Been doing pretty good!

Woot! I’ve been regularly updating my blog.  Go me!!

So I finally got to go jumping last weekend, thanks to the lovely bank of Dad.  My daddy is so sweet, and I am a tried and true daddy’s girl.  He paid for my USPA renewal and for my jumps.  When we got to the DZ he said, “Where’s your helmet”    My helmet trap broke and I needed a new chin strap, and was just too lazy to go on and do it.  Lots of people jump without helmets all the time, so I didn’t think too much of it. 

Well that apparently isn’t good enough for my dad.  Next thing I knew he bought the helmet that was for sale in the display case and boom, I had a new helmet.  So that’s my birthday gift taken care of for next month.  ^_^

I had two jumps that day.  The first one was rough,  first time jumping in 8 months.  Man the butterflies were just a going, so much so that I almost didn’t make a 2^nd jump.  Dad talked me into it, and I’m SSOOOO glad I did.  It was a most awesome jump where I went out and enjoyed myself.  There was a cloud, shaped like a horseshoe, and I went right through the horseshoe part.  It was so cool!!  I probably should get me one of those gopro cameras and put it on my helmet so that I could show you all.  Maybe that’s what I’ll ask for Christmas... hmmm.

anyways here's a picture of my new helmet, modeled by the cutest 6 year old in the world.

Other exciting news is that my best friend is finally getting married to her boyfriend.  Let me give you the lowdown on this little story.  Almost two years ago, Alissa was sad she left her 2^nd husband, and was lonely and asked me, “Why can’t I find a rich good looking guy who loves kids and is good to me?”  She said it jokingly, but I knew that she was kinda serious. 

So that night, I was wracking my brain wondering if I could hook Alissa up with someone, as I laid down in bed and said my prayers, I said, “God help me out here, Alissa needs a good guy”  Boom! Shane popped into my head and I’m like… Duh! That would be perfect! 

This is why God rocks.

Anyways, after much pushing and shoving on my part because they are the two most shyest people in the stinking WORLD, they went on a date to the movies, and then started seeing each other on a regular basis.   After a few months… things went downhill.  They broke up, but decided to stay friends.  Things stayed this way for a long time.  They hung out every night together, went on dates, but they weren’t really dates, because they were just friends, (at least that’s what I was told).  Then earlier this month, drama happened, and they both spilled their feelings for each other and decided to date again.  Then yesterday I get a text “Shane and I are engage”   Commence Happy Kat Dance.

I have now thrown myself into Wedding Planner/Maid of Honor roll.  I have scheduled her hair and make up for their wedding date, commissioned someone to do invitation, and made a couple of appointments this weekend for her to try on dresses.  Dan is ready to bury his head in the sand because I’m so excited.  I’m even worrying Alissa a bit, but if she plans stuff now, she can do payment plans on the vendors and get it all taken care of now, and not worry about any big scary unexpected expenses popping up.

I’m also going to be planning her wedding shower, and I’m helping plan a baby shower as well.

I love this planning stuff!  Maybe I should go into the event planning business; we’ll see how these 3 events go.

I should probably make some spreadsheets up and some binders to hold all the information in. 

Ok now onto the soap box portion of my happy little blog.

Brystol Palin has come out with book, talking about her life.  You’re 20 years old chicky… You haven’t lived long enough to have a memoir, but the crap that you say in this book, you will regret in 10 years, cause trust me. I regret a lot of stuff I did when I was 20. 

It’s just a huge publicity stunt, where she rips on her ex boyfriend/fiancée Levi Johnson, and talk about how wonderful her mom is.  I mean seriously… her mom probably wrote the book and put Brystol’s name on it.  Oh and Levi is coming out with a book later this year.

I mean really people?  You’re not even old enough to drink, what do you expect to accomplish when you’re writing these books and trashing each other?  It’s like Facebook, but in print and you’re expecting people to buy it.

The sad thing is… people will buy it.  The same people who was Fox News all the time and think that Fox News is fair and equal reporting. /commence eye roll

Another thing to eye roll on is the fricken government.  Obama went on the news last night, saying they are starting preparations to bring 33,000 troops home by July next year, and then even more by 2014.

Then Democrats cried out, “That’s too fast, it’ll make Afghanistan fall apart”  and then the republicans turn around, “That’s not fast enough, bring our people home!”

I mean really?  Is the political divide so bad that we have to criticize everything that Obama is doing?!   Like check out this cartoon, from NPR Double Take http://www.npr.org/2011/06/14/137175063/double-take-toons-gop-all-stars

Obama did a lot of things that the republicans want, and a lot of things that democrats wanted.  He’s not the best president, but he’s not the worse.  He’s done what he can to do to do compromise, and in the process, he’s making everyone made because they want their way or the highway.

That’s enough political stuff.  I have a friend who does a feral cat rescue.  Basically she buys food for feral cats, traps them, gets them fixed, and let’s them out into the wild once more; because they are feral they can not be adopted.

However, the last 3 weeks, she’s been like peter piper and has every lost kitten and puppy come find her.  I’ve been helping her find homes for some animals.  She cares about these animals so much, that she got plane tickets all the way up here to give two kittens homes. She paid more than my mortgage payment to get up here. I've been helping her try to find homes for some of the kitties that she has. There are SOOO many animals that need to go to good homes, most of the time they are euthanized, if they do not.  If you can go visit her facebook page Paws for the Cause Feral Cat Rescue and donate some money so that it helps buy food for the cats.

So please if you are looking for an animal, instead of spending a lot of money, rescue a homeless animal. You’ll never find a more loving companion.