What is a name?

Names I could never give to my children:

Girl names
Hayley Hay
Bailey Hay
Autumn Hay
Summer Hay
May Hay
June Hay
April Hay
Violet Hay (just odd)
Anything that is an adjective.

Boy names
Mario Andret Hay
Roland D. Hay

Can you think of any others?

Needles to say, Amy is in pain!

Let us tell the tale of a seemingly ordinary night gone awry!

T- 4 minutes until The Office season premiere, Amy is cleaning out some random drawers in her bedroom when she finds herself in excruciating pain in her left foot. She jumps off of that foot to feel the same pain in her right food. She falls to the ground, bleeding from the right foot and bewildered by a long piece of sewing thread hanging from her other foot.


Apparently she has stepped on a sewing needle, dull side first, which has broken off in her left heel. The broken half which remain in the carpet punctured her right foot. After pulling on the string for a few minutes she screams in pain and she and her husband realize the string is attached to the deep end of the needle. OUCH.

They rush to Urgent Care while Tod, Tygre and Patrick are left behind to TiVo the Office. Amy is terribly depressed to miss the season premiere but sees the importance of removing foreign objects from her body.




The Urgent Care Doctor says he has about a 10% chance of getting out the needle. Amy passes and makes an appointment with the podiatrist for the next day. The podiatrists says he can get it out. The nurses giggle at her X Ray. Amy has a VERY painful local anesthetic which almost makes her lose her breakfast. After making an incision and prying open her foot the doctor digs for 20 minutes then declares defeat. He needs a live action X Ray to see where the needle is moving. He bandages her up and schedules a real surgery for Monday and writes a very nice prescription for the pain.

Poor Amy hobbles home...afraid of becoming like Dr. House popping Vicodin with every stabbing pain.

The good news is that if you put her in a pool she can point North!

Virtual Makeover

If you have a minute you should play around with the Virtual Makeover on my Mary Kay website. It is pretty fun. I mean, look how beautiful I made my husband!
If you do a virtual makeover I will give you 20% off of your next purchase!
Order online and get free shipping!
I am really trying to jumpstart my business so any purchases can help. Plus, if you don't like what you bought, you'll get a 100% refund. That is the Mary Kay way!

Hard, Hard Week

This week has been a total mess. We went to Norman last weekend for the holiday and right before we were planning on leaving I got the news that one of our key guys in our ministry from Seminole State college was killed by a drunk driver.

I was devastated. Brandon was so young! He was a leader this summer at Falls Creek and it has been a big shock for everyone.

It is such a comfort to know that Brandon was living his life for Jesus and that I'll see him again.

Please be praying for his family and for the family of his girlfriend who is at OU Medical Center in pretty bad condition. She is healing faster than expected but still has a long road to go. I am pretty sure she doesn't know about Brandon yet because she has been unconscious most of the time.

Brandon,
We'll miss you terribly. You are incredibly loved!

Amy

Your local Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultant

The newest of news in my life is that I am one of Fort Worth's newest Mary Kay beauty consultants. So far, I am in love with the products and excited about starting my new business.
I own my own business! Can you believe it? It is so exciting!

If you would like to support local business or are looking for a personal touch to your beauty purchases then please check out my website or book an appointment with me.

Thanks for all of your support, friends!

Amy
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Random Email

Okay, Sometimes I post stuff like this just to keep in the habit of blogging. Enjoy!

Check out the Gas Prints behind the stop sign!

Schlitterbahn-Bahn!

This weekend is the Schlitterbahn-bonanza! I am so excited. I have mentioned before about my love of amusement parks. I can't wait to get to New Braunfels and get on a tube.

Schlitterbahn cracks me up. There is no need to feel self conscious at this place at all. I have no idea what woodwork these people crawled out of. After spending the summer on Huntington Beach last year where everyone wished "they all could be California girls" because they were such stinkin' hotties, Schlitterbahn is a nice change of pace.

