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In celebrating my quirks! You can find my new blog here.

day dreaming

my thoughts

while they should be focused on many other things

have instead been thinking of this beauty

and how much i feel like i can't live without it

Crack.

well shoot

driving to the airport to pick up the lovely Cati last night,

I get a CRACK in my WINDSHEILD

I'm quite bitter to be honest.

how do you quick fix it so it doesn't get better?

then I have to figure out how to price a new windsheild.

not to mention the list of other things to do for my car

as winter comes closer, and closer:

snowtires

weight in the back

racing stripe scratches painted or buffed out

2nd gear makes a funny noise sometimes

vaccumm

wash

get more ribbon for the windows

get first aid kit

goodness.

music moods

I get asked this question a lot:

"why do you have so much music?!"

here's the answer:

I have music moods

and they change severely!

for instance

today I was in a

TAYLOR SWIFT

music mood

and that's what I enjoyed on my car ride to work

hello again!

it's been way too l o n g.

i've missed blogging {and feeling connected}

a place to list my thoughts {however ridiculous they may be}

and express my feelings {all my ups and downs}

a place to gather ideas from my fabulous friends and family

just a place to be my raw self

way too many things happening in my life

c o n s t a n t l y

hopefully things calm down in a few weeks

and hopefully you'll be seeing more of me here!

Focus 80/20

I always feel weird writing about myself. It's not like I'm super interesting or anything, or like I have any fantastic stories to tell. It's probably because I look at all these fantastic bloggers (see my sidebar section of blog jealousy to get a hint) and think that I don't have anything to share.

Today I have something to share!

Not something witty or funny or cutesy, just helpful (for me at least!)

We need to spend

our time

focusing

20% on the problem,

and

80% on the solution.

Ugh how hard that is! It seems that maybe we get caught up in the reverse and spend our time 80% on the problem and 20% on the solution. Silly us!

A New Job!

Starting this Friday at Black Diamond Gymnastics is going to be so exciting! I can't even tell you. I'll update you more when I start! I'm going to love it, I just know it! : )

Talk About A Much Needed Post!

It's been forever. I know. But with my new computer, I will hopefully be better and updating this silly thing. The name of my blog changes every 5 minutes because I can't think of something. Well here it is: UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. I feel like that's a good slogan for my life. I am where I am... until further notice. So maybe this one will stick.

My hard and testing past 2 days.

Can I just tell you I've had it coming? I know I have. I guess in my subconscious, I was just waiting to get pulled over. Here's the series of unfortunate events that took place in the last 48 hours:

I was driving home from work in town. I wasn't speeding, I didn't do anything illegal (well at least as far as operating and driving the vehicle in the moment). I was the luck of the draw- just the one car the police officer decided to run a report on my plates.

He pulls me over. Oh did I so know I was in big trouble already. Why?
1. Registration expired 12/09
2. Registration is not in my name (title was given to me in 12/09)
3. No insurance (I know.. this is huge and ugly and not right on SO many levels)
4. I was already crabby because I was hungry!

So, he asks why I haven't taken care of these things yet. I explain that's it's a matter of having money, that I don't have, and my job is failing to give me hours to make money (WHOLE different story... let's not go in to it now). I also tell him that I drive very little and take the bus/get rides. He goes and "runs some reports" to see what's going on and what he can do. I, of course, am already in tears.

He comes back. Explains that he is supposed to impound my car for improper registration and no insurance, but hands me back my papers and drivers license and starts to tell me to get it taken care of. I am feeling so relieved and plan on taking care of everything as soon as I get home. That is until big mean Mr. Supervisor comes driving up and motions for nice Mr. Policeman to come talk to him. Mr. P explains the situation to Mr. S. Mr. S doesn't talk to me or anything, and says loud enough for me to hear, "You're going to impound her car." Mr. P does not give me any citations though, which was nice, I guess. No Insurance: $1000. Improper Registration: $200.

Oh. My. Goodness. Impound?! I'm imagining me having to ride to my house in the police car and be dropped off. Scary thought. Luckily Nic came and picked me up, I couldn't even talk to tell him what happened. All I could do was cry. I thought I would never get this worked out. I did my research, found my options, and spent all of today on the phone with the insurance company, and at the DMV fighting the ladies. Then I had to go to the stinky impound lot and get in my car that now smells of cigarettes because that whole place and all of those people stink of smoke.

But in the end I learned an important lesson- don't drive without insurance/registration.

It's all taken care of now. Too bad I owe rent and need to pay my phone bill this next week. That's where I'll have some problems!

pictures from our january show : )

thunderstorms and rainbows

my friend nic was the thunderstorm and i was the resolution to the problem ; ) that's what it described it as at least... it was fun none the less.. and it really did rain and thunder and lightening!

today i am missing these things. mostly dance. with a little disneyland.

today i am down. i am missing dance so much.

in an off comment to my best friend i said "i don't think i'm ever going to be able to find anything like what i had with ballet." to which he replied "you don't know that. just keep yourself open to new things. you are good at a lot of things." thank goodness for friends to bring me up about life!

hopefully there is a post to follow where i can tell you about my new things in life.

{i look like my mom...}

when i have long hair and glasses...


i do not look like my mom...
when i have short hair and contacts

it's not a bad thing to look like my mom. she's gorgeous. but... sometimes i like to be myself.

