The Good and The Bad...

Well everyone, I have good news and bad news. Good news first, I can never have a job where I have to professionally talk on the phone. Haha! Yay for Cassie! Bad news, I am pretty awkward during phone conversations. Specifically when ordering pizza and setting up doctor's appointments. Exhibit A: Freshman year of college my friends and I were ordering pizza but everyone else was too chicken to talk on the phone; so I took charge. Unfortunately I was unsure of what to say and looked towards my friends for guidance. They told me to ask if they had any deals going on at the time. So of course I translate that into "Do you have any deals, as of current?" Needless to say there was much laughter in the background and the man on the other line said "What;” so embarrassing, but good times. Exhibit B: Well this example just happened today. I was calling to setup a doctor's appointment and while telling the lady the name of my parent's insurance I said "Y as in you... ugh wait..." That totally happened on accident I promise!!! Realizing what I had done the lady began to laugh at my “joke.” I am really glad she had a good sense of humor otherwise the rest of our conversation could have been more awkward than it already was. She finally told me to just bring in my insurance stuff and we would get everything settled before the appointment. Oh my adventures I face every day. lol Well I hope this has brought you some enjoyment today. :D

Updates...

Time to install a new update to the system; isn't that how it usually goes when you get on the computer. Well this isn't exactly for the computer, but it is for you my wonderful stalkers. ;) It is been about two months since I last posted and thought you would like to hear from me because I probably don't talk to most of you all that much. Sorry about that, I am super busy with school, work, oh and I am getting married in December. Yep that happened. I am sure you are all thinking... "When did this happen?", "I didn't know she was seeing anyone.", or "Come on get to the juicy details”. :D Well my amazing, talented, sweet, loving fiancée is Joe. We have been together for three months and after two months he proposed to me. One thing is for sure, I really like a fast pace. So yep, that's what's going on. Now for the funny stuff... actually I can't really think of any funny stories at this moment. How sad!!! Well I will just have to make another post this month. AHHH, sorry I try not to make threats like that. lol :)

What is wrong with this picture?

So about a week ago I was sitting on my counter eating baby carrots and peanut butter. Super good right? OF COURSE!!! Duh! :D Well for lack of something better to do while enjoying my snack I decided to read the back label of my Great Value peanut butter jar. Everything seemed to be fine until I read this: Allergy warnings... May contain traces of milk, eggs, anchovies, wheat, and soy. ANCHOVIES!!!!!? Is this a joke?! How in the world would anchovies get into my peanut butter? I don't wanna be eating some nasty little fish, I don't even like fish!!!! This is ridiculous! I still cannot believe that I found that out. I think it will be a few weeks before I can finish off that jar of peanut butter. Really, really, are you serious? Moral of the story read the labels on the food you get because you might not get what you really wanted.

Anyway... well now time for some more funny quotes. :D

Melissa talking to a fake roach while chopping off its antenna... "It's okay, it's just a haircut."

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Melissa: Bob the Cricket, you better be good!

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Melissa: I feel like I am trying to poop out a kid.


I seriously love my best friend!!! She cracks me up. Bahhhhahahahahaha!!!!!! :D

People say the darnest things.

Bahhh!!!!! I need to be better at blogging... However, one of my problems with blogging is that I hardly write in my journal nowadays so why would I post on my blog? I am slacking, I know, but I am truly trying to be better... kind of... well in my mind I set goals. :D Oh well, I am not perfect and if anyone thinks otherwise they are sorely mistaken and can just go suck a toe. HA! HA! Another problem is that I don’t want to tell everyone my whole life story (even though I pretty much already do that anyway) so I don’t exactly know what kind of things to post that will be super funny to read and make your day. Then I came up with the best idea ever!!!! (I do have a few of those every now and then). I am going to make my blog a "wall of quotes". Explanation: basically funny phrases or conversations that my friends, family, strangers, or I say are going to be posted on my blog. I want to remember the good times and share them with others. So here is my first couple of quotes...

Melissa: This meal is super cheap and easy...

Cassie: It kind of sounds like a Tramp....

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Melissa: A factual statement of my opinion.

Oh these are good times and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! :D

Creative cooking.

Can I just say that I am probably not the best cook ever? I kid you not. I can be a mean baker, but cooking can be a tad bit scary. Every time I have actually cooked something it was with an experienced cook, usually my mom, and they did most of the work or told me exactly what to do. Well tonight I was hungry and did not want to waste my money on delicious 99 cent Filiberto's tacos (so good!). Now being a college student there are two things that I have a plethora of; Mac & Cheese and Top Raman. So I pulled out a box of Mac & Cheese for dinner. Okay so here is some more background information on me and cooking. Living with my sister-in-law Morgan, I have learned a few things about cooking. At dinner we usually talk about cooking and trying different foods and all that fun stuff.  Can I also just say that she is an amazing cook and I am so grateful to be learning from her? In fact I have gone outside of my food comfort zone to taste her cooking. I have to say that it is super amazing and makes my mouth water just thinking about it! Okay, now back to making dinner. As I read the instructions I noticed that I needed milk which of course was not available to me at this time (as how cooking/baking usually goes for me) so I thought I would just add in water. While the water started to boil, which took forever, I looked through the refrigerator and noticed the sour cream. Confession time, old Cassie wouldn't have touched the sour cream with a ten foot pole let alone know how to use it in cooking. However, I have learned a few things this semester. Exhibit A: how to eat sour cream and have it taste good on food. Exhibit B: how to cook with sour cream. So after thinking about sour cream, I decided that it would work way better than water as a substitute for milk. Once the noddles were cooked and I successfully drained the Mac & Cheese without burning myself I added the butter and sour cream. I was getting excited because it wasn't looking half bad. Let's all be honest with ourselves plain Mac & Cheese just isn't as exciting as MEXICAN Mac & Cheese. This leads me to say that another lesson I learned from my sister-in-law is that Mac & Cheese can taste even better when you add in some flavoring. So I put in some salsa, rummaged through Morgan's spices and added some oregano, basil, pepper, and salt, mixed it all together and took a bite. Let me tell you I totally loved it! A little spicy but really good. Then my brother Doran came home from work, so I let him have the other half and he said it was really good too. I was super satisfied with the job I had done on the Mac & Cheese until I realized that Doran will eat almost anything and say it is good. If you don't believe me ask his wife, she knows how it is. Oh well, I enjoyed it and I am pleasantly full. Job well done Cassie, job well done!