Everyone is fat, sunburned and sporting a drowned rat hairdo. This is no bikini fashion show but a smattering of tank tops and aqua socks. Families come from all over the world to experience this water park. No lie. Schlitterbahn is one of the top rated water parks in the WORLD every year.

The main park water comes from the Comal River. It is cool, refreshing and chlorine-free! The main park is also full of picnic tables and a million trees. You can bring in your own ice chest of food and park it with your junk at a table and then leave it all day. No one messes with your stuff. You can rent lockers for your purse. It is just fabulous!

You play, come back and eat, take a tram ride to one of the other two awesome parks and then come back and eat, lounge in the lazy river, and go home exhausted. It is a great day.

So this weekend Dan and I will take Kelly and Stefanie and head down to meet my parents and brother for a fun filled weekend!

Peace!

Still a stay-at-home-wife!

School is out and I am in the process of getting a job. References are pending so I can't start work until tomorrow. If they still don't come in then I won't start working until next Tuesday. Boo.

I am at home cleaning and watching SVU...okay, more watching SVU than cleaning, but then again I have all day to get stuff done.

UPDATE: I got the references in on time but I still can't start work until next Tuesday. I am so bummed...and applying elsewhere! We'll see what happens.

You Will Need the Following Documents...

CLPS life has ended for a season and I have been job hunting for a summer job to get me through these perilous months ahead. The whole job world is my oyster. What type of job should I get?

My first thoughts were to get something that I would be embarrassed to have as a career but would be soooo much fun to do for just a few months... like work at Six Flags!

To those of you who don't know, I am an amusement park enthusiast. That is putting it quite mildly. Last summer was a hallmark year. During the Summer of 2008 I went to:

Disneyland











Universal Studios Hollywood













Disneyland again (this was the most magical day ever!)























and Schlitterbahn (I'll spare you the pictures!)

But working at Six Flags never happened. Maybe next year. I will instead be working at the Children's Courtyard a few miles from my house. I am moderately excited about this but more excited not to be sitting on my couch watching "Law and Order" all day long.

I am so not kidding.

Today, however, I feel so productive that I have to write about it! I had to get an expanding file folder to hold all of the documents I needed to complete my tasks today!

First, I got our new Honda plated in Texas. Texas kills me! They charge so much tax for cars not bought here. $615 to be exact! Ouch.

For this little task you need to bring:
1. State Inspection Receipt
2. Out of State VIN Inspection or "Green Sheet" (Both available for $40 at your local mechanic)
3. Car Title
4. Driver's License
5. Proof of Insurance
6. Check book (Don't bring a check card. I believe the sign said they charge 2.3% to use the check card...that is an extra $14 in my case. They called it a "convenience fee." HA!)

Next I drove to the Children's Courtyard to give them my documents:
They require:
1. Driver's License
2. Social Security Card
3. College Transcript
4. A copy of my OU Diploma
5. CPR Certification.

This is no big deal and required at any job.

Then I went to get my Texas Driver's License. This required the most ridiculous amount of documentation:
1. Driver's License
2. Social Security Card
3. Proof of Insurance
4. Texas Car Registration
5. Birth Certificate
6. Marriage License
7. Check for $24.00
8. A form you fill out there.

You also had to take the vision test, get your thumbs fingerprinted, get your picture and raise your right hand and swear that you weren't lying about anything.

In Oklahoma I just filled out a form and handed over my TX license which I now know I should have just held onto!

As the DPS lady was walking away with all of the above documents to make copies I had a slight moment of panic. She was walking away with every proof of my existence; as having been born, married, previously licensed...everything.

I jokingly told her as she walked away, "Please don't disappear or I won't exist anymore!"

After having received my temporary Driver's License I went straight to Blockbuster to get a membership. It has been years since I had one and they wouldn't give me one without at TX DL!

