a new year, a new list.

+this year I will try a tomato on my hamburger instead of requesting, "no tomato."

+this year I will make the wall above our TV into a wall of clocks. Looks like it's TIME to start collecting some clocks. (hahahaha whew, anyways..)

+this year I won't let people take advantage of me. (not sexually, pervert) I am way too nice and some people take advantage of that. not this year! Muwahaha!

+this year I will make a grocery list each time before I go to the store.

+this year I will save money. For reals this time.

+this year I will FINALLY try some sushi. This is the 4th time this goal is appearing on my to-do list for the new year.

+this year I will designate a certain day of the week for laundry... not just when I run out of things to wear. Even though this has been a fantastic method for the last four years.

+this year I won't eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast AND dinner.

+this year I will get rid of at least one FULL garbage sack of old clothes instead of making a pile to get rid of and end up wearing the next week.

+this year I will only have two sodas a week. I wish this goal could be no soda all together. I've tried that many times. And it was funny when I tried.

+this year I will improve my handwriting. Because it's proven that the older I get, the more illegible my handwriting becomes.

+this year I will eat more veggies.

+this year I will read Catch 22 and the Great Gatsby.

+this year I will make an effort to hang up my clothes... instead of tossing them on the floor.

+this year I won't let the alarm clock go off more than once... or twice...

+this year I will improve on working towards goals.

+this year I will try and be brave enough for a new hairstyle.

These are little goals that (will be very hard) but I will try and accomplish them.

the best of 2010.

2010 tried, but it didn't beat 2009 in being my favorite year. It was very close though. Actually, they might actually be tied.

In 2010:

+Just Add Kaleena was born. Viva Just Add Kaleena!
+We moved from our house on J street to our apartment building on R street.
+I slowly and awkwardly went from brunette to blond. NEVER. AGAIN. (going back to brunette)
+I didn't get ONE, that's right, not ONE traffic ticket... or any ticket for that matter. This is big deal... and step.
+We celebrated our 2 year anniversary.
+We traveled to: San Diego, Indiana, Chicago, and Las Vegas.
+Renewed my drivers license.
+Bowled my highest score in bowling. Whaaat?
+I made a TV appearance.
+I was a bridesmaid in both of my best friend's weddings.
+My niece, Lola was born. (you can go awwww, it's only necessary).
+My mom got her right eye removed and replaced with a glass eye due to a possible cancerous tumor.
+Went camping at Pineview, Honeymoon Hollow and spent a weekend at Bear Lake.
+Beat Steve at mini golf. I'm mentioning this because in all his 22 years of playing all summer at Bear Lake, I'm the first to beat him. Holler.
+Rode a wave runner for the first time.
+ Discovered this and this.
+Turned 21.
+My car was towed. Boo hoo.
+My wallet stolen. (ugh, I'm STILL mad at you robber guy dude).
+Saw concerts: She & Him, Modest Mouse, Silversun Pickups, Cake and Smashing Pumpkins.

this is a cry for help.

For Christmas, I was gifted my worst enemy... a kitchen pots and pan set.
I will post pictures of the darling things later, even though we don't get along, I still like that they are red.

It's my new years resolution to be more domesticated and now that I have everything I need, I have no excuse to not learn to be a better cook... besides the excuse that COPS is on TV.

"I know.. I was GOING to make dinner but then the 90 lb sweaty dude with hair longer than mine and less teeth than a toddler with coke hidden in his deodorant started a high speed chase!"

So Reader, here is my cry for help. Well, cries, I have two cries.

Cry for help number 1: Does anybody have any dinners that are easy to make but still have some challenge?
Cry for help number 2: Does anybody have any tips on how to get me to FORCE myself to be a better cook and more domesticated?

Help!

photo of the day #77

Ta-da! Now, that you saw me cut myself in half, watch as I put my body back together... but wait, it looks like something good is on TV over there.

what do you when you get to leave work at eleven in the morning?

Why, you go home and eat some left over cake out of the fridge, go to Valley Bowling (not Bonwood? Whaaa?) and bowl terrible, then go to the movies to watch True Grit. Don't forget the blue icee's and dinner after too. Yes, please.

a teeny list of things you probably didn't know about me...

+I cry, CRY, tears down my cheeks, if I see a three legged dog or a dog alone without a collar on the street when it's raining.

+Two foods I could eat for breakfast lunch and dinner is crab (seafood) and buffalo wings. nom-nom-noommm.

+When I snack it's usually not on chips or candy... it's usually dill pickles or swiss cheese. I'm declaring myself the biggest fan of dill pickles.

+I have a salt tooth rather than a sweet tooth. But I'm still obsessed with sugar.

+I was anorexic my senior year of high school.

+I am the most indecisive person you will meet. Actually, maybe not. Well yeah, probably. (hee hee)

+I didn't lose my first tooth til the beginning of the 3rd grade. Which means... I never got a tooth sticker(s) to put on the poster the teacher had to keep track of the teeth I lost in my 1st and 2nd grade classes. This bothered me. I wanted a tooth sticker! Just one! So I would bite down extra hard when we would have corn dogs for lunch in hopes I would bite the stick and make a tooth loose. :)

+I would take a day in the mountains instead of a day at the beach.

+I accidentally tuned in to the E! True Hollywood story of Elvis Presley and I've been a lunatic fan ever since.

