The Study of Mr. Fix It

This is how you brighten a kids day:

You fix their "Power Wheels".

That is just what JJ did for his half brother, James and half sister, Hannah on Easter.

I just sat around and took photos. :-)

Then, JJ took it for a spin:

The Study of Yzma

I would like you to meet my kitty cat, Yzma.

Pronounced: Ease Mah.

Crazy name you say? Well, if you knew her in real life, you would understand why I gave a crazy name to a crazy cat.

Cause, she is named after:



Yes, my cat is named after the villain in The Emperor's New Groove. In the movie she turns into:




Now, my cat is in no way mean like that kitty looks. She is one of the nicest cats you will ever meet. If, and only if, you can get pass her weird, neurotic, skittish ways.

The following is a list of her habits:

Habit One: Perching

(**Be sure to click the photos for the larger versions**)





This is her perching in the window. See how all the flowers are pushed to one side? Well, those flowers used to be where she is laying, but she kept knocking them over so she could "perch". Cat's always win.

She chooses other areas to perch on as well. She finds the warm area's, and will sleep on them. Examples: sitting/sleeping on top of the fish tank, stealing my place on the couch after I've sat there, and her most recent perch: THE LAPTOP.

Habit 2: Eating too much, then puking it out but still looking like a "rat cat" while she walks around.



Here she is sitting underneath the table waiting for me to feed her. See her belly? Looks like little baby kitties are in there doesn't it? Well, that's just extra food. (Click the photo, to see more of what I'm talking about). However, (this is really gross) she pukes. If she eats too fast, it just ends up on the floor. Sounds like she's bulimic. This doesn't happen everyday. But, it happens often enough for me to ponder where that belly actually comes from.

Habit 4: Meowing, Meowing, begging, and Meowing.

I have never met a more sociable cat(to me), then this cat. She meows and talks to me....all-the-time. Did I say that loud enough? ALL-THE-TIME!! However, she doesn't meow and talk to everyone. She is very skittish, and very choosy with who she talks too, and who she rubs up against, and who she doesn't run away from (like you are going to kill her). The only people she doesn't run away from when they come over are me, my mom and my sister.

Here is an example:

If JJ is home and hanging out, she will sleep on the couch and not make a peep. However, the moment I walk into the door she starts meowing and asking me for food, or just asking for attention. This isn't a typical "meeeeow" like a normal kitty. She acts like she's dying. When she meows she doesn't kid around.



Habit 5: Q-Tips




This is the only thing she ever plays with. No fake plush stuffed mice, no toys covered in cat-nip, she just doesn't care. Instead, she plays with q-tips. She flings these things around like they are mice. I'll try to catch a photo of her playing with one, so you can understand what I'm talking about.

Habit 6: Bringing me treats from outside.

Treats include: Katydids, birds, mice, earthworms, and a dragonfly.

(Sorry, no photos of these yet. I took a few photos a while ago when she did this, but I can't find them. If I find them, these words in parenthesis will disappear.)


But, here she is inside, trying to catch a fly:


I didn't get Yzma when she was a kitty. The place I used to work at had cats, and they gave her to me, when they got rid of all there cats.

Sometimes I wish I wouldn't have took her home (cause, she does drive me nuts at times), but most of the time I'm glad she's around to keep me company.

The Study of Jogging

Warning: This post MIGHT not contain photographs.

I like reading blogs that have photos. It makes reading the posts alot more interesting and fun. Also, you don't have to read so many words, and being a blogger like myself, I don't have to write as much. And, you being the reader, you don't have to read mine(or others) fantastic writing skills. Which, I don't have. Cause, I, use, too, many, of, these : ,,,,,,,.

Let's discuss one of my hobbies today. Shall we?

Jogging.

Yes, I said "jogging". How is this a hobby you might wonder? Let's ask dictionary.com shall we?

hob·by–noun, plural -bies.
1. an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation: Her hobbies include stamp-collecting and woodcarving.

Relaxing? How is jogging of all things....relaxing? Isn't it hard?

Keep reading...

Now, I haven't always considered jogging as a hobby. In fact, me and jogging used to hate each other. Loathe, despise, want to kick in the teeth, type of hate. But, in December 2005 I started/decided it was time for me to get in shape. So, I signed up at a local County Gym (the hidden treasures of cheaper/affordable gyms), and magically (after about a 9-10 months) jogging became a hobby.

