Friday Fun Fact

Today’s Friday Fun Fact is going to be my new Favorites List. As I’ve said before, my list is constantly changing, and I feel that it is important to keep you guys informed. Also, I didn’t have any facts for today, so it was either talk about this or my breakfast.

1) I love this song! This song is the new favorite. It’s taken the place of Coldplay, which took the place of Chris Brown. During Thanksgiving, Sister #2 introduced the song to me. It’s currently her favorite too. I think Beyonce says it best….If you liked it then you shoulda put a ring on it. Amen, Beyonce, Amen!

2) It’s winter here in OKC. The winter weather makes it not so fun to run outside. Well, unless you have these cool pants. Last year I got these for Christmas. I love them for a few reasons. The first reason is they’re long. It’s hard to find running/exercise pants that are long enough for my tall self. The second reason is they make my legs look long and skinny. Hurry, everyone rush out and buy these pants!

3) I received this Bible when I graduated with my MBA. Recently, I’ve been reading it and I love it! It’s so easy to read. I get it. I get the whole Bible. Ok, not really but I’m working on understanding the big book.

4) As I’ve mentioned a few times, I got cable. It was a big deal for my household, which is me and Sister #1. I’m throwing away vacation money to have channels like The Food Network and ABC Family. My current favorite channel is ABC Family. Did you know that ABC Family plays Christmas movies up until Christmas Day? It’s true. Technically, I knew this information before I had cable. During Christmas time, my family would watch ABC Family when we were visiting my grandparents in Ark. My grandma loved Christmas movies.

5) I have discovered a new fruit- Pears. Who would have thought fresh pears would be so good? When I was a kid my mom would serve us canned pears, but fresh are so much better. I recommend everyone have a fresh pear this season. Oh and if you want to get real creative add some Goat Cheese with your Pear. It’s amazing. The Food Network gave me that tip!

There you have, the lastest greatest Favorites List.

A Christmas blast from the past

The year was 1994, or 1995, or maybe it was 1996? Well the year isn’t important. The important part is it was a week before Christmas and I was in high school. This particular year I wanted a blue jean jacket; a stylish blue jean jacket from Express. It’s what all the cool kids were wearing at the time. Actually, they’d been wearing it for a year but I was always two steps behind everyone.

One thing you should know about young OK Chick is I could not stand the wait of Christmas. It literally killed me knowing that presents were under the tree waiting for me. I usually killed the curiosity a couple ways:

1. I would snoop through every closet, bedroom, and attic to find all my presents.

When I got older and wiser I graduated to a lazier/sneakier approach….

2. I would wait until presents were actually wrapped and placed under the tree. When my parents would leave the house I would carefully open each present, see what I was getting, rewrap the present and place it back under the tree. If you ask me this was a brilliant idea. Stop judging me! I said I could not stand the wait. Did you think I was lying?

Ok, back to my story. So it was 1994, 1995, or 1996 and it was the week before Christmas. Of course, I had already opened/rewrapped all my presents under the tree and found the blue jean jacket from Express. I was way excited!
It was a school day morning. My parents had gone to work, Sister #1 was already at school, and Sister #2 was off to the baby-sitter, which left me home alone getting ready for school. On this day I had picked out a great outfit for school, but the outfit still needed something. It needed the blue jean jacket from Express; the one that was sitting under the tree. You have to understand, the outfit would be the greatest outfit in the whole wide world with that blue jean jacket. I sat on my bed debating a few scenarios:

1.Save the outfit for after Christmas, when I had the blue jean jacket.
2.Wear the outfit without the blue jean jacket.
3.Open up the blue jean jack, wearing it; and then rewrap the jacket before my parents got home.

All the scenarios were possible options. Scenario number 1 and 2 were safe and the right thing to do; and scenario 3 was risky. What if I spill something on the jacket or worse mom caught me wearing it? It was toss up, but I finally decided. So what scenario did young OK Chick decide? Duh! You know I went with Scenario 3. It was the greatest outfit in the whole wide world! I needed the blue jean jacket. One week before Christmas I actually wore one of my Christmas presents and rewrapped it without my parents knowing. This was also the day I stopped opening presents and rewrapping them. Maybe I’d matured, maybe I wanted to be surprised, or maybe I thought I better be good before Santa stops coming to my house-FOR LIFE. Say what you want, but that outfit was awesome.

