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So, I Had a Birthday..

2005-07-26T11:22:00.000-07:00

So, anyway, I had a birthday... It was great! I am now 24 years old. That doesn't seem very old to me, so I don't see why everyone keeps making a big deal about it. 24 seems better to me than 23, which I always had trouble remembering. I don't mind that I'm almost 25 and close to 30. That doesn't seem very old to me anymore either. Isn't it funny how that happens? I totally remember when 30 was old, 40 was ancient and anything above that made you a grand parent for sure. Now I think if your under 18 your a baby, under 21 a kid. I think that the rest of your twenties is when you prove to yourself that you NEVER knew shit about shat when you were 18. I think that thirty is when your life starts to level out the way you spent your twenties trying to get it to. At least that's what I hope. I'll probably turn 30 and realize I didn't know shit about shat when I was in my twenties either! Here's to another year older, hopefully wiser.

100 Things About Me

2005-07-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

So I've seen these on other Blogs and thought, What the hell? I could do that! So I did.

1.I am an adopted child
2.Most people don’t know how to handle me telling them that
3.I would rather people ask me questions about it than make assumptions
4.My brother is not adopted
5.That does not change the fact that he is my brother
6.We have both pushed someone to the ground for saying otherwise
7.I am the same weight I was when I graduated high school
8.I don’t, however, wear the same size
9.I have been the same height since 1998
10.I wish that I didn’t have freckles
11.I’m scared of spiders
12.I miss summer vacation
13.But not school
14.I have been married for almost three years
15.We got separated for a while
16.It worked out for the best in the end
17.I am not as over it as I pretend to be
18.I want to be a mother sooner than later
19.I have never changed a diaper in my life
20.I would never have my kids’ names rhyme or start with the same letter or whatever to make them seem themed
21.Because that’s stupid and mean
22.I will not name my kid “Peter” so he can be “Peter Parker”
23.Because that’s stupid and mean
24.I don’t actually drink coffee
25.But I can make it
26.I really liked working at Starbucks
27.I did not like trying to pay bills with the paychecks
28.I miss tip money
29.I don’t like paying with my card, I prefer to use cash
30.I almost never bother with exact change though
31.I tend to run my mouth a lot
32.When I take the time to carefully word my response it doesn’t mean that I’m worried about what you’ll think of it
33.Just that I want to be sure I say exactly what I mean
34.The worst thing someone can do to me is lie to me
35.I hate liars
36. I sing my heart out when I am alone in the car
37.I don’t care if everyone at the red light notices
38.I don’t smoke pot
39.But I think that if you do, you should still be able to get a decent job
40.My husband and I were friends long before we started dating
41.So we have witnessed each other’s “when I was young and didn’t know better i.e. didn’t care” stories. And use them as ammo. It’s funny
42.I have more ammo to use than he does. That’s funny too
43.I get more angry when some hurts a person that I care about than when some one does something hurtful to me
44.Naptime is a good time
45.Energy drinks are my friends
46.I smoke clove cigarettes
47.And only clove cigarettes
48.Contrary to popular belief, they DO NOT make your lungs bleed
49.That is an old wives tale and it’s crap
50.I think that “comfortable silence” is under appreciated
51.Then again so is good conversation
52.I really do think laughter is medicine
53.Forgiveness is important
54.But forgetfulness can be damaging
55.Hate is a strong word that is used too freely sometimes
56.So is Love
57.It is impossible for me to take a shower that doesn’t end in no more hot water
58.This is why my family always made me shower last
59.I REALLY like the Harry Potter books
60.I go to fan sites and everything
61.But I don’t participate on them, just read what others have to say
62.I know that this absolves me very little from my dorkdom
63.I can’t wait until book six comes out (9 days!)
64.I know, I know, DORK
65. I laugh until I cry often
66.I think of that as a good thing
67.I still wish on shooting stars
68.And before I blow out my birthday candles
69.I spent my 16th birthday in New Orleans
70.I now know what the word “Humid” really means
71.My birthday is July 24th
72.I will be 24 years old
73.I hope my friends come to my party this year
74.Unlike last year when only, like, two people came
75.Seriously, I’m not kidding
76.I think tomatoes and pickles ruin a perfectly good cheeseburger
77.I think only NUTTERS jump out of perfectly good airplanes
78.My belly button is pierced
79.I have no tattoos
80.Mostly because I’m too chicken
81.It took me three years to work up the nerve to pierce my belly button
82.I love white tigers
83.I love musical theatre
84.The Phantom Of The Opera was one of the most spectacular things I’ve ever seen
85.The Lion King was pretty amazing as well
86.Who is “Bill”? And why does he take so much of my money?
87.Why do people do the Chicken Dance at their WEDDINGS?!?!
88.Oktoberfest is the only place I tolerate the Chicken Dance
89.I DID NOT have the stupid Chicken Dance at my wedding
90.I never cried at weddings before I got married
91.Now I get misty
92.I pick up accents very easily
93.I’m afraid people will think I’m mocking them when I do it
94.But I can’t help it, I just fall into it, and then do a, probably very bad, job of trying to cover up what I just did
95.Which probably makes it more obvious and seem more like mocking than when I originally opened my mouth
96.I don’t think your first love ever truly leaves you
97.Just because you love someone does not mean you have to like them very much right now
98.This list was much harder than I thought it would be
99.And took much longer than I thought it would
100.I always look forward to hearing from ya’all!

