BIRTHDAYS ROCCCCK.....and I've gained 10lbs

Ok, so birthdays DO rock now, I changed my mind, I'm not too sure if I've gained 10lbs but with all the cake and crap I've eaten this week I wouldn't be surprised. You know how people say they gain like 5lbs over Christmas. Well thats never happened to me, but I'm pretty sure that the birthday week has brought 10 extra lbs. Ugh. It was worth it, and the gym will be seeing alot more of me starting tomorrow!

My birthday ROCKED because it was a week long affair. Every night I did something super fun and had people to celebrate with. Here's the total recap of my wonderful weekend. Friday night I went out to dinner at the Olive Garden with two of my way good friends that I just happen to work with who spoiled me ROTTEN! I got free dinner, and some super cute presets. I told them all I wanted for my birthday was a WATERMELON and they delivered. They even carved little designs in it.(that's how much they love me) Then I went to the YSA activity where I got showered with attention from EVERYONE, birthday songs, birthday hugs, and so many people doing double takes on my hair(it's dark and I love it) We tried to get bubble tea after the activity but they were out of pearls. Ugh. That's the BEST part, so we went to Peters, realized it was cash only, went over to 7-11 to get cash and by the time we got back it was CLOSED. BAH! So we went to Mcdonalds. haha. Sick.

Saturday I went to Lethbridge to have lunch with my family(yes I drove 2 hours to have lunch, go to costco, turn around and come home) I got a yummy dinner, and spoiled at costco <3 then I made my way back to Calgary to meet Mandy for my birthday dinner(this is where my brattiness comes in) I'm still really embarassed right now. Ugh. I rushed home so I could meet Mandy for dinner and she tells me shes dying her boyfriends hair. UGH. I was annoyed so I went home and watched the Miss America Pagent(so cute) by 7:30 I was getting SUPER annoyed and everyone I was texting was NOT texting me back, I was ready to throw in the towel, put my sweats on and go to bed, then she texted me, so I got dressed, did my hair, and put on a little make up(thank goodness) and went over there. So I get to Mandys, I open the door and BAAAAAAAAAAAAM it was a SURPRISE party for me. Ahhh it was awesome! Tons of my friends came, and they were so sweet to take their Saturday night off and hang out with me. I felt so special. I was spoiled with cards, presents, flowers, cake, and all my friends coming to hang out with me!


Birthdays in my books ROCK so much now. Here are my stats from this years birthday! I recieved EIGHT cakes over the course of the week, two bouquets of flowers, a BAZILLION birthday cards, tons' of FB msgs, texts, phone calls and 5 free dinners/lunches!


What am awesome week!


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Ugh. Dad.....

So I was born at 8:03am and so when I was growing up it was tradish for my parents to wake me up at that time(not too shabby if it was a school day-I got to sleep in a little, but on the weekends, when I moved out, and NOW it's a little different) They call me at 6:03. Ugh. My mom refrained from calling me that early this morning(THANK YOU) but did call me at 6:30 and sang to me:) My dad called me after I got to work so he had to leave me a voice mail. This is how it went.

Dad- Happy birthday...blah blah blah....nice fatherly stuff....blah blah blah blah. So happy 24th, or maybe it's 25th. Well I bet it's 26! What do I know I'm getting old. I'll call you later tonight...blah blah blah...

Ugh. Dad. I am NOT 26. Sick. Not yet atleast.

Give me a few years.


Thanks to everyone who's already called me, left me texts and facebook msgs. I'm an attention whore so pretty much I love my birthday for this reason. I have to say, last year wasn't as bad as I expected and today is going pretty well so far. I think my birthday might be turning around. I'll post more later:)


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Horrible...Horrible Sleep

My room is a MESS, there's a mattress on the floor, I have clothes EVERYWHERE and the blankets on my bed are SUPER messed up, not neat and flat. Ugh. That is the recipe for a HORRIBLE sleep. I almost got up in the middle of the NIGHT to clean my room, just so I could sleep.


I had a mini dream last night that it was 6:34 and my alarm hadn't gone off(you know when you wake up and you feel like you should have gotten up already) but then you realize you have xx amount of time to keep sleeping. WELL I had that dream at 12:17pm. Ugh. So every '4' minutes I was checking to see if it was time to get up. My alarm(first) goes off at 6(the time I SHOULD get up, but don't) and so I hit snooze....6:10-snooze, 6:20-snooze, 6:30-snooze,6:40-off.....roll out of bed. Ugh. Lame! I really should have just gotten up at 6 and showered, made myself all pretty but I didn't. Then I was rushing around the house to get ready for work quick, and out the door. I missed my 7:25 shuttle and had to wait until the 7:42 shuttle(random times I know) I was almost late for work, but I ran. Ugh.

I hate horrible sleeps, I hate when I wake up 5 minutes before my alarm goes off. It makes me grumpy.


Good thing I watched lost lastnight cause I will be in a good mood all day-I really need to blog about lost. I have SUCH a love/HATE relationship with Lost. Ugh :) t-boy says it's lame.


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Please Pray...

Here's a little update on Baby Layla. She had a rough go, and the Dr's told her parents and family to prepare for the worst. They were told on Friday to consider taking her off life support and that things just really weren't looking good.

Jaylenes dad(Layla's Grandpa) lives in Ontario and he would be out Sunday to be with the family so Juliette and Allan wanted to wait until he got here. As soon as the whole family was together they took baby Layla off life support. Jaylene said she lasted two hours off of life support and passed away peacefully.

My heart breaks for Juliette and the rest of her family. I pray that they may be strong during this hard trial(Again) in their lives. I am grateful for the plan of Salvation and to know that Layla was so perfect that she just needed to come to earth to gain a body.


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I need help.....

I have NO fashion sense.....

-I don't use accessories-no watches,bracelets, necklaces,rings or earrings. ugh. Help.
-I wear jeans, sneakers and hoodies....or grubby sweats....or scrubs. ugh. Help.
-I wear heels on Sundays.
-I wear basketball shorts ALL the time.

Help. where do I start. Where do you suggest I go?


Please help me.


Sincerely;

<3Lach

It's MY Birthday WEEK

I got the following text message this morning.


Saren: HAPPPPPPPPPPPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK!!! <3
Me: Ugh. Saren we know how I feel about birthdays, mine inparticular.
Saren: Nope go and do ONE fun thing EVERY singgggggle day until your birthday!
Me:Umm, I probably am not even doing anything ON my actual birthday day. That takes too much work!


It's true. I hate my birthday. Ok, not hate it. Just ummm well don't like it. Every year since I turned 18 it just hasn't been a good day.

But this year is my last year before I get sad(25 apparently makes people sad) So I am going to do ONE fun thing everyday this week. Well fun too me!

Tonight-Tanning and Basketball :) Sweating makes me happy. Is that sick?
Tuesday-Im dying my HAIR dark and having girls night(lost/perogies) with Mandy
Wednesday- I'm going dress shopping and going to swimming/wings with everyone IN Calgary(no joke)
Thursday-HANGING OUT WITH HARRRRRRRISON! I love Harrison.(best day of the week)
FRIDAY- I'm going to dinner with some girls I work with, then going out with Tboy after.--Maybe go watch some UofC/USask bball
Saturday-Dinner with my family, then some basketball.
Sunday- Uhhh, isn't Sunday the superbowl:)

That sounds like a pretty rad week. I am a little nervous I only have one gym day schedule in AND I plan on eating cake everyday:) Errrr

I also realized I like chocolate. I've been telling Tboy that I don't. But I do. HA!


