These Are A Few of My Least Favorite Things.

At the beginning of this blog I gave you a few of my favorite things. Here are some of my least favorites.

Movies:

Drag Me to Hell

Twilight

The Eagle

TV Shows:

The Following

Divers, Drive Ins, and Dives

Most of ESPN

Music:

Nicki Minaj

Taylor Swift's song "22"

3/4ths of the new Maroon 5 cd

I Shipped My Pants!

Since I am in an Advertising class, I have gained a new appreciation for commercials. This one is my favorite so far this year...

They DO Exist!

I'm taking about cats in shark suits chasing ducks on vacuums of course!

Whoever thought of this is my hero.

Workin' at the Car Wash.

If you wash your car, the next day it will either rain, or there will be a dust storm. This is the main reason that I haven't washed the exterior of my car in months...that or I'm lazy...but we wont get into that. There is something that mother nature doesn't like about shiny clean cars. Either that or she just thinks that it's hilarious to punk people like that all the time. I guess I would definitely do it too if I could control the weather, so I probablyI shouldn't complain.

Hmmm

This happens to me a lot. Let me know if it is the same with you. It seems that when I am low on cash, my car is always either 1/4 of the way full, or on empty. When it is on empty, I put $15 of gas in, and raise the tank to about 1/4 full again. The cycle then repeats itself over and over. In contrast to that situation, when I have less bills to pay, or a bit extra money, things are different. My gas tank stays at about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way full. When I see it getting to about 1/2 full, I put $15 of gas in. The tank then raises to about 3/4 of the way full. In both of these situations, I'm spending pretty much the same amount of money on gas. Why do I do this? There are plenty of reasons, but none of them really  make complete sense.

Everybody does It Part Deux

You are parched. You walk over to the fridge to get a drink of: juice, milk, soda, etc. After pouring the amount desired you realize...there is only about a swallow or two left in this container...I don't want it. So you put the drink back in the fridge almost as if to taunt the next person that wants that same kind of drink. You don't do it maliciously. You do it because you got in, got what you needed, and got out. You hate when you are on the opposite side of the equation. But as long as you got the amount of drink you wanted, that's all that matters. Everybody does it.

Old Man Jokes

My husband is 25 years old and already spouts off a few old man jokes from time to time. I do not think old man jokes are funny at all. You know the jokes, "There's a quarter in your ear!" "Back in my day"...Something about walking up hill in the snow. I have told him that I don't like them, but I think he just likes to pester me. At the current rate we are going at, I will probably die of old jokes rather than old age.

Jewelry for Life

My current job is as a jewelry sales woman. I do what you would call "jewelry parties". Its kind of like Pampered Cheif, or Mary Kay parties. If you don't know what those are like then look it up. Since I have had this job I have collected tons of jewelry. Most of it I really like, but there are some pieces that I could do without. My husband is very excited that he doesn't have to buy me jewelry for a long time since I have so much already. That just means more purses and shoes!

New Socks

I don't know anybody that doesn't like the feeling of putting on a new pair of socks. Well, I haven't asked anybody if they like feeling, so I'm making a pretty huge assumption here. So maybe the better way to say this is, "I don't know of anybody that doesn't like the feeling of putting on a new pair of socks. My husband sometimes complains that his feet hair hurt after he wears socks all day. I don't know what that's like, cause I don't have hairy feet.

Mothballs

Mothballs are usually associated with keeping moths from eating holes in your clothing. I associate them with the word "stink". Whenever I smell them I feel like its hard to breathe. They may get the job done, but at what cost? How willing are you to smell awful all the time? My sister-in-law ate a mothball when she was a kid...she's fine.

Science Rules!

Whenever there is something man made that needs explaining, my husband has the answer...science. If I ask him if he knows how something was done, how it is possible, or how it is made, if he doesn't know the answer, he says science. I can't argue with that...he makes a good point.

Shots

Getting a shot is close to the worst thing in the world! Any time that I have to get a shot or get blood drawn I have to be distracted. No matter who is there when the needle is in view, somebody better tell me a story and keep my mind off of that dang needle. I don't want to think about it anymore...

Cat Alarm Clock

It's as cute as it sounds...

The Onion Fiasco

We ate at Applebees a few nights ago and ordered their delicious cheeseburger sliders WITHOUT onions. Of course when our food arrived there were about 1000 diced onions on every burger. After my husband told the waitress what happened she asked if the kitchen should take the onions off of the burgers... really? I am perfectly capable of removing onions from a burger! Just removing the onions does not get rid of the onion taste on my burgers! I don't know why it seems so difficult to not put things on food. At least 40% of the time I order food, it doesn't matter where I am, they can't seem to keep there hands off of the ingredients I specifically don't want with my meal. I don't get it.

