I am grateful for...

I decided that since I have not been in the best mood lately because of all the crappy things going on in my life right now I would write a list of things I am grateful for. I will also add pictures of me and someone I am grateful for. If I dont have a picture of you on here it is simply because I dont have one and if you have one of us send it to me and I will add it... send it anyway so I have it ok? So here it goes! I am grateful for....

Mom- Best mom ever, always puts others before herself and she is always there for anyway whenever they need her! I love her A LOT!

Dad-Funny, cool pilot, helped me a lot over the years financially and emotionally, and thanks for changing my diapers when I was a baby, oh wait.... I think that was the neighbor kids...

Zach-I love to play games with him-funny guy and very creative. Great dad. Also extremely smart!

Amber-Great mom to my niece and nephew and good listener

Eliza-Rad, attractive- dresses really cute, skydives <-------brave

Jessica-a stress freak just like me and I like it. Picky eater like me and a non judger (anymore) which I love the most. I love to talk to her about personal funny stuff so we can make fun of eachother.

Adam- Funny, never smells bad or sweats (abnormal) and has less hair than girls. I love to play games with him like settlers (even though Jess and I can get violent) and I like to watch him wrestle and play with the boys!

Jacob- I like to argue with him and listen to music with him. I love to listen to him play guitar and we talk about girls and boys we like... mostly I talk about boys and Jacob talks about boys and girls.

Michael- A peace maker, the nicest child in our family (tell me who is nicer....don't worry, I'll wait...) SOOOO smart and he is so nice to tutor dumber kids. I like him. Also I love to play guitar hero with him.

Broderick, Cadence, Bridger and Jack- Everytime I see them I smile and get really happy inside! I love being an aunt! I love it!

Jana-I love to talk to her about anything and she always makes me feel better about it. I love to watch classic movies and shows with her such as: A-Team, TMNT, MacGyver, etc. She never passes any judgment...towards me... and she is so fun! I love that she is my spooning/kissing cousin!

Ingrid-wanna have a dance party? I have fun with Ingrid no matter what we are doing. "I twas my twin"

Amelia- Cool roommate! I like to talk to her about funny things and have parties with her, pajama parties, cereal parties, movie parties, milkshake parties, braiding our hair together parties... you know all the fun kind.

Mike- I am in love with him and I love to watch movies with him and go eat with him (because you all know how much I love food!) I loved going to PBR with him and just being with him in general.

Josh, Kim, Kimberly, JC, Steph, Kirkham, Cord, Ash and all of the other cousins, aunt and uncles, grandparents and extened family that I am grateful for. I love having a big family that is there to spend time with and have fun with!

I am grateful for insurance companies that give me more than my car is worth, I am grateful for insurance exchange forms at accident scenes so that I know where the old beast that hits me lives so I can beat her up with a metal baseball bat, I am grateful for metal baseball bats, Food, a place to live, rental car places, clothes, slurpees, music, more food, education (sometimes). I am grateful for free tickets to New York, movies, tv shows on DVD, the fact the websites play shows online because I dont have a DVR, my friends and the ability to see and walk and taste and swim and jump and drive and hearing is pretty cool I guess and a lot of other stuff too!

I am glad I did this. It made me feel a lot better. Now I do not think life sucks as much as I did before. I think everyone should make a list of things they are grateful for and I am looking forward to seeing me on that list! or else I can always edit mine! I love you all and hope YOU know that I am grateful for you!

I think I suck at life... or I am good at letting other people suck at my life!