'Sup ya'all!

2005-06-24T11:22:00.000-07:00

Yeah, so I guess I caught that bug that's going around. Blech! I went home from work early on tue. and didn't go in at all on wed. Sooo much fun to lie on the couch all day alternating between freezing your ass off and being so freaking hot you swear that your going to DIE!!! Oh yeah and don't forget feeling like your going to hurl, but knowing that your not, so there is no relief. Yea!! Sounds like a good time, right?

Anyways, on a lighter note we FINALLY got our bed. HOORAY!!!! It is very pertifull. I love it. Robert refused to let me have the delivery guys set it up. I don't know! Ask him! I asked, but his rambled excuses just made me mad and so I agreed to shut him up. But you can believe he was putting it together at 10 'o clock at night after he got home from a long twelve hour day at work, but oh well! Like I was going to let it sit in those boxes for God-knows-how-long when the DELIVERY GUYS would have done it for me that morning!

Well, not much else going on here. Going to a wedding on Sunday, but that's about all for my plans this week end. I hope to get to hang out with my peeps though. Yo-yo-yo! 'Sup ya'all! Holla!

I know, I know... I'm a dork... ; p

Things to Ponder

2005-06-17T14:03:00.000-07:00

Just some things to think about when not much else is going on... I thought that some of these were kinda funny.

1. Why is it called a soap opera when nobody sings?

2. Isn't it weird that all year round your parents tell you not to play with fire, but on Independence Day they hand you a package of explosives, a lighter, and say have fun?

3. When French people swear do they say pardon my English?

4. Aren't the 'good things that come to those who wait' just the leftovers from the people that got there first?

5. If mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?

6. If overalls are held up by the snaps at the top, then why do they have belt loops?

7. If our body temperature is normally 98.6 degrees, how come when it's 98 degrees outside, no one is comfortable?

8. Why do they call the small candy bars the "fun sizes"? Wouldn't be more fun to eat a big one?

9. Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?

10. What does the T in T-Shirt really mean?

11. If a robber tried to rob a dance club and yelled, "Everybody get down", would all the people start dancing? Shouldn't they?

12. Why is it that when a person tells you there's over a million stars in the universe you believe them, but if someone tells you there's wet paint somewhere, you have to touch it to make sure?

13. Can I get arrested for running into a Fire House yelling Movie! Movie!?

14. How come when you know the battery is dead on the remote control, your first instict is to just press the buttons harder?

15. Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?

~Kinda makes you go 'hmmm', don't it?

How Sinful Am I?

2005-06-13T10:59:00.000-07:00

I stole this Idea from Rubyjade. 'Cause I'm like that, and shit.

