Slang Dictionary

I recently have decided to talk in mainly slang. Everyone at the bindery has there own little language so I figured I needed to pick up my own. ;) So here is the slang dictionary:

1) Yo = Just a filler (when in doubt throw in a couple yo's)
2) Ya'llz = You all
3) Man = Attention Grabber
4) Sick = Awesome
5) Smiley Face Icon = Just makes any text betta
6) Gonna = Going to
7) Up in Here = (I don't even know what this translates as it's just fun to say)
8) Shank =  A homemade knife
9) 'Po' White Trash Fight = screaming fight
10) Betta = Better
11) Nuttin = Nothing
12) Biff = Boy friend
13) Legit = Legitimate
14) Brown Friend = haha ( Julian Smith)
15) Yeah Dawg = Yeah sure
16) Bro/sis = Brother/Sister (Sometimes from other misters or mamas)
17) Ju-Ju = Juli Loosle
18) Mad-Dawg = Madeline
19) Mirz = Yours Truly
20) Lil Totz = Tatiana
21) Hoe = I love you
22) Lil Hoe = Joe
23) Lil = little
24) Lil Nan = Natalie
25) Lil Mans = Amanda
26) Bubby = Zach
27) Gangsta = Gangster
28) Hood = Home
29) Oh No you didn't = Oh NO you didn't
30) Knocked her up = ... yeah not explaining this one (Go ask your mommy and daddy yo)
31) Baby daddy = Father of the baby
32) Grill = Personal Space
33) All up in my buisnezz = Stop being Nosy
34) Hit me up on my cell = call me yo

And that's the Shiz.. haha

Life as I currently know it

My life has fallen into this new pattern: Get-up, go to work, work ridiculous overtime, eat dinner, chill for a bit, run, chill for like an hour, and then sleep. Way boring. ;) I barely have time to think of sassy blogs to blog about. Clearly. It's sad that I feel Like I had more time in college. lol! Weird sauce! 


Everyone is rushing all over the place. Since I have been home the eight of us that are currently in Massachusetts have not all been under the same roof. It's been intense, but exciting. I have to readjust to the Baird life style. I think I need how to be a Baird rehab. haha. 


Basically to be a Baird to have to be: 
1) First to come, first to leave
2) Witty/Sassy with the comebacks
3) Always on the go (doing something productive)
4) Have to be one of the beautiful people (haha, through that one in for the papa)
5) Make jokes 97% of the time.. haha. 


Won't change any of it though! ;) This is why one day when I grow-up and finally trap a man for life (...gage run well you still have the chance.... haha...) I'll probably keep the Baird as my middle name since I don't have one. 

Pranks

Pranks are something I try often but rarely succeed at!! Seriously one of the best purchases I made was at college, I bought a Rubber Snake for a 'buck'. Best buck I eva spent. Even though it barely succeeded in scaring anyone, I would totally buy it all over again.

Another almost awesome prank: I was going to have a random 'scary' looking boy accompany me off the plane when I went to meet my family. But atlas... epic fail.

Basically anytime someone leaves the room you can bet I am planning a prank that will fall short... BUT

I have has some successful pranks:

1) Nichole's cousin and I scared the pants off of Chole when we picked her up one night from work. I brought her cousin along and we had her stand up a against a walk and sneak up one Chole from behind. It was fantastic!

2) When I was in Idaho, and Gage was here in Massachusetts. We had a Skype date, so I slipped a ring on to my ring finger. Then when we started talking I was all 'Gage... umm... listen there is something I need to tell you'... (and I flashed the ring)... it was GREAT! haha! I LOVE that boy! :)

3) Putting a hair tie on the water sprayer... funny until I got in big trouble.
4) Hiding in a closet with Nichole after we turned out all the lights and scaring Capri when she came home!
5) When someone goes to the bathroom, go and put you face right up against where they will open the door. So when they open the door the first thing they see is BAM your face. Guaranteed a JUMP EVERY time ;)

Those are just a few of my favorites! ;)

24 hours:

I have officially been home in Massachusetts for 24 hours!! Turns out A LOT can happen in 'a day'! :) 

Got in at midnight.. My sistas; Madeline and Amanda were waiting at the gate for me. We rushed and got my bags and then flagged down my papa. We all talked and ate donuts on the way home. I missed me some Dunkin Donuts. 

Paused slightly to see the 'boat' car... haha. Then got home around 1. Still being on Western Time it felt like 11. So, I got Madeline to watch 'trash' TV and talk with me until 4. :) Only to fall asleep in the 'man-room'. 