I now feel totally up to date in life. It is a good feeling. I hope this helps next time you need to run around and get important tags and licenses!

Blessings!

Times, they are a changin'.

Tygre moved out yesterday. I was so sad that I cried. I moved some stuff into her echoing room to make it look less abandoned.

I am so thrilled that she is getting married. Dan and I are headed to Corpus this weekend to be in the wedding. I just have one work day to go and then we can party!

I have started hearing the end of school countdown from the students. Summer is just around the corner. The seniors are getting anxious and everyone has Spring fever. It is really funny. I remember how hard it was to concentrate as a Senior at Carroll. We had a neat design to our school that had breezeways between narrow building with grass and trees. Whatever window you looked out of had something to distract you from class.

High school was a lot of fun. I had no idea at the time what was coming. I was ignorant of the journey God was about to take me on. He changed the plans I had made for myself and sent me back to Oklahoma. (That is an awesome story for another time...the moral is that I knew exactly where God wanted me and it would have been disobedience to go elsewhere.)

I joined up with the Baptist Student Union where I was active for 8 years as a student and staff member. God shook up every area of my life and I learned so much at OU. What an exciting experience.

A few of my seniors from A&P are going to OU next year. I am so jealous that they are just starting out on that awesome journey but I don't know that I would do it again. Don't we always say that?

My challenge to those of you who made it to the end of this post: Thinking back to your Senior year of high school, what did you think you would become? (Major, Career, marriage, etc) Then tell me what actually happened!

I thought I would be a medical missionary using all of my fabulous nursing skills. I also thought I would be a graduate of Texas A&M University and married to ...

Okay, What is yours!?

The Return of the Skitmeister

After a 6 year absence I have returned to the stage in my first skit. Actually, I did two yesterday. It was so much fun.

We were promoting the Hope River Run, an 8K race that my church is putting on next weekend and I got to play a six year-old girl and a Rosanne Rosannadanna type newscaster but with a crazy New York accent.

I have been helping with the CLPS drama class and it is a blast. I can't wait to see those kids up there showing their stuff in May when we put on our play. We had the first run through today and will cast before the end of class on Friday. I am so stoked.


Recent songs: American Girl by Carrie Underwood, The Lighthouse by Nickel Creek, All of Sarah Barielles

Recent TV: Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare

Recent Movies: The Absent Minded Professor, The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford, Michael Clayton, The Other Boleyn Girl.

Recent Books: Total Forgiveness, The Complete Book of Yoga

The Funniest Thing EVER!

Okay, I stole this from Paige. Jenny showed me some of these months ago and I never got over it. One day I was having such a sad day and I watched this video and started rolling! Enjoy!

111th Post

For my landmark 111th post I am going to post the mental list running in my head right now.

To Do:
1. Finish up Cardiovascular System notes for A&P.
2. Start writing a Biology test.
3. Play Scrabulous on Facebook
4. Help Mrs. Holiday look for possible plays for Drama.
5.Wait until at least 7:20 pm to start watching American Idol, thus bypassing all commercials and the corny intro where the CGI dude raises his arms.
6. Review Biology notes so class goes smoothly.
7. Make some muffins or cookies to be used in a "mining" experiment in Earth Science.
8. Eat the leftovers.
9. Check my email.
10. Wash the dinner dishes.
12. Play Scrabulous on Facebook...why do I have 15 games going and it is never my turn?!
11. Start a load of laundry so I have clean dress socks
12. Find time to reply to Sus' huge, wonderful email.
13. Read a few chapters from Total Forgiveness.
14. Update my French podcasts.
15. Plug in my iPhone before it dies.
16. Play Scrabulous on Facebook...resist temptations to use cheats on the internet. Resist the urge to believe all your friends are cheating you.
17. Read the list of things that make me happy and be happy.
18. Take some Tums to get past the feeling left in your stomach by that Frito Chili Pie.
19. Put some socks on so my toes don't freeze.
20. Try to decide what to buy Tygre for her shower this weekend.
21. Call Karen to find a place to sleep when we get to Norman.
22. Buy some Ice Cream for the Barn Dance.
23. Wash western wear for Barn Dance.
24. Space out while looking at a heart diagram.
25. Read everyone else's blog to avoid doing #s 1-24.


