It's me, Charity

1. When you read this I will be hours away from leaving for Michigan to see Apes get married! I am so excited for her!! I can't wait to see her walk down the aisle I am going to cry!! 2. Last night I was fb chatting with Caca, and we were talking about taking our own road trip and I told her that she could drive and I would be in charge of the music. That was met with her yelling NOOOOOOO!! Followed by NO NSYNC!!!! I asked her if that meant my friends the Jonas Brothers wouldn't be invited to come with us as well? She's not too friendly with the boy bands. Gotta work on that!! 3. I am the master of mix cd's. They are so eclectic its kind of hilarious. you really have no clue what is going to come next! 4. Can I just say how stinkin excited I am that Danny Gokey's videos are on CMT? I'm listening to one right now!! I 5. I'm quite looking forward to swimming in the hotel pool tonight, followed by hanging out with Apes and Katie in our hotel room eating Pizza!!...

Well if you have been paying attention to my twitter feed, you will know that today I found out that I am going to be an Auntie to a precious little baby boy!! I am SO excited to know who is coming now! Now I will start a countdown to the birth!! :) 4 more months!! I'm really happy for my brother, Kevin and my SIL Liz. They will be fabulous parents and I can't wait to watch this new season of life that my big bro is entering into! I started thinking about how weird it was going to be to have a new little member of the family, since its really just us 6 (Mom &Dad, K&L and me and Grams) but then I realized I always thought it would be weird to have a sister in law and my brother be married (seriously, when did we become old enough to get married and have kids??!!) but when K&L got married it really was like finding a missing member of the family! Liz completes our family and now we are going to add a baby to it, the best of K&L and I'm really excited. Honestl...

So I have this problem. When I get upset at people and am mad at them, I forget. I have the memory of a cantaloupe when it comes to things like that, so to help me I have created the "Mad List". The Mad List consists of Pink Post it notes stuck to my computer (if the offense is highly egregious) or stuck to my desk calendar. Included on each post it note is the Offender's name/nickname and the offenses or code words to jolt my memory. Sadly this picture is outdated allready as I took it yesterday and Apes has added to her list as has Muy Caliente. They are in a close run for first place I am not sure who is going to pull out ahead at this point. Tomorrow should tell. The offenders seem to find it quite hilarious that I have to take the note down and add their offenses to it. Nefarious little sot's they are!

When you tick off The Cherrybear.

1. Caffeine. 2. Perfect weather for a nice lunch break outside! 3. Camera Phones. Really I don’t know what I would do without them! 4. Cooler weather! 5. April getting married this week! 6. Danny Gokey’s song “Come Rain or Come Shine”. 7. Headbands and Hair Ties. 8. Finally figuring out how to get the podcast sermons from church onto my ipod! 9. Extra in the paycheck this week!! WOOT!!!! 10. Days where I can stay home in my jammies and not have to wear makeup or contacts! (I think this is what Heaven will be like) 11. Blasting my music at work! 12. Blasting music period!! 13. Finding out what “The Project” is on Weds!! I WANT A NIECE!!! 14. Working with awesome people! 15. The sweetest card from some students- I almost cried! OK I had a tear! 16. Flip flops. Seriously the best thing ever. 17. Email exchanges like this from Caca in reference to me not having a pool at my apt..” I thought you had one at your...

One day this week (can't remember WHICH!!) I was privileged to have lunch with my friend Lins! We haven't hung out in over a year! She got married and we had opposite work schedules so it was hard to come up with a time where we were both free, and being a newlywed she needed to spend time with the hubster. So this was an exciting day! Lins is such a good friend and a good person, she's one of those people that even though you may not talk every day/week/month whenever you do see eachother its like you've been talking every second of every day. And you know that they would be there for you no matter what, no questions asked. We had a lovely lunch at Christo's. LOVE that place!!! However I didn't realize that it was quite that dark in there or we would have taken a famous self portrait! :) I had such a good time with her and am looking forward to MORE lunch dates because now she has a new job that matches my hours more! YAYS!!

1. My hair is getting SO BUSHY! My college nickname of "Simba" is totally coming back! 2. I'm super excited to see some new blog readers! Y'all need to comment so I can see who you are! Yes, I know that is like the pot calling the kettle black. I have issues commenting on blogs. Mainly because I speed read every morning before I head to work. 3. I get up for work an hour before I have to leave. In that time I shower, do my hair, makeup, contacts and have usually about 20 mins for computer time. People are always shocked at how fast I can get ready? I don't know why. I just don't like spending a lot of time on how I look. What you see is what you get!! 4. And yes, I did whimper just a little bit, ok i moaned and groaned when my alarm went off at 6:40 this am. My roomies from PCC know exactly the sounds I am talking about!! 5. I'm currently waiting on my Mechanic to arrive at my apt. What? Your mechanic doesn't come to your home? Well, mine is my Dad ...

