Halloween Week

The Thursday before Halloween, I went with Jennifer to the Pirates of Emerson, The Haunting Fields in Fremont. We had a blast. It was really fun to go with just the 2 of us because we didn't get to "hide" as often from the people trying to scare us. It made it more scary and more fun. What I learned is that if I can find something scary humorous, it becomes way less scary. Case in point: We decided on the next attraction based on the length of the line... meaning there was absolutely no one in line so we decided to go to the main Pirates of Emerson attraction. There was this spooky guy crouching down like Quasimodo or something at the end of a long hallway when we first entered and Jennifer says, "How long have you been there for? There was no one in line. You've been waiting a while haven't you?" (or something to that affect) I couldn't help but laugh and so he became more funny than scary when he scurried off. We caught up to him again later and I still laughed. Also in the Gordello (the haunted Brothel attraction) I told one of the dead hookers that Jennifer called her a slut and she laughed and said that she knows my voice and knew it was me and not her. Then later Jennifer yelled "SLUTS!" at a couple girls and one of them was like "WHORES, honey! We're whores." It was so hilarious!!

Now this is not to say that I wasn't still scared sh*tless in these haunted mazes/houses. I was scared twice by one witchy monster thing in one attraction. I yelled back at her that it wasn't fair for her to scare me once I left the room she was in. Also at the end of the Pirates of Emerson attraction this guy came out of no where and roared or something. I was walking behind Jen and I jumped and may have pushed her a little or something I don't remember, but she turned around, saw the guy and took off running. I TRIED to run away but couldn't!! There was some sort've wavy/moving wooden bridge like thing that I kept tripping on. I screamed from the guy scaring me at first and then I was yelling because Jennifer left me!! and I couldn't escape. I ended up running out of the house like a freak. I swear I probably looked like I was doing one of those tires-on-the-ground exercise thingies with my legs and feet flailing all over the place and not running in a straight line. That darned bridge thing was almost the death of me.

So, as you can see... I had a blast.

Then the next night, Friday, I went with Dawn and Veronica and 5 of their other friends to the Sharks game and then to a bar in San Jose to celebrate Dawn's birthday. The Sharks won (YAY!) and I again... had a blast. Since it was the day before Halloween at this point, there were lots of people in costume at the game. At one point they put someone in a Waldo costume up on the Jumbo-tron and it became like a mission for a couple of us to try to find Waldo in the crowd. Eventually we found him and all had a good laugh. There was this little boy sitting with his family in front of us. I swear his mom was regretting bringing him tot he game after they left. He kept wanting to interact with us and basically was only half paying attention to the game. He gave each one of use high fives and fist bumps and kept asking him mom if he was allowed to have the candy that some of the people were having. He tried to play a form of patty cake with Veronica and at one point we think he might have looked up the skirt of one of Veronica's friends. The kid was like 8 or something.

After the game we went to the Britannia Arms, which is only about 2 or so blocks away from the HP Pavilion. (By the way, I hadn't heard of this place before and when Dawn first mentioned it I was like "who is that?" HAHAHA!) There was this one guy who dressed up as JT's "dick in a box" and I asked him to take a picture with Dawn since he was you know... holding a present... and we were out for Dawn's birthday after all! Anyway, it turns out he had some sort've giant blow up penis in his box and he started to inflate it for the picture. The giant pink blow up thing had huge eyes and a grin at the end of it. We all had a good laugh at that. Once I upload the photo onto my laptop I'll edit the post and add it in.

And finally on Halloween, Jennifer had a Birth-o-ween Party. I made her a Dragon Birthday cake because it was Halloween. Nick had the bright idea to put "Jenzilla" on the side of the cake, so I did that. Her party was a costume party, so I dressed up as.... Victoria from Twilight! I think it turned out pretty good. My hair wasn't quite up to par with her hair, but I did the best I could with what I've got (meaning my thin dark hair). My sister sprayed the color in for me and her and my mom pinned in leaves, which I thought gave it a nice touch. :) As with the Dick in a Box photo, I'll post my Halloween costume photo later.

I was surprised to see Jefferey Sam at the party. I haven't seen him since high school I think. I didn't get to chat with him as much as I would have liked. I was all hyped up on energy from my busy end-of-week and then we played beer pong in the garage so I was getting tipsy. I ended up leaving Jen's around 3 am... which really was more like 4 because we turned the clocks back. I got home, removed my make up, put my orange hair in a high pony tail and went to bed. I was so tired that there was no way I could spend the time to wash all the spray out of my hair at 4am! I decided that my pillowcase was going to take one for the team and I'd just wash it later. :)

I ended up waking up the next day at 4pm! Apparently my body needed rest after all that stuff!

Eggplant, Costumes, and T-Scores... Oh My!

On Sunday night I made Eggplant Parmesan. It was delicious! Everyone enjoyed it (and by everyone I mean my family and Nick). I didn't end up using Jennifer's recipe, mainly because I didn't want to make the sauce myself, so I used a Martha Stewart recipe. So yummy!!

Well, I just found out another friend of mine is pregnant! (and I'm totally going to talk about it here even though not everyone knows yet, because really... only like 4 people read this blog, and none of them are related) I swear, there is something in the water! haha... I'm happy for the families of these 2 precious fetuses.