Death by dancing.

I have wonderful friends. That's the truth. They are all super talented in their own way. Some are quite attractive, some are very musically inclined, and others can dance. I am not talking just any kind of dance, I mean ballroom dance. About a year and three or four months ago I started hanging out with this girl named Makenna; she is a ballroom dancer. Here in the Phoenix metropolitan area there is a ballroom dance studio called The Paragon where Makenna likes to bust a move. At an early stage in our friendship Makenna convinced me to come with her to The Paragon. There may have been some mention of cute guys as a bribe to get me to go, but nevertheless I went. After that first night I never wanted to go dancing again. I had no idea how to ballroom dance and I felt like a complete idiot. Eventually I decided that I really did like to dance and so I went dancing again. I remembered why I did not like to dance and it is not so much that I am terrible at it, because there are cute guys that are always willing to teach me, but I have come to find that dancing makes me hyperventilate. Seriously, just having Makenna teach me steps almost makes me go into convulsions. Just last Wednesday Makenna was teaching me some Cha-Cha steps. She taught me this one move that would have the guys hands come down around my head and I literally shied away from Makenna as she was demonstrating. Then one of our male friends, Noor, came over and started to dance with me because he heard about my hyperventilation problem. I was doing pretty good until he tried to dip me! Who does that? Really? Really. Of course Makenna and Noor found my aversion to being dipped as just another challenge. Thus, I was told/talked into being dipped. So Noor dipped me, I survived to tell the tale and now when I think about dancing anxiety overcomes my body. I still like to dance, however, I think it may be detrimental to my health. :( Oh well if you do not hear from me anymore it is because some handsome feller has literally taken my breath away as I dance with him tomorrow night. :)

Family Game Night.

First off I would like to tell everyone that Spring Break is here and I am so happy! Well this past weekend I went to my parent's house. To understand my family, and this post, you have to know that both sides of my family are GAMERS! Now I am not talking those fancy video or computer games, I mean old fashioned boardgames, card games, sports, basically anything related to these subjects we play it. We all have our likes and dislikes; and just like a society fads come and go. Such as when I was younger my dad and brothers would play Rail Barron almost every Sunday. Then Settlers of Catan (which, after a while, I refused to play because it caused so much contention in my family) came into the picture and many other boardgames. With the new generation coming up (my nephews and nieces) the simpler games are becoming popular again. Such as this weekend we played several games of what I like to think of as "Uno Championship". You know other families have one game night a week but in my family, whether we are with my mother's family or my father's family, it is more like family game marathon. Seriously, my family will stay up until 5 AM playing games, go to bed and get right back up at 7 AM to deal with kids and getting ready. So when I say we are GAMERS, I truly mean GAMERS. I love my family and they make life super fun and enjoyable.

Random is my specialty.

Ok so I was going to write this whole long background story of how Melissa (my best friend), David (a mutual friend of Melissa and I), and I came together and started talking/ sharing stories but I am too lazy to do that and do not feel like wasting your time. Anyway so we were sharing stories and David shared this story that was anti-climatic (which I obviously do all the time (rolls eyes, psssk WHAT? I don't know what they are talking about)). Well after he was done with his story he asked if that a 'Cassie story'. I really didn't hear what he said but I heard my name and both Melissa and David had guilty looks on their faces. So I interrogated them and made them tell me what they said about me. Which ended in me be offended that my name is used to describe pointless stories told by people. Melissa just informed me, as I read my post to her, that I am the author of pointless stories. "Anti-climatic" Melissa tells me. Whatever, lame! I love my friends they are the best and make me laugh. Melissa also says that I tell really good dramatic stories and have the best random, anti-climatic, pointless stories; she's a true friend. Oh yeah end with a quote “Wub, true wub.” –The Princess Bride.

I got the blogging fever!

It all began this past week while hanging with my friends; a few of them began to peruse different blogs in my general vicinity (because everyone knows that the place to hang out is where ever Cassie is; kidding... kind of). Then my so called "friends" straight up started TALKING about the Blog. What kind of sick world is this where we need more than facebook to tell people all about our lives? Well as with anytime you become sick I did not take the needed precautions to stop myself from falling prey to the Blog. My first downfall you ask? Well besides sitting listening to my feverish friends go on and ON about the Blog, I actually signed up so that I could follow my friend’s blogs instead of just adding the sites to my favorites list. It went downhill from there. Now as you can see I have got a blogging fever of about 100 degrees and it is very hard to get homework accomplished with this kind of sickness. What a shame; yet another causality to the Blog. By the way if you are not a blogger and you are reading this "Ye be warned!" (Movie - Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl).