Sillyness

what would ami do?

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to any of my readers that haven’t met my mother, you have no idea what you’re missing. she is a treasure.

so i’m starting a series entitled:

what would ami do?

it’s about things my mom does or did that inspire me and have made me into the *ahem* totally awesome person i am today.

are you excited? yeah, me too.

as an intro to this series, i’ll tell you some fun facts about my super awesome mom.

she is not only my mom, but also the mother of 5 other children. for those of you that have trouble with simple math (like me), that’s six kids in total. four of those children are boys.

she is amazing, and she knows it. she has more confidence than…something really confident. one of my favorite “ami quotes” is, “well, of course people like me, what’s not to like?!”

she was born and raised in des plaines, il, which happens to be where the first ever mcdonald’s opened.
she’s just all around adorable, fun, and wise and she’s cool enough for me to write a bunch of blogs about. stay tuned!

‘member that time?

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‘member that time i found a bunch of pictures of myself in my “file?” they were the sheets of pictures you get from the picture place, with like a million pictures on one page.

‘member how i looked at those pictures and realized that best thing to do with them was to give them to my friends. because, really, wouldn’t YOU want a series of 10 or so pictures of lisagrace through the ages? especially when you were 9?

so i cut the pictures out, put them in chronological order, made little envelopes for them and gave them out like candy. ‘member how everyone was so excited to see mex10?

yeah. i was the most thoughtful kid ever.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

you’re such a skinny pants

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well, not to pat myself on the back or anything, but this girl lost 15 lbs. last year. what, what?!?!

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heck yeah. 10 more pounds and i’d be back to my high school weight. so how did i celebrate? i bought myself some skinny pants, of course! these were on sale for $15 at gap the other day and i had a $10 off gift certificate. so i paid $4.65 for a new pair of pants. nbd.

that’s pretty much all i wanted to tell you guys, you can proceed with your comments such as: “girl, you lookin’ gooood today!” “girl, you rock those pants!” and “girl, you so skinny i could break you in half like a toothpick.”

oh yeah, that is not me in the picture. i would never be so immodest as to show my belly button. in fact, i’m sorry you had to see this girl’s belly button. what a travesty. although, i do have pretty much the best belly button ever. it’s the perfect combination of an “innie” and an “outie.” so maybe i will show you my belly button. but not on this blog. that would be sinful or something.

sorry, rabbit trail. this blog is over.

‘member that time?

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‘member that time when i was a senior in high school and it was homecoming week? and remember how a bunch of people were all like, “hey, i voted for you to be on homecoming court.” and remember how my friend sara took me home from work late at night and we saw that my house was toilet-papered and it was totally like a sure sign that i was on homecoming court? and she was all like, “omg, you’re totally on homecoming court!” and i was like, “i don’t know…but ok.”

and then remember the next at school i realized that the night that they tp-ed peoples houses and told them they were on the court was that night, not last night and that i was for sure not going to be the next miss united states of america homecoming queen?

and plus, it was actually my sophomore brother who got tp-ed, not even me.

having siblings is confusing.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

‘member that time?

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‘member that time when i was in eight grade? and remember how i was kind-of cool in the eighth grade hallway and lunchroom, but the seventh graders that rode my bus still generally hated me?

and remember how i was sitting by myself on the bus and the seventh grade girls behind me were all like, “hey, your hair looks really cute today.” and i was like, “thank you, i did these pigtails myself.” and they giggled?

and then, remember how i got home after walking home from my bus stop i found an eaten sucker stick stuck in my hair? and how it took me like three hours to figure out that they had probably put the sucker stick in my hair. because really, who would even be that mean?

yeah, that probably never happened.

[it’s ‘member that time monday at the van voorst‘s blog!]

ps: just so you know, i totally have a good sense of humor about this kind-of stuff. i actually do think this is funny! so, consider this my permission to laugh at my own misfortunes! : )

one time…

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[this is my own rendition of paige‘s ‘member that time posts, i’m always trying to be like my idol]

one time, i was with my friends at a hotel in minneapolis. and i had to pee, but i didn’t because i was having too much fun. and then we decided to go get snacks at the vending machine. and my friend jessie made me laugh so hard that i fell on the floor and got in the fetal position and couldn’t stop laughing. then i peed right there on the hotel hallway floor.

but hey, i was only like, 16 or something.

‘member that time?

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‘member that time when i signed my own yearbook? and remember how all i wrote to myself in eighth grade was:
Hey Hun
-LisaGrace
and remember how someone else a bunch of other girls also wrote “hey hun” but some of them spelled it “hon” and so i changed my totally original signature from “hey hun” to “hey hon” halfway through the yearbook signing sess?

and remember how at the beginning of that year, i forgot about school picture day and this is what i looked like on school picture day?

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but remember how despite my awkward school picture [or maybe because of the picture] i still was popular enough to get voted “funniest girl” in the whole eighth grade?!?

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that’s right people, out of 367 kids, i was voted funniest. eat it.

this blog is linked to my hilarious friend paige’s blog here.

ima winker

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in the past few week i’ve realized something about myself.

i’m a winker.

it’s awkward, i know. i don’t even know when i started to do it…it just kind-of…happened. i can’t explain myself. i have no excuse for my actions. if you judge me, i’ll completely understand.

one day, i was making jokes and laughing like a normal person and the next, i was winking. i was working at hyvee and joked about the weather and iowa and i winked. just like that. like i’d been doing it my whole life. when did i become so cliche and charming? when?!

where do i go for support, or rehab or whatever? is it intentional or an uncontrollable eye twitch? is it a learned trait or does it run in my family?

i don’t know, guys, i just don’t know. so many questions, so many fears.

at least i’m not ugly.
*wink*

so i work at HyVee…

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Some of my favorite things about working at HyVee:

My co-workers are fun, they call me LG or LeGit.

A little girl was leaving my line with her mom the other day and exclaimed at the last minute, “You’re pretty!” It definitely made my daylife.

I was on ESPN! During the Penn State Game in Iowa City, ESPN did some “city shots” and I was in one of them because I was working right before the game!

SO MANY people think my name is strangest name in the world! They look at my nametag and look at me and just frown like I shouldn’t have such a weird name. I just laugh and say, my mom made it up, it is a weird name. My favorite was when one guy came up to me and asked, “Is your name Lasagna?” I laughed for 5 minutes straight.

Um, that’s all for now. But I’m thankful for such a fun job.