Good Bye Holidays-- Hello 20-10

Oh what a year 2009 has been. Trying to remember all the different events has been hard. It seems like just yesterday we were at the Hanzalik's celebrating the New Year. This year has brought trials and hardships, but I wouldn't trade it for the year. I think I grew up the most this year, figured out what kind of a person I want to be and tried to make other people just as happy as I am. I have an amazing boyfriend who treats me like royalty and I'm super stoked that we get to celebrate the new year together and hopefully make it the best year so far.

A new year is always always full of ambition, goals and new year resolutions. I don't remember any goals I set for last year (probably because if I set any goals I didn't follow through with any of them haha). But this year I know what I want to achieve...

1- Get a gym membership with Linds and Bre and actually USE it. (weird...)
2- Be a happier person all the way around
3- Make changes that will better myself as a person (and not change for anyone else)
4- Take Chloe Mop Top Moppit Head for more walks, poor dog doesn't get enough time outside.
Last but not least
5- Don't fight with people anymore, Life is too short to fight with the ones that make you happy.

Hopefully in 2011 I can look back on some of those goals and feel like I did some good in the year 20-10. Hopefully everyone has a Happy New Year! I can't wait to celebrate it with Derek, Lindsee and Taylor! I will be missing Bre and hope she makes it home ok!

Now let me move on to Christmas and how weird it is now that we are older. It doesn't even feel like Christmas anymore. Christmas Eve I went up to my parents. We had ham and baked potatoes which was the bomb, Dave and Annette (mommy) always make great meals for us. After we finished dinner Derek came over and played Rummikub with us. He got the joy of meeting Gloria who is an interesting lady, haha but we love her anyway. We then watched 4 Christmas's with Reese Witherspoon. After the movie I wasn't feeling to good so I ended up not staying at my parents. I could tell that my mom was upset about it (it kind of looked like she was going to cry) but Christmas just doesn't feel the same anymore.

Christmas morning me and Derek went up to my parents for a Christmas brunch. Justin and Daysha came up with us to eat and unwrap our gifts. All 4 of our parents made us DVDs of our childhood videos, and oh boy are they scary. I am going to lock them away in a safe so no one can ever watch them. Sadie and Chloe got a lot of gifts for Christmas, I think they even might have gotten more gifts then I did. Sadie was super funny with all her new toys and chewy's. She would put all her toys in her mouth and run downstairs to put them on her bed so Chloe couldn't get them. Those 2 dogs are too smart for their own good. Chloe didn't seem to know what was going on though, she just wanted Justin to scratch her stomach.

Christmas was fun, it was great to spend it with Derek and my family. My parents are the best people in this world, they are crazy and funny and such fun people to hang out with. I went home after I was done up at their house and fell asleep for about 5 hours haha. Derek and all the boys came over to the apartment to chill for a bit. Derek's dad and step mom stopped by the apartment to meet me and that was fun. They seem like great people. After all that I fell asleep and slept most of Saturday away. I was too tired from the night before, Chloe kept me up ALL night.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a Happy New Year. I'll be back to write again next year. Love you all! <3

'Tis the Season!!

Oh goll, where do I even begin to write this??? The past 2 months have been great, I have loved every second of it. I have to throw in that I have met this amazing new guy (Derek Colby who is now officially my 'boyfriend' not that that changes anything but hey you gotta take the next step eventually and since we are together 24/7 why not right??), and even though things with Josh and me are over for good and it was hard to say goodbye to the last 3 years of my life, I'm so excited to see what the rest of the world has to offer me. I've never been so excited to grow up and figure out who I want to be. Anyway, enough with being deep... This month is the month of Christmas and I'm so excited for it.

A couple of weeks ago me and the roomies decorated the apartment to bring out our holiday spirit. I'm not much of a decorative person, but Bre and Linds are for sure and they do a great job at it. After work one Wednesday (I think that's when it was) we all got together and went shopping for ornaments and other things. I already had a tree, but we just needed EVERYTHING else. First we went to Hobby Lobby but everything there was way too expensive for my liking. Since the Christmas tree is mine I agreed that I would buy all the ornaments for it, Brilliant Bre suggested that we go to the dollar store to look for stuff. Me and Linds both didn't think that was very promising but HEY we were wrong. They had the flipping cutest ornaments and all for only $1.00. I was stoked that we found some worth buying so we got a ton of stuff there. Don't ever under estimate the dollar store, they have pretty cute things sometimes.

