Snorkel! See I can do it too!

Posted on Jun. 8, 2008 at 10:25 PM in My Life

EDIT EDIT: Typing in the dark=bad spelling

You ever have those days where you just wander around aimlessly looking for something to do? Or when your standing around in the middle of your living room asking yourself "whats next?". Well, I am NOT having one of those days, or weeks rather... Make it month instead.. School has ended and summer has begun, with the birds laying their eggs and bunny's are hopping around... *record scratch* NEVERMIND! *chaos erupts*

Like I said school has ended and I thought I would have time to compose a very informative post, but alas my time is dwindling fast so let me recap the past two weeks for your enjoyment. It must be enjoyable to watch someone elses life go cuckoo bannana's!!!!!!!

First off I am late in making mention that my dear, darling "sis" (although no quotations are needed right Joci? ;) ) Jocelyn created a wonderful post on how LOTR's is not "good" once you delve into the scenario's and the actual idea behind it. You can read her post here of course:  "A former Witch looks at the Lord of The Rings" In her post Joci makes note that she will most likely be getting rid of her LOTR collection. I know she has made the right choice and I am proud to say she is my dear dear friend. :)

I have recently been to the library and ordered a bunch of books to read and I have already started!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND FINISHED SOME!!!!!!! *gasp* I got two auto biography's about Bear Gryll's from the TV show Man vs. Wild. and I got one on Dog the Bounty Hunter, from his self titled TV show. I also got some fiction books such as Tracie Peterson's, A Lady of HIgh Regard, and her book "duet" with Judith Miller called, A Daughters Inheritance. Also, The Parting, By Beverly Lewis .

EDIT ONE AND A HALF WEEKS LATER:

Isn't it funny how I started a post saying I have been busy and unable to post and I couldn't even finish the exact post because I had to go?????? Coincidence? I think not ;)

Since this post began alot has happened. Some very interesting days have gone by, oh and  the 'coupe de grace' is............ GAS PRICES ARE ABOVE $4. Shocking huh? Not surprising though, and I don't have a car to worry about gas ;) Sorry to be so blunt, Ma!

A couple weeks ago I was working an 8 hour shift when one of our employess called to say a giant-two-decker-car-hauler had lost it's brakes coming down the infamous I-40 from Las Vegas and had ran the intersection of our Bullhead/Laughlin bridge (connecting Nevada and Arizona togther (The only bridge in the whole city)) and had plunged into the river in which all the BRAND NEW CARS on the top deck of the hauler decided to take a dip. At that point I had two hours left of work and I was in a panic because when stuff like this happens (which happens often I might add) the authority's shut down the bridge for like a whole day or more. So now I was stuck on the other side of the river, at the mall, with only the casino's around. Fortunately another co-worker was getting off work the same time I was and she was stuck on that side of the river as well. Our genius plan was to walk half a mile down to the Riverside casino and take the "water taxi' across to the other side of the river and into the parking lot near the Highway. So we did. I shall add that is was about 105 degrees outside ;) So I took, for the very first time, the water taxi across the river and then had to walk what seemed to be another half a mile to where my step dad picked me. That was the talk of the whole town, and still is. Unfortunately since 9/11 semi trucks are not allowed to pass over the Hoover Dam (upside of Las Vegas) so they have to come and loop around through Bullhead and up to Kingman, but Bullhead is situated in a valley and so all the roads are mountainous, and therefore trucks speeding down the mountain road loose their brakes and end up causing a whole bunch of wrecks. About 5 days before this truck "took a drink" in the river another diesel carrying truck lost it's brake and ran through both intersections at the bridge and ended up flipping and spilling 4,500 gallons of disel everywhere. It was funny to see haz-mat teams cleaning it up. ;)

I think I will stop this post here because I am currently watching National treasure 2: Book of Secrets with my friend Mackenzie. I have been asked by Amy, been reminded by Alison, and told I haven't posted in a while by Mrs. Johnson, soooooooo to my dear friends there is my post!!!!! ;)

Hope you enjoyed it!
Julia

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Party and a Rodeo all wrapped up in one!!!!!

