I'm Not Ignoring You

I lost my cellular device. Well actually I left it at Kim's house in Bountiful. I have received word that some of you (Carly and Mike) are sending me nasty and hateful text messages because you think you're being ignored. Never ever would I ignore you or Saturday Night CALM. I do not have possession of my phone and therefore have nobodies contact information. The plan is to receive my phone tomorrow evening. If you have been desperately trying to get ahold of me (Mike and Carly) I will contact you shortly. So just CALM (ha) down!
Also, Kim informed me that I went all weekend and was only contacted once and it was by the previously mentioned party. Not one other call. What a sad life I lead. Oh well, at least I have Reality TV. :)

Slumbers

Some of you stopped having slumber parties when you hit middle school or high school. Not Kim and I. We are 23ish year olds that enjoy a good slumber. In fact, Kim slumbers at my home at least once a week but sometimes more. It is great for me because I get to chillax at home and spend time with a great bud of mine. (Kendall, notice that I didn't say best. I'm being more sensitive to your feelings.) Good things have come because of these frequent slumbers. I get to spend more time with Kim during the week. I have a guitar hero/Mario party buddy. I can make her watch American Idol with me. She has bonded even more with Toni and Don. She usually falls asleep really quick and then she entertains me by saying hilarious things in her sleep. Really the whole situation is win-win for me. Tonight we staged a fake picture of her sleeping so that I could post it. However, about 5 minutes later she really fell asleep and so then I took that picture as well. Can you guess which picture is staged and which one is her really asleep?

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Parent Teacher Conferences: Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Wednesday and Thursday were parent teacher conferences. I think that the whole concept is extremely rude to teachers. I understand you want to know what's going on in the classroom and how your child is doing academically. However, there has got to be a better system then making the teacher teach all day and then stay from 3-9 talking to parents . Then the teacher has to get up the next morning and go through the same process again. It's slightly miserable. I love to talk and so you would think I would enjoy this time but I now realize that mostly I like to talk about myself. (I am sure you are shocked by this confession, but it's true.) So, the chatting about kids thing doesn't work out that well.
I will admit that it is fun to meet the parents and get a little better understanding of why the student is the way they are. It is also nice to praise the kids that are hard workers and doing well. It is just hard when you have constructive criticism or areas of concerns. No parent wants to hear their child is struggling or that they are misbehaving. That is absolutely no fun for them or me.
So in conclusion I propose someone come up with a better system so that I'm not so grumpy to my class the whole week of conferences because they are causing me stress and pain. Any ideas?

Survivor Fever

In just a moment I am going to out my true inner nerd, so be prepared. Ever since the writer's strike began I have been really bored with T.V. (super nerd) Somehow I discovered a love for the reality T.V. show Survivor. I had never really watched Survivor before but it seemed like a good time to try it out. It ended up being a great choice for me. I downloaded past seasons of the show and since November have watched seasons 11-15. I realize what a huge waste of time this is but don't judge me. I can't help myself. So I obviously I have become obsessed with the show, developed favorite castaways, etc. The 16th season just started in February and my feelings for this cast and season must be made known. That is why I am revealing this semi-embarrassing fact about myself.

This season is Survivor Micronesia: Fans vs. Favorites. They took 10 super fans and put them on a team against 10 past Survivor favorites. This season is honestly fantastic and let me tell you why.Ozzy Lusth. He is one of the castaways from Survivor: Cook Islands. He got second place and lost in a 4 to 5 vote. I was really disappointed that he lost and then he got a second chance to win on this season! I have been so excited all season watching him because I believe he is the best Survivor ever. I know I am weird and a little too passionate about it but I can't help it. Ozzy isn't really a big guy, he's kind of goofy looking, and he doesn't seem like that big of a deal at first but he is like Tarzan. He climbs trees and catches 8-10 fish with a spear every time he goes fishing. This season he even caught a fish with his bare hands. He swims like a dolphin, can hold his breath for up to 3 minutes under water, he wins individual immunity almost every time, he leads his tribe to win the immunity idol, and much more. He is crazy and I love him. Things are looking good for him this season and I have high hopes that he will win the million dollars. He makes my life just a little brighter and Thursdays my favorite day of the week. My family laughs at me and makes fun of me and you can too but you can't stop my Survivor Fever. :)

