A more indepth weekend update

Well I can't sleep (shocker) so I decided to update. Saturday as I said I was really pumped for going out, but unfortunately it didn't work out as well as planned. My one friend traveled down to stay with me to go out and celebrate another friend's bday, but the friend staying with me (of course) got the GI virus and started looking progressively more like death throughout the evening. We wound up leaving around midnight, then she got sick in the middle of the night in my bathroom. I swear, this freakin GI plague is following me around. First it hit my one office (where it still is today) then my other office, then my own apt! I started feeling weird around 4pm today and got weird/uneasy stomach pain, so I skipped dinner and seem to be doing okay now. I guess we'll see what happens. Ay yi yi.

Sunday was my first time watching the Ravens game at a bar downtown...I liked that experience. The bar I went to wasn't too crowded and food was pretty good (I got chicken 'bites' and cheese fries....healthy).

So I have only two days left and still haven't committed to plans for NYE. I have three options but refuse to commit. I am a horrible last minute person, but for some reason I don't really like NYE. I get super duper reflective and sappy this time of year. Ah well. I promise funniness soon when I get over sappiness.

RAVENS IN THE PLAYOFFS

This post has no other significance (and needs no other) than to say THE RAVENS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS :)! I'm sooooooooooooooooo proud of them!

That is all :).

Death of a Christmas Tree

Today, we gather together to mourn the loss of the midget Christmas tree. He was a good tree, the runt of his litter yet withstood years of ridicule and feleing less superior when next to normal sized trees. Had a good spirit about him. He was tragically found this morning in this state... Police have ruled his death as a homicide by electrecution. Poor Christmas Tree.

In other news, I'm going out dancing tonight and cannot even explain how much I need to go out. I haven't been out in a month and mannnn, I need a drink. The holidays does that to you....even us rare drinkers. Ha.

Christmas Reflection

Hi all...well Christmas rushed by, as usual, and here's my reflection.

The days before Christmas were spent doing fragrance modeling (I'm one of those girls in the mall that hands out cards at the fragrance counter) and let me tell you, nothing makes you hate people more than working retail around Christmas time. People are so needy, and don't realize that you do NOT work for the store and do NOTknow about everything, you just work for the fragrance line that hired you. My favorite kinda people to work with are the men who are so clueless...they come in, ask me what fragrance is the "hottest", of course I lie and say mine then they just buy it on the spot. Uhhh, don't you think I have a bias? Hehe, their ignorance is my bliss. I wish everyone could be like that, but unfortunately most people rush in last minute with all these demands and give you a huge attitude when yout ell them all the good stuff has sold out. Come on now people, it's not rocket science!

Christmas morning my sis and I went to my parents house, as usual, to open gifts. Santa surprised me with a GPS this year which is AWESOME because I usually can't find my way out of a paper bag. What are the GPS coordinates for 'paper bag' anyway? I also got Christina Aguilera's new perfume which smells pretty sweet and some clothes. After this we got ready and went to my Aunt's house for dinner. Dinner was nice but man, there are so many freakin kids on that side of the family. We had a massive baby boom and as a result it was so loud in the house. I found myself yearning to be married and just celebrate a quiet Christmas with my spouse and our 1-2 kids...wow, Im getting old to have these kinda thoughts!

Today I slept til 12 (whoops) and dragged my butt into the office for a few hours since I can't afford to take the whole day off. It's boring, but I have no plans for right now anyway so I may as well just chill here and get paid for it. Haha. I actually thought today that if they were to fire me I wouldnt even be upset because I totally deserve it. Infact, I'd only miss the money. Bad but true.

Merry Christmas!

Well it's Christmas (already)! and being the good Christian girl that I am, I decided to post a nice blog with Christmas images to celebrate this joyous occasion. The following were my personal favorites:

...and....

Yet again, going to hell.

MERRY CHRISTMAS :)!!!

I will update soon (definitely tonight or tomorrow, I promise)!