I love how my friends know me so well, because after the dollar store we decided we were going to go to a couple different places then go to our favorite restaurant Callaways after. We got back to Hobby Lobby to pick out a star and other random decorations for the apartment. Lindsee could tell that I was starting to get hungry by the way I was lagging in the shopping department and getting a tid bit ornery. She was all, "Alright Ashlee is hungry lets get her food right now before we all regret not going soon enough (lol)". We hurried and finished up there, went to Callways and I was content with shopping again. We stopped by Michael's, got Lindsee her much needed Cranberry wreath and headed for home.

My Christmas tree was originally wrapped in colored lights and Linds wanted to put white lights on it, so we spend about 45 minutes cutting zip ties off the branches and taking off the 100,000,000 lights. Derek (Colby) was the professional entertainer for the dogs while we were doing all of this. We finally got the white Christmas tree lights on and Bre was ready to decorate. I'm very happy to say that my talented roommates and my bank account make a really good couple, because all the things I bought and their mad skill worked out perfect together.

Here are a couple pictures of the tree... I think its pretty bad ass...

Mop Top and the Tree

For Christmas Eve I have been suckered in to staying at my parents house. Don't get me wrong, of course I want to stay up there, but Annette told me the other day that I have no choice, I HAVE to stay there lol oh well. I'm excited for Christmas adventures. Usually we have a big feast on Christmas Eve even though its just Gloria, Dave, mom and me. Justin and his wife are too busy to come over. I might just have to make Derek suffer and stop by and play Rummikub with us. He would love to do that I'm sure ;) I'll make him sit by Gloria.

Anyway, Chloe is always invited to come over to the parents and sleep at their house Christmas Eve night. I think my mom gets jealous that Chloe sleeps with me and not her (even though she would never admit that). I hate having to sleep there with Chloe though because all she wants to do is explore throughout the night (and I'm sure poop and pee all over the place), last Christmas I didn't get much sleep because she would not settle down. Moppit always gets good Christmas gifts though, one from everyone. Its pretty nice how much my family loves her.

Derek and I went to the mall on Saturday to finish up our last minute Christmas shopping. He surprised me by buying me the cutes watch I've ever seen for my Christmas gift. Here is a picture of it.

Ahh so pretty. I love it. Derek is the greatest person I could have ever met. Best thing that's happened to me in a long time. (And not just because he got me a cute watch haha).

I hope everyone has a great Christmas! Love you all!

Piercing Adventures.

I have not blogged in forever. I feel kind of bad about it. Its like how you used to forget to write in your journal forever and then when you finally remembered you felt guilty that you neglected it for so long. That's how I'm feeling right about now. Anyway. There is a lot I could blog about right now but I don't really have the time because I'm at work. My best friend Shelby is prego though and I'm so excited for her. She is going to be a cute mommy and I'm going to be an auntie. I'm pretty happy about it :) being an auntie is great, you can play with the baby whenever you want to, but when they start fussing you give them back to their parent haha. Just like I do with cute Zailee. I love her. Oh and Sheebies we will have to have a baby shower for you :) and I wanna see pictures of your little nugget!

Well onto the next story. This last weekend was Taylor (Hole)'s birthday so we had to have a little celebration. Friday night we all drove down to Ogden to get pierced. It was a little stressful getting down there because we had to rush so they had enough time to pierce all of us before they closed down the shop. We got there at 7 and there were a couple of girls getting pierced before us. (They got down south pierced and it was funny watching them waddle out after they got it done.) When Paige, Taylor and I were sitting on the bench waiting for Adri and Lindsee to get done (because they only let 2 ppl back in the room) some random guy comes up and starts talking to us. He came out of the employee only room so I figured he worked there and was just giving us shit because we looked nervous. He started asking us what we were going to get pierced then all of a sudden he got really serious and was all, "I'm getting my lip pierced so let me go first." None of us girls even knew what to say cuz he was kind of being an ass to us. Right as he said that the girls walked out the room and Paige, Taylor and I got up as fast as we could.

Once in the room Paige decided she was going to go first. The piercer was running around like a crazy man getting all the needles and stuff ready for us. He marked Paige up real fast and before I knew it she was laying down with a needle through her ear. Now the part that hurts the most about getting a piercing isn't the actual needle going through, its how they get the jewelry in that kills. They had what he called a receiving tube that catches the needle. Then they thread in a pipe that has the barbell on the other end of it. Once that is in they take the tube out and screw on the ball. It hurts really bad cuz they have to be really rough when they do it. Paige handled her piercing well though and she was done in a flash.

