Up to the Date y'all

Sooo that last post about me blogging more was apparently a lie. So sorry.... But as a little update on things. Work is kinda blah right now. I feel like I am over it, but I really think that I am just over the location that I am currently working. There is talk of transfers about to happen so hopefully I will go to a different store. Both of the general managers of the other two stores here in Vegas have told me that they are trying to get me in their stores. So fingers crossed! But on top of all of that I have been talked to about being sent to the San Francisco bay area, Chicago, and Nashville. I told them that I really don't want to move again especially since I would be doing all of it on my own, and I have a lot more stuff now than I did when I moved to Vegas. They understood that but they may send me to help out for a few weeks to the different locations. So that is super exciting news. Lets me know that I am doing something right still! Other than that I am not really doing very much. Just working a TON and trying to keep up with everything at my place, (which I am not being very successful with currently). Oh and I am going to try to join a gym or something soon so I can get in some better shape. I mean I look fine but I am a weak girl these days. Gone are the days of being called Xena by my family. I am a weakling now! And pool season in Vegas is a huge deal so I'll be hitting the gym and tightening things up. Not that y'all really care about that last bit but it's what's going on with me. Love you all and hopefully I don't wait another 6 months to do a blog...

Guess what....

I now have internet!!!! Which means I will be able to post more soon. Wahoo!!!! Be ready.

Fun Fun Fun

I was able to go to the most AMAZING CONCERT EVER!!! Journey and Foreigner!! I had soooo much fun at it! They were so good!!!! I have some videos but I can't figure out how to get them from my phone to my computer..... I will have to figure it out later.

They played all of my favorite songs too. My friend and I tried to sneak down to the floor level during one of the songs, and we actually made it down there. We were going past this one lady and she asked to see our tickets. We were busted. We totally would have made it if we had cut down one of the rows before we got to the lady. We got too ambitious.... so we went back to our seats and watched the rest of the concert from there.... until the end and then we smooth talked another lady and she let us all the way down to the row right before you got to the floor. My phone had died by then and the last song was Don't Stop Believing... I was pretty sad that I couldn't get a video of it was ok. There was confetti and fire and it was very extravagant.

During one of the ballads, Open Arms, I got the whole lighter thing going on. Until someone came and told me no lighters..... really no lighters??? I was flabbergasted.... So I had to resort to my cell phone..... Lame!... Since when could you not do lighters at a concert???

Well that's about all I have to say about the whole thing.... It was amazing, and as soon as I figure out how to get the videos from phone to computer they will be up here.

In the mean time here are a couple pictures of me that I took tonight....

The one above is almost the smile I give to the guys at work so they will do whatever I want.... It works every time. They pretty much don't know what hit them.... as Adam says I am the bossiest person he knows.... the guys I work with don't even know I am being bossy, and I love it. I love that I can get them to do whatever with just a little smile and an eye flutter.... HAHA!!! The really funny thing is that my general manager knows it and he takes complete advantage of it too! He will have me tell the boys to do things all the time because he knows the power I hold.... He has been victim of it as well so he knows. Haha.... anyway moving on...

A somewhat funny face. I kinda missed my "cheese" buddy while I was taking these..... made the funny faces not as much fun, and not as funny.

And I just figured out how to get the videos from phone to computer, so be ready for videos to come. And don't judge me in the videos, I was way excited and did not care that I was off key and sounding awful.

Peace and Love!

Oh and P.S. Dad I was able to get the pictures from our adventure to Las Vegas so I will blog those soon for you too.

And I know this post is a little all over the place but that's just how my brain is going right now. Be glad you aren't in my head.

In the 89148

Well I'm here.... in Vegas. It's pretty cool. I like it so far. The only thing that would make it better would be the family living here too. Hint hint... No I'm kidding... But seriously hint... ;)

I'm loving the restaurant. It is so good to love my job again!! I love the people I work with too. The only thing that kinda blows about it is that I cannot be friends with them outside of work. The whole I'm their boss thing gets in the way again. Grrrr. Oh well I will survive. Gets lonely at times but it's ok.

