust weekly. I also do the dishes DAILY. Apparently these buggers somehow creep inside every once and a while. It must be the south.

To Become a Perfect Bride...

So I was thinking about all the things I need to do in order to be the "perfect" bride in 2 months....it's a long list...it's not going to happen.
Here goes...this is what I need to do.
1. Become ridiculously organized-my fiance must have majored in organization.

2. Drink more water...and less Diet Coke. As most of you know, I've been working on this one for years.

3. Go to the gym every day....I used to be so good at this one!

4. Make lots of best girlfriends in Virgina area very quickly.

5. Learn to cook.

6. Start to enjoy nursing school so I don't complain to my fiance about it!

7. Learn to hate shopping....or maybe I should say learn to hate spending money.

8. Give up my teddy bear. (I don't think I'll have a problem with this one)

9. Love my body just the way God made it

10.Read many books on marriage. 2 down and about a billion to go!

sheesh..I have a lot to do in 2 months.

There's Just Something about BRYAN!

So, I decided to choose the person of the week to be my brother-in-law Bryan...This is partly cause I have access to a crazy picture of him but mostly because of the list below.

There's Just Something about Bryan because...
1. He taught me how to properly load a dishwasher :)

2. He shows Weezer videos to his two year old daughter because it has the muppet characters in it :) That made me laugh yesterday.

3. He checks in on our neighbors dog because I told him it sounded like it was continually coughing up hairballs.

4. He plays volleyball like a pro.

5. He picked me up when my car broke down at the library...then he took me to the car shop too!

6. He makes some great dip.

7. He has let me stay in his house for over a year....Now that makes an AMAZING brother-in-law!

You Know You Went to a Legalistic/Fundamentalist High School if....

1. Everyone played on every sports team regardless of ability.

2. You could count your classmates on 2 hands.

3. The reproductive section in your health book was repeatedly skipped leaving you completely clueless. (This made me look like a total idiot in my anatomy lab at the University of MN--yep...I listened very carefully when the TA was explaining the external female reproductive system to the guys in the class...I didn't want them to know I had never learned much of what he was talking about.)

4. Either you dated everyone in your class or your first date wasn't until you left high school. (This wasn't the case for me...but I know it was for plenty of people who attended fundamentalist schools)

5. Everyone THOUGHT they knew everything about everyone else...

6. Jr/Sr (Prom) consisted of eating a large dinner-Definitely NO DANCING!

7. When you filled out college applications you needed two extra pages because you were able to say you were involved in so much (ex: you were able to write Class president, Salutatorian, captain of the volleyball and basketball team, yearbook editor, 1st place in piano competition)

8. You only knew 200 people in your town....which were the 200 that went to your school (K-8). (oh...you might know a few people from the church affiliated with the school also)

9. You thought that all public school kids were on drugs and having sex all of the time. (So..that's a bit of an exaggeration....but slightly true)

10. You can say that you still keep in touch with 50% of your graduating class....(that would be five people for me!)

How to Depress a Blogger

So, I'll admit it. I've had a bit of the case of "blogger blues." I know you are all wondering how an author of such a great site could ever come down with "blogger blues," but alas, I have a definite case of it. Here's what leads to blogger blues.

1. Fail to comment on blogs...no matter how insightful they are :)
2. Fail to reciprocate when a blogger adds your site to their link list.
3. Fail to give "kudos" to a post.
4. Fail to answer questions the blogger has asked of you.

Yep, I think that pretty much sums it up...Ha...I know all you bloggers out their know what I'm talking about!

Is It Legend or Fact?

Here's a few things I've been wondering about lately....

1. Is it true that your hair grows in darker and thicker after you shave it? I used to say it was legend...but my leg hair is definitely darker than it used to be.

2. Is it myth that people have really had tumors with teeth and hair growing out of them? That couldn't possibly be a fact could it?

3. Is it true that you can never make up lost hours of sleep? I feel like I'm pretty good at doing that...just give me a worry free afternoon and I'll make sure any sleep I've lost over the past few weeks is made up within a couple of hours.

4. I only wonder this b/c we're discussing it in nursing school...this is not where my mind usually wanders off too....Is circumcision really cleaner and healthier...or is it just a custom of our culture? (and Israel's too of course)

There's Just Something about KALEN!

I was asking my sister for ideas on lists of things that I should write about. Of course she thought I should write a list about Kalen. I think this will be one of the easiest lists I've written because she's so amazing. I've also decided to add a weekly "There's Just Something about _____" to my blog. So watch out...next weeks blog may be about YOU!

Kalen's List.
1. Kalen's smile will brighten ANYONE'S day.
2. Kalen knows more sign language than I do. (She's only 2)
3. Kalen has the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen!
4. She says "I hold you!" when she wants a hug....I think that's about the cutest thing ever!
5. Kalen LOVES church...which is something I wasn't excited about at her age.
6. She's funny...when i was watching her the other day I was throwing her up in the air and twirling her around. I was tired and dizzy so I told her I was too tired to try again. She said "okay" then two seconds later she patted my leg and said "AWAKE!" Of course I couldn't say no to her.
7. She's so outgoing. She says hi to all of the neighbors and is always excited when "Uncle Joel" comes over.
8. I think she may be a child prodigy someday :)
9. She's the cutest and I love living with her!