"The Shake Weight"

BWW Picture. Right to Left:
Todd, Justin, Me, Tanay, Pat, Tiff

Nothin beats great friends, chicken wings, and the headlining topic of...The Shake Weight!

What a great mini reunion of the 2009 crew

Last night at dinner I was talking to Pat and we broke down the dynamics of the group, how we all formed this crazy group and it was pretty interesting.

Basically,

• Tiff, Pat & I were in the same Singles Ward, I didn't really know Pat, and I had been hanging out with Tiff for awhile.
• Pat also lived down the street from Todd and Justin (Utah Boys)
• Todd & Justin had known each other since they were kids.
• Tanay is Tiffanie's sister, and she also became my roommate
• I met the Utah boys in singles ward, and also through Tiff & Tanay.
• Todd & Tanay got married this past January
• Of course I can't forget Travis & Cozette, they recently were married this past wednesday, sadly I don't have any pictures of them.

and the rest is history...

2009, was a great/fun year. as you can see from the black and white pictures.

This group of people have definately taught me a lot and I consider them to be my best friends. I honestly wish I could sit here and type all the funny things said and done the past year and even the last two days. Wings last night was fun, it brought back great memories! I couldn't believe how much things have changed and that it all started last summer!

We've had some great times, and its lookin like a bright future is in store for all of us!

Some benefits from scars...

A BLOG POST WRITTEN ON FEBRUARY 8TH,2008

"BROKEN,SLICING,STITCHING"

So...I must have some bad karma with the right side of my body, because I've had surgery on my knee, broken my wirst, and NOW almost sliced my finger off!!! Holy Cow! I was cleaning my car out and My friend and I had drank these self heating hot Chocolates (Very good by the way!) and there is a lid on the bottom of it that is the type of lid on a can of Spam, well...it was on my floor and I was in a hurry to get to school and BAM! Blood gushing everywhere! My mom had already left for work so I took it to my dad, I washed it off and the blood just kept coming! My dad just said (exact words) "Just put a band aid on it you'll be fine" So I took his advice and did so. That same day I was going on a fieldtrip to glendale, and I was kind of worried about my finger, by the time I got to school my bandaid was drenched in blood, (some bandaid!) haha. Well, I called my mom, and luckily since she works in scottsdale she was able to meet me. She took me to urgent care and it was there that I recieved 4 stitches.

THE GRAPHIC PART:
My wound would be describe liked this; If you've seen jaws, then you'll be able to picture it. If you lifted up the chunk of skin on my finger it Would look like a mini jaws took a bite of my finger the Flesh was MEATY looking, *my stomach is turning just thinkin about it* I took a good chunk. I mean the stiches obviously held it together but its still gross!!! I almost became a 9 1/2 fingered woman!

Lesson Learned...Never LEAVE garbage in your car! *or let your friends leave their garbage!*

TUESDAY OCTOBER 25th,2010

Who knew that because of this injury I don't have any feeling in the tip of my middle finger! haha. I learned that today as I straightened my hair. The straightener slipped out of my hand and swiped my middle finger as it dropped. I instantly saw it turn red and waited for the pain! but to my knowledge I felt NONE! haha. I guess my nerves are completly gone in that area. On the scar specifically I couldn't feel it but below it and even to the right of it I could. It was indeed a weird feeling. To this day you can feel the scar on my finger I wonder if its altered my finger print?? haha.

Along with this scar I have gained a new one to add to it. Exactly ONE year ago on this day I got a new scar; on my RIGHT hand! haha. doing the EXACT same thing...cleaning out my car. That dang Chevy Malibu wanted to leave its mark before I traded it in for my Hyundai! haha. I was throwing something into my trunk while talking to my cousin and as I took my hands out of the trunk I knicked the roof of it and a sharp piece of metal sliced it open my skin. i could see my bone! I quickly grabbed a pair of old jeans as the blood came, laughed and went to the ER. "HERE WE GO AGAIN!!" hahaha.

I don't know what my deal is...I swear I don't go looking for things to cut myself with! Its all accident.

 On the bright side...all my scars are great conversation starters! Especially the one on my thumb! haha.

Its Hip to be a Square!

