Okay, so, an explanation is in order... the draw backs are more than a few...
Sooo this is Wednesday night and Shane, Whitney, and Koll are scheduled to fly in. The plan was that mom was supposed to pick them up (something like 5:20) and bring them to my house where I would have purchased papa murphy's pizza... yes, my alma mater... haha, and Melissa would at that point also be at my house with her three children. We could then have some pizza together and then head to the sonics game with tickets already purchased for a pretty good deal ($14/ea when the seats were normally $42/ea). Sooo, I have also offered to have a missionary lesson at my house for a female investigator (for the church) and that was at 4... which should work out fine considering people weren't coming over until like 5:30 or 6pm. So I pick up the pizza and the missionary lesson commences when my phone starts ringing at 5 something... when I went back to my room to check on it (lesson still going on without me of course in the other room), I had 4 or so missed calls. Most from Melissa and the most recent from mom, so I call mom back. She is panicked... "Shane hasn't answered his phone, they aren't at the airport, what am I supposed to do... what's Whitney's number... ETC..." pretty much yelling in complete freak out mode... (mom, sorry, don't take offense to this post, it's just the reality of the situation)... sooo I try to calm her down, tell her there's nothing she can do and that eventually Shane will call her because he will most likely want to leave the airport at some point. So now to Melissa... I call her back and apparently her car is overheating... but she also needed directions to my house. Soooo... for some odd reason I am trying to help her get to my house via Kaya (her 9 year old daughter)... this by the way, proved to be very ineffective... pretty much everything I said was ignored and Kaya would inform me of the new street they were on and it was always a street even further away from my house. So eventually Melissa wises up and talks to me herself (I'm leaving out all the fun and frustrating details of trying to help someone and give them directions all the while as they are doing exactly the opposite of what I tell them to do). Sooo... of course, I'm talking on the phone helping family emergencies and I'm embarrassed that I, the host, has completely abandoned the missionary lesson. They actually left, yes, left, before I even came out. A friend, Ryan, was still here... but nonetheless, I was a little flustered and embarrassed that I was hiding in my room on the phone. So eventually Melissa and the kids get here. I had turned on the oven to preheat it between some of the phone calls so I go to put the pizza in... however, the oven is stone cold. Perfect. Oh also, in between a conversation with Melissa, or Kaya, rather, I talked to mom who was still freaking out and I had to call the airline for her and find out if Shane and Whit's flight was delayed... which it was (until 6:35) so they were definitely going to show up to my house well after the game had already started. But really who cares because the pizza won't even be ready anyway! So Ryan lives really close, so we take the pizza over there and bake a pizza and bring it to my house while the next one is cooking. Melissa is at my house by this point and they are able to start eating while we finish baking all of it. Shane and Whit and Koll and mom show up and by that time all three pizza's are finally done. So we eat, leave, park and get into the game with 4 or 5 minutes left in the third quarter. Hahaha... very funny to look back at but it was quite the evening... BUT, all worth it, 'cause my family's the BEST! :)
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Late posts... sonics game with fam
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The grades are in!
Woo hoo! Fall quarter is over (YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!) and I did almost as good as I wanted to. I got a 3.87 (two A's, one 3-credit and one 1-credit class and an A- for a 3-credit class). Anyway, I'm excited to be on my way in the program. Good news of the century is that I only have to take one class this next quarter (winter 08)!!!! I don't know if anyone realizes this, but that is pretty much the best thing ever! :)
Monday, December 17, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Aging
I've decided my body and I don't really get along. You would think I feel better... being that I have been doing absolutely nothing (but coaching I guess) since volleyball ended... but actually it's quite the opposite. Now anytime I so much as move in a direction my body doesn't want me to, I deal with the wrath. Today, that consists of lots of neck and shoulder/back pain/issues. I cannot put the phone in between my ear and shoulder. This is a problem as a lot of my job consists of answering the phone and writing down what is being told to me. Now I have to hold the phone in one hand, my pen in the other, and keep the paper in place with my elbow. Not exactly good for avoiding cramping in my crinked neck/shoulder.
Anywho... let's see, a couple of my toes have been throbbing on a semi-consistent basis. I get out of bed and if I put any pressure on the ball of my foot I yelp out in pain... not sure what's going on there. A friend at work said it could be tendinitis... how lame am I? Who seriously gets tendinits in their foot/toe area?????? Preposterous I tell you. Well... just thought I'd complain cause there's nothing else to do. :)
I'll let you know if anything else comes up...
Anywho... let's see, a couple of my toes have been throbbing on a semi-consistent basis. I get out of bed and if I put any pressure on the ball of my foot I yelp out in pain... not sure what's going on there. A friend at work said it could be tendinitis... how lame am I? Who seriously gets tendinits in their foot/toe area?????? Preposterous I tell you. Well... just thought I'd complain cause there's nothing else to do. :)
I'll let you know if anything else comes up...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Essays - very funny!!
Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their
collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school
essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse
without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was
room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge
at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an
eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city
and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when
you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka
at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was
the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap,
only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are won't to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck,
either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a
land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender
leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,
as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school
essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of
teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides
gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances
like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a
guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of
those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country
speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse
without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli, and he was
room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes
just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge
at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a
bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag
filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an
eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city
and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when
you fry them in hot grease.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across
the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having
left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka
at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences
that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who
had also never met.
17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was
the East River.
18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap,
only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
19. Shots rang out, as shots are won't to do.
20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,
this plan just might work.
21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not
eating for a while.
22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck,
either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a
land mine or something.
23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender
leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around
with power tools.
25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells,
as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Monday, November 12, 2007
The Classic. Must see...
This is mostly for my female viewers, but I'm sure everyone would get a good laugh. My favorite part about it is that this is apparently how it really used to be (one of my teammates sent this to me and that's what her mom said). That's sick. Haha. :)
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!
Ah, yes... I was a witch for Halloween!! I pull it off pretty well (being scary, that is) since I'm so pale. The kiddies loved it. Notice my sweeeet spider ring in the picture of me holding the phone. Minus it pulling out my wig hair all day, I liked it a whole lot. :)
I'm embarassed of my standing photo because he definitely didn't tell me he was taking the picture. Is it just me, or do I look constipated or something??
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Heard this on the radio...
Scientific differences between men and women:
- Women pause less when talking (duh...)
- Men produce twice as much saliva (gross!)
Sleep
So, I've decided to inform the public of my stupidity today. I'm extremely not proud to announce that today I slept about 2 1/2 hours less than I could have because I forgot that I was allowed to sleep in today. Smart move, Rach. Way to go. I'm sitting here at work (mind you, getting work done), however, I do not have to be here until 9:30am. I have, in fact, been here since 7am (my usual start time). Prep has "late start" days where they usually hold faculty/staff in-service days. Today is one of those lucky times that I didn't have to come to the meeting because it is just for the teachers. So bravo, I could be in bed right now and I'm not. You'd think I'd remember something so awesome as getting to sleep in. Apparently it wasn't enough that I highlighted it on the calendar on my desk at work AND put it on my google calendar. I'm seriously a genius.
Monday, October 08, 2007
Addendum
I'd just like to say... that I lied! I really do like being a girl! :) So for those of you faithful followers who read my random (and poorly thought out) posts, I'm not really that upset about pms and all that junk... I'm actually in such a good mood right now, I can hardly contain myself!!! Seriously, bouncing off the walls right now. (huge smiles!)
I love watching conference. Wasn't it good?? Plus, who doesn't like being around their family? I spent all day yesterday at dad's with dad, kong-ju, dena (with extremely small baby bump, and of course, adorable!), and steven. We played games and watched conference all day.
Speaking of games... Alex (kong-ju's cousin) has this awesome game called 'set'. So FUN! I must get it... It's a pattern game with cards. I LOVE it! Makes you think fast... sooo, we need to have a game party and play it all night long! hahaha... I'm CRAZY right now!! "You can't stop it... you cannot stop it..." - name that movie and you win a prize!! (haha, okay I'm seriously making myself laugh out loud at work right now - shane and whit: not lots of love, I spelt it out just for you two!!)
You stay classy San Diego... :)
I love watching conference. Wasn't it good?? Plus, who doesn't like being around their family? I spent all day yesterday at dad's with dad, kong-ju, dena (with extremely small baby bump, and of course, adorable!), and steven. We played games and watched conference all day.
Speaking of games... Alex (kong-ju's cousin) has this awesome game called 'set'. So FUN! I must get it... It's a pattern game with cards. I LOVE it! Makes you think fast... sooo, we need to have a game party and play it all night long! hahaha... I'm CRAZY right now!! "You can't stop it... you cannot stop it..." - name that movie and you win a prize!! (haha, okay I'm seriously making myself laugh out loud at work right now - shane and whit: not lots of love, I spelt it out just for you two!!)
You stay classy San Diego... :)
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Update of the day
Since I never seem to have enough time on my hands to call anyone and tell them what I'm up to (mom sometimes feels like other people know things before she does)... I'd just like to let everyone know that I'm going to be coaching club volleyball this year. Alyssa and I will be be co-coaches for (hopefully, if they get enough girls to commit) an 18's team. We are so excited! There are a few training days coming up, try outs in November, and practice will start two weeks before Christmas Break. I will have plenty of time to do this with my career at SPU ending (volleyball-wise) and spring quarter (I'm nearly positive) I will have very minimal academic pressures because I have one requirement to volunteer in a classroom for 5 or 6 hours a week. I'm pretty sure that we don't also go to class on top of that... but we'll see. Either way, it's doable. Also, it's a more low-key club, so we won't be traveling as much and there won't be too many tournaments (although I haven't gotten a list of those yet). I'm so excited to be a coach!!! :)
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
PMS
They don't know the cause and they don't have a cure. Good luck with that. I'd just like to officially state that I hate being a girl. Crying at work for absolutely no reason (at least not one that really makes sense to be doing anything close to crying!) is just one of the things I have done this morning... That's fun. I'd just like to post this, not for your pitty, but your understanding. Be nice to people, no matter what. You never know what they're struggling with (they might not either!). My day can only go up!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Action Shots
http://www.troutstreaming.com/Sports/311282
The top two photo albums are from this year. Check em out!