I bet Jessica Simpson hates Baltimore

This weekend was pretty good...not great, not bad. Friday night I worked, then started feeling a bit icky (bad aches and weird stomach grumblings/nausea) then worked Saturday early and was going to go out Sat night but decided to stay home since I was still feeling quite off. I'm glad I did that because I was able to get a good night's sleep to feel better Sunday morning. I also got to watch the FANTASTIC Ravens vs. Cowboys game, wow...what an inspiration. It was the closing game of the Texas stadium and the Ravens basically knocked Tony Romo's balls off and handed them to him on a silver platter :). Sunday we had early Christmas with my Dads side of the fam...we do white elephant and I wound up with a gift card to Omaha Steaks...mmmm. I was perusing the website tonight and getting quite excited over what I can order. (www.omahasteaks.com...I can't figure out how to make a link work on this thing). I'm leaning toward the chicken and cheese bites (see appetizers). YUM. That is what I call a tart of awesomeness. After that I volunteered to wrap gifts for kids for 2 hours (aww, yes, I am that good of a person) and then I worked at my holiday job (in sales) for like 3.5 hours. I hate sales work, but I like the paycheck and only do it a few days a year.

The highlight of today's white elephant was creepy/stoned/drunk elmo that was given to my 2 year old cousin as a gift. The following video shows what Elmo Live is supposed to do. . Elmo was supposed to sit down, but instead he would just fall over and say "uh o". He was definitely on something. Now, while I appreciate Sesame Street's attempt to portray a crack-addicted child in Elmo, at least let the poor thing be able to sit down.

Yesterday (sings Beatles song)

Yesterday was probably one of the best days I've had all year. Yea, that's a big title to give away but yesterday most definitely deserves it. I had off work, got all my holiday shopping done, got a great haircut (and therefore no longer look like the bumble) and met a really cool guy at Walgreens in the toy aisle...now if things were to actually work out between us our story would dominate "the best way you met someone" category. Of course I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but yea they're already up...damn being a hopeless romantic. Gets ya every time.

Yesterday I was also exposed to this video, , which I have watched four times already and it cracks me up every single time. Real life is the best source of humor, I swear.

Today I'm at work trying to avoid the GI plague that is STILL going around the building, oy. Then I have to work my second holiday job and go to a holiday shindig which should be fun. Tomorrow I may be working again but am definitely traveling and going out for the night with friends. Also exciting. I hope/plan to make this weekend a celebration of the end of my first semester of grad school...whoop!

O I believe, in yesterday...

Abominable Life Updates

Well today I had off but I did the professionally responsible thing (for once) by going and having a meeting with an organization I would LOVE to work for. Basically, I'm going to get a good foot in the door by volunteering to develop an entire campaign for them...I'm really excited and yes, I am acknowledging how nerdy that makes me. Hopefully it pays off, but it will be good experience none the less.

In another life update, I realized today that my hair has gotten out-of-control long, like crazy abominable snowman long.

I like the length but it's so thick that I really need to get it tamed down before xmas. I don't know where to get my mane trimmed...any suggestions? I've never gotten what I would consider a great haircut, so I'm skeptical.

Happy 90th

Time for a sappy post

Some of us (the very lucky ones) have a special person in our lives who changes us in ways that we can never explain and who teaches us more than we could ever comprehend until we are much older and it hits us that "wow, that person was always right." That person for me was my Memaw, which anyone whose been around me for more then 5 minutes has heard me mention. We lost her 2 years ago this February, but she's still very much here with me and with the family (she's nosey like that).

Basically, she was the best person I've ever known and we really connected. She was also funny as crap which I like to think I inherited from her :). I started the tradition of remembering her birthday somehow last year so I wanted to make sure to do that again, which is today when she would have been 90.

If I write about you it means I REALLY care about you, and well I've written several poems and stories about Memaw. The one I wrote in 2004 ended with these two lines...

