25 things I things I learned this weekend:
- City girl doesn’t "fit in" at snoX races. Wearing a pink jacket, and a flowered hat doesn’t really go with the other attire everyone else wore.
- NEVER EVER sit on a public toilet seat. I don’t care if you’re sitting on the toilet seat for 2 minutes, 10 minutes or 40 minutes. DO NOT sit on public toilet seats...eww!
- Every sport will have a cocky arrogant athlete.
- Every sport will have an awesome athlete who gives back to his fans. I may be biased here, but Levi LaVallee is awesome at giving back to his fans!!
- I seem a lot more mature than 92% of the women at the snoX races...offta!
- Men NEVER ask for directions, and they will always think they are right. HELLO MARK! Did you forget I am a human map?! Silly!
- Standing out in the freezing cold for 10 hours is what I would consider a true fan!
- Hockey is way less prone for injuries than SnoX. I will never think snowmobile riding is easy ever again.
- Mark will never stop being a little kid, I think I heard 14 new plans on life in the three days I spent with him. Thanks to Levi, Mark now wants to ride SnoX?!
- I would commit suicide if I ever lived in Duluth
- I will always be a city girl. Nothing will change that
- I stress out over the silliest things, and that will never change.
- I would much rather be vomiting than having a sore throat and terrible cold. At least when I’m puking I know I’m losing weight and doing something productive ;)
- Girls that chew tobacco is extremely unattractive, NO man will date you!
- Sometimes I think I’m as funny as Chelsey Handler. HEY! People do laugh at me!
- Common sense is not for every one, which annoys me more than anything.
- Some people should NEVER EVER be nurses, or work with sick patients. I cannot believe how rude some people are!
- With my super duper good grades I still find myself freaking out about the finals week this week, apparently a 4.0 isn’t good enough for me?!
- I cannot wait for Christmas!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE all of the family time.
- I need to SLOW down and enjoy more of the simple things in life. I realized after looking back on my first semester in Grad School I really didn’t do much. However when I did do stuff I realized how much fun I had doing it.
- I miss my friends, I’ve sort of abandoned them this semester!
- I have mastered the voices of every movie I have seen in the last month... YIKES! I’m best at animal voices. Just ask my family. Yes I talk for my dogs in the voices I image they’d have! :)
- Thanksgiving reminds me of how good I have it. I wouldn’t change my family or my life for the world!
- Money corrupts families! I will never wish to be "rich" in wealth. I will wish to be rich in happiness, love, joy, family closeness, friendships, and laughter!
- For only being gone for three days from my family, boy did I miss them! I hate feeling as if I’m being left out or missing out on something!
This weekend was filled with fun, minus being sick! I got to spend Thanksgiving with my family, which was full of noise and laughter! Then I had to work on Thursday night. Friday- Sunday I spent up in Duluth at the International SnoX series. Mark and I went up there to watch Levi, which was so much fun. If I didn’t have someone to cheer for I don’t know if I would have liked it as much. Wait scratch that, I did enjoy it! I don’t know how mom’s can watch their boys race. I watched riders crash and burn, seen riders get pulled away on stretchers. I even watched one rider get hit by another rider, then was caught underneath a snowmobile. The scariest incident was when a rider was in the finals, and got whipped off of his sled after soaring in the air, then to look up and get trampled by another rider on his sled. Honestly, SO scary! The guy freaked out at first, as if he were in shock. Then he just went still and was carried out on a stretcher 10 minutes later. We got to see Levi do a back flip while simultaneously having fireworks go off at the same time. It was so awesome! If you don’t know who Levi is, I think you should check out this video! :)
http://www.redbullusa.com/cs/Satellite/en_US/Video/levi-returns-new-year-no-limits-021243122016301
I hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and long weekend. Hopefully none of you were hospitalized after BLACKFRIDAY! Hey who knows, maybe you were like the blond lady in the Target commercials who trained all fall for the big shopping day! That’s my mom’s favorite commercial, cracks us up every time we see it!
For those of you looking for some fun winter dates here are some suggestions (my list of things to do this winter personally):
- Holidazzle- fabulous as a date, or bring the whole family!
- Macy’s Christmas floor!
- Skating at the Depot!
- Sledding, so much fun! Great giggles to follow!
- Skating outside on an outside rink, old school, but fun!
- Horseback riding after a fresh snowfall- so romantic! (Bunker Hills has a ridding stable)
- Baking TONS and TONS of Christmas cookies! :) YUM! Make the man stir, or if you’re like me just take over and let them watch! ;)
- Snowball fights! – NO ice chunks please!
- Build Snowmen—and snow-women!
- Go snow shoeing or skiing through the woods. Watch out for lions, tigers and bears or should I say wolves, bobcats, coyotes. ;) YIKES! I always think of Parent Trap when the soon to be step mom is smacking the sticks together to scare the animals away haha!!
