Fun News!!!

Okay...Great news! Just found out that on the show...Dancing with the Stars...Lance Bass (From N'Sync...i huge fan of them) with be partnered with.....Lacey Schwimmer! (from So You Think You Can Dance Season 3...sister of the season 2 winner Benji Schwimmer...also both mormon...or at least raised it).

Two of my most favorite shows are colliding! I so happy! This has got to be an awesome pair! Now I'm looking foward to the new Dancing season ever more! :)

Sad what can make me happy. :)

Here's one of my more Favorite Lacey performances from So You Think You Can Dance (slow digital pic intro but you don't miss much and it's good quality after that):



Another Favorite Lacey dance...weird jump...but totally works for a Mia Michaels Routine:

Lessons

So, if you ever want to feel inadequate...just try and relearn something you used to know how to do, but have forgotten how to do as it's been too long. :)

When I was in 7th grade I was in band. First chair flute, and no one could beat me. It was great. Then one Tuesday I go into the band room...and my flute wasn't on the shelf where we kept them. I looked and looked, couldn't find it anywhere. To make this short...it was stolen and never recovered. I loved flute, and I never played again...till last night. :)

My friend LaHok has an extra flute and kept telling me she'd give me flute lessons (for her own reason. she has a quartet flute piece and only knows 3 flute players currently so I am to learn and maybe fill in the 4th position, if I can learn how to play again). So...first off, I'm a little off on remembering how to breath into the flute...don't remember it ever being a problem when I was younger. Then I try to remember the fingering...wow. I remember just picking it up when younger. This will take some practice to get used to this again. Which I'm sure LaHok will appreciate cause some of those notes I was playing were just...painful! :)

So have any of you ever tried to pick up a lost talent? Was it harder than you remember it being the first time?

Oh, BTW...We did check out the shed...the plastic liner at the top of the shed beneath the deck (to keep the weather and other things from falling in) have bend with age. The portions from halfway towards the house are all hanging down into the shed...one hit the light pull while falling and the momentum turned on the light. Seriously must have been recently cause that light can't have been on that long to have not burned out yet.

So, no random homeless person living in our shed. Overactive imagination is wrong...again. :) Happy Friday! And happy labor day weekend!

Baseball...

We won last night! YAY! We finally rallied in the 8th inning...before that it was pretty disappointing. But I happy we won.

Unfortunately later after the game I totally lost my temper. I carpooled to the game with my supervisor DBow (names changed for privacy...he, he) and the bosses son, HenP. HenP likes to talk, and talk and just hear himself talk. So all throughout the game he wasn't watching much as he was hob nobbing with the company reps who were hosting this gathering and other of our ISMs (producers under my co that use our carrier contracts and we get part of their profit). HenP only watched when he ate and during the final two awesome innings. How do I know this...he drove and is usually a lush at these type of events. I kept watching to see how much beers he drank so I'd know whether I needed to take the keys from him. (Surprisingly he only had one small beer.)

Anyways...after the game DBow and I started to head with the crowd to go. HenP wouldn't make eye contact with us and started walking away from the stairs we were heading to to leave. DBow and I both figured...well he must have figured we'd headed down to wait for him. 25 minutes later he still not there...but all the other people and even all the vending people have come down. I was stewing in my own annoyance. So...I went back up to get him and let him know we were waiting for him...like he couldn't have figured it out by then. What was he doing....talking to more co rep people that he all ready talked to 3 times that evening...just standing there shooting the breeze. urg!

To shorten this...when HenP was finally following me down the stairs so he could leave he was trying to make light conversation, I tried to warn him...I did. But he just kept egging me on going "Come on, give it to me already." So I did...I started explaining to him in my mad voice...not shrill but loud and in your face...that DBow and I both have a long drive from the office (where our cars were parked) to home, and I have to get up at the butt crack of dawn. Didn't he already talk to these people...and how long was he just going to stand there till we found him like a lost dog and told him where to go? Now it doesn't sound so angry by writing this...but seriously I was scaring some of the people around us when I was trying to walk to the car. If you've never seen me actually lose my temper I guess you can't really see me getting frightened stares from strangers...but I can...which is why I'm usually so glad for my long temper fuse.