My life will be lived-
To make you proud

I still hope to do that today.

Blew off work

Well this morning I woke up and realized that I hadn't blown off a day of work in a longggg time so I decided to give myself the day off to sleep in. I'm really glad I did because my boss wound up calling me from her house- she caught the GI bug and so did another coworker in my office. I just kinda acted like I had it too to sound legit for missing work (hopefully I didnt jinx myself!) but it made me uber glad I didn't enter what seems to be the manifestation of germs (aka my office). I'm hoping it will be over by the time I go back Friday...I really don't want to catch it!

Today I actually was a little productive...bought some birthday cards for 4 people (damn all of you having a birthday within 3 weeks of each other) at Hallmark but while I was there there was an older gentleman who was sitting down and saying he was nauseous...the Hallmark peeps actually called Paramedics for him. I really hope he's okay, but my selfish thought of the day was "arg, I cant escape germs!" (worrying if he had something contagious). Then I got stamps so I can actually send out my holiday cards (hopefully will do that tomorrow, we shall see) and veggies so I can make veggies and dip for the office potluck tomorrow. Shall be tre fun, for sure.

Now I should go since I have my first final in 3 minutes...wish me luck! My other final is online, the prof hasnt posted it yet but really should considering it is finals week...then I have a presentation and my last class tomorrow night. Can't believe I'm already almost 1/4 done Grad School!

They didn't really win

I couldn't comment on today's football game earlier because, well, I needed time to recoop. Basically, Baltimore had the game stolen by a moron ref and a bogus call for what was not a touchdown but for some reason was ruled one (even though anyone and everyone could see it wasn't). I really hope we'll still make the playoffs, and have our chance at beating them as we should have today. Life's just not fair sometimes.

Awkward Holiday Gatherings

Tis the season for awkward holiday parties...you know, the ones you have at the office with the people you usually don't have to talk to for more then a "hey, how are you?" I had this situation on Friday afternoon. I was talking to people I actually don't mind talking to, but then my coworkers started making fun of this one girl who was there and wearing a quite awkward outfit...a 3/4 length sleeve black shirt under a printed strapless dress with a chunky black necklace...looked more awkward than it sounds. For the purpose of this blog I'll call her "GIC" (Girl in Crisis). Well right after their bashing (I'm tellin ya, girls are brutal) GIC walked towards where we are and decided to strike up a conversation with me. I tried my hardest to maintain professionalism and actually listen to her but mannn the heinous necklace/dress under shirt combo was getting to me. I don't think GIC could tell though since she said her department is expanding and I should work there....but man, I can only imagine how much better my blog would be if I saw what this chick wears on a daily basis...

TGIF

Needed to apologize to my blog for neglecting it this week...I've been feeling tre overwhelmed by everything I have to do last minute (since I procrastinated all semester) for grad school. The rest of the week was okay...Tuesday had the funeral, Wednesday finished and sent in my 20 page paper which sucks (hopefully not as bad as I think it does), last night went to a Comedy Show which was pretty cool then today back at work. It's lovely because there's a GI disease going around the office so I'm incredibly paranoid...

Also realized due to the craziness of my life I have neglected to incorporate any funniness into my latest entries. I saw an article that the new Barbie is stirring up controversy

and I have to disagree that she's too much...I say that she's not enough. Where are the track marks from her drug usage? Where are her blood shot eyes? Growing up near a city I believe these things are prevalent for any little girl to become familiar with. Maybe this is why I didn't get into the toy business. The one positive thing I will say about the new Barbie is that she really looks like a Tranny, so I'm glad Mattel has become more liberal and is promoting alternative lifestyles.

Birthday on a Monday...blah!