But anyway, lets see what has happened in the past 2 months.... My sweet dad and I drove out here together. We had a good time on the  looooooong drive. We had gobstoppers and gummy bears to keep us entertained. We stopped by the Hoover Dam on the way. We did not do the dam tour... it was too hot and I didn't like that you had to pay to get in the visitor center and then pay to go on the tour as well. Call me cheap but I thought it was ridiculous. And it was crazy hot that day too. After the dam we make it to my apartment, and I sign my life away. The next morning I take my dad to the airport and have to say good bye to him. That was pretty hard.

Two and a half weeks later, the movers finally get here with my stuff. I get everything all settled in and what not. And now here I am in my big ole apartment that is now furnished.... kinda. There are still some things that I still need to get... like a table and chairs is the main thing I need. And then just some decorative things. I'm so indecisive about it all though. I want to get everything at the same time so I can get everything that goes together, and then come home do it and just be done with it.

Last weekend I went and saw my dad's parents in Utah. It was fun! I have a new dislike for the city of Beaver, UT though. The most expensive gas stop I have ever made and probably ever will make. I stop and start pumping gas into my car. There is a mechanic shop attached to the gas station, and one of the mechanics starts walking in my direction. I see him walking and I think it is kinda weird. I finish pumping my gas and am about to go inside to kinda walk around a bit and maybe grab a snack. I see the mechanic kneel down by my front tire and he checks my tire pressure. Tells me my pressure is low and that he will fill it up for free for me. I'm thinking sweet. So I drive over to the air pump he is about to fill it up, and I here him go uh oh. I know that's not good. He tells me to come on over to look at the tire. I thought maybe I had a nail in it or something. Oh no I the beginnings of a pretty good size bubble forming on my tire, and dry rot. I needed a new tire. He then went around to all of my tires and they were all like the first one. He asked me how far I was going and I told him just out side Salt Lake. He tells me that my tires most likely will not make it to salt lake with how bad they are, so I don't get one new tire, not two new tires, but FOUR new tires! And since it was a small town they only had one tire that fit my car, and they were $140/tire after the small discount he gave me. My little stop to get gas ended up costing me $700 after all was said and done. It was awful. But I'm pretty sure he probably saved my life since the speed limit is 80 almost the whole way there and if I had had a blow out going 80.... it would have most likely been death for me. So thanks mechanic guy in beaver, I guess I owe you! Once I got to the grandparents it was great I had a wonderful visit. I got to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary with them. I was sad to leave but duty called at work. I'll be up again too see them soon though.

Lately I have just been working and trying to figure out what I am going to do with my apartment now. I'm going to look at paint swatches tomorrow, and maybe buy some paint to start making this place a home. We shall see. 

Oh and I have no idea how I have internet connection right now, but I thought I'd take advantage of it while I could.

Moving On Up!!!

So it has been a little minute since I have posted anything...... oops...... Lets see what's happened.... I finally got out of Galveston...... praise the Lord!!! From there I got transferred to the location on the Kemah Boardwalk... I loved it there. I was with a management team that actually liked me and cared about things. It was awesome. Right after I got there I got a call from a regional manager telling me that I had an interview for another managing position that I had expressed interest in. I got to the interview, and was asked OK Charlissa, would you rather go to Cali or Vegas? Caught me off guard a little bit. I told him that Cali would be cool since I had some family there, but I'd go where he needed me the most. He needed me in Vegas. SOOOO....... I am getting a promotion of sorts, and moving to Las Vegas, NV....... I am leaving Vegas right now after being here for 2 weeks and pretty much getting a next to royal treatment. The car we got the first day was the company Bently.... then the next day we got the Escalade.... the room was comp'd pretty much all expenses paid for. It's been awesome. I was here to do some training for the new concept I will be with. It's called Claim Jumper. The food is AWESOME!!! I think I have gained 5 lbs in 2 weeks from the food. I have found a place to live here and will officially be a Nevadian on Aug 8th.... pending corporate approval. They are going to pay all the moving fees and what not. I am really excited about this move. I'm nervous, apprehensive, and sad to leave everyone in Texas, but I think this will be a very good move for me. Not to mention that out of all the Saltgrass managers they chose me to come and help them with all the changes that are taking place.... Huge deal BTW. From what I have seen so far the locals are all really nice, and very inviting to come and join them. I have some pictures but since I am at the airport right now I can't really do much.