Your Deadly Sins

Greed: 40%

Pride: 40%

Sloth: 40%

Wrath: 40%

Envy: 0%

Gluttony: 0%

Lust: 0%

Chance You'll Go to Hell: 23%

You'll die in a castle, surrounded by servants.

How Sinful Are You?

Die in a castle surrounded by servants. Die in a CASTLE surrounded by SERVANTS.
Well what the crap is wrong with that!?!
SEE!!! I AM going to have an obscene amount of money! And a castle and servants and all kinds of shit! I might have to go to hell for it... but since I don't really believe in hell, I'm not too worried!

It's Official

2005-06-06T08:38:00.000-07:00

Today I officially become an office worker.

I got my first PAPER CUT.

OOOWWWWW!!!!

Why the crap does that hurt so goddamnfreaking much? I swear it's like fire burning through my skin!!! Right on the webb between the thumb and the rest of your hand. And this was no measly little cut either, oh no. It is a fucking vortex of PAIN!!

Fuck you paper and your rasor sharp edges...

Surgery Update

2005-06-01T09:28:00.000-07:00

Robert had his surgery yesterday. Everything went fine. They kept in the recovery room forever! The doctor comes out to tell me that everything went well, and to let me know about after surgery instructions. Then he tells me that Robert will be moved out of the post surgery recovery room to the other whatever-the-crap-it's-called-room in, like, twenty minuets and I can see him there. They will call me back to see him in thirty mins. max, he tells me. An HOUR later I finally get to see my husband. I'm sorry, but telling me everything is fine does not work on easing the worry if I CAN'T SEE HIM MY DAMN SELF!!!! Especially if I was suppossed to see him FORTY GOD DAMN MINUETS AGO!!! It turns out everything was fine and that they were just waiting for a bed in room number 2 to open up, but for crying out loud, that hour was FAR more torturous than the hour he was under the freaking knife!

Anyways, he is okay, just very sore and swollen. He keeps an ice pack on him almost always and is actually electing to take the pills, something I thought I was going to have to force down his throat. He is already bored and it hasn't been 24 hours yet. Poor boy. And he is home by himself because, hey, one of us has to bring home some money! I think he is sleeping right now. Dawn said she would swing over and check on him this afternoon and make sure he has some lunch, so that makes me feel a little better. Hopefully I will get out of here at a decent time so I can get home to my boy before he gets himself hurt trying to do too much.

P.S. Visitors are more than welcome! Just call us up!

The Skinny on Being "Skinny"

2005-05-27T11:01:00.000-07:00

So I am a thin person. Most people respond to that with, "lucky you", but how lucky do you think I really am? There are just as many prejudices out there for "skinny" people as there are for fat people. The difference is that it is still socially acceptable to outwardly ridicule a thin person, but it is damn near a hate crime to call someone fat. Not that I think you should call someone fat, that's mean and it hurts, so where do people get off assuming that that doesn't go both ways?
It does hurt my feelings to be told that I am "skinny". I am not skinny. Skinny, to me at least, constitutes being unhealthy looking. I am within the weight range for my height, which by the way, spans over thirty pounds! So anyone who is 5'3" tall, you can weigh anywhere between 107 and 141 lbs. And still be considered within a healthy weight for your size.
So just to clear a few things up,
I may be thin, but that does not mean I don't have body image issues just like every other woman.
Being made fun of for my size does not help those issues.
Not being allowed to participate in discussions about body issues because I "don't have any room to talk" makes those issues even harder.
When a STRANGER sees me walk past and says "someone should feed that girl a hamburger!"(yes,that has happened) it makes me want to beat them about the head. One, I eat plenty. Two, is it okay to say to a big girl walking down the street "Some one should get that girl a slimfast!"? No, that's harassment.
I get told that I make people "sick" on a regular basis. It has also been added that I should "hurry up and get pregnant,and put on some weight so you can stop making us feel bad about ourselves." Yes, how rude of me to have forgotten that YOUR self esteem is MY responsibility.
I guess telling me to cover up all the time because you "don't want to see that" is great for my self esteem. But what does that matter, I'm thin, so I must have the life. Nope, no one looks at me and/or my body with disgust, contempt, anger, or hate. I have never been pre-judged due to my appearances. I guess I should have known I would be discovered sooner or later, going out looking the way I do. Just a skinny, anorexic, slut, bitch, attention whore who dares to go out in a pair of low slung jeans. Thanks for noticing the real me.

