TA-DA!

hooray! what a perfect day for my 100th post! its beautiful outside, i had a good time at school today and last but not least (at least for now...its only 4pm) i got a job today! whooopeee! man its been a long bumpy road since i started this thing! yehaw!

what were they thinking?

ok so i was online tonight ordering some dancewear that i needed and i managed to figure out the name of the seccond dancewear supplier that i used to order from...well while i was perusing thier stuff i came upon these:













ok so i wanna know what idiot designed these...cause its hard enough to stand up and not kill yourself in regular pointe shoes and its hard enough to not slip and break your neck in tap shoes depending on the type of floor so WHY IN THE WORLD would you put taps on pointe shoes?!!!!!!!!!! i mean that is just asking for it! sorry thats all i got for today...im exhausted and its late and that is all i can think about...er...stew about.

the mouse in my house...

ok i dunno if you all remember reading that book...when i was younger i loved it...until it happened to me...i realized as i was reading becky's bat story that i had my own vermin tale to tell...while it wasnt a bat it was still vermin and what made me remember it was becky being on the phone in hysterics late late at night.
ok so way back (ok three years ago) i lived in midtown in kansas city missouri (like 34th and armour) yeah i know how i got out of there in one piece with all my stuff i will never know but it was wonderful being there with the police helicopters and search lights that would pop up at night...yeah...anyhoo i lived in a converted house where my apartment was the first floor, it was an older house and so due to it settling there were small gaps around the doors. i never really thought too much about it until one night i heard one of what seemed like two hundred thousand stray cats in the neighborhood cryout and then heard this thump on my door. (side note my back door led straight into my bedroom and there was no screen just one door). so i hear this god awful cat noise something even worse than when they are in heat and then this terrible thump on my door...well other than freaking out a bit i thought nothing more of it until i was sitting at my computer one evening and i see this little brown/gray bump scurry across the baseboard and to my dismay it dives under my couch...now at this time im thinking its just cause its late im just seeing things...but no that bump had a tail and pink feet...oh my god!...*shudder* still gives me the heebie geebies, i wasnt scared just flustered. well next time i see my landlord i mentioned it especially since i noticed holes being chewed in bags and etc and so forth, so i went out and bought for the first time in my life mouse traps...well i guess i shouldnt call them mouse traps cause they didnt catch any mice, they were glue traps and all they caught were some *whoooo* sorry spiders...i hate spiders....bleh! so my traps caught nothing and unbeknownst to me my landlord put out bait. well couple days later im heading towards the bathroom only to see this little lump on the kitchen floor...which made me stop and look...it was the mouse...sitting in the middle of my kitchen floor not moving, just shaking a bit...now mind you its 2am or so by this time so i start calling all my friends first...cause i dunno what to do and when i couldnt get a hold of any of them i finally got up enough nerve to put a tupperware container over the top of the mouse...to which he didnt move at all...thats when i realized he was sick...from the bait...so i give up and call my parents...now in hysterics because i didnt want to kill the mouse but i couldnt go to sleep with it sitting in my kitchen and no one else would answer the phone, i finally got my parents to which once telling my mom she freaks out (she hates mice) and then once telling my dad thru tears how traumatized i was he yells at me to just put it outside to which i cry but that will kill it! he yelled back that it was probably going to die anyway and so did i want it to die in my kitchen or die outside...im not sure ive ever been though a more traumatic ordeal...i finally had to carefully scoop up the mouse with the lid...the one and only time he decided to jump...which of course scared the living shit out of me...how i managed to not drop the whole thing i dunno...then i had to force myself to put the little guy (yeah he was really quite little) in the trash can and leave him there...and did i mention it was below freezing out there? man oh man what a night! and i just cried and cried cause he was sick from the poison but i felt guilty about that cause he was just trying to live and then i had to go and garuntee him death by putting him outside...poor thing i checked on him the next day which was kinda funny cause i siddled up to the trash can and then kinda poked at the tupperware container and jumped away just in case it started to move...but unfortunately it didnt...and then i cried somemore. yeah i dont ever want to have to go through that again. it was terrible cause he was so cute and little and literally looked like the mouse in the book the mouse in my house
:(

not to be left out...

