Let's be MORE than FRIENDS

First off I'm a super straight forward person.

I'm not the type to just casually stand idly by if I like a guy, I have no issue approaching someone saying "hey here's my number we should hang out sometime" I appreciate the same in return, because let's face it I'm blond I don't catch on to the hints of casual flirting meaning you like me. You basically need to go caveman style on me-club me over the head drag me back to your cave by the hair and then and only then will I know "Oh Wow, this guy actually has an interest in me" (Side note: I'm not talking about taking advantage of me or getting raped lets clear that up right now!!) 

I don't enjoy the games of dating and I don't have the time for games...If you like me and I like you then lets go! Stop with all this bullshit I'm going to wait 3 days before I call so I don't seem desperate crap because the entire purpose of dating is to get to know someone and see if you would actually enjoy their company more often and how the hell are you going to do that if you ignore the person for 3 days and make them think that you have no interest in them for who knows what reason! Guys listen up, when you do this and the girl actually likes you it is hard as hell to not send a text your way and then they begin to semi crack thinking "Was I ugly? Am I too fat for him? Did I have something stuck in my teeth? Wait we hugged twice doesn't that mean something? Maybe that was like a thank you hug and a thank god I never have to deal with you hug?etc.....:" 

And let's face it girls it is harder  for us to get rejected but step up the plate every once in a while because really what's the worse thing that is going to happen is that person is going to go "no thanks" Well that is just dandy, your best friend is hotter anyways!!

Also, not sure if it is just me but I really appreciate when the person does explain why no additional date and is honest about it because how are you suppose to improve yourself with out some productive criticism? Sure some of the things they may not like about me I won't even think twice about but others I'd be like "Oh wow I had no idea I did that. That is awful of me!"

To conclude, everyone knows pretty shortly if you they want to spend time with someone I mean after all why are you hanging out to begin with....so stop all the games! The world would be so much easier to be straight forward. So here's a hypothetical list of people I would always say yes to so there will never be a question about it:

Uncle Jesse Have Mercy

Zach Morris because who wouldn't

Kelly Kapowski because who didn't want to be her

Pauly D just because it would be highly entertaining

Batman because he's ripped

Johnny Depp no matter what character or outfit he is in

Billy Bob Thornton just because his confidence is sexy as hell

Ryan Lebar just to see if I could turn him straight

And all my childhood/high school crushes from Owasso as follows in chronological order

Michael-we always sat next to each other cause of our last names just a pretty awesome guy

Jeff-7th grade sat next to him during science and crushed hard

Kenneth-because he was mr bad boy, the crush was so bad I stuttered anytime he was in sight

John-He had pretty eyes but he was a grade younger than me

Isaac-He was a grade older but who knows why I liked him-prob because he was taller than me

Music is my Mistress

This post is just about music I like that isn't on the radio. Disclaimer: I listen to everything so I'm sure there will be plenty you will dislike!


Lissie is a very under appreciated artist in America





Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights is a great rock band



Just a good electropop song





I love all of Mickey Avalon's stuff *** Do the Jane Fonda!



Been listening to Meriwether for about 10 years now and still love every single song and they are phenomenal live:



Bryan J has a beautiful voice check out his cover of Pretty Wings if you want to hear him live but here's my favorite of him:



Both of these artist are great on their own but this song's lyrics hit home for so many people! If you like Erik check out his song called hurtful

Knowledge is power, now learn to DRIVE!

Okay, first off I know you are the best driver on the road and everyone else just happens to be the idiot. 


All Oklahoma people think they are the best drivers and Texas thinks they are the best drivers but in truth a mass majority of drivers are just idiots that were lucky to pass the test. Not saying I'm a superior driver by any means but my dad did teach me some things that they don't teach you in drivers ed or test you on that will help you anytime you are driving. So here they are:


1.    Highway Numbering System-Highways running East/West start with an even number while Highways running North/South start with an odd number. Also any route divisible by 5 (ei, I-40) is intended to be major arteries of travel. While three digit highway numbers tend to be bypass highways that will take you through the actual major city. 