2005-05-24T16:08:00.000-07:00

Robert is having surgery on Tuesday the 31st for his hernia. He's really nervous about it. He has never had surgery before, or been put under, so he's not so happy about the concept. And to make matters worse, this has post-poned his hire at AMR. So he's really not happy about that. Poor boy...

Had to do a shit ton of filing today, Yea! >= [ Oh well, I guess it's, like, my Job, or something. I feel like I should be writting something profound and wordy since I keep begging everyone for posts. But now that I'm all on the spot and shit I can't think of anything to write! Nothing interesting any way. Not that this has been even remotly interesting... Wow... That's about enough of that..!

No More Silence

2005-05-20T09:18:00.000-07:00

My desk is in my own little room. Well, not really, I mean there are filing cabinets and stuff in here too. But the point is that it is a rare occasion that someone else is in here with me. I also don't have any speakers for my computer. So my office is VERY quite. And I'm sure you all realize that I have a lot of down time while I'm here. Alone. In dead silence. Doing nothing.
Fortunately, today I brought with me an alarm clock/radio/ CD PLAYER.
YEA!!!!!!
Currently I am rocking some Queen, Fat Bottom Girls, of course. Hey, we make the rocking world go round!

So yesterday afternoon the air conditioner broke. I heard it, through the vent in my office. It sounded like someone started the dryer with a couple of rocks in it. And nothing else. And then decided to let those rocks get a little toasty because it made that noise for about five minutes before anyone turned it off. It was not a cool noise. I ain't gonna lie, I RAN for it! Hey, it sounded like something was getting ready to explode out of my vent! No one else's, MINE! You would've ran too. Trust me.

HE DID IT!!!!!!!!!

2005-05-18T14:36:00.000-07:00

Robert had an Interview for AMR Hemet Division on Monday. Today they offered him the job.

HOORAY!!!

I knew you could do it, honey. I'm so proud of you.

Hey look, it's ME! And I was TAGGED!

2005-05-16T12:26:00.000-07:00

Here I am in Ensanada. I look alright. The Ocean looks better.

me in mexico
Originally uploaded by Coffeeslinger.

The rules are simple when you're tagged.

Choose 5 items from the list to write about.

Tag 3 other individuals when you're done.

If I could be a scientist

If I could be a farmer

If I could be a doctor

If I could be a painter then I would be artistic and creative. That would be a nice change. I would say that I would become world famous and make tons of money, but to be honest I'd just like it to resemble what it was intended to be.

If I could be a gardener

If I could be a missionary

If I could be a chef then I might actually be good at cooking! My husband and friends would be so proud! Then for once I could be the one who has everyone over for dinner.

If I could be an architect

If I could be a linguist

If I could be a psychologist then I would have an excuse for being all up in everyone's business. I could pry into the personal lives of people without my husband telling me that I like the drama of other peoples lives like it's a bad thing. Hey, what do you expect, that's my JOB. And to, you know, like, help people and stuff.

If I could be a librarian

If I could be an athlete

If I could be a lawyer

If I could be an innkeeper then I would almost always be sorta on vacation. In Tahiti. That would rock! I would keep a few cabanas reserved for friends and family, who would of course be VIP. And if one of them called up to say they were on the way, I don't care WHO is staying in that cabana, they're getting the boot. "I'm sorry Mr. Spielberg, but we have some VERY important guests checking in tonight and they always stay in THIS room."

If I could be a professor

If I could be a writer

If I could be a llama rider

If I could be a bonnie pirate

If I could be an astronaut

If I could be a world famous blogger

If I could be a justice on any one court in the world, I would choose the Supreme Court so that I could remind people that this country was founded on the seperation of church and state. Religious beliefs should not dictate our laws, but our personal choices. Your opposed to gay marriage? Then don't marry one! Against stem cell research? Well then when your child/grandchild needs a kidney or heart, you keep singing that tune, but I want the people I love to have a chance to get the organs they need, or to be cured from cancer, not just treated for it.