Apparently last night just too many buttons got pushed and I was a bit tired. Anyways...HenP argued back and said that I was rude when I went up to get him (I thought I was remarkably calm but who knows). So then the rest of the night DBow was trying to make small talk and didn't want to leave me alone with HenP in case I was still mad. I had to of course apologize (even though still ticked off) cause he is the boss's son. And you never know what may send him running to tell daddy who then will go off half cocked as he can and I worried about getting confronted by boss. HenP said "No Worries" like all was forgotten. So we shall see.

This is why sometimes I not a huge friend of small companies. It may be a friendly environment, but the boss and his family always take advantage of thing and people from the office with this sense of entitlement...which they haven't fully earned.

So that's my beef for the day (or last night). I can't stand people who won't respect you and no matter how stupid their own actions may be they still think they can do no wrong and are so much better than you. But I guess judgement is a two way street...I try to give those type of people the benefit of the doubt...really i do...but when they keep reinforcing my original perception there's only so much respect I can give them in return.

On a happy note...We Won! :P

Going through my computer...

So, I've been going through some of the files I've downloaded onto my computer at work (I have to download the .wmv files to actually view the picture for some reason). Anyways, I remember getting this one and it was absolutely hilarious! Even in a different language this joke totally translates. Hope you enjoy!

A/C Fixed...Kinda

So the repair guy came yesterday. A motor on the upper fan on the outside A/C unit had burnt out and it was replaced. So it's fixed for now...THANK GOODNESS! I have lived in St Louis too long...I really need A/C with humidity. :)

Thing is, now we find out our unit is soo old that it may likely just go kaput soon! So we are now going to get some estimates and see what kind of system we can get.

When I was talking to my mom yesterday while the repair guy was there she said, "You are learning what goes into owning a home the hard way." Yeah...i'm learning to buy a new house! :)

Then last night I headed back downstairs pretty late to see if I had gotten a letter I was expecting in the mail over the weekend. I went to get my letter opener that was over in our Kitchen bay window and I noticed that the light we have in the shed under our deck was on.

Now, neither Mom nor I have been in that shed....since at least last summer at the earliest. So, even if we had left it on...the bulb for sure would have burnt out by now...but it was definately on.

So...my over active imagination kicks in. :) Has some animal just gotten in there under the wood slats and somehow pulled the string to turn on the light? Has some radom homeless person somehow broken into there and it's his new home at night? Too many scenarios are popping into my mind. But there's no way from the shed into our home...so no one could be breaking in. And there's nothing really of importance in the shed anymore...just our old deck furniture...maybe some old bikes and other yard stuff...which apparently mom and I don't need or care about.

I went upstairs last night and told mom about it and we are both flumoxed. So now I have been put in charge of checking out the shed later today, to see what's going on. Joy. But, I'm making sure mom is right behind me when I do check it out...just in case that homeless person thing is the real cause. :)

This morning the light was still on...so who knows what's really going on. I can be so parinoid at times. :P

What Disney Princess Are You?

You Are Belle!

Intelligent and kind. Your beauty goes much further than your apperance. Also, you make judgements of people based on their personality and not their looks. Attaining all the knowledge that you can is one of your major goals in life, but you are also a person who can make things happen.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

It's Over!

The Olympics are over for another two years...till the winter ones! It has been an awesome past two weeks, getting to watch all these events. But with having Tivo during this time we recorded everything...and I had trouble keeping up. But it is all done now...and I have a couple weeks break before the fall TV season comes back in full force. :) Maybe now i'll get some other things done.

Also the insanely busy weekend is over! The bridal shower went great. It just seemed to flow together and everyone said that they had a great time...which is a huge relief. :)

Although on Saturday Mom realized that our A/C is broken! Humidity sucks! Luckily the past few nights cold fronts have passed through where we can open the windows and cool off the house a bit. I just really hope that the repair people can make it out to our house today and get it fixed quickly. Just our luck more heat will come through and I'll just want to live in my car so I can have a constant A/C going. :P

So all weekend long I've been waking up constantly throughout the night...due to anxiety over the party and hoping I can pull it off how i'd like to, heat keeping me awake, or nature sounds waking me up cause i'm used to only hearing my music and fan going. I'm starting to get to the point where I know if I can't get a couple good nights sleep soon my body may get pretty weak and make me sick. I'm pretty sure today at lunch I'm going to take a nap on the couch in the back of the office. That should help. ;)

TGIF!

