Pencil crisis averted

Last Friday Angelo told me that he had a present for me. As usual I demanded to know what it was but he told me it was better to just see it. So when I got home from work he presented me with the following (which I thought was hilarious):Then he told me the present wasn't from him - it was from two of his co-workers! This of course was in response to this. See you never know who's reading your blog! So on Monday I presented Sybil with her new pencils; she was very happy. She laughed and said that she could write a lot today. (Sybil has a sense of humor!) Thanks girls! Your donations are much appreciated and you helped make a crazy lady very happy.

Scariest movie poster ever!

Yesterday I found the creepiest movie poster ever. It's for a new movie called The Strangers. Do you see it? Do you??? What the freak is this???
So a creepy scarecrow looking figure standing in the doorway has to be a pretty worst-case scenario, don't you think? So I was intrigued and starting watching the trailer and I couldn't make it through it. I don't have a very high tolerance for scary anymore. I watched one too many scary movies.

It was a dark and stormy night...Seriously, it was. I was going to school in Utah and I went to hang out on Halloween with one of my friends. She was living in a basement apartment on a residential street. We decided it would be fun to watch the original Halloween movie. We managed to get ourselves good and scared which seemed fun until I figured out that I was going to have go outside and drive home eventually. So it's 1am and we're arguing with each other for about 10 minutes because I am trying to convince her to walk me out to my car and she is not going to do that because she's convinced she'll get grabbed by the same person I'm afraid of getting grabbed by. (I can't say I blame her. I mean why should we both die?) So I tell her to listen for my screams and decide to make a run for it. My car was parked out on the dark, quiet street and it's cold and windy. Perfect. So I run for my car with my keys in my hands and I jump in and pray that my 1982 Toyota Tercel actually starts. For once it starts up on the first try and and I speed off. The whole time I'm freaking out trying to make sure a freaky station wagon with a crazy man isn't following me. I get back to my apartment complex and of course the entire parking lot is full. So I am going to have to go find street parking, who knows how far away, and WALK back, alone in the dark, to my complex. So I find a spot, park the car, and count to three. I throw my door open and and just start running down the street. (Thinking back if anyone was watching me they probably would have been scared of me and left me alone - I looked like the crazy person.) I finally get to my complex and and as I'm running towards it I notice something I've never noticed before. The entire complex had these hedges all around the perimeter which look just like the hedges that freaking Michael Myers looks around when he's stalking Jamie Lee Curtis! You know like this... So all of the sudden I'm an even faster runner. I make it past the hedges and fly up the stairs and fling open my apartment door. Phew, I made it! I figured it was just a lucky break that I wasn't caught by a psychopathic, mask-wearing, crazy person that night. So after that I figured I was done with the scaries. So I won't be seeing The Strangers because the stupid trailer already made me look carefully around the corners in my house for a night.

Happy Birthday Janet!

Today is my sister Janet's birthday! We hope it was a happy one! Even though she is 12 years older than me I have lots of fun memories with her. She is really creative and taught me how to sew and helped me make my first outfit. She's always fun to hang out with. Here's a funny picture that I found. Do you remember this Joe? I like these ones with Sherise too. Hope your day was great! We love ya!

Elevator Ettiquette

Here's a word of advice...when you get into an elevator it is not necessary to point out something someone is holding or doing and comment about it. You just look stupid and you are annoying. The other day I got in the elevator at work to go downstairs. On the way down, the elevator stopped on another floor and the janitor came on with a rolling trash can. The next time the elevator stopped two women got on and as they entered one said, "hey you've got trash!" and pointed to the trash bin. The other woman just kinda giggled and then they just stood there. The janitor just looked at her blankly. Poor guy, I'm sure he gets dumb comments a lot. I rolled my eyes and shook my head. (I was especially irritable that day.) What is the response she wanted back? "Yeah, can you believe it? Imagine that, there is trash in a trash can!" I have had this happen to me on a number of occasions. Whenever I have had a lot of mail or a dolly full of stuff people always seem to look at it and then make some dumb remark like, "Look! Mail!" If you are so insistent to start up a conversation then say something nice like, "How are you today?" or talk about the weather but don't dumbly point at an object and shout its name like Frankenstein. (Me stupid!) Elevator passengers have the same trouble as airplane passengers. You just want to peacefully enjoy the ride but there always has to be that one person who insists on chatting even though you are trying your best to look busy by reading the mail or looking intently at the ceiling. It's one thing to be friendly and nice but few people appreciate idiotic comments about inanimate objects.

For my husband...You forfeit!

HA HA! I told you! It is spelled F-O-R-F-E-I-T not F-O-R-E-F-I-T! HA HA! Do not question my spelling authorita!

The great pencil shortage of '08

Monday I was furiously trying to finish up some reports for our board meeting at work when Sybil the intern decided to drop by my office. I've got papers strewn across my desk and I'm punching away at my trusty calculator. So she comes wandering into my office and goes, "Um, Katie, I just wanted to make you aware of something. It appears that there aren't any pencils in this office. I've looked around and there just aren't very many." By this time, I've paused, looked up and I'm trying to comprehend what the heck she's talking about...So I say, "You're looking for a pencil? Did you look in the mail room. There are some in the drawer." To this she replies, "No, no, I have one. I hide it so I can always find it but it appears that there is a shortage of them in this office." I probably stared at her a little too long before I explained that, "You know, we don't really use many pencils around here..." (While inside I continued, "Because we have these big things called COMPUTERS all over this office!") ..."I'm sure I can find you some more in a drawer somewhere." Then she left and I had to sit in disbelief for a few moments. I had no idea there were people still so passionate about using a regular old #2 pencil. I can only stand to use mechanical pencils because they stay sharp continuously. Sybil apparently is still a big fan of the old school pencil. Now I just got to go figure out where she's hiding this one pencil.

Medievaaaaaal Times!

When we were up at Knott's we found the most cheese-tastic thing to do. We have seen pretty much everything up there - the Movieland Wax Museum, Ripley's Believe It or Not, etc. But there was a place we had yet to visit and that was a place called...
(When you say it you have to draw it out like they do...Medievaaaaal Tiiiiimes!) It's a dinner show. I couldn't stop laughing the whole time we were in there. Basically it's this place that looks like a giant castle and all the employees are dressed up like knights, jesters, princesses, wenches, etc. When you go inside they immediately put these crowns on your head which kinda levels the playing field because now you look just as stupid as they do. They whisk you into a room where you take a picture with the KING! (Seriously, I think I had this look on my face the whole night - it was hilarious.) After your picture you get to mill around their gift shop area for a while. You can also look at the butts of the horse they use in the show. (The horse holding cells are glass at the back and so you can see them but basically they ignore all the human looking at them.) While you wait to get into the dining area they make funny announcements and knight people and stuff. Once your allowed into the dinner area they arrange you by the color of your crown. We got to sit in the blue section and we were assigned a knight to cheer for during the show. So they have all the knights running around doing knightly things like jousting and sword fighting and stuff like that. During all this you are served dinner by your serving wench (not my label) and you are not given any utensils so you have to eat with your hands. It was really fun and the crowd gets very into the show. I mean look how much fun we were having! It seems like a really fun place to have a kid's birthday party and unbelievably there were a lot of people there celebrating anniversaries and stuff. I would not advise that though.