If I could be married to any current famous political figure

I tag DammitJen, WorkJunky, and NotYet ! HAHAHA!!!

Friday the Thirteenth, Bwa-ha-ha!

2005-05-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

Some Backround On An Ominous Number

So how did Friday the 13th become such an unlucky day?

Dossey, also a folklore historian and author of Holiday Folklore, Phobias and Fun, said fear of Friday the 13th is rooted in ancient, separate bad-luck associations with the number 13 and the day Friday. The two unlucky entities ultimately combined to make one super unlucky day.
Dossey traces the fear of 13 to a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla, their heaven. In walked the uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous Loki. Once there, Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow.

"Balder died and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day," said Dossey. From that moment on, the number 13 has been considered ominous and foreboding.

There is also a biblical reference to the unlucky number 13. Judas, the apostle who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th guest to the Last Supper.

Meanwhile, in ancient Rome, witches reportedly gathered in groups of 12. The 13th was believed to be the devil.

Thomas Fernsler, an associate policy scientist in the Mathematics and Science Education Resource Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, said the number 13 suffers because of its position after 12.

According to Fernsler, numerologists consider 12 a "complete" number. There are 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus.

In exceeding 12 by 1, Fernsler said 13's association with bad luck "has to do with just being a little beyond completeness. The number becomes restless or squirmy."

This fear of 13 is strong in today's world. According to Dossey, more than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor. Many airports skip the 13th gate. Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.

On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half. In France socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.

Many triskaidekaphobes, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.

As for Friday, it is well known among Christians as the day Jesus was crucified. Some biblical scholars believe Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit on Friday. Perhaps most significant is a belief that Abel was slain by Cain on Friday the 13th.

So now you know!

Life and Friends

2005-05-11T10:03:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, I hate life. Not in a I don't wanna live kinda way, the exact opposite, actually. It sucks that I finally have really good friends and I don't really get to see them as often as I'd like because, well, we all have lives. Lives that include going to work, going to bed so we can wake up for work, running errands, running after kids, having dreams of hirering a maid, waking up to the nightmare that is the bank account balance... It's enough to make you scream sometimes!

Although I will say time with my friends is one of the few things that is always worth... Putting off the laundry(no one will know that I've been wearing this for three days!) dragging ass at work(hey, as long as I show up, right?) and smoking more than I intended(I have $20 in change until payday. By the way, anyone care to run to the smoke shop, I'm almost out.).

So anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is, You ROCK!!! Because when the mundane is done I have great friends to chill with that make having done it worth while. And even better ones who help me justify that I didn't.

Thanks

Some Snappy Snippets

2005-05-06T09:31:00.000-07:00

I came across these, and being that I myself have quite the mouth, I thought they were worth sharing. Why is it that comming up with the perfect come back usually happens about three hours after it would have been helpful?

Snappy Answers

When someone questions the obvious give them back a snappy answer. ;)

Snappy Answer #1

A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets. As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket, and he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without missing a beat she said, "Sir, I need to see your ticket, not your stub."

Snappy Answer #2

A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store, but couldn't find one big enough for her family. She asked a stock boy, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?" The stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're dead."

Snappy Answer #3

The cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window. "I've been waiting for you all day," the cop said. The kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could." When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.

Snappy Answer #4

A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that reads "Low Bridge Ahead." Before he knows it the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge. Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks around to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck, huh?" The truck driver says, "No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."

Snappy Answer #5

A crowded United Airlines flight was canceled. A single agent was rebooking a long line of inconvenienced travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS." The agent replied, "I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help you, but I've got to help these folks first, and I'm sure we'll be able to work something out." The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?" Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. "May I have your attention please," she began her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come to Gate 14." With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United agent, gritted his teeth and swore. "F*** you!" Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll have to get in line for that, too."

And the VERY BEST snappy answer ....