I was up next. I have had NUMEROUS piercings before, so it was probably really funny to see me being as big of a baby as I was. I laid down on the table waiting for him to get me all marked up when I started to panic and kept saying, "No no i don't wanna get this done, its cool dude don't worry about it, I'll just get something else. I'll get my money back, I just really don't want to do this." Paige and Taylor pushed me down on the table and were like, "Dude you are getting this done." Before I knew it I had the needle through my ear. the barbell in and the ball screwed on. I looked in the mirror and screamed cuz I liked it so much. Lindsee was all, "haha did you scream when he did it?" Me, "No I just screamed after it was done cuz I liked it so much haha." (Oh PS this is funny, when we were sitting on the bench waiting for Linds and Adri to get done it was pretty quiet in the shop when all of a sudden you hear Adri say, "That's it? Yay I did it, I really did it!" She cracks me up :].)

Anyway, we had 4 piercing done and one more to go. Taylor was up next. I was actually out on the bench when she was getting hers all marked up cuz there was this lady talking to Linds. I thought I would keep them company until I realized she was talking about nasty stuff so I went back to the room. Taylor had her piercing all done and he was just putting the jewelry in and we were all finished. Yay we all did it! It was a way fun experience and we came out alive. The plan for the rest of the night was to go to Applebee's in Layton and get our favorite meals. Oriental Chicken Roll up. Ahhhhh its amazing. Don't worry I ate my whole meal before Lindsee and Taylor could finish theirs (and they shared). We had a crazy waitress that kept talking about her nipple piercings. She would come up to our table, ask how our food was and then just stare at us. I didn't like it. The manager came up to ask us our how food was (we tried to ignore her, long story) and I started bitchin' about how the roll ups get smaller and smaller every time i go there. She tried to convince me that the roll ups are measured and haven't changed in size, but I'm not an idiot and I don't believe her. Stupid lady.

After we got some food in our bellies we headed back home, complained about how bad our ears hurt, and fell asleep at about one. Here is a picture of what we all got pierced...

**Adri and Paige got the Tragus**
--Taylor got the Snug--
I got the Rook
~~Linds got her naval pierced ;)~~ (Belly Button)

E-mail Forwards.

My favorite part of the day happens when I'm sitting at work and a little pop up in the right bottom corner of my screen telling me I have an e-mail. Most of the time they are stupid faxes or e-mailed from fellow co-workers with things that I need to do. I love the e-mails that are funny forwards. Here is one that I got from Lindsee today. I thought it was hilarious because its so unbelievably true! I am going to bold the ones that I think most relate to me ha ha. Enjoy!

RANDOM THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

• I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.


• More often then not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can't wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that's not only better, but also more directly involves me.


• Nothing sucks more than that moment in an argument when you realize you're wrong.


• I don't understand the purpose of the line, "I don't need to drink to have fun." Great, no one does. But why start a fire with flint and sticks when they've invented a lighter? (ha ha)


• Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you're going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding are thinks you're crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.


• I totally take back all those times I didn't wanna nap when I was younger.


• The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all to apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending a work e-mail with the phrase "Regards" again.


• Do you remember when you were a kid, playing Nintendo and it wouldn't work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no Internet or message boards or FAQ's. We just figured it out. Today's kids are soft.


• There is a great need for a sarcasm font.


• Sometimes, I'll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no Idea what the f*** was going on when I first saw it.


• I think everyone has a movie that they love so much; it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I'll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone is laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I'm still the only one who really, really gets it. (FOOLS RUSH IN)


• How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?


• I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand then take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.


• I think part of a best friends' job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.


• The only time I look forward to a red light is when I'm trying to finish a text.


• A recent study has shown that playing beer pong contributes to the spread of mono and the flu. Yeah, if you suck at it.


• Was learning cursive really necessary?


• "LOL" has gone from meaning, "laugh out loud" to "I have nothing else to say".


• I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.


• Answering the same letter three times or more in a row on a Scantron test is absolutely petrifying.


• My brother's Municipal League baseball team is named the Stepdads. Seeing as none of the guys on the team are actual stepdads, I inquired about the name. He explained, "Because we beat you, and you hate us." Classy, bro.


• Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".


• How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear what they said?


• I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!


• While driving yesterday I saw a banana peel in the road and instinctively swerved to avoid it... thanks Mario Kart!


• MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
  
• Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.


• I find it hard to believe there are actually people who get in the shower first and THEN turn on the water.


• Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.


• I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.


