If Julie Fell

• Skinnidip Frozen Yogurt - specifically chocolate with fresh strawberries and Cap’n Crunch - so good
• The St. Patrick’s Day photos from this years festivities
• “Go onnnn” and “Whhhaaa?” courtesy of Sunday’s session with the Plastics
• Laughing so hard I cry
• Open and honest conversations with a best friend
• Whistles - one word: awesome
• Spring Sandals
• The Bachelor - oh how I love reality TV
• Knowing I can make someone smile and laugh by telling them my silly stories
• Sunday Fundays
• The morning after a fun night out conversations
• Muppets and /or Puppets

I’m new to this whole blogging game but I was “meme” tagged by Mego and from what I can gather this means I have to fill out a survey and tell a little story of how I met Mego.

Mego and I used to work together at the former work place, she started there shortly after I did and was also fresh out of college - sort of an M.O. of that place. We never had the pleasure of traveling together even though we were both frequently on the road but we did have the luxury of many, many lunch dates, happy hour meetings and conference room pow wows. Mego’s blog prompted me to start mine and well I knew we’d be friends because we can have full discussions using movie lines exclusively. No joke. Without further ado…my meme:

4 Jobs I’ve Held:

1. All Star Cheerleading Coach.
2. Home furnishings sales associate at a department store in a strip mall.
3. Children’s clothing sales associate at one of my favorite stores…thank you House 20.
4. Events Intern at a FANTASTIC non-profit.

4 Movies I’ve Watched Over and Over Again:

1. Old School
2. Office Space
3. Mean Girls
4. Pretty in Pink

4 Places I’ve Been:

1. Las Vegas, Nevada
2. Tokyo, Japan
3. Florence, Italy
4. Berlin, Germany

4 Places I’ve Lived:

1. Portland, Oregon
2. Eugene, Oregon
3. Hood River, Oregon
4. Clackamas, Oregon - there’s a theme here…

4 TV Shows I Watch:

1. The Office
2. Rob & Big
3. Project Runway
4. Rock of Love

4 Radio Shows I Listen To:

1. The Playhouse
2. The Afternoon Buzz
3. Nelson and Terry
4. (Honestly, that’s all I got - and those are all a stretch - I don’t really listen to the radio)

4 Things I Look Forward To:

1. Vacations
2. Theme Parties
3. College Football Season Starting
4. St. Patrick’s Day

4 Favorite Foods:

1. Burritos
2. Rocky Road Ice Cream
3. Strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups
4. Mac and Cheese

4 Places I’d Rather Be:

1. Any Tropical Paradise
2. Autzen Stadium
3. San Francisco
4. Traveling Europe with friends

4 People I email regularly:

1. The Plastics
2. The Sox Fan
3. Blondie
4. 27 Dresses

4 People to Tag:

1. The Sox Fan
2. Blondie
3. JLee
4. 27 Dresses

*I realize you do not all have blogs (few of my friends do and those that do may or may not already have been tagged - thanks Mego) so feel free to use the comment portion for these meme.

Does anyone even know what “meme” means?!?!

Over the last week I have morphed into a combination of two Peanuts characters: Linus and Pig Pen. I’ve usually been pegged as more of Lucy - dark hair, sassy attitude…but not this last week.

Here’s Linus:

Here’s Pig Pen:

Last Thursday I was out playing flag football, having fun, being a defensive force to be reckoned with when this jerk drops his shoulder on me and barrels basically straight through me. Reminder: This is FLAG football, a non-contact, for FUN adult league. I’m a short girl, 5′ 3″ and for a DUDE to come down drop his shoulder under my jaw and plow me to the ground there is nothing accidental about what he was up to. The referee commented that it was the worst and most intentional bowl over he has seen. Needless to say my jaw was basically hyper snapped back and then when my head hit the turf it bounced back up before taking it’s final resting place with the rest of me on the cold, wet, ground. I was not a happy camper.

Thursday night, I didn’t sleep well. At all. Also, I was very concerned about having sustained internal injuries and I “perhaps” whinned a great deal. Very Linus like.Friday rollled around and after a crazy hectic day at work all I wanted to do was run some errands, relax and clean my dirty apartment. No such luck. After leaving work later than I previously planned I had to rush around, get downtown and push those cleaning ideas to the way side. It was worth it because I had fun out and about where my various social circles collided. Although due to the intense pain in my neck and jaw I once again did not sleep well.