Caribben Cruise Top 10

As most of you know I was able to go on a fantastic Caribbean cruise with my best friend Kim and her family, the Cranes. The Cruise was from Sunday, February 10-Saturday February 16. It went to Key West Florida, Cozumel Mexico, Grand Cayman, and Montego Bay Jamaica. It was seriously fun with a lot of great adventures. I decided the best way to tell about the Cruise is to make a Top 10 list. This has been a pretty difficult list to compose and was hard to narrow down to 10 but I did my best.

The Top 10 Best Moments of the Crane Family Caribbean Cruise 2008

10. Sleeping and naps whenever I wanted.

9. Towel animals at night. Mostly Kim's reactions to the towel animals. She claims she is going to learn how to make them and then put them on her kids and guests beds at night. I am a skeptic to if this will ever really happen.

8. Joe Crane Comments/Actions

"Lindsi, you look a lot worse today than you did yesterday!" He was referring to my leg but his presentation was priceless!

(This is Joe blowing bubbles in a dining room.)

7. Cruise activities like dodge ball and rock climbing. I'm not gonna lie I was the worst dodge ball player ever. I just hid behind other players. It was embarrassing. :)

6. Dancing the nights away. Kim and her sister-in-laws know how to get down. They also can sing a pretty impressive karaoke. (Dixie Chicks, clearly.)

5. Formal dinners. It's always kind of fun to get dressed up and look nice.

4. Chillin' at the beach in 80-90 degree weather! It was spectacular!

3. Playing games with the Crane's. They can get pretty competitive which makes it that much more entertaining!

2. Going on zip-lines through the Jamaican jungle. Zip-lining was great and the Jamaican guides were pretty hilarious. It was extremely fun!

1. Spending a week away from work and stress chillin' with my best friend! Everyone thought we would get sick of each other but we didn't! We actually were ready to spend more time together the next day!

Mexico, Scooters, an Ambulance, and an IV

So we are back from our fun filled Caribbean cruise! It was a wonderful and much needed vacation! I will fill you in on the highlights of the trip later but first I have got a great story to tell. This is one of those stories that you will hear and think, "Oh yeah, of course Lindsi did that." It's just the way I roll. So here goes...

On Tuesday our cruise went to Cozumel, Mexico. Everyone had different ideas of what they wanted to do so we split up to go on our own adventures. Myself, Kim, and her sister-in-law Chelsea decided to rent scooters and drive around the island. We found a rental place (that ripped us off) and decided to just start driving in search of a beach. Kim was the leader and she was doing an excellent job. Kim saw a beach that looked promising and decided to turn in. Now I was just enjoying the ride and probably not fully paying attention. I looked up and saw Kim stopping and I panicked. I slammed on the breaks and then did the dumbest thing I could have. I turned the handle bars therefore turning the scooter on top of myself. My body skidded across the pavement with the scooter on top of me. It scared me pretty badly but I was able to get up and was fine. I had road rashed up my arms and legs pretty good. I also had a little bruise and cut on my chin. My helmet was scratched up, meaning it and the chin guard saved me from a lot more damage.

About 2 minutes after the crash an ambulance came speeding down the road with lights and siren blaring. I looked at Kim and Chelsea and we all were sure that it wasn't for me. Well, it was! The ambulance came and then the police showed up! They wanted to look at my wounds and clean them up. They ended up pouring peroxide over them (which you're not really supposed to do any more) and got me cleaned up. The police were taking notes and asking me questions in Spanish. I used my best Spanish skills to answer but I probably told them weird things. I don't know. It was a pretty entertaining experience.

Once I was all cleaned up we went on our way. We still went to the beach, rode all around the island, and had a fun day. When we got back to the scooter rental place they were ticked about the damage done to the scooter. They tried to tell me that is would cost more than $300.00 to fix the damages. I got pretty upset in return and fought with them a little but I ended up giving them $100.00. It was my only souvenir I bought. Lame.