Also..... this means I will be closer to family in California and Utah..... hello 2 days off a week to come visit..... Its gunna be good!!!

Hailey and Sippy

Today while Hailey and Cassie and Jonny were over visiting for the day, I brought out my laptop and I remembered that I have a cool feature on it that Hailey would most likely love... She did of course. We took some pretty fun pictures using my Mac.

Oh Galveston...

When I got back from Amarillo I was transferred yet again to beloved Galveston Island. So I am now a manger there, and it is awesome. I get to meet all kinds of new people. ANd I have had experiences that I probably wouldn't ever get anywhere else. I've had a bum try to steal an armadillo from my bar, and had to ask him to give it back to me. He did. I've had to kick that same bum out of my restaurant because he was looking for free food and we don't do that. I've had to ask people to put clothes on over their swimsuits.... Never thought I would have to ask someone to put more clothes on, I thought it was a given when you go to a family restaurant. I had to tell a guy just the other night that we could no longer serve him alcohol. Luckily for me he was understanding and I didn't have to call the cops on him. I GET to have the privilege of the locals and BOI (born on the island) folks to come in to my store. They all think that if they bring that up when I go talk to them that they are going to get something from me... they're not. I don't care if you are a local or not, you are going to be treated just the same as everyone else that comes into the place. When I have people tell me that they are locals or BOI I want to say something to the effect of why? Like why did they stick around this awful place... If you read this and you are a local or BOI I apologize, however that is how I feel. Everyday I work I get to watch the ocean and hate my life for being stuck inside on beautiful days when the water looks so inviting.

On the plus side, I do have some great people that work with me that make the 45+ minute drive, and all the crap, some what worth it. They all like me, and work really hard. It may be a little scary at times there in Galveston, but it's really an ok place at the end of the day when I leave. I'm just ready to be done and move on to bigger and better places. And by bigger and better I mean anywhere besides Galveston. I tried to get pictures of the beloved place to upload but I couldn't for some reason. I will try again later.

Amarillo by Morning...

I have been shipped out to Amarillo as a member of the opening posse. No kidding thats what they call us here. A new Saltgrass opened about a week ago and they were a ton busier than they were expecting. In the first week they have done almost $190,000 in sales. That beats every record the company had. I worked 2 days last week and put in about 30 hours. A new week starts today and I am scheduled to work every day. It's going to be fun, and lots of money. This also is getting me seen by a lot of the higher up people in the company. They are learning who I am, how I work, and that I'm willing to do just about anything they need me to do. So this is going to be really good for me in the long run.

The drive here was long. Almost 12 hours of driving. It was so windy on the way here my poor little car was being blown all over the road. It's been worth it though. I am waiting tables since I've been here so far and it has been great. Yesterday I was asked to wait on the man that is 2nd in the company. It was pretty cool because he asked me if I would do wait on him and another guy. It went pretty well too. Got to talk about a lot of stuff with him and get to know him better, and he got to know me better.

I gotta go now and go to work now... another long week of making money. :)

My Car

So I got a new car the day after Thanksgiving. I have not been able to take any pictures of it yet, but I did find one just like it online. It is the same year and color. So without further ado...... Meet Kickapoo, my car.

Update...

