The Doctors

There is a TV show on every week day at 3:00PM on channel 14 (KJZZ) called "The Doctors". It would be nice if I could watch it everyday, but in reality I only see it maybe once or twice a week. The show has four doctors on it a plastic surgeon, an ER doctor, a pediatrician, and then a women gynecologist. There is always fun topics on about health, beauty, weight, health problems, and plastic surgery topics. I find it very informative. So the next time your thinking hmm its 3:00 what should I do? Flip on the Doctors and you'll be pleasantly surprised. 

honk honk honk

Many of you know I am the oldest in my family. I have two younger brothers. well Cody is 16 months or is it 15 months younger than me?  I would have to pull out my toes and fingers to count it out so I'm not going to worry about it. My other little brother Austin is 11 years younger than me. Nope he wasn't an oops a baby, he was planned. My parents divorced when I was five and my mom re-married when I was eight. Here is a fun fact for some that don't know. My real dad's name is Robert, but goes by Bob and my step-dad's name is Robert and goes by Bob ha ha ha. I think that was good planning on my mom's part, that way there is never a mess up (:  

Anyway my little brother Austin who just turned 11 now has a cell phone. I woke up this morning with 17 missed texts. They were all so important, here is the general idea of them. "hi elicia" "hi elicia" ""are you coming to my basketball game today" "My game starts in 10 minutes" "guess what we won" "we won elicia" "elicia are you there" that is a cool picture"(I have no idea what he is talking about with the picture) "what are you doing today" "so what are you doing today" "hi elicia" "hi elicia". Keep in mind these text all came before 7:30 in the AM. Its Saturday morning I don't even open my eyes until at least nine. Heck I'm writing this in bed and its eleven  and I still have text coming from him, the subject has now changed to me taking him to the movies today. Oh brother. 

This morning when I was getting one text after another I rolled my eyes, turned my phone on vibrate, and jammed it underneath Anthony's pillow (he had already left for work). Now that I am awake I find it humorous. I love that Austin and I are buds and I hope we stay this way forever. My other brother, Cody, and I are not as close. So I love that Austin and I have this special relationship. 

All in a Name

"So" Suzanne sent me this fun e-mail the other day so I thought I would post it. You should try it. 

1. YOUR REAL NAME: Elicia Ann Simon
   
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus-izzle): Eliizzle
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite animal) Pink Dog
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you live on): Ann Binford
5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of you last name, first 2 letters of your first name): Simeli
6. YOUR SUPERHERO/ CRIMINAL NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and favorite drink): Teal Strawberry Colada Daiquiri 
7. YOUR IRAQUI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter your last name, 2nd letter of your mom's maiden name, 3rd letter of your dad's name, 1st letter of a sibling's first name, and last letter of your mom's first name): Lmsubci
8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (parent's middle names): Linette Ralph 
9. YOUR GOTH NAME (black, and the name of one of your pets): Black Anonymous
10. YOUR GHETTO GIRL NAME: (first 3 letters of your first name and add -iqua): Eliiqua

School

So I have decided to go back to school since no time is better than the present time. I was a little hesitant about going back, but I am so close to having that degree I might as well. Besides I hate seeing money going to waste. I figured I have the perfect job that allows me to do it and I have no kids(not that kids would stop me, but they're not like my dog I can't stuff them in the hall while I'm gone). I have 15 credit hours this semester. I decided to get my degree in Technical Sales and the plan is to get a minor in Multimedia Marketing. So I have three sales classes which are all online. I have one computer class, TBE 3090, a Power Point class. I'm taking a special math class which is in the health science department. Its a secret math class to help pass the Accuplacer test. Its very similar to math 955, but I actually get 5 credit hours for it.  I'll admit it now, I am not good at math at all!!!! Good thing Anthony is good at it or I could be in big trouble :) Anthony is starting school this semester too. I am so proud of him for going back.

 

Nothing else is to new. I started reading the Twilight series again. Bad idea they are so addicting. I am on the third book. I started reading it Saturday night and I will finish it sometime today. I want to finish it so I can get my life back.

Christmas has come and gone again

Christmas is always such a fun time of the year. I really enjoy it and being with family. I'm sad to say I don't have any Christmas pictures to put up and share. Sad story, Anthnoy's camera (our good one) stopped working. The screen went all fuzzy. I had my camera which was a Wal-Mart special, but somewhere in the midst of all the Christmas fun I lost my SD card. 

I'll start at the beginning which would be Christmas Eve. That night we went over to Anthony's parents and had dinner. There was Dad Simon's famous bean dip, soups, cheese and crackers, crab, really yummy chocolate balls, and some sugary chex mix. We hung out and opened Christmas presents. My favorite part was when Anthony and I gave Summer her gift. It was a (fake) diamond necklace. She opened it up and said I quote "oh my word", only in her cute Summer voice. We all thought it was so cute and funny that she looked around at all of us with her big brown eyes and started crying, because she thought we were making fun of her. It was so sweet though. 

