That night we made lasagna and played Twilight Scene It. We invited our friend Mona to come play with us and she thought she would dominate the game. Little did she know that my sister is a Twihard. Shilo can pretty much quote the whole movie (and by pretty much, I mean she can), give you first AND last names of minor characters and tell you which direction Victoria led the humans.  Yeah. She is that good. And I think she secretly works for Stephanie Meyers and her job is to go on every Twilight related website and read the whole thing. No joke. So, needless to say, she dominated the game. It was fun though…and at times, embarrassing.

The next day it snowed a little and we went out shopping.

That night my sister had a singles activity at her church. Brandon and I went to help out and we also “chaperoned”. Haha, not really, but other than the missionaries we were the only married people there. So it was kinda funny. We played this awesome game where we had tons of balloons and a volleyball net. There were two teams and the goal is to throw the balloons on the other side of the net and the team with the least amount of balloons on their side, wins! It was a lot more tiring that it sounds. My team won, of course. As they did in volleyball too. I act as if it was my experience and athleticism that helped us win, but we all know that’s not true. I just got lucky.

The next morning we went to church with my sister and I forgot to pack church shoes and socks for Brandon and this is what he ended up looking like

And this is a pic of my sister and me

After we got back from church, we ate lunch and then headed home. Little did we know the “damage” that the snow caused in Maryland and Virginia. We were making good time until the freeway we wanted to take was closed. Yeah. closed. So we had to take side streets…after it had snowed about 24 inches. The side streets were not plowed at all. I honestly thought that I would die in a cold, snow grave in Podunk Maryland. After 7 hours, we finally made it home. It was ridiculous. Here is what we came home to

We ventured out on Monday and I slipped and fell in our parking lot. I hit my tailbone pretty hard, bruised my elbow and strained my neck. It was crazy. Luckily I went into work yesterday and my boss fixed me right up.

So that brings us to today. It is blizzard like weather out here. Our office was closed and school is closed all week. They are calling this round two of the storm. It is pretty windy so it does look like a white out.

Doesn’t that picture remind you of The Chronicles of Narnia? Anyway, here I will sit all day watching the snow. I just pray the power doesn’t go out. Like my dad said “If you can make it through this winter, you can make it through any winter out there.” So true.

]]> http://ashleyrobison.com/2010/02/10/twihards-and-snopocalypse-part-1-and-2/feed/ 2 http://ashleyrobison.com/2010/01/16/things-i-miss/ http://ashleyrobison.com/2010/01/16/things-i-miss/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:46:45 +0000 ashley http://ashleyrobison.com/?p=220 Here is a list of things I currently miss. I am sure there are more, so maybe this will be part one. Anyway, here it goes:

• My Family- They are seriously the best.

• Air Rock- If you are not from Lucerne Valley, then you don’t know what I am talking about. Basically it is a talent show where you lip sing and dance. Pretty much the coolest thing I did in Middle and High School.

• My girls- You know who you are

• Making awesome movies with the Lugos- My sister, brother and I would make movies with the Lugos and man, were they awesome.

• The Happiest Place on Earth

• My extensions- I need to get them again. asap.

• Crystal Clear Pepsi
• Summer Vacation- Remember those days when you had the whole summer off? Yeah, whatever happened to that?

• Las Vegas weather- More specifically the sunsets. Walking out to our parking lot and feeling the heat come up from the asphalt. This picture captures it all. I can even smell it.

• Laughlin- My second home as a child.

• Vogue Night- The best thing ever

• Leo Carrillo/ The Beaches in California. Enough said.

• UNLV events

• Being Young

• Apartment 202- I loved that apartment. Not so much the neighbor below though. So many memories

• Dancing- More specifically I miss dancing classes and being part of a production

• Impromptu Family Get-Togthers

Yeah…it was as bad as it looked. It was the first time I had to actually “shovel” out my car. I use quotes on the word shovel because, like the two desert rats we are, we do not own a snow shovel. So we started off using a dust pan and the lid of a big container box.

Clearly that wasn’t working too well. Luckily some neighbors lets us borrow their shovel. Three and a half hours later our car was finally liberated.

The following week was Christmas. Unfortunately Brandon and I couldn’t make it home this year. Although we were severly bummed by this situation, our wonderful families and friends sent us presents so that we had stuff to open on Christmas. My sister also sent Brandon and I matching pajamas (that she also wore too) for Christmas.

After opening our presents on Christmas Day, we went and saw two movies: Nine and Sherlock Holmes. The latter was the better of the two.

So that takes us up to the New Year…where I did absolutely nothing. I have been catching up on sleep and youtube videos. I have also been contemplating possible 2010 goals. Here are my top ten:

1. Make it through the winter (highly unlikely)

2. Run a half marathon

3. Watch the KOL “Use Somebody” video once a week and completely fall deep into Caleb Followill’s eyes

4. Be a vegetarian (already three days strong!)

5.  Take the  GRE and get into the GMU Masters in Public Health program

6.  Finish my  novel

7. Take pictures and paint more

8. Try not to become too obsessed with Michael Mosley and the new season of Scrubs

yummy.

