Favorite Quote This Week

Masks

I found this Silverstein poem on Pinterest, where I find the majority of the things I love lately.

And I thought, isn't it funny? That we can be the exact right person for someone else, and never know it? Friendship/Relationship... whichever.

 I think everyone hides in some degree, whether it's out of fear, insecurity, habit...I'm sure the reasons are many and varied.

But I know that I do, I hide.

The Friday Funnies

Another round of the Friday Funnies.....

Word.

Seems totally legit, right??

I'm not sure where the Hey Girl, Ryan Gosling prints came from. But every single one of them makes me giggle. I.Love.Them.

Nuff said??

Don't tell me that you didn't just laugh harder than you have all week.......I know you did.

Best Keep Calm sign ever. I picture this on a bad day.... kidding, kidding.

Wish I could get this image larger. Too funny.

And finally, praise the heavens for whoever has started doing the Hunger Games funnies.

Because Peeta would've defintely taken me to Wal-Mart and I bet he would have browsed with me too. So there.

Thoughts on a Thursday Afternoon

Today I'm keeping it simple.....

I just wanted to write.... THIS is why I love fairytales.

Amy is Thinking

A few things today..... nothing earth-shattering. Just a few randoms that I thought I'd share.

I want one of these. A crazy, lopsided minature cottage nestled under the tree in my backyard that will eventually be massive. With a window box for flowers and a lantern hung from the top. Just because.

Grammar.... is hot.

I want a lamp post. A big one. Just like this one with 3 lights. And I want it in my backyard. So that when it's nighttime, I can have a small section where the light spills into the darkness and overtakes it. And when it snows, I can watch it glitter and fall to the grass below.

One day. It'll happen. So why not? I read a quote once, that everyone, regardless of who they are and what they do, eventually become a story. Nothing more. So you might as well make your story an amazing one.

Favorite Quote This Week

A Few Good Things

One good thing:
My title was going to be My Name is Amy & I'm Not Amused. But then I decided I didn't want my unamused face in the photo. Soooooo this is me, last week, hooked up to some contraptions, that kind of annoyed the hell out of me. Dr's orders to find out what's wrong with my ticker.

See those white things attached to me? They are like effing super bandaids. Imagine the most painful bandaid you've ever taken off and then multiply that pain by about 7,943 and you'll know what I experienced.

I was in the bathroom at the doctors office GIGGLING as I ripped them off because it hurt so bad. And the bathroom I was in echoed. So I'm sure if anyone heard me they were wondering what the hell was going on in there. I'm not sure why they stuck to me so well, but this is what my skin looked like about 3 hours AFTER I took them off.

The good news? I'm not dying.... still don't know what's wrong with me (should find out today).

And another good thing:

Soooo I have a thing for bright lipstick. Combine that with my nephew's insanely chubby cheeks.......

To be fair, Kayla left me alone in the car with him while she ran in to Babies R Us. It was kind of fair game after that right? I kind of HAD to climb in the backseat to play with him. And who couldn't kiss those fat cheeks?? Ummmm NO BODY. That's who.

I thought since he was in the backseat she wouldn't notice, that I'd get away with it.

But Kayla got back in the car looked in the mirror above his carseat and was like

"AAAaaaamy, COME ON!"

Ha!

The Friday Funnies

Yup..... this movie comes out today. Have to go see it soon.

I can't do it, can't. Scares me to death every time.

Happy Friday!

The Rio Vista

I've already said that California showed me a good time. But I just couldn't, in good conscience, not let you know that I showed California a good time too.

Erin and I have been planning on a karaoke night since we became famous for it on the cruise. She did a little digging and found this DIVE in Anaheim called the Rio Vista Inn. Sounds classy right?

When we pulled in, the GROWN MEN that were with us refused to get out of the car. LOL. It has a parking lot made for horror films and rapes. Seriously.

And the inside..... ha. It has reviews for 'the best food around' on it's website, but the place SCREAMED food poisoning. We didn't care though, we just wanted a good time.

Which is obviously what we had....

Me, Wendy, and Erin, I don't if this was before or after the Karaoke singing started, but it was for sure around the time that all my coworkers got drunk.

Erin and I sang about 3 duets with each other, and 2 or 3 solos each, and then a bunch in a massive group. And I can't even tell you my favorite part of the night because it would incriminate my coworkers, and I have no idea who reads this blog.

This photo should be at the end of the post since it's on the way home, but whatev..... I am sitting INSIDE of the console opening in the front seat of the truck. We had 9 people in a 5 seater. I had lines around my waist for an hour after. I'm just grateful I wasn't in the back seat, it was beyond out of control.

On the other side of this bar there were pool tables....

I am pretty much the most awful pool player you've ever seen, I scratch all the time, hit the wrong balls, miss them entirely, which makes it incredibly easy for the other person to win and be completely amused at my expense.

Karaoke in the group.....

See? Totally showed Cali a good time.

Adventures of a Sort

So my sister Kayla was in charge of throwing a bachelorette luncheon for her cute friend Micarie. 

