Well Stefano certainly kissed his wife! - Leap Year

I'm feeling a sense of adventure lately, maybe its the summer heat giving me a bit of cabin fever..



I have decided to travel on Tuesday night for my 3 days off.
Clinton, Iowa ( the court house pictured)once the "lumber capital of the world" it now can be regarded as the "armpit of america" because of all of it's in town factories... Cedar Rapids has nothin' on this shit, but it's comparable I'd say. It wasn't a bad place to grow up, and I can't wait to go back and relax with my family and puppies!. Also I'm brining Ashley :) I'm going to show her all the hot spots This includes, but is not limited to:

Sweet Heart Bakery

Eagle Point Park

The infamous Dyke

Farmer's Market

A few of my favorite restaurants,

I'm pretty excited to say the least. I hope she brings her camera and acts like a tourist , it'll be fun!

I was dancing last night and decided to go into the splits , it's good to know I'm still flexible in a literal sense .

For my buddy Chris' birthday we went to Galleria De Paco, where we were seated by a man with a indistinguishable accent, what a host! We ended up in the Catacombs having steaming drinks and Martini's with appetizers. They were delicious, and there's so much to stare at and it's naked and provocative. Good choice for a birthday I'd say, later that night he was tap dancing for strangers at Sudd's , it was a good night.

I've worked at the Holmes' indoor pool for the last two days. Come to find out there is a ghost story about the place. Supposedly there was a husband and wife in an altercation when contractors were digging the foundation for the pool. The woman went missing and they found her car on the construction site. Rumor has it that the husband killed her and buried her under the foundation, the next day cement was poured. So there could be a woman under the pool. Creepy huh? my new tag line for the place is

Holmes Pool : If the Ghost doesn't get you Boredom will!

that's only if you're guarding of course, the pool doesn't see much action except for a few families here and there. It's fun for the families , but it's been so hot and humid it's hard to just sit and watch everyone enjoying the refreshing water.

Final note, it was Father's day but I will be celebrating late due to work.. My sister took care of him though :) I'd like to show this as a tribute to dads

LOVE!

Jascenna says " Great thongs are coming your way!"

Who's to say great thongs are not coming my way I believe it's the Victoria's Secret Semi Annual sale :)

The other day when I was guarding I threatened to kick a teenage boy out for the offensive language he was using. He replied, " Do you know who my dad is ?" and so I snapped back at him , " I don't care you your dad is, and find a name for yourself and stop using his." He swam away, these moments are lovely :)

I've been teaching teenagers how to use adobe premiere pro and photoshop for the past couple days. I've had mostly 12/13 year olds. The girls want to make everything pretty and make sense, lots of colors and willingness to improve, The boys want to make everything ugly or evil and funny, and it doesn't have to make sense and they don't want to change it. I had a kid make what he called a narrative bee, which consisted of an audio clip of a man talking with a bee on the screen, let me tell you all the boys in the group thought it was hilarious. I know it doesn't sound funny but they really loved it. It's been a fun combination. Keeping kids at a computer off YouTube can prove quite the challenge, they all want to watch music videos, I've had rap to Mama Mia playing on the speakers.

On another random thought, went out last night and my roommate and I see this guy everywhere, we've made it into a drinking game we just say " There's the guy" and we drink, it's been quite entertaining. ( Thanks Random Guy) I'm sure this isn't the last we've seen of him!

Leave you with this oldie but goody :)




I'm excited for the rest of the week, but need sleep now!!!


- Hattie

I don't know about this ya dingus!

I don't know who reads this crap but it's a fun little journal that's in the CLOUD FOREVER

people fear this internet cloud with all of our information stored in it ( internet etc.) Little do most people know we've probably had the government keeping tabs on us for years anyway....

So a couple days ago I went out for a Birthday party and a few drinks were bought for me one was a bloody mary at 1 in the morning . I know what you're thinking who has that drink that late. Well when some guy is offering to buy you any drink... what would you do?

This guy also told me my name was sexy, and I told him my parents were trying really hard to have a sexy kid name, I applaud their success!

I think that it's the new tan I'm getting from this life guarding gig that's getting me the drinks ;), my dad always told me fat looked better tan. (true statement)

I was called off work yesterday, so I naturally decided to get my long time needed hair trim at La James with one of my roomies. Well the trim goes ok and i also decide to get an eyebrow wax, well this girl had never done the waxing , so I'm pretty sure I was her first customer in this department, and there was wax everywhere, needless to say my eyebrows look like 20's 30's throw back, believe me! She tried, oh well, its at least it wasn't a bikini wax, however less is more in that arena.

I also watched a great jaws spin off PIRANHA ! This movie was made in 1978 and it isn't obvious at all ( sarcasm) Anyway, when the Piranha attack they sound like a heard of flies and bees and they wiggle around, it's pretty much the greatest thing I've seen in a while.

On a depressing note, Tim and Eric's frequent guest Richard Dunn passed away this past weekend, I just wish I could have sent him my bones in time. He was a great asset to that show!

Check it out with Dr. Steve Brule is easily one of my favorite summer shows thus far .. watch a little if you don't believe me

Also my friend sent me an interesting article on headlice, it made me feel weird but also was rather educational :) http://www.27bslash6.com/nits.html

I don't have anything else and I want to eat some tomatoes... thanks for stopping

:) Hattie