ok so it seems that a wave of bat stories are 'flying' around...so as not to be left out i will add my own, for easy access to the others go to amy's blog. at anyrate my story is not so much my story but a story that i love to hear over and over again when my dad re-tells of the first and last time he took my uncle brad fishing. (too bad im already giggling)








my poor uncle brad...to begin with he is not an outdoorsman at all...unlike my father who could be content to sit and fish all day possibly even everyday. anyhoo they decided to go fishing close to dusk and at the time they were living in montana...beautiful state go if you get the chance...and well my dad really likes to fish on the river, so they went to a fairly remote area suited up thier poles and distanced themselves to give each other a fair chance at landing some fish. well no sooner had my uncle lost sight of my dad did he end up crossing the path of a skunk...seeing as how he had no desire to bathe in tomato juice that night he decided he would do better to cross the river and move a bit (you know to get out of its way) well to make a really long story somewhat short...it followed him! my poor uncle kept moving and criss-crossing the river and the stupid skunk just kept following him. finally he was able to lose the skunk only to not much later end up casting his line out only for it to be swallowed by a nearby flying bat!











now then you must realize how this day had already been for my uncle, who was unaccustom to being outdoors much less terrorized by a skunk only to now find a bat at the end of his fishing line, and he now had to try to figure out what to do with this bat on a string...well he reeled in his catch only to be stuck trying to figure out what to do with it...it now of course was shrieking and flapping like crazy not understanding why its 'dinner' somehow made him stuck...anyway my uncle with his bat on a pole ended up deciding to drown the poor thing which apparently took some work, and in the end he ended up just cutting the line and loosing the fly anyway...needless to say my uncle has not been fishing since. but to me the thought of him sitting there with a bat on the end of his pole after being tramatized by a skunk...is just too good. so that ladies and gents is my addition to the bat stories that are for lack of a better word flying about.
:D

blessed be

last night i had a realization that i have been soooooo incredibly blessed. to have been able to figure out while amongst friends that care that i was made to dance and then to be able to get my act together enough to re-enroll in school and get there...well its just shy of a miracle. i really havent been this happy in such a long time...i know i complain as it is now but i used to just be horribly miserable and now i just feel like i could burst sometimes. its such a wonderous feeling! i have just truly been blessed. and for that i think i will be eternally grateful.

of all things

ok so i had a really good day today i even got a chance to sit outside with a cup of coffee and read my bible of all things (it was wonderful) but i think the best part was getting a phone call at 9:45pm only to hear darrell say on the other end in the most enthusiastic voice i think ive ever heard him use "guess what today is" to which i said "what did you say?", "guess what febuary 21st is!!!!!", well for those of you who didnt know...today...err...yesterday (feb. 21st) was the day that Rent the musical was released on DVD. now dont get me wrong its a great show, wonderful wonderful music and even better message about love and healing-if you havent seen it go rent it or get it- but i still cannot get over the "guess what day it is!!!!" he sounded almost like it was christmas! i love it! and so to quote Rent:


"No day but today"

ya better bring the water pail!

k ya got your pail? cause i am on FIRE this week so far with dance...yeee haw! its good to have that feeling of basically having your feet back under you. :D ahhhhhhhh. granted im still wobbling a bit but i must be gaining some muscles cause i can now hold some hella crazy positions and am starting to be able to just do it instead of having to think about it. :D yay! for me true dancing is when it just pours out of you and you dont have to force it or think about it. :)

YEE HAW!

just call me twinkle toes!

hee hee! guess who had two good dance classes again today! :D its me! its me! i even had a good modern class when i didnt even want to be in class! how cool is that! yee haw! here's hopin that things will only get better this week and not worse! :D

for those of you who do read my blog...