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F.I.N.D

Last night I went to an IRC(Institute of Religion Council) Fireside. They're so fun! My way good friend Harrison's parents were the speakers. They ROCK. I've always loved the Batemans. They spoke on dating, and how to find the 'right' person, and the FACT that there is more than ONE Mr. Right. Go figure huh. They wanted to help us "f.i.n.d" our fabulous :)

Sister Bateman is a ball buster(if I can be so blunt) She seriously should be EVERY girls role model. She never put up with ANY crap from any guy, and when Brother Bateman was unsure of whether or not he wanted to marry her, she just said "alright that's fine, I will find someone else to marry" BAHH haha... I wish everyone knew Mckinley and Whillimina the way that I do. These people are absolutely amazing, so fun and just awesome!

They related a story about how they were in DC on a business trip and they were sight seeing and they were talking to people on the subway and Sister Bateman was commenting to someone on how friendly and nice the people work and this big African American woman said something to the effect of that they love theirselves so much. She said " I've never been a size sm or med. But I am size FABULOUS" (Genius, pure genius) They gave us instructions on how to "f.i.n.d" fabulous in our lives so that we become the best people we can before we marry.

Here is the recipe for finding fabulous

F- Fit, Brother Bateman said it doesn't matter if you 150lbs or 350lbs if your fit/healthy then you automatically have that confidence about yourself. Make sure you're eating right, exercising and getting plenty of sleep. (This is true. I always feel so much more confident and happy after a nice long run, etc)

I-Invest in yourself. Buy yourself some nice clothes, get your hair done, do something nice for yourself.

N- Nurture others- There is nothing more attractive than watching someone serve someone other than themselves. Nurture yourself(that goes along with Invest in yourself)

D- Develope yourself outside of appearances. Become well rounded. Find a hobby, and keep yourself busy.


This sound easy enough, but let's be honest. How many of us do all of these things, and are trying to become well rounded before we get married. I know for me if I'm having issues in one area of my life then it carries over into the other aspects and I'm never happy. The one thing that Sister and Brother Bateman stressed was...

BEFORE you can love someone else, and LET someone love you. You need to love YOURSELF.

How true is this. So many people think that life starts when you get married, and they spend the last few years of their single life wondering/waiting for marriage to come. Then it comes and you don't love yourself.


I love myself, I hope everyone else loves themselves as well, and try to F.I.N.D Fabulous in their lives :)


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P.S my weekend was awesome/gongshow.... I went to the Temple Saturday. I love the Temple. I had a little situation on the way home but got it taken care of :) I got to hang out with Mandy, party it up, watch some basketball U of C totally beat UVic in a UBER close overtime game. LOVED IT! I love basketball! <3

Ummm...yah

**Ok, I realize that this post probably couldn't come at a worse time. I was actually going to blog about this yesterday but then I got side tracked and ended up spending more time at the gym than I thought**

Ok, so a recent blogpost by one of my followers upset me a little bit, not even so much HER post, it was all of the comments she was getting on her blog that upset me. She pretty much said she hates running/working out and hates reading about blogs that talk about how much people love running or whatever. Fair Enough. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Now I never for one second thought she was attacking me, but then I realized that I post alot about working out-training to run a half marathon,triathlon,etc(or I use to this time last year) so that's when I got a little bit ehhhh...offended. Any time I hear the word 'offended' I immediately think of Elder Bednar's talk about being offended and I realize that SHE, nor HER followers offended me. I choose to be offended. So I'm choosing to be UNOFFENDED now. But I still want to post bout this. Everyone is entitled to their opinions as I am entitled to mine.

I feel like I need to defend myself. Maybe. I don't know what I am doing. All I know is that when I post about running/working out this is a VERY big thing for me. I was in an accident a while back that hurt me alot! I was in pain for well OVER a year, I wasn't able to go to the gym, I wasn't able to run 6 miles in 50 minutes and the fact that I can do the things that I am doing right now is pretty much the BEST feeling ever, and the fact that I am doing it with little to NO pain is a miracle. So that's why I choose to blog about it. Also, I need to be accountable to people. So when you see my facebook status say 6.5 down 142 to go, that means I have another 6.5 miles down and 142 miles until I reach my goal. That is something that I should be proud of, and I should be able to brag about, because it took alot of hard work after my accident to get to where I am right now. So, I understand that some people don't think that running/working out is something they want to read about,because it's not motivational to them. It's motivational to me and it's something I want to blog about.

I wish I was that I was the type of person who HAD never go to the gym, eat what I want and still be a size 6. But I'm not I either need to eat lettuce and water, or workout alot. Props to you if you can do that. You are my hero and I wish I was more like you, even tho I would probably still work out.


Now, onto the REAL reason why I was going to post about this before I saw her blogpost. I work with someone who is over weight. All she ever does is talk about how fat she is and how she wants to lose weight and become a size 10. But she goes home feeds her daughter(who is well on her way to being over weight as well) McDonalds, Wendys and all that crap... and refuses to work out. She makes up the lamest excuses like she has to chase around her child(granted I am not a mother, and don't know what it's like to raise a 2 year old) BUT I have friends who have children that young and find the time to work out, work full time and still have time for their families. I plan on doing that when I have children. I also have friends who include their kids in working out so they learn to love it as well. Point of this post is because of this story not the one above and excuses like her boobs are too big. Mine are too. I workout. I might have to double up on the bras' but ya do what ya gotta do. I've doubled up on sports bras since I was in highschool.I was in the gym SIX days a week between basketball/conditioning/games/etc . I've had my fair share of sore boobs. ..that was just a rant. Point is, is if people are not willing to put in the work to get in shape, don't talk to me about wanting to lose weight. I've offered to work out with you, help you with a meal plan, suggested books to you, to help cook healthy for you and your family and you're not taking my advice.

People who don't like working out and eating well... please don't tell me you're fat and want to be a size 10.

People who don't workout and eat crap.. my hat is off to you. I'm jealous! Just you wait when your 40 you might not be able to do that.

People who have to work out, eat right and cheat a little bit. I'm with you. I need to work very hard to maintain my weight where I like it. Part of it is due to the above reason(my accident) and some of it was because I ate like crap in highschool and my body is paying for it now.

Confession-I ate like crap Tuesday night and I'm STILL paying for it. I'm all bloated, and have heartburn. It was good while I was eating it, but I don't like the way I feel. I love the way I feel when I eat a good light meal, and exercise. I love the way running makes me feel :)


This was a huge rant. Wow. I would say sorry. But I'm not going to cause it's my blog :) feel free to comment and tell me how selfrighteous I am, or how I only have a one track mind, and how I am 'whatever you think I am'. This was not intended to offend anyone. I know first hand what it's like to be offended. I choose to be offended.

I hope that you will still read my blog as I brag about the accomplishments I achieve to run a half marathon, because two years ago I would have never been able to make that sort of goal.


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Please Pray for Layla

This right here is my best friend Jaylene's(I blogged about her yesterday) niece Layla who was born Tuesday at 1am two and a half months premature. I'm not sure of all the details, but she had a high heart rate and Dr's were worried about her and her mom(Juliette who had to have a blood transfusion earlier that night) so they had to do an emergency c-section and the baby has been in NICU ever since. They did an MRI earlier tonight to find out if she had a stroke or just seizures. She was responding to touch earlier but since her seizures has not responded to anything. We're praying for the best.

Layla has an older brother Ethan who died the day he was born about a year and a half ago, and I know Juliette has been through a lot in the last year and a half. I pray that Layla recovers quickly and that she has no lasting effects. If all is well, she will be in the hospital for another two months to get strong.


Please pray for this beautiful little girl and her family!
I love them all very much


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Lach-

Don't be moody.

Here is the following text message convo I had with someone when I turned on my phone last night. So redic.


MB(moody boy):I just had the best workout ever!!
MB: Yo..what are you doing tonight?
MB: Uhh..are you still girl sick... why aren't you texting me back?
MB:.........
Me:Hey, oh ya? best workout ever huh? How was it? I'm good, just making the best dinner ever..
MB:It was good, what are you having for dinner?
Me: Perogies...yum.
MB: Where's the meat? doesn't sound like the best meal ever!
Me: No meat, you don't understand, these perogies are sooo good.
MB:oh, well what are you doing tonight?
Me: watching lost... you?
MB: homework.
Me: Sweet, well have fun...
MB: I hate mood swings.
Me: Yah me too. huh?
MB: well the STOP being moody! Are you still girl sick?
Me: ? uhhh what? I'm not I'm just going to watch lost.
MB: Ugh. Alright then. I'm going to bed. Night.


hahahahahaha. does this even make sense.? How was I being moody? I'm pretty sure I wasn't. I love how he asked if I was "girl sick" aka. PMS'ing. I reposted this word for word as it was seen in texts. AND then T-boy had the nerve to tell me I was moody too...Ugh. whatever! I was not. I was just busy watching lost. Ok, well maybe I was being kind of difficult.....just a little.


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Girls Night....

So my friend Mandy and I use to have girls nights...sometimes we'd invite other girls but often times it would just be us....for the simple fact that no one else can really handle us when we get into our "moods" it's a little unreal. I may or may not have to make a video of our moods one day for my blog :) That'd go over real well.

So normally we have perogie dates, where we cook and eat perogies and then do whatever. Well we've recently found a new love for LOST, and so we decided that we'd plow thru another disc while have a gormet perogies. We started off our date by going to superstore to get some essential items for our night..it may or may not have included Ice cream, chips and conquesa, salsa, dr. pepper, two different kinds of perogie, sour cream, cheese, bacon bits and honey. Ugh. So yummy. I want more right now. I ate so many last night. In the summer our friend Chase taught us how to make honey perogies. Please do not say ewww... or knock it until you try it. Cause I said it would be disgusting and it was nothing SHORT of amazing:) Our Superstore adventure was just the beginning he danced up and down the isle, acting like children looking at all the valentines day stuff(p.s I bought the cutest valentines, if anyone wants one send me your address)

We loaded our stuff into my jeep and danced to a little NKOB on the way back to Mandy's. Anyone who knows us, knows we are obsessed with NKOB and we have dance parties literally shaking my jeep while driving. I just found out on one of the radio stations I listen to that they are doing this thing called 'breakfast in barbados' where listeners can win a week trip to barbados and you get to stay at a beautiful resort, and listen to bands that they have come, and it just sooooo happens that one of the bands this year just so happens to be NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK... oh hellllllllllll yah! I am so excited! I am going to win this trip and Mandy and I will be jet setting off to barbados for a week to chill with the nkob krew:) Oh man! I am so excited. Feel free to pray for me that I get thru, and get selected. It would be a dream come true. I know I sound like a loser right now. I say nkob in concert last Nov. mmmmm sooo amazing!


Anyways we get back to her house, chill, make our perogies and sit down to a nice gormet dinner of perogies :) We watched 4 episodes of lost, turned off our phones so we couldn't talk to any guys. I turned on my phone and had a bunch of missed texts ( I'm so popular) baha! just kidding...well kind of.



This is our delish dinner, set up with our cute sides and our drinks. How tender?




the bottom ones were the normal ones with cheese bacon bits and sour cream, and the top ones were the honey ones which were SOOOOOOO good. yum.


I can't wait til next week for our disc 3 of Lost and another perogie party!

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I've realized that....

A. I feel cute when I dress like a slob, not like a slob slob, but just a slob. I guess lulu's and a TNA hoodie isn't really considered slobby, but you know what I mean. Sweats, hoodie,glasses, hair up/with headband, only mascara and a little bit of lipgloss and flip flops. I think girls that can pull off the 'dressed down look' are WAY more attractive than girls who dress to the 9 ALL the time. I think it takes a certain amount of confidence to be able to pull off that look, and well... I think I pull it off well(I have to, I've had alot of practice at it) :) I do like dressing up from time to time, but I really just like being comfortable

B. I've realized that I blog too much, or I think I blog too much. Maybe a little break is in order!


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Funny Things.....

Ok, so between some of my friends and I we've said some pretty funny things. My Facebook is full of quotes from myself, roomates and random people. I just had a funny, and if I can find my quote book from highschool I'll post the other funny things, I didn't become funny over night, I've always been this way :)

Ok, so some background. My mothers maiden name is Bigelow. Growing up some random 'skids' use to make fun of me because of 'Duce Bigelow, Male Gigilo'

Well, I'm going to admit, I didn't actually know what a gigilo was, some girls right now were just talking about that movie, and I was like "Oh, I think my Uncle is a Gigilo" and just kept working....

......pause........working........

Stacey:Lachele, do you know what a gigilo is?
Lachele: No.
Stacey: Well, I'm pretty sure your uncle isn't a gigilo, and if he is I wouldn't admit that.
Lachele: hmmmm.....

**Googling Gigilo**

Lachele: Yah, no he's not.. He's a cop, he just has the same last name. HA!


How does this even happen. Last night Jaylene said some super funny things, definately inappropriate. I wouldn't want anyone who doesn't know her to judge her :) So I will refrain and keep those for myself. HA but they were pretty funny.


If anyone has any funny quotes that they've heard recently, or if anyone of you have heard me say something redic, will you please repost it in a comment!


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What a DIVE

Well, that about sums up my weekend. It was kind of a dive. Well bits and pieces of it were a dive and others were actually pretty rad! Friday turned out to be pretty lame, I ended up playing basketball for a while with some randoms I don't really actually like. Err. Oh well.