The top two photo albums are from this year. Check em out!
Monday, September 17, 2007
BUSY...
I don't think many people really understand what that term means to me. For the most part, I'm not one to freak out, so that's a really positive thing. However, the older I get, I feel like my "getting overwhelmed factor" has been increasing. (Of course, when class starts I'll let you know about my panic attack status, haha)...
I had a pretty busy weekend and at the moment I feel pretty emotionally drained. I need a vacation yet I'm no where near the time that I can take one. :)
I'm hoping to slow down some after volleyball season. At that point I will just be working full time and going to school full time. Next year I think will be much less stressful. I'll be substituting and going to school with no volleyball to worry about or take up my time. I'm pretty excited about that actually...
I really don't know what the real point of this post is, so sorry for wasting your precious time!!
In other news...
My weekend was packed but pretty great. I had my one credit class which was a retreat to Camp Casey on Whidbey Island. I had lectures and got to meet my cohort for the MAT (master's in teaching) program. That was nice and I'm sure it will be cool to go to class and know or have at least seen the majority of my classmates. I actually met a pretty cool girl there too and we're going to hang out this weekend. She cracks me up. It's scary how alike we are. Farting, burping, etc... I think the only thing we differ on is that I spit... haha. She's great! Anyway, so that was fun and it makes me excited for the program, it's a really great teaching program and they really care about making us good teachers. I'm excited about it.
We won our match against NNU (in 5) for those of you who couldn't be there. It was pretty fun and good to beat them. They are a good team and they have beaten some good teams so it was really good for us to beat them.
Troy visited this weekend which was also really fun. He stayed with me on Saturday night after the match. We went to Brian Ball's house on Sunday in the evening and had dinner. They have two little girls. Kira (almost 2) looks like Katie Balls' twin! SO CUTE! What a happy little girl. :) I had a blast playing with her and being there.
Not that anyone cares about this last tidbit, but I topped off the night by watching "50 first dates"... and yes, I cried... duh. :)
I had a pretty busy weekend and at the moment I feel pretty emotionally drained. I need a vacation yet I'm no where near the time that I can take one. :)
I'm hoping to slow down some after volleyball season. At that point I will just be working full time and going to school full time. Next year I think will be much less stressful. I'll be substituting and going to school with no volleyball to worry about or take up my time. I'm pretty excited about that actually...
I really don't know what the real point of this post is, so sorry for wasting your precious time!!
In other news...
My weekend was packed but pretty great. I had my one credit class which was a retreat to Camp Casey on Whidbey Island. I had lectures and got to meet my cohort for the MAT (master's in teaching) program. That was nice and I'm sure it will be cool to go to class and know or have at least seen the majority of my classmates. I actually met a pretty cool girl there too and we're going to hang out this weekend. She cracks me up. It's scary how alike we are. Farting, burping, etc... I think the only thing we differ on is that I spit... haha. She's great! Anyway, so that was fun and it makes me excited for the program, it's a really great teaching program and they really care about making us good teachers. I'm excited about it.
We won our match against NNU (in 5) for those of you who couldn't be there. It was pretty fun and good to beat them. They are a good team and they have beaten some good teams so it was really good for us to beat them.
Troy visited this weekend which was also really fun. He stayed with me on Saturday night after the match. We went to Brian Ball's house on Sunday in the evening and had dinner. They have two little girls. Kira (almost 2) looks like Katie Balls' twin! SO CUTE! What a happy little girl. :) I had a blast playing with her and being there.
Not that anyone cares about this last tidbit, but I topped off the night by watching "50 first dates"... and yes, I cried... duh. :)
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Shopping for Internet - I need your help!
Hi. So I'm researching wireless internet to get at our house. Seems like only three services really show up on the radar when I search it: Verizon, Comcast and Qwest. Do any of you have any other services that you like better? I'm leaning towards comcast. I want it to be cheap, but at the same time, speed is very important and I would probably be more likely to pay more to ensure fast downloading time. Anyone have any advice for me? Thanks!!!
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Puerto Vallarta here I come!
I'm going to go to Mexico for Spring Break this year! Woot woot! I reserved my plane ticket last night and will be purchasing it tonight officially. I just need to pay for my flight and my food and fun money for the week so it's gonna be pretty great! I'll be gone a week. March 15-22. Just thought I'd inform the public... :)
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
What is Labor Day for?
I've always loved a day off or two, but I decided to check what labor day is really all about and I think although very simple in nature, many people just don't care to know what it is. Read this, now you know! :)
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