Adventure Time

What I lack in education, I make up for in life experience. This morning I was shaken awake by my sister, who in 5 minutes conned me into helping our aunt out for the day. My aunt usually takes care of an elderly lady every Monday and couldn't today because she was sick. So, the task was given to me and my sister. We thought it was going to be a quick little thing where we could be done before anyone even knew we had left. 7 hours later, we had been to Jerome for the Dr. appointment, stopped off in Twin for lunch and a visit to some stores to buy some odds and ends, back to Burley, hit up Walmart, the grocery store, and the post office, then went home and scrubbed the carpet floor where she'd hit her nose and got blood everywhere, made dinner, put everything away, and promised a return visit in the future. What truly made it all worth it was the conversation topics... we were talking about being married and acceptable age differences between men and women and she says, ''I know that guys like to marry younger women, but now I hear that there's a thing called cougars!' After my sister and I gathered ourselves from laughing so hard she continued with, ''and the man at my church keeps asking me out to dinner, but I keep having to tell him no.'' Oh man, I hope I am an awesome old person.

Priorities

I was sitting on my bed when I hear my little brother upstairs. I can hear him talking, but usually I don't hear him use such a persuasive voice. I hear little phrases like, 'come on.. you got it... just a little farther. come on little guy. almost there...come on you're doing so good. you are so close. just a little farther and we are there.' and on and on with all this reinforcement speech. Naturally, I am super curious who he is with. My mind flashes through images of a baby just learning to walk, maybe a maimed animal dragging a paw behind, or maybe he is helping someone with their rehab. He then calls down the stairs and tells me he has something really great to show me. (the walking infant, maybe) I walk upstairs and he has his remote control car out and he is trying to persuade the dying battery to get the car to go a little farther around the house. He was so proud of himself. My siblings are so weird.

Dreams

You know the second you wake up and you can only remember your dreams for about 30 seconds then they completely leave you? This is my experience.... I was sleeping in my moms bed cause we were up late finishing Christmas and I was almost to that half conscious almost asleep happy place. I heard my mom flip over and say oh! Oh! Oh! Then she hit me over the head as hard as she could! I was like Mom!! Why did you just hit me?! And in her drunken slumber she said oh sorry! I thought you were stealing the presents! And I said I'm not, but if you ever hit me like that again I will! And she said, ok I just hadn't checked that corner yet. And I was laughing so hard I had to come down to my room and write this. As well as sleep where it's safe...

Envy

There is a certain part of my Pinterest home page where I can scroll down for a pretty substantial amount of time and all I see is pictures of very attractive boys, super delicious looking food, and the cutest clothes/accessories/and house decorating ideas I have ever seen. Either I need some new friends to follow, or I have the exact right ones who know exactly what I wish I had.

News

I got enough courage to call the tax collector today. The easiest way for me to explain this story is like this:

Me: Hi, I got a tax notification for a house I don't live in.
Operator: Ok, what is your name?
M: Emily.
O: Ok, so it shows you live at 401 W. Main in Homedale. Is this correct?
M: No, I don't live there. I live in Burley, Idaho. I have never heard of Homedale.
O: Are you sure? Did you maybe put a lease out and someone just put the property in your name?
M: Yes, I am sure that I have never been there, never heard of it, and do not own property.
O: Are you certain that this property is not yours?
M: Yeah, I'm sure.
O: Ok, well we have it in our system that your current address is 401. Do you mean to say that you do not currently reside there and you do not own that property?
M: Yes, that is what I am saying. I do not live there, I never have, I don't know why it is in my name.
O: Ok, I'm going to put you on hold........ Ok, well that might have just been a mistake in our system. Do you own any more property or anything that should not be in your name?
M: No.
O: Ok it is taken care of. Bye.

Well geesh. Call me crazy but this lady did not believe I was telling her the truth! I am not kidding I had to tell her at least 3 times that I do not live there. Also, is it just me or was that really easy to take care of? I feel like more people could just call in and say that they don't live in their houses if they didn't feel like paying taxes. I mean totally dishonest, but fairly simple. I feel so relieved that is out of the way. You can all rest easy now.


                              Everyone say hello (and goodbye) to the first home I've ever owned.

Identity Theft

So what if my favorite tv show is listed under ''Feel-good kids' TV for ages 8-10'' on Netflix...I'm not going to stop watching Wizards of Waverly place just because I've been labeled. For these past 2 days I have been on my death bed and haven't moved very far from it. I have my mother and brother to thank for this very long weekend of sleeping all day and barely moving unless absolutely necessary. Netflix has become my best friend and I probably should get banned from the Disney channel. I did drag my little self out of bed and to the church with the fam while we went to watch my dad sing in the Christmas program tonight and that was just the little boost I needed to be excited for Christmas! Granted there isn't any snow outside so it doesn't feel like Christmas, but I have allowed myself to get excited now.

 As I have previously mentioned to some of you, I am still fighting the battle of the mobile home issue. Whoever was paying taxes for it under my name has stopped and I got a warning in the mail that if I don't pay by the 20th, bad things will happen. Who knows why it is in my name in the first place, and why the person who has been paying for it all along decided to stop. Do they know they aren't me? Did they think I'd never find out? I am supposed to call the tax collector but what do you really say in this situation? Uh, yeah, hi I'm not going to give you your 2 payments that you are asking for on or before December 20th because A) I've never ever heard of Homedale, Idaho B) I am 20 years old and have left the state of Idaho exactly once to live in Utah for a year and C) Why is there a house in my name and why has this not been investigated farther? Anyone ever heard of identification? We'll see how that phone call goes tomorrow.

Glory

I signed my first record label tonight. The crowd cheered the loudest, most enthusiastic, most exuberantly for my piece. Ok, so we can probably cross those sentences out. But, I did play in my first ever recital tonight. Even when I myself was taking lessons I was too nervous and would never let my teacher sign me up for a recital. Also, I didn't figure the 5 months that I took lessons would get me anywhere near memorizing a piece for a crowd. But in all my self taught-ness, I was able to crank out 2 pieces for the 2 little violin boys in my ward. I played flawlessly. But in all seriousness I was on stage from 6:37-6:39 o'clock and my glory probably only lasted about 30 seconds. At least my mom is proud. (I think...she didn't go.)