Things that I have accomplished this year

So I made a new years resolution list last year, but then I lost it. So, I decided to make up a new list of things that I am proud of that I have accomplished this year. Of course these things obviously wouldn't have been on my list. On my original list I had things like: Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse, Master Cricket playing skills, and do something important. So here is my list of accomplishments for the year 2013:

1) Just two seconds ago I hit some keys and this appeared on my screen! I have no idea how the heck I did this, but I just went incognito on my internet! I. AM. AWESOME!!!!! Now I just have to figure out how to do it again.

2) I kept my Christmas tree, with all of the Christmas ornaments, up ALL YEAR LONG!!! Yeah I'm just that lazy.

3) I built a suicide slide, which was the best thing ever!

4) I raised a 2 year old this year and survived (granted my looks and behaviors might have changed...). I am an awesome mom!

Me at the beginning of January 2013

End of December 2013

5) I made a blog, and MAINTAINED IT!

6) I bought a talking Travelocity gnome, and named him Fredrick! By the way Kiara broke off his legs, but thanks to super glue I was able to revive him (it was a close call though, I almost had to pronounce him dead at the scene).

7) I ran the Ragnar in June, and haven't ran since.

Me at the Ragnar. I. Was. Awesome! (Wow! First picture I post of myself on here and this is the one I pick?!!)

The Red Vine licorice really boosted my energy!

8) I gained 7 pounds since June, and I plan on gaining some more. (Christmas is coming, I can't start a diet now! Then I have New Years, Martin Luther King day, Flag day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving...)

9) I finally own a Twinkie maker...I just had to brag. :)...Oh! I can also fit 2.75 Twinkies in my mouth! (don't judge...this is how I gained those proud 7 pounds, and I was really interested to see how many I could eat at once)

10)  I didn't get stuck in the Loony Bin this year (although, there were plenty of opportunities for my husband to stick me in one ;) )

11) This entire semester I BS'd every single assignment and still got an A in all of my classes. (Some times I think I'd make a great politician ;) )

12) I can shoot a crayon out of my nose, and have it land two feet away from me (that takes skill yo!)

13) I have officially made it to level 200 in Candy Crush (my goal was 100...I surpassed that...Boo ya to me!) 

14) After 4.5 years of being married I finally made a wedding book that has all of our wedding pictures!!! (this is a huge accomplishment for me because scrap booking is my seventh circle of hell...Thank you Shutterfly!)

In Hell they make you scrapbook 24/7, and make you go pant shopping!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

15) After living in my house for 4 years I bought curtains for my sliding glass doors! Now my neighbors don't have to see me naked anymore! :)

16) I finally figured out how to pronounce "meme" correctly! This one was a hard one for me, you have no idea. I also made one! 

This is my proud accomplishment

Yup, this is everything I did this year that I'm proud of. :)

I can't wait for next year! I'm uber excited!!! 

My "short" post

My husband keeps complaining that my posts are too long and that I need to have a short post. So just to appease him I've made a "short" post:

Always say "No!" to green shorts

How did these ever come into style?!

Everyone needs plaid shorts! (I actually made Chris by 3 when we first got married) :)

I love the pink shoes!

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH MY EYES!!!!!

Yup, this is the new style guys. Just don't wear them after labor day or fashion zombies will eat your soul. 

Shorts.....Check....?.....Wait a minute.....

Yeah I'd walk with a tiger too....if it didn't move, and was in a cage. Just sayin'

Enough said yo!

Shorts: Keeps your legs warm from the knees up!

umm....patriotic? Where is the rest of the flag?! OH! they must be wearing a striped shirt!!!

See now these are patriotic....? :)

Shorts with the shorts! I see what you did there.

The butt fanny pack! I'm sold order me 3!!!

Hey Mom! I want these for Christmas! Can you make me a pair?!

Well I hope you all enjoyed my short post!

My Presentation!

Ok this is my post from Facebook back from September (I figured this might help explain why I had to do this presentation): "URGH!!! I have a cookoo teacher who fell off the fruit loop tree and she's driving me nuts! This is a research class and we have a final project where we turn in a proposal for our research question but apparently that's NOT our project. Apparently our project is to find our innerselves and things we found out about ourselves while doing this research proposal. THAT"S our "project" that we have to present in class. Our goal is to "find" ourselves. I want to have fun with this and suddenly find out that I'm a schizophrenic mass murder who kills innocent trees and flowers and I have to do this or Godzilla will eat me because my "friend" tells me so. I think I could do a pretty good "presentation" on that."