So, I went online trying to find some funny Friday Happy Dance. There were some pretty stupid things on youtube for that. :) But one of them led me to the "Dinosaur" show snidbits. And this was just so nostalgic...and funny I had to share.

I'm the Baby Song - so appropriate. :)




And this is just the most memorable part of the show:

Not the Mama!



Hope you liked the show as much as I did! :) Or at least laugh at it. :P

Too Funny

So I love watching the gymnastics on the summer Olympics. Just saw this clip and it's absolutely hilarious! You have to see. :) Totally from the 70's. :P

Busy Week

It's sad how you always want whatever you don't have at the moment. You are bored...so you wish you had something to do. Then you have tons of things to do and wish you could just have one night with nothing to do. Kinda ironic.

So this week has been, and will be, pretty busy for me. Monday I went to Miss A's to watch Penelope. Tuesday night my VTs came to visit...which we talk so much it lasted quite awhile. Wednesday I am going shopping to Sams w/my mom for things we need in general and for the bridal shower I'm hosting this weekend. Thursday I am baking for said bridal shower. Friday I am going to help Fishy completely move into her new apartment and take her out to dinner. Sometime before Saturday I have to go and get the bridal shower gifts from me and from the group. Saturday I've got the bridal shower for Jamie, a relief society board meeting (for my compassionate service leader calling) pretty much right after, then a hair appointment right after that. I've also technically made dinner and a movie plans with D after that on Saturday. Sunday I have a meeting before church (for my branch missionary calling), church, and a meeting with a stake rep at 4 for my temple recommend.

The next Monday I will most likely be talked into going to FHE. Tuesday I have dinner plans with Erin to hang out (which we haven't had a chance to do before). Wednesday I have a work baseball game that I have to attend. Thursday of next week so far is available, but somewhere I have to fit in doing my VTing for the month which we are still trying to find some time to do it. Then on the weekend D is heading out of town and I may be dog sitting for her while she head to California for a friend's wedding. And then finally the next Monday is Labor Day and I will have the day off work! YAY!!!! But there is also a BBQ I think for the singles branch that night...so it continues on. :)

Okay, now that I have written all that down maybe my mind will calm down and I'll remember all this easier. I've been so worried I'd forget something. I really hope I haven't forgotten anything! :P

Personality Trait of the Youngest

So last night I went to my friend Miss A's new apartment (not that new but first time i've been there) and watched Penelope, Christel joined us as well.

If you haven't seen the movie I highly recommend it! It is a cute story about a girl who is born under a family curse and has a pig nose. The way to break the curse is to fine someone of her own kind (blue-blood) to love her.

Anyways...I won't ruin the story for those who haven't seen it...yet. But while watching that story I noticed her way of interacting/flirting to find a blue blood to marry her. She like to challenge them, verbally and intellectually. Since she had been so sheltered most of her life she wanted to figure out what life was like for others and made them who they are. She had been different her whole life, and was curious to see what life was like when fitting in. And since she couldn't leave home, talking was the only way to really find out things from others as she couldn't find out for herself.

While talking with Christel afterwards we were discussing this personality trait...trying to "challenge" someone when you meet them in order to get to know them and understand them...guy or girl really.

As being the youngest in my family I have realized that I respond well to challenges, and have had them presented to me my whole life. I taught myself how to read because I didn't want to be left behind from my siblings...and they could all ready read so why couldn't I? Challenge to catch up.

All of my siblings were in car accidents within the first year or two of being licensed...I wanted to be different so I was never in an accident in that time period...at least that was my fault. (I was rearended once.) Also I took a different language in high school because I wanted to excel but not be trying to just catch up to the other marks they had earned before me. Challenge to be different and stand out in my family.

Getting a Bachelors degree in four years because that was how long I would be covered without taking any loans out. Challenge to not burden myself or my family financially longer than I had to.