We then headed over to my Grandma Mayberry's house to go to my family Christmas Party. It's a tradition that we always bring a white elephant gift and play the left/ right game. I ended up with a box of orange sticks that had movie gift certificates attached to it. Anthony ended up with some kind of tool. 

~Christmas Day~ 

Christmas morning we were at my mom's house. I like having my little brother around (he is 11) he is still young enough that he wakes up at 5 in the morning to open up Christmas presents. Thank goodness I didn't have to I am not a morning person. My main gift was from my mom. She bought me a Cricuit Expression. Its really nice I can cut out all kinds of scrapbooking things with it now. I just ordered 4 cartridges today for it so it will be even more fun when I get all my new fonts and shapes. Anthony spoiled me and bought me a new pair of pants, 3 shirts, nano ipod , ihome (in pink), 3 dvds, new pjs, & new boots. Technically my mac laptop was my Christmas present also, but I got that in October. Anthony's parents were very generous and gave us some fun money, Christmas decorations, and a few fun odds and ends. My dad gave me money for a new printer, which I bought yesterday. It is a Canon MP980. I'm in love with it, my favorite thing about it is its wireless. He also gave me my holiday Barbie. I have gotten one every year since 1989. This is a picture of this years. 

I don't take them out of the box. They are collectors. I went on ebay once to look up at how much it would be to get the 1988 holiday barbie. She is the only one I am missing. I had good luck with finding her, but she is worth $500. 

When we were at my dad's house on Christmas it started to snow soooo bad. The news said the wind was reaching 90 mph speeds and it was snowy and foggy. We ended up having to spend the night because the roads were so bad. The next morning we were up bright and early in order to get home so Anthony could get ready to go to work. The roads were a little slick when we were driving, but not horrible. When we got home I went to pull in the driveway and barely made my nose in before I got stuck. So here is me and Anthony outside at 8:00 am trying to un-dig my car. Of course when I get my car stuck its not just a little stuck its mucho grande stuck! I think my car is invincible and it should drive like a truck through a snow bank:)  I think my neighbor felt sorry for us and he came running out in his University of Utah pajama pants with his pants tucked into his snow boots. I would feel sorry for us to if I was watching from a distance. Anthony and I were both in our pjs Anthony is wearing his cowboy boots because he couldn't find his snow boots (side note: I found his snowboots later that day. They were on his desk that he thinks is his second closet(which drives me bonkers) underneath a pile of clothes, no wonder he couldn't find them. I wouldn't be able to find anything on that disaster either). I wished I had a camera at that moment though. He looked like such a hill billy it was giving me the giggles. We ended up getting my car out after about a 1/2 hour of digging and pushing. Our snowblower was broken (my dad just fixed it, thanks dad) so we had to shovel the rest of the driveway that morning so we could get Anthony's car out of the garage and get him on his way to work. I don't care what anyone says shoveling is the pits. It is hard work. I was kicking myself this weekend. I shoveled the main part of the driveway while Anthony cleaned out the part where the road and driveway meets, so I wouldn't get stuck anymore. After I finished shoveling I did a boot camp class at the gym. When I woke up Saturday I could hardly move. My abs were sore, my back was big time sore, and my upper buns and my shoulders. I know wah wah wah and a little violin, but hey its my blog I'll whine if I want to. 

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas like I did.

Not mad just bugged

So I took two sweaters to the dry cleaners last Thursday. I don't normally take my clothes to have someone else wash them, but one of the sweaters is 100% cashmere, and I know I don't trust myself with that. Heck, I was ironing a shirt the other day, and it had writing on it. So I flipped it inside out. Around the top was just a tiny piece of velvet, you know the kind of decoration you only get to see, because its inside your shirt. Well here I am ironing away and all of a sudden my iron starts sticking to the shirt and sizzling. My first thought was, stupid iron, you have never been the same since Anthony dropped you. On closer inspection I noticed that I had sizzled the velvet. Oh well it was inside the shirt right. Wrong. That thing gave me a rash from rubbing my neck all day long. So after that little experience and others I won't mention, I decided to take my sweaters to the dry cleaner. The other sweater I took in was just a normal cream colored sweater that probably cost me $20. I like this sweater though. I wore it when I was in California with a pair of really dark denim. I had never washed the pants before and its that kind of dark denim you have to wash by itself before you trust it to wash with your other clothes. So when I was in California I wore the sweater and the pants together. The sweater is one that covers my bootay. So of course the pants turned the inside of the sweater a light denim blue. No big deal right. Well the tag on the sweater said "hand wash and lay flat to dry". Yeah right me hand wash uh uh no way. So to make this long story longer I took it to the dry cleaner and when I picked it up the buttons were melted and attached with a safety pin in a ziploc baggy. I called them right away when I noticed my buttons were gonners. The lady said you didn't specify. I'm just going to throw this question out. Don't you think if you are going to pay money, to have something washed, you would expect the dry cleaner to read the tag? I should mention they also dried it, which its a lay flat to dry item. It does look a tad smaller, but that could be my imagination, but I'm to scared to try it on. They told me they would sew new buttons on for a $1 each. Right, I may not want to wash my own clothes, but I can sew on a button. 