• Bad decisions make good stories (ha ha- Paige- po po shut us down)


• Whenever I'm Facebook stalking someone and I find out that their profile is public I feel like a kid on Christmas morning who just got the Red Ryder BB gun that I always wanted. 546 pictures? Don't mind if I do! :)


• Is it just me or do high school girls get sluttier & sluttier every year?
  
• Why is it that during an ice-breaker, when the whole room has to go around and say their name and where they are from, I get so incredibly nervous? Like I know my name, I know where I'm from; this shouldn't be a problem...

• You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you've made up your mind that you just aren't doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
  
• Can well all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.
  
• There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far.
  
• I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
  
• "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this, ever.
  
• I hate being the one with the remote in a room full of people watching TV. There's so much pressure. 'I love this show, but will they judge me if I keep it on? I bet everyone is wishing we weren't watching this. It's only a matter of time before they all get up and leave the room. Will we still be friends after this?'
  
• While watching the Olympics, I find myself cheering equally for China and USA. No, I am not of Chinese descent, but I am fairly certain that when Chinese athletes don't win, they are executed.
  
• I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Darnit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What'd ya do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away??
  
• I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
  
• When I meet a new girl, I'm terrified of mentioning something she hasn't already told me but that I have learned from some light Internet stalking.
  
• I like all of the music on my iTunes, except when it's on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.
  
• Why is a school zone 20 mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for pedophiles...
  
• As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drives, but no matter what mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
  
• Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still no know what time it is.
  
• It should probably be called Unplanned Parenthood.
  
• I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
  
• I think that if, years down the road when I'm trying to have a kid, I find out that I'm sterile, most of my disappointment will stem from the fact that I was not aware of my condition in college.
  
• Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what to do with it.
  
• Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey- but I'd bet my ass everyone can find and push the Snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time every time...
  
• My 4 year old son asked me in the car the other day, "Dad what would happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the hell do I respond to that?
  
• It really pisses me off when I want to read a story on CNN.com and the link takes me to a video instead of text.
  
• I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
  
• I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
  
• I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.
  
• The other night I ordered takeout, and when I looked in the bag, saw they had included four sets of plastic silverware. In other words, someone at the restaurant packed my order, took a second to think about it, and then estimated that there must be at least four people eating to require such a large amount of food. Too bad I was eating by myself. There is nothing like being made to feel like a fat bastard before dinner.

I thought all of these things were way funny, and I'm sure at one point in your life you have thought these exact things :) hope you enjoyed it! Can't wait for Halloween! Love you all <3

Always an Adventure at Wally-World

It seems like every time my friends and I go to Wal-mart it is always an adventure. Something always happens to one of us and its usually either me or Bre. (lol) Last night (9/22/09) we went to Wal-mart to get some odds and ends and funny things kept happening.

First off, I'm one of the most awkward people I know. Not around people I know of course but around new people especially boys I just can't seem to act normal. Well I think I'm rubbing off on Paige in a way. Lindsee forgot her wallet at home and asked if one of us could pay for her. I had already checked out and the cashier had already scanned all of Lindsee's stuff. Paige volunteered to pay for Lindsee's stuff as long as she would pay her back when we got home. The cashier was just staring at us funny and I couldn't figure out why. Paige couldn't either so she got on her phone and started txting someone and then after about 30 seconds (which seemed like forever) Lindsee noticed that the cashier was waiting for someone to pay for the stuff. Lindsee told Paige the cashier was waiting and Paige went bright red. It might not seem that funny to you if you weren't there. But if you know Paige it was pretty funny. She actually went as red as I do (maybe even a little worse- I blame it on the Rosacea).

As we were walking out to the car reminiscing about all the funny things that had happened that night the girls started loading everything in the trunk of Bre's 2001 Dodge Neon (much like the one above). I of course wasn't helping because I was still distraught over what had happened with me earlier but we don't need to talk about that. Anyway, Bre has her keys on a lanyard (the kind we all used to have in middle school with our lunch cards on the end) the lanyard has a clip(exactly like the black clip on this lanyard) so that you can snap your keys off if you need to. Well as Bre was shutting her trunk she got the lanyard stuck 1/2 in 1/2 out of the trunk. So when I saw her freaking out I'm thinking "What the heck its just stuck you can pull it out!" so I run over and yank on the lanyard and hear the snap break. Bre screamed, "Ashlee no!!" When I pulled it out I was all "dude it didn't break, we are golden!" When I look at the lanyard I realize that the keys aren't on that side. Meaning they must be stuck... IN THE TRUNK.

