| Last Minute Banquet planning = Ugh. |
[Jan. 11th, 2008|12:36 am] |
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So I've got a Cub scout Banquet to plan, and it's in exactly one month. The other council members told me they'd get me the "bin" of information and stuff to me at the last pack meeting. Alas, they forgot. So I had to wait until after x-mas break to get all the information I needed. And when i do get it, it's literally a PILE of useless information (old invites/flyers telling which dens need to bring what kind of dish for the potluck and a list of boys that did Bridging Ceremony each year since oh, 1993) Scattered throughout the PILE are a few, and i do mean few, bits of useful knowledge, like what the announcer should read during the Ceremony. This is supposed to be the biggest night for our Webelos II Boys, this is the time when they become full-fledged Boy Scouts. I've also found out that in recent past Banquets we as a Pack have neglected to invite our Sponsoring Organization ( our local American Legion Post ); not exactly sure how you can just "forget" to invite them either.
So this weekend my den has to do some hardcore work on their badges AND plan this banquet (and you KNOW the banquet is going to be a mom thing).
Hmmm, I wonder if the other leaders would think me weird if I wore my clothing of choice..... gothic or grunge probably wouldn't fit in really well with the BSA. Oh well, thankfully I have some Mommy appropriate clothing I wear to conferences and soccer games ^^ I'm such a weirdo LOL but i love me. I did take a quick break to watch a new show on Lifetime with Carson Kressly called How to Look Good Naked. I highly recommend it.
Back to surfing the interwebby for BSA decorations. |
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| what now. |
[Jan. 5th, 2008|04:42 pm] |
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I don't like it when someone asks me how i'm doing, if something's bothering me and then they proceed toget on my case about my answer. If you genuinely care about how i'm feeling and my response don't come down on me if you don't like what you're hearing. Its not my intention to bring you down or cause you to have a bad time. I'm not like that. but I'm also to the point in my life when I feel i need to be honest with the people around me and with myself. so if you're not into hearing what's on my mind then please, don't ask. |
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| the rush is over |
[Jan. 2nd, 2008|09:29 am] |
Yes my seemingly never ending holiday "vacation" is now officially over. I need a drink. Christmas went well, the minions all enjoyed their gifts and the boys found out how awesome GameStop is (they turned in a bunch of games and have been looking forward to spending their credits). New Years was bleh, but not for the reasons some might think. S'okay, already have make up plans in the works ^.^
Between the two holidays we had our Xmas party at work where we get to eat (mmm seafood), drink (zomg lots of Malibu & pineapple), and be merry (torturing the newest employees with secret games of embarrassing actions; details with held for your own safety). Normally we play at least one, if not two, games of Pictionary; but SOMEONE ( Angela/Jessica ) forgot to bring it with them. Not sure why since they KNOW they're supposed to bring the game each year. I think sex went to their brains this year though. So we ended up playing Pictionary Junior. All I can say to this is "Hmmmmmm." So instead of the party lasting well into the early hours of Friday morning, we left the restaurant at 10:30. Disgusting. At least I had a really good night at home to compensate (see Malibu & pineapple).
I need to go cocoon myself in blankets. -7 degrees outside makes Sarah a lethargic monkey. |
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| Baking and me go hand in hand ^^ |
[Nov. 26th, 2007|10:09 pm] |
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Tomorrow is the start of my holiday baking... which will go on well into December o.o
However, this year, as with others, I'm at a loss at what to do with all of my goods (addresses welcome if you want some lol as soon as i figure the best way to ship them). Caramel corn tomorrow (store brand be damned), saturday will probably end up being candy cane cookies (crushed candy canes on top=mmmmm) and more than likely Russian Teacakes... the list goes on. And I don't even eat cookies (well maybe a few o.o). I ordered some new "industrial" type cookie sheets from work and I can't wait to use them; when in doubt go with what the professionals use. 100% aluminum sheet pans, will not rust and heat evenly in the oven, the higher sides keep the cookies from getting too dark in the oven too :D
With these new sheets I'll end up making too many cookies this year.... /sigh.
wait... is that a bad thing? |
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| something to make you laugh |
[Nov. 23rd, 2007|07:47 am] |
my sister posted this on her myspace blog, i got a kick out of it and thought you might too lol:
"MUST READ!!!