I'm going to a Halloween/Birthday Party and am very excited about my new costume. If you recall I went to a Halloween Costume Party/Dinner a few weeks ago at the Fratellanza club and my parents won 2nd place with their Popeye and Olive Oyl costumes!... wait, did I post about that? Let me go check... Oh, hmm... I totally didn't talk about that... well... now you know. I went to a Costume Party/Dinner/Dance thing at an Italian, Members Only Club, with my family a couple weeks ago. I helped plan my parents costumes (re: I told them they were going to be Popeye and Olive Oyl) and I helped plan my sister's costume (re: I told her she was going to be Cruella De Vil). That left little time for the planning of my costume, so I ended up going as Beth Chapman... again. I was Beth last year in SD. I figured since no one from SD will see me, it's cool if I wear the costume again. Well... I didn't really want to do that again. I could have recycled my boxer costume from 2 years ago, but I wanted to do something new, so I decided on a fairly decent and easy costume. I went to JoAnn fabric and craft store today for some material and Party City for some hair color and lastly WalMart for 33¢ knee high panty hose!! (Those were a great find, I'm just going to wear them on my arms, so I didn't want to ruin something expensive... but 33¢ is amazing!) I'll probably post a picture later. I hope it works out. That's the most hint I'll give you. I won't spoil the surprise. :)

Oh, this morning I got my T-Score breakdown in the mail. Remember the POST test I took that I passed. (I know I wrote about that, so just scroll down some if you don't remember... go ahead... I'll wait.... .... ... okay, ready? good.) I got the breakdown of my score, which basically means that instead of just "Pass/No Pass" I got a score. My score is 68.3. (The different categories had scores too, but I"m just posting the overall T-score) I have no idea what that means. I went to the site it told me to go to for more information on interpreting the scores, but it wasn't super helpful. It was helpful in boosting my confidence though because it told me that I am "above average" of other test takers. :) What I think it means is that, of the questions I answered, I only got a few wrong. The test added points for correct answers, deducted points for incorrect answers, and did nothing for no answers.

I haven't heard back yet from the Oral Board Interview, but it was less than a week ago, so that's not surprising. I'll keep you posted (no pun intended).

Sometimes things get in the way... sometimes, like tonight, they don't!

I wrote the following on a piece of paper Sunday Morning around 5am at my friends' house...

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I've been trying to write a post for a while now, but things get in the way. I dog/house sat for my friends Veronica and Dawn this past weekend. Their dog, Doc, is adorable but somewhat needy. He wants love almost 24/7 and while I'd love to pet him and talk to him a ton, I just can't. I need to sleep and eat too you know! Ha Ha! He's still a puppy so of course he wants attention, but please stop jumping up on me or nibbling on my knee when I ignore your tactics. But I had a good time with him... except the last day.

I feel so bad for the poor guy. He's got a bad case of the runs. I described it in a note to my friends as "It was like he has a water gun strapped to his back filled with dirty water." It was that bad... like projecting and the sound... let's just say it was gross.

How can you possibly discipline a dog for going in the house when you know he couldn't help it... well... you just don't.

I hope he's okay, but also I'm excited to be able to sleep through the night/sleep in tomorrow. =)
I haven't worked out in a while, to be honest, I've been really busy and on the few days I haven't been busy I haven't been able to use the TV or wii as someone else is using it/them. I did a lot of walking the past few days though by walking Doc around a bunch, so that should have made up for at least a tiny bit.

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All in all, I feel like it was a pretty complete blog post for being sleep deprived. I wrote it after I cleaned up poop at 3am and washed off the dog.

I had an interview on Thursday. I feel good about it, so I hope the interviewers felt the same! :) I should know in 1-2 weeks. *crosses fingers*

Oh, and I booked a trip to go to Georgia and visit my friend Charlie. I'm really excited to see him. I haven't see him, or even talked to him in over a year... in WELL over a year... omg... has it been 2 years?? I think it's been like... 1 year and 10 months or something crazy like that. I hope he hasn't forgotten about me. I saw a picture of him in his Halloween costume recently:



ADORABLE isn't he!?!!? I still keep in touch with his parents, Lizzy and Matt, and his grandma, Nancy, but I haven't talked to him in a long long time. Matt posts pictures of him on Facebook every now and then...

HaHa! Yes, I booked a trip to see Lizzy and Matt. It was a good price and when really will I have time in the future? The only thing that could get in the way is if I get the job and have to go in for a psych exam, poly graph test, or medical exam (a job with a police department is very thorough). I am banking on getting the job, but not having to go in for those things until after I get back. :) We'll see I guess.

...I just punched myself in the face...

WTF self? How could you punch me? What did I ever do to you?! I mean yeah, I might try to fill you with crappy, but delicious, food and I might have missed a couple work outs, but you don't have to be so aggressive about it.

So I guess I was really tired tonight. Sleep deprivation likes to creep up on me sometimes. As I was waking up, from a "nap," I wiped the sleepies from my eyes (okay, maybe you don't call them sleepies, but doesn't that sound so much better than something like "eye crust"), stretched, and promptly knocked myself on the jaw.