AKA I am way too tired to come up with something intelligent to blog about sooooo.. here we are again!! Thursdays treat for my peeps was Cherry Chip Cupcakes. With Sprinkles. I mean really, do you even have to ask? I will also mention that the icing- Homemade. thats right. One of the 5 things I can make decently is my Momma's buttercream icing and I swear I could have just eaten the whole bowl of it. I asked Apes if she thought anyone would notice if I just licked all of the icing off of the cupcakes and put them on my desk like that. Sadly, she did not approve of that idea. :( Oh and if you're wondering what lovely cupcake wrapper I have, um yeah its some bug transformers looking thing. all I know is that they were 67 cents at payless and that made them beautiful to me!! By now we have learned that apparently I like to do food art on my desk. Hey-whatever makes me happy!! Sadly I didn't have enough cupcakes to spell anything :( Sadness. And yes, Charity is my name. He...

I know I have said this before, but, DUDE. Its hot outside. Like two shower a day hot outside. I don't like cold weather but man alive this heat is about to do me in! Nevertheless here is my pink weds post! Picture taken at lunch because by 2pm my hair was in a pony tail. I sported my festive new flower blingy headband. I love it. I love headbands. They are a gift from God. True story. This is Val trying to run away from me and my camera phone. And this is Val after I chased her. I may run like a girl but I can move when need be! Doesn't she look happy? You can't tell it that well in the picture but she is wearing the new pink paper clips that Muy Caliente bought me yesterday!! She was UBER Thrilled to now have her own piece of pink to wear on weds. Can't you see the joy oozing out of her? Poor thing has not learned yet how stubborn I am when I set my mind to something. You'd think after 8 months she would know but no, not so much. I will see her in a Pink shirt bef...

Muy Caliente got me these SUPER FESTIVE PINK clips!!!!! I was very excited!!! We are going to make Valerie wear one tomorrow for Pink Weds since she is STILL fighting wearing Pink! Usually I give her a sticker, which I have a sneaking suspicion she takes it off as soon as she leaves our office. This will make her day I am sure!! :) Muy Caliente also wrote me a little love note!! I was sitting ever so innocently at my desk when I turned to look at her and she is holding the heart clip above over her chest and moving it like a heart beat. I almost peed my pants laughing. It was funny!! So she gave me a little love note to remember her by! HA! And here we have unidentified student #2423 *cough* Denise *cough* Bless their hearts our students are going though hard core testing right now and having to wear a lab coat while allready nervous is making for some sweaty individuals. No bueno. Luckily for Denise here, someone brought her a fan! When that didn't quite do the trick I may or may ...

Today is Katie Marie's birthday and to celebrate she chose Coldstone Creamery!! Neither of us had really had it before so we were excited!! I had the Oreo Extreme or something like that and its was soooo good! We both got the medium and that was way too much. Next time I go there i'll definitely get a small. Its only two scoops of ice cream but with the add in's it was just a heck of alot of food. This picture just cracks me up!! Sam Sam went with us as Joe had a play date, so Sammy was our Hot Date. He calls me "My Charity" and its soooo sweet! He was very excited to have vanilla ice cream, with fudge! For her birthday I HAD to get her a big girl purse. Girlfriend has been carrying around a sad purse for the 2 1/2 years i've known her, I know crazy!! I change my purse once a month at least! But I digress. SO I found her the perfect sized small purse that is still able to fit her mommy stuff in, AND it matches her dress for Apes wedding!! She really liked it s...

1.Our 3 o clock sway on Thursday was Nat King Cole- When I fall in Love. It was so beautiful that we played it twice and I got teary eyed. 2. I managed to get a super cute tunic on clearance at Target AND they let me use a coupon!!!!! I got it 17.00 cheaper than it was full price!! BOOOYAH!!! 3. I had fake nails on for approximately 2.5 hours Weds. When I tried to take my contacts out I nearly blinded myself. Add that to the fact that I couldn't text, OH THE HORROR!!!! or type very well and I was working on a 112 page document at work, yeah, I totally took them off. 4. Debby told me she was going to sew me some slippers. She calls me our Barefoot Receptionist:) Every time someone walks around without shoes on they say LOOK! I'm Being Charity!! :) I can't help it! I kick my shoes off under my desk and forget to put them on when I get up!! 5. On the shoe end I also got a spare pair of my sparkly zebra shoes on clearance for 3 bucks!! Because heaven forbid I not have sparkly ...

