A Series of Fortunate Events

Man, I'm not good at this...

2009-01-12T09:17:00.000-08:00

I am the world's worst blogger. Now that we're back in school it should be easier now that I can use computers that I dont have to beat into submission, so maybe I'll do better. Lots of cool stuff happened durring the break 1.) I had my boob tumor removed 2.) I slept for like 2 weeks straight from all the pain meds they put me on 3.) I found out that I am cancer-less for sure 4.) I am reconnecting with my childhood friend Brianne and her new husband,Tice 5.)I helped my friends Hillary and Clabe paint their kitchen 6.) Kayln came over to my house and we watched Sleeping Beauty and ate cereal 7.) I played with dogs 8.) I went to the theatre and watched a couple movies here and there.

I am so stressed!

2008-10-24T09:31:00.000-07:00

O I am soooooo stressed! This has been the worst 2 weeks I think I have ever had-aside from Fall 2005. I have been overly emotional, mean, I've cried myself to sleep 3 nights in a row and my brain feels like it will soon explode! Ok 1st jewelry school got cancelled because the jeweler that was teaching me got laid off-so now I have no potential career. I have no money & recently discovered that Tim and I were not eligible for poor married people grants so I have even less money since I am gonna have to pay for school. I started a big gross menstral cycle yesterday, something I havent done in over a year and a half thanks to my IUD & when I called the OBGYN about it they said I NEEED to come in. So there's more money I dont have!Stressed

Since last Thursday....

2008-10-14T07:48:00.000-07:00

Again I have not all that much to report. Thursday: Hillary and I went to the Hypess and worked out. I ran 1.75 miles, I also cycled on random for 30 minutes. I felt exillerated and then we went to The Edge coffee house and had fresh fruit smoothies, which are delicious. I had never had a smoothie befor they are good. Plus it was nice to just have girl time. Saturday: My friends who were broken up got back together, so I was very pleased about that. I really did'nt want to have to find new dating friends, what a hassle, plus they are truthfully really good together. Sunday: we went to my parent's house after church to celebrate Emily's 13th birthday. While we were there my went looking through my baby book. She wanted to share the names my Great-grandmother had picked for me before I was born. My top 2 favorite : If I was a boy and my Great-grandmother had any say in it I would be named Otis Elvis, one of her top 3 favorite girl names was Sharon Renis. SHARON RENIS! SHARON R-E-N-I-S!!!!! It makes me laugh hysterically! Other favorites were Marcia Maria or Dean Pierre, which are both kinda silly but Sharon Renis blows my mind-that sounded much worse than I intended. Tim said that if I got famous he would call my biography The History of Sharon Renis. It sounds like a book you would find in the Human sexuality section of Barnes and Noble. WOW!

Updates since October 2nd

2008-10-09T07:37:00.000-07:00

This has been a pretty dull week. I didnt get to watch The Office on Thursday. Matt took me to see a movie on Saturday night, that was a lot of fun. On Sunday me,Tim, Heath, Melissa, Kayln, Keali and Daddy Ronald all went to eat ice cream at Baskin Robbins, that's one thing I love about little kids their inability to eat ice cream good. Then Monday we went to eat with some friends who were mid fight and broke up a couple of hours after the date. It's a real shame they were good together or at least I thought they were. So since Monday, life has consisted of me talking my friend through a break up, work, and school. Like I said borring.

I'm the FIRE GUY

2008-10-02T20:28:00.000-07:00

Today I had my sculpture critique, I was very excited. Here are photos of my sculptures:

1.) 1st,2nd,4th (rings) This one is all the rings I've made in jewelry school with the evception of the 3rd one which was completly destroyed in a freak soldering accident. 2.) Clay Hillary bird (a work in progress) his head is a round wooden ball and the body is sculpy clay covered in acrylic paint. 3.) In these shoes I SCULPT consists of 2 foot shaped linoleum board pieces with the carved Hillary Tree bird from a piece I did last semester, they are placed in a pair of shoes that I always wear when I am doing anything involving sculpture.

I was going to show a 4th piece but about 10 minutes befor I was going to show it, it exploded. Yeah I set myself on fire today, you know how I was all facinated with the green flame that denatured alcohol makes? Well I was going to show my class how cool it looks, I tested it out before my presentation, the alcohol dripped on to the floor after I lit it & there was a huge blue flame in the middle of the Fine Arts Gallery with me in the middle of it. I freaked out scared to death that I was going to be expelled so I tried to put it out with my shoe but only after did I remember that I was wearing flip flops & my foot was on fire. I am the FIRE GUY. This is my foot: You cant really tell but I burnt all the hair of the tops of both my feet cause I am an idiot. When we got home Tim doctored them. I feel like a big stupid mummy, Melissa if you or Heath tell my mom I will burn your house to the ground, I've still got plenty of denatured alcohol.