Well there it is. I have a choleric tendency to make these huge lists of things to be done but unlike a Melancholy I never check them off. I get distracted like a Sanguine and wish I could be phleg. Oh well. ENJOY!

Amy

The Film Critic Returns

After a long absence I have moved the Pop Culture Critic to Blogger. Check it out under the "CriticalMe" link or just click here.

30 Things that Make Me Happy!

Things that make me happy:

1. Finding shows that I love automatically recorded on my DVR.
2. Having old friends find me on Facebook.
3. Seeing my sister.
4. Cleaning out my car and having it smell like Febreeze.
5. Putting 100's on the tops of quizzes.
6. Getting flowers.
7. Falling right to sleep.
8. Putting lots of points in mycokerewards.
9. Getting personalized notes/pictures on assignments my students turn in.
10. Having someone compliment something I organized.
11. Getting Comments on my blog.
12. Being the first to hear big news.
13. Getting magazines in the mail.
14. Opening up bags and bags of great clothes Holly just threw out.
15. Getting email on my iPhone.
16. Listening to the "Wicked" soundtrack. Dorky, I know.
17. Having a good "shuffle" day with my iPod.
18. Making a really tasty dinner that makes Dan and Tygre happy.
19. When all the laundry is clean.
20. Planning parties (always with a theme and costumes)
21. Going to the Movie Tavern.
22. When Dan doesn't get mad at me when I drop a three pound book on his model he's been customizing for months even when it breaks the frame!
23. My black and pink glasses.
24. Making new, cool friends.
25. Visitors from out of town.
26. Promises of a future in ministry.
27. Knowing where every country in the world is.
28. Getting challenged in church.
29. Thinking about another cruise.
30. Writing this blog.

I would like to hear 30 things that make you happy. If you can't do it then you need to see the glass as half full!

Amy

Word MixUps!

I stole this for Sharon!


DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
When you rearrange the letters
(With no letters left over and using each letter only once):
TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

Attitude Changes and Twirly Skirts.

Everything is changing and I am so thankful to God for the perspective He is giving me.

We moved to Fort Worth in August and have been doing our own thing for months. I've been struggling just to get stuff together for school and taking care of my husband but haven't made meaningful relationships at my church. I have, however, made some fantastic friends amongst the lovely teachers at CLPS!

This week, everything changed. I went to a meeting of the Hope Drama group, Studio 1750. It was really great and I met some lovely people. I filmed a short video with some fab Hope goers and helped set up photo ops at the Girls' Sock Hop tonight.

By the way, the Sock Hop was the most adorable thing I have seen in years, perhaps even in my whole life. Tons of elementary aged girls in poodle skirts, rolled jeans and scarves in their hair running about frantically, huddling in groups to socialize and doing the limbo with fervor.

What is it about the make up of woman that makes her glow when in a twirly skirt? God embedded that one deep.

I am reminded of a scene from "Runaway Bride" where Julia Roberts tries on a wedding dress and says her favorite part is how it swishes like a bell when she moves. Every girl relates to that.
I came home smiling and exhausted, ready to tackle nursery duty tomorrow at church.

The whole point of all of this is to express how much my attitude has changed towards our place here in Fort Worth. It really is all up to me and taking advantage of opportunities to serve and meet people through those opportunities.

Things are looking up and my soul is incredibly full.

Blessings!

Blog Transitions?

Well, I am getting a few new readers on my blog which I enjoy. Maybe it is time to bring a bit more maturity to my posts. Is this even possible?