Dude. It was HOT outside today. 97 degrees HOT. I thought I was going to lose half my body weight from the sweat. Which would have been nice. Well to lose it, not to sweat, or the smell, that would probably have been pretty bad. But I digress. Ok so we all know I have alot of creative energy just dying to get out. I got some cookie's and cream kisses at Target today, and had high expectations for their yummies. They were not so yummy. Maybe they were to people who like white chocolate but I am not one of those people so I did not enjoy them. I could have just thrown them in my candy buckets on my desk, but that's boring! So I made candy at with them!! And then I had to swat people's hands when they tried to eat it! DON"T EAT THE EYES!! Sheesh..

This is how I found Sam Sam after his nap on Saturday. The First time I checked on him, 2 hours into his nap!! He had one leg on his bed and the other standing and his torso was half on half off. Kid can sleep anyway! Another 30 mins went by and I went to check on him again and found him curled up asleep in his chair. Way too precious!! He woke up and I sat and cuddled with him and rocked him for over 20 mins while he snuggled. It was so precious. I can't wait to rock and cuddle with the Project once it arrives!! I took this super adorable picture of him before I left. Its now the background on my computer at work. I love that kid. And not to be left out my Joey is getting SO BIG!!! He is so funny! We had a hilarious conversation over lunch about pizza delivery men, taking girls out for dinner, and his need for a job to do that. he was not in agreeance that he would need a job. He informed me that he would use the money in his piggy bank to pay. but I couldn't get him to agr...

1. The bubbies being well behaved for me today and not bickering or acting bad untill their parents got home!! :) 2. Getting to rock Sam Sam after he woke up from his 2.5+ hour nap!! 3. Sammy telling me he loved me. I teared up!! 4. My electric bill being under 100 bucks! (barely!!) 5. A short work week. 6. Wet N Wild Bright pink nail polish. 7. Girls weekend/road trip coming up with Katie! 8. My laptop being back in working order!! YAHOOO!!! 9. April having a good time at her Bridal Shower. 10. People showing up to her bridal shower!! :) 11. Cucumbers!!!!!!! 12. KLOVE- I am so glad we have a Christian station in town finally! 13. Dance Parties in the office. 14. Hugs. 15. Fun projects in Microsoft Office. I can't help it. I"m a nerd. 16. Finding out whether i'm getting a niece or a nephew in 18 days!!!!!!! 17. Being Musical. I can express myself and my feeling in music and its really nice to have an outlet sometimes. 18. Women's Bible Study starting up again this fall...

I should say that I like the ones I work with but then again they never approach me with a needle or some other equally nefarious object. I went to Dr Brian this week for my 6 month check up. What was a nice, routine visit suddenly turned into a horror story. As he was fixin to leave he suddenly asked me when my last tetanus shot was. Seeing as I can't remember yesterday I had no clue. He said July 7, 2010? I said no, no I don't think so! He totally guilted me into getting it because I had told him that the next time I was in I would bring pictures of my new niece or nephew (he has young kids) He told me that if I was going to be around a baby and be a good and responsible Aunt that I needed to get an updated tetanus shot because the whooping cough was going around as was presimuss? (i have no clue) and while that would just give me a cough it could be very harmful to the baby and they would be hospital bound and possibly could threaten their life. By the time he got done I fe...

1. I have discovered that kids are rather stinky. We had some sort of an open house building wide today and there were bazillions of short people running around. None of which smelled too good. 2. I have also discovered that boys under the age of 12 also have no qualms passing gas in public. And right outside my office door. Phew. 3. I can't type what I want to here or otherwise my brother might disown me or cut down my visitation with the project once it arrives. 4. In case you are wondering my skin is still red. And my face is peeling. Hottness right here. Come and get it. 5. I can't get Biz Markie's Say he's just a friend out of my mind. Thank you Vanilla Ice Pandora!! Another successful Flashback Friday!! 6. I am babysitting for the bubbies tomorrow. Excited to spend time with them, not excited to see Sam's new tricks of screaming and kicking. :( 7. My Dr Conned me into a tetanus shot this week. My arm still hurts. Curse him!

Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile." Kelly had a great post a few weeks ago about her relationship with Christ and I have been wanting to share my heart as well. Last night I had an eye opening experience that really pressed on my heart that I need to share this and I need to share this NOW. Last night I went to a viewing to support someone I am close to. As I was sitting in the pew waiting for my turn to approach the line it suddenly hit me. I was most likely the only person in that room going to Heaven. It hit me so hard it literally took my breath away. I couldn't even think for a minute. I began to look around at the hundred plus people that were there and look at each one of their faces. I realized that those faces, those people who were sitting right next to me, were destined for eternal hell. It was unimaginable to me. But then I thought more. How...