2.    Sign Placement-When you are driving and you see the route sign saying a town or highway number then you see that little sign above saying which exit to take. Take note to the placement of that exit sign. If it is positioned on the left of the route sign-this means your exit will be on the left. If it is positioned on the right of the route sign-this means your exit will be on the right. If it is positioned directly over the middle-this means stay in that lane. If it doesn't have an exit sign-it means  to just continue on the highways. Please pay attention to this one seriously it makes your life soooooo much easier!!


The reason I bring up these two tips, is I'm tired of getting behind people that don't know them and then decide to cut me off on the highway cause its a last minute "oh crap!" decision on their part. Or they travel at a slower rate causing more danger on the highway cause others are rushing up behind them.

Snap, Crackle, POP!!

I had an unbelievable 4th of July weekend....and I don't mean it was spectacular (which it was). I mean that stuff that happened seemed straight out of a movie.


First off, Scott (my pretty awesome brother) was home from Maryland so everyone was stoked to see him. Since he was home everyone headed home for the holiday to hang out so that made my mom's house a youth hostel-grand total of 9 people + other people that visited and left.


I, however opted out of sleeping on an air mattress and stayed with Sierra at her place the entire...it's the little things in life you have to smile about such as not waking up on the floor cause the mattress deflated. So here goes a weekend breakdown.


Saturday:
         Sierra, Matt, and myself decided to head to Oologah lake to swim after having breakfast with the family. As soon as we get in the water a couple hanging on a raft asked if we were one of them...slightly confused Matt asked what they meant. The couple explained that they were having a narcotics rehab sober living celebration at the lake that weekend and that were there 200 of them there and they thought we were one of them. Matt's response was simple sorry but no we aren't...they swam away fast. We then were wondering if we looked like former crack heads with our full set of pearly whites and clear skin and no tattoos and not chain smoking cigarettes to replace one addiction with another. They then start a serenity prayer in the middle of the water. When we were laying out there was man arguing with a woman about stealing his rafts and the rangers got involved. Then about 20 minutes later we are in the water again and this boat is cranking the engine and it is obviously water logged but the dad did not give up and it is floating towards the swimming section as he cranks it one last final time when the motor lights on fire. The rangers on shore are still dealing with the raft ordeal and Sierra with her super whistling powers saves the day to get their attention where they casually walk to the fire while another couple dashes to the fire and grab the extinguisher out of their boat and have the fire out before the rangers get down to shore. Fast forward another 30 minutes and the man is getting arrested by the sheriff.


Later in the evening Sierra said we should have worn our new shirts. Our Uncle has a pharmacy and they sell store t-shirts that on the back say "Where do you get your drugs?" Haha Classic!





Sunday:
        Hung out at the lake again then started our family festivities and celebrated with fireworks. Had some delicious food and some pretty loud firecrackers. But Sierra and Shelb's friend Luke had the "Manly man firework package" Packed full of fountains and sparklers-pretty sure his were voted the best....or maybe the funniest.





Monday:
        We all celebrated with a late lunch with my dad and his parents and got to visit with them for a bit. Now if only they would cook burgers like that for Christmas instead of random selection of shrimp, chili, and cheese....

PEZ mobile

So this post is rather pointless, but I can't help it.


I was driving tonight and out of the corner of my eye, this beautiful car caught my attention. So of course I had to loop back around and snap some pictures because I aspire to be this awesome one day!








SWEET!!

Adventures of the Self Important

A typical weekend means I usually have to visit either the grocery store or the oh so popular Wal-Mart. And this weekend it ended up being Wal-Mart twice! First time, grocery shopping. Second time this morning I forgot something from the previous trip.