Well today is my birthday, and I'm very bitter that I have to work (normally I would take off but since I work two part-time jobs, no paid time off...bah!). I did get a nice surprise visit last night then I've gotten a few calls/texts since then which is cool. Of course people are hitting up Facebook too, as always. My fam and I were going to go to dinner but since my Great Uncle passed away we actually have his viewing tonight, then we're just going to have cake afterward. Kinda sucks to have a viewing to go to on my bday...but such is life.

Since I'm now 25, I find that this is a good time to reflect back on the first quarter of my life. I've realized that in the past 24 years I have dislocated a knee, broken two bones, had three very near-death experiences, had my most embarrasing moment published in a magazine, graduated college/started grad school, worked literally about 20 jobs (I'm not exaggerating), loved, lost, and won. It's been a very interesting 24 years so far. I plan on making the next 24 all that much better.

Holiday craziness

Well a bunch of my galfriends came down last night and lifted my spirits during what has become our Annual Holidays/Birthdays bash. I planned it out and was quite proud of myself for this year's theme/activity (Project Runway). First, we all exchanged our infamous gag gifts ($5 limit and if you get something wearable, you have to wear it out in public). I wound up wearing a long blonde wig, leopard print gloves, earrings and a big leopard print belt. For the activity, we were all going to go to Good Will (wanted to incorporate giving back into our activity because I'm just that good) but they closed early so we hit up Walmart...I looked all kinds of awesome walking in there with my wig. We definitely got some attention and a lot of people asking us what the occasion was. We were all in teams of two, had a $10 limit and 15 minutes to pick out attire to work with. Of course my team picked out more leopard print, hideous underwear, and snazzy sparkly tights. Then we all came back and I threw in the Project Runway twist that everyone had to incorporate a bunch of really weird materials (ie: candy, yarn, a red bow, etc) into their outfit then one person would model and the other would announce. I wound up modeling a leopard print top with my gloves and the sparkly tights with the underwear over them. Yowza. Luckily for me I can rewear allll the leopard stuff for Honfest so I'm totally pumped for that. Here is a cropped picture of part of my ensemble...



Anywhoo I loved that we all had a great time, there was 8 of us total. I'm so lucky to have friends that are crazy like me and can let loose and enjoy each other's company <3.

A Long December

Just an update that my Great Uncle passed away this morning..I'm relieved for him but it will be stressful. Viewing probably Monday and service on Tuesday. December, you suck so far. He was a cool dude who really brought out the Irish part of my heritage...always had sayings and songs, etc. This was his favorite...

"May those who love us love us. For those who don't love us, may god turn their hearts. If he can't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we know them by their limping."

One of dem dayz

So this morning started out with my laptop contracting a lovely virus which made it impossible for me to get any school work done as planned. Instead I spent two hours at IT and they still didnt solve the problem so I left my laptop there and didn't even pick it up until 8pm. Thank goodness it works now and I am typing to you from it.

While that was going on I also found out that my Great Uncle is in the hospital and not doing well at all...he is an extremely awesome human being and I just hate what he's going through because he sure as hell doesn't deserve it. Life isn't fair. Also I find out one of my friends is going to the hospital due to constant chest pain (which I'm glad he's getting checked out, but I'm still worried as hell). Then I get the news that my friends old roomie from college's fiance passed away at 23...so scary. It was just a very weird and depressing day. My nerves are shot.

What do I do when dealing with this information? I lash out toward someone that didn't deserve it (which is typical for me). This is why I should not get close to people and should accept my fate as the lonely crazy old cat woman. I hope to have a more chipper update when I'm in a better mood...right now I'm just feeling all kinds of crummy.

I guess one positive thing to say is that I really like Britney Spears' new CD. It's quite catchy and fun and I've already spent many hours head bobbin along to the songs. Don't hate.

The sucks to be you file (case 1)

This dude inspired me to create a "Sucks to be you file", taking pictures and posting pics of people who it would suck to be. This guy is definitely a great first case:



Now its hard to see (pic was taken from my cell phone) but he is in an orange poncho holding a sign up in the cold rain. That would suck.

Angel with a whhhaaattt?