So First, I got into a car wreck on Monday morning, the 6th day of March in the year of 2008. I was heading West on Bulldog Blvd, on my way to work, minding my own business, going through a green light (I know, going through green lights is pretty risky!) This stupid person (seriously I hate them and want to kill their whole family) was heading East on Bulldog Blvd. Are you staying with me on this one? She was turning left (north) onto Freedom Blvd. and she was supposed to yield to me before she did. Well, she failed to yield and next thing I know this Jeep Liberty is coming at me... FAST! I thought to myself, "Seriously? is this jeep speeding at me right now while I am legally going through a green light?" She was! So I go to swerve out of the way when I see a pedestrian walking across Freedom, to the right of me, parallel to the street I was driving on. So I have to swerve back towards the jeep to keep from hitting that innocent person while I myself being innocent, was getting hit on the driver's side, where I happened to be sitting. My neck got jolted to the right and then whipped back to the left where it was introduced to my driver's side window! My shoulder also got acquainted with the window and it was NOT pleasant. I kept consciousness but blacked out a little, if that makes sense. I thought I had broken the window with my skull but later learned I didn't and I probably just thought I did because my head hit at the same time the car was hit.

I sat for a moment wondering to myself if that did in fact just happen. I finally go to open the door and to my su-freakin-prise, the door only opens like a foot or 2 because the rest of it was smashed in! I get out to go talk to this retard and to my suprise a 76 year old bitty walks out of the car and exclaims, "WHAT DID YOU DO!" I was shocked! I replied, "WHAT DID I DO? YOU JUST HIT ME!" She comes back with, "YOU JUST KEPT COMING! LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO MY CAR!" I said, "I JUST KEPT COMING? THAT IS WHAT I DO AT GREEN LIGHTS! I GO! GREEN MEANS GO!" She walks around sighing in disgust. Then she rudely asks me if I am going to call the police. I said I would but I guess my phone flips open too slow because she sighed yet again and said that she would do it. The police came, and so did my really attractive boyfriend Mike! (I'll talk about him later) She told her side of the story as I quietly listened to her bull faced lies! When it was my turn to tell my side of the story (you know, the truth) she kept interrupting and the officer kept saying, "Be quiet ma'am!" and he sounded very annoyed! She got ticketed and both of our cars got towed. Mike used to be an EMT and with that knowledge, checked for whiplash, concussion, broken bones perhaps, etc. He said I probably have a minor concussion but I insisted I need to get to work.

I then started feeling light headed and sick to my stomach(I put sick to my stomach because I don't know how to spell nauseous<---is that it?) Ingrid took me to the ER to get a cat scan and They also said I had a minor concussion.... Mike is smart! I am bored so to wrap it up...My car is totalled and the old bitty's insurance company is screwing with me and not getting into contact with me at all.... so I am getting a lawyer. If you do not know how Dad feels about accident/injury lawyers, you should ask him. He is hilarious! Oh and P.S. My neck hurts!

So Mike... I have been hanging out with Mike for 3 months, maybe a little more. I know I just posted a blog earlier about the guy was previously dating but I thought a lot about my future and broke it off and I know I made the right decision! I am so happy! Mike makes me happy! And he is really attractive! This picture where he looks like a cowboy is at the PBR thing in Salt Lake. That is professional bull riding in case you were wondering. We went last Saturday and we had SO much fun! The other picture is of us last night watching a movie... If we look chink eyed it is because the flash on his phone is as bright as that memory eraser on men in black. It took us like 7 pictures to get one where we didnt look completely like the chinese guy on karate kid. I am still seeing spots. He will be in Vegas with me March 28th-31st. So everyone get excited! I will talk more later I am sick of blogging and sick of life! Just kidding life is pretty cool!

I got tagged! Thanks to Kim Camber-freakin-lango

I have been tagged. This is the second time! I have played a lot of tag in my day and I don't know if this is really a fair game of tag because of the fact you don't know there is a game of tag in progress and there is no way of escaping! You can't just run up and tag someone when they don't know you are playing and expect them to just want to play! Come on! I can't really say anything else about it because I will tag some of you at the end of this blog and continue with this unfair game. If you don't like it... talk to Kim Camberlango... haha.