{swine flu vacation!}

buzz lightyear. tanner, easton, green people, and nixon

big thunder. easton, nixon and tanner.

big thunder. easton and tanner.

hanging out on the buzz lightyear ride (i owned everyone.. for the record)

how stinking c u t e is this baby?! i love him!

jewelry shopping at pirates of the caribbean... for skulls

aunt becky being a goof as always!

the boys and i right before big thunder

picture of a picture on tower of terror - love my face haha

so fun : )

i love that baby. wish i got to spend more time with him!

my mom is great! really. here's how our "swine flu vacation" went down.

thursday 3:30pm: call from mom "sara. find someone to cover for you. i'm going to california. school's cancelled until at least monday. let me know if you find someone. we're leaving in an hour"

well i found someone to cover for me! we didn't leave until about 5:30pm and we finally got to my aunt's house in anaheim at about 4am! 4 hours later it was time to wake up and get everything together to go to a jam packed day of disneyland! now, when we had passes for 11 years - we never went to disney for a full day. so it was definitely tiring! as always view all photos here.

{happy birthday mom!}

dear mom,

happy anniversary of your 29th birthday! you are an amazing woman. i'm glad you're my mom.

i love you.

your only daughter,

sara

{costa rica!}

so i'm going to have to play a little catch up. i have so many pictures and things to tell you and i haven't done them for about a month! so bear with me as there will be about 4 posts today!

TAMARINDO COSTA RICA
amazing place. check out where we stayed here.
i went as the babysitter! best job ever!

the place where we stayed

so gorgeous!

the gorgeous sunset

i really want to go back! can't wait until next time....

{summer how i love you}

oh summer sun.

please stay around. i like you. i like playing tennis and longboarding. i enjoy the beach. i enjoy all the skirts and dresses and shoes that can finally be worn because winter is over. don't leave me again! you are the greatest.


[post from my iPhone]

{love new finds!}

i LOVE this blog
just read. so cute.

{the party bug!}

it's blue
it's fast

i like it
: )

{the police concert!}

well i love my best friend hayley who surprised me with tickets to the police concert for saturday!! let me say- those guys are old (you can tell by how hard they had to breathe to get through some songs, and the just general oldness of them) but man can they still play! they've still got it for sure! :]

we started out night by going to target and playing in the circle in the big red wall. so fun! who knew it even existed?!

well we sit in line to even get to the parking lot FOREVER and when we get to the first little parking guy of course i use my flexibility and put my foot with the boot out the window and say "can we park a little closer than all the way out in the boonies because i have a hard time walking" he shyly looks around and then says "go ahead. just don't tell anyone." yay parking guy! unfortunately we don't have a picture with him because we had to be sneaky to park 3 cars away from the front gates :]

we were about 12 rows back and a little to the left of the stage at the wonderful usana ampitheater (it's not so wonderful because it's WAY far out there... i mean WAY WAY far away from life!) we made friends with the people around us when we got there. a cute 50 year old lady who taught me if i ever want to sneak tequila into a concert- just put it in your husbands underwear! and just some fun people behind us. well then we see the first thing we can't stop laughing about... the hippies. i'm not even kidding. here's proof! 2 rows in front of us were the hippies and they were funny! poor couple probably did 1 too many drugs in their lives and are probably always on an acid trip. here's the pictures with the hippies! (check out the wedge of shorts up his butt!)

here's the picture with the 50 year old tequila lady!

and with the people behind us who had our back when we had a creeper hit on us!!

well hayley's parents were up on the lawn with work buddies. two of the girls wanted to switch us for a bit so they could see the very attractive sting up close. hayley and i found a nice wide open spot on the lawn to dance- so naturally we start busting out the moves! even me in my walking boot! then 6 or 7 boys start dancing with us and we sit down next to hayley's dad. well one of them sits next to me and says, "do you smoke weed?" me-"umm...no" him-"are you sure?" me-"ya" him-"alrighty then. well... i'm going to go dance again." AWKWARD! but of course since we were documenting everything about the evening we had to get a picture!

the concert ends, we but t-shirts, and go on our way to the car. we get out of the parking lot successfully and begin the wait in the hideous line of cars ahead of us (can i say that the people who designed that place didn't think the getting there and exiting through very well!) we're rocking out to our fun dancing music so we can be pumped and stay awake for the loong drive home. the car in front of us stops. we stop. the car behind us stops. the next car doesn't stop and pushes the guy behind us into us. lucky us we didn't hit the person in front of us!! so we pull over and assess damage. i call my parents. then the cops. we wait 40 minutes for a cop to even show up! then we have to go through what happened, give him all our information (which i'm glad i could find!!) and fill out the ridiculous paperwork. the middle car was such a great family that we made friends with! (you can read her blog here!) we were connected with ballet (of course!) and hockey and the church. it was great they were so sweet and made the waiting time (while we all thought the cop was playing solitare on his computer) so much fun.. well as fun as waiting in this situation can be! she got my blog address so she could steal the picture we got with them. so this is how i came to blog again! :]

we got home at about 1:30am safe and sound. we stopped at a shady 7.11 and used the WORST restroom i've even been in during my whole life! it was a great night that made for good stories and a good blog startback (again).