Due to shortages in men in the Madison Area, the following categories of unforgivable lowlifes have been promoted to "potential relationship material" for me:
-Liars
-Cheaters
-Daily pot smokers
-My intellectual inferiors
-Dirty, smelly coffee shop poets
-Barflies
-Possessive types
-Women haters
-Men old enough to be my Dad
-Lawyers
-People who can't spell and refuse to use spell check
-Alcoholics
-Negative, angry types
-Politicians/the criminally insane
-Smokers who pretend to be non-smokers
-Vain, self-centered artists
-Drama queens
-Guys who always get dumped and can't figure out why
-The dental-hygienically challenged
-Players
-Polygamists
-Republicans
-Anyone with that shit-eating fetish
-People who ever liked the band "Book of Love"
-Pig Fuckers
-Pink shirt wearing dick heads who drive fancy cars
-Free loaders
-Your dumb friend, age 37, who still plays video games after work
-Anyone with a toupee
-The insecure
-Misers
-Humorless "business" types
-Mama's Boys
-Egomaniacs
-Sex addicts
-Poseurs
-Infantile fuckwits who blame everyone else for their problems
-Narcissists
-Bad kissers
-The fiscally irresponsible
-Underachieving slacker dudes
-Anyone in any kind of tribute band
Hope to hear from you soon! " |
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| Happy Thanksgiving |
[Nov. 22nd, 2007|10:09 am] |
here's wishing all of you a happy thanksgiving!! hope you all have a great day and some damn good food :)
<3 |
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| Moi?! |
[Nov. 20th, 2007|05:23 pm] |
| How to make a fuzzymonkeylove |
Ingredients:
1 part success
5 parts courage
5 parts beauty |
Method:
Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add lustfulness to taste! Do not overindulge! |
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| Ah the redundancy of it all |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|02:38 pm] |
So I finally got the whole story (FINALLY) and am officially back on the market. However, after this last try I think I'm going to just stay single and go out with my girlfriends. Tired of falling for who I think is the right guy only to find out that their definition of "right" and your's don't really match up. It's not anyone's fault, just, things happen and then other things and you find out that maybe it just wasn't meant to be. BUT! On the plus we're still friends, which means a lot to me. And I met a lot of new ones because of it all..
*hugs to you all* (pretty sure you know who you are).
Big thanks go out to Erin who helped me rationalize! <3 you babe, you're the best, even though I'm pretty sure you don't check these often lol |
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| Why bother? |
[Nov. 11th, 2007|12:35 pm] |
Why do people insist on lying to make themselves look better? I mean, of course it's an ego/self confidence thing, or lack there of; but really why bother? The lie itself is amusing all alone... but to hear the shit going along with it is annoying. Bah. |
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| Snow... YAAAY!!! |
[Nov. 9th, 2007|09:26 am] |
I don't know about anyone else but for about 2 months of the year I CRAVE snow. Yes crave. It's something to do with the holiday season... normally I'd say anytime from a week before Turkey Day until about January 1st. I MUST have snow for Christmas. If there is no snow then I'm literally depressed.
