Birthday Girrrrrrrrl!

So, it was my birthday, NO BIG DEAL.

I turned 24. NO BIG DEAL.

I didn't get my "check off one thing on my bucket list before I turn 24" goal achieved. BIG DEAL!!Total bummer that I slacked. haha BUT I am hoping to get it under control and get something knocked off my list! :)

I had a great Birthday weekend! I went to BJ's on Friday with some pals and then we went to the MOVIES and saw I am Number 4. I am in LOVE with Alex Pettyfer! I liked the movie and I wanna read the book!

Saturday I worked all day...I got a bottle of DIET COKE & a box of Krispie Kreme doughnuts from the girls at work. I then came home to go to Din-Din with my family at Olive Garden. After our dinner excursion I came home to watch megamind and eat a bomb FIREWORK birthday cake where my mom sang Katy Perry's Firework {alongside the traditional Happy Birthday Song}. So choice. because baby I am a firework... boom, boom, boom... brighter then the moon, moon, moon. don't be jealous.

I opened my birthday card to find a confirmation page for a pair of TOMS! {YAY}and Bedding from Anthroplogie! {double YAY} BEST BIRTHDAY WEEKEND EVER!

Oh- and if anyone wants FEATHER HAIR EXTENSIONS... contact me... I am YOUR girl!

Seriously?

So the other day I was driving down the freeway. I was in a hurry and in the HOV lane... I had to slow down a considerate amount because I came upon a truck (blue, Chevy silverado, probably an '06 model) and they were putt puttin'. I was sort of irritated because hi... I just had to slow down on the FREEWAY for this vehicle. I figured it was a SNOW BIRD... because lets get real... they are ALL OVER THE VALLEY right now. I mean EVERYWHERE. When I got up to the truck, because Yes, I totally got close to their rear-end, I saw they had a bumper sticker on their window that said ;

You are kidding me, right? You do NOT drive like a Cullen. I am not a huge fan, and I don't get all obsessive about the Twilight series but what an INSULT! So when the opportunity came I passed them and turned to them as I was even with the driver and said

"You don't drive like a CULLEN, LIAR!"

I felt great once I was ahead of them and was able to continue at the speed I like. When I thought back to the experience later that day... I couldn't help but laugh and I was NOT about to pass up the chance to blog about it. Life is too funny!

p.s. it wasn't a snowbird... although THAT would have been funny!

T. Swift

When Taylor Swift first came out I was NOT interested in her music!

I thought she was annoying and couldn't really sing...

BUT once I started to listen to her lyrics I started to fall for her music.

T. Swift, I realized, was the artist for all the songs

that are the "Underdog Anthems" for our generation!

She provides the songs that allow us to BELT out loud what our hearts have been waiting to say... she provides the words we couldn't form ourselves.

She puts music to our broken hearts,

to our sad days,

and to the days where we are floating on cloud 9.

T. Swift, You rock... and I salute YOU!

BIG GIRL JOB? check!

So I just wanted to update on my "New Year, New Rules" post.

I have completed the following :

1. beat angry birds
2. read books
3. get big girl job

1.) I beat the angry birds on my phone. I was super excited. I know right? I am a total nerd. But I gladly walk around with the nerd herd who plays Angry Birds.

BUT... ask me how upset I was when I found out they added more levels onto the game AFTER I had complete it? (VERY UPSET!) -----> :(So now I am back to square one... trying to beat
angry birds!

2.) I just finished reading a book from 'The Pioneer Woman" called Black High Heel to Tractor Wheels.

It is the story of a city woman who falls in love with a cowboy and gives up her lifestyle to marry her man! It is a true story and this woman really know how to tell a story! She has an awesome website that is posted below. Check her out you won't be disappointed!

http://thepioneerwoman.com/blog/2010/11/black-heels-the-book/

3.) I got a BIG girl job at this cute salon in Gilbert. It is off of Higley & Guadalupe and is called Salon Di Bella. I start this week! I am super excited and am ready to start building my clientele!

So far I am doing pretty good on my New Years list... let's hope I can keep this up!

Bucket List

I have only 24 days until I turn 24.

I am sort of freaking out here. Where am I going with my life... will I ever "grow up"... will I ever accomplish all the things on my bucket list... these are on my mind as I inch closer to the age 24. I know most people are like "You're still a baby, you are so young!". Let's get real. The average life expectancy of Americans is 74-78. SO lets just say I live to be 74 (right in the middle). That gives me only 50 years left to live! I need to start getting things done off my bucket list! Like FOR REALSY!



Soooo.. to get me through the rest of my life I want to do THESE THINGS!!!!!!!!

