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Yay for June! I can’t believe how fast this year is already going by, but I am excited for this coming month for a bunch of reasons.
1. I’m taking next week off of work. Our PTO runs from July – June and we have to use it all up in the year or else we lose it. For some reason this year I had a quite a bit left over and had to figure out what to do. But I’m already going to Alaska in July so a trip up there seemed silly and I didn’t have anyone to travel with somewhere else. But I do have a bunch of stuff I’ve been either putting off here at home and stuff I’ve just wanted to do but haven’t had time. So I decided to stick around town and take care of it. I’ve got a big list of stuff to do and I’ve got to make a plan so that I have at least half a shot at actually following through. I am really hoping that I get my act together and take advantage of this time rather than just sleeping in and watching tv all week.
2. My roommate and I are planning to go to Friday Harbor for a day next week. Its her finals week and she’ll be done with tests pretty early in the week so our time off timing worked out well. We went last year and it was so beautiful and we had a great relaxing day.
Friday Harbor
3. I get to see my friend Danyeal. But only because I’m mooch and needed a place to stay in the Seattle area and called her out of the blue to see if I could stay at her place. But luckily she is a very gracious person and immediately said yes. It’s only for one night and I have to be somewhere pretty early the next day (thus the need to be down there in the first place). Anyway, I haven’t seen her since November so I’m excited to get to hang out with her even if its just a short time.
4. Cheer camp is at the end of the month. I’m looking forward to this for 2 reasons. First, the girls always learn a ton and even though its tiring and can be overwhelming it is always a good experience on the whole. And second, once we’re done with camp I’ll have a break for about a month and a half! I love coaching, but having time away always makes it better when we get back at it.
5. So You Think You Can Dance is on TV. Okay, so technically this season started in May, but it’s about to get to my favorite part (basically anything past the auditions). I grew up dancing and this show makes me wish I was 17 again and dancing all the time and could go and audition myself. And this time some of my friends are coming over to watch along with me which always makes it more fun.
Well that Abba post has been staring me in the face for too long now. And I really don’t have anything exciting to post (when will the monotony stop???) so I thought I would just post 10 random things that have happened recently. And no, this is not my facebook version of 25 random things about me – that’s already on facebook. You can look for it there. If you are facebook friends with me.
1. I finally saw Slumdog Millionaire last Friday. Amazing. So sad, but also so well done. The story had just the right amount of intricacies to really hook you in.
2. On Saturday I went bowling with some friends. We bowled 2 games and I didn’t break 100 either time. I should have the second time, but the stupid thing froze up and then knocked down my pins that I was supposed to hit for the spare. Also of note, my friend who is currently in a wheelchair (due to breaking both of his heels) bowled too. Definitely had a few gutter balls at first, but he worked on his form and technique and by the end he was giving us a run for our money.
3. I watched Once and Step Up 2: The Streets on Saturday night. I hadn’t seen Once since probably when it was in the theater. So good, but it always breaks my heart in the end. What can I say, I like happy endings. Probably why I ended the night with Step Up – nothing beats an awesome dance routine in the rain followed by a couple’s first kiss. 
4. I ate brie cheese with a mixture of almonds and brown sugar melted on top. Oh my gosh.
5. My new cat woke me up at about 3:45 in the morning on Sunday night (and wouldn’t let me sleep again for at least an hour). I am so not used to sleeping with an animal. She definitely got thrown toward the end of the bed numerous times.
6. I’m actually looking forward to Valentine’s Day. Not because I have a valentine of my own, but because even though this holiday is supposedly a contrived holiday meant to make us spend money on useless chocolates and flowers, I still really like it. I mean yes, you should love the people you love everyday and let them know any old time. But why is it bad to have a chosen day where everyone celebrates love? It’s not saying that’s the only day you can love someone, it’s just helping to call all of our attention to love. Which you know, is “the greatest of these”. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist – but it is true!) Anyway, I’m hoping to make some Valentine’s for my cheerleaders and roommate and Grannie. I sent my niece and nephew’s out today. I’m sure the 10 1/2 month old boy will be very appreciative.
7. I’m going to take part in a blog share. That means that someday in the nearish future I will be posting a post written by someone else. In fact, a total stranger. And you’ll never know who it is. In fact, I don’t think I’ll even ever know who it is. And I’ll have a post of my own on some other total stranger’s blog. But I do think that there will be a list of all the participants or something so that we can check out the other blogs. You can obviously see that this is my first time being a part of anything like this. I am so the girl who jumps on technology after everyone else is pretty much on board.
8. I was able to finish a pretty big project at work in less than one total work day. It is something that comes up every year and we have to submit it to a higher entity in our work world. (Apparently I’m deciding right now not to go into detail about where I work. Even though I may have already talked about it in a previous post.) So I think this was my 4th time putting it together and submitting it. It is a crazy statistical report for things that we don’t keep very good records of (you would think we would have learned). Anyway, every year they send it out about a month before it is due. The first year I didn’t know what I was doing and it ended up being one of the most stressful couple of days for me to get it done. Each year since has been better but still difficult tracking down all these numbers in random places and from various people. So this year, I get an email last Thursday saying it is due today (Tuesday). I completely freaked out. Turns out none of us ever got the info they send out about a month before. ANNOYING. But in the end I got things figured out and I think we’re actually more accurate this time around than ever before. Ok, that was a lot of blah blah blahing about work.
9. I have been reading Gone With the Wind to Grannie. It is so long! And it takes me forever just to read one chapter. I read to her yesterday and I think we are on page 196 of something like 1,060 pages.
10. I have flossed my teeth every night since January 21st (the date of my last dentist appointment) and I’ve made my bed every morning this month (because of the new cat). I’m sure this does not seem significant to many of you readers, but let me just tell you that it is. At least to me and probably my mom who had to live with me never doing either of these things for all of my growing up years.
