ups and downs.

I had a good weekend... and I think Karma is trying to even the score and the week has been worse that normal. Friday night I went out with a guy from the ward and I had a really good time. We went and saw "I am Legend" which is one of the scariest movies I have seen in a VERY long time, if ever. Unfortunately the guy got food poisoning and was feeling terrible by the end of the night. Saturday I met my sister Chandra at the Gateway in Salt Lake City for lunch and then did a little Christmas shopping before heading back to Happy valley for a Christmas party and then met up with my ward to go to Temple Square and see the lights. I drove up with Brooke Rachel and Janeen and on the way home we stopped for an 11 o'clock breakfast and I think we were all a little giddy tired, we spent a good half hour laughing our heads off about spilled water. Sunday was pretty good as well besides the constant pain in the rear that a broken coccyx brings. But by Sunday evening i was feeling very sick. Monday I stayed home from work because I felt so crummy. Having a cold always stinks but that's not what made me feel so aggravated. Apparently technology hates me. My camera battery that is only three months old won't charge and my ipod went missing and my phone never charges and my car tire is trying to go flat and my car needs an oil change and I don't have ANY time to get it changed before I have to leave for Vegas on Thursday after work. Oh by the way.... I am going to Vegas for a few days before heading home. I am so excited!! I am going with some friends from my ward.

Coccyx.... That word just looks funny.

I went sledding... as you all already know. (I'm apologizing to begin with because I took a muscle relaxer an hour ago) So while I was sledding the dismount that earned me a ten or shortly before that, I landed on my rear portions... ok my butt, and I broke my tail bone!!! Can you believe it!?! I hurts SO badly. But they can't really do anything for a broken coccyx except they are sending me to physical therapy. Don't ask me what they will do at PT for a tail bone.... rub my butt? LOL...

Slidding Away

Jason, Lindsay and I went sledding Saturday night. After about 6 inches of snow Linds and I decided we HAD to get out into it. We headed up to Rock Canyon Park with as many layers as we could find and our trusty cardboard boxes. Shortly after we arrived, however, we discovered that it was the wrong type of snow for cardboard to work! We were disappointed but eager to have as much fun as we could. About 10 minutes after we started a little boy came up to us with a sled and said "My mom said it would be OK if you used my sled instead of wet cardboard." Bless his little heart (and his mom's big one)! We had a lot more fun on the real sled but only had one! Jason volunteered to go get us sleds at Target but we had to promise not to be cold and worn out when he got back. While he was gone Linds and I had some fun sledding but after a while the kid came for his sled back and we went down by the parking lot and made a snowman! I had never really made an "official" snowman before (you know, one with a face and buttons and even a scarf). I was so much fun! When Jason got back we moved to the steeper hills and had a LOT of fun on our new sleds (well saucer and sliding mats). I think I got the 10 point dismount though when I hit a bump and went head over heels down the rest of the hill landing on my neck and cracking it in three places then hitting my tail bone HARD. I am so sore today but it was definitely worth it! When we were all soaked (well really I got the wettest because I was the only one with out ski pants on) we came back to my apartment and had hot coco and watch a Christmas movie. Saturday was one of the best days I've had in a very long time. I was so HAPPY!
This is me stuck in the sled after pulling most of the snow down the hill with me. It was really wet under the snow so it would all just slip off the grass underneath even though there was a good 6 inches up there.
Lindsay an our snowman! Isn't he handsome? He even has curly blond hair! It's OK that our snowman wore my pink scarf right?

Christmas Tree!!!

Yesterday I got a Christmas tree! It really doesn't feel like Christmas until you have a tree. Linds helped me decorate it and it turned out really cute. When Kortney and I wen to pick it up it wasn't snowing and by the time we got it home it was covered but nothing like two hours later when it was a good 5 inches deep! White Christmas anyone?

Last Piece

So I think it was back in September I wrote about how Ashley, Lindsay and I couldn't find the last piece to the puzzle we had been working on. Well today while Ashley was cleaning out her bedroom at Carriage Cove (I miss you married lady!) she discovered the very last piece under her bed! How it got there I will never know but at least now there is an end to the wondering. Ashley, you shouldn't steal peoples puzzle pieces! :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I went home for Thanksgiving, and it was a lot of fun. On Thanksgiving I got to see some friends from High School, Percy, Laura and Brandee and Brandee's new boyfriend. It was great to be home for almost a full week. Brandee spent time showing me the benefits of living in LA again... I think she thinks I've forgotten them. We went to pinkberry for frozen yogurt (didn't see any stars) and then we went to Sprinkles for cupcakes (didn't see any stars there either, but I did pay 3.50 for a cupcake!) I liked pinkberry and would go again, but sprinkle's wasn't spectacular. They were cool looking cupcakes and had interesting flavors but they weren't worth an hour drive in holiday traffic and almost 4 dollars. The vacation was nice, but I'm glad to be back. I missed everyone up here.

No Tag Backs!

Well Shannon Tagged me and said she would be checking up so I figured I better get a move on it. So here are 5 things very few people know about me… This is a hard one because I don’t even know them about me. No, let’s see, I snore. Now this is something most of you reading this know but not that many other people know. No just kidding, I’ll take this seriously.

1. I am a disorganized person (I’m getting to it ok, don’t just say “I knew that”) ok so I’m a disorganized person but even in the mess if someone moves something I could tell you what they moved. Along the same lines, I can walk in familiar spaces in the pitch black without falling over every ten seconds or running into things. I guess you could say I have a very good sense of direction. I can usually figure out where I’m going.

2. I have dreams that come true. I have had several dreams of things I had no idea would happen that later did. I guess I have a little bit of ESP. No not ESPN… but I do get that on cable.

3. I’m a number nerd. I make puzzles and games out of finding number patterns in things. Like my friend Ashley who just got married today, November 17, 2007. Well her sister Brittany got married on August 17, 2006 and I am convinced that their sister Lindsay should get married May 17, 2008 because that is the next month to have the 17^th on the weekend and then all the girls will have a different year in their anniversary with the same date of the month and the months are 8, 11, and 5 all three apart… I guess that means I should go for February 17, 2009! HAH! J/K!

4. I fear change. Things change and I know I can’t stop them from doing so, but when things are different I always get a little anxious, wondering how I fit into the knew way of things. I once cried because my parents got rid of 20 year old couches while I was out of town visiting my sister and didn’t tell me.

5. Ok, this last one is going to make me look a little crazy…. I talk to my car. It doesn’t talk back to me or anything, I just like to say hello to it when I haven’t seen it in a long time, offer it a little encouragement to turn over on cold mornings or apologize when I treat it poorly. It makes me feel better sometimes. My car is a trusty friend and it listens when I don’t think anyone else wants to.

Well that’s it. those are the little known Amanda facts I can think of right now. I don't really know who to tag. I guess I tag Ashley, the newly wed.