TEN YEARS AGO I WAS- Nine years old and I was most likely in 3rd or 4th grade. I did NOT like my 3rd grade teacher but my 4th grade teacher was nice. I went to Treem Elementary. I also got my first pair of glasses in 4th grade. I lived in the same house my parents live in now in Henderson, NV.
PLACES I HAVE LIVED - I was born in Provo, UT but lived in Pleasant Grove and moved to Mission Viejo, CA when I was only 27 days old! (sorry mom that you were still breast feeding me... actually blame dad for getting a job in California ok?) Then I moved to Henderson, NV 3 months before I turned 8. My next move was back to Utah but this time in Mapleton when I was 17. I lived there for a couple months and then moved to Salt Lake city for a couple months then Back to Mapleton. Then Provo and then Mapleton again. Ha Ha. Then I moved to Grovetown, GA for a few months and then Evans, GA for several more months. Then I came back to Provo and I am here now. OK?
THINGS ON MY TO DO LIST - Finish school, clean my messy room and car and finish up some homework
BAD HABITS- Talking in my sleep, Hucking (for those of you who do not know what this is, it is a way to clear your nose... instead of blowing your nose you are clearing it down your throat... sorry if you just puked! Uncle Delbert and my father do it a lot, but they do the huck AND snag.... I just do the measly old huck!) Procrastinating and not staying organized
PLACES YOU HAVE WORKED- Bell Photography, Ben and Jerry's, Zio Salon, Raincheck Corporation, Fatz Cafe, and I worked at this place where you take care of handicap people and it is called Chrysalis for 2 weeks.
5 THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME- Well, anyone who read my blog last time I was tagged already know all of my secrets. But I might know a couple more and if you already know... sorry you know so much about me ok?
1. I cry every time I puke and want my mom to drop everything in her life and drive out to Provo to take care of me.
2. I am going to change my major from Criminal Justice to Psychology, with a minor in Criminal Justice, so I can be a councilor for adolescent drug users.
3. I love wearing chapstick! (Mom, I still carry around the spearmint one you gave me because I kept stealing it out of your purse...in fact I just put some on and it feels amazing!)
4. One of the most memorable nights I have ever had... I was in my beautiful cousin Jana's kitchen and lately we had this thing going on that every time I would leave her presence I would give her a cartoon kiss on the lips (a very animated kiss with a loud sucking noise... obviously) and I would do it on both sides of her face... well I went for her right cheek and she went for my left... well to make this as painless as possible... we met in the middle and kissed smack dab on the lips! Both of us in shock wonder if that really did just happen. We both agreed what happened there that night stayed there. Right after our agreement she went into the living room filled with her syblings and said "Me and Audrey just kissed on the lips!" She is a good secret keeper (please note my sarcasm!)
5. In my apartment we have a lot of parties. Whatever we are doing, we make into a party. If we want cereal... we have a cereal party, a milkshake perhaps? Milkshake party. Lets say we wanted popcorn... popcorn party. Anyway, we love parties.
6. When people give us stuff for our apartment like dish detergent or trash bags or whatever we can use in our home, every time we use an item given to us we thank the person that gave it to us in a high voice. For instance, my mom bought us trash bags and every time we use one we say very loudly so everyone in the apartment knows I am using one, "Thanks Aunt Becky!" and then the rest of my apartment has to say it back no matter what they are doing! It is fun. I also refer to my mom as Aunt Becky so when they repeat it back to me they aren't saying mom, you know, since it isn't their mom!

I wrote 6 things in case someone knew 1 out of the 6 so they still know 5 new things about me!

I officially tag Zach and/or Amber, Jessica, Eliza, and I think that is all!

My true color is...

Audrey, your true color is Orange!
You're a bold, confident orange. A warm, powerful color that indicates a strong, welcoming personality, orange is the mark of people who are social and extroverted by nature. Vibrant, with an upbeat attitude, you have a bright, inviting demeanor. Energetic and fun-loving, you're a real friend-magnet. Your easy charm and unassuming manner make you the sort of person people want to meet and get to know better. Well-rounded and fun to be around, you enjoy helping others, so it's no surprise that orange also symbolizes attraction. Orange is an extraordinary color — for an extraordinary person.

Don't be a fool... Just drop out of school!