Okay so first a quick vent then on to funniness. Went to a wedding yesterday for someone whose the youngest daughter of a couple my parents are really close to...it was boring and I HATED the fact that I was single, mainly because I had to sit there duing slow dances which always gets to me. Weddings can be biznatches like that.

On a better note, my sis and I got out xmas decorations to find this angel holding a "candle". Now, I'm sorry, but does this really look like a candle?

This is why I'm going to hell :)

I hate being a woman

Just had to get a quick vent in...had to leave work early but because I started to feel like literal crap and could no longer stand up...so I'm now home laying on my couch in pain and feeling beyond lousy. Other girls know what I'm talking about here...it sucks. Not the way I wanted to spend my Friday night! I promise a funny update once I feel better.

Life/Thanksgiving Updates

Well as promised I am the only person in the office today (and very bitter about that) so here is what will most likely end up as a lonnng blog covering life updates and Thanksgiving. I'll start with life updates since they began on Tuesday.

So Tuesday morning I wasn't in the best of moods when I went to work, so I went to seek out life advice from my spiritual guru...that's right, I have one in that office. She became my spiritual guru when her and I had our first conversation back in October. Let's just say that we talked for about 8 hours and then she started readng into my life and telling me things about myself that are eerily true (and things you can't just guess). She's about 35-45 years my senior (I know better than to ask for her actual age) and I really value her guidance. I went in to vent about how I was getting tired of dating and how I wished I could just find what I want already and how the holidays is usually that time when I wish I had someone. Well, she's going to be out of the office for about a month but she looks and me and says "I think you're going to have a great holiday...something's going to happen for you...in fact, here's my number. Call me and tell me after it happens." Woo hoo! That was quite encouraging :). I hope she's right (note that she has been right about everything else so far so there's a good chance). I am so greatful for my guru, and truly think everyone needs one! Right after the conversation with my guru one of my other coworker's told me a guy she knows (and who I met once) liked me and wanted to ask me out but was too shy. Flattering but kind of useless information...if he's too shy to even ask, I'm 99.9% sure he'll be too shy for me (and won't be able to handle my craziness...most people can't). Ah well, still ego boosting which I definitely needed that day.

Wednesday evening I decided to experience "the biggest party night of the year" for my first time by going downtown with two great gal pals. I arrived at 8 and had to wait until 8:30 in the parking lot because they missed the exit and had to loop around a bit, so we got in the first bar around 8:45. I was quite festive with Thanksgiving stickers on me and a small paper turkey on the top of my head :). I also brought two other turkeys which the gals wore on their fingers as rings and i brought stickers to give out in the bars (they were actually quite popular). The first place was kinda lame so we left for the second place which was a cool pub with tons of space so we could sit and catch up for a bit. There one of my gal's guy friends met up with us and told us to come to a new bar where his friends are bartenders. This place was aout 6 blocks away, but worth the journey as all the bartenders were really cool and fun (they let me put stickers all over them) and they actually got me buzzed. Now, those of you who don't know me don't think this is a big deal but I can guarantee you that my friends who read this will really freak out. I barely EVER drink, and I've only experienced a buzz once before and that was like 2 years ago...so it's a big deal. How they got me was that they said they loved mixing together flavors (experimenting) so they made me this delicious martini (my first martini ever) and then this second drink that was quite good with cherries. I started feeling the effects which was an interesting feeling (especially since I'm not used to it) and managed to only embarrass myself once by yelling out something that I normally wouldn't share about myself to my gal's friend and then gasping...but luckily my friends and I covered it up well, haha. After that we left for the third place to go dancing and my gal's friend decided he had a crush on me. That was flattering and all, but this dude seriously has no clue how to "work it" with a girl you like...he was just really weird and pretty much blew any chance he would ever have with me. O boys, can't you get it? After that we left kinda early (we're old and lame, what can I say) but it was overall a great night. I definitely want to go back to that bar even though I'm sure they'll only get me into more trouble. When I got home I couldn't sleep and wound up finally crashing at 5am...blah.