Ok so it has been a while since I last blogged anything. Sadly I no longer have the teal hair. That lasted for about a week. My job would not let me work with it like that so I changed it back to brown. It was a very sad day for me.

I have started training to be a manager at Saltgrass. I really like it a lot. I get to talk to a lot more guests and if they are upset I get to try to make them happy again. It is such a good feeling when you are able to make them happy again. Sometimes all it takes is for them to know that you are one of the managers on duty, and they are put at ease. I work longer days now, and I am more tired than usual but I think it is going to be worth it.

I know a lot are thinking well what about school... well that is kinda on hold right now but not really. I wanted to go to culinary school and half the classes are about learning the business side of things, and I am going to be learning that as a manager. So I am going to look into some baking/cake decorating classes around town. I'll take a couple of those and then just practice so I can get better and master the techniques. Then I'll try to start to build cliental so I can eventually open my own store. So there is my plan for the next 5-10 years. I'm hoping a lot closer to the 5 years.

Oh I bought myself a new car! I love it. I don't have any pictures of it yet but I'll get some soon. It is a 2010 Toyota Yaris. It's the 4-door so it doesn't look retarded. I have to start getting ready for work now but I'll get pictures up soon.

My Favorite Color...

One of my favorite colors is teal.....

And well if you look at me now you sure will know that it is because.....

Yep. I colored the underneath part of my hair teal and I love it!

Visit from the babies and the baby mama's

It was so much fun having the babies and the baby mama's come visit. Here are some of my favorite pictures of them all.

Showin off some teeth. I just love her little smile. It is so precious.

My artsy shot. I am not the best picture taker but I did get this one and basically I love it. It is probably one of my most favorite pictures I have ever taken.

I just love this picture. I think it totally shows her little personality.

Proof that Charlotte can hold her own. Yeah she is knocking over Hailey. I don't really think that was her intention but she did.

Pretty much I just love this picture of the bug.

The almost twinners. I love Charlottes face in this one. It cracks me up.

Charlotte being pulled on her blanket. She pretty much had a blast.

Charlotte loved the water at the beach.

OK so really all of the pictures are my favorite but that would be about 200+ pictures and I just really don't have the time to put them all up.

Adventure at Kelsey-Seybold Main Campus.....

When you hit a certain age , you are to go in periodically to get your colon checked out..... Unfortunately my dad has reached said age. Since mom could not get off of work, I went in her place. Once they called dad back for the procedure to be done I was rather bored. I had my ipod to listen to but it was not doing a very good job keeping me entertained. About an hour later, they call the family of Daniel Nelson to come back. I get up and head on back there to see him. He was sleeping when I got there. I had no idea if I was supposed to try to wake him up or just chill until he decided to wake up. I chose the latter. After about ten minutes of waiting and the little machine saying he had no blood pressure, which he really did because he had a strong pulse, I decided I would try to wake him up. So I call his name a couple times and he opens his eyes and looks at me and says, "Oh, well I guess I already had everything done." I told him that he had. He was asleep again already. I say his name again and then I'm talking to him a little bit trying to see how he was feeling and everything. The nurse comes in and checks everything. She leaves again and dad is going in and out the whole time. Then he kinda wakes up a little bit and is telling me about how the nurse missed his vein when she was putting the IV in and then he started to doze a little bit. He opened his eyes a little and then he started chuckling to himself a little bit. I was real confused about what he was laughing at, but he went on to tell me that he was relaxed and he opened his eyes just in time to see a little penguin dance across the foot of his bed. I was dying laughing!
Then, he asks to see the little print out of the pictures they took of his They took a picture of a polyp that they found, don't worry the biopsy came back alright, and he goes on to say "Hmm I have a little breast inside me." I was trying so hard to keep my laughter in, and asked him what he was talking about. He then showed me the picture and low and behold he was right. That is what it looked like in the picture.
He got up to use the bathroom. The nurse helped him up and everything, and helped in there and closed the door behind her and then she was getting everything ready for him to see the doctor again. She and I were chatting a little bit and she noticed she hadn't heard anything in the bathroom for a little while. (They pump your stomach and intestines with air when they do the prosedure so it has to get out somehow.) So, she being a knowledgeable nurse yells out, "Mr. Nelson, keep your eyes open, and take long slow breaths." Then you here from the bathroom, "Can you like see me in here?" I once again started laughing.
We get to talk to the doctor eventually and while we are waiting I hear about how the nurse messed up on his IV about another 5 times.
On the way home, it is about 2pm, and dad insists on getting the GPS out and using it to see if there is any traffic to avoid..... There was not any traffic.... the whole way.... and he was still trying to do it.... while telling me about the nurse missing his vein. It finally started working when we were almost home. And the GPS let me know there was no traffic to avoid. Oh and we are about 2 minutes from the house and he tells me that I better get home quick because he was feeling nauseous. I stepped on that gas like nobodies business and got him home fast. I was not going to be cleaning out that car. Then we arrived home and he went to sleep again.
That is my adventure at the Kelsey- Seybold Main Campus clinic.