I assume everyone knows there is a pedestrian walking area in front of the front doors of any local store and as a rule following driver you are suppose to yield to them. I guess my assumptions think to highly of people, especially those that think their time is the only precious thing on Earth and are too self important to actually obey such silly rules ;)


So as I'm pulling up the pedestrian area and yielding to the mother holding the hand of what I'm assuming to be a 2 to 3yr old child as they proceed to cross...the Edmonite (basically a great term used to describe those who live in Edmond that have more money than they really know what to do with and so they spend their days in plastic surgery offices and at the gym while their husbands work their butts off to provide such a lifestyle) in a Mercedes CLS behind me apparently thought I was just stopping to waste their precious little time. Little did they know I was actually stopping to prevent vehicular manslaughter, as they try to fly around me and then they screech on the breaks when they realize they came about 3 feet from hitting a child and the mom grabbing her girl up in her arms and everyone watching them and me waving at them like "Hi you...yes you....the one that is now looking like an idiot" Needless to say the Mercedes then followed suite and got behind me to find a parking spot. 


Something my parents taught me is if you are in that big of a hurry you should have left the house sooner.


So Ms/Mrs Mercedes I sure hope you almost hitting a human with your car woke you up to realize the world isn't in that big of a rush and you getting to a parking spot 1 minute later isn't going to make up for lost time. 


I swear the nicer the vehicle the worse the driver it seems. Side note: I also sat behind a truck too busy texting to actually make a right hand turn when there wasn't even anyone on the road then when I honked after waiting a while thinking he might pull his head out of his ummm yeah....he flipped me off then finally drove-CLASSY! I can't wait for texting while driving to be illegal in Oklahoma.


I don't condone videotaping and driving either but this is a pretty awesome video illustrating my point:

A Tall Order

Reason for this post is I had three people do this to me today!

I don't think a week goes by where I can go out in public without someone making some comment about my height-some comments or stares do make me feel very self conscious and others make me very proud to be tall.  With that being said my height varies depending what convenience store I'm leaving but all and all I'm usually around the 5'11 mark.

Unfortunately, the avg American female height is 5'4 and the avg American male height is 5'9-so makes for a rather interesting dating life to even try to find someone that 1. is taller and 2. enjoys the company of a taller girls. From what I can gather men like to feel like the protector and its hard to do when a girl is eye to eye with him. So here goes a list of Pro's and Con's on height.

Pros:

1. Hides weight easily

2. Get noticed sometimes for the right reasons-such as easier to spot in a crowd. Hard to get lost. Get noticed by guys before other shorter girls (well unless they are all skanked up in hoochie wear)

3. Forces you to be more confident

4. According to studies, the taller the person is the more likely they get paid for (currently so not the case!)

5. Heels aren't necessary to have achieve the look of mile long legs

6. Not much I can't reach so no need to ask someone to get something off the top shelf

Cons:

1. Shopping!!! I have to buy jeans/pants, shirts (if I want the shoulders to hit right), long sleeve shirts (because with being tall I also have long arms), and jackets online to get the right height which means not only do I get to pay more I also get to pay for shipping! But also they don't make cute clothes for tall girls. 

2. The gawking. I can be in a store and I'll hear "Oh wow check out how tall she is" or the occasional person asking if I can get something off the top shelf for them because I'm the tallest around just so they can ask me to put it back and grab the other one as if I work there. 

3. Constantly hearing "WOW you are tall!" ...I get it...I really do. You are not the first person to come to the conclusion and point it out to me as if I just grew a third arm. 

4. As cute as heels are, my confidence isn't that amazing to be rocking heels all the time and strolling around at 6'2 and making people scared I'm Godzilla and here to eat and attack their village.

5. Dating: It is truly hard because guys want a little girl to help stroke his ego to make him feel macho and that he can protect-I get it and its understandable because I want to feel small when dating someone. Got to love social norms. With that being said I have dated shorter, and here are a funny examples of why I try not to.  Lets call him Mitch, he grabbed a crate and I do mean a foot tall crate from the back of his work and stood on it to kiss me bye....talk about mood killer! Needless to say we didn't date much longer after that.

In short, there are some hang ups being tall but at the end of the day I'm totally worth looking up to and worth the climb to get to know!