I have to say that in the "biggest party night of the year" aspect that I do not agree with that. We went to popular spots that are always crowded on weekends, but there was barely no one out on Wednesday which I thought was really odd. I still vote for St. Patty's Day as the biggest and best party night of the year :).

Thanksgiving was okay...I wasn't feeling that great (lack of sleep and etc) as my sister and I went to my Aunt's where we traditionally celebrate. It's always good to see the family, but certain members more than others. I have some realtives who just like to make everything really negative, and like to tlak down to me and others and it's gotten really old. Sometimes I wish before a family function that I could just make myself into being an oblivious 2 year old again who just thinks everything is fun and family get togethers are a positive experience. Reality is such an a-hole. The positive/scary thing is that my cousin who is obsessed with NKOTB taught her 2 year old to sing along to them on their karaoke machine...it was quite adorable.

Well I think I've exhausted myself for now...tonight I have to figure out what the heck I'm wearing to a wedding my family is going to tomorrow...it's one of those weddings where you haven't seen the person in years, so I can't say I'm thrilled to go but ah well. Then I plan on major recooping/chillaxing tonight. I have so much school work to do but in reality nothing will probably get done this weekend...I'm just too tired! Three weeks til the end of my first semester :)!

Weekend Recap

Well I had a spontaneously cool weekend. Friday night I wound up deciding to face the snow and drive to DC to meet up with a good friend. Before heading out, we decided to visit her old roomie who was house-sitting in a very weird yet cool house. On the way to the house we got lost and wound up literally driving in circles around DC for an hour :). It was worth the journey though as this house was literally WEIRD. You walk in and the living room has furniture which looks like a polished psychiatrists office...deep red in color and not actually comfortable to sit in at all. Then, upstairs the one bedroom has a huge gap between the wall and ceiling so the person who grew up there never had noise privacy. You walk into the office and there's a ladder which leads to a loft which is used as the third bedroom. In here lives a 6'2" boy, and I don't know how he does it because I would have had to crawl to get through that space. The master bedroom has a column smack dab in the middle of the room that you have to walk around to get to anything, and the occupants of such room are artists which is obvious as their work is EVERYWHERE. I was seriously creeped out by this house. After we left we made it out to the bar and I started talking to a guy about tattoos...I've already become one of THOSE people within two weeks of getting my first one. We exchanged numbers but he hasn't called which doesn't surprise me...especially since he knew I lived an hour away and he doesn't drive (I always find the winners!) don't ask how but I somehow wound up staying awake until 4am that morning...I'm proud of my old self :).

Saturday once I got home I slept for 3 hours (much needed) and proceeded to chillax and gab on the phone(also needed) while slightly doing homework (very needed). Sunday was then spent utilizing a good eleven+ hours to complete two of my papers for school which I had been procrastinating on all semester. Will I ever learn? Probably not, but hey, at least I got them done (of course they were done last night at midnight, but still). Of course, the highlight of Sunday was the fantabulous Ravens game where we crushed the Eagles...I get even more joy out of this then when we crush other teams because I had to go to college with a bunch of their obnoxious fans :).

Not sure if I can find the words

Saw this today at a supermarket...they cost 50 cents.



Note that it was pretty darn close to the "bling" machine where kids can be gangstas for a mere two quarters. We all know J.C. was a baller, right kids?

Bu But Butt

Had to share this randomly hilarious story for you kids. Last week, three of my galpals came down and we went out dancing. Well at the last bar where we were, this dude starts dancing with me and asks how to get my number. I say "well I'll give you my number but you have to dance with my friends" and he agrees so, like a dumb@$$, I give him my number and he proceeds to dance with my friends. Well he then decides to try to get skeezy on my friends by putting his hand on their butts...not cool!