It was fantastic. I woke-up to my little mom jumping on me. She saw the feathers in my hair and she was to say the least shocked. I told her it's totally cool, and I went 'Indy' at college. They'll grow on her! :) haha Love that lady!

Then we rushed to Costco and Kohls for some quick errands before the ward activity. Saw some of the Tornado damage..:( 

The ward activity was fun! I finally got to see little joe who was sleeping over at the Birds last night. It wouldn't have been right if I didn't run across the field to embarrass him. :) It was nice to see everyone from the ward. Lots of changes, but lots of the same. The kids all look bigger. 

After we did 'the Baird thing' and bounced out a bit early. First to come, first to leave. ;) Then we came home and made a video called 'MTV gardens' based off of MTV cribs..haha. I missed goofing off with my sistas. 

Went to the mall it was pretty silly.

Made a video making fun of Madeline. Ate some Mac and Cheese. Went to Stop and Shop with my sistas boyfriend and some of my sisters...Went running with my sistas. The humid weather kicked my trash... And that makes it a day!! :) Everyone is very in and out. One day next week it'll just be Madeline and I. It should be fun! 

Facebook Stalking:

Facebook Stalking should be considered Americas NEW favorite pass time!!! Seriously how many of you spend at least an hour a week on Facebook?! It's no longer hey I wonder whatever happened to so and so... you can just Facebook stalk them know. It's no longer.. 'is that person in a relationship?!' Facebook harbors that answer too. 


Want to have a party?! You can invite all your Facebook friends.


 Bored... ?!! Well Facebook has a several solutions: a) Games (such as Farmville) b) Check out what your friends are doing c) post a status saying 'bored' and see who responds d) see who is on chat and wants to talk 


Something big happens in your town BAM your friends can know instantly. 


Awesome day, you can tell everyone. 
Something witty to say?! Update your status. 
Climbed up a awesome mountain? Post a picture! 


Facebook is the future of communicating... Just a few years ago people went to each other to Face to Face or through land lines.. now it's Facebook. 
Heck.. I can link my blog to Facebook!!! 


Facebook is the Walmart of the Internet! Haha! 

How cool would it be?:

I have always wanted to do something crazy-ish with my hair but never had the guts. UNTIL today! Which made all my other goals seem more obtainable. 

There are a lot of things I want to do with my life....BUT

TOP COOLEST THINGS I want to do are: (Note these are in no special order)

1) Live in NYC!!! 

2) Own a book store!! 

3) Visit every state in the USA

4) Get out of the country (At least once)

5) Run 2000 miles before April 2013 (58.50 down)

6) Be able to do a push-up and clap my hands

7) Sky Diving

8) Travel across the country in a car (I have pretty much done this, but I want to do it when I am old enough to appreciate it more)

9) Tell someone what I really and truly and honestly think about them (AKA jerk busting time)

10) Go on a random trip. Just get up one day and go.

11) Take a legit hike, up a legit mountain. (We're talking a few day journey)

12) Go to Disney World

13) Go to a show on Broadway

14) Have a big ole house in da hood

15) Own all the cool movies and books

16) Two Words: PLASTIC FLAMINGOS

17) Bike on the coast

18) Have a picnic (like a legit one... basket and everything) 

 

19) Design a weird logo t-shirt and wear it around

20) Write a blog exposing my Dad so he won't kill me. ;)

21) Go legit camping.

22) Have a secret bank account

23)  Be more impulsive  

24) Play a really funny prank on someone.

Roller Coasters

All semester was a giant roller coaster. It was awesome-ish! HAHA!!

EXPOSURE: Juli Loosle!

I met Juli Loosle when we were SO little! She is the cutest, sweetest girl I know! I remember when she moved into our ward right before girls camp time-ish one summer. I knew when she scared the pants off of all of us, by throwing a rock in the creepy water in the middle of night... that we were going to be friends for life. :)

 I can remember being 14 sleeping over in the basement and talking about all the boys we liked (what 14 yr old doesn't have a million crushes). Playing the fortune game trying to find out which boy liked us back. Making list of things we wanted to do when we hung out because we could NEVER decide what to do otherwise (plus the lists were so much fun). I can remember calling her because I was so upset I was moving to Massachusetts. She told me to come over a sleepover. I did and we purposely got lost, watched a cheap movie, and scared her dog Molly with bubbles. I'm so happy that we have been able to hold on to and strength our friendship over these past few years. 