And like Penelope...I kinda view my flirting style a little bit as "challenging" guys. I love to verbally spar with someone. Just the back and forth of coversation discussing life experiences, knowledge or even views and humor. I love to hear other opinions and sides to every story, but I also like to know that they have conviction and will stand by it. And I love to laugh. So anyone who can answer with a quick comeback and humor automatically catches my interest.

So while thinking about this coversation I think a lot of youngest children interact this way. As the youngest we have our siblings childhoods paving the way for the path our parents will raise us. And we are constantly wanting to catch up to those paths all ready set; we then want to excel at that or something different so we can create our own memories in our parents minds. Everyone wants to make a mark on this world.

I guess my whole point is that I never thought about how much competition and challenges put in front of me really make me more active and decisive in my life. It's an interesting thought to me.

So do you respond well to challenges? Or do you prefer to ignore them and find your own inspiration to act in your own due time?

Do You Ever?

Do you ever get the feeling that people are looking/noticing you more than they ever have in the past and it's almost slightly unnerving? Or you know, maybe you are just making more random eye contact with people than you have noticed before? It's kinda weird.

Okay, so this could all be in my head, but let me explain a little bit. Anyways...last night was a potluck b-day/apartment warming party for Fishy and Cass. It was fun and there was a huge turn out. Fishy thought only around 10 people would show...pretty much tripled that. :)

But anyways...onto my earlier comment. When one friend was leaving...he was hugging people good bye and every time it seemed he was looking over their shoulders and each time made eye contact with me...and I have to interject that he wasn't always facing the same direction. No specific look in the eye...just a straight out...stare...small smile curving the lips. Could have been for me, or the people he was hugging goodbye. Who knows. Just seemed a bit odd to me.

Then later I kept laughing at some random comments people were making and each time i'd laugh again...one particular person would always whip around their head and look at me...like it was literally laugh...whip around and stare...small smile...then back onto the coversation. Others were laughing as well....so don't really know why I always got the direct eye contact from this one person.

Now those who know me know I love to laugh, and I can laugh pretty loud. And actually just realized that I even giggle a lot more than I thought. But this was just a normal inside laugh...not even full out. So of course being a girl I over analyze things. Were these people looking at me cause I had something on my nose (I checked...nothing there); is there some random thought process going on in their heads that I am so not privy too; or is it just a random coincidence and really I was just making more eye contact with people and am making a mountain out of a mole hill?

Sometimes I feel like I am more of a shadows person. I really don't mind the spot light and can relish it at times...but I love to work in the shadows behind the scenes or quietly and sneakily get things done for others or to help out. I love seeing a surprise smile on anyone's face.

But ever since 7th grade I have literally made it more a point in my life to make more eye contact with people, cause I realized then I didn't do it all that much. Also you can tell so much more about a person and their real "mood" when you are looking them in the eye. So sometimes it still feels I guess unnerving for me when random eye contact is made...and even more so when I can't "read" what is in their eyes. I'm not nervous or insecure...that I know of...it's just way more....intense I guess.

So...now that I have rambled on for a bit I guess I'm kind of wondering if anyone else feels like you are in a fish bowl...with the whole world staring in and watching to see what you do next. :)

I am such a couch potatoe

I am soo addicted to television. :) But my life has been so randomly busy lately that I am a little bit behind. But last night I caught up on 3 nights of Olympics (4-6 hours each)...I just love Tivo!

It seems kinda of funny when Mom and I are both home after a long day at work and we sit there and compare what we have to do that night. The funny part is when we both have nothing to do and we get to sit and watch television and catch up on our shows all night long. It seriously makes me so happy. I know...weird. But I have to say that even when watching TV I still do cross stitching or whatever crafty thing i'm working on at that time. So...I guess I'm not a total bump on the log.

Now I do have to put a qualifier in that I only get happy when I know there is something to watch, either recorded or live TV. A few weeks ago we had caught up on our Tivo and didn't have much to watch...then we started to do other projects we had...and were even a bit disappointed that there was nothing to watch.