Posted on Mar. 17, 2008 at 5:03 PM in My Life

BLOG-O-VERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!!!!!!!! 

 
"...In honour of all of the Dixon Blogoversaries, we decided to host a week-long blog-party, complete with prizes! We wanna invite you all to join in on the celebrating with us!" -Jocelyn Dixon at A Pondering Heart

Whoo! I believe March is the month of Blog-o-versaries because I have my one year blogoversary on the 28th and my Mother's is on the 31st! But according to Jocelyn ,her entire families blogoversaries are in March. Jocelyn and Rachel's are on the 17th! (Yesterday). Mrs. Dixon's is on the 20th! And Amanda's is on the 18th! ( I think!) And in honor of the Dixon Blogoversary Party I would like to throw a little get together considering I have a party planned on my Blogoversary ;D

As requested by my sister Jocelyn, :-) here is some chocolate cake!!!!!!

 

Unfortunately it's just a small get together so we dont have a party theme except for the ribbons, which don't show up in a picture ;)

COME JOIN US FOR FUN! and of course join the Dixon's for their blogoversary parties!!!!!



Rodeo!

My step dad and I were able to attend a "Sponsor's Rodeo Dinner"- his company AMTI is a sponsor of the GCPRA Rodeo of Needles,California- on March 5th! It was so much fun!! We met with several other sponsors, and I was able to finally wear my cowgirl boots!! That was the most exciting part! :) Hahahahaha Anyways, My step dad, Mike, took pictures and so did I so here are pictures of the dinner. (There are only a few!)


   
  
The last one is of the Rodeo Queen talking to a little girl. and she adored the Queen :)

On March 7th, we went to the Rodeo! Here are some more pictures
 
Warm ups and this is how close we were sitting by the Bulls :)
 
More warm ups and this is the rodeo grand stands! Hahaha Weird pictures
 
Two of the Bulls escaped and were right in front of us. This one stood right in front of me. 
 
The American Flag Ceremony and the second bare back rider was drug acrossed the arena when his hand got caught in the ropes and  he slammed into the metal gate were all these guys are standing.

 
This is a random picture before calf roping! (which I particularly don't like that event but oh well.)


I also took some videos with my cell phone. TURN SOUND DOWN! I didn't realize how loud my cheers were on the video!!!!!!!!!!! So TURN THE SOUND DOWN!!!!!! OR OFF.

 

This is them warming up the horses and such and just us talking!

Flag Ceremony. The AMAZING song they are playing is "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" By Toby Keith! I was going to add it to my playlist but it has a "not-so-nice" word in it. :)


This is the ONLY good video of ANY event at the rodeo! My stupid cell phone video quality is horrible!!!!!!!! Sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! better than nothing though right? Anyway, We had a really great time and I absolutely LOVE the rodeo! We hope to attend the annual "Extreme Bulls" here in town at the end of April. We are a county family ;) Our favorite sport is the Bull Riding hahahaha.. Anyway, I am done rambling!!


ALSO!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY GRANDPA!!!!!!!!!!!!! he's turing 42 for the 18th time!!!!!!! ;)

Please pray for my Great Grandmother. She was admitted in the hospital the other night and is now home but having trouble breathing! Please Pray!
-Julia

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A Post of Many Colors

Posted on Feb. 28, 2008 at 10:26 PM in My Life

Health Prayers and updates-

First off, Please Pray for my dear friend  Jocelyn's youngest brother. Caleb is two years old and is very sick. He had to be taken to the emergency room two days ago. Pray God will heal his little body!!!! More information at Jocelyn's, Amanda's, and Mrs. Dixon's blog.

Second, My grandmother had her cancer surgery. They had to take one whole side of her chest muscles. She is feeling really well, getting tired at some points but otherwise is still up and moving around doing stuff she is not suppose to do while healing ;) Love you grandma! Mom and Brandon flew up to Seattle yesterday to help around my Grandmother's house. Brandon enjoyed his VERY FIRST airplane ride. Mom said he did very well on the plane and when he got off he turned to mom and said 'Thank you for taking me on the plane Mommy'


Some important stuff-

I never did get to take a full week of pictures for Brooke's 'Feelin Feminine Challenge'. So Sorry Brooke my dear! I did take two pictures yesterday to make up for the days I didn't So here they are.

