Things about: Me May 10, 2007

Okay, I’ve been tagged. So here I am to share some details about my life…..stuff you may not know, stuff you may not care about, and stuff that makes me hungry.
I’ve combined three different lists of questions that have been floating around.
So read what you’d like:

If i wasn’t online right now I’d be…
working on the mounds of sewing projects that have piled up, at the Mall toys with Lucy, balancing our checkbook, working on our filing project (actually that’s almost done!), or at Target!

My favorite foods…
melted cheese: grilled cheese, pizza, cheesy casserole. And ice cream. I got a dairy thing going on.
I also love broccoli, asparagus, salad, oranges, rice pudding, and strawberries. Oh, and canjun shrimp boil is reallll yummy.

What I always order…
woah, this could get detailed.
- In N Out: #2, no onions no spread, ketchup and mustard instead
- Chipotle: small quesadilla, 1 hard-shelled taco a la carte with rice and barbacoa, side of rice, and a small drink (diet coke with a little dr. pepper and a lemon)
- Titos: 2 tacos with cheese, lots of salsa
- Wahoos: #1, charbroiled chicken taco with black beans (and no drink. They carry Pepsi, not Coke)

- Del Taco: small red burrito, spicy jack quesadilla, small drink
Okay, I’ll stop

Dessert of choice…
Fresh peach cobbler with Breyers vanilla ice cream

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Kitchen Assistant at the BYU Morris Center (made vats of scrambled eggs at 6am. mmm)
2. Tape Operator for KBYU Blue&White Sports Network (I ran the instant replays for football and honestly had no idea how the game worked.)
3. Personal Assistant to Juliette Lewis (cuckoo)
4. Universal Pictures Executive Assistant in Story Development

Four movies I could watch over and over:
1. Back to the Future (parts I and II)
2. Ferris Bueller
3. Liar Liar
4. Ghostbusters or Groundhog Day (it’s a toss-up)

Four places I have lived:
1. Santa Ana, CA
2. Provah!, Utah
3. LA, CA
4. Pasadena, CA

Four television shows I watch:
1. A myriad of Food Network programs
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Family Guy
4. 24 and LOST (both have had love/hate relationships with me this season…although 24 has jumped the shark)

5. The Office!

6. 30 Rock (0kay, I know that’s more than 4. But who doesn’t have more than 4 shows?)

Four places I have gone on vacation:
1. Peidras Negras, Guatemala
2. Cancun and San Felipe, Mexico
3. Caye Caulker, Belize
4. Europe (Belgium, Paris, London, Netherlands)

Four websites I visit almost daily:
1. Gmail
2. Blogs – my own and my friends
3. Youtube
4. CNN

5 Things you may not know about me:

1. I love to dance, sing, perform on stage, act silly, and make little movies.
I performed with a comedy improv group in Santa Monica for a year, while I was single.

2. I secretly wish I could be on American Idol…but I’m too old (haah, like that’s my only excuse).

3. I once asked my mom what county we were from….um…Orange, County, the OC. That was just a couple years ago. (there are more details to the story. I’m only partially idiotic)

4. I’m very patriotic and always dreamed of having a red, white, and blue wedding dress for my reception. But since we got married in October, it didn’t happen. Casey was relieved.

5. I was once asked to slow-dance by a 14 year old boy, while chaperoning a youth dance. I accepted the dance, but warned him that I was a little older than he thought. When he asked if I was in college, I didn’t have the heart to tell him I had graduated from BYU…4 years before then.
Everyone thinks I’m 12, but really, I’m 30.

And there you have it folks. Things about me.
I guess now I tag the next victim who will share some fun info….so…Rachael and Laura….you’re both it!
And for Heather, here’s a pic of me with the curly hair. This was at the Monrovia Street Fair a couple weeks ago. It’s so fun! You gotta go (every Friday night)

little help? May 10, 2007

Lucy loves to play outside. The moment she hears me open the door, I hear her come running. She has very simple pleasures and mostly just crawls up and down the backyard steps, playing with the leaves. This can entertain her for a good 45 minutes. It’s genius.

I peek my head out the door every few minutes to check on her. Usually I can tell she’s fine because I hear her funny baby talk through the kitchen window. Yesterday morning, however, she decided to play on the stairs in the front (which is new territory for her). She was all fine and dandy until I heard her whining. It wasn’t a cry, but more like….uhhhh…..mommm…. ? I went out to see what was wrong, and discovered…she was stuck, smashed between a huge bush and the stairs. She must have climbed off the path and into the bushes. It kinda made me laugh (for a moment) and then I pulled her out. All was well. She went on playing.

But here’s what she looked like. (Photos are reinactments. Am I a cruel mother? It was only for 2 seconds)

The Hair CAN go straight May 10, 2007

Some of you know me as Dana with long-hair, some of you just recently met the Dana with short-hair. Personally, I consider myself a short-hair person (but I think I’m growing it out again!)

Anyway, it wasn’t until I gave birth to Lucy that we found out…my hair is totally curly! That is a Dana I’d never met. But it’s been pretty fun. What straight-haired person hasn’t wanted curly hair?? Of course, the grass is always greener, and once my hair was curly, I missed being able to style it straight. Until today! Because I was able to do it! (and without a flat iron). I’m not a high-maintenace person, so if straightening my hair involves a flat iron, forget it. But my hair has grown a little and so today I was able to do it with just a round-brush. Ahhh.

I’m still gonna be a curly head. But it was nice to spend the whole day without any goopy product in my hair. Here’s a picture of the ‘do…and the very yellow bathroom we shower in (yellow from the paint, that is).

I know this is more than you ever wanted to know about my hair. Thanks for reading. And hey, one of these days I’ll post pics of the “many hairstyles of Dana.” I’ll even include the 80s. I’m sure my cousin Kam could beat me on that on though.

Griffith Park Fire May 10, 2007

It was really crazy to drive home on the 134 last night and look over to see the Griffith Park hills on fire. The fire was so wide-spread. It seemed that every hill from the LA Zoo over to Los Feliz was a glowing ember (if only they really were embers, instead of flames). We could see the glow of the fire immediately when we got on the 101, from the 405. But it wasn’t until we hit Glendale that we could see it all. I made Casey get off the freeway so we could get a good view. Other cars were doing the same.

I guess a fire near home just, hits home. Never is a wild-fire welcome…but especially not in fabulous Griffith park. The pictures below of Lucy were taken at that park just on Saturday, right where the flames are now burning. Crazy to think! I’m glad we have firemen who are brave and ready to do what it takes.