oh heather

In honor of the birthday girl:

Heather is my wing girl, my room mate, my family and my best friend.

 

Heather always talks in her sleep {loudly}, heather sometimes sleeps through her alarms {but dont worry i dont}, heather likes some music i dont, heather and i sometimes disagree on some really important issues {like the joe jonas/tay swift breakup}, heather cant focus when the t.v. is on AT ALL {esp if its that 70's show on} heather sometimes likes dumb boys even though i tell her they are dumb {jeep tool boy}heather takes the longest showers in the world and then theres no hot water{25-30 minute showers to be exact bc sometimes we time them...},heather will move her car two spots over if one opens up and shes inside bc its a better spot {two spots over makes no difference...}, heather refuses to throw away or waste food {consequently we have food from months prior in our fridge} but despite these very few things that make heather heather, she is one of my favoritest people in the entire world because these are ALL the things i love about her:

I love that Heather is the BEST wing girl in the world. We are both so good at spotting boys for eachother its unreal-sometimes i find myself looking for boys for heather before i look for myself or making sure whoever i like has a friend for heather and she does the same thing. Sometimes boys probably think i like them when i am interrogating them but its really for her benefit. I love when i like a boy and heather talks to him and friends him for me bc i am incapable...she has to do this a lot. I love that randomly Heather surprises me with cupcakes or brings me food from places she goes. I love that Heather trusts me enough to let me pick out her outfits and proofread, create or approve her important texts. I love that Heather makes to do lists and quote lists and now consequently i do too. I love that we can read eachothers minds. Haha i am not even joking- there have been times when i have been shocked that she knew what i  was thinking. Sometimes all it takes is for us to just look at eachother. I love that when i'm with Heather i'm sassier, funnier and that we play off eachother perfectly. We are so good at making eachother look good in front of boys. I love that we never like the same boys either. I love that heather introduced me to chicken salad sandwiches and whenever she wants to make us food its pasta roni. I love that when were sitting on the couch at night and i get up to go to our room heather anxiously asks "are you going to bed?" and i laugh and say no or when i say yes shes like"ah me too." You see we like to go to bed at the same times haha and sometimes i find myself doing the same thing. i love how creative heather is and how she can make a costume out of anything. I love that Heather sends me postcards from Florida. I love that heather is always writing me nice notes from "the ward hottie" or something along those lines. I love that when i really want to go get pumpkins, heather gets me one and leaves a note pretending its from this cute boy in the ward. I love that heather color coordinates her closet. I love that when i look in my seminary journal dated feb 15, 2008 when it says "friends that will bring you closer to God," Heathers name is right at the top. I love that when i am having the worst day and ask heather to come home early she does, without even asking why(and seeing heather before 7 is a shock). I love that when i miss FHE- she sends me a text telling me theres soup and a donut waiting for me at the apt.  love the funny and random texts i get from heather throughout the day such as this one "ps my shoe broke today and i just stapled it to fix it. I think this may be an alltime ghetto low for me...." or this one "stalin just turned into malcolm x" when i miss a part of sunday school to get my picture taken and heather fills me in on what happened. {this would probably be a lot funnier to you if you knew the context}. I love getting ready for church with Heather and listening to Sunday music. I love it when heather visits me at work! {she has visited me everywhere i've worked!} I love that when we talk about our first impressions Heather says i was putting on makeup...at GC {was not} and Heather sprayed every window and door with bugspray. In my journal it says "Heather used 6 bottles of bugspray the 1st day." <----see heather! it must be true. Finally some proof. i love that we share a mutual obsession with the bachelor/bachelorette. i love that when heather tells me she misses her favorite wing girl i picture myself as an actual wing...like a chicken wing. i love that you like jersey shore but feel guilty for bringing you to the darkside. I love how supportive you are as a friend and i love your pep talks and i love when i like boys that i shouldnt and you still listen to me go on and on and on about them but dissaprove at the same time. i love when we talk in code about boys. i love that we know all the music the other one loves or doesnt love haha. i love that heather lets me dj in her car. i love that we both talk so fast and understand eachother even when everyones like wait what? i love that we are always introducing eachother to new music. i love that you are so nice to give me rides in cassidy jane and are always offering. i love when heather and i go on double dates and climb in a little crappy house thing...i love when we finish eachothers sentences. i love cyberstalking boys with heather...all the time. i love that heathers always down to have fun. I love that heather makes me apologize-jared probably loves that too. i love about a 1000 other things too. you're welcome for sparing you from our pre teen pictures...