Well this past Monday Spooner had it's first 'snowfall', nothing accumulated but it came down in droves!! wo0t!! Now today I was up at about 3a.m. (yes couldn't sleep again) and of course it being extremely dark out saw nothing amiss. I got frustrated with infomercials on TV and went to lay back down in my sleepless misery lol. Around 6 a.m. alarm clocks began going off for the minions. Again, pretty dark out so nothing out of the ordinary for the boys. I'm laying in my blissfully dark room praying for sleep when 7 a.m. rolls around and the youngest minion (my little mini-me... evil darling that she is) crawls out of her bed dragging her blanket after her (I didnt need to see her doing this with my head over my head, she does it all the time religiously). My oldest minion is a darling and gets her a bowl of cereal because he knows mommy is fn tired. Smart, considerate boy. Then I hear it, the squeal of joy and excitement followed by the patter of feet running down the hall to my room, which in turn is followed by cold hands on mommy's leg. BB (the mini-me) is chanting and giggling about it snowing. I'm of course overjoyed myself (since I'm a snow freak and have been secretly praying for early snow this year much to the chagrin of everyone I know (except maybe my equally evil mother)) and muster up the excited if sleepy voice asking her to tell me about it from under my pillow. She ignores me and runs back out and probably had her nose glued to the window watching the big flakes fall. aha. I love corrupting the youth. Btw she's also a die-hard Packer fan since she could say her first word. Again, brainwashing is most effective when you start it young. :)
Fast forward on our way back from dropping off deviant minions at school... since they decided to miss the bus in exchange for watching TV. Bad me. Ah well. So on the way there and back I hear what BB calls the "snow song". It just happens to be the word 'snow' repeated over and over in her awesome sing-song voice (no other words mind you, just snow). Which in turn reminds me of a story my evil mom told me from the past monday (you know, the one with the first snowfall of the year). She was running errands with BB (two evil beings in a vehicle together, scary mwahaha) when the snow started to fall with its massive flakes. Unable to see my mom turns on the windshield wipers. Immediately BB tears up (I've never met another person that can muster tears as quickly and convincingly as her, and of course they're fake... most of hte time lol), she begs gramma to stop the scrapers, she wants to watch the snow fall. Gramma tries to explain that she needs to have them on so she can see... why doesnt she watch out the side window where she was sitting. Confused BB looks out the passenger door window and bounces in her seatbelt exclaiming that snow is falling out there too. As if snow only falls down in front of the car (insert evil snicker). God she makes me laugh (but then I'm biased lol)
Tonight they go to their dad's (thankfully), I'm going to try the olde fashioned method of painkiller/sleep aide: Booze. I'm not exactly "excited" after all i'm goingto be drinking by myself in front of the TV (where I can pass out if need be). But hey, sleep is fucking sleep and I'm in dire need of it. I think tomorrow I'm going to hit up the emergency room for painkillers. A couple friends of mine have decided that since I won't take sleeping pills that they're going to give me muscle relaxers to help me sleep. Ilook like shit and feel like it too. They're worried >< So am I. But never fear... my methods will not be overlapping... I'm having doubts enough as it is in them to do more than one at a time. After all, I'm only tired, not suicidal (not making a funny).
<3
Oh, it's been well over 2 weeks since the new avenged sevenfold cd came out, if you like metal/rock I highly encourage you to take a listen to it. I loved their last cd to the final song, this one completely blows it away. In particular check out A Little Piece of Heaven (which apparently is my "secret inner me song" though not sure why >.> ), Lost, and Afterlife. All are musically amazing, the melodies and chords leave me with goosebumps. And everytime I hear Lost I wonder how fucking hard it would be to play on Guitar Hero... if possible at all o.o |
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| Missing her.. |
[Nov. 8th, 2007|10:12 pm] |
Okay so last month shortly after I returned from Chi one of my closest friends for the last oh, say 5 years moved to be with her hubby in San Diego (he's in the military and she had to wait for her courses to finish in the fall to join him on base). I'm so happy for her, I talked to her via text earlier tonight but god dammit I want my Juliebug back =/
she was my one gf that I could talk to and ask for advice from without any questions asked. the other girls in my close trio are great to talk to for other things but my gabfests with julie were always very frank and to the point. she always told me how it was with no weird looks etc. It hasnt even been a month and I want her back.