The story doesn't end there though. Throughout the week my leg started to hurt more every day. It looked super disgusting and started to swell up and ooze. By Friday I was in a lot of pain. I was at the airport to come home on Saturday and it was huge, red, and oozing a weird green liquid. The flight home was one of the most miserable experiences of my life. When I got back to Utah I went to the emergency room and they told me I had a horrible infection and cellulitis. They put an IV in my arm and I had to go back every 24 hours for IV antibiotics. I had to do that for 5 days. They took the IV out last Wednesday and I just have to take oral antibiotics for 7 more days. It has turned out to be one of those adventures that is a good story but I would have rather gone without it. My leg looks way better now and I think the infection is pretty much gone. However looking at the bright side of this experience I can now say I have crashed a scooter, been in a Mexican ambulance, and had an IV in my arm for 5 days. Can you say that?

This is my leg when I went to the emergency room. All the bad sores are on the side you can't see but if you look at my ankle and the top of my foot you can see how swollen it was. Kind of nasty.

Goodbye Snow!

I've had enough of this snow and the horrible commute so I'm out of here! I leave this evening for an exotic 7 day Caribbean cruise with the fabulous Crane family. I plan to come back a little tanner, less stressed, and fatter. The next time that snow starts to fall or your stuck in traffic in horrible weather conditions, think of Kim and I lounging on the deck of The Radiance of the Seas. I'll let you know of any adventures we have when we return! Peace out!

This Proves It!

I have always known that I was one of kind, unique, my very own me! However, the following website helped solidify in my mind that their really is nobody else quite like me. At this site you type in your first and last name and it tells you how many people in the U.S. have the same first name as you and then the same last name. It is kind of cool. My results were:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. http://howmanyofme.com">How many have your name?

There are 246,215 people with the last name Sullivan but there are 0 Lindsi's. I always new that i would help me out! You should try it out and let me know how it goes. It's kind of interesting.

The Quest for Sleep Continues...

First of all I would like to say thank you to everyone that has provided me with suggestions and advice. I've given it a good solid week and seen little improvements so far. I've tried many of the items suggested including Ambien (Scott said the exact same thing my doctor said. He's ready already!) I have to say that sleeping pills have the opposite affect on me and generally make me hyper or wide awake. Caffeine on the other hand has been known to put me to sleep. For a while I felt like drinking a Mountain Dew before I went to sleep was a wise plan (and I still kind of do because it worked) however, I know that is not good for me. So, I have decided that their are many contributors to my inability to sleep. They were all mentioned in the comments and they include the following:

• stress and big decisions
• bad nightly routine
• inability to turn my ADHD brain off
• too much Diet Mountain Dew (Hard to imagine, I know.)
• anxiety because I'm not sleeping (I laughed at Hannah at first for this one but then I realized it is what is happening to me! You're smart girl.)
• knowing I have to get up at 6:00 and dreading it/worrying about it

I set some goals for this coming week. I'm going to try them out and let ya'll know if their are any improvements.

1. Be lying in bed at 11:00 with lights off, computer put away, etc.
2. No watching Survivor before bed (I'm such a nerd.)
3. Stay calm and don't worry about not going to sleep.
4. No naps. (Sometimes I accidently fall asleep at 7 or 8ish cause I'm so tired from not sleeping. It doesn't help the situation at all.)

I'm going to give it my all. I'll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck.

AGRHHH! I CAN'T SLEEP!

In the past few months I have this newly developed problem in my life. I can't sleep. It is currently two o'clock in the morning and I've got nothing. Last night I finally fell asleep at about 4:30 am and I had to get up for work at 6:15. Shoot me now. The thing I don't understand is why the sudden problem? I have always been a super sleeper! It was actually something I was proud of! Now I struggle hardcore to get to sleep and then I am tired and grumpy Gus all day long. I feel like I have tried everything I can think of. I change beds, read, watch t.v., blog, take pills, etc. Once I am a sleep I am totally fine and I stay asleep. I just can't get there. So the purpose of this post is to present this question. What should I do? Any suggestions? I'm dying here team.