Let's Get Fat on Turkey!!!! YAY!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know I know....it's not until tomorrow but still. Tomorrow I will be busy gaining ten pounds and enjoying my lovely family so I won't be writing about it, I'll be living it!

Today, the day before Thanksgiving, always makes me a little nostalgic. It reminds me of sleeping in at my grandparents house and waking up to the sound of grandmother and my aunt preparing their homemade stuffing. It took them a whole day to make! The house would smell sooo good and she would set aside a little pan of stuffing for us to have for dinner.

There is nothing like that feeling. Waking up in a comfy warm bed and hearing them moving around the kitchen, the sweet smell of the fresh vegetables they were chopping and the corn bread baking in the oven. It's almost like a dream. It makes me smile to recall the memory and how clear it is for me. I always felt so safe there. So loved there.

These little moments are the ones I will always cherish from my childhood. I am thankful for them, so so SO thankful for them.

Here are a few other things I'm thankful for......

1. Thankful that even though I complain like no other about how this job is sucking the life out of me, I am thankful that I have it. I am thankful that because of it I have been able to pay my bills for almost two years now- that's always a plus right? I have been blessed.

2. Thankful for such a wonderful family and wonderful friends. Sincerely. Many are not close with their family and many are unable to consider their friends their family. For example, I often find myself referring to Tanner's family as my own. And when I explain my 'very good friends' I usually have to elaborate on how much I love that particular person. Really though my friends are so great and awesome and any other synonym for baller.

3. Thankful for anyone who has prayed for me this year. I was having a rough time earlier. If you answered the phone at a crazy hour, listened to me cry and talk in circles, left an encouraging comment, or just gave me a hug- Thank you. Man! Who knew I would learn so much being 25!?!?!?

4. Thankful for my health. I had the Flu but it wasn't the Pig Flu! And overall I've been pretty healthy despite all that fried chicken I've been eating ;)

5. Thankful for the calmness that comes with knowing everything will definitely be ok.

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all gain 10 pounds and then we can work out together!

Cheers!

LOVE,

Court

Friday Night Wine

If you follow me on twitter then you know that I drank all the wine in South Texas Friday. If you read this blog then you most likely know how I am obsessed with Rockband.

Wine and Rock Band on a Friday= pure bliss in my book.

Kaleo was going with me to visit one of my BFF's, Tanner, on Friday when Kaleo's friend called and asked him to go to a concert that he really wanted to go to. The friend said he had extra tickets and I could even go if I wanted. Kaleo hung up the phone and asked me what I wanted to do. Not being thrilled about the concert, I had no idea who the person performing was, I didn't want t go but he was really excited I could tell. I said, "No, I don't want to go but you go with your friend have fun."

He just sat in the car as I drove staring straight ahead.

Me-'Hello.....?'

Kaleo: Are you sure?

Me: This is not a trick. I swear I won't be mad later! Really. I would tell you if tonight wine and Rockband were super important but it's no big deal. You go do your thing at the show and I will be drinking wine and playing rockband when you get back! Honestly!

So funny. He kind of didn't believe me.....he was a little suspicious as if this was a test. He said,"So, you don't care if I go out tonight, without you, while you stay at your friends house until I get back?"

Really, I'm not like that. Actually, I act a damn fool when Rockband and wine is around so it was probably better that he not be there!

I just remember being with MI and how my eyes would light up about a concert I wanted to go to soooo bad. He would do mean things like tell me to go and then be mad about it later. OR like that one time MI said we were threw if I went. I never want to be that way. I know what it feels like and I don't want us to ever be that way with each other.

BESIDES Tanner had wine and rockband at her house!!!!!!!!! I would be thoroughly entertained!

And I was.

He came in and hung out and then he left for the show. We popped open a few bottles of wine and I was getting all warmed up when Tanner decided we would leave the rest of the crew at the house and we would venture off to Walmart in order to purchase more songs for the Wii!

This is where I meet Eyeesha. Um to be completely honest, I don't remember what prompted the whole inviting her to Thanksgiving but I did. She was really nice and I was all drunk in Walmart. I told her she was a great help and I was really thankful for people like her and being that it is Thanksgiving she should come over to my house and have some turkey this week. Then I told her all about how good the turkey is and that my cousin Brit is a really good cook.

I said,"Eyeesha! Girl! Don't be shy! Just come over! Everybody is really nice and they will like you. They will like you even more if you bring a pumpkin pie! I swear it!"