Right before we had gotten out of the car I told everyone to lock their doors (cuz the car isn't automatic lock). Luckily Lindsee didn't listen to this because her door was the only one that wasn't locked. Bre was panicking and I was all, "Bre calm down we can just pop the trunk!" Well apparently in Dodge Neons they don't have a 'trunk pop button'. Weird right? So Bre pushes a button on the back seat to get into the trunk. When they get the seat down the trunk is cram packed with junk! About 5 minutes later we hear Bre say OOH I GOT THEM. It was hilarious. I couldn't believe that she shut her keys in the trunk. That kind of thing will only ever happen to Bre.

I love my friends. They mean the world to me. We have had so much fun being together and for the past month they have been there for me every day. I love them and can't wait to blog about many more adventures we will have together.

Camping and such.

Sheesh, it has been so long since I've blogged that I don't even know what to write about. I feel like lately my life has been semi boring, and I can't remember any of the super funny things that have happened. I will try to catch you up on some stuff that I've been doing lately though.

For the past month or so Lindsee and I have been watching the OC. I LOVE THAT SHOW. Its the best, I think I live my life vicariously through all the characters. Anyway, I watched at least 3 episodes a day. I finally got done with the third season a week ago and I hardly watched the 4th season because it sucked. I really was so sad with how it ended. Marissa was great. I have an obsession with 'tv box sets'. I own all of the Friends seasons (which is by far the best tv show ever) and then some random ones. I went to Borders the other day and bought 2 seasons of Desperate Housewives because I had a coupon. Haha my mother was mad at me for 'wasting my money'.

Well moving on with my monthly events. Bre and I went camping with my parents the other weekend, I had an amazing time (hopefully Bee did too). We went to a camp site right next to the Cub River in Idaho. The camp site was really cool, we were right next to the river. Someone had moved a bunch of rocks in the river so that there was a little 'pool' area where the dogs could get in an swim. Sadie loved running into the water and getting a drink even though it was freezing cold water.

[[Here is a pic of the pool area]]

Chloe got REALLY dirty up there. She was rolling around in the dirty with Sadie slobber on her so we threw her into the water and made her swim back to us. She was freezing, but it was cute :). When I picked her up out of the water she was still swimming, haha poor dog didn't know what had just happened to her. Well after all of the water fun we had dinner and sat around the fire for a while. It was fun to just relax.

[[Here I'm cuddling with Chloe after the river experience]]

While we were setting up camp we had to put the kids in their cages because they were running around wild and my mom was scared that they would run away. Chloe made sure that everyone knew how bad she hated being in her cage. She barked the entire time she was in there. (No wonder I never got her crate trained)

[[Coco and Chloe]]

All in all though I think the dogs had fun. Sadie loved having Chloe and Coco's company. After dinner and relaxing my parents got out their favorite game ever. Rummikub. We played for an hour and then had to put it away because there were too many moths flying about. If you have ever met me and my mom you know how scared we are of moths. I hate those things. We had a lantern out and they were flying everywhere so Dave, my step father, grabbed the biggest one he could and threw it at my mom. She got mad but didn't really do anything about it, a couple minutes after that happened she screamed bloody murder and said she could feel it down her shirt. Haha. She was so upset about them flying around her head that she pulled her hood on and tied it as tight as she could. Here is a picture.....

[[I love my mother haha]]

After the moth incident she wasn't in the best of moods so we all started to get ready to go to bed. Bre pulled out her portable DVD player and puts on Sex and the City. Our camping experience was pretty rough if you couldn't tell. But all in all we had a blast and I wish we could do it again-- but its getting to be too cold outside.

Here are some pictures from the trip though :)

Next blog I'm going to have to write about going to Rexburg to see my Aunts cute baby :)

Moppit Adventures.

For all of you that know Chloe, she is a very adventurous dog. She loves checking out new people and acting like she is tough even though she only stands 6 inches from the ground. Well the other night she almost got me and her into some trouble. I seriously thought I was going to kill her.

I took her outside the other night to let her run on the grass in front of my apartment building. I wasn't paying much attention to her because she usually stays close.  Out of the corner of my eye I noticed that she was wondering off a little but I didn’t think too much of it. (I forgot to throw this information in, it is about 9:30 at night, dark outside, and my vision sucks). Next thing I know Chloe is barking her head off, and I couldn't see her anywhere. I was running frantically for the field on the South side of my apartment when I spotted her in the paved, vacant culdesac. She was barking at what looked like a black cat from a distance. When I got closer the only thing I was thinking about was how I was going to get her out of this cat fight. I didn’t want to get attacked by the cat and I defiantly didn't want her getting any diseases from a stray.

