time for....

..a blog post full of photos thattl make you rofl.
thanks pinterest.

Maybe its because i'm a social worker...

..but when i see an ad for a 'free baby' on ksl, i just am inclined to immediately call child protective services.

:/
awkward: party of free baby + psycho-pants caregiver.

was it a real ad? i think yes. i'd link you all to it to guess for yourselves, but luckily the ad was taken down.
it went along the lines of:
"i need someone to take custody of my little girl...her mom died in a car crash, and i have no legs and cannot take care of a newborn by myself. i know this is not the best place to do this but i just need her to go to a loving home. will go to any loving family. please email me at _____ to hear my story and talk further."

at first i didn't believe it..because it was sort of funny, but sort of really sad....but then i googled the area code 205
...hmm..from alabama..
ok, believable.


yes, my sunday consisted of calling CPS, church, nommin on punkin pie, and i am now about to rest easy knowing 5 other people already reported someone tryin to give away their baby on the net within the first hour. heaven bless the good people in utah willing to catch the crazies on the loose.

go ahead, psychotic caregivers..i dare you to try and give away another kid on KSL.
COME AT ME.
lets see just how long it takes me to call CPS on you.

camouflage cat

what better things do you have to do on thanksgiving break than stare at a picture of a cat?

took me oh..prob 15 minutes of staring into the depths of my laptop to find this fricken feline.

please, someone tell me they can't find it so i'll feel better about myself?

time wasting begins: now.

 goot luck tryun ta fiynd mah invisibo kitteh self

i come from a mother of wits.

dear everyone

my sweet friend, mindy, is holding an auction over at her blog for a really good cause. go hurry on over there and bid on some awesome stuff before the bidding closes! and tell yo frennnzzz!

look at this bebe sqeuwwel, want touch him?

i cannot stop watching this. it gets better every time.

some things i have realized for my future

I've recently realized some things i will most likely do in my future and things I currently need to work on for my future. So.. I'm writing them down on blogosphere to remember them and hold my freakin self accountable in 10 years time.


1. I will read harry potter to my children. I will use funny voices every night and tuck them in leaving them to dream about spells and potions and wizzzaarrddss. Bet on it.


2. I will never go to bed early..not even when i'm 97. I will be up watching lifetime rocking in my rocking chair probably eating a snickers (as I am right now. Its fine.)


3. As I have realized through my nannying adventures, I will hug my children often and make them feel loved and important... because when they feel loved and important, they always succeed. And children need that love. (..and they are way less bratty when you love them. seriously.)


4. I will always try to keep in touch with those who matter to me most. being a good, caring friend is one of the best attributes you can acquire , and i want to perfect the art of friendship throughout my lifetime. I need to perfect that starting now...cuz seriously, everyone could use a better friend.


5. I will take my children to the theater to watch plays and musicals so they can love the arts like I do, even if I have to force them a little  bit at first.


6. There are people in my life who I appreciate so much but hardly ever tell. I will be the kind of woman who will tell those people how much I appreciate them, even if I feel super awkward doing it, dangit! And even if they feel awkward while i'm doing it.


7. I will most likely always have irrational fears and be a worrier. I think I was born that way... (I guarantee in utero I was anticipating my birth thinking of all the things that could go wrong..imagine fetus nicole getting all antsy and twiddling my little thumbs.. haha) however, as i learned in stake conference today, feelings can be changed by faith. So even if I worry till the day I die, i will work on worrying less.


8. I will dress up for halloween up until I perish. then I will come back as a ghost and haunt my children and grandchildren.


9. Nutella will most likely always be my drug of choice.


10. I want my kids to know that their parents love eachother. Its something thats really important to me.


11. I want my husband to know how obsessed with him I was before I ever met him.


12. I will make it a point to see the world. (That starts now.)


13. I probably will never feel bad for drugging myself with benedryl to get a good nights sleep.

dear blog readers-

yes...all 110 of you. (i dont even have that many friends. ok...i dont even have HALF of that number for friends in real life..so sidenote: thanks for reading my blog. you guys are gems to let me take up space on your feed list :) ...anyway..on to my request..)

my dearest little blog readers...
i need your suggestions. no no. i want them.
yes i want your suggestions.
i am graduating college soon.
and it scares the bajeebies outta me. why?
maybe because my life plan involved finding a husband right when i got to college..and if i'm being honest with myself, i will admit that i only planned on graduating IF I DIDNT GET MY HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

stupid you say? maybe. you may shake your head at this little mormon girl, but thats what i wanted, and thats what i planned. i wanted to get married young and have babies young and be a young mom. to be honest...in high school, i didnt even want to go to college..(which quite literally made my mother worry for my future...so she was super stoked i even applied to school..)