Over the 10ish years we've been best friends we have made some of the best memories! We have also had some great times, like girls camp and some not so great times...like girls camp. The whole it was the best of times and it was the worst of times is strangely fitting for those years-bc sometimes Heather and i are trouble makers and when the leaders go all cray and try to seperate Heather, Rach and I we dont like it and Heather ends up sleeping in our cabin which consequently almost gets her sent home but then they realize how wrong they were and right we were so they leave us alone. Moral of the story is we cant be seperated...or other times when we go to sunrise surprise but its not that great of a surprise and we all get in trouble...again. or my favorite- sometimes heather and i think mutual is boring and we dont really wanna stay so we get this cool plan. We decide to run away, yes, run away...i guess if you wanna get all technical its drive away but anyway we go a mile down the street and sit in this parking lot and jam to music and were feeling all bad A and cool until the leaders and our parents start blowing up our phone telling us to come back to the church building right now and then we have to go back and then sometimes the plan wasnt so cool anymore...but sometimes we have good times like kareoking at blue knob and laughing for literally 30 minutes at that cant be tamed music video when miley has a spaz attack. Or when we took forever learning the efy dance to "we like to party" or the hoedown throwdown. I could go on and on but then this post would never end. It is NEVER a dull moment when we are together. ever. Very few people have a friendship like ours and i love it.
Happy 22 21st birthday... again ;)
xoxo CAIT xoxo

"Ryans got me!"

I am all for roomie bonding- and we def do it ALL the time.

After the stake FHE Monday night we all agreed to go see House at the End of the Street. i LOVE scary movies and going to the movies in general. This scary movie was no dissapointment. We took blankets and popcorn {sneaky}. Besides a double date group below we had the theatre to ourselves.

I kinda felt bad because we are not a quiet group-ever and movies are no exception.

We screamed {i'm def a screamer}, yelled at the movie, added our own dialogue and other obnoxious things and since we didnt take boys-we cuddled :)

the only pictures we managed to get were feet ones because all my room mates insisted they were not up to par for anything above the knee...  and some of us even wore slippers...haha

Just some of our dialogue throughout the movie:

most dramatic scene in the movie- "wow her makeup looks great"

heather turns to stare at me.

"balding bill"

"he looks so sad i just wanna kiss him!"

"Look at him-i'd give him a glass of milk, how could you not?"

"hes SO hot, what does that tell you about hot boys?..."

"dont trust them! Only trust the ugly ones."

"you're a psycopath! but its okay, get on me"

"i didnt think he was hot initally but then he started kissing her and i was like danggg-turned on."

"nope to me he was scary the whole time"

Poor ryan now takes the blame for everything in our apt.

"Where are you?" "ryan has me! i'm locked in his basement" "ooh i'll let you two have fun"

"Ryan did it!"

"look its ryan" etc etc ETC

You can judge for yourself but i wouldnt mind seeing the movie again...for the fact that it was great and hes kind of adorable. GO SEE IT.

xoxo Cait xoxo

"Let's hang out?"

No, the answer to this is no.

Dear boys,

 Just a little piece of advice compiled from some friends:
-If you ask me on a date through a text, email, IM, friend, note or any other piece of technology the answer is gonna be no. Sorry. Don't casually bring it up through a text then call. Just call or ask in person. This always surprises me when boys are like "caitlin she didn't text me back...weird." oh really? I actually dont find this weird at all-maybe its bc you texted her after i told you not to? just a thought though...

-I'm sorry did you really just ask me to "hang out?" Let me just friendzone you right now amd save us both the trouble. I dont care if you look like Taylor Lautner- this is not a good idea. I understand sometimes boys are nervous and wanna get to know the girl first but a first date isnt a big deal- it doesnt mean you love her or want to date her exclusively. If she thinks that shes crazy anyway and you're sparing yourself
-please dont knuckle me, high five me, shake my hand or anything that makes me feel...
well kinda like i'm a dude-i'd rather you do nothing if these are my options
-dont bro me if you dont know me.