On the evening of the Fourth I was lucky to be able to hang out with my good friend Mary! We have known eachother since we were very young. Her parents own a farm near ours, and would come there camping on the weekends. (They live near Chicago) So Mary and I spent many a summer together! It was great to be able to catch up and spend some time together!! The following are just some of my favorite views at our house. I love trees, probably because I grew up surrounded by them and the woods and these pics just make me happy! Basebal field is off to the left. Same field where my brother hit me in the eye with a baseball bat during t-ball. beautiful. I love my parents house!!

Mom gave me this festive tunic when I was home over the weekend and I loved it so much I just had to wear it on Tuesday! Well that and it was very light and leggings felt ok on my legs. More so than dress pants!!

I am burnt. I am very burnt. And I am in pain. And itchy. At the same time.

Pastor Shettler would be so proud of my alliteration skills!! :) Happy Fourth of July!! We started off our day by going to my parents church where PJ preached an excellent service on Freedom and obeying God and those who govern us. Romans 13:1-7 if you're interested!! As soon as I got back to my parents I ditched my church clothes and threw on my new suit Mom gave me!! Its actually cute, but not cute enough for you to see it on here! When you're not exactly skinny bathing suits can be hideous but I actually liked this one! Anyways, I thew my suit on and spent the next hour and 45 mins floating, swimming and tanning in our pool!! I can't even tell you how relaxing it was!! I wanted to stay out longer but my parents said I looked really red :( and after the sermon this morning obedience was on my mind :) so I got out! It was so fun though and brought back all of the memories from my childhood. when I was a kid I spent allllll day outside in the pool and running around with m...

I have posted about my cleaning this week so I thought I would show you the end result!! Keeping it Real- I don't put away my shoes. They are like this all the time. Once in a great while, aka guests, i will put them on the baker's rack with the rest of them, but the most of the time they are out like this. I kick them off when I come in from work and set my purse down on the rack and hang my keys up and when i go to leave in the morning all i have to do is plop my feet into a pair i want! Here is my kitchen. I still need to go through my mail box on the table but the rest is greatly improved!! Ooooo nice clean ORGANIZED counter space!! I love my apt but the counter space is not exactly abundant. Neither is the shelves so its hard to find places for everything! And here is my living room!! Notice, no People or Us Weekly Magazines laying on the floor and my tables are all cleaned off! For some reason my tables are always the most cluttered thing in my apt. If I could just ...

1. Mom is making spinach pizza tonight and I can't tell you how excited my stomach is to eat it! I might have skipped lunch today and had ice cream instead.. MIGHT HAVE! So I am rather hungry! 2. I've noticed that when I lay down to sleep i start out in tree position from yoga. I know. strange. 3. My hair is somehow getting curlier as it gets longer which has never been the case! I'm developing these thick chunky curls underneath my hair. its strange as well. 4. I have a huge grin on my face because I just saw ADORABLE pics of my bro and sil and you can see the baby!!!!! And they look so super happy, I love seeing people I love happy!! :) 5. To add to that I have been dvr'ing a baby story and have been crying at every single one! I know I am going to cry like a baby (HA!) when I meet my little neice or nephew!! I CAN"T WAIT!!!!!! 6. I was super excited last night to find a ton of cd's that had been missing. Apparently I put them in my entertainment center and c...

Myself an an "Unnamed Office Worker" *cough* Jessica *cough* I would like to draw your attention to her feet. She is standing on tippy toes so she could be taller. And yet I am still using her for an arm rest. Poor thing. I walked into our office today to laughter at my appearance, which sadly I am too used to. They can hear me walking down the hallway. ANYWAYS, I came in to discover that Muey Caliente and the Cherrybear were dressed exactly alike. I was a bit bummed that I didn't have on the flip flops that matched hers. We are very patriotic and festive!! I put my temp. blue hair goop in my bangs today to spice things up a bit! RED WHITE AND BLUE!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!! -I've been wanting to sing that all day!- And a lunchtime truck pic. My eyes are super silvery blue today. I lurve them!

So I've been having computer problems for what seems like half of my lifetime now. Tuesday I took my laptop BACK to Best Buy to try and get the wireless fixed while my warranty is still in effect. I went over my lunch break and was praying that I would not get the him/her/it from last time who was really rude to me. I walk in the store and see IT but IT is with someone else. I start fervently praying that this woman has massive issues that he will need to discuss with her for quite some time (i'm really sorry lady in brown, I apologize.) I thought that the Lord was answering my prayer when I see this clearly a man, person heading my way!! HOORAY!!! Some help from a nice person!! Oh he helped me all right. He gave me to IT. Brown Shirt Lady got her problem fixed (really best wishes to you brown shirt lady) and I was stuck with IT. I would like to say that IT had not cut IT's fingernails in the 3 weeks since I had been there. Disgusting. More so if you know my fetish of long...