Saturday I went and did all my grocery shopping, gassed up my dirty little jeep and washed the sucker(I sat in the carwash line up for a good 45 minutes). I always get nervous when vehicles are behind me at those things. I go in to pay for my little car wash, I get my slip of paper with the little code and then I go to my jeep. Well since right now my jeep currently looks like a warzone on the inside I was sooo scared to put my paper down infear of losing it! How brutal would that look if I lost my paper with the code on it. UGH. biggest nightmare! I held onto that little slip for deal life almost the whole time. I washed it, it looks pretty...but by the time I parked it was already dirty. I also had the courage to say no to someone saturday. That took balls. Trust me. Saturday night I went to dinner with my fave ladies Marinda and Mandy. We laughed the WHOLE time, and just laughed more. I love those two. We hit up some fiesta party, stayed for a whopping 7.5 minutes and peaced. We went back to start watching LOST(Mandy and I never really got into that show, and she bought the first season so we plopped down at midnight and plowed thru the first disk. I'm diggin' it, I really just need to go buy more seasons of other things and watch them.

Sunday was uber werid. I'm having issues with a certain person who just always creeps up in my life even after I tell them to back the EFF off:) and this person just cares too much when they shouldn't care, and not enough when they should... ugh! so lame! Anyways, and another random thing. The last hour of Church for us, we break off into Priesthood/Relief Society, and in R.S we have this thing called the lovebox-where we can write notes to sisters in the ward anonymously and tell them stuff we love about them. Well, yesterday I get this one 'love' note(I wish I would have snatched a pictures of it before I threw it away(atleast I showed it to people so I have witness' that can attest to the fact that I'm not making this up) But pretty much some girl in my ward hates me because she thinks "I'm too perfect, so perfect it's fake" she's glad that I am out of the presidency so she doesn't have to hear me be fake when I say I love R.S and I love the girls in the ward... hmmm I guess I'm fake! BUUUUT she did say and I quote " I have to admit, you do have really nice hair, but that makes me HATE you even more" BAHAHA! I was a little upset. :) Now, I just think it's funny that someone is soooo inmature, and so self conscious they had to write me an anon. note saying they hated me. Whatevski' I don't really care anymore! I spent the rest of the night chillin' with my FAVE old roomie Jaylene. I love her, she is a little jet-setter lately she's been to Thailand, Austrailia, a bazillion cruises and she's leaving for Europe right before my birthday :( for a month. We were catching up on life, laughing and talking about the old times til 3am.(we had a sleep over) She's so fun and I'm so glad that she's in my life. She's another person that I can just say I'm having a bad day too and always makes me feel better. AANNNND not to mention my stomach hurts today cause we laughed so hard!


Well, here's to a wonderful upcoming week, and to my last full week of being 23. I'm kind of excited for my birthday. I'm hoping that '24' is going to be my transition year. Where I finally decide what I want and go for it.


Oh ya, THANK YOU for fulfilling the very nassasistic side of me and commenting on my blog. I loved checking it randomly to see that the comment count is up to 20.



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I've done this before...but I'm doing it again.

Ok, so I have 22 followers and sometimes I only get 2-3 comments on my post. I know people don't have to COMMENT on every post... but it's nice to see that people like my blog and comment. It makes me feel happy inside. I told Diva she was needy cause she did pretty much the same post yesterday....EXCEPT she never asked for people to comment specifically on this blog.

Here's what I'm asking you to do. If you're reading this right now. Please just comment and say you've read it. Even if I don't know you. I can't count how many times I've read someones blog and not commented. I'm just curious as to how many readers I get on average. SO if you would please...friend or not comment on this post.


Thanks yo.


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I hate germie wormies... ewwww

Ok, so anyone who knows me knows that I hate germs, I hate dirty surfaces I hate it all. I hate the thought of something being dirty. HOWEVER, if it's just me who's using it then I can go about a week before I need to clean it( I'm talking about my desk and supplies at work right now.) I clean everything more throughly. TRUST ME.

So yesterday this lady in my dept started using my hole punch. I'm not going to lie I totally got the heebie jeebies seeing her use my hole punch. It got to the point where I asked her to stop, and to get her own.(I know right.) RUDE. Well it's my stuff. Get your own. She gave me a dirty look. She literally brushed my hair with her arm from reaching so close to grab it. I'm pretty sure A. you should ask to borrow something that isn't yours. and B. SICK get your own. My name is CLEARLY written on all my supplies so they can't get stolen. :) Yup I'm that kind of person. I have my desk put together in certain order when I leave for the day, and when I go on breaks and when I'm going places, so I know if something is moved when I get back. Today someone else went to grab it, and didn't even ask(seriously so rude) So I said something, and she got all pissy(she's still talking about how mean I am.) Oh well Donna. Oh well. UGH! Anyways I came back from my break and my stapler and my hole punch(as shown below) were moved. SICK someone touched it. UGH so gross.



I just get sick thoughts about where peoples hands have been. I don't know if they were just picking their nose, or if they washed their hands after wiping their bum... ugh. *shutter* Sorry get your own stuff. Below is a picture of my desk. I have stuff strewn all over it, because thats the way I found it after my break, now that people know I hate it when they touch me stuff they've been doing it all day. (yes, I work with children.) Some of these women are my moms age or older. They're soo childish. I don't know who did it, but I just don't care to investigate as to who it is. I've moved somethings around on my desk so they can't find my hole punch and stapler very easily. mwhaha. That's what you get jerks.






I hope they wash their hands, but considering I get sick so easily I need to take proper precautions. I don't use the railings on escaladers, I don't touch elevator buttons or door knobs without something between that surface and my hand, and I don't use railings on the bus. SICK. BLAH!

Am I too clean? Oh well. Deal with it and LEAVE MY STUFF ALONE!


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Remember when.....

Yesterday I was having a convo with some friends about back in the day.. It's fun to remember all the things that I use to do when I was little, and even from highschool(that was 6 years ago.) HOLY shizah! I'm getting old. I am 23 years and 348 days old(yup, thats right it's almost my birthday. I hate my birthday... read back to last years post. HA)

-In kindergarden I liked this boy that lived close to me named Mark Christensen and I use to put my head on his shoulder during reading time. I wonder whatever happened to him.

-My mom use to dress me up in these HIDEOUS sweatpant suits(Matching top and bottoms.) Not just sweat suits. MATCHING top and bottom everything.

-My mom also use to do my hair for pictures in a way that made me look like a GRANDMA when I was SEVEN! ugh. I'm still scarred from that. Thanks mom.

-I had a babysitters club, pony pal club and some other random club where we would have to walk in a line on the play ground, it went Kristen J, Jaylene B, Me, Chelsea T. HAHA!

-I loved goosebump books.

-We had a trampoline growing up and we would make up routines and show them to our parents.

-We went swimming all the time during the summer when we were little and we would make up syncronized swimming routines and present them.(I was cool)

-My sister and I begged my parents to let us share a room and have bunkbeds and then when we got what we wanted I hated it and always kicked Kayla out of my room.

-I had a slambook(thank you mean girls) in grade 6 where we made fun of this boy in our grade who loved spice girls.

-I thought my grade 6 social teacher Mr. Hansen was sooooo hott.

-I got my licenece EIGHT years ago in 15 days. UGH.

-I went to my first boy/girl party when I was 12 at Kathryn Haslams house.

-I remember my first stake dance. I danced to truly,madly,deeply with Nelson Porter :)

-I use to play dress up until the DAY I graduated highschool.... ok so my Grad Eve(not even joking I have pictures to prove it.)

-My best friend Lane and I use to go on stalking missions in Rhonda.( OH help me RHONDA) I loved that car. soooo hott.