There's nothing wrong with Ohio....

I went to Ohio earlier this month, and had a blast. I got to spend time with Laura, Adam, and Charlotte. It was so much fun. Laura and I went to the art museum and amish country. We all went to the John Johnson farm and Kirtland and the park. Basically we had fun wiht whatever we did because that is just how we roll. I'll just put up some of the pictures and videos I took while I was there. There are some good ones.... If any of you look at my mom's blog you may see some duplicates due to the fact that she stole some of my pictures.....

I put the camera down on her level and she was so excited.

BIG BROWN EYES!! I love them!

Such a happy baby.

All ready to eat..... She gets a bib when dad feeds her...

This is basically her expression the whole time she is in the swing. She definitely has the Nelson mouth open thing down packed.

Charlotte always has that leg up in the air while she is in her carseat. It is so funny.

Adam wanted Laura to spin him on the chair to how that when you pull in all your limbs it makes you go faster..... it did not work out too well this time.

Charlotte became quite the talker while I was visiting. It was so cute I just loved it.

Not again....

My sophomore year of high school I got the ingenious idea to take up skateboarding. My career was short lived and pretty much non-existant. Tragically, it ended with me lying in the middle of the street with a busted up ankle, and the neighbors yellinng at me to get out of the street because a car was coming. My ankle has never been the same since.

Well......

I bet you all thought I was dumb enough to try the skateboarding career again. Well I did not.

Last night in an amazingly played volleyball game, I went up and blocked the ball, and made it go down on the other side... Yay point for us! But.... on my down from being in the air, someone moved, and I landed on the foot of a girl on the other team. It made my ankle twist and roll and pain there was lots of pain. I was on the ground with my ankle in the air. I heard it pop about 5 or 6 times, so I knew I was hurt pretty badly. I get up and try to see if I could put any weight on it and that was so not happening. I hop over to the side and get some ice. It is already nice and swollen, and it had only been a couple minutes. One of my team mates sisters is a nurse practicioner here in the Rexburg area so we head off to her house so I can get checked out. She examines it which did not feel real good since she had to kinda poke around on my foot, and told me that if she were to just diagnose it right there she would say it was broken. Great thats all I need is a broken ankle. So 2 of my roommates and my team mate head to Madison County Hospital, so I can get X-rays done. I get there and get into triage in a matter of minutes... the joys of living in a small town. They examine it too, which still did not feel good, and determine that I need x-rays.... duh I could have told you that one. They take the x-rays and come back in and tell me that it is too early to see if it is fractured. So they gave me an air splint and some crutches and told me that if it doesn't get any better in about a week then I should go to the orthopedic surgeon, and have him take a look at it. So today I have been iceing it and keeping it elevated and taking pictures of it. It looks pretty wicked.

