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This is the random conversation I overheard... I laughed so hard

Boy: there is this wheelchair girl thats stalking me. I hear a flash from her camera and then i hear her wheelchair squeaking away, I think she's taking pictures of me

Girl: That's kind of creepy

Thieves

O the joys of work at Payless!

So a week ago, I was working, and with about five minutes until close, a couple walks in. that is a HUGE pet peeve of mine... don't come in with five minutes till close... I had been working since one, and I was ready to get out of there and get home! Well, I walk up to the lady and let her know we're closing soon and she says ok, then goes into the biggest rant about how she's pregnant and she doesn't know how she got pregnant, and basically she was creeping me out. So then the man that was with her comes out of the men's aisle with BRAND NEW tennis shoes on. So I walk over to the aisle, find the empty box and his old disgusting shoes stashed on the shelf..... This man was going to steal from us.
So, I have the other associate that was working with me keep an eye on them and i call the police. The cops showed up and asked the man about his shoes and he was so senile... he kept saying over and over that he has dimensia and his words are so slurred you can barely understand a word he's saying. This is the following conversation between him and the police officer:
officer: Are you going to pay for those shoes on your feet?
man: I didn't get them here
officer: well why are your old shoes stashed on the shelf?
man: they were there when I got here
officer: If you leave with those shoes on you'll be arrested

at this point another officer has shown up, and is being summoned by a customer. The customer tells him he just wittnessed the couple sweeping off their table from applebees before they came into the store. The officer walks over and looks in their two applebee's bags... and sure enough there are plates, silverwhere, breadbasket, condiments, salt and pepper shakers, and glasses from their meal at the restaurant! There were also some energy drinks and work gloves from Walmart. When questioned about why they stole all the stuff from their table the girl replied, "That's what my mother taught me to do when I was a little girl, so you should take it up with her!" Nothing like having a variety of different kinds of silverware, plates, salt and pepper shakers, and breadbaskets to decorate with!
So they were cuffed right then and there. The police were so familiar with the woman they called her by her first name when they saw her... I guess she's had a few more incidences with the law. So, instead of getting home at 9:00 like I wanted to, I got home at 10:30, after filling out witness forms and letting the police take pictures of the evidence. Come to find out the two were so intoxicated.... I knew they were acting funny, but I couldn't smell the alcohol on them, so I didn't know for sure. I'm just so grateful that they weren't mean drunks, that could have been really scary.
Call me a hero if you want. I caught thieves.
Just another day in the life of Shay

For my English class I get to do a ten page report on Henry David Thoreau. As I have been doing some research, I have come across some of his quotes. Some of these I think are funny, but some I think are so profound. Just thought I would share a few that I thought were interesting:

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. "

"The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence above language. "

"Thank [Goodness] men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. "

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer."

"How can any man be weak who dares to be at all? "

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. "

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? "

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

-Henry David Thoreau

Our Disneyland Adventure

Let me start off by apologizing. I am not a very good picture taker... I have a hard time keeping up on pictures. I don't like having to pull out the camera and ask a random stranger to take pictures of us. I always enjoy them when I get them back, but I still have a hard time taking lots of pictures. I'll get better, I promise. We had a blast at Disneyland and California Adventure this past weekend... here are some hi-lights! These two pictures are at Buzz Lightyear's astro blasters. This was our favorite ride, pretty sure we rode it at least six times. The point of the ride is to shoot the most targets. Me and Dixon bet that whoever shot the least amount of targets had to carry around the backpack.... notice who is carrying the backpack in all the pictures.

It was so fun to be there at Halloween time. Everything was decorated so cute. It really got me in the mood for Halloween!

This ride was awesome! It was the new Woody ride at California Adventure and its another shooting game. I had the backpack on shortly after this ride.

We had to go on the carousel! I can't remember the last time I have ever been on one!

Overall, we had a BLAST, and we can't wait for our next vacation. Its getting that point in school where its hard to stay motivated. We were grateful for the oppertunity to get away for a while!

I'm a dork

My old last name is Anderson. My new lat name that I absolutely love is Leavitt. I had a blond moment on the tagging game. Let's just say I was really tired that day.

