Montana

Well I have officially moved to Montana... again. Im not sure how long i will stay here this time but im planning to enjoy it as long as im here. :) Im living with Rick in Manhattan and i get to go to Manhattan convention for the first time tomorrow. That should be fun i think. We all came up to montana in time for devon convention, that was a lot of fun, got to see all the family again including the newest additions (or at least new to me) Brenda was there with Ivan, he is such a doll! lol and Ian was getting big and so was Rowena. I spent all day yesterday shopping for stuff, such as a bed and furniture seeings how Rick had well none to speak of. I am now the proud owner of a papasan chair and an air mattress yay me ok im done now bye

Drive home

Never go on a long car drive with a little sister that is determined to be hyper the whole way and when every seat in the car is filled and there isnt a whole lot of room to avoid the flailings of said sister. For that matter dont go on any sort of drive with limited space and a hyper sibling unless you and everyone in the car is hyper. It makes things marginally more difficult if you are the only hyper one and everyone else is just annoyed by it. Some of the antics of Stephanie the brainless (she told me to use that name if i blogged this) were as follows--
She repeatedly hit herself in the face with her fist saying OW after each wack. When asked why she was doing this she replied "because i want to have a bump and a purple spot on my head tomorrow" Me being the obliging sister that i am, i offered her my fist to use on her head, she promptly agreed and grabbing my fist started hitting herself with it. This is one case where i can honestly say that I didnt hit her, her face hit my hand. Steph the brainless will completely agree with that statement and in fact it might have been her that coined that particular phrase.
Steph thought it would be good if she sat on top of karas legs as kara stretched them across the seat to go to sleep. this put her up rather high and in a postition to be of greater annoyance, a fact that im sure she calculated in to her plans :P
When we stopped to get gas, we all went in side to load up on snacks, Steph decided to get some of those lifesaver gummies. Thats all well and good except that when we got back in the car she thought it would be amusing to stick them to her glasses and try to catch them in her mouth as they fell off. This caused much laughing and eventually led to Stephanie trying to catch her own ear and failing that decided it would be easier to chase her finger instead (im assuming she was hoping she would actually be able to catch her finger but sadly it still continues to elude her best efforts)
About an hour from home mom finally let Steph crawl into the back of the car with the luggage to give us all a little more space (and quiet). When we got home we realized that it had been quiet back there for quite a while and it turns out she had fallen asleep sprawled across all of our luggage and blankets, actually making a rather cute sight that made it rather tempting to just open the door and see if she fell out... i know, im such a loving sister aren't i?
We are obviously home now and i think im about to hit the sack so im ending this here.

Early mornings

So it seems that i have indeed been going to bed early... 2:30 am is early right? So i have decided that as much as i love moving, i really hate the packing that is involved with the moving. I had all day thursday to pack my stuff so of course i didnt really do any at all until late that night when i was supposed to be sleeping. my thoughts were that mom was going to be driving the car to SLO and i could just sleep on the way there, its a good thought i suppose but i got bored with packing after about oh say 5 minutes. I dont have a very long attention span it would seem.... i like snickerdoodles and candy canes.
We are now in SLO at kirstyns house waiting for her graduation tomorrow and then another 6 hour drive back to the main ranch where we will set up for a BBQ/ grad party for kirstyn before finally leaving for montana on Monday. That trip is going to take a while, with stops in Boise, Jackson Hole, Bozeman and then finally Devon in time for convention. Im really hoping i can actually fit all of my stuff in my car even though i know that it isnt realistically possible, im going to try any ways... i rather like having all my junk with me. I think im going to buy myself a hammock and use it as a couch.