Snappy Answer #6, THE TEACHER Snappy Answer OF THE YEAR

A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam. "Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury or illness, or a death in your immediate family but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!" A smart-ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asks, "What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?" The entire class does its Best to stifle their laughter and snickering. When silence is restored, the teacher smiles sympathetically at the student, shakes her head, and sweetly says, "Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand.

Car? What car?

2005-05-03T09:50:00.000-07:00

Ok, so once again my car took an utter shit. But what else is new? Had to get a ride to work from my Dad. Hope he doesn't want to work late since that's how I'm gonna have to get home, and I don't really want to be here until seven. Also I don't know how I'm gonna go get lunch as I have no car.
Had to scramble to find Robert transportation since I would usually pick him up in my car, but to top that off Bryan's car is in the middle of taking a big ol' dump as well, and he is usually Robert's ride to work.
Since I whole heartedly believe that the DMV is the devil, it would make sense that cars are, I don't know, demons, or something like that.

On the up side of things, I came into work and I got all caught up on my filing and I have entered all the sales orders that I've gotten, so as far as work goes, I'm all over it! Which is good since that means that the lost "oh crap, now what" feeling is pretty much gone. But now they want me to start learning more stuff since I seem to have this stuff pretty well down pact. Which means that feeling will be back soon. But that's okay, it's not rocket science, I'll get it eventually.

So I guess the general update for today would be love my job, hate my car.

It's FRIDAY!!!

2005-04-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

YEA! It's Friday! I dont have to go to work tomarrow! Not that I don't like my job, but I'm ready for my week end. Friday means I can stay out late and not regret it the next morning when my alarm goes off. Because if my alarm goes off tomarrow morning, so help me... I will KILL someone.

So we got our new matress delivered this morning. I'm super excited. It's a Queen. That's awesome. We are getting a bed, too. But that won't come until May 11th I think.

Ok, I'm sitting here at work, with nothing to do at the moment. So I'm bored. This sucks. I suppose I could do a little filing but... I don't really wanna. So not that everyone is COMPLETLY
bored, I hope all is well with everyone and hopfully we can hang out this week end!

Time to Update

2005-04-22T12:26:00.000-07:00

So i've been at my job a little over a week now, and I still really like it. Yea!! And I got my first paycheck today. It only has two days on it, but it was almost $200 bucks!

Tomarrow is Robert's birthday and we are leaving tonight when I get off work to head up North to see his family. Because I'm at work and he has the day off, I'm letting him pack for me(gulp). That is something I usually do. For both of us. I guess we'll see how that goes.

Oh yeah, and my car is crapping out on us again. I don't know why, something electrical, we're getting it looked at on Monday. So we are renting a car to drive up North in and maybe for next week so that I can get to work. Fun-fun-fun!

And to top it all off, I have Jury Duty on Monday. JURY DUTY!!! Blech.

Working Girl

2005-04-15T16:45:00.000-07:00

So I started my new job yesterday and as of day two, so far so good. I have a title and my own office/desk/computer, even my own extension! I know it seems lame to be excited over such trivial things, but this is my first "grown-up" job, so, whatever. I will greatly miss slinging coffee but, this seems cool too.

How am I?

2005-04-11T17:12:00.000-07:00

Well, since you asked...
So the long and the short of it is that I was supposed to have moved into my new apartment yesterday and I didn't. They said it would be ready for us but it wasn't. I'm so sick of feeling like nothing is going to ever go my way. I know that that sounds very selfish/spoiled, but well, you know what I mean, right? Robert keeps saying that this is just another bump in the road, not a big deal, and that I shouldn't dwell on the negative. I say "TTTTHHHHHPPPPPTTT!!!!" I understand that shit happens and that life is not always fair, AND that there are also a lot of great things going on in my life as well. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm very frustrated right now. I'm tired of the bumps in the road, they're starting to feel like brick walls. I don't feel like I'm being super negative to want to know what it's like to drive down a road that is bump free for an extended period of time. I'm tired of life lessons, learning experiences, and things that will be funny once we look back at them. I just want things to co-pacetic for a while. I want things to go as planned, stay on track and come out exactly as expected. Just for a little while. Hell, just ONCE. Anyway, so now that you're sorry you asked, how are you?

