This might be the problem...

So... in my previous post I was complaining about how much my back was hurting and I think I might know what actually caused such pain, aside from my scoliosis.
You see, my sister Lisa is house sitting and last Friday I stayed the night at the house with her. We went to bed late and didn't wake up until later in the day so we decided that we would just waste the day doing a bunch of nonsense. We started out by watching two minutes of Beauty and the Beast (a Latter-Day Tale) before realizing it was going to be the worst movie ever. We quickly changed it to another dumb, but still intriguing movie, Aquamarine. We then decided to go up stairs and run on the treadmill. Now, I am not in any condition to be running. I am so out of shape it's not even funny. But still, we wanted to see if we could make it to level 9 on the treadmill. Lisa went first and succeeded with great ease. So, of course, I thought that I could do it if Lisa could do it.
So I started out on level 7 and things were going well. It was my first time actually running on a treadmill. I usually refuse to because I am afraid of looking ridiculous. Well, apparently I have good reason to fear that. Lisa was laughing so hard at how I was running that she decided to film me. Here is what she capture in this horrific experience:




I look like a fat kid chasing the ice cream man down the street. I don't really run like this,I like to think of it more as a speed walk. But it is rather ridiculous if you ask me but I think that this is actually what caused my back to have so much pain. So never ever speed walk on level 9 (yes, I made it to level 9!) or your back (and butt) WILL hurt for four or more days.

My worst enemy... SCOLIOSIS

Have you ever had a sore bum from riding a horse? Or a sore foot from playing a game of capture the flag with bare feet? Maybe a sore leg from your brother-in-law pinching your leg fat with his toes? Well imagine if those things were sore ALL THE TIME!! It would suck. Actually it does suck. I have scoliosis so my back hurts non stop. It has been especially bad the last day or so. I was just sitting in church and all of a sudden my back just started spasming. It was really annoying. I mean, my back really does always always hurt but it was just exceptionally bad this time. I have been in so much pain yesterday and it reminds me of how much I really do hate my scoliosis.

Some of you might be asking yourself what scoliosis is. Actually you probably aren't because chances are your daughter, your wife or you, yourself, has scoliosis, since mom, Joe and Nat are the only people that read this blog. But for any outsiders, here is a brief, but not so brief, description of the worst thing in the world, my biggest enemy..........SCOLIOSIS!!

Scoliosis is the "abnormal lateral curvature of the spine." In other words.... my back is messed up. If I bend over and you feel my back, it is in the shape of an 'S'. Not only that but my entire body is messed up because of this. My shoulders are crooked, my rib cage is turned, my hips aren't aligned and my back muscles are uneven.

So when did my history with scoliosis start? Well I cursed it upon myself. You see, my mom has scoliosis and so does my older sister, Natalie, and I found this out about both of them before I knew that I had it as well. So one day I was in the car with my mom and I told her, " I hope I have scoliosis because it gets Natalie out of cleaning all the time and I want an excuse not to clean." My mom looked at me weird and said, "Natalie handles her scoliosis very well and hardly complains for how much it hurts." I just didn't think that was true at all and hoped and hoped that I would grow up to have scoliosis. I soon after found out that I indeed had it and soon came to realize that it wasn't going to be as cool as I had always thought.

I had to wear this stupid back brace for two years in middle school that made me look absolutely ridiculous. It was this big acrylic thing that pushed up really far under my left armpit and had a giant hole on my left hip so whenever I gained weight, I would only gain it there. Kids at school would always say "knock on wood" and then knock on my back brace. It wasn't even wood. I hope all their problems they were knocking off on me came and bit them in the butt. Wearing that brace was one of the worst experiences of my life. Especially in the summer. When I would take it off, my under shirt would be soaked in my sweat and I could hardly do anything in it so summer was boring as shell. I am so mad that I wished this upon myself and I would never wish it upon anyone else.