Tag

First Job:Major:

What I am doing right now:

Best Friend:

My Name:

My Last Name:

Bad Habit:

Favorite Animal:

Favorite color:

Birthplace:

Pet:

Past love:

Place I've been:

Place I want to go:

Favorite object:

Favorite Food:

Crazy Eights

I've been tagged:

8 TV shows I watch:
-The Office
-Grey's Anatomy
-Raising the Bar
-Ace of Cakes
-Survivor
-Amazing Race
-Heroes
-Full House

8 Things that Happened this week:
-I went to work
-I played rock band
-I went to school
-I started my calling as ward choir director
-I scraped my car off and drove in the snow
-I cleaned and mopped the kitchen
-I spent wonderful time with my husband
-I drank hot chocolate...many times

8 Favorite places to eat
-Red Robin.. their BBQ chicken salad
-Training Table
-At home.... Dixon is such a great cook
-My mom's
-anywhere w frozen yogurt, but preferably Tart
-Bajio
-BJs
- anywhere with good salads

8 Things I'm looking forward to:
-Disneyland!!!
-Seeing family
-No Homework
-Time off of work
-Getting my hair done
-Christmas
-Thanksgiving
-spending more time with Dixon

8 Things on my wish List:
-Eat whatever I want and not gain any weight
-My house to be clean all the time
-My associates degree in December
-The little trick-or-treaters at Halloween
-No Homework
-To beat Dixon at rock band
-To be a great cook
I really am quite content and happy!:)

I Stand Corrected

I stand corrected. I have just been informed that iPhone is spelled with a lower case i and a capital P! apparantly iPod is spelled with a lower case i and capital P also! This just goes to show how very much I know about modern technology!

Our Fun Weekend!

This is us freezing at Landon's football game:) He loves football, and it was fun to cheer him on!
The fam! I can't believe how much everyone has grown!
Us at Layton park!
Charlie's Angels.... and Landon too!
Our arms look way funny in this pic, but its cute of our faces! It was so good to see Ky!


This weekend we got to head up to SLC! On Friday, we got to meet up with Dixon's friend, Tyler, and ate at his family's restaurant in Lehi called Charly Boy's! It was the best BBQ I have had in the longest time! I highly highly recommend it! We then ventured off to Dixon's mission reunion! I have come to the conclusion that I LOVE portuguese. It is the most beautiful language! Dixon's mission president and his wife are amazing people! I feel so blessed to get to meet them, even though it was for just a few moments. We took off with one of his good friends, Trevor after the reunion and tried hard to find a red mango. Their Iphones couldn't lead us to the right spot, so we had to do the old school thing and actually call Red Mango to ask for directions. This is my first experience where the Iphone led us astray! We eventually got there tho, and it was delicious... I love frozen yogurt. It was a very fun people observing place too, I thoroughly enjoyed myself!

Saturday we got to spend the day with the fam! My dad helped us start our day off right by making the BEST banana nut pancakes!! We caught the first session of conference and then headed to Landon's football game! It was freezing... I suggested that we get hot chocolate on our way, but that was vetoed, and when we got to the game everyone wished they would have listened to me! I love the rain though, and we got to meet Lyndee's new boyfriend, Kyler, so that was fun!
I think one of the highlights of this trip was lunch at Red Robin. I have been craving their Whisky River BBQ chicken salad for the past three months, and it hit the spot!
Dixon went to conference with Alec, and I got to meet up with them later that night... We were our best rock star selves as we worked together to form a great band in Rock Band on the Wii.
I got to go with my sisters and mom to the movie Nights in Rodanthe. They did a good job with it, the story was almost exactly how the book was, even the script was the same. However, despite that the story was very accurate, I thought the movie was a little slow paced. I had a blast though laughing with my sisters and mom!

Yesterday we did family pictures with my grandma before she loses her hair. She started chemo on Friday. I hate chemo. I love that it helps fight the cancer, but man, it just makes you so dang sick!
It was so good to see all of our family and friends! Thanks you guys for so many great memories!:)