Gallbladder Grief, Scouting Sagas and Pogo Preoccupation

Apparently, as Diane pointed out, it wasn't as easy to reemerge after my absence as casually as I expected. haha. Thanks for missing me.

The last month has been crazy and I've been lazy. I turned 26 and my energy level just hit the floor. I don't know how you guys do it. hehe.

My mom suckered me into doing cub scouts. "These poor little boys don't have a leader and they just sit there. *sob sob sob*" Seriously, can you blame me for giving into that? Then I have Brownies Monday, Cadette Senior Ambassadors Tuesday and Juniors and Cub Scouts on rotating Thursdays. But you know what, I love it and it makes my worries all melt away. The kids are hilarious and they love being in scouts.

My gallbladder is disfunctional. Very few people in my family still have theirs. My cousin Penny and I are the last ones. Hers is going bad too. I think I started getting sick with mine in college, but I didn't know what it was and I wasnt going to the nurse, bc she'd just send you to the hospital and believe me, I wasn't going to THAT hospital. They'd give me a vasectomy or a lobotomy or something. The benefit, I'm losing weight, bc I don't want to eat anything. Drawback, I'm now paying for the ramen noodles with soy sauce that I tried to eat for lunch...

I have a passionate pogo love. I used my coke points to buy a club pogo subscription and have now devoted my life to completing as many badges as possible. :-D

So that is what I've been up to, how bout you? :-)

Netflix

I just got some really good movies from Netflix- Sunshine Cleaning and National Treasures 2. Have you seen either of them?

They say it's your birthday...

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear me.... happy birthday to me! That's right, today, I turn TWENTY SIX. It's amazing how fast it all goes. We celebrated how we always do- with a haunted house. Tonight, we did the oldest hayride in the country and Satan almost fell on us. I don't think that's good. He was very nice though. Except he almost caught my hair on fire.

5 Things Friday

Today, since I'm in a stinky-face mood is

Five Things that suck about (my) Family

1. Mother-in-laws have a need to make their daughter-in-laws look incompetent
2. Brothers act stupid, no matter how old they are
3. Mothers always defend their sons
4. Husbands never do their fair share
5. The teenagers involved generally have attitudinal problems

Now, these are very generalized statements, because, like i said, I'm in a stinkface mood.

Savannah, 2011

ohmygawd,ohmygawd, eeekkkkkkkkkk! eeeeekkkkk! AHHHHHH!!!! I'm sooooo excited!!!! I am going to Savannah, GA summer of 2011 for the 100 year anniversary of Girl Scouts!!!!!! Okay, so technically, Girl Scouts wont turn 100 until March of 2012, but it's close enough. I love Savannah, besides being the Girl Scout Mecca, it's absolutely beautiful. The Spanish Moss hanging off the trees gives it this laid back feeling. The history is also amazing and the ghost tours. AHHHHH!!!!! Now, the big part, anyone want to buy any cookies? haha, just kidding.

"I've Had the Time of My Life"

In my life, when someone says "who's your favorite actor?" I really can't name someone. I don't have one. My list waxes and wanes with my tastes and my favorite movie at the time. One actor that I can remember being high on my list from a young age was Patrick Swayze. My mom and my Grandma liked him. I watched Ghost over and over again in Elementary School. Not to mention Black Dog, which was another on my mom's favorites. I loved it, even if it didn't entirely make sense to me. I was older when I first watched Dirty Dancing but I fell in love with it. I love dance movies and it was the first. I had the final dance scene on my computer and I would watch it frequently.

When I heard Patrick Swayze had cancer, I tried to be optimistic, but I know how low the prognosis is for pancreatic cancer. I remember my friend saying to me "He's going to die" and I said "You don't know that" and she said "yes, I do." Still, when it popped up on my Yahoo home page, I was very sad.

Last night on Dancing with the Stars, they paid a tribute to Patrick Swayze. It was a fantastic number that brought me to tears and ended with the iconic lift from Dirty Dancing. If you missed it, or would like to watch it again, here it is:

I'm a slut

Does anyone know what Honesty Box is? If not, it's this app on Facebook where you anonymously tell people what you think about them. I have one on my facebook, but no one really ever has an opinion about me, apaprently, because I never get any responses. After I sent one to a few people today, I checked my received and I had one from several months ago that said "you're a slut." I was taken aback. Why would someone call me a slut. I thought I did a good job at hiding that fact... er wait! I'm not a slut. So it gives you an option to reply to it, so I said "Thank you, do you know from personal experience?" a few seconds later, I got a pop-up alert that said "Sam M. sent a reply to your honesty box." It was then that I remembered fooling around on Honesty Box and sending that to myself. So, I guess I DO know from personal experience!