Mia's new Toy

Mia's new toy! Best 2 bucks ever spent.

Extra Life!

For the last two years I have done Extra Life which is an organization like relay for life where you play games for 24 hours and people donate money to you for playing. They donate the money to children's hospitals. This year my donations went to St. Luke's Children's hospital in Boise Idaho. Here is my donation page. This year thanks to Ken and Wendy I was able to meet my goal :) Here are a few pictures from the day.

First here is one from first thing in the morning. I look horrible because I had gotten back from a run a bit earlier and was playing Wii fit.
After that I made breakfast and started in on the game playing. Most of the day I played Plant Tycoon since WOW was having issues.

Here are the kitties being sweet. Kassie is giving Mia a bath while she is trying to sleep.
Here is me playing Plant Tycoon and watching Child's Play.

The Blonde Complex

Ok So anyone that has ever met me at some point has thought if not said to my face, "Wow she is (insert random special person insult)" if they haven't they themselves are in fact a special person. :P

When I was younger and someone said "shes a blonde" I always thought "well DUH!" now that I am older and not so blonde I get the connotations but catch myself thinking the same thing when someone says that phrase. When I was in high school I was as blonde as can be, both hair color wise and ditz wise. I had no problem admitting that I was a complete ditz and still don't but recently it has occurred to me that maybe I should go back to blonde so more of my "special acts" are dismissed because of the hair color.

My theory on why blondes have more fun is because people don't worry about the things they do that are dumb because of their hair color. This stereotype has both worked for and against blondes.

I dyed my hair a darker color after I started college because I thought to myself "Self I'm in college now, that means I am an adult so I need to start being taken seriously" obviously I figured I would get more respect with a darker shade. I foolishly thought that if I darkened my hair I would stop doing so many dumb things so that being the case I went from this:

to something a little more sophisticated. I then came to the realization that even though I was sporting a different color (dark brown at the time) I still did a lot of stupid things.

In my world being special entails being clumsy, having brain farts, accident prone, saying and doing dumb things etc. That being said I am the most special person in the world. Thinking that changing my hair color would change this was a BIG special moment because it did not help one bit. I still have a million random pictures with my hair every color in the book and most of them look something like these:

Even with the super blonde gone I am still a HUGE dork. This month alone I have managed to hurt myself with a tape measure, and run into several light switched resulting in huge bruises and my hair is a light brown atm.

I am proud to be a special person. I feel like its part of my dorky charm. As an added bonus I always have something to laugh at. No matter what color my hair is I am a true blonde at heart.

Now I must be off to do something that will make people give me questionable looks! :D

New

This year has been full of new adventures for me. I'm a firm believer in everything happens for a reason so with all the surprises and things that happened this summer I must say my faith has been reaffirmed because everything has turned out better than I could have ever expected. I now have a new apartment which is pet friendly so my kitties can live with me.

Here is Kassie being eaten by the couch.
And after my car blew the transmission. I got a pretty new one. Here it is in all its orange glory :)
And lastly but not leastly :P New relationships :) I made some amazing friends this summer and met one of the most amazing people I know. Yes its Jeremy. He has been amazing in the short time I've known him (ok well not so short but in the short time we've been dating). There are so many wonderful things about him that I admire. I bring this up because today he has been sober for one whole year. I am so proud of him for this achievement. It shows real courage, dedication and strength to do something like that and I really admire him for it. This has defiantly been an interesting year but I wouldn't change one bit :)