not only did i have the most amazing time in church today during our all worship service i also got to see god working in other people's hearts today...soo cool! today i managed to choreograph during worship...that was the most amazing expirience i think ive had yet...choregraphing is not the easiest thing for me especially if it involves having to use more than one person, but tonight i was able to see lots of different people just dancing away in my head...and not really specific people, just shadows which was neat because it allowed me to figure out the steps enough to be able to write it down (also something that i tend to have a hard time with). now i know most of you are not quite understanding why this is such a big deal...its because for me to graduate i have to choreograph a 3 and a half mintue peice that has 5 or more dancers in it...so i got a great start on it today. boooyah! whooopeeeee!

ok

k so what y'all are trying to tell me is that you just dont read my blog anymore...ok thats good to know...maybe ill start putting more dirty laundry out there...itd be good to get it journal-ed out and since y'all arent reading it anyway...hmmmm i will ponder on that one...

c'mon y'all!!!!!

k, im waitin...what color for my hair...y'all know im impatient...blonde, brown or auburn? i'll wait for you to post...


done?

k, well all today i was graced with moments of ah-ha's as well as those moments where you feel so exhuberant that you almost have to say out loud thank you jesus? well that was how today was...so worth dealing with all that i did earlier this week. if that is what i have to go through to get a day like today...so be it! so with that

"THANK YOU JESUS!!!!"




...hey amy...i said jesus! :D

the breaking of bread

ok so to quote joe...happy belated "singles awareness day"...yeah...bah humbug! st. valentine can kiss my **$. at anyrate at least the day ended a bit better than it started, i ended up at outback steakhouse for dessert, thier apple cinnamon thing was good but didnt hold a candle to coldstone which we had actually headed out there for...oh well...it was actually a better environment for conversation.
random change of topic...i promise that i will be doing something for st. patricks day this year...i want to either go out or to the parade or SOMETHING, the last three years i have either been sick, worked or something else came up or a combo of everything, i wanna party this year! so hold me to this guys!
another random switch...i am really tired of being a bad speller...it gets old sometimes, just for one day id like to be able to spell all the strange vocabulary words i like to use. that would be a cool day...yeah
ok one more topic change...stay with me guys! i am getting desperate to dye my hair but im having trouble figuring out what color to go with, so im asking you all...do you think i should go dark brown like i have had it most recently, lighter brown with red in it, or a lighter brown with more of a blond tint to it? i am hoping for some responses to this one cause otherwise im just gonna go into walgreens and close my eyes spin and point to whatever i end up with which could end up being anything from black to purple...niether of which would really work for me. so blonde, brown or auburn?

look out world...im on a roll!

ok so i thought yesterday was bad...hmmm i forgot that today would be valentines day...yeah its like new year eve for me...i cant remember the last time i had a good one where i felt happy and content with things...so that was just for starters...as im already running late for school i get flagged down at a stop light by the guy next to me...my tail light was out..."great!" i think expecting to get stopped by the wonderfully attentive prairie village police (last time i had one out i got stopped like three different times) luckily they werent around but i still payed for it later cause no more than about ten minutes after getting flagged down did i end up in la la land and rear ended this business-man's car...which i handled just wonderfully by blurting out as soon as i got out of my car "im soooo sorry!" not the best thing right after an accident especially since he was real intent on checking his car...it was fine...not a scratch or dent on it...but he intently got my name, licence #, and cell phone number than proceeded to find out how i was doing economically by asking me so you a student at umkc...yeah dumass thats why i have a parking permit...so you live in johnson county...yeah thats why i have a JO sticker on my licence plate...so you live there with your parents...alright jerk! "no im there by myself" i answer...that really made me feel wonderful...gotta love it when people start assuming hey you live in johnson county and you admitted it was your fault...jee i wonder how much money i can squeeze out of you...ha! just try cause im dirt poor right now and if you make my insurance go up...well lets just say heaven help you!...so i end up even more late to umkc for my first class luckily it was with the modern teacher i love who was running late herself but my body is still just super super stiff and was not working well with me...so that was my day thus far and that wasnt even the first four hours of my day! i cant wait to see what tonight has in store for me...i dunno if anyone is gonna want to even get near me the rest of the day cause i seem to be attracting lots of random cracked out stuff...look out for the bolts of lightening...cause i think they're comming next!
hooray for stinkin' valentines day!