9. See my friends and family from the west

10. Think of one more goal to write on my blog

Thanks for reading! Stay warm. Enjoy life. Watch Scrubs.

After that we went to Brooklyn (where my sister lives) and changed into our New Moon outfits.

We ate dinner and then made our way to the movie theater to see the midnight showing of New Moon. When we got there, there was a line (of course). We thought getting there at 10pm was plenty soon enough. Boy were we wrong. After waiting in the pouring rain for awhile, they let us into the theater and we got some decent seats.

Shilo and I were both worried that we would have to put up with screaming, immature 13 year olds…but that wasn’t the case. Creepily enough, there were a lot of people our age and older. Once the movie started there were plenty of claps, cheers and drooling I am sure. Whether this be right or wrong, doesn’t matter. We all enjoyed the movie. Enough said.

After the movie we made our way back home (half asleep since it was around 3am). The next morning Shilo and I slept in. We decided that since we already shamelessly watched the midnight showing of a “teen” movie, why not continue the trend? Let’s just say that I now know all the Jonas Brothers songs now. Yeah. We went there. We also watched Celine Dion’s A New Day DVD from her Vegas show. It is remarkable and I highly recommend it to anyone.

Friday was spent hanging out and enduging our middle school age obsesssions. Saturday morning we may or may not have seen New Moon again. We also dyed each others hair and watched a little Camp Rock…what? Lets be honest, we were doomed for the downhill Disney spiral after watching the Jo-Bros concert.

On Sunday I went to church with my sister and then she walked me to the bus stop. All in all it was a fabulous weekend that brought out the kid in me.

“So tell me when you hear my heart stop,
You’re the only who knows
Tell me when you hear my silence
There’s a possibility
I wouldn’t know”

The weekend of October 10 Brandon and I visited my family in New York City
We decided to drive and had to go through NJ which was rather shi _ _y.

In New Jersey you can’t pump your own gas
So we waited for what seemed like forever
Then finally got served and we were on our way
I never want to go back to that state….not ever!

When we arrived in NYC my sister gave me the best shirt ever
On the front it just says poop. I thought it rather clever

Then we all took a train to meet my parents for some BBQ
It was me, Brandon, Shilo, my parents and Melissa too

Here is a picture of daddy and me

Here is me in Time Square
I may look stupid in this picture, but I don’t really care

Here is a picture of Branny and me

The next day we had brunch at Superfine
I ate most of the bread but no one seemed to mind

A baby fell on the hard wood floor
So everyone stared because it was hard to ignore

Here is a picture of my sissy and me

I also took some pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge and  some more
But then we headed back to the apartment cause our legs were sore

That night we ate Rijsttafel at an Indonesian food place
And before we said goodbye, all of us made a funny face

I had so much fun with my family
Whom I love very much
I hope I can do it again soon
Because I sure miss being so far from them and such

Here is a picture of my family

THE END!

After we got back to the house we chit-chatted and then went to bed. The next morning we had breakfast and watched LDS General Conference. After the morning session we got ready and went to the movie theater. I wanted to see Fame but Brandon didn’t so I was glad that Shilo came out and was able to see it with me. Shilo and I both had expired free movie tickets and thought we could be tricky and use them anyway. Because of Shilo’s sly skills we weren’t denied the free tickets and got to walk right in. Once we sat down in the best seats of the theater, Shilo left to get something to drink. She put her purse on her seat to save it (like all smart people do) and then some fat girls decided to sit RIGHT next to where her purse was. Not cool. So upon Shilo’s arrival, I motioned for her to come sit on the other side of me so that she didn’t have to sit between me and fat girl. As soon as I moved Shilo’s purse from the originial seat, fat girl plopped her purse on that seat. Rude much? And to top it off, these girls were loud and had annoying cackles which lasted throughout the movie.

Other than that incident, Fame was a pretty good movie for being free. Shilo and I, of course, left the theater dancing.

On our way home we decided to have dinner so we went home, picked up Brandon and walked across the street to eat at this mexican restaurant.

I was super excited about it, but apparently Brandon and Shilo were not. I ordered a chimichanga covered in cheese and it was delightful. Shilo and Brandon ordered “salads” and wondered why they didn’t like the restaurant. You don’ t order salads at a mexican restaurant! But desert made up for their meals…3 words: Fried Ice Cream. Yummy!!!!

After we walked home we watched There Will Be Blood. Shilo had not seen it and it is one of my favorite movies so I had to make her watch it. Then after the movie we watched the SNL parody “I Drink Your Milkshake”. A must see. We then watched last weeks SNL where Jenny Slate dropped the F bomb and then we watched this weeks SNL…which could have been so much better considering Lady Gaga and Madonna were on.