"Someone should take me on a date or kidnap me from work on Friday so i don't have to go to the SCREAM PARK with the teens! :( "-FB status

Its that time of the year, when scary movies are the only thing on TV, carving pumpkins is an art, playing dressing up is admired, and RIDICULOUS Haunted Houses are considered the cool thing to do! Ugh...Halloween. I admit it is a fun Holiday, but not when you have to go to Haunted Houses!! As many of you know, I am not one to be first in line for the next scary/slasher movie coming out and certainly won't be first to enter a haunted house! NO WAY! I prefer to not have nightmares!

Every year my work gets passes to the AZ Scream Park. I've gone the past 2 years. The first year I took my 11-13 yr old, they are all ten times braver than me! I had never been to a Haunted House before and I couldn't believe I actually agreed to going! Since one of the owners knew me he said he put in a good word with all the staff to make sure I had a "fun" time! I wasn't sure what he meant but haha I will never forget that year! As soon as I came into the park all the cast members would call me by name!!! In the picture above with Alice, he was the first to greet us. But to make it worse in the I went into 2 houses I went in the characters would call out my name as they popped out to us!! Horrible! haha. Luckily the next year I didn't have that happen, but I was dragged into a house where I was chased out by a guy with a chainsaw. In that year I remember hiding my face in the back of my co-worker and clinging onto them for dear life. I am such a scardy cat! I will admit it.

So tonight at work the announcement was made...this Friday, October 29th-AZ Scream Park. All eyes on me, I could feel the sickness coming! haha. I pleaded and begged, but no everyone wants to see me suffer. I don't mind so much being there, but I refuse to go into houses. No thanks! I think I deserve a excused absence for this fieldtrip. I guess we'll have to wait and see! haha.

Since Halloween is on Sunday, there won't be any trick or treating for the Yazzie family. Instead its Trunk or Treat Saturday for our Ward. I think its a fun time. I'm not sure what my sisters are doing this year to dress up, but my brother's idea is pretty crafty! I would like to post a picture of him but I guess I'll just wait till after Halloween to get one up. As for me, yet again I think I lack in Creativity for Halloween Costumes, or maybe I'm just obsessed with this Era. in 2008 I decided to go as a 80's chick. in 2009 I took that 80's chick and turned her into a "cute" Zombie, and this year I'm going Valley girl style. jean jacket and skirt the whole deal. The pictures below illustrate these words. haha. so Maybe next year I'll change era's or even do something completely different. I admit I could put a bit more effort into it but most of the time I just leave it last minute. haha. Anyways I guess I'll have more to say after this weekend!

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OH! and today...I burnt my oatmeal! WHO DOES THAT!! haha. I stuck it in the microwave and BAM...burnt apple and Cinnamon Oatmeal...just another day in the life of Nichelle Yazzie, what can I say??

"Mayhem just Struck"

Its raining cats and dogs!
Or just pigeon crap from the roof of my work! haha.





Awesome...RAIN...

What a day! I thought I missed the rain since I was in Utah for Monsoon Season, BUT Arizona still has suprises for me! Today yes it rained. I love waking up and seeing clouds roll in! for one the weather is way nice, I guess there is an upside for HOT heat! It usually is followed by rain! Well today we had an event at work. We had some important visitors coming to check out the club and see the kids. All of us staff were kind of nervous of how it would turn out because there were 25 people coming, when we already have 30 kids that come a day plus the 6 staff that work too can anyone do the math??

61 people!



A view inside work...



I am pretty sure you'd be nervous too, if you worked in a building that had limited space...ONE room, and we'd go on a rainy day schedule. The day before we kind of had to deal with keeping the kids inside and it went smoothly but today the rain was ten times worse; flooding ALL over the subdivision. The park where the kids play became its own LAKE. It was crazy! I don't know how many more times I could say that but its true. Anyways when our guests arrived luckily the storm gave us a break for a good hour. We were able to get a lot of things accomplished. Our guests played basketball, pool with the teens, and even jumped on our Dance Dance Revolution machine. As soon as we all saw the BLACK clouds roll in we knew we only had a couple minutes to get inside. Once safe inside the rain HITS HARD! Lights flickering, trees blowing like crazy outside it was a sight.