-We use to make movies in highschool-one time we made a super scary movie and my friends dad had to re-dedicate their house.

-Lauren, Amber and I use to sneak into Lanes house(when no one was home, cause they ALWAYS left their house open) and scare him or do something to his room.


That's about all I got for memories right now. I'm trying to find a scanner so I can scan in some old pictures and show you just how cool I use to be :)


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forgettaboutit

I'm pretty sure the world can just forget about me becoming unaddicted to diet coke. I caved. Pretty sure it's only been a day and a half since my last can ( I didn't even blog about me going OFF diet coke, cause I knew it wouldn't last) I took one sip and the insta-headache that started yesterday is gone. I know I comitted to eating healthy, and working out everyday, but one little diet coke a day certainly won't ruin my 1/2 marathon times. I'm eating 6 times day, super healthy meals, I'm running 6 miles day/biking 15 miles after that and topping it off with some weights I'm set in that dept. One diet coke will not hurt me(why do I feel guilty, and why am I trying to justify my one diet coke a day). I could be easily addicted to something way worse. I should be counting my blessings it's 'this' type of coke, and not the other kind.

Point is..... is a diet coke won't hinder my workouts or my life. Infact, I'm pretty sure it will do the exact opposite. It will also keep me from being a cranky pants, and that my friends is a good thing. Lachele Wickens(who has Bigelow blood in her) + cranky pants = NOTHING PRETTY! it's true.

AND, everyone keeps telling me how bad aspertame is. Can we just go over the list of things that are bad for people. Mcdonalds, Wendy's, food sprayed with chemicals, tanning, smoking, drinking, drugs....the list could go on. So I'm really not too worried about a small amount of aspertame.


Ahhh it feels good to have that off my chest, and now I don't feel the need to sneak sips of D.C when the girls at work aren't looking.


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Do what's best for myself.

I decided last night that I need to stop talking to/hanging out with a friend. It literally LITERALLY breaks my heart to have to do this. I know that for RIGHT NOW it's for the best. It kills. Why are the best things for us, some of the hardest things to do. Like when you're little eating veggies, and yucky food that's GOOD for you, that will help make you big and strong. But it's like torture. UGH.

This has been the longest day A.L.R.E.A.D.Y. I'm sad. This person is one of the best people I know. "they" make me feel so much better when I'm having a rough day. Tough love is all this person knows. "they" are soooo fun, and I have the best time when I'm texting/chillin'/talking to this person.

I know you're all probably asking WHY, if this person is sooooo amazing(which "they" are) and I hope that soon I'll be able to hang out with them again. BUT. They associate very closely with an individual that is not good for me. I need to get far away from that person, and this is the only way I know how to do it.

I have yet to tell my friend that I can't hang out/text/talk anymore. Do I just start ignoring calls/texts. Or do I buckup and lay it out, tell them why. It sucks cause I know this person didn't do anything to deserve it. I'm just werid. UGH. So many random/funny things would happen that ONLY this person would think were funny. I think this is one of the reasons I've been so down lately. I've known for a while I have to do this. Errr.. and now I'm doing it.

I'm headed to the gym tonight... hopefully that will lift my spirits.


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Sometimes.....

Sometimes I feel like the luckiest girl on the face of the earth. I just had a moment where I was feeling down and bad for myself...also known as a pity party. Ugh. Then I walk thru the atrium of the hospital.... On a daily basis I interact with people who are A. in the hospital. B. visiting someone they love IN the hospital. or C. coming to get check ups. and then everything in between. So a few minutes ago I was going to satisfy my addiction at the 'friends store' by buying myself a nice little diet coke.

* I have the HUGEST headache ever * I feel like I've been hit by a BUS right now. It's cause I'm trying to drink less diet coke. I feel like I'm an addict in recovery.

Anyways, I was worried about the little minute things going on in my life about how so and so doesn't like me anymore, and how he's got a new girlfriend, and about how I'm stressed out with work, and I need to go to the gym. When the man infront of my had clearly just recieved some sort of procedure and was all bandaged up his left arm, he was SO polite with the volunteer and made conversation and then I caught myself scowling, clearly looking EXTREMELY inpatience. UGH. Why am I such a brat? Seeing that man in the highest of spirits being friendly and nice, knowing that something probably not good is going to come of his procedure still was nice. Why the heck is my problem? Why do I have such a chip on my shoulder?

.I am healthy.
.I have a job.
.I have a family that loves me.
.I have friends.
.I have more nicer things than a 23 year old should have.
.I have a testimony of the True Gospel on the Earth.


WHAT IS MY PROBLEM. Ugh. Seriously. I'm a little annoyed at myself for acting like such a brat.


I'm going to try way harder to be nice, and pleasant and be grateful for my blessings. No matter how big or small they might be. I really need to just remember that everything happens for a reason. Ugh, and soon I'll understand.



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P.S if any of you have private blogs please add me a friend to read your blog. A really cute girl became a follower of mine (Christine). My email address is lachelewickens10@hotmail.com

Horoscopes

I don't normally read my horoscope, and I don't believe in that stuff. But DAMN. yesterday was intense. I wish I could send you the link. Sarah printed it off for me. It was my life. to the T. Ugh. Now if only they could tell me how to get out of it. :)


http://www.elle.com/Astrology-Advice/Horoscopes


Go here and check out your's. Mine is Aquarius. I have yet to read mine for today, but I have my 'month' one printed off at my desk. Errrrr.....


Does anyone else take these seriously? I never have until yesterday. Even then I can't really imagine that EVERY single Aquarius is having the same issues as me. If you are. My condolences.

Thoughts please. I'm off to read today's.


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Boring!

My blog is B.O.R.I.N.G. I'm bored with it....

-Is there a reason that I feel a little apprehensive that more people that I KNOW are reading my blog. Not because I write back things, mainly because I blog alot about other people. I think I'm going to be doing a little editing on my blog. Changing a few names. Maybe. Would you be creeped out if you found a blog/someone found a blog where there were stories about you and told you about them? I'm not sure how I feel about this. Thoughts please.

-I've been rather boring lately... My blog doesn't have pictures. I know I keep saying I'll get better and I never do. Maybe I should say I WON'T get better, and then things will improve.

-A couple friends play basketball for U of C. They've got 8 weeks worth of home games starting this week. Guess where I'll be come Friday and Saturday?(Hey, I can say I'll no longer be a hermit.) I'll just be going to basketball games alone. hmmm.. baby steps.

-I've been released from my calling :) Huge sigh of relief. I loved it. But it was time to be done. I loved all the support I got yesterday. I'm pretty sure I got mocked by one individual. But I forgive her. Well....Maybe. We'll see.

-The one thing I'm going to miss about my calling. Key privilages. I may or may not try and dodge the "giving back of the keys" for right now. I love the keys, and the power they give me.

-I made dinner last night. The missionaries came over. They're a little random. Tons of awkward silences.

-I'm playing basketball again after FHE tonight. Anyone wanna come play? It's a rad workout. I'm going for a 5 mile run before fhe. We'll see how tired I am :)

-Everyone kept asking me where I went for Christmas--They think I'm really tan. Does this mean maybe I should cut back on the tanning, or make up a really sweet story?

