MY BUCKET LIST!! :D

(x) Gone on a blind date
(x) Skipped school
() Watched someone die
() Been to Canada
(x) Been to Mexico
() Been to Florida
(x) Been on a plane
(x) Been lost
(x) Been on the opposite side of the country
() Gone to Washington , DC
(x) Cried yourself to sleep
(x) Played cops and robbers
(x) Recently colored with crayons
(x) Sang Karaoke
(x) Paid for a meal with coins only
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) Made a prank phone call
() Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
(x) Danced in the rain
() Danced naked in the rain
(x) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(x) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) Watched the sunrise with someone
(x) Blown bubbles
(x) Gone ice-skating
() Hitch-hiked
(x) Been skinny dipping outdoors
(x) Snuck into a cemetary late at night
( ) Been Snipe Hunting
( ) Taken anyone Snipe Hunting
(x) Gone tee-pee creeping

NOW, JUST SOME GET-TO-KNOW-YA QUESTIONS!
1. Any nickname? ... Pachel, Rachy Poo, Baby babe, freak, Rach-rach
2. Mother's name? .... Patricia Sue
3. Favorite drink? .... Water!
5. Body Piercing? .... 5 ear piercings and HAD my nose pierced
6. How much do you love your job? .... I like it a lot but love is a strong word lol. I'm happy.
7. Birthplace? .... Salt Lake City, UT
8. Favorite vacation spot .... I love Oregon. :)
9. Ever been to Africa ? .... Nope, but I have a kid over there! Shout out to Filipe!
10. Ever eaten just cookies for dinner? .... YEP!
11. Ever been on TV? .... nope :(
12. Ever steal any traffic signs? .... Nope, they're a lot bigger than they look...
13. Ever been in a car accident? .... OH YES!
14. Drive a 2-door or 4-door vehicle? .... 4 door. Love the 4-door
15. Can you drive a standard car? .... Does that mean a stick shift? Because, no.
16. Favorite pie? .... pies--not a favorite of mine--but probably choc cream <===same here grandma!!
17. Favorite number? .... 3
18. Favorite movie? .... ugh, SO MANY!!! Right now...HSM *embarassed*
19. Favorite holiday? .... HALLOWEEN!!!!!
20. Favorite dessert? .... Molten Chocolate Cake!!! YUM!
21. Favorite food? .... Flaming Hot Cheetos
22. Favorite day of the week? .... Saturdays OF COURSE! :)
23. Favorite brand of body soap? .... My uncles homemade stuff or Dove
24. Favorite toothpaste? .... colgate?
25. Favorite smell? .... Chases cologne!!
26. How do you relax? .... Watch movies or read
27. How do you see yourself in 10 years? ... 31-years-old hm. Married with 3 or 4 kids. Staying at home, maybe living in Price, taking care of my family. :D
28. Furthest place you will send this message to? .... Whoever sees my blog! :D
29. Who will post this the fastest? .... Amy???

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL

Okay, this isn't HSM. It's a quiz about high school though! :) Got it from Amy's blog! Thanks buddy! (For the record, I WISH my high school experience had been one big musical. *sigh*)



1) Did you date someone from your school - Nope, I went to A dance with a guy from school. The rest were from Church. :)



2) What kind of car did you drive - I drove my parents car, didn't have my own car until I was in College, for most of high school it was FRANKENSTEIN. He was a green Ford Taurus (yes, like Conan O Brien!) We called it FRAKENSTEIN because he had a bunch of other parts from different cars and he was green! :)



3) Did you pass your driver's license test the first time? - Not the stupid written test but the drivers test I did. I ROCKED that test! I didn't have to parrallel park but I did have to pull into a spot in a parking lot and then back up into the spot behind and to the right of me and I DID IT!! It was the highlight of my driving career!



4) Were you a party animal? - Nope. Not even close! Unless you consider Bible study a party...which I do! :)



5) Were you considered a flirt? - I'm sure I did but I wasn't well known enough to be considered a flirt by anyone. lol



6) Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? - Nope



7) Were you a nerd? - I don't think so



8) Were you on any varsity teams? - NOpe. I was on Dance co...there was only one though...

9) Did you ever get expended or expelled? - No way! my mom would have killed me!

10) Can you still sing your fight song? - Some of it..."Hail Highland High...the school that we will always cheer...we will...survive...our school song from year to year! Banners will fly, to proudly wave our black and white...honor fame and glory too all this and more we give to you our highland hiiiiiiiiigh." Then we would do this cool stomp and clap thing. I never really even tried to learn it, just...knew it one day.

11) Who were your favorite teachers? - Mrs. Ebert and Mrs...some other spanish teacher. They actually enjoyed what they taught. And Mrs. Nielsen!