Saturday was the big birthday bonanza for The Sox Fan. After another night of “restless” sleep I was awoken at 8am with concerns from The Sox Fan regarding the weather. He lives on Candy Mountain and is always constantly concerned about the weather so since it was snowing at his place he wanted to know what was happening downtown. It was raining…and now I was wide awake. Awesome. I frantically ran errands and prepared for the 2pm start time of the Pub Crawl and basically it felt like I was scurrying around in the orb of dust that Pig Pen lives in.

The Sox Fan’s birthday pub crawl was a hit! High Five to me! A great lunch group, some St. Cupcakes, shuffleboard, my ass kicking dart skills on display, J+C’s…LOTS of J+C’s, laughing as The Sox Fan made $1 bets with his buddies, a cease to all laughter when The Sox Fan could not speak…not like he was speachless but the man could not verbally say my name…it was time to call it a night. Great party and great times were had by all.

Sunday was a day of laying low, wearing sweat pants and living in a fuzzy Pig Pen like cloud of slothness. It was awesome.

Which brings to me to today, in which case I now feel like a fuzzy cloud straight out of a cartoon is following me around. I dropped a large round kiosk sign directly on to my foot while trying to load it into my car. Ouch. I was frantically pricing out multiple jobs at once this morning all while making sure I had time to act like a big Linus like baby to The Sox Fan about my Chinese food craving.

Good bye Lucy, hello Linus Pen.

What are the rules for having a blog? Can I literally post anything here? Could I post an image of Starry Night and say, oh that little thing, that’s just something I painted up last weekend? Will someone call me out on that or shut this blogging machine down?

Can I write with curse words or do I have to use * in the place of vowels? Can I make cultural generalizations? Is that okay? When is that actually not okay for me to do? I just assumed that was my rite as a halfie.

I’m just curious because sometimes I get in a mood and the better judgement filter is pawned off like a stolen necklace being used for drug money. What happens when I see some crazy socially unacceptable clothing infraction whilst writing a post for this aforementioned blog? I can’t be held responsible for ranting about bad attire selections.

I’m just saying.

Speaking of crazy bad attire infractions - here are some on my top list of UNACCEPTABLE occurances:

**Editors Note: If I see you committing these crimes please believe I will be judging you and you never know, it might just end up here in blog land.

1. At some point black clothing becomes very faded - grey some might say - and these articles of black clothing should be thrown away. Just a good rule of thumb. If you think something black of yours has faded a great deal place it next to another black piece of clothing. Then throw it OUT. It’s faded. Deal.

2. Socks and sandals. Really, do I need to say anything else. If you think this is acceptable well, we need to have a serious talk. Like “the talk” - oh, and I will want my stuff back, just a heads up.

3. White athletic socks and dress shoes. Really…REALLY?!?! If you own and wear dress shoes you should have the common sense to own dress socks. Did your parents teach you nothing? If you missed that life lesson the shoe salesman at the Nord. should of at least tried to multi-sale you on the socks.

4. NEON. (Except in the recent case of my VB wearing a neon yellow dress - she’s VB people, she can wear whatever outlandish attire she finds - she’s got the DB and really, what else can one need). It’s just ugly, it flatters no one’s skin tone. If you do wear it it should be part of a costume - on Halloween - if not, well people are just going to think you are slow and don’t know what month it is.

I don’t really believe in resolutions, I think it’s the word resolution - it insinuates that there is some fault in you that needs to be resolved. Why can’t people just admit no one’s perfect, no one is without faults, you know? I embrace my faults, they are personality indicators, quirks perhaps. I am far from perfect and I know that.

So this year it’s all about goals. 2007 was an interesting year, to say the least, and I’ve never been a person who is all about the New Year and making goals or starting over. I needed 2007 to end, I needed to feel like I was really off to a clean slate. So I am embracing the end of 2007 and heading full force into the renewed energy that seems to be coming with 2008.

My friend Megan informed me this week that she started a blog. I’ve been thinking about it for a while now but never really was able to cross that line into full blog-dom. My attempts at journals (and yes, there have been about 3-4 attempts in the last couple years) never really stuck so I’m gonna give this route a shot. I just received a new computer that I adore (thanks to Deb, Terry and Yuki) and well, let’s be honest, I am a geek and usually online in some form - internet/email enabled phone and all. I figure I’ve sat through enough “to blog or not to blog” meetings with various clients in work scenarios that the pros and cons were already worked through.

So here goes nothing, and maybe here comes nothing - only time can tell on where this blog journey will take me. I hope both you the reader and I the blogger will find it entertaining.

*I feel like I need to add a disclaimer, some great things came of 2007 - my relationships with my closest friends continued to grow and strengthen, I started a new job that I really enjoy and I made some great memories. So don’t think I was all sad panda about 2007.