Richie & Debi

2008-10-01T19:32:00.000-07:00

Today Richie and Debi found out that they are gonna have a baby girl. I am very excited. I have also been thinking how weird it is that Momma Judy & Daddy Ronald only had boys and so far all their boys have only had girls. I think it might be some kind of strange record if all the Lamb boys remain boy-less.

Catching up....Again: Sept 12- September 30. 2008

2008-09-30T06:42:00.000-07:00

Life has almost been too boring to write in this blog plus I've been really busy.........

1.) I've been working on sculpture projects, (pictures of which I will post on Thursday, after my critique)

2.) I've been doing the whole jewelry school thing,(which may end soon since Zales/Gordons believe that it is more financially viable to lay off all the jewelers and out source repairs to the jokers who fix Wal-Mart's Jewelry, so Doug was let go and has a new job in Stutgart,but he still wants to live in Jonesboro so maybe he will still teach me)

3.) I've been busy watching The Office: Season 4 and for anyone who didnt catch the 1st episode of Season 5 my #1 favorite TV couple got engaged!!!!!!

My #2 & #3 Tv couples however are having some serious termoil!

Dwangela or Angady? I cannot see this going well.

My AT&T contract is up......

2008-09-12T19:38:00.000-07:00

Which new Phone should I get? I am torn. They are both so pretty& I cannot decide.

GREEN or RED?

Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jamtoast

2008-09-09T13:50:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago my friend Hillary started an online store and I just got on in for the first time last night. She has some really cute stuff. All who read this Blog should check it out. This is what I bought.....

Jeweler Lessons

2008-09-08T18:16:00.000-07:00

After I posted my last Blog entry I did some laundry, and got ready for my first day of Jewelering School. On Saturday I observed Doug, the jeweler, from 11:00-1:30. Then he left me and told me that I needed to make a ring by Monday. So I sat down and made a ring. He gave me a bar of silver and told me how not to blow myself up and then he went hunting. So I've got this bar of metal and I made a ring. 1.) I bent the silver with bending plyers,till it was kind of round 2.) I cut the metal with a jewelers saw 3.) I dipped the silver in Boric Acid and Alcohol to get it ready for heat and then set it on fire, the mix of acid and alcohol made the ring burst into a really beautiful green flame but it dies out quickly 4.) I soldered the two ends of the silver together 5.) I polished it, polished it some more 6.) Buffed it. and I had a ring. It was amazing. It felt very fluid and natural, and amazing. I went to my second day of jewelering and made another ring I'm really excited.

Yesterday

2008-09-06T07:19:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Melissa and I went car shopping. We found her a 2008 Yaris 4 door sedan, it was really nice, fuel efficicient, spacious, and it was this really great color to called Bayou Blue. I love the Yaris I want one too, but I want the Liftback instead of the sedan. Anyways yesterday I went car shopping with Melissa, we had a really good time and then we got $.99 Banana Split Juniors at Sonic which just makes everyday perfect. I still cant believe I had never had a Banana Split till my 2nd year of college, how many Banana Splits could I have been enjoying from birth to the age of 20? I have missed so much.

From May - Sept 4.2008 [Thursday]

2008-09-04T10:38:00.000-07:00

June: 1.) Worked 2.)Went to Nauvoo/Carthage for 3 days 17th-20th, had an amazing time 3.) met Heath and Melissa at an Athletic Training Convention in St. Louis on the way home from Nauvoo ate dinner went home 4.) Went to Tim's family reunion had a blast as always with the Lamb clan 5.) Worked

July: 1.) Worked 2.) Was reunited with childhood friend Brianne Martin now known as Brianne Umburger 3.) Celebrate Daddy Ronald's B-day 4.)Hung out with my sisters Emily and Micah 5.) Saw The Dark Knight 4 times with Tim 6.)Read Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven

August: 1.) Read the entire Twilight Series! Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse,and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyers 2.) Started a sculpture project involving the distruction of my back brace that I am very excited about 3.)Started School 4.) Changed my major 5.) Went to an Art Gallery opening with my mom that features Gayle Pendergrass and John Salvest (ASU Faculty) I love Jay's Sculptures. 5.) Read The Host by Stephenie Meyers 6.) Had movie and dinner dates with friends Hilary and Clabe 7.) got sick 8.) got better...................