but i didnt get that...and hey, that is ok. i am ok with it right now..because obviously Heavenly Father has different plans for me. I am graduating COLLEGE and am STOKED.

but now i dont quite know what to do.
this wasn't in my plan.

i have heard many things like 'do things for yourself nicole!' and 'be selfish at this stage in your life'.......
but i'd like lots of suggestions from readers who don't know me personally to tell me what they wish to do when their 'real life' begins or what they wish they would have done at my age.
i'll be {22}...have my bachelors in Social Work...and the world at my fingertips. (heheheheheeeeeeeee)
so..what now? get a real job? a real life? a real apartment? by MYSELF?

i just would like your suggestions, in all seriousness. because now that my one plan fell through, i have like, 5 or 6 options buzzing around in my brain and none of them feel awesome yet.

ok, comment away. :)
kthxbai.

only in a ward talent show....

...will you see:

-a dorky lad swinging a 'hungarian whip' around his head in circles pretending to be indiana jones
-a girl getting choked up while reading a poem about an elephant that she wrote herself
-a guy singing a serious song about lucky charms and how it improves his quality of life
-a couple showing off their swing dance moves that were unmemorized and uncoordinated
-painfully awkward countless original guitar solos with off pitch vocals and lyrics like, 'the first time i met you' and 'it was rainy'
-people banging on glasses with a knife trying to portray 'mary had a little lamb' but having it mostly sound like people banging on glasses
-a guy reading pick-up lines off his phone app while he has some relief society sisters walk across the stage


ohhhhh mormons.

update snippets, snitches.

-i am in love with my practicum and am so glad that i am actually willing to get up outta bed at 7ish in the morning to get there in time for rounds. i love it, i love my supervisors, i love how we talk bad about their ex husbands and they coach me through my life. i love how they encourage me to go on to grad school and not be pressured into settling for something less than i deserve. i love how we tell funny jokes and how lisa always swears. i love that becky wants to hang out with me even though i'm only 21. i love that i am learning so much about mothers and babies and pregnancy and loss and grief and adoption and protective services and counseling and medicine and miracles and good hearted people out there who just want the best for everyone. i love my internship and am so so blessed i got placed here. its exactly what i needed at this point of my life.

-my sister jackie is here for the weekend. its my other sister tami's birthday on sunday...so party rockin in the booooooth house! kristin is here and michelle is of course here, because shes the only child nugget that is still in highschool. she has a frickin boyfriend we are meeting this weekend..so i'm going to be sure to put on my awkward pants and talk in a lisp when i see him. anyways, its great to have all my sisters together. really really great.

-my friend showed me the trailer for 'the woman in black' and i about peed myself. the only reason i watched the trailer was cuz daniel radcliffe is in it and i wanted to see if he was charming without his round little glasses on..anyways..go scare yourself silly and IMDB that shiz

-wingers is getting the best of me lately. (so what if i ordered some to-go for myself and ate it feverishly in the parking lot!?)

-the first snow today made me automatically happy and then...only like 2% sad. things were so different last november...last winter. i spent my days running up the steps of his apartment and shaking the snow off my boots on his doormat and being so excited to spend a nice cozy evening in his nice apartment with him. making plans for our future, eating strawberry oatmeal together.. :( fhjdsfhjdkashfdjs. how weird is that, that something so stupid can trigger a memory like that? snow? really? REALLY? frozen water falling from the sky!?! puh-the-tic nicole. get yourself together.

-oprah winfrey's lifeclass webcasts are CHAAANNGGINNG MYYY LIFFFEEE. want free therapy? go ahead, click HERE! . youre welcome.

-17 credits was kicking my butt until i realized that i should spend less time on pinterest and fb and more time writing papers. okay..its still kicking my butt because even though i realize i DO have enough time in my day to get all my crap done..i still havent changed my crack-addict type behavior towards pinterest. but i willllll. someday. (actually its funny because i saw a quote ON pinterest..something to the effect of..."you and albert einstein had the same amount of hours in a day. work harder.") HA to the HA.

-im excited for thanksgiving and christmas.

-ever read hyperbole and a half? i'd post another link but my eyes are drooping and i'm too tired. anyways, my point was.... i was having a bad day the other day, so i started talking like SPAGEHTTA NADLE and it cheered me RIGHT UP. AHHH I'M A SPAGEHTTA NADLE NAIS TAO MAHT YAO


cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers.

500th post.

"just because you can't find the right one, doesn't mean you have to settle for the wrong one. don't settle for the wrong one."