- dont text me everyday and ask if i would go on a date with you and when i say yes you never ask me....but continue to text me. whattt.
-dont check me out after you've already repulsed me by writing nice notes to yourself (3 to be exact) and by going on and on about how girls come onto you. I am so impressed right now *rolls eyes*
-dont tell me you played Kill, Date, Bang with my apartment and expect me to be like oh yeah! what were the results? Instead expect to hear- "i'm sorry how old are you?"
-don't tell me sexist jokes. I wont laugh except maybe at you bc you're gonna be single forevaa dude
-dont talk a big game. Oh i'm sorry-you are so awesome and so smart and so funny? Really? i hadnt noticed. No really, i hadnt. Maybe because you keep talking about it and not showing it. Matter of fact, maybe you should be on a date with yourself-let me leave right now. And leave i will.
-dont make me your therapist and tell me every sad and depressing thing about your life or have me solve all your problems.- not really gonna make me fall in love with you but rather direct you to the closest institution
-dont tell me how much you look at yourself in the mirror (boys have done this..) sorry i know you will always be more into yourself and your over the top gym addiction than me
-dont tell me you think you're into guys jokingly #foreverfriendzoned
- dont make me your servant at work just because i'm new and you think youre attractive and i will do it. I know how things work and i know you're a tool and i'm not falling for it...or you
-dont make fun of other dudes at church, or play on your phone or other distracting things.
-dont be overeager. There is a thing as too nice believe it or not-such as overcomplimenting or constantly saying things like "every guy would love to be with you."- well now i know that i have all control and this is no longer fun- sometimes i think i'm such a dude.
-dont wanna always talk about feelings or be a bigger girl than i am
-dont awkwardly side hug me or give me a bad hug in general
-dont say "i have something to say..." boy then says nothing. "shut up and tell me or why dont you shut up and shutup." (hahaha direct room mate quote)
you're welcome.
Love, me & some other girls.

um it's caitlin

Sometimes your work makes you a nametag and spells it Caitlyn....<----my parents would never spell my name like this and they would not be happy. Sometimes two hot guys come into your section and they say "are you our server?"  and you are feeling underappreciated and ask if they would like someone else- maybe gavin? and they go "no thank you, you are much hotter." Well tell me how you really feel. Then you go on to find they are in their 30's and you stop flirting. Sometimes your roomie really hates fat people and your other roomie says "you're gonna go on a mission where there are a lot of fat people!...like Texas and you will learn to love them." And then sometimes it turns into a debate about whether or not Texas has a lot of fat people...Sometimes you and your roomies are doing late night shopping ay Macey's and you all realize you have a stalker and then you all start getting paranoid that everyone who glances at you is for sure stalking you too. "That guy in the line keeps staring at us too! We need to leave!""....I'm pretty sure he's in our stake presidency guys.." oh. Sometimes your table asks if you're from the South because you "totally look like it" and you think thats probably the best thing you've ever heard. Sometimes when I see a 3 legged dog i think about it for the next 3 weeks and I dont think anything makes me sadder. (still thinking about it!) Sometimes your boss is singing and you tell him he's a really good singer and then you pause and say "but i think you already know that" and he looks up at you and smiles and you realize maybe you can not talk to everyone like that...even though sometimes you know he likes your attitude bc, well he told you so. Sometimes the bus stops in front of baskin robbins and i have to literally will myself to stay in my seat and not get off. Sometimes a prayer ends in "and thank you for the cute boys in our ward and we hope they want to come to our fort." Sometimes I try not to corrupt my room mates with Jersey Shore but i'm obsessed with it so sorry...Sometimes I think the temple should not have cute workers because they are a distraction from the spirit-yes this is a public complaint. Sometimes you are so awkward its not even funny and your roomies are talking it up with some cute boys in the ward and being the best wing girls ever and you are faced forward and then sometiems you know you look dumb so you turn around to join in and the boy is looking right at you so you turn around real fast and well what happened to my voice. Sometimes i have nothing to say and this is well-shocking. Sometimes the things that come out of apt 220's mouthes are absolutely priceless:

"I feel like i'm a bootycall"

"what should i say if someone asks me why i'm up so late?"

"tell him you're playing with your dolls...and then he'll remember your age and stop texting you"

"so we're just gonna judge people by what cake they eat?"

"well you just judge people by how much cake they eat...whats the difference?"

"what boy would wanna date his sister?"

"Reggie King"

"When i'm married it'll be different...she'll make me a birthday cake. and then pop out of it"

"how big will the cake be?"

"depends on how big she is..."

"ooh i want someone to jump out of my birthday cake!"

"are we domestic or what??"

"why arent we wifed yet..."

"ohmygoodness you werent in my mouth!"

"you guys take everything wrong!"
"oh i'm sorry, when you said i hate fat people i thought you really did-must have been a miscommunication there-maybe i didn't understand that..."

"me hungy"

"talk like a mute person- i cant hear anything!"

"stop making dinosaur noises please"

xoxo CAIT xoxox

just say NO to caffeine

I dont drink soda. For more than one reason but when i'm at work and its easy access sometimes i just do. Yesterday was slow, so instead of a sip here or there, i decided it was acceptable to drink dr. pepper. I would estimate how much it was but i'm not good at that so lets just say it was a lot. Do you know what happens when you drink caffeine after oh a year or so?