The 'cat' must have turned around because as I was running over to Chloe I could see the two white stripes on the back. I screamed in a panic, "IT’S A SKUNK IT’S A SKUNK."  I was screaming at the top of my lungs at Chloe. (I'm really surprised people didn’t come out of their apartments to see what was going on).  She finally started to run away from it when I dove to catch her and missed. Then the idiot dog started running BACK to the skunk. (How do you train a dog that a skunk isn't something that she should be trying to intimidate?)

I screamed at the top of my lungs again and she finally ran over to the curb and put her tail between her legs because she knew she was in big trouble. After a long lecture and some spankings she was thrown into her cage for the rest of the night. I was SO mad. I don’t think anyone could understand how lucky both me and Chloe are that we didn't get sprayed. Wow that would have been horrible. For the rest of the night I was shaking because I was so hyped up. It wasn't smart for me to be so close to the skunk….

#1- It could have been a rabid, rabies infested skunk that could have attacked both me and her.
#2- Could have sprayed us which is bad for obvious reasons. (smell-- duh)
#3- The spray can be shot anywhere from 7 to 15 feet away.
#4- The actual spray can cause irritation and temporary blindness.

Pretty sure I didn’t know a skunk was that powerful, I just thought that they smelled really really bad! Chloe learned her lesson though, and now she is taken outside on a leash because she CANNOT AND WILL NOT be trusted. But I still love her!

Moppit Diaries

I can't believe that my little puppy is a year old. Its crazy to thing almost a year ago I was driving down to St George to pick her up. I will never forget that day. I was so excited I didn't know what to do with myself. I invited my dad to come with me because I don't get to see him much and I figured that we could use the company. He invited his kids to ride down as well-- so it was Conner, Rosie and I crammed in the back seat with my dad in the front. We were all so excited.

A long car ride later we were pulling off the exit to meet the people. I looked out the car window and I could see 2 women and 1 man standing beside a car with a cage and 3 puppies inside there. We hurried and parked and ran over to meet the people and my puppy. When I looked in the cage I was thinking "wtf none of these puppies are the one I picked out from the Internet." I was so annoyed. They had two Pomeranian/Yorkie mixed puppies and then just one Shorkie. But she wasn't the one I had picked out. I played with the puppies for a minute and they told me to decide which one I wanted. Even though the Poms were really playful and energetic I decided to go with the Shorkie because that's what I wanted all along.

Her temperament was very weird. She didn't move much on the car ride home- she didn't make a single noise and when I would pick her up she wouldn't flinch. When we dropped off my dad and his kids we let the puppy stretch a little. She could barley even walk and I got a feeling things weren't very good with her. I tried to give her some water but she wouldn't take any. We got back in the car and I held her all the way to my aunts house. I was picking up a free TV from her because my other roommate was moving out. She has a Yorkie and I figured I could ask her some questions about how they act and what theirs was like when they first brought him home.

Aunt Camille looked at the pup and was all "you should just make sure to take her to the vet, just in case something is wrong with her. Just make sure that you take her Monday." I started to freak out and get nervous that I had spent money on this dog that was going to die on me on the way home. GREAT. Just what I needed. On the last stretch of the long drive home I thought of names that I could name her. I was thinking CoCo or Chanel or Dolce or something like that.. (a total typical girl-dog name) but when I said Chloe I knew that was it. When I picked that name I thought it was a unique name but now I realize everyone and their dog is named Chloe (literally).

Well when Monday rolled around I took her to the vet and wasn't too worried she was kind of eating and I just figured the vet would tell me to watch her close. She only weighed about 1.2 pounds, she was all hair and no meat. The vet said I needed to give her a milk supplement in her food so that she could gain more weight and that I needed to chop up her food in a blender and mix it with baby food (it was a pain in the butt). Also she said the lump on her neck was just from the shot she had before I got her. We were almost done with the checkup when the vet found that Chloe had 2 hernias. This meant that if her intestines fell through the hole in her muscle that it could kill her- or that if I had to fix them it would be $1,500. Uh what was I supposed to do?? I didn't/DON'T have money for that kind of thing.

I called my mom crying-- she was not comforting. She just said "I told you so Ashlee." I didn't know what to do and the vet wanted to see her in 2 weeks for more shots. I fed her the way I was supposed to and helped to teach her how to walk (how sad is it that a little puppy couldn't even walk? She would just take a step and collapse-- it was depressing) When we went back in that 2 weeks she had gained weight and the doctor said that I was doing a good job as a 'mother' but her hernias were still there. We kept going to the vet for shots and check ups and one day when I went in there the vet looked at me with a smile and said, "Hey her hernias have healed up all by them self :)" I was soo happy.