-I'm thinking about dying my hair DARK brown. Thoughts.? I'm thinking like Jessica Szohr. Google her and report please :)

-I miss my long hair. Extensions might be going in soon. Thoughts? (is that too fake?)

-I started 'eating clean' today. mmmm I usually eat like crap. *did you know that to lose weight/get in shape that 80% is nutrition and only 10% is exercise. I didn't. No wonder. I worked out like it was 80 and ate like it was 10. I'm starting to eat whole foods. Breakfast this morning consisted of my protein drink,and oatmeal-whole oatmeal not the instant stuff, with wheatgerm and flaxseeds. I'm trying REAL hard to be able to stomach the texture. I am such a picky eater. err. I'm still full from breakfast. Anyone who wants info on this book. It's legit :)


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BAAAAH

As I've been sick I haven't gone to the gym all week.... I didn't go at all while I was at home for Christmas, the last time I was at the gym was Dec 20th :( UGH that hurts to say that.

I am a bridesmaid for my friend Bri's wedding, and well I've decided that I'm going to get into shape for REALSIES this time. My sister always makes fun of me...so now it's time. Sooooo I am going to be blogging once a week about what I've been up too the previous weeks in the gym, and what I've learned from the books I've read and the trainers I'm talking too...when I get comfy I'll even give you stats..eeeeks!

Please ask for updates! I'm going to need to be held accountable.


HAAA.... and how ironic is this. It's Jan 9-2010 I live in CANADA, and it's +7 today SO, I'm playing football today. Errrrr haha. Every saturday from May-Nov I play football(it's co-ed) so I get a call from one of the guys last night. We're playing. Theres still snow on the ground, it's melting. This should be interesting.. :)



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Picky Much?

Ok, So after several conversations I've been black listed as a "very picky person" when it comes to pretty much EVERYTHING. I'm sure I'm not the only person who is picky. I mean come on! Apparently I'm picky in areas that I shouldn't be, from food, to the types of guys I date, to the types of cars I like to the types of sports I like. Pchhh.... whatevski's


Food: This one is true. I am probably one of the pickiest eaters you've ever met.. I don't eat seafood of any kind, I will not eat red meat if I have a choice. I am a sight/smell person.I can not eat re-heated turkey. UGH I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS smell my food before I eat it. If it smells like it'd taste gross I refuse to eat it. If it looks sick I can't eat it. I've never eaten fish, or seafood..(apparently I did when I was really little and I loved it, but I don't remember that so it doesn't count) I refuse to eat it. The smell of fish/seafood makes me sick. I can't eat steak. I hate the texture and consistancy of it. I ate a steak at Kyles house back in the summer(first one in 5 years, last one for a REALLY long time) I ate it cause I was a guest in his house and his dad cooked it. I will NOT eat hamburger helper. Ugh sick. TRASH! I can't eat reheated turkey, it smells funny and tastes even werider. Freshly cooked turkey is da bomb. I can do that. I hate tomatoes because of their texture, and I can't stand onions. I don't do spicy food. I don't eat white foodd(white bread, white rice,etc) It reminds me of bleach. errr.

**This picky eating usually poses a problem when I'm invited over to someones house for dinner** Monday night my friend asked if I wanted to come over for dinner. So I did. She made "cajuan turkey stew" there was Okra in it. I've never tried Okra before, I didn't even know what it was. I made Cora tell me it was something I've tried before so I would do it. I tried it(I almost died doing it) but I did it. It didn't taste like anything. There were little green, slimy balls inside it. That totally threw me off. I will NOT be eating that ever again. One break the fast I was sitting down to eat with the rest of my ward(I also have a problem with meat products cooked by anyone my age...don't ask I don't know why.) My friend Braden had food on his plate. Well one of the items I picked up off HIS plate, smelt it(it accidentally touched my nose) and then I put it back on HIS plate. Ha.. that totally threw him off. :) I'm werid.

Vehicles: I will NEVER drive a car ever again. I don't care how much extra I pay in gas/insurance. I will never drive one. and I'm not going to lie. I judge boys who drive cars. :) I know. I'm rude! Whatever. I was almost killed in a car accident where I was driving a little car. Judge me all you want. I never want to feel like that again.

Boys: I have my PREFERENCES(eye color, hair color, height) you know the usual, but I am not THAT bad. Apparently I am. My friend Amber says "Lachele, you know if you were alot less picky on the little things you could have been married 5 years ago" Ugh, thank you I know that. But I think it's good to be picky about the important things. I don't care what color of hair he has. I do care however if he'll be a good father, if he'll be motivated instead of lazy. Geez, just cause she settled doesn't mean I have too(don't tell her I said that.)

** I don't wanna talk about the last one. I have my issues with guys. I'm slowly starting to work thru the little things, everything takes time**

Am I really THHHHHHHHAT picky? What are you picky about?


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What could he want?

So my ward secretary called me."Lachele, the Bishop would like to meet with you tomorrow night at 7:20" It really makes me wonder what he could want. I have my guess' as to what it might be either he:

1- Found out about my blog and realizes that I'm not nice to boys, I do alot of werid things, and or I have married men that love me. hmmm

2- That he is just checking in on me--because he knows how stressed out I've been lately and some other personal things going on..Who is texting friends with their Bish? Well this is the 2nd bishop I've been on texting terms with, and lets just say I LOVE IT! haha!

3- That I'm being release from the Presidency...and all I have to say about that is "About Damn time" I LOVE my calling. It's fantastic. But two years is a very VERY long time. Feb 3 will be 2.5 years so I'm creepin up on there. I've been serving thru THREE Elders Quorm presidents. I think I'm exausted. Give me a year off and I'll be good to go for another 2 years :)

-- If it does happen to be #3 I will be making a list of callings I will NOT accept for the next year, and they will be(in NO particular order, they all make me want to die): FHE, gathering/activities, Gospel Doct. teach, or ANYTHING to do with enrichment.-- Is that being too picky? I know I'll get blessings. Oh yah and absolutely no Visiting Teaching supervisor/district leader. Infact, I think I'll volunteer myself for the ward greeter! Thats about all I can handle right now!


Any guess' as to what he wants to see me ASAP for?


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My Name(s)

So, I've been thinking alot about NICKNAMES lately. I realized I've had a MILLION nicknames and at present time I have 5 ACTIVE nicknames. Yes, some are inactive. I've either grown out of them, or lost contact with the people who use to call me that. They're completely random, and most have stories behind them.

1.Chele-the last syllable of my first name. My mom use to call me Chele all growing up. the only time she ever used my full name was when I was in trouble.

2.Chele Belle- My sister use to call me this one.

3.Chelly(shelly) belly- Also another one from my sister.

4.Fish-HA, in grade 7 I use to get called fish because I am a scuba diver, and every weekend I was diving with my dad or swimming.

5. latch-elle- My teamates use to call me latch-elle. Not too sure why.

6. Lachele-flatbum squarehips(just like spongebob square pants)- Another basketball nick name cause I had no curves what so ever. errr

7. Lafonda- Nick "waterbuffalo" Holaboff gave me this nickname. I'm the whitest black girl he's ever seen. The fun thing about this nickname is that the WHOLE city of Calgary knows me by this(YSA) and most of the time people call me Lafonda and not Lachele. Some people don't even know my real name. I like it:)

8. Wayne- So this is my man name. In one of my university classes my prof would never remember my name because I guess the semester before there was a huge black kid named Wayne that sat in the same seat that I was in and it just stuck.