Keep the change ya filthy animal!

Last night I was watching my new cable. As I was channel surfing I flipped past Home Alone. Now, how can you flip past Home Alone? You can’t, especially during Christmas. So for about thirty minutes I watched Home Alone. Blogger World, I’m happy to report that I can still recite the movie. I might not be able to remember all my computer passwords, but dang it- I can recite lines from Home Alone! Folks, that is a memory working at it’s finest.

In honor of Home Alone being an awesome movie, I would like everyone to try to use my favorite line from the movie in conversation....

I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your lying, yellow, no-good keister off my property, before I pump your guts full of lead!

Good luck!

Friday Fun Fact

Saturday is Microwave Oven Day. Blogger World, I don't know about you, but I use my microwave very often. Actually, I used about an hour ago to warm up my lunch; like I said I use it often. A couple facts on the Microwave Oven....

1. Discovered by Percy Spencer while he was building magnetrons for radar sets with the company Raytheon.
2. The first microwave oven was 6 ft all and weighted over 700lbs, and it cost $5,000. Geez, that's a down payment for a Ford Focus!
3. The first food cooked in the microwave was popcorn.
4. It's estimated that 90% of American households own microwave ovens.

Now folks, this is why you read my Friday Fun Facts; you just never know what kind of crap I'm going to post. Happy Friday!

"Find a venue, overorder on the drinks, bulk buy the guacamole"

Doesn’t it seem kind of early for Christmas parties? Yes? Well, apparently not. Today is my office’s Christmas party. Woo Hoo! I can’t think of anything more I'd love to do, than spend quality off the clock time with my coworkers.

Ok, I really can’t complain about this year’s party. See, my party starts mid-day, which means I didn’t have to find a date. As a Dating Dummy this news is very exciting. No stress over finding the perfect social date. No stress over the perfect cocktail dress. No stress over entertaining the perfect social date during the party. Essentially, I have had a stress free pre-party time. It’s been magnificent! For all you single people out in Blogger World, I leave you with this mature phrase….

Nana-nana-boo-boo I didn’t have to find a Christmas party date and youuuu do!

Times Up

I have to say the Year of Yes started out with a bang. I had a guy ask me out three days after we declared 2008 the Year of Yes. Also, on that day another guy asked me out. THEN another guy asked me out a week after guy #1 and guy #2 asked me out! Can you believe it? Three different guys asked me out on dates. Oh, and these weren’t bad guys, they were cool guys. It wasn’t like I was gritting my teeth to say yes. I was saying yes happily! In my eyes, it appeared that the Year of Yes had been a fantastic decision! I was starting to think I had actually stirred myself in the right direction for dating.

This is a quote, rather long quote, from a post I wrote last year. One year ago, Holly and I declared 2008 the Year of Yes. We agreed that for the whole year we would say yes to all dates that came our way. Well time is up on YOY. Since I haven’t chatted about YOY in a few months, I thought I would do a quick recap of the past year.

Relationship Status at beginning- Single
Relationship Statue at end- Single

THE END…

As you can see YOY wasn’t quite the success I had intended. Sure, I got a couple dates, but nothing big. Ok, so I did date Guy #3 for some time, but other than that nothing. I have better success when I’m not going around saying yes to everything. I suppose next year I could say no to everything. I’m kidding, no need to flood my comment box. Who knows what next year will bring, but YOY was fun.

Bring on the Christmas music...

I'm officially in Christmas mode. My tree is up, presents bought, everything is wrapped, and placed under my tree. I'm way ahead of the game this year. Currently, I'm watching a Christmas movie on ABC Family. Last week I caved and got cable, and I totally love it! Anyway, since it is Dec. 1st, I am allowed to watch Christmas movies and be all cheery. The only thing I haven't finished this season is Christmas cards. My mom does Christmas cards every year, and she always includes a picture of "the girls"- as we are known in our family. I would like to preview this years Christmas Card picture. This year the whole family is in the picture. I would like to thank The Cousin for taking such a wonderful picture of my goofy family.