Pi day

One of my roommates is the co-president of the math society here at school. So on March 14, 3/14, there was a celebration of pi. You know 3.14159.... yeah that pi. Naturally there has to be a pie eating contest on pi day, and she needed another girl to do it, so I volunteered to do it. I show up after the celebration had started, at 1:59, and waited for said pie eating contest to commence. Well it turned out that the other girls had backed out or just did not show up. So it was me against 4 guys. I was not the winner to say the least but I held my own. I would have done better if I had not just got back from eating a sad excuse for mexican food just 45 minutes before. You can see me slowing down in the video.... but the video is not going on here. It is 6 minutes long and really not that exciting. But I have a few pictures from the pie eating contest.

I was thinking.... Well where's the bathroom so I can go vomit now...

No worries.... I didn't vomit.

Thank you so much

I got out of the shower this evening, and found this on the walls of my room.

My first thought was which one of my roommates did this?..... Until I saw this one...

Yes it says Aunt Lippy on it, and my roommates don't really know that I am called that. I was real confused for a little bit.

Then I thought that Cassie had done it because she and Jonny always call me Lippy and Hailey is going to be calling me Aunt Lippy, but the hand writing was not her's or Jonny's.

I could not figure out had done this. My roommates all told me that they hadn't done it. I was really wondering who it was from now. Then my room roommate, Camie pulled out an envelope and was like I don't know if we are supposed to tell you or not. Then she told me that she had gotten it from a girl onn our ward named Brittany Brassell, and as soon as she told me that I knew who it was from and I totally recognized the handwriting.

It was from Laura and Adam!

I just want y'all to know how thankful I am for this. I've been having a little bit of a hard time lately and this totally made my night and probably my week.

Here are my favorite ones up there besides the Aunt Lippy one.

This one says, "Charlissa- You are like the '1000' flushes thing in the toilet, you always keep things 'fresh'!"

That has from Adam written all over it! Not really but that is so something that he would write.... the sad thing is that I just about died laughing when I read that one. It must be part of the Nelson sense of humor...

This one says, "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Oh sweet Charlissa how we love you"

I loved this one too just because well it is one of Adam's and it just makes me laugh. Especially since the guy here has a "chain", the black string in the picture, going from the piercing in his eye brow, to the one in his nose, to the one in his chin/lip. It cracks me up.

So again Adam and Laura thank you so very much. It meant so much to me.

Oh and P.S. I am expecting Charlotte to call me Aunt Lippy too. Just so you know. :)

Thr Good Ole Days...

My roommate Haley and I made a cake for one of our other roommates for her birthday. We decided we were going to throw her a fiesta... Which really just consisted us having chips and salsa and guacamole.... and a sombrero cake of course! OK so the cake really ended up looking more like a safari hat but we had limited resources.

Now on to the reason of the title of this blog.

Back in the day when mom would make cakes, she would write our names on our forearm with the frosting she was using to decorate the cake with. Naturally, I had to keep the tradition going for myself. So I wrote my name on my forearm with the frosting we used in the decorating of this beautiful cake.

Fun times in Orem

I went to Orem to see Cassie and Jonny this past weekend and I got to see one of the cutest babies in the whole entire world.

Hailey is getting sooo big. I saw her about a month ago too and she has gotten so much bigger.

Hailey loves to squeel. I was able to get the tail end of one of her squeels, but as soon as I would turn the camera on she would stop and when I stopped she would do it like 2 seconds after I stopped.

I wanted to get a video of her giggling but I was not able to get one. She has the cutest little laugh. Jonny can really get her going. It is so cute.
I just love her.

Hair Cut

I decided I needed to kinda update my look... so I went to the Paul Mitchell Cosmotology school and got my hair chopped off.... OK so not way off but I got a good 4 inches chopped off. I really like it. I am still trying to get used to the bangs. They cut them pretty short even though I told them not to because I have a cow lick that will not work with short bangs but they were very positive that they would get them to work... But I am beginning to get used to them.

This is the back of it... kinda...