I basically just took a simple outfit and made it feminine by added giant pearl bracelets and a white puka necklace. I contrasted the green with tan and both with brown shoes. haha honestly this is my fave outfit I wear it all the time. :)

I actually can't post the other picture until tomorrow. Its on the other computer so... Stay Tuned..

Anyway, Brooke, Jocelyn, and Amanda, are continuing the challenge  to a 'One week outta the month' type thing. The end week of each month will be that "Challenge Week". Like I have said over and over I wear skirts all the time so it's not hard for me but I will post a random picture of one of my outfits in that end week.

Julia's 2008 book shelf-

I have seen a bunch of people posting 'Book Lists'. I try to read books but my life is so busy that I rarely have time. But that doesn't stop me from going to the library to check out some books.  I also like to reread books so here is my "Book Basket"


Books in my "Book Basket" are:

* What in the World Should I Wear? - By Mrs. Cathy Corle
* Becoming Behavior -By Ruth Harvey
* Promiseland -By Dawn Miller
* Letter Perfect -Cathy Marie Hake (Rereading)
* The Measure of a Lady -Deanne Gist (Rereading)
* Romeo and Juliet -Shakespeare
* Emma -Jane Austen
* Persuasion -Jane Austen
* Pride & Prejudice -Jane Austen
* Smithsonian Handbooks: Mammals (Rereading)
* Tiger in the Snow! - Peter Matthissen
* Mammal tracking in North America (comes in handy :) )
* Camels in Nevada -Douglas McDonald (I actually finished reading this and am going to post about it)
* Mountain Lion Field Guide -Harley G. Shaw (done reading)
* A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibboston

And Currently I am reading The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones ,which I am enjoying :)

I am really sorry if this post is all jumble mess, I need sleep lol! Nighty Night

-Julia

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Life Update

Posted on Feb. 14, 2008 at 3:03 PM in My Life

Updates, updates, everyone loves updates!!!!!!!!! Not much has been going on . Simply going to college and work. Thats about it. :) Ok done with this post!

hahahah I'm kidding.... (Obviously)

School-

Lately in math I have come to realize that the world isn't as fluffy as some people think it is. I never thought it was fluffy, just I never realized how bad it was. My math class is full of a bunch of druggies. Literally. The first day a 20-some odd guy walks in and asks if anyone has any pot. I turned to him and rolled my eyes. He had no shame that he smoked pot. Everyone laughed at him and joked around with him. He was like 'dude. I haven't smoked that *insert cuss word* in two weeks. I need some' He kept looking at me like I had some, I just rolled my eyes. I wanted to say 'Yeah the campus cop has some, you can go bum some off of him' But I bit my tongue. Not my place to tell him how he should live his life. If he want's to smoke pot and die of cancer or something that's his choice. BTW, He now comes into class stoned out of his mind. And he stinks of pot.

My  english class is pretty hard. I knew it was going to be. In fact, I just finished a paper on being stung by Jellyfish (which I will post if gets a good grade ;D).  I have to write a compare and contrast essay next week. I don't know what I'm going to write it on. I was thinking about writing about conservation. I think I am fairly good at writing about conservation ;D

Prayer-

My Grandmother has cancer. For the third time. Back in 1980 My grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had to go in and have surgery to remove the problem. Shortly after that she had cancer again. This time it was hidden and was very agressive. So happens the docs were removing tumors in my grandmother when they find this agressive cancer AFTER they removed the tumors (which had nothing to do with the cancer). Turns out if they had waited a few weeks to remove the turmos the cancer probably would have spread so fast. So almost 30 years later she has been told she has Breast cancer again, on the other side. She is removing the whole problem on the 26th of February. My mum is going up to WA to help. Unfortunately, I have to stay down here and do my compare and contrast essay :D

Life in general-

Right now i am watching Crocodile Hunter and listening to Fur Elise by Beethoven. Oh yes if you have noticed I added a playlist. I choose only appropriate songs. No rock or anything. I don't like rock as it is, but all the songs are 'christian' or just piano, such as the beethoven and Mozart. Also Tchaikovsky.