And then Tanner said,"Court, you're harassing the cashier.....get the game and lets go" And then Tanner apologized to Eyeesha. And I was all like,"Tanner you don't need to apologize for me inviting her to our families Thanksgiving party. That's not rude, that's nice. No need for apologies for party invites! You learned your manners backwards!"

Kaleo got back from the show at 1:30- I was STILL playing rockband. My lips and teeth were purple.

He drove us home and I felt like I was dying all of Saturday.

I never drove my car again until Sunday but when I got in it the passenger seat was all the way down, apparently I was sleeping on the way home? There were specks of red wine on the console? Did I drink wine in the car? And then I found a wine glass. Really?

Kaleo informed me that I had poured myself a glass of wine 'for the road'. He insisted he drive- Good call K! Good call!

He said that on the way home I told him that I was going to finish the wine and then throw the glass out of the window so we wouldn't have evidence.

(Just call me Slick Rick why don't you?)

Then I fell asleep and he grabbed my glass of wine just before I passed out.

The rest of my weekend was spent recovering from Friday night.

This Is What Happens To Assholes!

This should serve as a warning for every douche bag guy that thinks he's super hot and can say whatever he wants. HaHa! This is so fucking awesome!

My cousin Brit works in a bar. She is a bartender, a very hott one too. She's very good at her job. But on this night she was not working- she was just enjoying the club with a few friends at the place she works. Fast forward to Thursday morning.......

SO I wake up yesterday morning and I have a text from Brit that reads,"I got in a fight tonight..." Immediately I spring up from my pillow and try to call her but her phone is turned off. I'm thinking great, some bitch walked into the bar talking mad shit and Brit had to put her class up on the shelf for a second. No. That's not what happened.

So I go to work and I'm waiting to hear from her and I never do. Finally I text,"Fight Club! Wake your ass up! I'm dying to know what happened!!!!"

She calls me and gives the brief story but I get the whole story when I got home last night....

Brit's hanging around the little VIP area where they have been ordering bottles of champagne all night. What were they celebrating? I guess Wednesday? That's neither here nor there. But there is this guy standing next to her, a guy she doesn't know. He turns and looks at her and says,"You're fat. You really need to go on a diet."

Gasp! Shock!

First of all Brit is NOT fat at all! Remember how she is all health fitness of America???? And how she rarely eats things with flavor? She is not a size negative zero but she's probably a size three. And she's petite. She's not a stick figure, she has boobs and butt BUT she is by no means FAT.

She turned to him and said,"Excuse me?"

And the douche bag goes,"I SAID you're FAT. AND you need to go on a diet!"

Brit wasted no time. She pulled back her fist and punched him in the face!!!!! The first hit knocked this guy TO THE GROUND! LOL! Little bitty BRIT did that!

And I don't know what came over her but once he fell to the ground she said 'fuck it' and she got on top of him and just wailed on his face!

You know, I don't condone violence or anything but that guy totally deserved it! I mean really? Who goes up to someone they don't even know and calls them fat? And someone as beautiful as Brit! Did he think she would just go to the bathroom and cry? I'm sure he probably didn't think she would knock him out! Asshole!

Brit was in the club that she works at and when her manager noticed this happening he had to pull her off this guy yelling,"What are you thinking!?!?!?!!" The douche bag's face was bloody and Brit woke up yesterday morning with swollen knuckles.

I just think it is SO damn awesome. I want to highfive all girls across America! Brit is prim and proper and not crazy. She's a sweet girl but she beat up a boy. And not on the play ground. She beat up a boy in the club. She beat up a rude dick asshole.

AND I'M PROUD OF HER!

Guys like that deserve to get the shit beat out of them. Who does that? I bet he felt amazing when he woke up in the morning with his face swollen. When his buddies ask what happened he has to answer,"A beautiful five foot two girl beat my face in because I'm a loser."

Karma is sometimes instant!!!!! LOVE IT!

NEW YORK! HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!

Guess who's going to the big apple next month??? Oh..... I dunno.......

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never been folks! I am so damn excited I think I may have peed a little here in my office chair!!!!!! I promise to eat hot dogs and pizza everyday on the street! I promise to look at Lady Liberty and Ground Zero! I promise to go over that one bridge and go to Madison Square Garden! I promise to go walking around Central Park and eat in Little Italy!!!! Wall Street! Broadway!