I should have surgery but I just haven't gotten around to that. Last I heard my upper back was at a 40 degree angle and my lower was at a 35 degree angle. I'm sure it's worse now because that was like 3 years ago and I've shrunk an inch in the last year. Who knows how tall I should be? Eww, I probably am supposed to have a really long torso.

Well that about sums it up. Scoliosis makes me want a bullet in my back. I hope that my kids do not inherit this unfortunate physical flaw of mine. So next time you have a sore muscle or a head ache or an upset stomach, just think to yourself, "man, I should be grateful I don't have scoliosis."


(I couldn't get the pictures up that I wanted but they will be coming soon.)

Hair style excitment

I was looking at my Facebook and I realized that I have changed my hair so much in the past. In high school I was always into my hair and all the different styles I could do with it. Curl it, straighten it, leave it to air dry into a wavy mess, pull it half up, all up etc. But for the most part my hair was always long and blond.

After I got out of high school I decided that my hair was one of those things that I took pride in. So I started changing to a lot. It all started with changing the color. Light, then dark, then light, then lighter, and lighter, and then dark again. Then the cut started long, long with bangs, shorter, then shorter, then shortest, then longer, then shorter, then longer, bangs, no bangs, then shorter, now attempting to make it longer again. In the last 1 1/2 years I have changed my hair about seven or more times.
This photo is of me the fall after high school in 2006. This is generally what my hair looked like in high school. Long, blond and somewhat crazy.






Once I realized I was sick of my high school hair, I first added a little red to it and a few weeks later took a much more drastic approach by dying it brown! I love it in this picture but I quickly got sick of it.







Then I added blond again. This hair color is close to being my favorite, but not quite there. I mostly only like it because it is very similar to, none other than, Lauren Conrad's hair color. haha




Then I decided I needed to cut it. I was tired of the same old long hair, so I added more blond and cut off. Ok, just a few inches but I was doing this in baby steps.








Now I was about do make another dramatic change to my hair. I chopped all my hair off in an a-line cut and died it the blondest it's ever been. This was my favorite way I've ever had my hair. It was perfect summer and easy to style. I loved it!





Next, I decided that I was sick of the blond again so I decided that I would go dark again. By this time my hair was longer and I was trying to get it to grown out again.






This pretty much captures what my hair looks like currently. I cut it again prior to this picture but now I am getting ready to grow it out finally.


All these pictures made me realize that I want another big change with my hair. What should I do next? blond? red? black? shorter? grow it out? Oh man I just don't know. Whatever I do, I'm sure it will be great though.

The Hills!

Well it's that time of year. That time of year when my favorite show starts up again. Yes, THE HILLS. I know what you're thinking... I'm stupid for loving this reality show gone fake. I just can't help ot. I love the drama, I love fashion and LA and most of all I love Lauren Conrad. Throughout the seasons I have gotten many styles from Lauren. I bought headbands like her, I've bought shirts like hers, and dresses. I just want to be Lauren Conrad, minus the whole being on tv thing and having stupid friends, such as Heidi. But now it seems Lauren is trying to be me. I mean, she is even cutting her hair just how I had mine a year ago. We are pretty much the same person.

Anyway, this season seems to be just as good, if not better than the previous seasons, so, needless to say, I still love it!

Umbrella Ella Ella

So usually on Facebook the "News Feed" tells you who , between your friends, has written on each others wall. I noticed that my friend Carrie had written on Roxy's wall, but I don't know a Roxy. I had to do some major Facebook stalking to figure out who Roxy was. I figured out that it was this girl Brittany that I went to high school with.

I haven't talked to her in a while but we were pretty good friends at one time, so I wrote on her page asking her why her name was now Roxy. This is what she wrote back:

"Hello! Hello! Well here is the thing! Once I moved a couple of months ago I totally decided to change my name cuz I was sick of my old name. haha So my name is now Roxy." -Roxy

I just don't understand, if you were gonna change your name why would you change it to Roxy? That is a total stripper's name, in my opinion.