I can remember talking about how one day we'd go to college together. How'd we have drivers licenses and cars. How we'd have boyfriends. How we'd party all the time at college and our parents wouldn't be able to tell us what to do. How we could eat junk food all the time. Basically this all came true. ;) 

This semester was seriously the best semester ever! It was so much fun. Drama sometimes but fun! I learned SO much, and made some AMAZING hopefully life long friends. Juli was there for me all long. Always willing to listen with a non judgmental ear and to go grab some junk food and go on an adventure. She is always there to help me solve my problems. I just HOPE and HOPE that one day I can be as much help to her as she has been to me. Although I don't wish silly nonsense drama on her! ;) 

It was so much fun to have her in so many of my classes! Every morning we'd text each other both hoping the other one would have an excuse for us not to go to class. :) (Don't worry we always went) Expect.. the one time we slept in after the Transformers 3 midnight showing. But that was completely an accident I swear. ;) It was also fun to try and study for our psychology test together. The best was when we discovered our teacher steals ALL his questions from the internet! LMBO

I am going to miss seeing Juli everyday. I think we went a total of seven days this semester without seeing each other. haha! She is best! Yesterday, when both of our minds were completely blown, she knew JUST what to say. She knew just how to listen. Her mind was as blown just as much as mine was! haha! 

We had some of the best times, EVER! We learned not to hang out at night time at churches. We learned that sometimes you just need to go and walk and walk and talk to someone to feel better. We learned that we both have a weakness for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies and caramel Hershey kisses. We learned we shouldn't try to run together because we unmotivate each other.. haha ;) We learned that maybe we shouldn't text in church and class even if we are just texting to keep each other awake. We learned sometimes you need to scream and run in circles on a random field. We learned boys are idiots sometimes but they think like us. We learned that sometimes it's okay to skip Devo. and get crazy bread. We learned that walking to somewhere can be fun, but sometimes once you get there the walk back takes a life time. We learned not to walk on railroad tracks at night time. We learned not to admit we are bored or we'll NEVER finish our homework. We learned that the gardens has a waterfall. We learned car therapy can save lives. We learned not to jay walk. We learned not assume things (haha the HARD way)!!!!

Juli is a red head with a soul! ;) (Inside Joke.. no offense to other red heads)

The Asch Experiment

This is why sociology intrigues me! :)

Going Home:

  I can't believe it's almost a week till I go home! That was really quite fast! It's bittersweet. Mostly sweet! ;) 

BITTER: 

-Things at home changed ( Aka: NO GAGE :( )

-No college partying (I'll miss my friends and being surrounded by kids your own age all the time.. the random 'partying') 

-No more late night snack runs with my favorite roommate...No offense to the others... I love you guys almost as much... lol ;) 

-I'll miss everyone (and they'll change well I am gone)

-No more falling asleep on the living room floor talking with Morgan, or Juli when they sleepover

-No more 'pillow' talk with Nichole at night time (who will solve my late night problems now?)

-No more 'random' adventures (Actually I'll probably come up with some)

-Can't steal Nichole's cute clothes (Did I just admit to doing that?)

-I'll miss my fast, super high speed internet

-I'll miss the fancy new-ish treadmill they got in the workout room

-Haven't relocated my MP3 player yet and I'm running out of time to find it

SWEET:

-Seeing family and friends from home

-No more homework

-Driving! (I hope the 15 passenger van behaves itself)

-Money in the bank (Hopefully I can mange to get two jobs so I can afford to play when I come back) 

-Home cooked meals/ a full frigde and cupboard (If I want to bake something they'll actually be sugar and stuff there)

-Chicken!!! haha It's been a LONG time since I have had meat

-Clean, spacious house

-Nice Dishwasher

-FREE(-ish) Laundry! (Free for me, not so much for my parents)

-No more high altitude so running outside will be so nice

-Can party with my sisters! (And brother that is home)

-I'll have an excuse to use my Skype! 

-Juli is probably coming to visit me! (Hopefully)

-NYC, Boston, the beach!

-Fresh veggies from my mom's garden

-Stores that are open past 11:00...haha!

-CITY!!!!!!!!! 

-Kitt Romney (I sometimes miss that nasty little ball of furriness) 

-I'm SO EXCITED!!! :D 

Broken Things

Sigh, I  am so ready to go home today! Everything is breaking left and right this semester. I don't pay almost 1000 dollars a semester for this!!! Don't get me wrong.. I love living at mountain pines, I do however have some serious complaints.