I have had kinda a cr**py week. Few weeks actually. To start off, I bought a coupon card for a car place that gives me a bunch of "free" services to my car. When they say free oil change, they actually mean we wont charge you to change the oil but to discard the oil and do everything else will cost you. I went in for an oil change and to get my engine light looked at. It took them 4 hours when they said it should only take an hour. I go to pick my car up and set an appointment up for the next day to fix a fuel leak, which is what the guy told me was wrong. I didn't go because I am poor right now but I did need to go pay them for the "Free" oil change. I think they purposely messed up my car so they could charge me more, because on the way back there the next morning, my belt fell off which takes away battery power and power steering and is also connected to my alternator I believe. So I dropped my car off and told the guy to call me with an estimate in cost. He didn't. I called 3 times the next day and people just kept telling me they would call me back, They finally called me at the end of the freaking day to tell me my car was done. DONE? I don't even know how much I am paying because these jerks wouldn't tell me! So they told me it was going to be $214 and that the fuel leak wasn't even fixed, that is an extra $305, but I was charged for the diagnostic the guy did. So he checked it out for free, found a problem, but wouldn't tell me what the problem was until I forked out $80? Why would someone think that charging almost $100 to put a belt back on is ok? Do they really think their time is worth that much or something? It isn't. So I just spent a lot of money that I don't have and my car is pretty much the same as before I brought it in there. Don't worry I am going to bomb their garage.

So I am in school and I have school loans. Well tuition was due the 16th and they didn't have my loan done yet (suprising) so I got charged a $100 late fee (unnecessary) and now if my loan isn't ready by the 30th of this month (4 days away) they drop all my classes (depressing) I already bought all my books and my really pricey parking permit (unfortunate). So it would really suck if I just wasted a lot of time and money!

Other than all of that really cool stuff, I am doing well. Don't stress over the things you cannot control. That is what I keep repeating to myself to keep myself from going mad. I am not suicidal or anything just annoyed. I guess that is life sometimes. Life is a bee. I love you all.

I like your bangs!

I drove home to Henderson on the 21st of December. I had a good time there and got a lot of cool stuff for Christmas! I got pajamas (3 pair) socks, obviously, an iPod cover case for my new nano video iPod, the most awesome CSI game ever, and some other cool stuff. The CSI game is so FUN! You start at the crime scene and collect evidence and then go back to the lab and process it all. You get to match up finger prints and DNA and all sorts of cool stuff! I love it if you couldn't tell by this paragraph.

I also got BANGS! I was so nervous, not because I don't trust Eliza with my hair but because cutting my hair is very traumatic ever since I got a rock star mullet one time, not by choice obviously. I didn't know how I felt about them at first but I love them now. Everyone is telling me how different it makes me look and how hot I am so I am just going to believe them. It changes the whole shape of my face and shows my face more. Anyway I just bored the crap out of myself with this paragraph so I can only imagine how you guys felt about it... sorry OK?

I start school on Thursday and I am pretty nervous. I haven't been in school for 2 1/2- 3 years or something! I haven't actually gone to school (meaning other school than home school) in like 5 years so I don't know what to expect. Plus I will be working full time and going to school full time so I will be keeping myself very busy! I am really excited though to be able to finally start my education! I am excited to meet new people at school and to learn a lot of interesting things about criminal justice. Plus I am in a physical fitness class so maybe I'll get my self back into good shape, or into shape period. I don't know if I have ever been in "good" shape but it is fun to pretend I have.

Happy belated Birthday to Bridger and early birthday to Seana.... even though she mostly only leaves comments on Eliza's page which makes me cry and punch walls. That goes for the rest of that clan and don't act like you don't know who you are, Nat, Chelsa, Jen and whoever else. I see how you guys roll...

Have a very Happy New Year and I love most of you that read this probably. I can't make any promises though.

Oh and P.S. you guys are really awesome!

It only took me a month...

Hi. Sorry OK?? My life is boring and I don't want to bore all of you with the details of it. I have been tagged and so I guess I will do that now.