Well I thought I was off the hook because I hadn't heard from him but then last night I get a random text asking whats up. He then said his name and that he was from the bar last week. I thought ooo geez...how smooth, first you try to creep on my friends then you wait a week then send me a lame text...what a winner. He asked if I wanted to get coffee sometime this weekend, and I'm so proud of my response which was:

"Actually no because you touched my friends butts."

He texted back "wow" and apologized for "being offensive" ha. LAME-O

Men, please please please stop this behavior. Guys like this are just bad for your species :)

Pot@$$holes

So no longer are they potholes, but pot@$$holes! Here's what one did to my poor tire today...

And yea, I wasn't even in the city or anything. I was in suburbia on a main street that is always congested because you take it to get to the highway. AHHH! My car now has a doughnut on until Monday when they can order me a real tire again.

Well I just had time for that short rant but hopefully I'll have another funny life update soon.

Awesome Comparison

So my ghetto fabulous friend and I were discussing Carla from Top Chef and she brought up an awesome point...she looks just like Sam the Eagle!

Thank you for the great contribution to the blog :)

Has everybody heard about da bird?

So apparently the bird look-alike thing is a new phenomenon. I watched the Season 5 premiere of Top Chef: New York last night which confirmed this. The one contestant Carla looks like she should have feathers, and/or her head in the ground.

Another thing is what Gail was wearing...okay, since when did Todd Oldhman curtains become acceptable attire for tv?

Other news on Top Chef...one of the girls is from my hometown, so I really wanted to root for her. She made this extremely difficult because she was actually really annoying. I am opting instead to root for Gene, who worked his way up from washing dishes and never went to culinary school. You gotta give him props for that.

Turkraziness

Hello all,

well it just hit me, as I was sitting in my cube and doing pretty much everything but work, that Thanksgiving is a mere 15 days away. Holy crap. Then I thought, that's Turkrazy! So that is my latest term. Turkrazy can be used to describe the maddness that is the month of November, and the fabulous Thanksgiving holiday. You may think this is a weird term, but before you know it you will see a turkey decal on someone's window and without thinking will exclaim "o man, that's Turkrazy." Get used to it, pass it around, etc etc. It's fun to say. That's my contribution to make your life that much better :). You're welcome.

Michelle Obama in yellow

Okay, now even though Michelle Obama did help inspire this blog with her original dragon on pleather ensemble, this yellow one may just take the cake. All I can think of is Big Bird, or the man in the yellow hat from Curious George (which does work out nicely because Obama's ears do look quite monkeyish). Haha, don't hate me Obama lovers! This is all in good fun :). You shouldn't get into politics if you don't like ridicule anyway...you know I'm right ;).

Murphy's Law

So this morning I am a hott mess. First things first, I lost my Debit card the other night. This is really bad because I use my debit card for EVERYTHING...I'm one of "those" people who don't carry cash. Luckily I actually do have $27 in my wallet, much more then usual, so I can survive today without the debit. I'm probably going to still head home and look for it though.

I had to come to one of my jobs this morning to meet with someone who is not yet here...judging by my morning this far they probably won't show up. Truth be told I'm not in a friendly mood anyway. While Driving to work someone totally cut me off so I slammed on the brakes and skidded a little bit and by some sort of miracle did not hit their car (but was way too close for comfort). I get shaken up so easily that I'm still sort of recooping, and my stomach hurts (also common when my nerves are ruined). Then, at work, I find my ATM card in my wallet (different from my debit card because I can ONLY use it on ATM's) and try to put it in the ATM machine...and guess what, it totally jams the machine. They got it out thank goodness but it's bent so I can't use it again. What a morning! I know what brought this all on...I'm seeing one of my ex boyfriends today.