Dan started Seminary today! I am so excited for him. I am sure he has a few different feelings, especially because he is the one with the homework. It just finally feels as if we are accomplishing the goals for which we moved to Fort Worth in the first place.

It’s funny how a few months of doing something different could make it seem as though our life has lost some of its purpose. It is easy to believe that your life has no influence for God because we aren’t daily preparing Bible studies and making disciples and meeting one on one.

But what we are achieving is perfect. We are achieving obedience. God told us to come here. It wasn’t easy or happy at times but He said go and we went. I am proud of where we are. And though we are setting our faces like flint and settling in for the long haul I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

We covet your prayers and hope for phone calls to brighten our days.

Winter Depression

I am too depressed to update.

Cruise = :)

32 Degree Fort Worth = :(

What to Pack for A Cruise!

Here is what is going into my suitcase. It's a really big one!

1 Bible
7 Shorts
7 Tee Shirts
8 Day Shirts
2 Fancy Shirts (for karaoke?)
1 Nice Skirt
1 60's style black sparkle courtesy of my sister
1 sparkle black dress courtesy of me.
2 other dresses just in case I feel like it.
4 Bathing suits (1 is for Jenny) because no one likes to put dampness on. Eww.
8 Tank tops
6 pairs of socks (won't I just wear flips all week?)
Ample unmentionables
1 chubby tucky inny thingy
2 pairs of heels
4 other random pairs of shoes
3 capris
1 pair jeans
1 hoodie
5 Wal Mart sacks because no one like to put dampness in their suitcase. Eww.
1 Evening bag full of all my sparkly jewelry.
Toiletries
Gold bond!
Antibacterial hand stuff
1 Backpack
1 Sooners cap
1 Sunscreen
1 Accelerator
1 Pair Sunglasses
Perfume
1 Backpack for excursions


To Carry On:
Make Up
iPod
Camera
Sunglasses (a spare in the other bag)
Passports
Boarding stuff
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
Wallet



I can't wait. I few more days until I am floating in the blue blue Caribbean sea! Bon Voyage to me!

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Best Memory of College

The night of pranks!

One night in college me and a few friends of mine. Namely, Susanne Scott and Lindsay Wilson pulled some fab pranks picking up friends as we went along.

Later they were featured in the OU Daily. Someone was a very knowledgeable informant giving details to the writer that only an insider could have known. That informant ( I presume) then printed the article and sent it to my dorm room via intercampus mail making them untraceable. However, I was honored to see that my pranks are living in the archives somewhere.

The pranks included:
Locking a friend in his bathroom while he was in the shower, stealing his keys and then locking him out of the front door to his dorm.

While he struggled to get into his room (and I assume into some clothes as his were laid out on his bed) we moved his car, filled it will Papa John's flyers we found in a huge box downstairs in Walker and then hiding in the bushes pushing the lock button so it beeped annoyingly as he searched all over for the source.

He forgave us quickly and then joined us as we headed to Adam's tower to steal a friends couch. We moved it to Couch Tower minus the cushions (all pun intended) and circulated the cushions for several weeks amongst our friends.

A few weeks later, after the girls had recovered the couch we snuck back into their room via the suitmate (who was very angry afterward but eventually forgave me) and filled the whole room with crumpled up newspaper. This took several hours and 5 people or so but it was worth it. When they came home from a weekend at home they couldn't get their door open.

We felt bad and cleaned out the 6ft high pile of paper and moved it to the trash shoot (which was closed in the basement) We soon discovered that we had filled all 8 floors of trash shoot in that tower and had to lug everything to the 12th floor. We stuffed all eleven stories full of newspaper.

Of course, I may not be the originator of these pranks. I am just telling you what I heard and take no responsibility.

Blessings!

Stinkin Hillary Swank!

P.S. I love you made me cry six times, bawl in my car and come home and hug on my poor husband who had no idea how a night out with the girls could send him back an hysterically weeping woman.

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