First, my goals were to loose weight (like every girl that goes to the gym... even the skinny ones). Even though my goals still include loosing it, I don't really care that much. When it leaves my body, it will leave. I look forward to 5:30 at night when I have a date with the pavement or the treadmill (usually it's the treadmill).

My new goals include "improving times". The best I have ever recorded when it comes to "jogging", is doing a 5K(3.1 Miles) in 32 mins. For those fast runners, it's probably really slow. But, for someone who hated jogging in the beginning, it's awesome. When I first started out, I could barely get to 1.5 miles without stopping (and almost dying in the process). Now, if I jog at a slow pace, I just keep going, going, going and going.

How far have I travelled without stopping? Probably 5-6 miles (this was outside, so I have no idea. I jogged for 70 mins, without stopping... and could have kept going if I didn't have places to go).

It's so liberating.

One day, I'm going to jog a marathon. One day.

The Study of My Bike

I'm interrupting the recent patterns of "introduction" posts to bring you the latest news.

JJ likes bikes. JJ wants Ashley to ride a bike too. So he decided it would be fun to purchase me one. It's little, and it's great for a beginner who is scared of bikes. It might not look the greatest right now, but that's besides the point.

I CAN RIDE IT!

First, we get into the starting position:















Then, we GO! VROOOOMMMMMM!




JJ is currently working on changing it's color to somewhat look like the following picture:



I've always dreamed of owning a light blue Vespa. Now, my dreams can somewhat come true.

I'll be posting photos of when it's complete. I will also be wearing a white helmet and old fashioned goggles to add to the fun.

The Study of Me and JJ

Before I start making my adventure posts, the next few first posts will be introductions about myself.

So, I thought it would important to start of my fantastic new blog with the story of how I met:


Julian Joseph Dasher "JJ"
Photo by: Matt Glass

You probably have heard those crazy stories about how people meet on the Internet? Well, that is how this story begins.

But first, I have to give some background information.

Referring to the side bar my interests include "going to local music shows". Back in 2004, I started going to see this band. They have quite the following now, but back in the day, I was a "Brobeck SuperFan". Which means, I went to every show they had and was basically the only fan they had, on a regular basis. Now, they have quite a few.

So, anyway the drummer of The Brobecks was (he isn't anymore), Matt Glass. Check him out here, here, here or here. So, I became friends with Matt, and we would AIM on occasion. Well, we all know how the Internet is these days, and Matt would talk about a certain "JJ Dasher" that used to live in Utah, but he moved to West Virginia a few years prior. Matt linked me to this: JJ's Photos. Now, being the internet stalker that I am, if you look on his page his AIM name is listed on there. So, what did I do? Added him to my list, and never talked to him for about 3 months.

Then, one night on April 5, 2005 I finally sent him this message:

"You're dead".

The rest is history.

We started IMing each other (that's how these stories go). Then, we started talking to each other on the phone, then I got a crazy idea in my head that I would fly out to West Virginia to meet JJ in real life.

2,000 miles to meet a guy? I must have been crazy. Everyone thought I was crazy, maybe I was. But, I wasn't really all THAT worried about it. Afterall, he was friends with Matt Glass, so it wasn't like I was going to meet a total stranger. Was it?

The trip is explained here, on my xanga. Click it.

Well, as you can see from reading that post, those 5 days were awesome. We fell in love.

The next 2.5 months were just annoying (from September thru October). How anyone survives long distant relationships is beyond me. This was quite long distance too. 2,000 miles in fact.

Well, at the beginning of November 2005, I flew back to West Virginia, stole JJ from his home, and we drove back to Utah. Yes, you read that right. D-R-O-V-E.

JJ moved to Utah just to be, with me. Does that make him an awesome boyfriend? I think so. We currently live together (yes, for almost 2 years), and I couldn't be happier.

Welcome

Welcome to "The Study of Narcissism". On this blog we will study, yours truly. Topics that will be studied are: my adventures, my photographs, my hobbies,(running, knitting, sewing) and ramblings of a specific nature: narcissism. How you got here, I will probably never know.

Maybe you clicked on a link at my old home (xanga, livejournal). Maybe I even sent you a link.

Whatever the reason, this blog is basically all about ME. Where it's perfectly okay to call myself narcissistic, because after all it's all about ME.


Enjoy.