Anyway's like I said, I am watching Crocodile Hunter. I love watching the show over and over to learn more and more about wildlife. I am always amazed at how Steve was able to just *currently what he is doing on this episode* lasso a Tiger Shark and hold onto it like it was a dog. It's amazing. Here is a video that I have stored. Booklover sent me a video the other day of a man coming accross a 14+ ft Cobra. Well basically this video is for Booklover because she sent me the other one :)

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My life in slow motion

Posted on Dec. 19, 2007 at 2:36 PM in My Life

Well, scratch that. Their is no slow motion in my life. Which can be good and it can also be bad. As it stands today I am very tired and don't even want to put this post up but I am trying to keep a routine. I do not have a list made right now of the posts I have planned so I will just do a life post today. Like I do every time I post.

This past week, has been fun, crazy, busy, and full of blessings. I was busy most of the time because of work, since it is getting closer to that certain holiday people have been flocking in like crazy and buying up everything in the store. Plus, I hear the same questions over and over agian. 'Can I have a gift receipt?', 'Can they returns this to any Gap Outlet?', 'What do you think about this size for 'blah blah' '. They are all the same. lol.

I start with saturday, in which I had to be there at 8 in the morning and stayed till about 3 pm. After that my mom and I went down to a friends house to look at some school books for my brother and I ended up staying the rest of the day till about 9 pm. :)

Sunday was church and I actually left church to have an afternoon with the same friend who I was at their house the previous day. It was an awesome day. we all had lunch and then went to the mall, where I work, and me and my friend got our ears pierced. She had her hole re-pierced, and I was able to get my second earring hole. I think I am done with piercings so no worries ;) Also, before we went to church my friends dad stopped off at his sisters house and they had a brand new computer moniter for me. I was very excited to get it home and open it! I have two computers in my room. One has the internet, actually it's a laptop, in which I am using right now. The other computer with the new monitor has my stories and pictures on it. I don't have enough room on the laptop to move everything over so I keep everything on the other computer and just internet connection on this laptop! :)

Yesterday was my step dad's Mike's birthday party and our Pastor's family and some other familys from church came over for cake and ice cream. Us kids all decided to go outside on the porch and eat our cake. I think it was about 55 degrees outside and almost everyone was freezing. Lol. After cake us kids, which were Alizona/Alison, Booklover/Amy, Mackenzie, Carrotlover/Bethy, Brandon and Emily, dressed up and headed outside into the dark desert ( ;) ) to play a good ol' fashion game of night hide and seek. You can never be to old for Hide and Seek, right?! Anyway, it was really fun! Although, Booklover/Amy, is suffering from a cold, and Alizona/Alison is probably suffering from bruise cause she fell on our hill and rolled down it. But ya know what? I did too, so don't feel bad Alie :) I have bruise on my legs cause I yeah even I, Mrs. clutz, fell on a huge rock pile :)But all in all it was fun! Even our Pastor joined in on the 'freeze tage' game we had later on. That was hilarious to see my Pastor take off running after my brother. Hahaha! Pastor's family left about 830 and so did one other family. Mackenzie ended up staying for a little bit longer with her dad, we didn't do much though except hang out ya know? I swear I was coming down with hypothermia cause I was extremely hot yet freezing, ya know?

Edit: Here is the picture of us Kids before Hide and Seek at night. Notice me in my wonderful beanie? :D NO NO, I am not the one with the blue beanie. I am not that short! ;) No that's Mackenzie. The one in the pink shirt, the tall one is Booklover/Amy, the one on my right in the red sweater is Alizona/Alison, the one in the magenta jacket is Carrotlover/Bethy, the one in the hot pink sweater in front is Emily, and Brandon is in the blue jacket.





ALSO!!!!!!! I have template blogs now. I have one main one in which I will post the template for whoever has asked me to make one and then I have 4 other templates blogs that are just for putting the codes together and messing around. That way I don't mess up the template I make for someone on my original one. I stink at template making but practice makes perfect so here are the links.

Attempting a Template
Attempting a Template x2
Attempting a Template x3
Attempting a Template x4
Attempting a Template x5

-Julia

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