At one point both of our toilets were broken for a whole weekend. That was not the best of weekends. Having to  bug our neighbors all the time. We currently are suffering from having no hot water! This means no hot showers, no way to efficiently clean dishes, heck no way to efficiently clean anything. Germs like cold water. Heck even if we could clean the dishes; our dishwasher leaks a bit sometimes. I kind of find that one funny, because people don't see the water so they walk in the water and make funny faces. Our freezer I think doesn't always work the best because the ice cream is often way too soft. The shower was broken for a few days, while the bathroom light was brunt out. We have no other way of getting light in there other than the light blub no windows or anything... That was a awkward time. Showering in pitch darkness while the drain isn't working unless you hold it down. Ninja style much?! The garbage disposal had a glass rock from a fish bowl stuck in it for a few days and made a nasty sound when you turned it on. Nichole and I spilled bleach on our carpet one day. Don't worry we 'fixed' it. Actually I think that might be it (for the literally broken things at least. It's spring semester, aka the 'love' semester. There is a saying out here 'ring-by-spring'. It holds true. The relationship drama is currently at a all time high!! The semester is ending... Heart breaks left and right.

EXPOSURE: My little Mom

My little mom is the: sweetest, cutest, littlest, best lady ever! No offense to all my readers but your mom can't be as awesome as mine! The worst part is she doesn't see it. 

She is whole 58 inches tall! Has awesome hair that always looks prefect I wish I had inherited that gene! She always has the cutest little outfits too. I have a little roommate that is her height and she makes me miss my mom all the time. 

I want to look and be JUST like my mom when I grow up! I would NOT mind at all looking like her at all...she's hot! BUT more importantly I want to be the kind of mother that she is. My mom is super woman! She is a hard working, goal driven lady! 

She manages 7 kids, a naughty cat, and a husband. She has the most amazing garden. She does all the driving us around. She cooks us amazing food. She keeps the house clean. She does her church callings. She is an amazing friend to her friends. She makes sure we all make it to practice on time. She writes a AWESOME blog. Takes us to our doctor appointments. She also takes time to listen to us and be our mom. And much much more that  we often don't even see and notice. 

She is the kind of mom that encourages you to get out there in the world and try things. She wants us to have friends and awesome experiences. She drags us all over to beach, NYC, hikes... Even when we are complaining we always have fun! Weather we admit it or not. I would not have come to BYU-Idaho without her pushing me to do so. :)

 She's also always willing to go out of her way to make sure we can see our friends. I can remember countless times where we've run back and forth over town dropping some of us kids off at friends and picking up other  kids friends to come over. I don't even want to know how much gas she's wasted just driving ME around. Plus she is always willing to let us have a party! (I think I got my partying side from her) It always used to crack me up that she would tell us that if we needed to get out of an awkward moment or didn't want to go somewhere we could blame it on her. You know the whole 'my mom says I can't go' phrase.

She is really the BEST! I love when she used to let me miss school and chill with her if I was having a bad day. Or she'd let me go shopping with her. Or we'd just eat some of Dad's candy on her bed when he was out of town and we needed a chocolate fix. 

I want her to know that she is the most amazing mother in the world. I'm grateful for her. And to know that anything bad I do, I get from Dad! ;)

Why every girl needs sistas! (A Picture Blog)

My sistas drive me NUTS! But I love them! They are all so beautiful and funny and awesome! I am so very pumped to see them all agian and spend some time with them! Start stealing each others stuff, having cat fights, watching chick flicks, telling secrets, doing each others hairs, having adventures, watching late night movies in the man room, running, eating candy,... :) sigh! It's gonna  be awesome! Here are some pictures I found of some of my favorite sista times! :) 

The time Madeline and I worked SO hard to get this HUGE box home from the book bindery! We had to stuff it into the back of the 15 passanger van! We walked through the bindery with it over our heads! Then on the way home we were so distracted we ran out of gas! Almost got stuck next to a creepy field. 

The beach! How can you not have fun at the beach? This picture isn't from this trip. But last summer Amanda and I had a combined beach birthday party! It was so much fun!

