Brokeback Mountain

This is quiet possibly the greatest love story ever written. I love this movie and this kiss. If you've never seen this movie you need to.

Hair

I'm SO into this hair style on men right now. It's unbelievably sexy! Emile Hirsch and Leonardo Dicaprio rock it like no ones business.

Ashton Kutcher
What happens in Vegas

Don Draper
Mad Men

Colin Farrell

Pho

I went to lunch at Pho Cali today with a few people from work. It was my first time trying Pho and it was really really good! I'm sure I'll be frequenting there more and more since there aren't a lot of food places in WVC. Maybe I'll even learn how to use chop sticks? Probably not though.

GPOYW

GPOYW - I have missed the last two weeks because I am a slacker! But now I'm back. This is me on my commute to my fabulous new job. Seriously, I am in LOVE with working again. I've had such a great week! Cyndi has done a great job of training me and I feel like I'm really getting the hang of how everything works. I have lots of things I want to report on from the new job front, but I am way too exhausted to do it tonight. So I am shooting for either tomorrow night or first thing this weekend. I hope everyones days were fabulous!

Ridleys

Our local Albertson's has been bought out and will be changing brands. I went in there tonight for a few things and they've already started the move over to Ridleys. I signed up for a new "savings" card and got a free "green'' grocery bag! My favorite part were the handles on the carts.

Sidenote: Come back later this week (hopefully tomorrow) for an update on my FAB new job!

Doppelganger

Kate Hudson/ME!/Jewel

Tonka & Bear

Holli and I have been dogsitting Bear, our friend Sam's pomeranian. I was a little worried about it at first because we've never had any other dogs in the house with Tonka, but they are doing really well together! So well it has made me think about getting another dog. If I did it would most likely be a long-haired dachsund. Anyway, it was perfect timing. I have been home with Tonka for almost 4 months now he's become rather dependent. He would starting pouting when I would get ready to go to the store. With starting work he was going to be alone again for the majority of the day and dogs can get pretty lonely. When I came Thursday Tonka was so tired from playing all day he could barely keep his eyes opened. And they love going on walks together. I will try to take a video and post it. I haven't been able to get any good pictures yet, but here are a few so far. I'm going to be sad when Bear goes home, but hopefully we'll get to watch him again soon.

Thankful

I've started three blog posts today, two of which are meaningless. I've spent 90% of the last 4 months staring at my computer screen looking for a job, watching movies and TV shows, reading blogs and following tons various news stories. I love finding random crazy stories, I think I've become a news junkie. Anyway, I've been following the happenings down in Haiti since the quake and I just saw that they found another man alive after 14 days buried under rocks and rubble. Which is crazy-cool.

The events in Haiti have got me thinking about all of the 'disasters' that have happened in my day. The first I remember was the Oklahoma City Bombing. I was at the dentist and when my Mom brought me home we turned on the news and watched the coverage of it for the remainder of the day. Columbine, 9/11, the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, floods in the mid-west, so many people going through life changing trials and hardship.

I'm not really sure what it has been about this disaster (Haiti), but I can't stop thinking about how truly blessed I am. I have so many blessings that I feel like I don't even know the magnitude of some of them and others I'm not sure I deserve. I have all of the basic essentials: food, shelter, water. I have a family that loves me unconditionally, I have friends, I have a job (in the works) that will help me get my financials back on the right track. I have a good running car, cell phone, laptop, desktop. I could go on and on.

A few days ago my Internet router pooped it's pants and went down for maybe 3 hours. I was so pissed. I had to check my email and follow Facebook FROM MY PHONE. UGH. It was the END OF THE WORLD.

I am even more embarassed at how upset I was when my washing machine ripped a hole in my 1000ct. sheets. They were very expensive and very comfortable and the machine ruined them. I saw them folded up in the closet today and realized that there are people in Haiti that will be washing the clothes off their backs in rivers and streams and they are using sheets to shelter them from the elements.

The last 2 years were rough for me in so many ways. I had a lot of health issues come up (migraines, root canals, insomnia, broken tail bone, ear - equilibrium/Meniere's disease, knee/back problems, side effects of medications), a relationship that I had invested everything I had into failed and ended in more heartbreak and disappointment than I'll probably ever admit too, and to top it all off I was fired from a job that I had loved for the better part of 4 years on my 25th birthday. 2008/2009 were not my years. I feel like at times it was (and still is) hard for me to see through to the light of the bigger picture because I had so many layers of shit to see through first. But I'm trying.

I know that the last few months I have been in a quiet depressed state. So many things changed in such a short period of time, I felt like I lost control of everything and my life blew up. I need to work on seeing the bigger picture of my life in order to stay positive about the smaller trials. I am no longer a member of the LDS Church, but I still have a relationship with my Heavenly Father and I need to keep those lines of communication open on a more frequent basis to be more positive.

I guess the purpose of this post is to get all of my feelings out. I hope that I can remember this feeling and to be eternally grateful for the blessings big or small in my life. I want to continue to see the big picture and try not to get so discouraged about the minor set backs. I want to tell those people I love just how much I love them. I don't want to have any regrets about the choices I make. I want to live a happier, more optimistic life starting right now.

Emile Hirsch

I have a big fat crush on Emile Hirsch. He he! It was a little crush when I saw The Girl Next Door. Then it was a bigger crush when I saw Into the Wild, and now it's a big fat crush because I just watched Alpha Dog again. I recommend everyone see all of them.