So I'm a Slacker, What can I Say?

2005-03-18T16:16:00.000-08:00

Okay, so I have not posted in freakin' forever! I just haven't been able to find the time. I've been slinging alot of coffee lately, and when your day starts at 3:30am, one tends to need a nap after said work day. And to be perfectly honest, I don't nap, I sleep. Which means my one to two hour nap actually lasts about five to six hours. But whatever, right? So then when I finally wake up I usually have just enough time to eat, shower, and then leave to pick Robert up from work. After that I try to spend some time with my friends, then back home to bed so I can wake up at some other ungodly hour to do it all over again. Blech... this is why I need to come into all that money soon, working just doesn't suite me. But food and shelter does so... oh well, someday...

Eccentrics, Chapter Two

2005-02-16T02:58:00.000-08:00

So, in addition to that wonderfulness that I have already mentioned I will also have a villa on a tropical island( maybe in the Caribbean) you know, for Vacationing. A cabin in the mountains for the whole "white Christmas" effect, a condo up in San Fran, just in case we want to get out of town for a little while, and of course, the infamous BEACH HOUSE! It will be one of those that you step out the door and are all but standing on the sand type deals. With a balcony, of course, to Wactch sunsets from. I would describe it more detail but, I have yet to find it. I wanted to go looking for it once when some friends and I were down at the beach one night. I said, " hey guys let's walk up and down the beach and look at the houses."
"what for?" they asked.
"So I can maybe pick out the one that will be mine one day, of course! Someday I will come into a ridiculous amount of money and then I will be eccentric. And part of being an eccentric requires me to have a beach house!" Now most of them kinda chuckled at me but had the look in their eyes like they were resigning themselves to trump up and down the beach with me to appease my undying faith in this someday event, But not all. There was one who stood to squash my dreams. I know! The inhumanity! The absolute GALL!!! "Who would do this to you coffeeslinger!" I hear you gasp in outrage. Well I'm a tattle-tail so here it is:
"Oh, come on Ade, are you serious?" she says. I look at her with the obvious "YES" written all over my face. "No," she says "we are not walking all over the place for you to look for a house that you are never going to have. That's just stupid."
I know! It's horrible! So who was the assailant, you ask? None other than DAMMITJEN ! ! !
I then went into a tirade of a rant about how that just lost her a room at my future Beach House and how disgusted I was at the lack of faith in my Well deserved eccetricities. By the time I was done we were back at the car, so we went ahead and left.
That is why Jen is NOT allowed at my Beach House, in case anyone was wondering why I was being so mean and exclusive. Now you all understand and probably would do the same, were you in my place. It was only after she showed renewed faith did I agree to let her back in on the rest of my good fortunes. But as for the beach house, it was just to late. She is forever barred.
So now you know, have a little faith and join in on the fun. Show me scorn and meet my wrath! Don't think that just because I will have all that money that a little bit of CRAZY won't have the opportunity to sneak out if need be! hehehe! Love ya anyway though, Jen!

A Introduction to My Eccentrics

2005-02-08T03:18:00.000-08:00

So last night I pulled an all nighter and then went to work. Why would I do such a thing you ask? Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. So any way that led to me coming home and sleeping ALL day long. Unfortunately, it is now almost three thirty in the morning and I am wide awake. So I thought I'd ramble a little bit to pass the time.

I aspire to become an eccentric. My theory is that the only difference between crazy and eccentric is an obscene amount of money. So to reach my ambitions I'll need to come into a very large sum of money. I'm not quite sure how that's going to happen but,hey , why sweat the small stuff? All that matters is that some day I'll have it and then I can start to acquire all the little things that my heart desires.

A plantation style house with a wrap around porch. I love wrap around porches, you don't see them very often any more, at least not in California. And my porch will have ceiling fans on it with big, wide blades to help make a soft breeze during those hot summer months when we will sit around drinking cool drinks, smoking cigarettes out of long holders, and talk about the days when we used to wish there was a such thing as Summer Vacation again and how nice it is to have it back, since we don't have to work any more. Ahhh, it will be so nice. It'll happen don't worry. Have a little faith and maybe you'll get Summer Vacations back too.