Shampooing and Conditioning in the rain! :) Fun times! Tell it stopped raining then we had to fight over the drain pipes! ;)

Hiking! Always fun! Although we are so very competitive in my family sometimes it feels more like a race to the top. :)

Ruining Family Pictures/ causing my parents anxiety! :) 

Last but NOT least don't forget those little girls! We wouldn't be the 5 sistas without them! :)

If you could go back:

If you could back in time, what would you change?! This morning I was so sure of like a million moments in life I would change. Maybe this is because it's been on my mind lately, but mostly this came to my mind because I saw the movie 127 hours (would not recommend it) in the movie he wished he could go back in time and tell people where he was so he could have been saved and not have had to cut his arm off. So I got to thinking and if you really think about it going back would be a pretty bad idea. The mistakes you make get you to a point in your life that you need to be. A lesson that you need to learn. Something that although potentially painful, needed to happen; so that you could grow.  Here are some examples: 

1. This Morning: I didn't get home from Utah until very early this morning and I did NOT want to get up for psychology in like 3 hours. But when my alarm went off, I eventually forced myself to get up and go. At first I was mad because when I got all the way to the building, I learned my class was cancelled, I wanted to go back in time and I should have just stayed in bed. It ended up being a great thing because I got to use that time to get juice and visit with Juli. If I went back in time and stayed in bed that wouldn't have happened. 

2. Hurting friends: My least favorite! I don't like when my mistakes hurt others. I made a mistake a few days ago that really hurt a dear friend of mine. At first I wished and wished I could go back in time and change it. Thinking about it now without that experience I wouldn't have learned how to be a better, different kind of friend. I wouldn't have learned not think about only myself so much all the time. Although I hate to hurt people and I try to avoid it. I learn so much every time I do. I become a better person. It  just sucks it has to happen the hard way. 

3. Failing Tests: College life is full of this for me. I hate failing, I always feel so dumb. I always want to go back in time and study harder or cheat cause now I know the questions so I could find out the answers and then go back and take the test again. BUT if I never failed the tests I wouldn't learn how to study. I wouldn't get that awesome feeling of accomplishment when I pass one. 

4. Heart Breaks:  Often the things we want to go back and change are huge. Basically the plot of any major chick flick.... Heart break = Suck! But are also somewhat necessary and something that we shouldn't wish to go back in time and change. You can learn a lot from them. For example: If someone hurts your feelings by doing or saying something you can learn more about who you are. And about who they are. How people treat each other says a lot about them, and how you acted or got to that point where they hurt you (or vice verse-a) says a LOT about you. 

5. Sunscreen: Sometimes these lessons we learn can be small and simple. I was looking at old pictures on the Facebook and was reminded of an awesome beach birthday party from last year. Everyone that went got BAD sun burn. It was so funny to go to work on the following Monday because you could tell who went to the party. We were walking around like old people making faces every time our burns were touched, or we moved in the wrong way. We all wished we could go back in time and change that. Simple lessons = simple solutions. 

Weekend = Legit!

This weekend has been for lack of better word: Legit! 

- Movies a plenty: Arrived in Utah Thursday and it's only Saturday night... I've already been educated in almost over 10 different movies. I have no idea how I got through life without seeing some of these movies!!! Uncle Owen is great movie watching buddy! He doesn't do the 'That happened to me once comment' my old man likes to throw in. One day i'll look back on it and miss my dad saying that... but for now I am going to harass him about it. 

- New Skills: I learned how to play Racquetball! It's pretty legit. I like the fast pace, although the competitive side of me expects to get a lot better so i can kick some butt. 

- Long Lost Family: It always surprises me how little I hear about what is going on in the Baird side. I got to see some aunts and uncles and cousins and grandma I haven't see in what feels like a life time. It's interesting to me to see the different the different personalities in our family. I felt out burnett-ed. ;) 

-Won over my Uncie "O"'s love: That's right! He trusted me to take his car to the 7 11 and get him a soda. How many of you have gotten that trust? I doubt many. It's impressive! I know! 

-Out of the Berg: It's been therapeutic to be out of there! I needed out for a few days! To be reminded of how the real world lives. 

-The pill couch!:  I swear it's the most comfortable couch in the world! It reminds me of being home, and my family! Don't ask me why, it just does!!! 

-Snack-ens and Real food: My aunt can cook! Plus snack-ens a plenty! I've decided that calories don't exist in Utah! I hope that theory holds true when I get back to the Berg of Rex. 

My top dream jobs:

We spend thousands of dollars and countless dollars going to college to try and figure out what we want to do to make money for the REST of our lives. That's pretty intense if you stop and think about it. 


1) A sassy old fashion receptionist: I would love to wear the big framed old glasses, my hair in a bun, have a huge typewriter, and when people came in I  would sit behind my desk and be on the huge old telephone. When they tried to talk to me I could just sigh and roll my eyes and point them into my bosses office.

2) Disaster date actor: It's basically being paid to be professionally weird! I would LOVE that! You get to act like a fool and get paid for it! 

3) Rachel Berry: It would be so legit to be Rachel Berry from Glee. She has such an awesome voice!


4) Ice cream tester: This would be the BEST job ever!!! Ice cream everyday, all day!