I dated him last summer for a little over a month and saw him again in January and we'll just say things didn't go so well. We did talk about it and ended things on respectable terms but I haven't seen or talked to him since then. Out of the blue yesterday I get an email from him...I was literally shocked. I decided "what the hell" and at the idea of possibly being friends suggested we meet up...well even weirder we discovered that we were both traveling today anyway and to the same town. So yea, we're meeting up in this town before our plans. Should be interesting to say the least...

Okay so this blog today has been way too serious, so let me share my funny anecdote for the day which started the series of "bad" events this morning but in reality is just amusing. I love frosted mini wheats, and had purchased them at the store, so this morning before work they were exactly what I wanted. I opened the pantry to find that no, I had not purchased frosted mini wheats but instead had purchased shredded wheat...no frost! WTF?! I was really mad at myself. I actually tried a few of these things which tasted like cardboard. YUCK! It made me think about who actually purposefully purchases this cereal? I'm thinking someone really boring...like Matt Damon, or half of Congress. Yea, they're keeping the shredded wheat alive.

Anyways that's it for now..I will update again this weekend most definitely :)!

Blogging from my cube

Well I'm at work and supposed to be working but I am already way too consumed with this blog. I am so hyped to have two official "followers"...you know that term totally makes me feel like a cult leader and I'm digging it! Ha...followers, we will all gather tonight at 5pm to drink our special punch...

Anyway, as promised I wanted to share one of my most recent dating stories for your entertainment...We went out to dinner and I spent an hour and half with him total...arguably one of the longest hour and a halfs of my life. He is from the South, and I am in no way hating on the South, but he was SO skiddish. okay dude, we're outside of Baltimore. We weren't even in the city on this date, we were in a nice area with plenty of pedestrian walkways. Literally, he was afraid to walk across these with me. I would just start walking and he'd freak out saying that he didn't think the cars would stop. All I could think of was the scene from Elf where Will Farrell is trying to cross the streets of New York City and exclaims "The yellow ones don't stop!" Men, if you are reading this, that is so unattractive. I hate feeling like the one who wears the pants in the relationship...and feeling like I'm with a little kid whose afraid to cross the street. Suck it up and just cross! haha. Anyway after dinner and seeing this behavior I used the good ole homework excuse (note that I have not adjusted to proper Grad school behavior and will almost ALWAYS blow off homework for a good time) so that was a crock. It got me out of the date though, se la vie.

My first post :)

Hi all,

Well I decided to start a blog. Will anyone actually read this? Who knows. All I know is that I have really random thoughts, and sometimes they're actually kinda funny...so why not capture them on a blog? It's going to be scary, random, and ridiculous...but also should be fun.

I have to first thank Michelle Obama for inspiring this blog creation. I voted for McCain actually but still have to give her credit because she wore the worst possible thing on National Television last night when they were announcing her and the First Lady to be. Okay, her dress looked like a dragon farted onto a piece of pleather. Not smart. Access Hollywood showed what the dress was SUPPOSED to look like on a size 2 model...and trust me I am not a size two and I am all about women looking awesome no matter their size but o Michelle, what will we do with you? All I wanted to do was grab an extinguisher.

Other then that thought, a bit about me. I titled this blog "On the Upcline" because upcline is one of the many words I have invented. That's right kids, I have my own vocabulary. One of my professors just said this week that the professors at Harvard and the other smart schools get tenure for making up terms...so I'm on my way to teaching at Harvard! Right now I'm in Grad School and working full time because I'm crazzzzzy. Nah, life is getting good. Holidays are coming up which should be a key time for lots of funny life activity. I LOVE the Ravens...so don't hate. I also love "I Love Lucy" and know a little too much about that show. I'm an interesting quirky mix of old-fashioned meets the 21st century and kid at heart meets 90 year old woman. What can I say, you'd have to get to know me (which is actually really hard). I date on and off but relationships are RARE. I also plan to use my dating stories as a source of humor for my audience :). I love to laugh, and find humor in almost anything and everything.

Anyway, comment on this or any future blogs if you actually read...I'll be so happy to know I have a reader :)!