only in my world

ok it only figures that a day where i actually get up feeling rested and awake would turn into a just bum depressing day that just schtinks. it was one of those days where by about lunch time you just want nothing more than to crawl back into bed and huddle in a ball for the rest of the day...granted i didnt do that but it sure would have been a more better (yes i did just say more better and i am happy with that so english grammar people :P to you) if i had gone back to bed. oh well...may tomorrow be a better day and may today end up somehow having a lesson that i can learn from so that it wasnt a waste of a day.

ahhhhhhhh

ok so thus far its been a perfect saturday morning, i got up about a half hour ago and actually felt rested when i got up. and outside its snowing like a snow globe...you know kinda slow but huge flakes...just beautiful! ahhhhhhhhh.

i swear on my...

yes, honest to god the photo in the previous post is of a living breathing bunny rabbit...of whom i would just die to meet...i still cant get the image of him hopping towards a small crowd of children and them screaming and running from it...hee hee hee...oh well. kudos to liisa tonight...she played wonderfully at her concert at umkc tonight. hooray! and super kudos to dr.wallace...the most wonderous chiropractor in the universe...he fixed or at the very least band-aided my broken body back together...my lower back is just wonderous! yee haw i actually feel young again! :D
k well im off to bed-e-bye...sweet dreams to all! (and dont let the giant easter bunny get you!)

this is why kids are scared of the easter bunny

my brother sent me this...and the sad part is i now want nothing more than one for my very own! this is the next breed of rabbit i will have...i just LOVE IT!!!!!!












can you imagine the childrens' screams if this guy came hopping after them!?! hee hee hee
oooh i just want one...especially if i can get 'im trained on a leash (which is do-able). tee hee. to read more about this living breathing version of harvey go here.

yee haw!

sorry amy but i just cant help myself...finally i am not the one with the croaky froglike voice! haha! YOU'RE a towel!!!!!!! :D sorry now i suppose ill end up with laryngitis for three months just cause i made fun of ya...but its not me! weee haw! oh well cheers to the makers of mucinex...the most wonderful over the counter drug ive found yet!

random stream of thoughts

ok first off i cannot belive still that it is february already...man! seccond i had the best modern class! oh it was so much fun...i wish i had that teacher on a regular basis...cause my body really likes to move like that...some teachers teach well but come up with stuff that just doesnt work...but that DID! and all it did was leave me wanting more...so much more that when i got to ballet class i just didnt want to take...and that NEVER happens! dare i say i think i may see myself starting to lean towards possibly becomming a modern dancer *GASP*. duhn duhn dhnnnn. third i dont know what my deal is but ive been really cold since last night...you know the kind that almost starts to sink into your bones...mmmm not nice. lets-see what else...quoteable quotes will be headed your way soon and i think that is about it. oh yeah and my body is still trying to go on strike im getting frustrated enough that i daresay i may see about trying a chiropractor (i must be ill cause they scare me!) i dunno ANYTHING to make my back and my left calf loosen up a bit...im out of ideas. oh well.
peace be with you!

1:4:12

this has been sitting in my heart since a conversation earlier tonight so i figured i would share it with you.


'Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.'
-NKJV

mario vs. luigi

ok so thanks to kendall and holly for a fun party where i got to play super mario bros (i think its the 2nd or 3rd one...the one barely anyone plays) anyrate i who is just terrible at video games was allowed to play and yet even though i warned everyone how much i suck at them people were still amazed when i barely got two inches on the tv screen and promptly died because i was trying to run and jump at the same time...something i just dont seem to be able to do. not to mention the fact that i kept screaming at the tv screen and scaring people who were next to me...i also managed to battle molly more than the scary turtle things or bees..."what are you DO-ING???? I'm trying to HELP you!!!!!!" thanks molly! :)