I apparently have a lot of issues with this teacher. I'm not going to lie she is a very nice and interesting person, but we do not see eye to eye on her teaching methods...you'll see this in a later post after my official grade comes out ;) 

Well today was presentation day. Unfortunately, I did not do the schizophrenic mass murderer thing because apparently this project was worth 150 points of my grade. But I had to relate it to my research question that Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder can co-exist (most researchers say they can't). I had to explain my bias on this project, and as most of you know I have been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and I have some symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. Yay me! My life rocks!!!  If you know anything about borderline personality disorder the symptoms are: reoccurring suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and self harm, fear of abandonment, past abuse, depression, etc. Exciting huh? At first I thought I could just read some things out of my journal but then I realized that I didn't want to traumatize these people, besides I still have to see them again next week.  So I was sitting in class talking to some of my classmates (I don't remember what about) when suddenly it hit me! I slapped my desk and stood up in the middle of class and absentmindedly shouted "I'VE GOT IT! I KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO!"  Then I ran out of the class and got a drink.  I honestly didn't realize what I just did until I came back to class and everyone was very confused. The girl behind me asked "What just happened?" and I said "Oh I now know what I'm going to do for my presentation." I apparently created a concerning scene. On deciding what I should do for this project I thought why not sketch out my life on a flip chart? (Ok Chris was the one who drew the things but I traced them!) 

If you guys want to know what goes on in my head during these episodes you can click here and it will take you to my other blog post :) 

Here is my final presentation:

Chris wanted foam coming out of my mouth on the manic episode, but it looked like I was puking my guts out.

This is how far I think I can jump off a swing set depending on my mood

Actual comments from previous teachers

My ability to draw plateaus over time.

Tribute to Demetri Martin, and if I say so myself, my mountains are awesome!

This is why I was in the Loony bin. If you want to know how I survived the Loony bin click here

If you can't tell, I'm the one in the balloon. Chris is the one dangling. ;)

Yeah Siamese twins trumps all!

Needless to say I think I got an "A"! :D

Things that I am thankful for

So it's that time of the month...wait what I mean to say is...it's that time of year to be thankful for things. I love that I only have to be thankful for things one month out of the year, it makes me shudder to think if I had to be thankful for 12 months out of the year! So let's get to business shall we?

I am thankful for...

1) My husband

2) My baby girl

3) My friends and family which includes everyone who I'm close to and love

I have to say these ones because if I don't say them then society will consider me a heartless individual who will eventually turn into a sociopath and murder innocent bunnies. Which after the Rabbit story I might get a little joy out of it. Though I can't lie, the top three things are the most important things to me :)...well, and maybe number 4 ;)

4) Antonio Banderas, Jason Isaacs, and Cary Grant. Great actors and mmmmhhhmmmm! I can't wait to see them in my dreams! They are going to be in my heaven when I die :D

5) When ever I lose my phone. Blech I hate feeling like I'm attached to it. Unnecessary side note: I HATE voice-mails. FYI if you leave me a voice-mail I will most likely not listen to it for about 3-4 weeks. So if it's an emergency and you get my voice-mail call Chris or someone else cause I won't come help you push your car for another 3 weeks.

6) Any shoes without shoe laces

7) Coke, Twinkies, Strawberries, and Sour Patch Kids. (Because of these, people are still alive today because I didn't kill them on my bad days ;) )

8) Starbucks hot chocolate

9) McDonald's fries and wanky 89 cent burger

10) Calvin and Hobbes Comics. They are the best, especially the snowman ones!


11) Writing research papers...I'm a bit of a nerd.

12) While proof reading my assignment on a Rapper I found that I kept writing Raper. I think that's a bit of a difference don't you? So glad I caught that before sending it in :)

13) Toilet paper. I'd hate to think what we would be using if toilet paper was never invented. "Get some leaves!"- Brian Regan

14) Brian Regan, Bill Engvall, Bill Cosby, Jim Gaffigan, and Don Friensen. Frickin' hilarious!

Brian Regan: I remember my teacher ask me: "Brian, what's the I before E rule?" Ummm... I before E... Always. "What are you an idiot Brian?" Apparently! So she explains it: "No Brian it's I before E except after C, N that sounded like A in a neighbouring way and on weekends and holidays and all throughout May and you'll always be wrong no matter what you say!" That's a hard rule

Bill Engvall: I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage. Number two: we have medication for this. And number three: It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.

Bill Cosby: I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are."

15) That Chris can sing AMAZINGLY because now Kiara has a 50/50 chance of winning American Idol.  

16) My InkJoy pen from Paper-Mate. I am VERY picky about my pens and these ones are AWESOME!!! Some one had the audacity to steal one of them and I am on the hunt for revenge...Don't take my pen.

17) Deoderant. Seriously though, who isn't thankful for this?

18) My ability to BS...A blog will come out on this one, but I have to wait for my official grade to come out just in case my teacher finds my blog before hand :)

19) While driving the person ahead of me runs a yellow light. I'm grateful for this because I am two inches from his bumper.

20) Good hair day. It is amazing how a bad hair day can ruin your day.

21) When my parents forgot I was grounded while I was a kid

22) Jeans that lie about the size. Example: When you know your a size 7 but try on a size 4 pair of pants on and they fit!!! Best. Day. Ever!!!!

23) That the Zombie Apocalypse hasn't started yet because I am no where near ready

24) That I made it to number 24

25) The word llama. I don't really care for the animal (although, they are Chris's favorite so I'm afraid we might actually own one in the future) but I love that it has 2 L's. Every time I see the word it makes me smile just because of the second L. True fact.

There is my thankful list. Not much, but they all make me very happy!