The Lambs in Springtime

2008-05-29T08:31:00.001-07:00

A few days ago Timmy & I had made an elaborate plan to swim and cook out, and sun tan and do anything we could out side. When we woke up yesterday at around 9:30 ish and it was obvious that there would be no fun in the sun,(because you couldn't see the sun) rain clouds were looming and the day was already ruined before it had even began.

Fortunately I devised an alternative, more fun, plan.

So off we went! We went to Benton to visit Tim's brother Heath and his wife Melissa and their adorable munchkins Kalyn and Keali! We had so much fun! Melissa made us Awesome Blossoms and Baked Potatoes for dinner and we played hide and go seek. We snuggled and talked and took pictures, and we went to get ice cream at Mc Donald's while the littles played on the Mc-y D's playground.

Tim, Kalyn & Keali

Me, Kalyn & Keali

Heath & Keali

Melissa, Keali, Kalyn & Tim

Kalyn & Keali eating ice cream

This is my Favorite picture from our visit. They are tooooooooo perfect for eachother. Cute huh?

The "A" word......and by the "A" word I mean Aliens.

2008-05-27T22:32:00.000-07:00

Today was strange. This morning at work 2 odd things happened: 1.) My co-worker Angela had a customer, he was in the store for ever, so it turned out he wanted a watch that she was going to have to order, so he said he'd call her back. About an hour or so later he called back and I answered the phone. He said something I couldn't understand, started laughing and asked to speak with Angela. I handed Angela the phone and she told me that he had asked me if I was the cute one and continued to ask her questions about me like, "Is she married?" = So that was odd cause I can't remember the last time I got hit on. 2.) We sent back a whole lot of Jewelry today and in the return to vendor supplies there was a huge role of bubble wrap, this thing was probably as big around as a tire on a semi truck & probably about 3 ft wide. So I got to play with bubble wrap all day long since we used as little of it on packing as possible. After we were done packing up jewelry we wrapped my boss's chair and desk, (not my idea, but I wish I could take credit for it. It was actually compliments of my friend Sarabeth) with about 4 layers of bubble wrap and duck tape. So I guess work was just easy and a little dull, nobody wants to buy jewelry since gas is so high so my work experiences as of late have been more and more hum drum since we have to entertain ourselves.

After work not alot happened, Tim and I were supposed to go see Indiana Jones with Clabe and Hilary,but Tim fell asleep and Clabe had to deal with some family stuff, so Hilary and I went. I feel terrible because about 20 minutes into the film I realize the plot is all about Aliens. Now I haven't know Hilary for very long, but I do know that she has a terrible fear of Aliens. So I'm sitting there wondering what she's gonna do. So the second I see the first Alien I naturally start making fun of how rubbery and ridiculous it looks and laughing hysterically and she's barley peeking through her fingers at it. I felt bad but the CGI was just so bad, it was hard to take the movie seriously; the actors and the people and the sets were great but the CGI was so incredibly bad. 3 words: Monkeys, Ants, & Aliens......

Testing 1-2-3

2008-05-26T18:08:00.000-07:00

I have another picture on my blog. I am feeling terribly accomplished today and for my next act of amazing-ness I will add a half way decent picture of myself that is a little more recent than Christmas 2006......

Eureka!!!!

2008-05-26T17:59:00.001-07:00

Yay! I have a picture on my blog!!!

2008-05-26T17:11:00.000-07:00

OK I was thinking that I was going to start getting good at this whole daily blog posting thing but obviously not.
Alot has gone on since the 7th.
1.) I did another day on the art bus & again the kindergartners were unquestionably the best of all the kids. 2.) my dad was admitted to the hospital cause he thought he was having a heart attack, he didn't, but they still don't know what's wrong with him. 3.) I decided that I am not taking summer classes. 4.) We went to visit my parents on mother's day and Juno pooped behind my dad's chair,which personally I thought was pretty funny. 5.) Tim and I found a couple to go on double dates with (their names are Claiborne& Hilary) and we went to see Speed Racer together. 6.) We bought new bedding and decided to paint the walls in our room green, but I don't know when we'll get around to that. 7.) I "mowed" the lawn, got the mower stuck in a mud puddle, got stung by a bee, and fell in my ditch while stumbling down to Tim's parents so that his momma could fix my bee sting. This all happened in a span of 5 or so minutes. Honestly I'm not very good at mowing the lawn but I had alot of fun trying. 8.) Tim and I laid out in the backyard and I thought I covered him up in sunscreen (SPF 30) But apparently I missed some spots he looked like he had a raccoon mask and I missed half of a leg and his sides. Those parts were RED the rest didn't even tan. SPF 30 works but only if you put it on, all over. After I unintentionally burnt Tim we played in the kiddie pool with baby Luke and Klarice and while running and screaming and trying to splash Tim, I accidentally punched him in the eye. It wasn't a great day for poor Timmy.