YOU ACT LIKE YOURE ON DRUGS.
YOU LOOK LIKE YOURE ON DRUGS
AND YOU PROB FEEL LIKE YOURE ON DRUGS

I look back on last night with not such fond memories...

i mean i may or may not have thrown a teaspoon full of water on jared because he would not stop hitting me in the head or rather if you ask jared, a gallon bc all night he kept using descriptive words like **drenched or sopping or soaked**
bc sometimes when youre on caffeine you remember youve always wanted to throw water on someone and it seems like a good idea and after, you still think it was a good idea so maybe that wasnt the caffeine at all

i may or may not have insisted my room mate invite people over but when she calls a boy i may or may not have been in the background screaming "uninvite him! uninvite him!" at a decibal that my family members in Maryland may or may not have heard.

i may or may not have acted like finding the ward menu was like finding buried treasure

i may or may not have being running around in circles and not able to sit still

i may or may not have not made sense when i said 10 statements in a matter of 10 seconds and Heather goes "what did you just say??"

i may or may not have been acting without using judgement

i may or may not have thought a 17 year old was cute. #what??

i may or may not have distracted the roomies from doing hw

And after a couple hours of behavior like this i crashed in the middle of the floor.

No more caffeine ever bc if you drink it you'll look like this and have crazy eyes and lets be honest, no one wants crazy eyes.

you've been warned.

xoxo CAIT xoxo

hey you, be happy

General Conference weekend is my favorite!!!

It just reminds me of the many blessings in my life. How can a person not be happy? Here's some things that made me happy lately

I am happy when i watch conference from the inside of our fort with my room mates

I am happy when our ward has a HUGE pre conference breakfast where i can eat fo freee

I am happy when i have my own section on a Friday night and make bank

I am happy when my manager tells me i am one of two servers in the running for the food runner contest and i did a great job. Impressing your managers is always good!

I am happy when my room mates bring me s'mores! Reeses s'mores to be exact!

I am happy when i make pot roast for the first time ever! without any help. along with glazed carrots and potatoes and i feel like i'm going to be a bomb wife.

I am happy when i get to sleep in as late as i want.

I am happy when Kallie tells me she'll cover my shift so i can go to the stake FHE

I am happy that i have the BEST managers anyone could possibly have! I am happy when Jason tells me we are best friends, when Seth fixes my check after i have my first mean table, when Tanner pulls me aside and tells me that I have the best attitude that he has ever seen and that I have the capacity to be one of the best servers and when Adam encouragingly smiles at my first attempt at a beet salad.

I am happy when the boy FINALLY tells me he wants to take me on a date.

I am happy when out of the corner of my eye i see a blue shirt at work and assume its a manager but it turns out to be my favorite person!! and then its obvious i'm happy when i throw- i mean throw my arms around him and hug him. Never have i been so happy with a surprise :D

I am happy when i go to the temple with my room mates and i am having a really bad day and then they surprise me with a cupcake!

I am happy when Jersey Shore comes back on t.v.

I am happy when Shannon comes home from a camping trip!

my general conference dinner! AH so proud :)

xoxo CAIT xoxo

I'm so BAD A

when i drive 4 wheelers.
Well this weekend was one that never ended.

I started my first real shift at work, and have now worked 4 lovely days in a row.

But the BAD A part starts when Laura and i woke up Saturday morning at 6:30 am [yuck! when it was still cold and dark and all my little roomies were tucked into bed] to do a 5k in Salt Lake. It was my first 5k ever and not a real big deal but we did it in 29 minutes. Hey, ill take it! Next thing? prepare for a half marathon :) The cool thing about this 5k was it was for the abused deaf and everyone only signed. Straight from there we went to Bountiful and went four wheelin up in the mountain. I LOVE 4 wheeling. I dont think there is anything more amazing than being in the mountains during Fall. I never realized how much i love Utahs mountains. As I spent the whole day with her family I knew that it was how I wanted my kids to grow up-camping, hiking, roasting marshmellows, fishing, 4 wheeling its so perfect up there.

this picture is not my favorite but let me remind you i got ready in the dark and it was early and we just ran a 5k and then road 4 wheelers. I felt pretty amazing driving it- not gonna lie. I think i found another thing to add to my list of favorites! We then had a picnic up in the moutains on this awesome ledge. I never wanted to leave! But dont worry then we came home and i went straight to work. Lauras family took some pictures at the 5k so hopefully i'll get though sometime and add them.

xoxo CAIT xoxo