Woop woop! Doin a little dance over here (quietly of course I'm still at work)! BUT ON THE INSIDE it's like a fucking celebration! I'm doing the MC Hammer on the inside! On the inside I'm I'm doing cartwheels down the hallways of my office!!!!!! On the inside I'm standing on top of my desk backin that thang up and screaming MOZEL TOV! with a large bottle of champagne in the air!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO happy. So so so happy. Go me go me all the way to EN. WHY. SEE!

YUP! I'm that ridiculously excited! MmmmHmmmm!!!!!!

If anyone has suggestions on places to go /things to see then tell me!!!!!!

I'm off now. I think I really might just go ahead and do that cartwheel..........!

How To Get The Fun Into Your Capri Suns and a few other things.....

Photo From LoveBryan.com

But first I have a few other things to tell you about!

Number One: Dancing With the Stars
Ok I am not a huge fan or anything BUT I'm so happy about Susan Boyle's voice and the dance that was performed!!! That was absolutely beautiful! I'm not over it! I could have cried it was so lovely! Yes I said lovely!

Number Two: MI has texted yet again this morning.
I feel that no response is the best response. I don't wish that he's hurting but in a way I kind of want to mwahahahahhahaha evil laugh at him!!! It hurt me big time when my heart was broken and he was gallivanting (yes. ok. I said gallivanting.) all over with that uncute chick. Now I went through the pain and I'm over it! I'm not responding. How many times can I say douche?

And now the moment you've all been waiting for........

Capri Suns.

Ok what you need is:

A needle. I'm not really sure where you buy needles but I will suggest that you don't get them from Harry Heroine Addict on the corner. Does CVS or Walgreen's sell needles???? We got ours from a friend whose parents own a lot of horses and they vaccinate them. Their parents gave us one large (unused! lol) needle which will forever more be our Capri Sun Injector.

Then you need to buy a box of Capri Suns. Right now at Target they are on sale for two boxes in a package. I think we had the fruit punch flavor and it was THE SHIT. Soooo good!

You will also need a bottle of vodka. I'm, not sure what size our bottle was but it was smaller and it worked for both boxes. Of course this all depends on how much you plan to make.

Now to make them:

There is a little extra space in each pouch of juice and it took a little trial and error but we decided that 20ML of vodka fit perfectly into each Capri Sun...by all means add more if you can!

So, open your vodka. You may need to pour some into a cup to better reach it with the syringe.
Suck up about 20 ML of vodka into the needle.
Then stick it in your arm.
JUST KIDDING! PLEASE DON'T DO THAT!

Insert the needle into the little hole were the straw goes into your Capri Sun to inject the vodka and then push out all vodka from the needle into the pouch. Be careful not to pierce through to the other side of the Capri Sun.

When the syringe is empty pull it out and set you Capri Sun aside and repeat until all are filled.

IT'S THAT SIMPLE!!!!

We used a box to stand all of the juice pouches upright because they will slowly leak through the small puncture if you lay them on their side. You can also freeze half which helps control leakage during transport and it keeps the others cold.

RESPONSIBILITY IS ALL YOURS!

Again, please don't shoot the syringe of vodka into your arm. If you do that is your problem and I take no repsonsibility in your stupidity. Also if you have lil kiddos keep your 'special Capri Suns' marked. AND carefully put away the needle before you cut loose and get wild with your Fun in the Capri Suns!

So I mean it is Friday the 13th this weekend.....I suggest that if you just read this blog post that you celebrate this Friday with Court's Special Concoction- Injected Capri Suns! and then report back!

Get all wasted and leave me drunk comments and tell me how much fun you had!

I shall call this Friday: Fun in the Capri Sun Friday the 13th!!!!!!!!!!!

Capri Suns Injected With Vodka

Ya'll. Really. MI is just so so so bad. He's trying to weasel his way back in and it's not working. Right now he just texted that he needed my address. I told him whatever he needed it for to send it to my parents house. Then he said, "I'm sending you something for your birthday. On Wednesday you'll be closer to 30 than you are to 20!"

hmm.......

Um, internets, I don't know if you remember correctly or not but my birthday was Saturday, right?

I just responded, "My birthday was Saturday."

He wrote something back about being so busy and how it's really early there. I haven't said anything back.