On a more happier note.... By the way I will get over this dry cleaning thing give me a couple of hours and maybe some new buttons. Back to the happier note. Anthony and I went to Park City over the weekend. It was fun to get away even if it wasn't very far. The drive up there was pretty it was snowing and everything around us was covered in white. I thought the drive would be scary, but honestly it wasn't to bad. I just recently ordered the Twilight audiobook. Anthony and I saw the movie together and he keeps asking questions about it. I know there is no way I could actually get him to read the book so I was sneaky and got the cds. He wont admit it, but he likes it. I have caught him rolling his eyes a few times, but that is probably for the same reason I have too. Because he just wants Edward to kiss Bella already and he hasn't done it yet. Okay maybe its not for the same reasons, but a nice thought though. When we were in Park City we stayed at the WestGate resort. It is by the Canyons ski resort. We had to listen to a 90 minute spill about owning a time share with them (which we didn't buy). It was worth it though, our room was perfect. We were upgraded so we had a room that could sleep 6 people. There was a kitchenette that was hooked to the tv area which had a nice fireplace. The bedroom was huge with a huge bed. It also had a two seater tub. I took two baths up there, I normally don't take baths, but since I could swim laps in it I enjoyed it :)  The bathroom was really amazing too. The shower was also another of my favorite. Mounted in the top of it was a HUGE shower head that felt like it was raining on you. There was also a thing called Mr. Steam and you just turned up or lowered the heat on it and it steamed while you showered. So cool. We didn't do a ton of stuff while we were there just the usual. We went to Main street and to the outlets. We went out to dinner twice. That is one of my favorite things to do is try new restaurants. The first night we were there our friends Brett and Kristine came up and that is when we tried an Italian restaurant. It was very expensive, but quite tasty. They didn't spend the night though, because they had to get so they could teach their primary class the next day. My brother and a girl (I don't know what she is, just a girl named Jessica) came up on Sunday night and spent the night we went out to dinner with them and watched a movie in our hotel room. All in all it was a fun weekend. I want to go back up and go tubing. I had my heart set on it, but it just isn't fun when your coming down the mountain and your being pelted with snowflakes. I have one picture of us in Park City, but I can't find my camera cord. The batteries died while we were up there and when I got new batteries for it I left the camera in the room. Genius oh well. What is done is done. 

waiting

So I'm just hanging out at the computer once again I'm waiting for a webinar to begin. For those who don't know what a webinar is I'll explain. One of the products we carry at work is called La Roche Posay. It is Loreal's medical version of their skin care products. Once and awhile they have training seminars online. So I login and watch online and then I call and it connects me to the computer and everyone else that is watching nationwide. The webinar I am waiting to watch is about a molecule called LHA. I'm excited to learn more about it,because I don't know much and I hate not knowing. 

So today I though I would start on a couple of Christmas presents I'm trying to be crafty on. After awhile of working on it I decided to take a break because it was making me sleepy so I thought I would check my e-mails. There was nothing to exciting there just a million Aeropostale e-mails. Everytime I get an e-mail from Aeropostale I think of those little birds that bobble, you know the kind Homer Simpson has. Anyway can't you just imagine Aeropostale having a bobble head bird and it just keeps bobbling and sending e-mails. I hope they don't pay someone to send them, because this would be a much cheaper idea :)  

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So today we had a nurse come from Farm Bureau our insurance company. She made us pee in a cup, stand on the scale, and take our blood. I'm going to be honest all three of these things weren't fun. Oh and to put a cherry on top of all of that fun stuff I couldn't eat anything from when I woke up until she got there at twelve. I was sneaky though and ate 3 M&Ms. I felt guilty about it though when she asked me what time it was when I last ate. I had to confess about the 3 M&Ms. She just laughed and said those shouldn't make to much of a difference. 

Well my webinar is about to start. I will have to let you know how it goes. It's very slow right now at work. So if anyone is interested in coming to get a free chemical peel let me know. I work on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9-5. You can even call me the day of and I will schedule you an appointment. If you have any friends that are interested in skin care let them know too. Right now everyone that I see for the first time they get a complimentary skin care visit and micropeel plus 30% off any products they buy that day. A micropeel is a light chemical peel. Usually I use a 2% lactic acid. So its a good exfoliation that will make your skin look hydrated and refreshed, just what everyone needs around the holidays. For you who are scared of the word peel, I just want you to know that it wont peel your face. Higher percentages of acid will cause that, 2% is like a lick of lollipop. This just came to me. Imagine the tootsie pop commercial where they see how many licks to the center of the lollipop. So if you do a low percentage its like 1 or 2 licks the higher the percentage the closer you get to the tootsie roll in the middle.