12) Where did you sit at lunch? - Various places...depended on the year.

13) What is your school's full name? - Highland High School

14) School mascot and colors - Highland Rams and black and white (because it used to be a prison) and gold sometimes.

15) Did you go to homecoming and who with? - I went to homecoming once and it was my sophomore year with Jayme Barton, my best friends brother.

16) If you could go back and do it again, would you? - If I could go back with the knowledge I have now I would. I wish I had enjoyed high school more.

17) What do you remember most about graduation? - How boring it was. And the ugly skirt I wore.

18) Where did you go on Senior Skip Day - Nowhere...don't recall having one....

19) Were you in any clubs? - FCCLA...honorary member...and that's about it...

20) Have you gained weight since then? - YES *grumble* I was dancing, like, 10 hours a day everyday back then and now I work at a desk all day and then go home and sleep.

21) Who was your prom date? - My high school sweetheart (from church) Holt Higgins.

22) Are you planning on going to your 10 year reunion? - Don't plan on it...but I have like 7 or 8 years until then so who knows.

23) Did you have a job while in high school? - Nope. Well, I worked part time at my dance studio in exchange for lessons. And I did my parents laundry for money. lol

Did you know that...

-My favorite color is.....Aqua and/or a seafoam kinda color

-My favorite dessert is.....Chocolate Molten Lava Cake from Chilis!!!

-My favorite Sunday CD is....One of the WOW CDs

-My favorite anytime CD right now is....Goo Goo Dolls Greatest Hits

-My favorite show is...The Office

-My favorite place to be is .... Chases with all my friends and family

-My favorite time of day is..... 5:00pm

-My least favorite thing to do is......fill out call logs

-My least favorite thing to wear is....socks

-My least favorite place to be is .....in an awkward situation

-My secret obsession right now is ......SYTYCD

-I miss.....Karen and Bart (I haven't talked to them in a long time!)

-I have been terrible at ......taking calls today

-I have the....coldest face

-I look forward to the day.....I GET MARRIED

-I love my....Savior and Lord!!!!

The AP August 2007

Here are pictures from my trip to the Arabian Peninsula last summer (August 2007) Don't worry I wasn't in a war zone or anything like that! :)


Here is our bathroom. Tere is a "western potty" and a "squatty potty."



Here is Laurie trying on a berka. We got to have tea in this little bedouin village. The ladies gave us a couple of berkas to take home. :) We had tea and dates. (it's a fixture over there)

Do you see the big black thing on my hand???? THAT IS A BUG!! There are these Beetles with really really hard backs.
This is the entrance way to the living room of the house we stayed in!
Here is where I stayed with my mom and BFF!!
Here is a BIG feast we had on the floor. But remember not to show the soles of your feet to anyone and only pass things with your right hand. The left is for wiping. :)
Here is my money!!! I am rich!!!! One "Restaurant" and one is a bathroom.

Here is the living room where we talked and stuff.



here is the house, like, 15 of us stayed in when we visited this tiny town called Schwamea (sp?) Right on the beach!!!
Do you see the MASSIVE spider??
Here is Laurie petting the baby camel at the camel farm. :)
Here I am on the beach being extremely immodest! (ankles galore!)

My mom, Zaheed, me, Saheed, Laurie. Look at the GREEN grass!

That camel is looking RIGHT at me!!! I love him!
These camels were scratching themselves on the truck! :)
I'm drinking camels milk! Not so good but I wasn't about to miss out on an experience like that!

Me and Laurie best friendin it up on a cliff!
About to leave! You can't tell from this picture but Chase SURPRISED me and came to say good bye! :D
The living room of another house we stayed in.

Laurie and I covered up. :)

Wedding Log Stardate 10.02.2008 AKA: The dress cont'd

So, I don't feel like typing a lot.

Here is the detailing on my dress. It is lovely and summery and kind of hippy-y and unique and I love it!

The ribbon was supposed to be brown and it has a reddish tint to it but it doesn't really bother me. It will also be thinner. :)

I am very happy!

When you are a CS rep at 3form...

I am going to show you all what it is like to be a customer service representative for 3form.

When you are a CS rep at 3form...

This is your supervisor. His name is Chris and he is very nice and patient and knows just about everything!

When you you are a CS rep at 3form...

You get trained by Amy! She is the team lead, believe it or not, And she is ESPECIALLY patient with stupid people. If you have a blog you will get along with her very well! And if you don't, then you will within a week! :)

When you are a CS rep at 3form...