There goes trying to keep my hair straight...

I think the best sight those was watching all the business professionals jump on the DDR, and play against our kids! haha. All the cell phones captured the moment. During that time we had a van load of kids coming back from our other Club site and another rotation to get into the vans. I took the liberty to get the kids to and from the van without getting too wet...Well they succeeded, I FAILED. Taking FOREVER to get on the dang van I stood there getting blasted by the water! After that van left and I headed back inside freezing! The group was getting ready to leave, and the rain still continued. So I had the bright Idea to have their bus come into our fenced area and head out the other side of the gates so our guests wouldn't have to run across the parking lot. I dart back out into the rain to open those gates, NO the dang lock was jammed, with nothing to protect me no chance I was walking back into that club dry. Luckily my co worker ran out after me a minute later carrying my sweater shielding us both, while still getting the lock open. We soon discovered that the people were running to the bus anyways...great...I then laughed and sprinted to the doors. Yes I did have laughs come my way from my teens and co workers, but hey can you blame me for trying to put the extra effort into the event? haha. it was fun, I don't think I've actually gotten that soaked in a long time, I'm not one to run out and jump into puddles. Ear aches and getting colds give me that fear! haha.

When I got home that night, I enjoyed an episode of GLEE and playing with my sisters. As soon as Zack got home the storm starts again. I posted on my Facebook video of me daring Zack to run out into it. The video below is of Zack showing me new music he had. 2 songs. The first song is called (I like that-Static Revenger & Richard Vission ft Luciana) We heard it on CHUCK. The second song is from Mortal Combat. The significance of it is; if high school wrestling did introduction songs for each wrestler he'd pick that one. He said it pumps him up, he'd even do back flips coming onto the mat. i asked him if he really could to back flips he paused, sighed and said "No..." haha. it was a Zack moment...



"Facebook Me"

Tonight I saw "The Social Network".

I honestly don't know where to start. First I guess I should say that I really did enjoy this movie. Am I going to run out at midnight when it comes to DVD...probably not, but it did make me think.

The common question that rises from every generation is

"How did I survive...?"

Radio
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Television
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Cellphone
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Internet
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Facebook...

Generation Y.

"I honestly don't remember what my life was like before Facebook."

How many times a day are you checking your facebook? whether its updating your status, uploading pictures, or seeing who's online. Facebook is who we are as a generation, its how we all communicate. I will confess that I am completely guilty of this. I love my facebook, and yes I probably am on it too much, but I enjoy being able to talk to old friends, laugh at random status', or simply looking at photos.

 

After seeing this movie it was really crazy to see how much effort really does go into making a site like this. A network that really does know how to connect people with just the simple information you put in. It finds people that have the same interests as you, most of the time its people you know or knew in the past.

Most of us did the Myspace thing, but I can honestly say that Facebook has to be way more exciting than Myspace, and who knows maybe this is just a fad and will go out soon. The movie said it itself  "Its like Fashion...always changing."

I enjoyed this movie because it made me think of how true it is that people want to know what their friends are doing, who's dating who, or simply venting their problems. No matter how hard you want to deny that you aren't a "facebook stalker", you are! There have been plenty of times I have sat in the library at school or even in class and seen people stare at the screen for hours clicking through pictures or commenting on status'.

Back to the movie, I would recommend it, but know that this isn't the common Hollywood plot line, its a true story. You have to walk into that theater realizing that your basically going to watch a documentary. It will provoke ideas and thoughts about how you see the facebook world, and perhaps make you wonder what you would do if you were put into Mark Zuckerberg's shoes or any of the other characters' shoes.

Tell me if I'm wrong or missing anything of what our generation is or has become, I love discussing things like this especially when it comes to the point of how you would define what a "Social life is?" Is it how many friends you have on Facebook, or is it the people you actually speak to face to face daily. Is a social life simply sending a text to someone or is it actually calling them having a conversation for more than 2 minutes.

So you tell me. What is a social life? Is our generation losing, missing out on anything, because we depend so much on technologies? Will the future be in jeopardy because of how Generation Y communicates and learns. Will the simple things of  life slowly fade away and become just another blip in history because technology will provide a way to make it fast and easy.