Halloween Blast from the Past

Did you have one of these as a kid?

A cardboard witches hat with crepe paper brim and a glitter witch?

I totally did. Probably more than one. And I wore it till it wore out.

I had no idea they still made stuff like this. It makes me love Halloween even more! Hooray for cheesy costume stores!

Even my dad had one! (in case you missed this post)

Happy Birthday to Me

Awwwww......

I used to be so cute! What happened?

I'm not nice to me very often- so as a birthday gift to myself, I'm going to make a list of things I like about myself.

• I'm funny.  I'm sure other people would beg to differ- but I find myself entertaining.
• I like being tall. I can reach stuff on my flat feet that others have to get a step stool for.
• I like that I'm smart. I often act stupid, but really, really, really, really deep down there is some intelligence just dying to surface.
• I like my legs. Someone complimented me on my legs once and I'm afraid I've thought far too much about it ever since.
• I like that I graduated from college with a bachelors degree. I was the first one in my family to do it.
• I like my enthusiasm for dumb things. Some people would call me immature, I just consider myself an overgrown five year old.  I really like Disneyland. I cry when I go because it's such a magical place and I'm just happy to be there.
• I like that I can remember random facts about silly things.

See Heather, Bakeshow doesn't think you're *allllll* bad.

Happy Birthday, Self.

Some More Upcoming Dates You Need to Add to Your Calendar

  October has a long list of observances. There are a few though, that I will not be tipping my metephorical hat to though.

Columbus day? Oct 10.

lame... why do we need to celebrate a guy who got lost and didn't ask for directions?

No Salt Week?  Oct 3-10.

forget that. I'll probably celebrate by eating the salt that other people leave out.

National Depression Screening Day? Oct 8.

That sounds like a barrel of laughs.

Cranky Co-Workers Day? Oct 27.

I celebrate that every time I go to work.

But I guess there are a few that I think I can get behind and celebrate for celebration's sake.

October is National Pizza Month

You've twisted my arm. Let the celebration begin!

National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work Day. Oct 12.

If I knew where any of my teddy bears were, I'd totally celebrate this!

National Chocolate Cupcake Day. Oct 18

  

actually, i just wanted a reason to post this picture again.

Ummm... It's almost against everything I believe to *not* celebrate this day! I need to find a good cupcakery in Salt Lake since I can't invade Cocoa Bean.

National Grouch Day. Oct 15

This one should be easily celebrated as well.

And of course October has two of the greatest celebrations- which makes it better than any other month (because the other months only hold one).

Halloween 

and

The Worldwide Celebration of....

Me!

A Day Off in the Life of Me

People are constantly coming up to me on the streets, and the stores asking, "Bakeshow, how is that you spend your time? What do you do all day?"

ummm... ok. That's not *entirely* true.

Ok, it's not true at all.

But the following is a true account of how I spent this particular day off, which, sad to say- was one of the more exciting days off I've had since I moved here (date night excluded).

Wake up around 8:30 push snooze.

Wake up again around

yes this is really the clock in my room. like the doily?

Proceed to freak out that I'm going to be late for work- remember it's my day off and lay there till I go back to sleep, have weird dreams and finally wake up with a headache around 10:00.

Shower. Then leisurely lay around in my robe until someone knocks on the front door- throw on the first clothes my hands touch to run to the door and let my aunt in (she locked herself out!)

Blog. Stalk. My. Friends.

Go grocery shopping/exploring.

I actually took this photo. I was trying to give my friend reasons to visit me.

I was not considering purchasing these, but I did carry them around to use as a weapon just in case (West Valley is Ga-hetto!).

Get my very own library card!!!!!! {{{highlight!}}}

bad hair day, thank you.

Drive around until I can find a classy place for dinner.

"Well, we dream on a budget here, don't we?" Name the movie!

Read outside until the sun goes down.

Then catch up on my shows now that I know how to work the OnDemand feature.

Then I got really, really excited when the book that my mother mailed to me TWO WEEKS AGO finally arrived (I accidentally left my library book at home last time I visited.) Seriously, the Pony Express could have gotten it here faster.

And that, my friends is how I spent my day.

Riveting, right?

Justification

I'm not one for super religious-y posts. But today you get a semi religion oriented post.

Excited?

I was off work yesterday. I had worked till 2 am, then got up, got ready and headed to church. I thought it was going to be stake conference- but it was just a special meeting because they were combining two stakes together and redrawing ward boundaries.

Snore.

But, I was there, so I stayed....... for most of it.

Because it was two stakes, they had Internet feed from the live session over into the other building. I got "the other building." No biggie. I'm a Mormon. I know what it's like to watch church on TV occasionally.  But this was not closed circuit TV. It was web cam. So the sound was awful. When I walked in and heard the prelude music, I honestly thought someone was playing the hymns on steel drums. In Utah? Whatever floats your boat. But that's just what the organ sounded like over the computer and into the sound system. The picture was jumpy at best and half the time I thought I was listening to Charlie Brown's teacher (mwaa   mwwa mwwaa waaaa) but still- I persevered.

Then they lost feed.

People were talking at full voice- not whispering at all- even when they got the program running again. Kids were running around screaming and parents were doing nothing about it. Why should they? It wasn't a "real" meeting? There was no speaker present to be disrupted. [Really people?]  So as soon as they passed out maps and said which wards meet where and when, I was outta there.

Still feeling like I needed something of a normal Sunday- I was too late to go to another building's 11:00 meeting and I wasn't gonna wait around till 1:00, I went here.

I found more peace just sitting in the parking lot and reading my scriptures than I did that horribly chaotic meeting. I understand those meetings need to be had- and I'm all for organizing and rearranging, (of course I am! It means growth!!!) but I've only lived here a few weeks. I barely know what ward I'm in as it is. I don't care if it gets moved around. Nothings really changed for me either way.

Between work and general conference, it will be the middle of October before I get to go to a real block program for church. They have a short sacrament meeting at the hospital- maybe I'll try to get to one of those.