Things That are Better Than Other Things

Subway > Hogie Yogie

a Big Carl > a Big Mac

Adele > anyone who tries to sing like Adele on The Voice

The Voice > American Idol

Hannibal > The Following

Wrath of the Titans > Clash of the Titans

baths > showers

cat videos > dog videos

anything > foot cramp

llamas > giraffes (but it's very close)

Baby, You're All That I Want.

In just over a week I will have been married to my great, stunning, very smart, awesome, amazing, fantastic, tall, not very dark, handsome husband, for two years. We're not exactly sure what we are doing for our anniversary yet (any suggestions?), but I'm sure it will be wonderful. Thank you to my husband for two great years and many more to come!

"Nothing" Is The Name Of The Game

As a woman, I'll never understand how my husband can stare off into space for fifteen minutes and then when I ask him what he's thinking about, he always says, "Oh nothing, I was just spaced out." I've heard that men can go into a "nothing box" in their minds and not really think about anything. I don't know if I believe it...my mind is always running....but I'm not a man.

Everybody Does It

When I'm exhausted, there are few things I love more than to just plop on the floor on my back and lay there until I decide to get up! Everybody does it...even animals. In fact, after an exhausting day of "not bothering" the cat by putting his but in the cat's face, I caught my dog just plopped on the floor on his back chilling. Then a few minutes later, after a long day of "not being bothered" by the dog, I caught my cat doing the same thing! It goes to show, relaxing is universal.

NBA Playoffs, also known as MAYHEM!

The NBA playoffs are going on right now and one of my favorite teams, the Brooklyn Nets, are not doing as well as they should be. They are matched up against the Chicago Bulls in the first round. They started off the series doing really well with a convincing win in game one. Games two and three were won by the Bulls with the Nets superstar, Deron Williams, having a rough go of it. Game four was a heart breaking loss in which the Nets lost a double digit lead in the final 3 minutes of regulation and ended up going in to overtime. After a total of 3 overtimes, the Nets were defeated. Being down 3 games to 1 in a best of seven series would cause a lot of people to panic, but I didn't give up hope. Game five came around and the Nets played very well and won by 19 points. With the series now at 3 games to 2, the Nets will play in Chicago on Thursday to keep their hopes of advancing to the second round alive.

To Eat or not to Eat? That is the Question.

Several months ago my husband and I wanted to try a restaurant in town that we had never been to before, so we chose Centro Wood Fire Pizza. Husband had heard that they make their own sausage there, so naturally we had to try it. We asked our server what pizzas were most popular and ended up ordering a half sausage, half arugula pizza. BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD!!! We loved it so much that we couldn't wait to try the other types of pizzas and came back a few days later. This time we ordered a half pepperoni style pizza and half pizza blanca. IT WAS AWFUL!!! We were blown away by how different our two experiences were. To this day we still go to Centro Wood Fire Pizza every other week and order the amazing sausage and arugula pizza. Had we ordered the pepperoni and pizza blanca that we didn't like on our very first visit, we never ever ever would have gone back to try anything else. Luckily, fate smiled upon us and we found the best pizza that either of us have ever had.

Back That Thing Up!

Few things will get a dog to walk backwards and push you with its butt...In my house, all you have to be is a cat. My dog Henry is a half mini Pomeranian with a hilarious personality. He has been trained well not to attack cats or bite them, but its nearly impossible to keep a dog from going after a cat. The best way to get away with bothering a cat without getting caught is to act like your doing something that doesn't concern the cat while simultaneously getting closer to the cat with your butt until you nearly push it over! Atleast that is what Henry thinks. Any cat that comes into my home will be victimized and pushed around by a stealth butt. Be warned!

Stress City

That is where I am living right now!

This month I have two large projects, one 30 minute presentation, one 45 minute presentation, two big papers, and two tests. on top of all of it I have 17 parties so far this month (jewelry parties for my job.. which is actually gonna be good because I will make good money.. but sill stressful).

This semester had been really tough. Luckily I'm doing good grade wise, but I know I could be doing better. It's been hard being sick a bunch this semester, and dealing with Shane getting really sick. We are just a bunch of sickies in this house these last few months... But anyways, I need to find a way to keep myself motivated. The end is in sight, and with only a month until graduation, it somehow feels far away. Although it's not the end of my schooling, it's still going to be cool to be done with one chapter, and to start a next.