Me- Its a B-E-A-utiful day!
Kara- congratulations shawna can actually count!
Me- Thats spelling dummy
Kara- Oh, right (hehe)

Last day

Well its official, it was the last day of work for me at the craft store Ben Franklins. I no longer have to walk around for 8 hours a day saying "can i help you find anything today?" or stand at a register and say "debit or credit ma'am" Yes this is quite the monumental occasion indeed. And to top it all off, when i got home mom was making ribs on the BBQ, quite sensational as well. All in all this has been a rather awesome day. Oh and i get to pick up a paycheck tomorrow and possibly get a deposit back from my Oregon apartment within the next week or so so thats another nice thing to add to the list. People say that bad things come in threes- well this has happened at work but it seems that good things also come in groups. The bad things from the last week were-- My friend went missing for 5 hours, Gina killed herself, and Amber (a pregnant girl i work with) started having some really sharp pains in her side/ abdomen, and as she is only like 3 months a long, its not really a good sign. Turns out she was fine but it was still a scare on top of everything else. The good things for the week are-- My last day of work was today, I get a paycheck tomorrow, Im moving to Montana on monday, I get to go to two conventions in 2 weeks.
All in all it would seem that the good out weighs the bad, granted the bad involved a death but still. you cant always dwell on the horrible things, sorry if that sounds callous but its the truth as i see it.
Its now 10 o'clock wednesday night and as of right now about 1/4 of my stuff is actually in boxes like it needs to be, i should really be packing right now instead of blogging but it just didnt seem like it would be very much fun... so im not packing, you know what they say-- "If it weren't for procrastination and the last minute, nothing would ever get done" i have found this to be so true in my life, (i should probably work on that whole procrastination thing... but thats for later)

He who laughs last... finally got the joke
And with that parting random thought, i will leave you till another day.
I bid you adieu and farewell

Amusing nothings at the main house

So today was boring until I arrived home... after having to go get pizza and soda to go with it. After getting home Sister the youngest ran out to my car and started pounding on it wanting the precious pizza that it contained. Being the kind sister that i am, i promptly locked the doors and proceeded to back out of the driveway with her running along side the car trying to get me to open the door.
As i soon tired of this i just pulled into the driveway and turned the music up til she got tired of beating on my car. As soon as i got out of the car there was of course another scramble for the pizza this time including sister the tallest but not oldest who promptly ran down the hall with the pizza trying to keep it from sister the youngest. Sister the youngest grabbed the pizza and went off down the hall with it thus prompting mom , After an interesting meal where sister the youngest (she didnt want her name in my blog) complained about how mom never got after anyone but her. Mom was tellin sister the tallest but not oldest to take care of her dishes and after a lengthy discussion on the whys of it we realized that they were in fact Moms dishes from dinner. Sister the tallest but not oldest promptly took the dishes back to the couch and set them back down regardless of the fact that she was already in the kitchen with them when we realized they were moms. Some of the funny happenings in the recent hour or so--

Me-- I didnt hit her!, my hand hit hers and her hand hit her face!

Mom- why did you go into that room with a pillow like you were going to hit her?
Sister the youngest- Because i WAS going to hit her!!

Sister the youngest-- hey look at me, im shawna! (she wishes)

Me- I have pinkies and im not afraid to use them!
Sister the youngest- AHHHHHHHHH (runs fleeing down the hall armed with 2 sets of knitting needles)

Enter sister the youngest- Sunglasses on one side of her head and her glasses on the other with hair combed over her eyes and face so you cant really tell which way is front, upon further inspection we realized that lo and behold her pants were on backwards to further add to the illusion that she was two faced and so we wouldnt know which way she was facing. all in all rather amusing i must say. dare i go so far as to say an improvement? no i probably shouldnt...

Sister the youngest doing impressions-- Look at me im kara! (hits her self in the face with a flip flop) not entirely sure why that is kara but it was funny none the less.

Sister the youngest-- hey look at me, im shawna! (she wishes) (she put my sunglasses on her head and was pretending to type at a computer like i am currently doing)

Me- I win!!
Sister the youngest- You didnt win, you fell down!
Me- Yes, but I fell on top of you so i win!
Sister the youngest-- Argh! (accompanied with a foot stomp)

Sister the tallest but not oldest-- She slapped my pizza!!
Sister the youngest-- Yes, why yes i did

On a different note, it would appear that my sisters and i are pathetic enough to know all the words to Amish paradise with out having to play the song. Between that at Mylee Cyrus' song See You Again, i feel rather bad for mom having to listen to it.