You would think that having my moods and life kinda revolve around a TV and the stories I get to see would...i don't know...be pathetic I guess. I mean, life shouldn't revolve around an inanimate object and what I think I get from it. But, I have no significant other, no one wanting to spend time with me daily (besides mom and she's happy to be a couch potatoe with me), and no kids or pets that I need to focus on. So I guess it's kind of a relax mechanism for me. I can lose my thoughts and worries and fears of life while I put my mind into whatever I am watching.

So even though I can be viewed as lazy I guess for watching a lot of TV...I still feel like I have accomplished something when I get to fully relax and put myself into the story I get exposed to on the television. Overall, my opinion is...I'm happy being a couch potatoe. :)

(And it's even better when I get to eat some sort of potatoes while being a couch potatoe...he, he, he. Gotta Love those carbs!)

Debate is on...

Okay, I now want opinions. Overall when researching through others blogs I find different perspectives and overall points to each blog. Some are updates on what goes on daily in their lives, some are an outlet for the frustrated writer to find meaning in what happens around us and put it into their craft, some are like a magazine with different topics and reoccuring storylines as a guide for the blog (like hunk of the month and such).

What I would like to hear from you all who would really read my blog is...which would you prefer to hear about? Would you like to hear me wax poetic (if i can) about random topics that come through my head, actually read my true random thought process and what really goes on in my life and head, or would you just like to hear about the fun and witty stories that go on in my life? I could even take a perspective of finding something humorous each day and only post those things mainly (I will of course still do important info updates).

So...the debate is on. Let me know which you prefer to read and we'll see who has the stronger argument! Ready...Set...Go! :P

Reunion

So last night a bunch of girls from Parkway ward back when I was in high school got together last night to remenice and catch up on each others lives:

Top row: Jenni, Nicole, Crystal, Ruth (ironically the married row). Bottom Row: Melanie, Me (the singles row)

Thank you Melanie for being available to be there and not making me the only one there not married. I truly appreciate the single sister solidarity. :)

It truly is amazing seeing each other after so long and still feel that even though our lives have changed so much and we haven't been able to keep in contact much that we are all still friends. I had forgotten Jenni's hilarious humor in any conversation, the strength of Nicole's bubbly personality telling a story (still chuckling over that boobs and teeth comment), Crystals glow of personality (and maturity that I don't think I knew very well before) and Ruth's joy in life that sparkles around her. Melanie, can't forget you as you are still...well a constant in my life. :)

And oh my goodness...seeing Jenni and Ruth's children! So cute! I just look at them and can see the different characteristics (physically and personality wise) that come from my friends and their spouses. Nieces and Nephews are different...they are family. :P

Anyways, it was a great evening and I was so glad that I got to see my old friends. And we got to exchange info so hopefully now when we talk in the future...we won't have soo many years to catch up on. :)

Guess I Should Explain

So I guess I should explain the meaning of my URL address www.petieplay.blogspot.com. If you know me well you should know that sometimes I get in this slap happy mood where anything is funny and I can turn....well annoying I think. :)

So a few years ago it was around Easter time and Toys 'R Us had this commercial on TV where all the toys in the store came to life and all these white bunnies were all around the shelves and they were all singing the children's song "Here Comes Peter Cottentail". Songs get stuck in my head so easily...and that song just wouldn't leave my head for about that whole month before Easter, so I'd break out in that song in the randomist places.

One night when I was talking to my mom before we both headed to bed (and we were both in a slap happy mood) I started to sing that song and she told me to "Go to bed Petie" (code name Peter Cottentail) I couldn't stop laughing and thought it was such a funny...and appropriate name at the time...mom and I agreed that should be my new "nickname".

Of course then mom had to have one as well...so her's is Sundae (an odd name like the day of the week, but spelled like an ice cream sundae).

I have told a few friends and even nieces and nephews and sometimes I get randomly called Petie. And I do so love to play...so now you have petieplay. Long story I know. :P

Well....let's see

So, I am succumbing to peer pressure and finally starting a blog. :) My sister started a few years ago and now I'm thinking I need to join in the fun. Who knows how good I will be at updating this thing...but at least it is a new fun past time I can contemplate on. All right, i'm getting wordy. This is just a starter but I'll work on making this interesting. Hope you enjoy!