I got a voicemail from her saying "Call me back, it's really important, I'm frosting the wiener cookies!" She made a point to send me step by step photos of the cookie making process, and there was a discussion of what the perfect color for these cookies would be. 

I think she went a little overboard by adding the black sprinkles.... but she insisted that they already looked so lifelike that she might as well add in.... you know. 

LOL. 

Don't worry, I wasn't the only one who acted a little inappropriate with the cookies. 

I think I'm just the only one who thought it was funny enough to post it. 

My weekend also ended with my house looking like a front runner in a horror flick. 

I made myself an awesome dinner and forgot the pan on the oven (story of my life) so it got a little smoky in the kitchen. I opened a few windows, and about an hour later I realized it was FREEZING. I shut all the windows, but my bay window would NOT shut. Mind you, it was 33 degrees outside. 

There was some kind of metal piece that was bent weird on the inner side of the window.... I tried a lot of things, smashed my fingers a bunch, and then decided that knives were the best route to solve my problem. 

The bad part was that they kept falling out..... 

I feel a little lucky that I don't have stab wounds in any of my toes. 

Because We're Awesome Like That

So Dani and I go back a ways.... years. I love this girl. 

And lunch and a shopping trip was exactly what I needed when I got back from my trip. 

So we went. 

And we laughed.

And scandalized the couple sitting next to us at Noodles & Co. in Orem where we ate. 

From the second we sat down they didn't say a word. Just ate in silence next to us while Dani and I discussed things better not said in public. I think their eyes must have ached from all the peripheral staring they were doing. 

Our shopping trip was an adventure. I've got some things going on with my heart right now and it makes it a little painful to laugh, and on an outing with this girl you don't do much else but laugh. 

We had taken about 53 photos in Forever21 before one of the guys working there let us know it was against company policy to take photos. 

So we, of course, had to capture our reaction to this ridiculous news. 

Then Dani says 'It's okay, we'll delete them'

I looked at him and said 'Uhmmmm, no, we won't, she's totally lying. But we will stop taking photos.' 

Which got a good laugh from him. I think he appreciated my honesty. 

Favorite Quote This Week

it is in all of us to defy expectations, 

to go into the world and to be brave, 

and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures, 

to embrace and change and chance and risk, 

so that we may breathe, and know 

what it is, to be free. 

There is the potential to live in a way that allows you to see the world. Even if you never leave the town you grew up in. Going into the world and defying expectations means something a little different to me. It means to see more than what's in front of you. To change it. To feel whats happening instead of just experiencing it. I hunger for adventure. For moments that I've yet to experience. For things to change me, make me stronger, make me appreciate things around me.... people, objects, feelings....  You should want to live in the moment. To be able to remember at least one, so perfectly. The color of the light behind your lids when you closed your eyes, and what the air tasted like. Even if it's just one fleeting second in span of months that captures your attention. 

There's more to being free and more to adventure than seeing the world. And there is more to living than waiting for the next big adventure. It's all the small things, right in front of you, that make life worth living... that makes you feel free. 

The CHA Show in California

California was kind of... wildly amazing. It was HOT, about 80 degrees the entire time I was there. It felt like 100, I was in love from pretty much the moment I landed. 

I went down there for one of the biggest trade shows we do... 

CHA (aka the Craft and Hobby Association). It takes months to put together the booth, which I'm now in charge of. These past few months have been exhausting, but I've absolutely loved doing it. 

This is 'the gang' Sandie, Ashley, Ashlee, Danelle, Erin, Me, Wendy, & Marlene. Definitely the perfect group of girls. We had a little too much fun (more on that in another blog post once I get the photos from Wendy). 

Nancy, Me, Danelle, and Mike. Mike is my official boss, Nancy... kind of my unofficial boss too. They really are amazing to work for. You should be jealous. :). 

The booth was amazing. We got THE AWARD for best booth. We've never got that before, so it was kind of awesome. Especially when my boss pulled the trump card and made me go with to accept it (note the sarcasm). 

We got a zillion compliments on the shirts we wore at the booth, which was funny because most of us felt like we were wearing circus tents.....

The scrap tree and the peacock. That tree almost ended my life about 7 times. I spent more than a few hours working on it late at night, and it had a scary propensity to fall on you at the exact wrong moment. 

Me & Andrea (the other assistant), I wouldn't survive without this girl. 

Me & Meggie Lou, who will thankfully not have to hear me swearing like a sailor for a while.... the prep for this show was a lot of work, and I tended to drop a few choice words... occasionally. 

Me & Mar. She is hysterical. 

And of course CHA wouldn't be complete without my roomie Erin, I know we have better photos than this one, I just don't have them in my possession yet. 

Downtown Disney is a must after the tradeshow closes for the night. So we hit the lego store... and about a million other places. 

Rainforest Cafe. Has awesome aquariums. 

And what's a trip to California if you don't cop a feel off Ursula?? 

Pretty sure she liked it.