All in all Chloe and me had our hard times (when she was lying on her death bed!!) and it really stressed me out because she was like a dogchild to me-- but now she is a rambunctious little dog. She has tripled in weight and size. She doesn't even look like her old self anymore. I call her my miracle dog :)......

The day after we brought her home-- look at her precious little nose haha.

Growing up a little more-- she could walk pretty good at this time.

My favorite picture ever-- Sam is laying down calmly while Chloe is chewing on her tail and Ozzie is humping her.

After bath time with mom!

Graduating from puppy school.

Chlo sleeping with Suzy-

Chloe at Dave's basketball game-- she is so cute. :)

This is why we call her Moppit Head. Her hair is out of control.

Poor puppy- getting tortured by Coco's hat.

TREATS!

She might look innocent but she is totally not... She is thinking, "Hey Aunt Lindsee you best be giving me that treat before I rip your freaking head off."

All. About. Her. Blog.

So there is this friend I have, she is amazing. I don't know what I would do without her. Do you ever have friends that make you feel bad about yourself? Or that you feel don't treat you as good as they should? I have many of those. I mean I've been through a lot of friends- always learning the hard way that they are only in the friendship because it works for them but as soon as it stops benefitting them they screw you over and leave. Well THIS person is not one of THOSE friends. She is the kind that everyone hopes to find eventually in their lives.

We had a falling out my senior year. I was more into hanging out with 'party' people when she was into hanging out with the old original high school friends. We had our moments of immaturity and back stabbing but I knew that if I EVER needed her she would ALWAYS be there for me. We would make up and be close again but someone always brought drama between us. Our friendship rekindled a couple of months ago when we both realized that our drama was SO high school. And since then things have been perfect. This girl is seriously my sister and a part of my family.

I guess why I am writing this sappy blog about her is because I feel like she has truly made an impact on my life. She is so strong and so willing to be there for me. If I'm having one of those "fck my life" kind of days I know she will always be here to pick me up when I fall. I love this girl so much and I don't know how I ever made it without her. She is the perfect friend and I just want her to know that I owe her my life. She brings out the best in me and we are perfect together.

I love you Linds. Through thick and thin NEVER forget that. You are my angel.

Birthday Surprises

So the night before my birthday I was complaining about HOW GAY BIRTHDAY'S REALLY ARE to Bre. I feel bad now ha ha little did I know my wonderful roomies were going to throw me a party to remember.

At about 12:10am my birthday "morning" this happy crew pop into my room. They sang me Happy Birthday and Chloe was so excited all she wanted to do was jump down and give me birthday kisses (ha ha NOT, its more like she would wanna bite my hand or lip or anything she could get her teeth on) anyways, that was a nice surprise and here is the image I captured of the lovely gathering. (Lindsee and Bre will probably kill me for this lol).

When I was getting ready for work that morning I hear a small knock on my door, it was the girls again with a cupcake and candles singing happy birthday again. lol. I asked them, "Wow you guys are tweakers, when the crap did you guys make these cuz I was with you both all night!" Bre, "The same time we did the rest of the apt." To my surprise they had decorated the WHOLE apartment with streamers hanging from the ceiling and all over the floor. There were balloons and birthday hats scattered throughout the apt, and a big huge card :) it was great. When I was walking out to my car it was not in the spot it always is in, so I looked around the parking lot. They had wrote all over my car that it was my birthday and then moved it. It was embarrassing but i still liked it :)
The rest of the day was good and just like a usual birthday-- cake at work, dinner with the family, getting great gifts, etc. Afterwords all my friends came to my apt and we all just hung out. We made friends with the Hicks that live across from us and they gave me $20.00. SCORE! The rest of the night was just fabulous. And then with all the birthday money I got a pierced my nose for my own special gift :) I love it and hopefully it lasts this time!
I think what i learned from my birthday this year was to not have these expectations that it will be a horrible day because if you think you will have a great birthday you really will :) I'm very happy I have the friends that I do and i need to be grateful for what I have, which I always try to remember!
Ooh and then I found this lovely picture the morning after my birthday-- ha ha love surprises!

(LOVE YOU LINDS!!!)

Since when did birthdays suck major butt??