when life isnt easy...find your inner fairy

ok so apparently the last two days have been so that i know when i do have it good. today i woke up ontime and even got out of the house ontime only to find that my car wouldnt start so i had to give up and call AAA to jump start it, i then instead of going to dance (which by now i was already late for) went to advanced auto and got my battery tested, come to find out my alternator is fine, my battery is fine, it was a short...great i think how wonderfully expensive sounding is that! so i head for school and have to tell the same teacher i had to tell yesterday about my sleeping pill snafoo about my car not working (yeah she looked at me like i had three heads and was the biggest liar...anyway) then yet again have to take the lower level ballet class not a huge deal but frustrating, then when trying to leave school my car wont start again...i scream, almost cry, call tons of people only to get voice mails, then i get ANGRY, i pop my hood (not my trunk amy...the hood) and start fiddling with my car...i come to find out that the black terminal to my battery was loose and so i tightened it with my fingers and prayed and tried to start the car...low and behold i actually fixed my own car!!!!! yeah so that so far has been the only really good thing that happened today until i came home and started reading blogs...in a round about way i happened upon this one: fairyname now i dont usually condone stuff like this but i plugged in my name just to see what would come out...and this was what i got:


Michelle, your new Gay Fairy name is:

Flaming Fire Cracker


~ Your Special Fairy Skills ~
* Dancing in the mushroom patch.*
* Dressing in your mothers clothes. *
* Being a Turd-Burgler. *

and so...i finally got a good laugh out of today...so go and see what your fairy name is! :) the other great thing is that they have tons of other "name creators" as well...so go find your name and then come dance in the woods with me on the mushroom patches! :D

(may today get better and not any worse!)

my body is on strike!!!!!

today was just a really crap-ass day...not only did i take one of my new sleeping pills last night (ambien, works wonders) waaaay too late which made me slower than molasses this morning causing me to be so late to ballet class that i couldnt take it (no worries i took the next class) but during my ballet class the teacher was giving me good corrections but i think she was watching me more because i got moved up and i dont think she agreed that i should be moved up (right now i dont have a lot of muscle strength but ive actually been in higher levels of ballet prior so her class is kinda boring to me) anyways she gave me tooooons of personal attention today and im not so sure it was cause she cared so much...i think it was more of a you should really still be in this class kinda thing...well anyhoo my back on the left side had been bothering me a bit during class and then during the twentieth jump combination (this woman LOVES to give jumps but seems to really hate fast music so its like 32 consecutive jumps to a funeral durge...nothin but pain even if you do it right) but little ol me ends up with the most horrific calf cramp yet to date...so now not only do i feel old but i walk like im 102 years old! i have this large knot on the left side of my lower back close to the spinal cord and it seems to actually be somehow connected to my left hip which is also extremely tight today (have no clue why...its unusual for me to be tight in the hips) and that is seemingly connected to my dang calf...bottom line...im broken and my body went on strike! i cant move without hurting and nothing ive done (banana, tons of water, advil, rolling on a ball, heat, massage, gatorade) has made much of any difference...im gonna go sit in the tub but i doubt that is gonna do much either...if anyone knows how to get a broken body to stop striking and get back to work let me know!
:(
-signed old and gimpy at age 25

question

ok how the frick did it get to be february? where was i for january? wait im confused...oh well i guess that makes sense...im not so scared anymore, confused is one of those emotions that is like your old favorite pair of sweatpants...slip it on and its like oooooh i remember you! but im still sitting here in shock...i dont even think i remember all of january...i think starting school was such a shock to my system it left a big blank spot there...and im not so sure that its a good thing if you are getting blank spots in your long term memory...augh! oh well. i had chipolte for dinner last night and have fallen madly in love with thier chips...i love the lime flavor and the margarita salt (well i guess it was probably more likely sea salt but thinking of it as margarita salt made me happy) hee hee hee. mmmmmmm margaritas...hey amy what say you when you get a bit more unbusy that we have a sleep over completle with ritas for all?