Tear ;(

This was me last Friday:



Oh how happy and carefree I was.

This was me on Saturday...and today and every day for way too long:



Don't be fooled by the happy look on my face, I am not pleased with this hair cut. It is WAY shorter than what I wanted. So sad. It's gonna take forever to grow out too. Dang it all!

SYTYCD- happy birthday me!

I finally got to use my birthday present...tickets to So You Think You Can Dance on tour. It was really good! It was quite a wait but well worth it. I think it was really well done and seeing the dances in person just made me realize why I love that show so much! For anyone who followed last season you'll know that it was Janine to won it in the end but she really wasn't featured very much in the tour which I thought was a bit strange but everyone was so good. Seeing things like that just make me want to be a dancer! I think it may be a little late for me though, what do you think? Anyways, here are some of the highlights:
This first pictures is kind of funny because since the booklets were $10 we opted out of purchasing one but JR grabbed a lady who had just bought one and asked if we could take a picture with it. Turns out that this lady happened to be the aunt of Jason, one of the dancers who was from Fresno. Oh trust me, Fresno made a big fuss out of Jason! Once we found out she was the aunt we were hoping she would be charmed by us and invite us backstage with her. She didn't. Perhaps it was he expression on my face that did her in.


This next one is a dance all about a guys obsession with this girl's butt. Oh the funny concepts they come up with. I love when the dances have stories behind them. Most of the dances on SYTYCD have stories.

The oh same famous local Jason being welcomed by his home town:






Probably my favorite dance was about addictions. The guy in the dance below portrayed the girl's addiction. It was really well done. If you've never watched it before you should look it up on youtube or something...if you like dance anyways. If you don't like dance then you probably hate this whole post. It's ok though because I still love it...and still want to be a dance superstar.
I'm so glad JR thought to get me tickets to this. So much fun!

Jenny

For anyone who knows me really really well you'll know that one thing that I HATE is when people use the Forest Gump pronunciation of my name. You know what I'm talking about right? "JENN-AYE". I don't like that so much. And please don't use this post as an excuse to call me that every time you see me now because it's been brought to your attention. It seems that when I tell people I don't like it, they decide to use it more. Why is that? Anyways, people at work have come to know this little fact and so I get called Jenn-aye all the time. Earlier this week one of my co-workers started a chain e-mail with this attached:

Please excuse my face, I was sick that day and look it. Anyways, I have to admit that it was pretty funny. Perhaps now that they've all gotten a good laugh they'll stop calling me that...yeah, probably not. Here's to hoping though.

Losing some creativity

Halloween this year was pretty fun. We ended up having to scrounge last minute to come up with costumes, we definitely didn't get as creative as last year. We even thought about going as the same thing as we did last year since we are in a new town and no one would know but opted out because of the prospect of having to blog the same Halloween costume 2 years in a row. We didn't end up much better though as I still re-used a costume from 2 years ago and went as a lady bug. We decided JR would go as the bug catcher but we had some difficulties finding a hat for him to wear. Without a hat his costume was really pretty boring so rather than go boring he went random and wore an old wig I had. No one got his costume, I think the wig ended up throwing them off. Little children were also afraid of him. Anyways, the end product may not have been the greatest but he sure was able to be his crazy self which is all that matters right?


You like that? We had a good time at our ward Halloween party though. I really enjoy seeing the little kids all dressed up. So cute!
My work Halloween party was held in Bakersfield California this year so I had a nice 2 hour drive. When I first joined my team here in Fresno I was told I had to choose a superhero that I wanted to represent me. I was given a book to scan through and choose one and in the end decided upon "Amethyst, Princess of Gem World" I chose this superhero based strictly on the name. What girl wouldn't want to be a Princess of a land called Gem World? Fo real! Anways, little did I know that in 2 months time I would have to dress up like Amethyst Princess of Gem World. I wasn't' sure where to go with that so I got real ghetto like and cut up a blanket and bedazzled it with gems and tied them randomly on my body. I wish I had a better picture to show the ridiculousness of my costume but this is all I've got

And finally, to wrap up Halloween you've gotta have a pumpkin carving contest. For this particular contest we were given a pumpkin and some stuff to carve with and then a baggy of goodies including chop sticks, a tea light candle, a green glitter pen, 2 plastic spoons, plastic straw, and a rubber band. We were told to use these products alone and here is the outcome:

I didn't even take a picture of the back with the cape. That was the best part. Moving on to Thanksgiving now...