So its only about 18 minutes to my birthday and I'm not going to lie, I'm kind of dreading it. Birthdays used to be so fun when you were younger. BUT SINCE WHEN AM I OLD?? Everyone in the neighborhood would know it was your birthday 2 weeks before the actual day. Everyone was super stoked and you handed out birthday invitations to all your close friends. When everyone came over you got lots of gifts, played pin the tail on the donkey, ate cake, etc. It was so fun and memorable. These past couple of years have just been like any other day. Mind you I don't think that i need a huge birthday celebration since I'm older and don't have all my neighborhood friends, but hell you could at least get your close friends together and have a little party.

I guess I'm just frustrated that all my friends are busy with work and their own lives these days but it makes you feel bad when you have these false expectations for your birthday. You always hope someone is going to throw you a surprise birthday party, or have everyone planning on getting together to celebrate. But these days its not like that. Oh well. All in all at least I have my family who will take my out to dinner and give me something to look forward to, and at least I have a boyfriend I can count on and the girls night on thursday. But its times like these that you learn who I'm trying to grown in my own really cares about you and who is only nice to you when it benefits them.  :) Happy birthday to me! Growing a little more every year.

Raging Water Adventures

The weekend came here fast, and its getting close to my birthday (only 3 days left!). Karina decided to get everyone together to go to raging waters in early celebration of my birthday. It was so fun! We didn't get there till around 2:30 which kind of sucked but we were there for a good 5 hours. But with our luck it was party cloudy and overcast most of the day. Oh well though.

Me and Hole (aka Taylor Hanz-a-lick) got a two seater tube. It was awesome. We played for a long time in the wave pool and then went on lots of slides and let me tell you, when you have 2 people in a tube for a slide you go alot faster and its alot more enjoyable. Well anyways, we were standing at the top of one of the slides waiting for our turn to go when we hear a slap. When we look to the right of us there is a kid (about 12?) laying face town at the top of the slide. Wtf?? It all kind of happened in slow motion, you know when you feel like something is lasting for 20 minutes but in all the spare time you have NO idea what to do? This kid is just laying there... for my guess about 5 seconds, and not ONE person goes to help him. No one reaches down to check him or to make sure he is still alive. The life guard just kind of shrugged and had a stupid blank look on her face, when all of a sudden the kid jumps up and is like "I'M READY TO GO!" But you could tell he was trying to play it off like nothing happened.

I felt bad for the poor kid, he was not ok-- obviously-- and no one bothered to help him. I'm just glad it wasn't me. But its not like I didn't have anything embarrassing happen to me. When we were all in the wave pool me and hole thought it would be fun to tip ourselves over. Maybe I should back up and tell everyone that my swimming skills suck major butt, I am still plugging my nose to go under water while no one else has to do this. (When did everyone learn that trick anyway??) Well we fall off our tube and the waves kept covering my head when I thought it was a safe time to take a breath. When I finally gain control and got back on the tube my bottoms fell down and my whole bare butt in right in this fire crotches face... he was older, probably 40, and had a creeper look to him, he enjoyed that sight way too much. I was pretty embarrassed.

But other then that I had an amazing time and I'm super glad everyone that went was there to support me for my birthday. :) I'm excited for my real birthday! 3 days to go :)

4th of July, Should Have Listened To That Little Voice

This 4th of July was eventful but maybe not in the way I would have liked it to be. As you can see I'm starting a blog (not that anyone is going to read it). I decided I would like to work on my writing skills- but who knows how long this will last. Anyways--

Me and all my friends went up the fireworks, and besides a few complications it was a pretty good time. I mean the fireworks look the same as they did when you were a little kid. They aren't anything too special. Plus there were alot of people and I was dreading having to drive in the traffic. We all went out to Brice's later that night which was fun, the boys played games and the girls ate food (best part about holidays-- lots of food). After that some things went down that I'm not going to blog about but they sucked butt and ruined my weekend and my families.

All in all the weekend was good, but do you know when you have that little voice in your head that says, "Ashlee, stay home, don't go out. Just put on your Friends dvd's and STAY IN BED!" Well thats what happened to me this weekend. Sometimes you regret not listening to that little voice, and after this weekend I've definitely learned that I'm just going to listen to what that voice tells me more often! But since that I've been creepin on the low, me and Josh take my puppy Chloe to the park every day. She loves to be our watch dog and let me tell you she is a killer. I really don't have any more details to write about in this blog except that my 19th birthday is in a week from today (yay) and I'm going to a water park Saturday. I'll hopefully be posting pictures of that next week. As for now I'll see you all on the flip side.