+I pepper the majority of the food I eat.

+I slept in my Sister's room up til I was about 17. It started out cause I was scared to sleep in my bedroom alone.... then I started to find the floor (I would layout a little bed area) more comfy and it was fun having a sleep over every night.

+I turn the faucet on whenever I am in the bathroom. This cannot be explained.

+I can never remember what I was going to say.

+I get very very cranky when I'm hungry. Beware. You have been warned.

photo of the day # 76

Christmas sucks when you come out of the bathroom and Hitler has stolen your seat.

our christmas card.

Here is the runner up......

See that white circle in the middle? That is a snowball that snowman is throwing at you.

the cons to making ramen at 4am.

I know Reader, I didn't think there were any cons to making Ramen at 4am either. But there is...

Last night after Steve and I finished watching Elf (what's a Christmasgram? I want one!), I got an outrageous craving for Ramen. It sounded so good. I was going to wait til the morning, Ramen for breakfast? Why not. But the longer I went without satisfying my craving, the more afraid I was of things getting dangerous in our living room. So off to the kitchen I darted.

Minutes later, I was balled up on the kitchen floor cradling my middle finger with a single solitary tear glistening on my cheek. Reader, I burned my middle finger on the stove burner. OUCH. Once Steve steve stopped judging me, he advised me to run it under cold water... which hurt so good.

Long story short, this is the most painful blog post I've ever typed because there is a blister on the middle finger and typing is different task with a blister involved. Despite the near death experience, it was a delicious bowl of Ramen indeed. Truly a Christmas Eve miracle.


Whoa... just glanced down to bottom left corner of my lap top... 12:14am which means....

CHRISTMAS.

Happy holidays!

photo of the day #75

Um...this picture seems like it's missing something. I think it might be her (is that a her?) pants.

and then i started blogging again.

In my absence, I lost two followers. Bless you, two little followers. I still wish you a happy holiday.

Honestly, it felt nice being away from my laptop... mostly Facebook, for as long as I was. The more I think about it, the more I want to light my Facebook account on fire.

Reader, guess where I was? drdrdrdrdrdrdrdrdrddr (that's a drum roll) Las Vegas! I've never been before. It was.... excessive. Two and half days was all I needed to be there. I had a lot of favorite parts of the trip, like...

•  Our Star Trek themed hotel room at Planet Hollywood.
• Walking down the strip for the first time at 3AM. PEOPLE WATCHING!!!!
• The Michael Jackson dancer... however he wasn't really dancing.
• Finding my favorite color on a polka dotted scarf--for ten bucks.
• Eating.
• Eating. I know I just put eating, but I liked the food there so much, it deserved to be on here twice.
• The view from our hotel. 
• The giant piece of cheesecake that was almost the size of my foot, that me and Steve shared.

My most favorite part was when I ordered a forty dollar Crab Feast and Landry's Seafood House. It was a feast indeed. And worth the forty bucks. It was my Christmas present to myself.

My not favorite part was when we were stuck in traffic for 80+ hours... which converts to like 2 hours in reality. Gah.

Now, I play the waiting game with Christmas. I need to get in the Christmas spirit. Maybe I'll go drink some egg nog in a santa hat under a massive Christmas light display singing 12 days of Christmas or something... ANYTHING.

22 today!

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Stever! Happyyyy biiiiiiirthday tooooo yooooooou.

Happy birthday to...

my best friend,

the love of my life,

& my boyfriend.

A few facts about Steve that you should know since it's his birthday!

+When he makes to-do lists, he includes "driving home" or "drive to" and it makes me laugh.

+ He is blind in his right eye.

+When I've had a hard day and I'm laying in our bed he'll come lay on top of me and make me laugh til I feel better.

+In 2008 he lived in New York for three weeks just cause.

+His two best impressions are: Chewbacca and Miss Piggy. Yes, you read Miss Piggy correctly.
+He's a referee!

+When he was little he would say 'orange shoes' like 'warange doos' 

+He would rather spend a day in the mountains rather than a day at the beach. 

+His favorite movie is Remember the Titans.

+He refuses to try ice-skating... lame.

+He is a great birthday gift picker outer.... well I guess.. just a great gift picker outer in gereral.

+He likes shoes. I even think he has more shoes than me...

Happy birthday!
xoxoxoxox

and i quote.

"It is easier to stay out than get out."

Mark Twain

"I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

George Bernard Shaw

 

once emotional, always emotional.

Me and my sisters. Guess who that fussy/emotional baby in the middle is?

my eyes are really dry, they look kind of red.

I don't know what happened... but according to WebMD.com I may have Glaucoma. EVERYBODY PANIC!!!

It was this morning when I noticed my eyes that were resembling these candies...

 (nom nom nom)

 I thought it was just cause I was really tired, you know, sleep deprivation. Then I got to work and I noticed everyone kept doing major double takes... when they would approach the question of my red looking eyes they treated me as if I was a puppy who was just drop kicked. I've been squinting all day to prevent my eyes from feeling dry. Surely I look like I'm attempting to plot some sort of kidnapping in my mind.

While we are discussing kidnapping.. if you could possess any super power, what would it be? BESIDES flying? Because duh, who wouldn't want to fly?

I would choose time manipulation.... That or the ability to turn invisible... but that just might be my Harry Potter fanatic side of me talking. The invisibilty cloak will exist someday... someday.