He should just stop. He should just go ahead and accept that he screwed so much up and even if he sent me a million dollars in that package I wouldn't reconsider anything....I would however take the money. Come on! A girls gotta eat! ;)

Really though, Kaleo made my birthday. During the week he had asked me what I wanted and I'm never really good with those kinds of things. You know there are a zillion things I want but as soon as someone asks me what it is I go blank. Plus we're really new so I figured asking for a new car was just a little too much. (I kid I kid!)

SO I told him I wanted Capri Suns injected with Vodka for my party. It was perfect! Friday night he had it all ready and we made half on Friday and then Saturday we got up and injected the rest. They were a hit and the perfect party favor!

I mean, need I say more? My birthday was the bomb dot com. Capri Suns injected with vodka. Folks, I know how to party ok. I've been holdin' it down since 1983.

Things I Learned While I Was 25

I got this idea from Whitney. She recently celebrated her 26 th birthday and she made a list of things she learned while she was 25. I thought this was a great idea and I'm an avid list maker so of course this appealed to me. .......And my birthday is Saturday! So here I go:

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it." - Brigitte Bardot

(Not that I'm old or anything)

+The number one thing I learned this year is that taking your birth control is not a joke. It is a very serious matter. Should you be irresponsible and faced with an unplanned prenancy your life will change forever no matter what you may choose. Both choices are hard to make. That was a huge lesson learned! Dear God.

+I have also learned that your true friends really will always be there for you. Maybe you don't see them everyday, maybe you don't talk as much as you should BUT true friends will come stomping out of the woodwork to defend and mend your broken heart no matter what.

+I have learned that even when you think the world of someone they will still manage to let you down. No one is perfect but you should always know when you should accept a situation and when to turn away from it. Recognizing when something is no longer adding happiness and pure joy to your life (in any aspect) is important and a hard lesson to learn. You have to let some people/ some situations go no matter how long they have been around. Even if they used to make you happy. "Use to" is not "still is".

+I learned that being single is way better than being an unhappy girlfriend- even if I was already single when I realized this.

+I learned that the Flu shot does not go into effect until 30 days after it's been administered. Who knew?

+I learned that all people of the internet are not freak shows. ;) Thank you Jules and Dingo and JB and That Girl and Miss Rosa for not being crazy and being normal and helping to teach me this! Your comments have helped me so many times. There are many more of you as well! I have had a lot of support from many of you strangers through some very hard times this year. Thank you ;) Really, thank you.

+I learned that I can make things happen on my own. I have learned to give myself more credit and to not be afraid of my ideas even if they fail.

+I have learned to accept that what I thought would be happenning by the time I was 25 is not happening. The map you create for your life will be ammended and changed and reconstructed and torn up and then remade again and again AND THAT is quite ok.

+I learned to accept who I am. I learned to (and am still working to) not compare myself and my life to others. I am a work in progress and will continue to be. It's all about learning folks. Trial and error is a natural tactic. I am happy with the way things have gone in general so far. Would I like to change a few things? Sure. But the experiences have made me what I am. Let's not live in regret but accept ourselves and continue to grow.

+I have learned that just by leaving 10 mintues earlier I can get to work on time- I know this seems obvious but it's taken me 25 years to figure this out and sometimes I'm still late. I'm a work in progress people!!!!

+I have learned that even though some people may call you 'friend' doesn't mean their meaning is the same as yours. That's a tough one. Be able to read the 'fake' and notice when it's just a party. Those people won't be there to pick you up off the floor and your feelings don't mean anything to them.

+I have learned that you can find what you're looking for in the most unlikely of places for example my keys, that one dress, a really good restaurant, and a cute boy.

+I have learned that I can ride a bike a hell of a lot farther than I ever thought I could. I also learned that I will not be doing that again any time soon.

+I have learned to not be ashamed to cry especially in front of someone who loves you.

+I have learned that T- Mobile really will cut off your cell phone if you don't pay your bill for two months. They do not care if you 'just forgot.'

+I have learned that you should not hold in true feelings and that you should always demand a direct answer, even if the answer is one you don't want to hear.

+I learned that you have to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. These are when you learn the most.

+I really learned to embrace the saying "Things could always be worse"- Even when I have been super down this past year I tried really hard to be thankful for the things I did have and the things I was in control of. It's so true! Things could always be worse! Celebrate the things you have and the people around you.

AND NOW, I will quote 50 Cent,"We're gunna party like it's my birthday!" Saturday is the big day folks! Come on 26 I think I luv ya!!!!