9. Canada- When I lived in Utah everyone in my apt buildings nicknames were where they were from. My roomie from California her nick name was California(which is longer than her real name) and my roomie from Texas, she was Tex. So I was Canada cause no one knew what "Alberta" was. ha-- lazy Americans.

10. Can-idoit- There were some Canadian haters in the house down there. Some of them would call me the Canidiot, to which I would reply Utard. Funniest part of the whole nickname was the girl that gave me the nickname flunked the anatomy course we were in and I got an A. BAH!

My active nicknames are "Chele, Chelle-belle, Canada, Wayne and Lafonda. My nicknames are also sooo random.

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I'm the one they LOVE to HATE.

So, as I've been reading the comments I leave on other peoples blogs who talk about everyday 'Mormon Culture' I realize that I'm the girl that most people love to hate. I am the one who does the 'typical' Wow, I just realized this.

Example:
-1- Gus, he talks alot about random things(but in a good way Gus) I don't always agree with what he says but whatever thats how I am. I am an opposer. I like a good debate. So he just recently posted about how he hung out with a girl, and then called her a few days later to see if she'd want to hang out, and then the person who answered said it was the wrong number.... turns out it wasn't(he'd done some investigating) and it was her's she was just being a dumb girl. I agree. That was dumb. But as I posted a comment on it with what I'd do in that situation(and what I have done, and continue doing) I thought I'd get flack. So I'm going to post what I said on my blog and let anyone rip into me, telling me to just 'woMAN-up'.

So here's what I said(not verbatum) but I said usually I don't like confrontation and when a guy asks for my number I have a hard/awkward time saying no. So I just give it to them and then give them a title in my phone lie "lachele-do NOT answer" and then let it go straight to voicemails. I rarely check my voicemails and so I don't feel bad for not returning calls(sorry) ha! Then if they say they've called me I'll either say 'yah, sorry I got distracted' or 'I listened to it but then got busy and forgot to call you back' or the best 'my phone is so random, sometimes it doesn't ring, goes straight to vm and then I don't know I have a vm for a few days' HA! -- Now that I just gave out my secrets all guys that read my blog from Calgs' will now know when I say that to them and feel bad, for that I am truly sorry, You just haven't got the hint any other way.

That's just one of the "things" that I do like an inmature little mormon girl. So as you've read thru my posts or my comments on other peoples blogs, do you find that there's anything else that I do that is inmature. I'd like to know. I can't promise I'll change them--cause who'd change something that works? but I'd like feedback :)

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Always a Bridesmaid, Never the Bride.....

So here we go again. This is the time of the year when my friends all get engaged and I'm asked to be a bridesmaid. I'm super happy for Jace and Bri, they've been dating for what seems like FOREVER and a day. So I'm excited their finally tying the knot, and that they've asked me to be apart of it. Plus I get to wear a pretty purple dress :) I look pretty in purple.

I am really excited because now I have a reason to make sure I go to the gym every single day, and do my toning because I need my upper arms to look good in a short sleeve dress, and my calves to look hott. :)

Dear Body,

Pretty please co-operate with me over the next 4 months. I'm going to ask you to do things you've never really done, and you probably will HATE doing. Hmmm how do you feel about 2 six mile runs a day? Well, you better get use to them. Hair, please grow faster, I don't know what I was thinking when I decided to chop you off(oh yes, a stupid girl said she loved my hair, and so I cut it off so she wouldn't love it) Just grow, just enough so I can add my extensions and it won't look fake:) Thank you.

Love Lachele.

P.S If you happen to do what I want for the next few months I reward you with a nice little trip to somewhere warm :)



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Narcissist? Yay or Nay?

Ok, so I'm constantly worried about what other people think about me. So natrually after I blog I have to click "view new post" to read over it, to make sure it's up to par with the way a post from me should be. Which is funny... Normally I do a pretty good job of adding some sort of humor to my posts. But I just need the self validation or something. Well I just want you all to know that I validate myself. I think I'm funny. If I was another person I'd definately be friends with myself! I'm awesome! :)

Side note-- I still may or may not be all hopped up/coming OFF my hopped upness from my cold meds. I'm going to play basketball tonight, and if that doesn't make me way to die, I won't use any cold med tonight-- I know sick people shouldn't play basketball, but if you know me... you'd know 'but IT'S BASKETBALL' I'm always well enough to play... except for that one time in highschool where I knew my coach was going to kick our ass' for playing like shhhhhhhiznit. I was sick that day. Good thing too. Not one person left that practice without barfing. ugh!


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WHAT?!?! Do I live in Somolia?

So at a recent staff meeting we had our Manager said " I know you guys won't like this, but due to BUDGET restrictions there are going to be a FEW LUXURIES taken away from us. One of the 'luxuries' being taken away from us is our WATER COOLER! Since when is WATER COOLER a luxury?(Am I even spelling that word right?) Do I live in Somolia? Pretty sure I live in the Richest Province in CANADA, and I work for the GOVERNMENT! You know you're hard up for money when your boss' take away your water cooler. Their justification... it's either the water cooler, or a position in the dept. Personally I can think of mmmm maybe 2 or 3 people in our dept that we could do with out, just to have the water cooler. This is a picture of my trusty water cooler on its last leg :( I filled up like 4 bottles already to stash in my desk. I REFUSE to use the water fountains around here. I've seen the way they're maintained. I've also seen the cleaning ladies use the same rag on my desk(which normally they don't when I'm around) that they use to clean the mouth piece of the water fountain. I will be making extra trips to the cafeteria to get filtered water. This may or may not cut down on my productivity...

If any of you can relate to me I'd really like to hear about it... cause this is REDIC!

That is all... My rant is over. I will miss you water cooler. You've been good to me. Most of all I'll miss the coversations I have at the water cooler.-- Pretty sure I've posted some of those convos verbatum in previous posts!

farewell WC <3 Lach

YAY for Diet Gingerale....

** Here is a random -- form post**

-- I think it's werid/gross/random when old men add me on facebook. I think I ever had an old man comment on my blog I'd make it private. Old men scare me.

-- Being sick sucks when you don't have anyone to take care of you, it sucks even more when you see the old person that use to take care of you, taking care of someone else.. ugh

-- I think I lost weight over the last 3 days of being sick. My scrubs are significantly looser.. yay for diet gingerale and crackers :)

-- I think it's funny that I'm not supose to go to work when I'm sick, yet I get grilled hardcore if I call in sick.... hmmm

-- Starting next Sunday, I'm going to do a Cleanse.. I feel like butt :)

-- I'm definately deyhdrated, I'm working on my 2nd full bottle of water(my huge nalgene bottle)

-- I think I'm hung over from the cold medicine

-- I painted my nails black

-- Story time --

I never keep medicine in my house, so when I get sick I usually have to go buy some that night, I don't know why I don't just keep it there just in case(probably because of the story I'm about to tell you), but anyways I went to the store to get some medicine. I went to get nyquil but this lady saw me grabbing it, and told me if I was going to get that stuff, to try THIS other stuff.