Yes I'm whining. Oh well. =/ |
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[Nov. 8th, 2007|08:33 am] |
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Not sleeping well... if you want to call what I'm getting as "sleep". Gotten about 6 hours in the last 3 days/nights give or take. Top that off with work and other projects/meetings and I'm an exhausted puppet. Friend of mine suggested taking something to help with the sleep part but I can't do that... I don't like them or what they make me into in the morning when I HAVE to be up. Of course my alternative is drinking myself into a nice peaceful stupor and hopefully pass out on my bed/couch. But then again, probably won't like myself in the a.m.. So going to have to hope that tonight I catch up or tomorrow night I'm going shopping for a beverage of my choice. >< Now when I actually do get some sleep I have really scary dreams. I think I'm going to have to check online somewhere or find a book about dream interpretation; normally I'm not bothered by my dreams but these freak me out. And I'm not sure if "nightmares" are something you can interpret. If these even classify. And yet another reason to drink myself into a silly passout-ish stupor. No nightmares for Sarah :D |
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| blargh |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|07:04 pm] |
So between weird/freaky dreams, illness (self-inflicted and not), and i dunno what else I didnt get much sleep this weekend. In fact it's probably the most blah I've felt in a long time. Tonight is the first night that I've actually been able to keep anything down >< Long live chicken noodle soup. Hopefully tonight I'll be able to sleep when I finally go to bed; but I'm feeling rather awake now so i doubt that will happen anytime soon. (Not feeling up to Heroes tonight either, which is odd. Someone shoot me.) |
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| Meep. |
[Oct. 30th, 2007|06:56 pm] |
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So I've pretty much finished winding down from my trip to Chicago this past weekend. Btw, it was a BLAST! I got to see a bunch of familiar faces and meet some new ones at the same time. I should probably mention that I was pretty drunk when I met most of them but hey, I had a good time ( even if I don't completely recall about 45 minutes of the night lol ) And the fire breathing by Ben was awesome.
I also got to meet Allen and Samm's parents, more so Allen's, but both sets were pretty damn nice. :)
I was bummed leaving last time, this time going home really sucked. It was really awesome hanging with everyone and just relaxing if for a short time.
I plan on honing up my GHIII skills for my next trip (whenever that is) so I can totally rock out ;) It's on.
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| Something fun via email ^.^ |
[Oct. 16th, 2007|03:48 pm] |
My friend Tom sent me this in an email... it looked kinda fun. He said it made him think so I decided to give it a whirl.
SCATTEGORIES RULES: Use
the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...they
have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up! Try to use
different answers if the person in front of you had the same
1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.
What is your name: Sarah
4 Letter word: stem
Vehicle: saturn
TV Show: Smallville
City: spooner (how easy)
Boy Name: Steve
Girl Name: Samm (^.^)
Alcoholic drink: sex on the beach (one of my faves)
Occupation: Surgeon
Something You wear: socks
Celebrity: Syn Gates
Food: spaghetti
Something found in a bathroom: shampoo
Cartoon character: scoobie doo
Something you shout: shut up!
Movie title: seven
Made an appointment to have my hair foiled this coming monday mwahahaha, I love playing with my hair even though I can't do much with it lol. Too thick and hates a curl, so straight it is. Which means color color color. and funky cuts. Sometimes I wonder if my mother is right, that I act too young for my age. But then I remember that I'm happy and fun and it's just fine liking video games and acting like a dork with my friends. |
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| Barely containing my excitement ^.^ |
[Oct. 15th, 2007|04:27 pm] |
So my tickets arrived for my next Chicago trip, yay! Get to see the JustinBear again ^^
Also get to hang with the Allen and Samm and the other chi-town peeps :)
I'm also going to be meeting another WoW guildie, Ben... should be interesting. This trip will have me arriving late Thursday night (Oct 25), just one day before the much talked about Halloween Party at Justin and Allen's house. They're going as Jake and Elwood (a perfect fit for the two of them, I can't wait to see them in costume). Not sure what Samm's going as, or anyone else for that matter lol. I'm going as goth chick as Jason suggested. His reasons are funny and yet gave me evil ideas. So my top, shoes and hair are planned/bought, skirt and the remainder of the outfit will probably be picked up on my way south hehehehe <-- evil laugh..
Ooo and I'm bringing cookies!!! Much love for tasty cookies <3
I'm so excited I'm counting the days... counting the days and glaring at my atrocious grammer (not the spelling thankfully)
10!! |
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[Oct. 10th, 2007|01:32 am] |
it's good to be liked :)
I like being liked... it makes liking other people that much nicer :)
<3 |
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