I want to see if I can put a big pic on-this is an old but favorite picture:

I want to vent a little about The Bachelor. We have all just been talking about it at work. Who is this guy? Is he really this stupid to pick that Trish girl? or are the producers pushing it for the drama? I sincerely hope it is the second option because I cannot imagine anyone falling for her attitude. It just makes her look like she doesn't get along with anyone to put it nicely. Also i thought it was funny when he said on his date at the football field "that was dope"-do people really use this in casual conversation?

Last Night I went to a Christian Rock concert....

My old small group girls that are in high school now couldn't find another adult to take them to this crazy concert so since I haven't seen them in a while I said I would.
I just want to say that apparently I have graduated to the group of sponsors that at these functions retreats to the back of the room and waits for it to be over. Now let me redeem myself a little. I did stay in the very front for the first band and they weren't bad and I didn't think anything like "that darn kids music". They were pretty good I thought for that style music. However during the second act this crazy big high school guy kept bumping into me and jumping way to close to me. I kept pushing him but he just kept invading my space and was all sweaty. At this point is where I made my retreat.
For a band that I love I would totally stay up there and all the sweaty high schoolers and stomped on feet would be worth it but for bands I had never heard of....I don't think so. So I made some calls, read a magazine, went to the gas station for dinner. Let me tell you it was a night of excitement.

Here are some of the people I saw there that stood out to me as funny:
-The "security" was a guy who looked like one of their bigger nerdy older brothers. He had a camo tshirt on but it had a cartoon monkey on it. He just stood by the stage and tried to look important. It didn't work out very well...
-The jr. high girl that had a tshirt that said "I love Christian boys"
-For you old school naperville people: the guy standing next to me was Sakas in 15 years. He probably kept wondering why I was looking at him but it was a little unnerving. He was bald, had a long gotee and was short.
-For you lincoln people: one of the roadies was a Stonter look alike. He was trying to speed with all the equipment and almost ran the amps into some unsuspecting adult.
-Lastly, there was a couple running one of the bands booths. They were under the impression you have to be very dramatic when speaking to each other. I couldn't tell if she was flirting with him or not but every word she said had to be accompanied with her whole body and it had to be really loud and she had to pretend she was really offended at what he said. You know the type.

That was my evening last night.

Um okay so I was supposed to meet with one of my bosses at 9:30 this morning and now it is 5:30....and with my last blog you can probably guess I am ready to go home.
I just wanted to share that I made this sweet acoustic mix when I was babysitting this weekend. It has some John Mayer, Counting Crows, Coldplay and Tonic to name a few. I know it is a little thing but I am pretty excited about it. Now if only some of them didn't have cuss words because that makes it a little harder to play it over and over at church...that would make it perfect but its close.
On another note-I saw Scooby Doo 2 this weekend and just want to say how much I love Scooby Doo. It was my favorite cartoon as a kid and I think was one of the first things that made me realize I love mysteries. They are my favorite kind of books to read. Even in this kids movie I was trying to figure out for sure who was the villian. I love that part-the guessing and trying to figure it out.(however, I will let you know that this movie is not all that complex so I didn't take extensive deductive skills to figure out but it was still fun.)

Okay so I know i haven't put anything down in a while. I was watching kids for 5 days so I had to cram all my work into less hours.
Last night and this morning I had some weird head pains and was all weirded out because you never know. So I called my nurse friend sherry and she assured me that if I had cancer I wouldn't feel any lumps and wouldn't know it til it was too late. So on the one hand it made me feel better but it kind of sucks that you would never know if you had brain cancer...anyway I am feeling a little better now but I didn't sleep at all last night.
So I watched the my friends girls from thursday to monday. It was fun but I came to realize there is a lot to remember even when you have kids that are older. They had a dog and two cats that needed taken care of, homework to sign, cooking, lots of dishes, cubs games to watch, Scooby Doo 2 to go see...I have to admit I was totally tired when I got home last night.

Okay so just now in the office brad was calling the tux place to get his measurements from last year....and I go "so you think you are the same as last year?" but my tone inflection hinted that he may not be. So now i think he may be a little upset because it seemed like I said he was bigger than last year.
I thought this was kind of funny.

I just want to say that sometimes I think you can just be irritated and then let it go. Working at church it always seems as if anytime anyone says anything remotely that irritates one another it is a chance to learn, or grow, or be challenged when in actuality maybe people are people and just go through stages where they are more or less sensitive or whatever. Maybe sometimes it is okay to be mad at someone without having to delve into what previous childhood experiences we need to work though for us to not be grumpy about something. Does anyone feel this way?

I am finally almost done with all the work that I needed to get done by tomorrow. Maybe it was a good thing I came back on time but I really wanted to get bumped planes so I could go shopping on Rodeo drive with my roommates. I just envision being Cher from the movie Clueless.
So for those of you who shelly has brainwashed into thinking that I was obsessing over my tan there have actually been a few people who said they thought I would be more tan! so I just want to say that I was partly right:)
I just want to say that we saw the Pink Dot store that they were talking about in Swingers and I tried to take a picture but it didn't come out very well(one of my roommates which will remain nameless got more of the van's rearview mirror in the pic than the actual store) "Is he clean?"-that part always cracks me up. Next trip out we are definately hitting The Derby.
I wonder if people in the office ever get sick of my music because I will just play one cd over and over again all day...I like it though-I have been listening to a mix jaime gave me. I just want to say I love the mixes I get from James.