Ok, i think thats a long enough blog for this time around and im having trouble thinking of anything else to write.
Hope you enjoyed reading about the antics of my wonderful family :) until next time ciao

Life and its annoyances

So basically today wasnt exactly the best of days. It hasnt been the worst of days either i suppose, but for me it certainly wasnt good. So it started out like any other monday, didnt want to get out of bed and really didnt want to go to work. On the plus side i made a really cute skirt yesterday (when i was supposed to be packing) and i was going to wear it to work today so that was something to look forward to. Work was slow as normal and i got banished to the frame shop because Scarlet went home sick around 3:30 so i was stuck over there til 6, not to bad really but the owner was there so i really had to find stuff to keep myself busy. Down side.. i have to be over there all day tomorrow but i do get off at 6 so i guess there is a silver lining to every cloud. So the drama for the day was more sever than normal. Amy ( one of my friends) went missing from work, clocked out at 2:30 and never came back. Seeings how she has a rather abusive boyfriend we were all really worried about her and she wasnt answering the phone or texts and no one had seen her in hours, turns out she's ok but we were all really worried. While all of that was going on the manager at work got a call that one of our co workers had killed herself, now Im not supposed to know about that but my friend was with the manager when she got the call and she needed to talk to someone so she told me. well it was really shocking to say the least cause she had been totally happy when i saw her on saturday. Needless to say it was upsetting but i think im doing ok. Only 2 days of work left and then on to SLO and then Montana to live for a while.
The quote for the day via Kara--
Some people are like slinkys, they arent good for anything but they still make you smile when you push them down the stairs.
And so with that parting thought I will leave you now, enjoy

So im not very consistant

It would seem that it has been in the area of around 2 weeks since I have last posted anything to this blog... much to my readers dismay I'm sure. :) Well in that two weeks a bit has happened I guess. I got to go to all of Mt. Ranch 2. That was a lot of fun seeing every one again and meeting new people. Junior, and Andrea professed much to the delight of everyone there. Jeff and Mike were so happy they cried and hugged each other. We didn't stay for tear downs as we (Allyson and I) we rather tired and just wanted to get home. As it turned out I didn't go home until monday evening. Allyson and I went to help Aunt Dalene get ready for a picnic at their house for Memorial Day. They were expecting a lot of people so we decided to help them out. After an interesting night starting at Denny's-- I still feel bad for that poor waiter-- we moved on to a night of jumping on top of motor homes and rocking them around and fitting 4 girls on a double bed we helped get ready for the big par-tay. A few of us went to go get some breakfast and groceries as they were sorely needed. After we arrived back at the ranch, I was informed that some of the guys had a video that I would probably want to see, seeings how it involved my car. They had decided that it would be a good idea to try and ride a bicycle off of the roof of my car, down the windshield and off the hood. This is all well and good if it were their own cars but as mine already had dents in it they figured that one more wouldn't make to much difference. As it turns out they managed to dent in the roof rather severely causing 3 professionals to say "WOW" needless to say I wasn't terribly happy. All of that is being fixed now so its alls well that ends well I suppose. I'm moving to Montana on the 16th after going down to SLO for Kirstyn's graduation. It should be a fun trip up there I'm hoping. We are going to get there in time for Devon and then I plan on going to Manhattan the next week. I put in my two weeks notice at work and every one was like "ok, where are you going to this time" and others said they weren't surprised that I was leaving again, I guess I'm just predictable like that. Oh well, what can I say, I like to move around a lot. And I think that since I'm tired of actually using capital "I" and apostrophes (for Kirstyn's benefit) im going to end this here and not worry about punctuation any more. hope you all enjoyed reading what i think you proly already knew. til next time i get around to writing, have fun and enjoy whatever your life may hold for you.