Popcorn Anyone?

Up to this point my blog hasn't really had a focus other than my life and whatever shenanigans my occur it in. However, I would really like to find a niche to focus on. The best way to find niche is starting with what you are passionate and working from there. Well after some thinking and watching the movie "Julie and Julia" something click for an idea. For those of you that don't know, "Julie and Julia" is a movie about a woman for cooks through an entire cookbook of her idol chief and blogs about her experience. The manner in which the idea for my blog niche came to me is ironic as you may see after reading this blog.

As a kid, we all collect things that mean something to us. For some of us its hot wheel toy cars, others its cute figurines, but for me its movie ticket stubs. When I was little I had hopes of being a movie critic. Now I look back and laugh because what kind of family supporting career can you have as being just an movie critic? Haha...oh well i was just a kid with a dream. Anywho...I started collecting movie ticket stubs when I was thirteen. The first ticket stub I kept was for Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks' movie "You've Got Mail." What a cute movie right lol. You may be thinking how do you remember that from forever ago? Well it happen to be the first movie that I attended with my best friend without parental supervision. Hey at thirteen that means alot to you haha. I kept my ticket from that movie as it reminded me of that first step of freedom I felt from the experience.

Eight years later, at age 21, I am still collecting stubs. Last time I counted I had around 300 stubs or so. It would be interesting to see what the new count is. In the beginning, I use to write on the back of the stub who I went with or what I thought of the movie, but I guess I have gotten lazy because I haven't done that in a while. I have a special box I put them in. Throughout the years I have had to change the box a couple of times to make them all fit (eight years of movies almost one a weekend is alot of ticket stubs haha...). I am guessing in few years I will have to upgrade to a shoe box.

As for my new niche for this blog, I am going to live out my little girl fantasy and become somewhat of a part-time movie critic for you all.

For next week's post, I think I will do a little homework for you. Along with a movie review, I will get some pictures of the collection and maybe even see what the new count is on the stubs.

Work It Out

Diabetes runs in my family. Just last year about this time, my grandpa past away from serve case of type II Diabetes. After that my two uncles tested positive for diabetes. Luckily, though my mom still is free of the illness. Once my mom tested negative she made a vow to start cleaning up her life and living healthy again. Which means she has also been on me to start living healthy again as well. I am not gonna lie, I'm not a big fan of the gym. In high school I worked out for a while for softball training, but never found motivation to do more than that. However, to please my mom and put her worries at ease of losing another family member to diabetes, I started going back to the gym this semester. It has only been a week so far, but it hasn't been that bad. My roommates have been coming along with me which has kept up the motivation for going. Who knows after a couple weeks of working out, I might start enjoying it.

I decided to use the community center for my work out destination. I felt like it had alot more to offer than the gym on campus. A month membership is only $30. They have nice clean equipment and offer various exercise classes throughout the day. They have a few basketball courts and a decent weight room, plus a smoothie bar to replish your energy after a hard exercise session. If you are feeling like you need to work out the stress from your day come down to the community center and check it out.

Yes I know...I am ridiculous!

So as some of you may know I travel home to KC every weekend to work. Its exhausting keeping up with my schedule, but hey it pays the bills. This weekend I went home to help my studio out at a basketball event we were taking photos for. On my drive home, I was jammin in my car minding my own business when this guy comes up next to me and starts to rev his engine like he wants to race. This is not a new occurrence for me as I drive a ford mustang and boys seem to want to race me all the time because apparently my car looks fast. I just want to point out that my car may look fast but unfortunately it is not because it is an automatic v-6...my parents did not trust me enough to get a supercharged-up vehicle and for good reason. haha!

Anywho...so I decided ok ill race this guy, I have nothing else better to do and its a good way to spice up my long two hour drive back to KC. So after racing this guy for about two miles or so he motioned that he had to get off the highway. Well it was fun while it lasted right. But wait my excitement for the day wasnt over yet. After, the guy took the exit I slowed down to about 75ish but didnt realize that the speed limit was now 65 instead of 70.

You probably could guess where this is headed...oh yes!...there in front of me was a cop shooting radar. He proceeded to pull me over as I passed him. I was already on my way to the side of the road as he rolled out of his spot because I figured it would be best not to avoid the inevitable in this situation. When he approached the window, I already had my license and insurance ready to go because as you may can tell this is not my first rodeo lol... But luck was on my side today because the cop was nice and let me go with a warning. As the cop walked away I was laughing my head off...that could have gone so much worse. If the cop had been sitting any farther north on 71 hwy I would have most def gone to jail. Oh well...it was a good time!