Sydney's Bucket List

Float on the Great Salt Lake

Dance All Night

Have my "letter to the editor" published

Milk a Cow

Walk down Abbey Road in homage to the Beatles

Volunteer at the special Olympics

Fall in love with the right person

Learn 3 jokes that gets people laughing EVERY TIME i tell them

build my own furniture

Swim in a pool on a cruise ship

Spin a plate on a stick

ride a donkey down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

join a Messiah sing-in at the Mormon Tabernacle

save a half-years salary

March/Participate in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Go to the Bonneville Salt Flats (UT) for Speed Week

Bid in an auction

Skinny dip under a waterfall (don't judge me)

Split Logs

Travel to : France, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Parts of Africa, England, Ireland & Scotland.

Go to the Redwood Forrest and hug a redwood

Ride a horse on the beach in Hawaii

Nap in a field of wildflowers

Visit every major league baseball stadium

Find a four leaf clover

take up YOGA

ride through Central Park in a horse drawn carriage

ride the cyclone at Coney Island

visit Graceland

Learn to use chopsticks

go to a clambake (YUM)

Solve a Rubik's cube

Go to the Sydney Opera House

Ride a San Francisco Cable Car

(clang, clang clang went the TROLLEY,

ring ring ring went the bell,

BEAT BEAT BEAT went my heartstrings!)

Win at Monopoly

Drink Mint Juleps in New Orleans

Tour the Alamo

Win an argument with my Dad (HAH!)

Have/hire a chauffeur

canoe Loch Ness

love myself (that is HARD!)

Attend a Ball

Ride an elephant/camel/reindeer

Visit Disneyland Once a Month for One Year

Get Married (DUH!)

This is just the beginning of my BL and I only have 50 years to get it done! YIKES! Better start getting to work!





So, to celebrate my last days being 23 I am going to do

ONE

thing off this BUCKET list!


WISH ME LUCK!

Squirrels in my PANTS!

I love squirrels. Once upon a time when I went to EFY there was an instructor who told some story about his wife and she woke up and had Stinky breath and started talking to him and he made mention that she had "squirrel breath". Actually he said "WHhhoooaaa, your breath smells like SQUIRREL!" From then on my obsession with squirrels began!

I also have the BEST story in regards to squirrels from when I went to EA.


On a Sunday afternoon I went with other "students" from the institute to a nursing home to sing hymns and visit with the older folks. We drove over to the home and I was with the first group to arrive. We went up to the door (it was an automatic sliding door) and stood. I assumed it'd be like at Wal-Mart and open when we got to it... but it didn't. We stood there looking like fools trying to get the door to open... I guess the lady at the front had to open it to keep the patients in and strangers out. The front receptionist let us in (the first group) and we waited in the lobby. Soon the other groups started to arrive and were standing... DUMBFOUNDED at the door trying to get in. It took them a while before the kind lady at the front let them in. When the group came in they asked why it wouldn't open... and I replied in all my glory...


" You have to push it because of the squirrels."



I was making it up as I was going... SQUIRRELS? Are there even squirrels in Thatcher? I don't even know. I thought that I was SOOoOoOOoOooo funny. The story gets better though.

A handful of the people that had come in looked straight at me and replied, (are you ready for this?)




"Oh, squirrels. That makes sense."

GOLDEN.

"oh, squirrels. That makes sense..." Does it? Does it really?


Anyways... I love squirrels. Not real live ones but the ones we can laugh about and not be terrified they're gonna give us rabies or steal our nuts.




"Little girl, don't touch that squirrels nuts!" - Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.

New Year New Rules

So for the new year I decided that I am gonna have the best dang year EVER!


Here is my list of things I am going to do to make it THE BEST DANG YEAR EVER!

(these are not in any particular order)


1.be a better blogger!


2.attend activities


3.see some shows (musicals!)



4.READ good books



.... I got a KINDLE for Christmas and have already read Pride & Prejudice, Rilla of Ingelside and started The Count of Monte Cristo!


5.complete all levels of angrybirds




6.magnify my calling (gospel doctrine teaching)


7.take Gypsy to obedience trainging


8.GIVE SERVICE


9.Spend quality time with my family


10. GET ORGANIZED



11.Find a big girl job


12.DISNEYLAND


13.work on my fitness like fergie does in her Fergilicious song


14.Craft my little heart out


15.Cultivate my talents (I've totally slacked on practicing the piano & singing... I am FOR REALS losing them. nobueno!)


16.Put together FUN outfits


17.Temple


18.Go to some baseball games


19.Concerts



20.Movies


21.General CONFERENCE! (utah!)



22.Bake (and remember all the ingredients... I tried making a cake for new years and forgot to add water to the recipe... who does that? me. LAME)

23.Wake up and get started.... don't sleep my year away!




24.SPREAD LOVE


25.take lots of pictures


26.LAKE-get my wakeboard on this year


27.TAN... get rid of this pasty paste on my legs... NASTY

28.Stay motivated


29.Be a better sister, daughter, friend and whatever else I am. :)


30.Get closer to my SAVIOR