This is your work space! You get to put up pictures of your fiance and friends and Filipe, the boy you sponsor in Africa! And you get to keep it as dirty as you like!(especially if you sit on the side of the divider that faces nothing and no one!

When you are a CS rep at 3form...

You get to see Victoria's smiling face everyday! You will ask her about faxes alot and IM her a lot because she sits at the front desk instead of instead of by all of the other CS reps. If you are lucky, you will get to "train" her after being here only a month!

When you are a CS rep for 3form...

You chill near Megan all day! She is a great CS rep but an even better photographer! (her photog blog is up up up and to the left on my blog!) Even though you won't be able to see her very easily because of the evil divider you will always have a good visual of her cute bangs!

When you are a CS rep at 3form...

You get hotter and hotter and hotter. Like this! I don't know what it is...the head-set, the angry customers, the frigid cold. SOMETHING at 3form brings out the hotness in people!

When you are a CS rep at 3form...

You get to meet with your supervisor and talk about what you are doing well and what you could improve on! And at the end you get this neato copy of what you talked about! :D

When you are a CS rep at 3form...

You get one of these nifty phones ALL TO YOURSELF! It sits right next to you at your desk! Easy access! And, get this, when someone calls it BLINKS!!!!! Seriously. Lights. Blinking. When your phone says "logged off" and you have a picture of it, it means you need to stop taking pictures and get back to work!!

when you are a CS rep at 3form...

You get to look at this screen all day. :) That thing on the screen is called a CALL LOG. You fill out MILLIONS a day! They just get more fun as you go!

And THAT is the life of a CS rep at 3form. :D

SYTYCD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So You Think You Can Dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!













So, I took my mom to see the SYTYCD tour last night (Tuesday, September 23rd). For those of you who are not familiar with SYTYCD...my heart breaks. Anywho, this is season 4 and ever since the second season the top 10 dancers get to go on tour! (this year it was 13 of them...there was an extra girl, long story, and I'm not sure why they had 2 extra dancers...they were in the top 12 but I'm not sure why they went on tour...) So, pretty much got to see all of our favorite dancers and our favorite dances!! There are not many pictures of my favorite dances because I was too busy watching them to try to get a picture! :) I will put up some links to my favorite dances though!! :) And links to the dances I have pictured because you really can't see the dancers very well in the pictures. I LOVE SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!!


This is the back drop everyone talks to the camera during auditions week. They do the very very first interviews in front of this too! It's pretty ghetto looking in person but not ANY less exciting!! :)





























This couple in front of us in line, yes there was a line to get your picture taken in front of this thing, was nice enough to take a couple of pictures for us and we took a couple of them. :) Everyone is so friendly when they are about to watch the greatest show on earth!!!!



















This is my very large SYTYCD souvenir t-shirt I bought for a lot of money. I would have gotten a smaller size but it was NUTS trying to buy stuff. There were no lines or order at all. I tried to get in and out as quickly as possible! Some people were taking FOREVER! They had credit cards...Okay, I understand you don't know how much you are going to spend and you may not go to concerts a lot and you may not be comfortable carrying around a wad of cash in your pocket but, people, word of advice: ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS bring CASH to concerts for souvenirs! It is SO much easier and quicker. It's considerate to the people selling the stuff and to every one else around who also would like to buy things. I was probably one of 2 people who used cash but I like to think we made a difference.
























































This is my mama! She loves SYTYCD and we would always watch it together! She told me 16 times that this was the best birthday present EVER! I don't know if I fully believe it because I made her a cheerios necklace when I was 11 for her birthday...I spent 3 hours coloring each individual Cheerio a different color...I just don't know if that can be topped...



This is us sooooooooo excited for the show to start!!!!!

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited!!

THIS is Nigel Barker (said with a British accent)! He is the mean, foreign judge for SYTYCD, comparable to Simon Cowell. Nigel Barker is to SYTYCD as Simon Cowell is to American Idol. But I like him a lot more than Simon. He gives CONSTRUCTIVE critisicm...most of the time. He choreographed a dance for the top 5 guys and it was SUPER FUN! LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9w0vNB6Nk He also did a tap number on the show this season! you ever heard Simon sing?

KATIE AND JOSHUA!! They were the top guy and girl. Joshua was the final champion but for the first time in SYTYCD history the top girl got a prize too!! It was like a bagillion dollars or something. This dance was Katies SEXY dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBe9AVNE8Q
ballroom dancing is probably Katee's weakest dance style (no one can compare to Chelsea) but she is so good at EVERYTHING else it doesn't matter in the least.