"The Artmobile"

2008-05-07T19:19:00.000-07:00

Today I did tours for the "Artmobile", it's a traveling art gallery. In the art gallery there are 23 pieces of art,which myself & my friend James (another Art Ed major at ASTATE)explained to 2 groups of forth graders, 2 groups of third graders, a group of second graders, a group of kindergartners, a group of fifth graders and a group of sixth graders. The kids were all alot of fun except for the sixth graders, they were rotten. I think the kindergartners were my favorites there was one little girl who came up & held my hand while we walked through the tour, a little boy who asked we if I made all they art, & a different little girl who told me I was pretty. They were fun.

Another neat thing about the tour was that it was at my elementary school. It was funny to be back there all the halls were the same colors,(but they looked smaller-I guess that could be attributed to the fact that I have probably grown two or so feet since I was last in the building) and I actually went into the room where I had kindergarten. The same nurse, and the same librarian still work there. And coincidentally the teacher of the second group that toured was actually my forth grade teacher, she didn't remember me.

After all the tours and school had let out, Tim and I got groceries. On our way home Mom called and she, Emily, & Micah said they wanted to come play with my puppies and that they would be in the backyard waiting for us when we got home. They were. Emily and Micah both got glasses a couple of days ago, today was the first day that I got to see them, they both look very beautiful, but of course I told them that the looked like dorks, I've been around Tim far to long....Emily had to go to church so me,Tim, Micah and mom all went to Petco, I like to look at the fish. Micah and I saw three albino snakes it was very unusual.

2008-05-07T19:12:00.000-07:00

April: Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention that two Thursdays ago I found out that I have a marble sized cyst on my left lady lump... Dr. said it is benign so I'm not that worried about it.

From February- May 5.2008 [Monday]

2008-05-05T11:37:00.000-07:00

Alot has gone on since I started and abandoned this poor blog site.
February:
1.) Tim turned 22. 2.) We went to our first NBA Basketball Game. 3.) I was chosen as a featured artist in the 2008 Juried Student Exhibition. 4.) I stopped working at Gordon's full time.
March: In March I started keeping a journal so it will be alot easier to remember what happened in March. 1.) I got to help my Grandma Deon whose hose was destroyed by tornadoes move into a new duplex w/ mom and her husband Jack. 2.) I spent a week with my Papa and Grandma Nancy in Pea Ridge. Also while in Pea Ridge got to spend a little time with my Great Grandparents and decided that I want to live in Pea Ridge in a house that my Great Grandpa Russell (age 93) built in the forties when my Papa was a kid. It's not a realistic dream, but it's really beautiful there. 3.) We Spent a day in Eureka Springs. 4.) One of my mom's friend's son died of a cancer in his brain, I was very sad, he was seven,his name was Ryan and he loved Shrek. 4.) Kayln and Keali came and we hunted Easter eggs I helped Keali with her basket so all she would have to do is put the egg in, but when she would try she would always throw them at my feet or my shins it was really cute.
April: 1.) I got a new puppy her named is Juno, she was eight weeks old when we got her she's black Devin & Holly gave her to me and said that she is 1/2 wiener dog,but the other 1/2 is a mystery + Flip Flop really likes her. 2.) Juno also had a hernia so she had surgery about 3 days after we got her. 3.) We (me, Tim, & Matt) went to Texas they went to play basket ball for their inter murals team and I guess I was just along for the ride. We spent three days with Richie & Debi. The first night we were there they took us to Medieval Times, it was awesome, I had a really great time. 4.) On the way back from Texas we took Heath, Melissa, Kayln,and Keali to Red Lobster in Little Rock, but this older gentlemen who had commented on how cute the girls were paid for our meals.
May: 1.) Finals started. 2.) I built a sculpture called the Hilary Tree and I showed it with 10 other pieces of artwork at Paragould's Art and Stroll Show. I started working more at Gordon's again. So that's the sum up I think I'll try to write more regular from now on.