We also played some Rock Band. There were some hilarious moments, like Shilo singing Chop Suey by System of a Down, and the night ended with me singing Move Along while Brandon and Shilo were getting “failed out” of the drums and guitar.

Sunday morning Shilo and I decided to make biscuits and gravy….worst….idea…..ever. Our gravy tasted like glorified flour mush. But thanks to Shilo’s craftiness, we made it edible. We watched some more of the LDS General Conference and then Shilo and I thought it would be fun to learn the “Single Ladies” dance…..second…..worst……idea….ever. We gave up a few 16 counts into it. I blame it on the lack of a dance studio and leotard.

Now it is 9:30 on Sunday night and we just got back from taking my sister back to the bus station. I miss her already. I am so glad that she came down to visit with me and lift my spirits. Ya’ll should be so jealous that you don’t have a sister like Shilo.

Right Back What Is Wrong….Move Along.

I sure miss my family.

It rains here a lot.

]]> http://ashleyrobison.com/2009/09/26/saturday-haiku/feed/ 3 http://ashleyrobison.com/2009/09/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-bum/ http://ashleyrobison.com/2009/09/12/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-bum/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:31:26 +0000 ashley http://ashleyrobison.com/?p=162 Yesterday Brandon and I (and some of his econ classmates) took the metro to Arlington to attend a lecture at the other George Mason campus. The lecture was “Economics and Charity” and, for a non-econ student, was really interesting. I honestly thought that they would be talking about something I didn’t understand but I actually understood 98% of it. I was the only person in there who wasn’t studying economics but I didn’t feel out of place. After the lecture, we all went to an Asian restaurant and ate and drank (Shirley Temples for me!) for a few hours. I was proud that I could keep up with the conversation on all the PhD students. And before you start to think very highly of me let me tell you what the conversation consisted of: Rockband, movies, Battlestar Galactica, Family Guy, “naggers”, religion, Rush Limbaugh and Anchorman. It was a fun night.

In other news, I have developed terrible sleeping habits. I stay up until the wee hours of the morning and sleep until 12 the next day. I know when I have a job I will (hopefully) start sleeping like a normal person but right now its kinda annoying. I feel like a bum…which I guess I am since I don’t have a job. I have been averaging about 2 applications per day and yesterday I went to a job fair. I will have 2 interviews next week. If I don’t get a job next week, I will probably start working someplace that doesn’t pay much, but at least I will have some income.

That’s about it. Exciting my life is, I know. Until next time…stay classy readers.

When we got to the pier, we saw a sign that said “You must purchase a beach pass to be able to enter the beach area”. We got worried. But apparently you are free to go to the pier but must pay to go to the beach. So we walked down the pier and looked at a great view of the area.

There was a hotel right next to the pier and they were having some kind of kids day. They had snow cones and a play area for kids. They also had this CREEPY pirate guy!

Yeah, if I were a kid, that would scare me. Anyway, we were really hungry by then so we got some fish and chips at this little hole in the wall restaurant. It was good.  After eating we walked around the little shops. We went into this big antique store that smelled like pee, but it was pretty interesting. Then we went to a candy store and they had my favorite candy of all time…KOOKABURRA LIQUORICE!!!! I can’t tell you how excited I was that they had it. I bought 2 bags to last me for awhile

After a little shopping we up to Annapolis, MD. By that time it was pouring pretty much the whole way there.

But it was an extremely pretty drive. When we got to Annapolis we went to a huge mall and walked around for a bit. Brandon bought me some shirts and a pretzel . All in all, it was a great day that I got to spend with Brandon. I am s o glad that I live on the east coast and can take day trips to different states.

Still haven’t thought of a sign off, so…

I really enjoy our apartment. The scenery outside our place is just gorgeous.

The only thing I don’t like about our apartment is there is a creepy lady who lives here. A few times when we have gotten into our car, or out of it, she will be sitting on her balcony and stretch her neck over to look at us. And she will STARE at us the whole time we are walking. She reminds me of the lady from Drag Me To Hell

The weather has been great. I guess it was hot during the first week we lived here, but we didn’t really notice it. Right now the weather is in the mid to high 70s during the day, and it gets down to the low 50s at night. I am loving it! I just don’t think that I will be saying that once the weather gets cooler.

Brandon and I bought bikes so that we could ride around. We have been 1 1/2 times so far. I am not used to riding up hills yet, so I will need to exercise more. It has been fun though, minus the sore glutes, but I will be getting a new seat soon. Here is a pic:

The first day we rode, we dropped our bikes off at a bike store to get some things fixed. So we went to eat at this awesome place that had digital menus and yummy food:

Brandon started school on Monday. He had Walter Williams as a professor last night which was pretty awesome. He has been studying and doing homework a lot.  So yeah, that is pretty much it. I need a sign-off because I don’t know how to end this blog. So, until I think of one…