This here is Kherrington and Twitch, later they came to be known as TWITCHINGTON. Initially they were my favorite couple but Kherrington dropped down to like, number 4 on my list after this dance. Twitch is my favorite guy to this day! (He was in HAIRSPRAY!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlJMNaLipeE

Here are Utah's SweetHearts!! GEV AND CHELSEA HIGHTOWER. They are both from UTAH! :) I have a lot of pictures of Chelsea because she is my favorite SYTYCD season 4 girl! She is a ballroom dancer from Orem and I wasn't expecting much from her but she was AWESOME! She didn't dissapoint all season! And she is in one of my all time favorite dances!!! LINK!


I really love Chelsea...and I love Gev! Gev came on the show as breaker (or b-boy as they are known in the biz) but he did SUPER well in every other type of dance and I hear through the grape vine (a friend who knows a friend who knows the brother a friend of Gevs grandma) that Hip-hop/breaking isn't even his main style...interesting...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUnetg2FlqI

THIS is MARK AND COURTNEY! Mark is a really really unique dancer and he's fun. I was pretty indifferent about Courtney for most of this season and I started liking her again near the end but then CHELSEA got kicked off instead of Courtney and I didn't like her again...but by the finale...she was alright. *sigh*
LINK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oOdNm30lDg

CHELSEA HIGHTOWER! Each one of the performers had a montage about them shown and they got to do a solo. JUST LIKE IN THE SHOW! :)

I've got Chelsea fever! :)

TWITCH AND KATIE! The dance in the picture with Twitch and Katie is another really fun one! Not everyone appreciates it the way I do. LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKN5B3abQmQ
It's a Mia Michaels piece and some of her stuff is super WEIRD but some of it is REALLY awesome...Like this one!

I didn't get a picture of their finale piece :( it was really cute to "You Can't Stop The Beat" from Hairspray! But by then I had stained my new dress and I was a little bummed. :( Anywho,



HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE, MOST MEMORABLE DANCES FROM SEASON 4:

===I wasn't expecting much from Katee or Joshua...until I saw THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3WIHr1RUJU (for the record, I did not like this song before SYTYCD) Tabitha and Napoleon are a married couple choreographing duo that have pioneered this whole new genre of dance! It's called "lyrical hip-hop" and I LOVE it! This one was on the tour, of course!

===Chelsea and Mark. Another Tabitha and Napoleon! Once again, did NOT like the song before I saw this dance... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gujNoTqbwWc This was performed on the tour :)

===Another Chelsea and Mark. They got some cool dances! This is a Mia Michaels contemporary and it was called the "Tim Burton Dance" because she modeled it after the corpse bride. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anZaebeNQ2Y

===Joshua and Katee! They are really amazing. This dance is about how hard marriage is but sticking with it...I MAY have cried the first time I watched it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVOLe32RUUQ

===This is Courtney and Gev. This one has the rehearsal footage attached because I thought the "message" was very funny! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIyREdoiOuo

===Yet ANOTHER Chelsea and Mark. This one is BROADWAY! :) The rehearsal footage is attached to this only because I couldn't find it without...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PCfd1TP4qM

===Mark and Chelsea...not Chelsea and Mark. And its a good 'ol JAZZ number!! (maybe I'm just getting lazy...couldn't find this dance without the rehearsal footage either!...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzqjqiJAjnE

===Courtney and Gev Contemporary! More rehearsal footage. It's pretty great. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Qvj-zTvBQ

===Joshua and Courtney hip-hop! SHE'S ALIVE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mw51boMn0

===It's my favorite dancer again and Gev doing a contemporary piece. It's got a totally sweet 50's feel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdDPkOAoDl0

===Courtney and WILL! You're probably thinking..."who the heckerooney is Will???" I have not mentioned him because he didn't really stand out to me. This was a fun dance though. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJNdrXxGfHY another tabitha and napoleon lyrical hip-hop

===I LIKE TOO MANY! Courtney and Gev Jazz...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4D4BfSuPug

===I feel like I have not been true to my favorite guy Twitch....here is a hip-hop with him and Courtney. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJNdrXxGfHY it's a fun one...Twitch kind of got the raw end of the stick when it came to dances...but he is JUST so loveable! :)

===Twitch solo *SHOUT OUT TO MI FAVORITA* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrb5xqMkjy8 he's 4 real!

===Kherrington and Twitch waltz. Watch Twitch's arms!! They flow like no other! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2VRAHRbmT8

===Kherrington and Twitch contemporary. Mia Michaels, which is why it LOOKS unchoreographed, but it's not. Every step has a count (or a sound). Also, one I was VERY impressed with Twitch in this one! He moves like a contemporary dancer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17HrL66iFU



I guess the top 10 were the top for a reason...they seem to be all I remember...hm. Well, hope you enjoyed them!