Makes My Day A Little Brighter.

There's a little old lady at my work.  She has Alzheimers.  And only one tooth in the top of her mouth.  She sits in her wheelchair all day.  She is a funny thing.  Always muttering to herself.  Whenever someone comes to talk to her she becomes the happiest person ever.  She will hold your hand for hours.  And kiss you on the forehead.  When she's sad she puts her head down and sniffs *sniff sniff*. When she's angry, she'll let you know. She hits and tries to knock you over :) .  She will say the funniest things sometimes.  One time she 'hooed' like an owl at me. *hoo hoo*.  She makes faces at you every once in a while.  And then laughs like a maniac.  Today we handed her a toothbrush, and she brushed her hair with it.  She is wonderful.  Even when I'm not in the best mood, she fixes everything.  And even when I'm the "stupid damn girl" when I get her ready for bed, she always makes my day a little brighter. 

Hoo hoo. 

Mak.

Cornbelly's. Spelled Correctly This Time.

There was a lot of time spent with my friends (Taylor and Kim) today.  Let's see.  At one o clock, we went and ate at Beto's.  Which has delicious burritos.  No Papas!! After that we went home for a bit so I could get my hair under control and they could become socially acceptable to look at. Haha :) We then met up again at four o clock (after our "day drinking")  and made waffles at Taylor's house, after she tried to get us to jump in her leaf pile.  We may or may not have sang and danced to Justin Timerlake's "Sexy Back" while in the process of making the waffles.  A while later, we left her house and chose to go to the Halloween store while we waited for Birk to get back so we could go to Cornbelly's. 

 

Yeah. Kim is the dark one. 

 

 

 

Oh! Then we found cute babies!!

 After this event, we went to Macey's and got ice cream cones.  (Momma Kong! Haha) We always go there for ice cream, and sometimes make fools out of ourselves.  But that's besides the point.  It seems like we were there forever, but it was only like eight thirty.  I scooped most of my ice cream in the garbage, because it was weird tasting.  That was after Taylor bit half of it off... We took pictures there too, Kim may have taken one of me being a bit mean...  THEN, we left and picked up Birk and drove to Lehi to go to the lovely Cornbelly's. 

I was so excited to go through the maze!  What is fun, you ask?  Trekking through a corn field of Barack and Mitt's faces of course.  Too bad the stupid corn stalks were cut down and you could see over them to find your way out.  We stayed there all of ten minutes. The haunted houses were much more fun.  Except, very scary.  I am a scaredy when it comes to these.  Same with Kim, she latches on to your arm like a leech and makes it impossible to walk, let alone run away from the scary tree man.  Taylor just falls in the big balloon tunnels so everyone else gets stuck behind her.  And Birk thinks he's funny when he screams so everyone else screams.  Overall, it was a blast.  Even though the lines were ten years long.  We found ways to entertain ourselves during the hour wait though.  We played games like "guess how much change is in my pocket and you can have it" and "try and snatch this dollar out of my hand" and "I'm going to kick tiny rocks around so you can't find your quarter on the ground" and "I will attempt to lick your hand if you don't let go of this dollar".

Time to go watch LOST.  I'm out.

Mak.

Pink Eye.

It's happened. I got the pink eye.  I always saw those gross little kids with the disease when I was younger. Now I'm one of those gross little kids.  How did this happen you ask? I don't know! I've blamed a lot of things.  A dog sneezed in my eye the other day, that could be it.  Birk threw a dusty germy thing hanging from the ceiling at the haunted forest in my eye.  I blamed him.  I also blame some pink eyed person from school that got my desk all gross.  Maybe it was one of my old people at work.  Who knows really.  I just know that I look like a weirdo.  And whenever I see my eye, it starts to water cause the redness upsets me. 

Whatever, just bring on the antibiotics!

Mak. 

The fake lashes are gonna have to wait for a while. Cute.

October

Tomorrow I have plans to go to the haunted forest with some friends..  I am a bit skeptical on it though.  I don't do well with scary things.  Okay, well I love scary things, but not when they're happening to me.  Like the Paranormal Activity movies.  They're FANTASTIC!! But if I was in that situation I would pee. And cuss.

October is one of my favorite months. I love the weather and all the trees changing.  B-E-Autiful.  But it's scarier than any other month outside.  Especially at work.  A nursing home is quite a scary place at night.  A couple of the people that I work with, we try and scare each other while we're there.  We creep around and hide in places to see who get the most scared when we jump out at them.  And apparently it's just so funny, because I get really afraid! Well, don't applaud yourself yet, it's not hard to scare me.  Haha, it's horrible.  I am more of a paranoid person because of this cruel game.  This weekend though, I'm going to get them good.  Let the scaring begin!!!

Happy October.

Mak.

 

Look, we're zombies.

Title: Blogger.

Oh, hey!  I am officially a blogger.  It took a lot of time to work up to creating this thing.  I've been going to for a long while now, but I just really didn't want to get into it.  A couple of my friends have recently acquired a blog, so I suppose I've been motivated.  Now keep in mind, this will not be very interesting.  I am not an exciting person when it comes down to it. I like to keep my life, well.. simple like the title of my blog.  There's another story behind that, but I'll get into that later.  First off, I want to talk about ME!!

What am I like, you ask?  Haha, let's see. I've lived in Utah forever, my whole life belongs to this wonderful place I've grown up in.  (I hate writing about myself).  I had a wonderful childhood here, a perfect enviornment to be a kid.  I definitely don't plan to live here forever though.  You see, I need change in my life.  Diversity is something I yearn for, to be around people who see the world in a different way.  Anyway, I have no brothers or sisters.  Just a dog, a strange little dog. Oh, and a cat.  My family is wonderful though.  I couldn't ask for better people to be around...all the time. Haha, next, I would like to talk about my friends...

Where to begin... I have remarkable friends.  I wouldn't be where I am today without them.  I feel like they know everything about me.  We are all exactly the same, yet entirely different.  Theses people have names, which consist of Jaclyn, Kim, Taylor, and Stephanie. We are usually always together. Until recently, college started, one moved away, sometimes it kind of feels like we all moved away though.  Life has gotten busy, but I have no doubt that we will always stick together. 

Not long ago, (9 months ago) I got a job as a CNA in an assisted living center for seniors.  And let me tell you, it has been the most amazing experience.  (This is where the title of the blog comes into play) I have learned so much from these people that live at my work.  I have so much love and compassion for them all.  I was also very lucky to make some friends while working here.  Kate, Paris, and Cali have become very very good friends of mine.  We can relate to each other SO much. They're fantastic!

Some of the things I have witnessed at work, have really changed my outlook on life.  I feel like I appreciate life so much more.  We have a section in the building for Alzheimer's patients.  Oh boy, they are THE most hilarious people.  We have to make up stories just to make them happy, they're always trying to escape, and it's very rare that what they're talking about makes any sense.  One lady, who everyone is truly in love with because of her priceless behavior, once told someone he was "as simple as a prune cake".  That line has just stuck with me.  The craziness of this job is a part of my life now, that I really don't think I could live without. 

I have more to talk about, but we can save that for another day. 

Cheers.

Mak