So I did.(that among a bunch of other stuff..$65 worth to be exact) Kristen told me when I got home that she takes that stuff too, and that it knocks her out, and it makes her sleep/feel better. DONE AND DONE! I love it already. See that trusty little cap well, I just poured it right to the TOP of medicine. Drank it, and laid down. HOLY COW! I've never had a high like that before. Did you know trying to fight off the sleepiness that, that stuff gives you is like being drunk. Good hell. No wonder I've never drink. I'd have passed out. I went to bed that night and slept right thru the night. I made it thru Saturday day, I went to a funeral :( and when I got home I took a nap ( I had a horrible headache) so I took some of the other medicine that I bought that night, and took a nap. I woke up two hours later with cold sweats and I had NO idea where I was. Yesterday, I had to teach relief society, I could barely talk, so I cut up my lesson and handed it out for the girls to read:) I love delegation(that's a whole nother post) I was sooo shakey and jittery during the whole lesson, I figured it was cause I was just not feeling up to par. I got home and read the label of the neocitran.

**Adults take 1-2 tbsp every 4-6 hours as needed** I look at the cap that I've been pouring to the TOP for the last THREE days, and I think hmmm this looks like more than 2 tbsps and I've beening taking on ave. two cap fulls a night. So just for kicks I decide to see how much a capfull holds...............it's holds 6.5 tbsps. YUP, and I've been taking two a night. 13 tbsps a night. NO WONDER I'M SO CRAZY right now. I'm coming off a freakin high. I didn't take anything this morning before work and I don't feel great, I'm tired, I'm achy(FYI I bought the neo citran day time too, I took it during the day.) I'm shakey, I'm jittery and my ears are plugged. If this is what it's like coming off of drugs, you can rest assure that I will never become addicted to any of that stuff. WOW.


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New Year / New Goals....

So I've thought long and hard about my 2010 Goals. Goals/ writing things down are kind of a big deal for me, and since I hate to fail, I usually pick mostly goals that I can handle, and throw in a couple hardballs for kicks :) That's how I roll...

I'm preparing a lesson for Relief Society tomorrow on Goals, and the talk that I'm basing my lesson of off is amazing! I love it, and it points out 4 headings of goals that we can classify. I'm not going to make as many as I have in the past. A couple in each heading. So without further ado here are my 2010 Goals.(I'm using the subheadings from the talk)

I resolve to expand my intellectual horizon and increase wisdom.

.I'm going to read one new book a month, and the book is going to be on a topic that will better my life--ie: I just bought the 'eat clean diet' book, it teaches you what foods to mix with what foods to get the greatest results, and how often you should eat, etc. I'm excited.
.I am going to get my butt back in gear, and finish off the rest of my school(maybe not this year, but make goals to do so.)
.Read a book on how to weight lift so I can do it properly.


I will resolute in preserving and strengthening my physical health.

**who doesn't have this one**
.I want to train to run a half marathon by the end of the year(official or non official) in two hours.
.I want to go straight from work to the gym every night for ATLEAST an hour.
.Do strength/toning 2-3x a week on my wii fit.
.Be happy with myself and the way I look (whatever size I think is best).

I resolve to be a truer friend and to become more socially acceptable to people of higher standards.

**This one is tough for me, if anyone knows me they know that typically I'm friends with the "pretty" people. Because well, when you're not really pretty(like me, I'm only cute) you need all the help you can get to meet cute boys** Ok enough justification!**
.Be nice to everyone, and try hard no matter where I go to be friends with people.
.To become approachable. -- apparently I'm kind of intimidating
.Smile more. --I have a nice smile.

I will grow Spiritually

.I will bear my testimony outloud, in public ONCE a month.
.I will go to the Temple atleast ONCE a month, and offer to take Endowed Sisters with me who wouldn't be able to go cause they don't have a car.
.Do my family history, and Temple work.
.Become more Christ-like.
.Serve more.
.Fulfill my calling 110%. - I don't have much time left.
.Read my scriptures longer everyday.
.Pay more than 10% tithing as much as I can.
.Pray on my KNEES twice a day.

Well those are my Goals for 2010. I hope this is a good year to me. It'd be a shame for ANOTHER year to bite me in the ba dunk a dunk/rump/tush/buttock/glutes.

What are some of your goals for 2010?

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Mr. X / BDTS

Ha, Ok so I've taken 3 naps today, I feel coherant enough to to blog a little bit.

First here is this update, I've been wanting to do this update since it happened but I didn't have the energy so I wrote a shotty one explaining my night NYE:)

Well, if I knew how to link posts together and stuff I could link you to like 10 posts on Mr. X and BDTS but I can't so you'll have to read from Aug 09-present to be caught up. (I'm sure if I read the tutorials on this blog I could do alot more fun things, but I won't so I can't )

Mr. X and BDTS showed up to the NYE party well after midnight(might I add) I was leaving the front of the dance floor cause I was getting sticky hott, and I needed some -29 fresh air. I see Mr. X wearing his ugly grandpa hat, and didn't really recognize the person standing next to him. You know when you're walking away from a crowd and you don't really want to be walking alone and so you look to atleast ONE person you know. Well thats what I did, and I got Mr.X. Now him and I are on pretty good terms right now, as long as he doesn't ask me out again. I gave him a HAPPPPPY NEW YEAR's hug(no kiss, that'd be werid) as I'm hugging X I see BDTS with him.
** OH GOOD HELL** So, not to be rude I gave him a Happy New Year's hug as well, I swear you give some people an inch, and the bloody retards take a mile. He lingered, and tried to kiss me. Thankfully only kissing me on the side of the cheek. I chatted for a few minutes(BDTS commented on how cute I looked that night, and how he's sad there's no more football cause he never sees me) then I promptly left, never to return to that spot for the rest of the NIGHT!

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NYE

WAAAAAAAAS awesome! Loved it. Can't tell you how happy I am that last night rocked.

I went out to dinner with my old Roomate Jay and Stacey(and her husband Jon, and daughter Sage) SO freakin cute! We chilled, caught Stace up on our lives(love lives of course) and continued with dinner. Then we got ready and freakin DANCED the night away... Midnight came(the first half hour of 2010 was VERY good to me) haha. I may or may not have gotten home at the time I would normally get up for work( I'll never teeeeellllll) haha. Veronica slept over, and we carried a mattress up two flights of stairs, cause she wouldn't sleep on the floor... DIVA....haha! and we chatted before we both fell asleep. Apparently I was saying some pretty crazy things, I felt a little hung over when I woke up today(I didn't drink, I don't drink...) I had one water bottle, I opened it, and it didn't leave my hands until I finished it(I use to get lessons on what to do if a guy ever gave me a drink)

If 2010 has as much fun and excitment as last night, I say BRING IT ON! I'm so excited.

I know I've been talking alot about my resolutions. I'll try and post them later tonight. I had a rough day. I think I might have a double ear infection, chest cold, and I'm achy. I need to go take some medicine. I promise I will blog about it later. I'm off to buy medicine cause my brother won't share with me :(


I hope everyone else had a fantastic NYE :)

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