1. I am very OCD. If I am taking a message for someone at work on a post it note, sometimes I have to rewrite it like 4 times. My trash can is always full of crumpled up post it notes because it just doesn't look right the first few times! I count my steps and and my steps have rhythm. I can't walk off beat or it really bugs me. My volume on the TV, CD player, car radio or anything with countable volume, has to be on an odd number. I HATE even numbers. They think they are so much better than odd numbers just because they are paired up evenly. Well the odd numbers always have more fun! Also I spell words out in my head when someone is talking to me. I don't know if this is to see if I can spell as fast as people can talk or if it is to see if I can spell the words people are saying. I guess both ways are educational. I was telling my dad about this obsessive behavior once and he told me that he counted steps too sometimes. He even told me how many stairs were in our house. It was funny. I also wash my hands A LOT. Sometimes I feel like the germs just are there teasing me. If I touch a shopping cart I don't want to move my hands because I feel like I will get a whole new set of germs and I feel like the bar from the cart just left a strip of germs right there and it won't go away until I scrub or sanitize or both. When I lock my car from my key chain locker thing I have to make it beep an odd number of times too but more than 1. So it usually ends up beeping 3 times but if I accidentally hit it 4 times I have to do it again. It is annoying. I will stop now so I still have friends.

2. I am a very picky eater. I will not let my food touch each other on my plate. I even have gone as far as taking a paper towel and wiping my ranch or gravy off my plate before I put something else there. People say it all goes to the same place so why does it matter? I know where it all ends up and I don't care where it ends up. The important thing to me about eating is how it tastes going down. I really love pickles and I really love ice cream. I also really like peanut butter but even though it all ends up in the same place it wouldn't be very appetizing mixed together now would it? I am not very good at trying new things. If I smell it and it doesn't smell good I won't eat it. I smelled cheesecake as a child and thought it smelled repulsing. So I never tried it until about a month ago. It is so good. That was one of the only good examples of me trying a new thing and liking it. I usually don't. I tried eggnog for the first time a couple weeks ago and hated it. The texture, taste and color of it was disgusting! I don't eat pork because it is all disgusting. Sometimes ham if it is disguised or pepperoni but sausage, bacon, or anything else pork is yucky.

3. I refuse to share Milk with anyone. Any dairy product really. It is so revolting. I will share any other drink with people I like that don't have diseases but NEVER milk. And I find it nauseating when parents eat cereal or any kind of food after their kids. It makes me gag. You don't know what their grubby hands have been into before they plunged them into their food.

4. I still have my baby blanky. I sleep with it often. Not every night but often. I love it. It is so cute and in much better shape than Jacob's blanky. It is my security blanky. I also have a security superman pillow and spider man blanket.

5. I am a Rock star. I play the drums in an awesome band. I also can tear it up on the guitar. I do vocals sometimes and do pretty well. Oh I forgot to mention that it is on the X-box and it is called rock band, but I am still a rock star. I am addicted to that game!

6. I am the tallest girl in my family. It took Eliza a couple years to accept the fact that I was even though I was looking down to talk to her and the measurement board we have in our house told her! I still like her and I am glad she is the runner up. I keep growing I think. I used to be 5'9 then 5'10 and now a little more than that I think. When I wear heels I can get up to like 6'3!!!

7. I have a serious case of BCS. I think those of you in my family know what I am talking about but BCS stands for butt crack syndrome. No matter what I am wearing my bum hangs out when I bend over. I have tried belts and my sweet mother thinks my pants are too low which may be the case sometimes but not all the time. I think my crack starts right at the same level as my pits. Sorry if this offends any of you but it is true and it is a big part of my life. I think even when I wear a body suit or overalls it shows. I know it sounds impossible but somehow it finds its way to the surface. It just needs some air ya know?

That is me in a nutshell. A very big nutshell! Hey how did I get in this nutshell.... Have you ever seen a nutshell this size?!?

Thanks for reading and I am not going to tag anyone because everyone that reads this has been tagged plus I hope this cycle ends soon! I love you all and I will try to be more religious in writing in my blog! (even though my therapist always tells me trying is lying and he also says do or do not there is no try...he is smart) Happy holidays!! (just in case I do not succeed in writing)