Consumer etiquette

2005-01-30T04:20:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I work in a coffee shop. And even though I totally love it, there is just a little something that irks me that I thought I would go ahead and put out there. Being in a custermer service type job means that I provide courteous, fast, and friendly service to the masses. And that's all well and good, except ya'all make it so damned hard sometimes! So as one more act of service to all you customers out there, I thought I'd give you some guide lines on what you could do to help make the job of slingin' your coffee a little bit nicer. (P.S. these guide lines would be appriciated by any service person you come in contact with, not just at the coffee shop.)

1. Don't talk to me like I'm stupid. Just because I make coffee for a living doesn't mean that I'm not an intelligent person. Have you spent four years educating yourself in Coffee, espresso, and tea? I won't look down on you for paying for your four years of education, please don't look down on me for getting paid to recieve mine.

2. Don't spend ten minuets standing in line and then wait until you get to the register to take your first glance at the menu. It's people like you that are making the line ten minuets long! If you have no idea what you want when you walked in, why did you get in line? Unless it was for the purpose of figuring it out by the time it was your turn, which I understand, but then please spend the time your waiting doing that. Waiting untill the last second is irratating the people behind you, and wasting everyone's time, including yours.

3. Don't talk on your Cell Phone while your talking to me. It's rude. I'm giving you my full attention, why should I deserve less from you? It makes it hard for me to be sure that I'm getting you what you want if I can't discuss it with you.

4. Make your full and complete order when you order. Waiting untill your drink has already been started to add that you also wanted that decaf, non-fat and with extra carmel, is not going to be efficient. Telling me that from the get go means you are going to get the drink you want, the way you want it in the time frame you were looking for.

5. Please throw your trash away. I am niether your maid nor your mamma. You are an adult, don't you know better than to leave your trash all over the table or floor? And yes it is my job to clean the shop up, but that doesn't make it ok to be inconsiderate. I mean, do you like to pick up a complete strangers trash?

6. Flush the toilet. Do I really need to explain this one? Seriously. Oh and just in case you didn't know, It does not take a Quarter Of A Roll to dry your butt. Your just going to clog the toilet. Do you want to plung the toilet mess of a complete stranger? If the toilet does clog, PLEASE tell someone. You can pretend you walked in and found it that way so we won't know it was you. But early detection of a clogging helps to prevent an over flow, which is way worse to deal with. And then next time don't use so much T.P.

7. Keep an eye on your kids. If they can't behave themselves inside a store don't bring them out in pubic. Screaming, running all over and putting their slimmy fingers, mouths, ect. all over my clean streak free glass is not appropriate or considerate of me, my co-workers, or the other customers.

8. Treat others the way you would like to be treated. I'm going to be nice to you, please try to not be mean to me. I understand that your in a hurry, but do you really think that by being short and snippy with me is going to get you your coffee any quicker? Let me assure you that the preperation is done the exact same way and therefore takes the same ammount of time.

9. It's okay to ask Questions. That's what we're here for! I would so much rather help you find what you would enjoy, than have you guess and not be satisfied.

10. It is eSpresso, NOT eXpresso. Sorry, that's just a pet peeve. ; )

And Thus It Begins...

2005-01-27T21:57:00.000-08:00

So, I am finally putting a post up. Mostly because of the extremely pushy someones I choose to spend my free time with. ; ) Anyways, I'm happy to say that I am now a blogger and I hope that soon I will get better at this because I aim to please.

I have an amazing husband whom I love dearly, even though he says things like "closent". I have a great group of friends that I am so thankful for. My family is the best anyone could ask for. I guess I consider myself pretty lucky. But I don't really give myself credit for the good things in my life, I credit it to all the wonderful people who share it with me. Thanks Robert, Mom, Dad, Matt, Christa, Bryan, Jen, & Dawn. Love you all, You make my world a place I like to be. You can ALL have rooms at my beach house. Except Jen.(But she knows why.)