I'm really excited to start my masters next year, but am somehow stressing about it already since I just decided on going all the way and getting a PhD. I have to get really good grades in the masters program in order to get accepted to a PhD program... I'm hoping I can rock it out since the classes are at night, and I'm better with night classes. And it might be weird that I am stressing about things that haven't happened yet, but if you know me, you know I plan like 5-10 years in the future. I'm a HUGE planner.

If anyone has any relaxation tips, I will be happy to read them.

Politics-Shmolitics

As a general rule, I stay out of politics on social networking sites. Why? Because most of my friends do not share my views, and I hate confrontation... plus I just don't want to be one of "Those people." But anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE politics, and tend to know everything about everything when it comes to political issues.

I wanted to share this video because I feel like it sums up so much of what I feel about this country. I am very patriotic, and love the message.

This clip is from the opening scene of HBO's new show The Newsroom. It was recently nominated for a Golden Globe, and BONUS, it has Jeff Daniels in it! It's only about 3 and a half minutes long, and very powerful. It's been going around the internet, and has gotten really popular.

(Disclaimer! I know that I have several friends who are very uncomfortable with cursing,

 so I want to let you know that this short clip curses 3 times.)

So what do you think? Agree? Disagree?

I should of at least bought you a drink first.

So here I am opening up about how my body works and we haven't even been properly introduced. Rude.

Hi, my name is Corey Petersen. I am married to that handsome man at the top of the screen about to kiss me, and we have two pets. A dog named Henry, and a cat named Mercutio. My dog is a pomeranian.. about 8 pounds, and my cat is 16 pounds.. my cat will always be bigger than my dog. I sell Park Lane Jewelry (google it!), and am an overtime student at SUU. I am allergic to chocolate, love documentaries, am exactly 1 foot shorter than my husband, am terrified of octopuses, can't whistle, don't have a favorite color, am a cheesecake enthusiast, cry when animals die in movies, am a hula hoop champion, and I don't like the movie Avatar.

These are some things I like! With pictures!

Grump Cat!

Grump Cat makes me smile every time I see her little grumpy face!

Animal Sweaters

It's not a secret that I love animals.. especially on sweaters. This sweater is on my wish list.

Movies

These are a few of my favorites from various genres. 

Well, now you know me a little better. You know my likes, dislikes, hobbies.. Heck! We are practically family now. And i'm sure I'll be blabbing more about myself soon. Until then, look at these  pictures of cats photoshopped over beer!

Dr. House told me it wasn't Lupus.

Consider this my "Coming Out" moment. For those of you who don't know, I have Lupus. It's a chronic autoimmune disease in which I have an overactive immune system that attacks my good tissue instead of bad tissue by mistake. To specify, I have SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus), which is the most common and severe kind of Lupus... and it sucks.

I have kidney, heart, and lung problems, hair loss, chronic fatigue, trouble thinking and memory loss, sensitivity to sunlight, pain in my muscles, joints, and chest. I also often get nauseous, headaches, dizziness
s, and have Rheynauds disease (and to top it off, one of the worse cases of Rheynauds documented in the U.S.). It gets worse if I don't get enough rest, get too stressed, or am exposed to sunlight too long. So you will see me walking around with sunglasses almost all the time. It makes me look cool, and serves a purpose.

I promise I don't expose this about myself for sympathy, I just want people to know what this disease is, and I guess in a way I hope to show that it can be handled.

But truth is, (And since I made this blog to be more honest..) I sometimes push myself too far, and try to take on too much that my body just can't handle. I feel trapped sometimes, and since there is no cure, sometimes fear  for my future. Yes, people die from this disease, but no, that's not what I am referring to. I fear of how it will affect me as a mother, further in my education, and career life. I hear stories of people who have a mom with Lupus and their memories growing up are of their mom needing to lay down, or being sick.

That terrifies me.

And the thing is, I feel so guilty of ever complaining about my disease because I know that so many others have it so much worse than I. And I try to stay positive, but another truth... I feel weak. I feel like I am in a fight with myself all the time.

My Mind vs. My Body.

Being Realistic vs. Being Hopeful

My Instinct To Fight vs. My Instinct For Flight

Yes, I have had my "Woe is me" moments. Like when I realized I missed almost all of my classes in a week, and am scared I look like I don't care. Or after I have to cancel plans with a friend because I am too nauseous and sore to stand. Here is a secret- I care about what people think of me, and I don't like to disappoint.

Well, now you know. Please ask me any question you have. I would be really happy to answer it.