Now this made me think, what would I change my name to? Well, I looked up the list of the most popular girl's names of 2007 and #16 was Ella. Out of all the names on the list Ella and Tilly were my favorites. I decided Ella was better because it really is related to my name.

I'm not going to change my name completely but for now on I just want to go by Ella. So please, take my wishes into consideration next time you see me and say, "What's up Ella?" or "Hey Ella!"

So here I go, signing off as Ella!! Bye!

Quote of the Week.

So one thing that most people know about my family is that we are pretty weird. Sean is the king of saying/doing/thinking of weird things. Lisa, every once in a while, says some pretty funny things, though she doesn't usually mean to. Derek is always saying funny things, usually they consist of making fun of Lisa or myself. Nat and Joe are just always really funny, oh and Chels too. Even Dad and Michael have been known to say a few funny things here and there. I'm funny too, but this is all about my mom and a funny comment that she made today. This isn't really that great of a subject, but it was pretty funny.

So tonight, after dinner, my mom, dad and I were sitting at the table talking about sports and us (kids) playing sports. We talked about how volleyball is better than lacrosse and how Derek should have played basketball and how Sean wants to play tennis. The conversation led to jump roping and how I was always so good at it in my elementary school gym class. My mom then decided to tell me about a game that she played in school. She started off by saying:

"When I was in elementary school they would have us do dances with long poles."

Right when I heard this I was completely freaked out because, of course, the first thing that comes to mind is pole dancing. So I'm wondering where in the world this story is going. Turns out they use to do these dances that required them to dance/jump over long poles that were on the ground.

So this whole incident made me think about all the things that used to be allowed at schools that are no longer allowed in schools. Not that pole dancing was really allowed, but just think of all the things that were.

Kids used to be able to do rope climbing, which is too dangerous for kids now and wear colored gloves because they weren't gang signs then. I just think it's sad what this world has turned into. If I need to sit down I want to be able to sit on the benches outside of the gym and not get yelled at. And if I want to park at the school, I don't want to have to pay $50 for a flippin' parking pass.

Well this entry turned from one subject to another quickly but it is definitely just expressing my feelings at the time.

Bloggalicious Definition

Well, this a little weird for me to be doing this. I've never blogged before, so I don't really know what I'm doing. I decided that it probably be a good idea to first figure out what a blog is really supposed to be, I don't want to disappoint any of my readers. So what is the definition of a blog? Blog: a Web site on which an individual or group of users produces an ongoing narrative.

That sounds easy, but for some reason I just don't think I'll be very good at this. I decided to write this blog because my brother-in-law told me it would be fun. We'll see. I'll have to think of some interesting topics to write about.

I guess, I will first write about why the name of my blog is "Bubbly".

I love bubbles or anything that resembles a bubble. They are round and cute and fun to look at. I guess my sisters thought that my toes met this same criteria. They always said that I had bubbly toes. I have been teased by my family for my chubby, round toes for a good part of my life. Now, don't get me wrong, my toes are cute (at least I think so),they are just little balls of fun connected to my feet! My bubbly toes are nothing to be ashamed of, I have gotten lots of compliments. I remember one of the first things Janae and Betsy (two friends of mine) ever said to me was that I had cute toes. I know, they're precious.

My sisters also told me that I had bubbly eyes. I'm not gonna lie, my eyes are really big but I wouldn't say that they are bubbles. They are just large and beautiful.

So, because my sisters have always said this, whenever I hear that song by Jack Johnson called "Bubble Toes" I think of myself. " It's as simple as something that nobody knows that her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes." Yep, it's definitely about me. My sister, Natalie, said that when she hears the song "Bubbly" by Colby Caillat she thinks of me. "'Cause every time I see your bubbly face I get the tinglies in a silly place it starts in my toes and I crinkle my nose."

Anyway, so I just thought it was appropriate that I name my blog, about me, "Bubbly". It's the perfect word to describe me!! I hope you all enjoy it. I'm not funny or anything, maybe just a little into myself.

You judge, do I have bubbly toes?


How about bubbly eyes?