I either wasn't awake enough to control the function of my arm and just let gravity pull it back down towards the bed (and thus my face), or I'm angry with myself subconsciously and decided to knock some sense into myself. I'm inclined to believe the later. Besides, if it was the former, then I'd have to be mad at gravity for taking part in the abuse and I can't have a grudge against gravity lest it find out and decide to reek even more havoc on me. Can you imagine? I'd be walking along and then WHAM! HELLO GROUND! because gravity got the sudden urge to exert its full potential on me without warning? No thank you!

Gahh!! Where have the posts been?

I hoped I would be able to update if not everyday of the 30-day challenge, at least every day I worked out and keep a record of what exercises I did and how they made me feel... well, I failed at that. I've been oddly busy lately. Well, I suppose I didn't have to go to Happy Hour tonight with Jen and Alyssa, but come on, I need some semblence of a life!

I helped my dad build our new side fence. It's not completely done yet, but so far it looks good. :) I'm way proud of my dad! The day we put in the most work, I decided to work out with the Wii Active. I had skipped the day before and I started to fear the trainer would yell at me or be like "where have you been missy?" but luckily it's just a game and she didn't. Still, I felt good working out afterwards.

I hope to find time to work out this weekend, but I'm a little worried I won't. Tomorrow I'm going to bake a cake for Nick's birthday and I have costume dinner party to go to and then on Sunday I'm going to my cousin's girlfriend's baby shower and then out to dinner (if we get back in time) for Nick's birthday. When I write it all out, it doesn't seem like a lot, but each thing takes a long time, so it really is a lot. Ohwell, if I can't work out, I'll just work out more on Monday.

This is seriously the longest that I've still felt motivated to exercise. Like I said before, I might not be doing a lot, but I'm at least doing something and that says a lot for me.

Day ... uh, I'm not sure what day this is?

Should I classify this as day 3, even though I already had a day 3 post, since technically this is day 3 of exercising? Or should I classify this as day 5 since it's 5 days into the 30-day challenge? I don't know if the program counts 30 days of working out or just 30 continuous days. I should look into that. Maybe I'm thinking too much into this.

As you know, Saturday was my rest day. I fully intended to workout Sunday as the program stated, but as you well know, things happen. I came home from Jen's house and had a snack. It was between football games and I was going to work-out then, but my dad didn't really want to relinquish the TV. That coupled with having just eaten, I decided to postpone the workout and use it as another rest day... and rest I did. I think the antihistamine I took early wasn't fully out of my system. I basically slept from 5-8pm. It was glorious! :)

Anyway, I'm back on the wagon now. I worked out today while my parents were at the store looking for new fencing. Today was mostly an upper body workout--not very much cardio so it was so much easier. I got a little winded during the side jumps and inline skating exercises, but I was fine. We did bicep curls, shoulder presses, and other arm/back/shoulder exercises that I can't remember names of. Some of them really made me burn. What I mean is there were a couple times were by the end of the reps I could feel the lactic acid in my muscles and it was increasingly difficult to do each rep as smoothly as the first. It was great. I'm excited for tomorrow's work out. I really can't remember the last time I was excited about working out. I know I've been excited before, but it's never lasted a whole week! haha. Since today was so cardio-light, the program says I only burned 110 calories. But I'm optimistic and know that every little bit counts! The point is that I'm getting my body moving and using my muscles.

Afterward, I helped my dad a tiny bit with the fence. I say I only helped a tiny bit because he was mostly done by the time I got dressed and found my gloves. We're going to build the fence this week and weekend. Whenever he's not working. Should be fun. I've never built a fence before, so I'm excited. I just hope my dad still has some work to do on it by the time I come home from my cousin's baby shower, so I can help!

I guess you can call them pumpkin pie bites.

I have no idea how Bakerella got her Pumpkin Pie Bites to look so darned good! My pie crusts didn't look as round and pretty, but I think I did an alright job, especially for someone who has never made a pie before.

Something went wrong though, as it always seems to with me. The cream cheese didn't "cream" as well as I hoped it would. I think I need to whip it a bit more next time before I add the other ingredients. The pie filling ended up with "chunks" of cream cheese floating in it. Not like... big chunks, just like... small spots of it. So it didn't look as smooth as Bakerella's. But they taste good to me. :) Mine also fell more than hers did, so some of mine look like they have craters! hahaha! Practice makes perfect though and I fully intend to make these again. I'm sure they'll turn out better the second time around. I have a bad-quality photo of them, taken with my webcam, so unfortunately it doesn't help them look any better. hahaha.

Also, I went to multiple stores and non of them had canned pumpkin. They only had the pumpkin pie filling (to be made with condensed milk). I used that instead of the canned pumkin. Maybe that had something to do with it falling so bad? I dunno. Better luck next time, right?

Actually, now that I look at them further, most of them turned out pretty round looking. :) But, you can clearly see what I mean about the whole "crater" thing. Ohwell, like I said... practice makes perfect! :)

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Okay, I just took another bad-quality shot of them with whipped cream on top. See? don't they look better! :)